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I'm sorry for not mentioning bogs, swamps, mires, and murky waters lately

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Fingolfin during Dagor Bragollach also called the Battle of the Sudden Flame. A horrible event that ended the siedge of Angband and resulted in Noldor elves being slaughtered by Morgoth forces by the thousands.

#oooo #art #silmarillion #undescribed

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y’all will be 24 going “sorry what did europe do to be problematic? i have seasonal depression so idk anything :/”

#💀

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i don't like when people are saying "usa is a third world country" on posts about bad things happening here, that makes it sound like some countries are inherently supposed to be better than others

or that it would be "Normal" if a so called third world country was trying to make it legal to run over homeless people with cars or whatever republicans are up to these days

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wearing keys on your belt loop that jingle with every step you take to alleviate the cowboy dysphoria cause you can't wear spurs

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imagine two mated wyrms twisting around each other, possessing an uncountable number of limbs, each claw of good or evil interlocked with its opposite, the coil twists further around itself into a skein of flesh. how i would describe DNA to a wizard

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it's interesting to me that torture just works to us, as a literary device. It's everywhere in movies and stories and whatnot, from big-budget dramas to little grindhouse short stories. It fits neatly into the requirements of plot: character doesn't want to offer information, Gets Tortured, has to offer information.

the issue with this is that it isn't how it works.

torture is a display of power. It fouls interrogation, this is known; a person being tortured will tell you whatever you want to hear to make it stop, which is more often than not a lie, made up on the spot, or if the truth an incomplete and useless version of it. It isn't generally done for information's sake anyway, but as a form of what the ancient Greeks called hybris, the violent exhibition of your power over another person.

This is, every once in a great while, done right in fiction, but it's a challenge to write vs. the idea that it's a shortcut to one character revealing plot-critical information to another. Pretty much every form of torture works this way, even the ones that are legally permissible. Psychological torment or physical discomfort also produce an animalistic desire to escape harm and foul interrogation. The forms of torture the cops can do? The cops do it not to gain information (or if they think it will, they're lying to themselves) but because it makes them feel powerful.

There's probably a master's thesis in it for somebody studying the rise of torture as a plot device since the beginning of the war on terror and the contemporaneous development of the Broken Windows theory of policing. I'm not really aware of any similar level of disconnect between what Works in fiction and what happens in real life!

#torture

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my favourite button ever is "open link in new tab"..

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i get that he’s pretty but he’s also fucked up. You have to draw him a little fucked up. it’s his god given right to be like this

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i think a lot of people would be happier if they viewed labels like homosexual and transgender as social technologies rather than identities

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"The Master and Margarita", or "what's a girl gotta do to be able to re-read her favourite jesus fanfiction".

You think *you* are having trouble tracking down that one deleted fic you really loved? Well, have you tried helping Satan host a party in exchange for a miracle? 🤔

#sdfghjhgf

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#palestine

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what do people who don’t overthink do with all that extra brain time

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@natespigeonportraits

#pigeon!! #undescribed

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would absolutely perfect memory suck for me? yes probably BUT it would probably suck more for First Age elves so all I'm saying is we would all benefit if the powers of memory were distributed a little more evenly. Eru are you listening

Tolkien's elves are supposed to have perfect recall memories where everything ever witnessed or said is preserved in the mind forever and obviously that would suck for plenty of reasons (no chance of sweet oblivion for anything bad or embarrassing or awkward or sad), but the human goldfish memory phenomenon is so frustrating it makes me wish for elfmemory lite at least. like why do I keep having the same realizations over and over every couple years since I was like 12. if not the imperishable elven clarity of perfect memory I'd at least like a filing system where I could cross-reference every event or epiphany I encounter just to see if we've gone through this routine before and can skip the whole painful song and dance of obtaining new self-knowledge that we've already obtained a dozen times. and also maybe retain some of these realizations for more than five minutes too that'd also be nice

#this is coming from someone with quite good memory for everything except emotions lol #i was rereading an old journal again and im like jesus it would have been nice to know ive felt like that before. actually quite often #skravler #elves

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Tolkien's elves are supposed to have perfect recall memories where everything ever witnessed or said is preserved in the mind forever and obviously that would suck for plenty of reasons (no chance of sweet oblivion for anything bad or embarrassing or awkward or sad), but the human goldfish memory phenomenon is so frustrating it makes me wish for elfmemory lite at least. like why do I keep having the same realizations over and over every couple years since I was like 12. if not the imperishable elven clarity of perfect memory I'd at least like a filing system where I could cross-reference every event or epiphany I encounter just to see if we've gone through this routine before and can skip the whole painful song and dance of obtaining new self-knowledge that we've already obtained a dozen times. and also maybe retain some of these realizations for more than five minutes too that'd also be nice

#would probably cut down on the need for therapy if im not excavating the same thoughts and conclusions from my psyche every 5 yrs #absolutely perfect memory would probably balance that out by increasing the staying power of trauma or sth tho so. elf-lite only pls

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@ every mutual why arent we chilling right now