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turin saw fingon and his lords passing the bridge

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hot take incoming: revolt and revolution doesn't create a fair and equitable society. it creates a power vaccum, which is terrifying because it is incredibly fertile ground for all sorts of warlords, aspiring tyrants, paramilitary extremists, and imperial powers to swoop in and start doing atrocities over it. You can put a new society in a power vaccum, but so can anyone else, and most of those potential outcomes are going to be horrifying, not to mention to the hellscape interim period.

To create a fair and equitable society you need to know civics, administration, diplomacy, and yes, statecraft. Yes they're boring and unglamorous and icky and gross. But i promise that you need them. They are mandatory. Not optional.

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Ever since I found out that rain sounds audio is technically frying chicken, I've been unable to listen to my super long 'rain sounds' playlist because I feel immensely betrayed for some reason.

#random #personal #rain sounds in audio is the sound of frying chicken

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Me, trying to live my life and do my errands in peace:

My brain, deciding to ruin any concentration I had: 🗣️🗣️🗣️🎤🎤🎤GO GO LET'S GO DATE-KO!

#why the hell is this cheer so damn catchy? #“rule the court seijoh!” is poetic #but this cheer is like my worst nightmare because it pops into my mind at the most random times ever #haikyuu

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Eowyn - Silmarillion Extravaganza

Decided to lean into a more Nordic style, not historically accurate XD

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SIMPLE CARANTHIR AESTHETIC ; for @feanorianweek

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Someone: Greek mythology is boring.

Greek mythology:

#please i choked when i read this part in the iliad #bitchslap of doom #apollo #patroclus #the iliad #homer

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Doofenshmirtz is kind of proof that you can, in fact, make one of the funniest characters out there by throwing shit at the wall.

He’s a supervillain, he’s amicably divorced, he was raised by ocelots, his evil ambitions only stretch as far as taking over the tri-state area, he’s in a romantically-coded/joked about rivalry with a sentient platypus, he’s a good dad, he once lost a fight with a potted plant, he was forced to be a lawn gnome. But most importantly, he never gives up.

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Grumble grumble…

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i love listening to MUSIC!!!!!! and imagining things happening

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During the most poor and homeless period of my life, I had a lot of people get angry with me because I spent $25 on Bath and Body Works candles during a sale. They couldn’t comprehend why the hell I would do that when I had been fighting for months to try and get us on our feet, afford food, and have an apartment to live in.

Those candles were placed beside wherever I slept that night. In the morning, I would move them and set them wherever I’d have to hang out. At one point I carried one around in my purse - one of those big honking 3-wick candles. I never lit them, but I’d open them and smell them a lot.

I credit that purchase with a lot of my drive that got me to where I am today. I had been working tirelessly, 15+ hour days with barely any reward, constantly on the phone or trying to deal with organizations and associations to “get help at”. It’d gone on for almost a year by the end of it, and I was so burnt out, to the point that I would shake 24/7. But I could get a bit of relief from my 3-wick “upper middle class lifestyle” candles. They represented my future goals, my home I wanted to decorate, and how I would one day not be in this mess anymore.

When we moved into the apartment, and our financial status improved, I burned those candles every single day. When they were empty, I cleaned them out, stuck labels on them, and they became the starting point of my really cute organization system I had ALWAYS planned to have.

So whenever I hear about someone very poor getting themselves a treat - maybe it’s Starbucks, maybe it’s a home deco item, maybe it’s a video game… I don’t judge them. I get it. I get that you can’t go without anything for that long without it making you go crazy. You need to pull some joy, inspiration, and motivation from somewhere.

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Pray for my mothers they're really going through it

#the moms are really gonna go through it #hotd #asoiaf

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Feanor and Silmarilli...the light captured inside gems is of tree origin so I wanted to draw it spread like branches ♥ (it was only a doodle where I tried that light-spreading idea. But my sis saw it, liked it(I guess?), redrawn anatomy.... and made Feanor so good-looking that I had to finish it :D )

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Nogrod was one of two Dwarven cities in the Ered Luin, the other being Belegost, that prospered during the First Age. Nogrod lay near Mount Dolmed. It was home to the Dwarves of Nogrod. And it was also the home to the great Dwarven smiths Gamil Zirak and Telchar...

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Me, reading the Iliad and literally everyone dying: oh no, Spotify play 'Achilles Come Down'.

Me, reading the Iliad and Antilochus threatens to kill the horses if they don't catch up to Menelaus during Patroclus' funeral games: NO, NO, DON'T KILL THE HORSES. HOW DARE YOU THREATEN TO KILL YOUR FATHER'S HORSES?! NESTOR, DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR ERRANT SON —

#the iliad #homer #antilochus #jokes aside the iliad is honestly so interesting