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i miss post-grunge 😭

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The Two Towers is so funny because Tolkien was such a tree-lover he was basically just like “actually we should give every tree a gun.”

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If this pops up while you’re scrolling, I wish you unconditional love and massive success.

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Kinda sick of every BatB retelling making Beauty into a bookish introvert. This woman was raised in the country and (it is often implied) running the farm single handedly. Where was she finding time to lounge and read? If I was stuck isolated out on a farm in the middle of nowhere for most of my teenage years (oh wait! I was!) I would be pretty happy every time I made it into town. (I swear, not all homeschoolers are completely socially awkward and inept.)

To counter all this, MY rendition of BatB features a Beauty with dyslexia who couldn’t read even if she wanted to, and is extroverted to the point of unionizing the invisible household servants.

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Yeah, I’d watch Muppets Lord of the Rings

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There was never a period of time in which women did not work

The idea that, in older ways of life or more traditional forms of community, women did not work is a malicious myth

Women have always worked and contributed to the development of our communities

Domestic work is still work

In more agrarian-dependent areas, working on the family farm, in whatever capacity they can, is implicitly expected of women

Child care is still work

The work women have done over the centuries is important even if they didn’t make money off of it

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let’s settle this shit but do NOT reblog if you’re gonna be modest about it like a little BITCH. anyway privilege check tell me which ones apply to you: hot, funny, can dance, can do math, can spell, can drive, can cook

#can hot #can funny ( morbid eclectic deadpan delivery but still funny) #can absolutely dance #can math but hate math #can spell #can drive in blizzard with icy roads #can cook but not from a recipe book- I just change everything anyways-

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petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

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@fictionadventurer

You can't keep this hidden in the notes.

Use of “Pop” vs “Coke vs “Soda” to Refer to Sweet Carbonated Beverage in US Over the Years     

via u/ColorfulImaginati0n

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Is there a word that’s a mix between angry and sad

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Suddenly struck by the need for a story about a Victorian lady naturalist who studies those cutesy Victorian flower fairies, but like, as a completely dead-serious scientific endeavor--just because they're adorable and feminine and impossibly twee doesn't mean they're not a vital component of the ecosystem, Bob.

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shout out to Karl Urban as Eomer for giving one of the most heart wrenching cries ever produced in cinematic history where you can essentially feel the anguish and shock that he is going through to find that his sister was on the battlefield, and is now injured, presumably dead. words cannot describe his pain.

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I’ve gotten to Rohan Proper and I KNEW it was coming but I didn’t know exactly when or how and just. Wow okay the fact that it’s Aragorn who knows The Wanderer, and translates it… oh my fucking god. Of course Aragorn knows this one, the way he knows Beren & Luthien. Of course Aragorn on-the-spot translates The Wanderer. Beautifully. With some poetic license, but it is p much one century on and no one cares, everyone loves “Where now the horse and the rider”.

(I suspect THIS piece of early medieval lore is more widely known, but if you’ve never read this actual facts real life poem The Wanderer (aka the Lament of Rohirrim) in full — Aragorn just quotes an extract near the end — I highly recommend it. Literally everyone loves The Wanderer. Translating Beowulf sucks and I hate it. Translating The Wanderer feels like reading Lord of the Rings. And not just because it is… in LOTR).

Rutgers translations are always a little more fun and lively; Roy Liuzza’s translation is maybe my top choice. And of course the original Old English is great stuff. I mean, “Swa cweath eardstappa”?? Aragornnnn

Liuzza’s translation, the OG Old English, and Tolkien’s version (he added some stuff, and mixed in a few themes from later lines):

Also FYI the reason I knew it was coming is because my Old English teacher’s great joy was assigning her class this section of The Wanderer for a warm-up translation at the start of class, and then and sit back watching as the realization tore violently through the ranks.

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a hidden life (2019) dir. terrence malick