Author: lebelinoria

andromedalogic:

also, forever opposed to the weird trifecta of

– the personal is political / your existence is revolutionary, when used prescriptively or as a given

– if you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention / if you’re silent or neutral you must be on the side of the oppressor

– if you don’t care about these issues (for a narrow definition of caring, in a visible and strident way), you must not be affected by them

individuals whose lives are politicized against their will can reserve the right to be apolitical. to not accept that. people who are silent or neutral may be uninformed, scared, confused, necessarily focused on their own survival. opting out is not invariably a sign of privilege. opting out does not indicate a lack of empathy. instead of saying that our breathing is revolutionary or makes us activists, we need to say that it is ok for people not to be activists.

nothing makes my blood boil like posts that scathingly indict anyone who doesn’t visibly engage with ‘the issues’, accusing them of complacency and saying ‘it must be nice to have this shit not affect you’. withdrawing is frequently a reasonable response to this stuff affecting you. have you no perspective.

tuffgreg:

rolodextra:

tuffgreg:

god, it’s so crazy we all have bones… like, just these big hard rods holding our meat up. that’s so fucking wild, i can’t believe it

one of the main reasons i don’t want to get pregnant is i can’t handle the idea of growing bones and not keeping them

this is a very reasonable concern. you go to all that trouble growing new bones and then some shitlord infant steals them out from under you. disgraceful

thearrogantemu:

kareenvorbarra:

so elves don’t get sick, right? you know what this means for early elf/human relations right

  • elven healers who are fantastic with injuries, but have no fucking clue what to do about even the most basic human illnesses
  • elven healers at the border forts in the north requesting human healers as partners so they can better care for the mixed human and elven forces stationed there
  • elven healers going to study with the most well-known human healers to learn about this huge new field of medicine, and sharing their knowledge with the humans in return
  • human healers and elven healers working together to find new treatments for diseases

Human: Oh come on, no one dies of a broken heart.
Elf: (dies of sadness)

Elf: Oh come on, no one dies of the bacteria that live on their skin!
Human: (dies of septicemia)

When Eärendel comes to Mandos he finds that Tuor is ‘not in Valinor, nor Erumáni, and neither Elves nor Ainu know where he is. (He is with Ulmo.)’

From the notes [xviii] of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales II, “The Tale of Eärendel”
(via vardasvapors)

erotetica:

You see a lot where the Feanorians all inherited bits of their dad, and I love that. They’re all angry nerds, but I mean specifically. Maedhros has the Charisma. Maglor got the artistry, the thing for aesthetic. Caranthir got the pedant thing. Will also fight you in a Waffle House at 3am. The Ambarussa are insatiably curious. Curufin…exists. But! You also see a lot where Celegorm Does Not Have This. Which makes sense, because he’s a muddy, bloody fukboi, but!! I raise you!!! The languages!! Granted, not linguistics proper, there wouldn’t be an essay written about him and his Thing about digraphs, but languages! ‘All the tongues of birds and beasts he knew.’ He likes to communicate. He’s the kid who travels after high school and comes back semi-fluent in more than one language, because he kept accosting people in pubs like hey, what are we doing, what are we saying. Also! Fighting styles. Less apparent, because Feanor only started fighting things like a week before combusting, but their fite-moods are similar–i.e, real fuckin fell and fey. Someone should really kill them–not you, you’re running, but someone should get on that.

gurguliare:

my favorite thing about galadriel’s tangled revision history is how the whole “did the valar ban her from returning west or did she refuse their explicit invitation” makes a huge difference to how you interpret the story… unless you’re galadriel, in which case it’s like, hey, oh, what was the question, did i stay in middle-earth of my own free will or was i trapped there by the consequences of past hubris? great question! the answer is fuck you