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so many pointless arguments about which elf is the tallest, the most beautiful, etc, etc. it's simple.

the tallest elf is whichever elf Tolkien is talking about at the moment.

the most beautiful elf is always luthien and the second most beautiful elf is whoever tolkien is talking at the moment

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After the occupation, the princess was confined to the palace.

Once a month she'd be taken on a walk around the city, heavily guarded of course, to show the people that she still lived. It also served, of course, as a reminder of what they stood to lose if they made trouble. The princess did her best go wave and smile and give the people what encouragement she could.

The rest of the time, her life was spent in musty rooms and dusty towers. She filled most of her time scouring the castle for materials which she would sew into more and more elaborate outfits, which she would show off on the days when she was allowed outside.

Indeed, the public loved their princess and her dresses so much they'd often sketch or paint them along the route and pass the images on so that all could see the princess at least was well.

This pleased the occupiers for two reasons. First: it kept the princess out of trouble. Second: it gave them a reason to sneer and they did love a good sneer.

"What a vain creature she is!" They would remark.

"Doesn't even care we murdered her brothers so long as she gets enough satin to make her little dresses!" They squawked.

This was unfair, of course, for to call her creations "little dresses" was to call Queen Murderfun the Needlessly Genocidal "a tad piquey". Her dresses were gravity-defying wonders lace and pearl. They were thunderstorms captured in velvet and waterfalls summoned in silk. She was a wizard with silk.

Still, she bore their mockery with a tight smile and careful deference.

"Please, good sirs, my home, my people and my city now belong to you. Let me keep, at least, this one last joy."

And they sneered and they crowed most unpleasantly, but they let her keep her sewing room.

Of course, they would have known their mockery to be doubly unfair had they realised the true purpose of the princess's elaborate designs. For hidden in the intricate embroiderings across her gowns, jackets and fans, the princess had encoded secret (and very detailed) messages. When she would go on her monthly walk, the city's loyalists would line the route, sketching down the patterns to decode later.

Thus did the princess transmit all the occupiers' secrets (unearthed while supposedly 'searching the castle for old fabrics') to the city and thus did she build her resistance.

On the day the revolution finally came, she girded herself in armour of thick spider silk and whale bone. She cut a fine figure with a lacy handkerchief in her top pocket and a razor sharp knitting needle keeping her hair up.

As she waltzed through the castle to open the door for her army, the Usurper King tried to stop her and she simply unfolded her handkerchief and showed it to him.

Upon seeing the impossible arcane pattern emblazoned across it, he fell to the floor with blood streaming from his eyes.

She always had been a wizard with silk.

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I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

#spreading the word #also worth noting that this arbitration agreement includes explicit provisions against mass arbitration #so. you know

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I'm doing it gang, I've spent stupider gardening money before like when I dropped $300 on shade loving perennial bulbs only to learn they were also plants that rotted with wet feet and all immediately died in my swampy gumbo soil

I'm buying two firefly petunias. I've never grown petunias much because where I live they're a winter annual but fuck it I'll grow them as an indoor plant I certainly have the sun to do it.

They're supposed to ship to me in April, I'll report back on if they immidiately die or this is the coolest thing I own. My biochemical engineering design project was using a similar chemical pathway to modify bacteria to glow in the presence of specific toxins so I absolutely need glowing petunias in my window box

#holy shit

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Boosting my fiance's music channel again, he's been doing a challenge where he hopes to write a minute or two of music per day for as long as he can. It's been 11 days now! So proud of him!

Some of the last few days have sounded like they belong in movies, honestly.

Also dropping a link to his SoundCloud account, since that's where his music income comes from. It's not much but every listen counts!

#to look at this weekend

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I think it's really funny that it's equated with the internet these days, because if you read the old EU novels and even older fanfics on like ff.net and LJ it was clearly meant to be, like, TV. I'm really curious about when this shift in its perception happened. IDK if the Disney stuff portrays it as more of an internet-like phenomenon but the original intent was for it to be a one way broadcasting service that had like shows and news, not an open forum like the internet.

Mostly unrelated to OP's post but IDK if I've ever seen a post about the holonet out in the wild before.

It's my headcanon that there's not a galactic-wide holonet. That infrastructure just isn't there. Individual planets like coruscant probably have a holonet, sure, and some core worlds are connected to each other, but for a lot of the galaxy, most of the galaxy even, the average person just doesn't have access to a galactic equivalent of Earth's internet.

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The barrel of the lock on the door into my apartment building is just slightly misaligned and every time I come home it's like I'm playing the Skyrim lockpicking minigame

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#your phone battery is not gonna last that long

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Hey guys, I just got back from the flea market and this one jewelry table had some GREAT stuff! Anyone want anything? $5 each or best offer.

#well on the other hand one of these things is not cursed like all the others #on the other hand i gave my last *alleged* silmaril away on a give to prev poll and i really ought to replace it

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Actually you know what fandom drama isn't that bad

#just looked at a news site #so how about that restaurant that tracked down a customer on instagram to insult him #because he went to the er and then used his credit cards travel insurance to cover the cancellation fee #and are now trying to sue him #i mean tbh seems like the credit card company is screwing them over #but its awfully hard to defend the restaurant owner when she. literally stalked a customer????? wild #anyway yeah this is basically on par with the stupidest fandom drama #thats just how people are i guess

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I'm sorry, the what?

I kind of wish there was some place nearby that sold peking duck. The only time I've gotten to try it was the time I spent a day wandering San Fran alone and I decided to walk into a random Chinese butcher's shop and get a whole peking duck to go for my lunch because I wanted to try it.

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#lotro #🥳

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Like you're not better than the dumb teenager on the moving pictures app just because your made-up backstory is grunge and happened in the 80s or 90s and involves a closeted Catholic priest or whatever

Absolutely wild to see big Tumblr bloggers who are absolutely lying about 95% of the stuff they say happened in their childhood criticize TikTokkers for having "quirky little backstories"

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Absolutely wild to see big Tumblr bloggers who are absolutely lying about 95% of the stuff they say happened in their childhood criticize TikTokkers for having "quirky little backstories"

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tip: you can have a favorite character. thinking of them for extended periods of time will temporarily boost your health and happiness. but watch out!

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POV: your friend is an ecology major and has beef with random animals

#i for one welcome our new cheetah overlords