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valiant & steadfast

@actuallyfingolfin / actuallyfingolfin.tumblr.com

she/they | call me Nolo, or fey, i don't care | too shy for this platform but i'm learning | ao3 | basically running on queue at this point

bitches be like "these are my comfort characters!" and it's a group of murderers

SOMEONE TAGGED THIS AS BTS????????????

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yeah basically a bunch of their music videos starting from i need u (2015) have contained a running story with the members playing different characters. i dont remember much about it because a) im not as big of a bts fan anymore and b) their recent mvs havent referenced it but this article has decent rundowns of each of the characters (uhh tw for mentions of car crashes, family death, hospitalization, abuse, murder, and suicide) https://www.koreaboo.com/lists/heres-brief-explanation-character-bts-universe/

LOONAVERSE?????????

i have seen man made horrors beyond your comprehension

(diagram credit to u/bragen on reddit)

you try to read this and your brain explodes

This is what it feels like to chew 5 gum

this is worse than what inspired redesign your logo

what inspired redesign your logo.

the pepsi logo document that included stuff like the gravitational pull of the pepsi logo and compared it to the mona lisa.

GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF THE PEPSI LOGO????????

JRR Tolkien, writing The Hobbit: The passages there were crossed and tangled in all directions, but the goblins knew their way, as well as you do to the nearest post-office…

Me, a child, reading it: Oh dear. I’m not sure I do know the way to the nearest post-office. It sounds as if that’s absolutely something I’m supposed to know. I can’t know less than a goblin. The book will be disappointed in me.

Me, a little while later, figuring out the location of a nearby post-office: oh thank goodness

Me for the rest of my life: feeling vaguely comforted and affirmed by knowing the location of the nearest post-office, a facility I almost never use, because I am at least the navigational equal of a goblin

anyways frodo is really brave and resilient and deserves respect

One of the massive underlying themes of LOTR is that mental illness is a battle that you cannot win alone. You need the people closest to you in order to fight it, even if everything in your mind is telling you to push them away, and that resisting that urge and trusting them through your mental illness is a form of strength, not weakness.

Gollum/Smeagol ran and hid, and was thus consumed. Boromir bottled it up and had a breakdown as a result, before getting it off his conscience to Aragorn and feeling better (before feeling not better again because arrows hurt). Frodo bottled it up, had multiple breakdowns, and started letting Sam help him as best he could.

“I can’t carry it for you, Mr. Frodo, but I can carry you,” is a beautiful quote about how a friend can make a huge difference with mental illness. They’re not a therapist- they can’t fix it- but they can help you get through the day. And the next day. And the next. And that’s what Sam does for Frodo until he finds his true healing in the Grey Havens. And that doesn’t discount the amount of effort that Frodo had to put in throughout the whole journey. The fact that he let Sam in, that he let him help instead of isolating himself (though bless him, he tried a few times), and that at the end of the day he was the one who still carried this burden the whole time… That’s strength, and it shouldn’t be discounted just because he was strong enough to allow his friends to help him make it to the end.

Above all else, this narrative analogy for mental illness is saying that sometimes you can’t do it on your own. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you give up and either someone is there to pick you back up again or there isn’t, and just because you got to that point doesn’t discount how much effort it took to make it that far at all and how much effort it will take to keep going, even with a friend at your side.

So don’t call Frodo weak. He’s just as much a hero as Sam is.

Funnily enough, “be like Frodo” is literally a sentence my therapist said to me a few times.

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I love it when my creativity spurs other creativity. literally no better feeling as an artist than when someone looks at something you’ve made and goes “I saw this and liked it so much I could do nothing more with myself than turn it into drive for my own creativity” like that’s really what creativity is huh!! an instrument to further human expression and community and connection