Lúthien. Professor Tolkien is my eternal fave. I love folklore, languages, trad. folk music, religion/mythology, horror movies, and words. 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Swinging erratically between current events and my usual bumbling nonsense but tagging for it.
And clone is a lesser copy whose merit as a living being is judged by how perfectly someone else caused you to replicate the features and form of the person you’re cloned from. There’s an older, original version of you out there and you don’t “share” the same features, you’re just a copy whose only worth is how perfectly you’re not individual from them. If you’re too you rather than them, they might toss you out and make a more faithful clone.
If you’re a robot with consciousness, at least you can look back across the whole course of human science and see that people thought that consciousness was something of value, and that your possession of it—your sense of self—mattered to your creators.
no, you don't understand how incredibly surreal it is when a foreigner tells you that ukraine was better off in soviet union. the time when there were no crimean tatars in crimea. soviet union. crimea without crimean tatars. because soviet union violently deported all of them for being nazis. men women kids partisans red army soldiers. all nazis. ukraine was better off without crimean tatars. ukraine was better off without nazi muslim barbarians who crimean tatars supposedly were
I can’t ever leave tumblr because I just love the tag function.. no other social media platform allows you to heckle yourself on your own post. you get to preemptively make metatextual commentary abt your OWN POST. how cool is that
this tweet is a foundational text for terminally-online bi people everywhere because let's face it, many of us are the grungler, but "whatever happened to beauty" legsweeps me every single time