Just here for the art

my voice is in my sword

New Tumblr poet obsession. 😆

Love to read something so wonderfully poignant and showing depth of complexity of 2 characters individually and inseparable.

LMAO STEPHANIE BROWN IS THE MOST UNDERRATED BAT CHARACTER.

star wars male characters alignment

(insp.)

. . . I . . . I hate how fucking accurate this is.

Cubone Pet Masks made by mcmaster3d

That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

The letter didn’t come from the Nazi party, but from the publishing house which had expressed an interest in the German translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien’s response really is a thing of beauty, though, so it deserves to be quoted in its entirety:

25 July 1938                                              20 Northmoor Road, Oxford

Dear Sirs,

Thank you for your letter. … I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearings whatsoever on the merits of my work or its suitability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully

J.R.R. Tolkien.

(Letter 30)

The Hobbit wasn’t published in German until 1957.

This might just be the politest “fuck you” ever written.

W.h.a.t.

Not just “I wish I had Jewish ancestors, but I don’t,” but also “you do realize that’s not what ‘Aryan’ actually means, right,” and “you guys are making it pretty hard to be proud of my German heritage.”

Nazis: Are you Aryan?

Noted linguistics freak Tolkien: Are you?

Happy Halloween!! Eat lots of candy and stuff!!!

I love Tumblr’s holiday traditions.

‘tis the season, time to reblog pocketss halloween flight rising comic

The original tweet is hilarious, but that person has a good idea going there, damn.

Some very eloquent notes on violence as a necessity for resistance.

There is no paradox of tolerance, because tolerance is not a matter of ethics. It's a peace treaty - an agreement that only covers the people who abide by its rules.

And for cis white guys who are always trying to figure out how to be an ally without talking over marginalized people, without reshaping the issue to be all about you - this guy shows how.

His tactics don't work for marginalized people. They can't get away with that.

favourite rpg trope is the merchants in incredibly hostile environments. we are at the evil curse mountain and youre just selling me items normal style

their union won’t let me fuck with them <|:^(

I chose Bludgeoning, because I figured that would mean I'd be immune to damage from falling. I don't plan on getting into fights anytime soon, but It'd be cool to be able to jump off really high things safely, y'know?

But then I had a niggling doubt, so I looked it up and at least for Pathfinder, it doesn't say anything about fall damage being bludgeoning damage. Now if I want to get anything cool out of my new immunity I'm going to have to provoke people into hitting me with baseball bats. :(

I said bludgeoning, and then I'm going to be the world's best boxer.

Fire would be impressive and just fun. I enjoy the aesthetic of getting to dance in actual flames and I think I deserve that. Also just handy to be able to grab things out of campfires and move burning logs with my bare hands. (And if it's burns even better because guess who's gonna be bare handing the cast iron pan from now on!)

A MOUSE BAR DURING PROHIBITION WOULD BE CALLED A SQUEAKEASY!!!

this came to me in a vision btw. the vision was of a little mouse bartender yelling, "cheese it! it's the cops!" and all the little mice flipping the bar and turning it into a fromagerie.

i used to work for a nature center and we would constantly have wild owls come and call out to the owls in their cages and try to 1.) get them to follow them or 2.) they were looking for a mate

in the spirit of this post: when you live in areas with wild horses, the number one culprit for horse theft is actually other horses, because the young stallions that get chased out of the herd wanna start their own, and oh, look, look at all those cute mares in just,,,,a fenced off grassy area,,,how easy would it be to lure them over the fence,,,like some four-legged yodeling pied piper,,,

i think about this a lot

This is so cute wtf

Social animals will see another animal amd be like: Is anyone going to befriend this? And then not wait for an answer.

Humans are, delightfully, nowhere near the only ones who do this.

Don’t give me one-sided unrequited love, give me two-sided unwanted love. Both sides are deeply in love with the other and both sides are like ‘fuck, really?? them??? really?’

we oc based artists stick together

its us and our 7 note drawings against the fucking world

So fucking real.