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Anti rhetoric is the internet equivalent of book burning.

I'm not talking about people deciding they don't like certain themes in media and posting their thoughts about that. I'm talking about the ones who harass authors, sometimes even enlisting their gang to harass them; push for fanfic sites to take down any work that they don't deem appropriate; and generally do everything they can to make sure the only fanart on the internet are of things they like to see.

If they can't get AO3 to take it down, they'll harass everyone they can until people stop writing anything that doesn'r have the anti vote of approval. And in this way, they try to eliminate any fics or art they don't like.

They may not use a literal fire, but their goal is to destroy any writing they don't like.

#Antis

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We did it! We actually did it! Vollber are now their own separate tag on AO3! Thank you, everyone!

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"How did you celebrate?"

"Wrote another Vollber fic!"

#indiana jones 5 #jürgen voller #klaber #vollber #dial of destiny

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Boyd as Klaber in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

#indiana jones 5 #dial of destiny #klaber

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Boyd as Klaber in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

#indiana jones 5 #dial of destiny #klaber

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isn’t it weird how it’s already february but it’s also only february

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Indiana Jones Series Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Klaber/Jürgen Voller Characters: Jürgen Voller, Klaber (Indiana Jones), Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Angst, Declarations Of Love, Nazis, Physics, Unsafe Parachuting, protective Klaber, Period-Typical Homophobia Summary:

During the Siege of Syracuse, Klaber is prepared to die so that Voller can live. However, Voller realises his own feelings and attempts to save them both.

#indiana jones 5 #jürgen voller #klaber #vollber #my fic #dial of destiny

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My favorite Morgoth moment is when the Great Enemy of Middle Earth got attacked by a big spider and shrieked so loudly all his balrogs heard from miles away and had to come rescue him. Damsel behavior

#silmarillion #melkor #morgoth

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why no one had posted this hilarious breaking cracking voice, I noticed this when I first saw it and couldn't concentrate on plots X such a vulnerable and insecure puppy X

#indiana jones 5 #the dial of destiny #klaber

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Every time I read or watch Lord of the Rings I can’t help but think about how Tolkien had survived one of the bloodiest, most cruel, most dirtiest and darkest wars in human history, came back and wrote this:

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

And this:

"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.

'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'"

And this:

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

And this:

“Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

And this:

“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

And clearly they were all written partly because he survived the war, because of what he’d seen and done and learned. But at the same time the unwillingness to lose faith, the courage and strength that this man had to believe in these things after going through hell! It makes the nihilists look so cheap, so uninteresting! People who’ve went through concentration camps and wars believe in humanity anyway, isn’t that proof that hope and love exist? And many, many, many of them did not return or returned broken and cruel and traumatised to the point when no faith in others was possible for them, and nobody can blame them. But there were many who refused to lose faith and hope. They have seen some of the worst that life has to offer and came back believing that we shouldn’t be eager to deal out death in judgement and should love only that which the sword defends.

No matter how many people say that humanity is horrible and undeserving of love, and life is dark and worthless, and love doesn’t exist I remember this and have hope anyway. Because there were people who have actually had all reason to believe in the worst and still believed in the good, so the good must be real. The good is real, even despite the evil, and we must trust in it.

#tolkien #lord of the rings

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i love your takeaway from the JJ Abrams Mystery Box was "it's because what's in the mystery box is developed/good/exists. you wouldn't get it."

It only works if you set up several conflicting theories as to what is in the mystery box that are all equally plausible. The audience has to feasibly be able to reach the "correct" answer, but they can never be sure. That's intrigue! Otherwise, all you're doing is telling the audience that a really deep and well written story is happening just off screen I promise.

One of the writers of LOST came to speak at my school once. He told the crowd "I could totally tell you guys what the island is but I'm not gonna" And the crowd went nuts. That shit made me so mad. It has been a decade since that show went off the air. If you had an actually narratively satisfying answer for that question, you would have said it by now. Or better, you would have put it in the damn show.

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#lord of the rings #into the west #hard to choose though #poll

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2024 is the year we stop “consuming” and go back to “reading/watching/listening to/playing” things

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”there is girl autism and there is boy autism” is a piss poor way of reading “autistic girls may internalize their autistic traits differently as kids” and “we perceive the same traits differently when they’re on girls.”

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Reaction gifs Part 1.: Klaber edition - made by me

I made these for my Boyd Holbrook enthusiast mutuals, followers and visitors🥰 Feel free to use them in DMs, group chats etc.

@i-like-the-eyes, @boydholbrook-fan, @spider-bren, @placeinthemiddleofnowhere, @merry-andrews, @ruflirtingwithme, @e-dubbc11, @tampire, @kurjaks, @abusivelittlebunny, @toxicanonymity, @evenmyhivemindisempty, @duncans-vizla-honeybee, @jessamydream, @bakerstreethound, @violetoftheendless, @subverbaldreams, @munsonownsmyass, @deanthebestboy, @vollb3r, @kekkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, @rayisheree, @ionlyjoinedforboydholbrook, @ithinkwehitametaphor, @delicateteenagerunaway

#klaber #indiana jones 5 #dial of destiny #boyd holbrook #reaction

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Monday, December 18.

Willkommen.

History was made on this day, twenty years ago. The last installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, was released in cinemas. It grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of all time. It won all eleven Oscars for which it was nominated, including Best Picture (the first fantasy to do so), at the 76th Academy Awards. The sequel to 2002's The Two Towers, and the completion of the story started by The Fellowship of the Ring, it was a cinematic landmark and a pop culture behemoth. Like its two predecessors, the film was widely acclaimed by critics and loved by audiences across the globe. But they were, all of them, deceived—for another film was made.

In 2004, Dominic Monaghan, the actor alias used by renowned German film critic Hans Jensen, interviewed the trilogy's star, Elijah Wood. In these nine bracing minutes of footage, Mr. Jensen probed his interviewee on the matters of the day: losing time within yourself, kicking balls, dolphins, and the wearing of wigs. It makes for quite remarkable viewing almost two decades later.

#today on tumblr #lord of the rings #return of the king

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Imagine The Fellowship all sitting around the campfire halfway up Caradhras retelling the events of the Hobbit to Boromir and Aragorn Rashomon-style with Gimli going "my dad tells it this way" and Legolas going "well, my dad tells it this way" and the Hobbits all going "but Bilbo tells it this way!" and, even though Gandalf was fucking there for half of it, he refuses to weigh in on anything because watching them argue is more fun and also he doesn't remember because it was over 75 years ago.

#lord of the rings #the hobbit #gandalf

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#indiana jones 5 #indiana jones #jurgen voller #helena shaw