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tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

something absolutely lovely about especially the first half of fellowship is that the hobbits keep meeting random kind helpful strangers - the elves, bombadil, butterbur, aragorn (also farmer maggot and his wife, though they're not strangers) - until the book solidifies in you the feeling that these are not really instances of random luck, but rather the inherent nature of the world. kind people are everywhere, and no matter where you are, there is surely someone closer than you think that would offer help if you needed it. it's such a beautiful theme across all of LOTR, and it's very sweet to me that it starts from the very beginning of the journey, on such a 'small' (comparatively), everyday scale

i love men who look like theyve been through some of the most horrendous shit ever sorry

This is one of the funniest things I've found on tumblr and I've seen some shit

What if my chosen profession, which is largely based around non-judgemental compassion, acceptance, and seeing life from other's perspectives, with the purpose of harm reduction, puts me in a situation where people tell me they like things I don't? Do I kill them in self-defense? Can I have a gun

pro-abortion. pro-divorce. i believe we have the god-given right to give up

thanks!

all puppets have a soul

I told my students they're allowed to be creative and don't have to be factual when writing about themselves in German because I keep getting questions like "what if I don't have roommates or what if I don't have hobbies" and I'm like guys just make something up! Have fun! I won't fact check you!

So now I am grading homework where a student is claiming to be from North Korea and his hobby is tax fraud

thsi is literally fucking killing me

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"how can m/f ships be good-" first of all through the power of bisexuality anything is possible so write that down. second of all if we start othering ships based on gender and nothing else we're no better than the opposition. third of all you need to watch more addams family

Fourth of all you need to start seeing women as active participants in romances instead of as passive recipients.

Fifth of all you need to grow the Hell up and drop the man hatred

this too

The poster for "The Two Towers" that I drew a long time ago

Yesterday my little brother told me something very sweet and touching, that when he was a kid and had nightmares about monsters chasing him or whatever he would be able to end the nightmare by finding me in the dream and I would protect him by fighting off the zombies, or carrying him away. This is adorable, and makes me feel like the greatest older sibling in the world, but the hilarious thing is that when I was a kid I had nightmares of needing to save him from zombies and such. so many dreams where he was in trouble and I needed to save him. Like my nightmares began where his ended. Low key I think he mastered the ability to psychically transfer his nightmare to me as a child and I'm kind of annoyed with him.

Yeah

In the past couple of months I've started going outside at night when I can't sleep to uproot weeds in the pasture for a little while, hoping to tire myself out. Sometimes it works. On my way out I would grab the dish with today's vegetable peelings from the kitchen so I could give them to Pirlouit.

This was a mistake. My donkey used to sleep at night and now he doesn't. Now he waits. Now when you go out at night for any reason, for example because you forgot your phone in the barn, you have to deal with the pair of glowing eyes following your every move, silently and hungrily.

It's weird how as a kid you look at adults as impossibly old, not even the same species. And then one day you're 25 and you look at the people in the room with you who are all also 25. And you speak with them with basically the same casual tone you used with your teenage friends in school. Because they look young to you now. At some point, adults started looking pretty normal. And you look at children, and you're like.... this is just a tall baby. What happened

One thing that I think is great about Hugo Weavings portrayal of Elrond in LoTR is just how tired and exhausted he is. Like this is a guy who has lived thousands of years. He has seen dynasties and kingdoms rise and tear each other down. Both of elves and men. Yes he comes across as arrogant. But he also has just ran out of energy to fake caring about the same mistakes being made for the hundredth time this millennia.

Like look at him. He hasn’t had a hope in his world in centuries. This is a man that is very familiar with disappointment.

While it was a longshot, I do appreciate that Gimli did try chopping the Ring up with an axe first. It was worth a shot, and they'd have all felt like bloody idiots if they took the Ring all the way to Mordor only to find out it could have been chopped up by an axe all along.