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bitches see a text and are like ‘ill reply when i have the social and emotional energy for it’ and then forget about it for a week....anyway i’m bitches
Sword Illustrations by Ma-Ko (2018-21)
Who makes the flowers bloom again, in spite of a man? -You do! Who’s doing the best she can? Persephone, that’s who
Hello I know it’s 2 AM but inspiration waits for no one
[ID: Art of Persephone styled as Amber Grey from Hadestown. She is a brown-skinned woman with long curly hair. and wears a green dress with spagetti straps. She runs away from the viewer, throwing her head back and running along with a bottle of wine in her hand and flowers sprouting up behind her.]
big fan of anything that shuts my brain off for a little while
Strolling aimlessly in a bookshop is self care
the moment treasure island broke my heart. what were these villains after but money? what do they care for but money? for what would they risk their rascal carcases but money?
all this will be for nothing. we will have been for nothing. defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative, until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.
it was never about the money it was always what the money could do it was always about freedom it was about haven it was about home it was oars turning to shovels it was revenge it was a promise of peace it was a promise of war it was about changing the world it was about love and vengeance and blood and loss and suffering it was about forgiveness it was about the things you can never forgive it was betrayal it wasn’t supposed to end like this this isn’t what I wanted it was love it was love it was love
it was never about the money
I owe gif makers my life. How else do would I advertise that I just watched media™
Chanté Adams as MAX CHAPMAN in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022-)
thinking about characters who think they have no greater way to be worth something than to suffer and die
like you are not the savior you are not the hero you are not anyone in the story but you love the savior and you love the hero and your love will never be enough. you cannot stand on your own next to the ones you love but you can give the only thing you have, you can give it and you can love them and you can hope it means your name will be placed next to theirs. you hope it means you were worth enough in the end.
all my problems stem from 1) i don’t remember things 2) i don’t want to do things 3) i don’t like being around people
i love you ambiguity i love you fucked-up relationships that don’t fit in a box or make sense to anyone but the two people in them i love friendships where it’s too intimate to be a friendship and romantic relationships where it’s so unintimate it makes you wonder if they’re really in love (they are) i love you weirdness i love you weird love
will forever be astonished & made better by the kindness of friends
One thing I feel people miss about lord of the rings is that it’s sort of……….post-apocalyptic?
Like– the world already ended, a long time ago, and the characters are surrounded by the ruins of dead countries. They spend most of their time journeying through places that are either abandoned (Moria) soon to be abandoned (Rivendell/Lorien) or half-destroyed and falling into decay (Rohan/Gondor.) The villains are creatures that Used to be Human; I feel like Lotr’s orcs/ringwraiths have more in common with zombies than they do with DnD-style orcs, because they’re a state that “normal” people enter when they’re corrupted by a supernatural force.
Even the Shire is surrounded by ruins– the ruins of watchtowers, the ruins of the old Northern Kingdom, the ruined city near the Grey Havens. The people around there have an idiom “when the king comes back” that means the same thing as an idiom like “when pigs fly”– “when a completely ridiculous improbable thing happens.” They’re so used to the disintegrated state of the world that the idea of a central government is fairy-tale-like and bizarre. They have their little mayors and thains; they don’t need anything else.
So yeah! I see people try to “modern-real-world- au” versions of Hobbiton by making it “a peaceful suburb” but to me, a modern au version of Hobbiton would be more like…….
You are a hobbit.
You don’t know much history, but you understand that there were Wars a long time ago that destroyed a great amount of life on earth.
You live in a little hole in the ground. You don’t know that long ago these holes used to be called “bunkers;” you decorate them with flowers.
When you want to say that something won’t happen, you’ll sarcastically say things “lol yeah SURE that will happen! And tomorrow pigs will fly, Parliament will come back into session, there will be a president in the White House, there will be a prime minister making speeches, and diplomats will intercede between all of them! ha! XD”
If you journey even a little outside of your home, you’ll find the ruins of old cities and skyscrapers. There are messages in the ruins that are written in languages you don’t speak. Human beings used to live here; they don’t anymore.
And you’re not supposed to leave the Shire because sometimes you’ll meet the things that used to be human, but aren’t anymore.
i saw a post a while back that said something along the lines of “its odd that LOTR/The Hobbit are the quintessential ‘High Fantasy’ because canonically, the bygone eras of middle earth were much more fantastical”
