fall sports are great but spring is funnier because postseason hockey overlaps with may baseball and baseball players will be out for 9 games with left big toe discomfort meanwhile the hockey player on screen has just had every bone in his body exploded and that sumbitch WILL be going back out there

for the most part bluesky is far less devilish than twitter but i will say that this phenomenon specifically is even more present here

an interesting thing about reading jane austen is that her books are essentially the urtext of modern historical romance and yet it’s hard to think of a romance novel in the last 25 years that would allow the kind of consequences for its characters that happen in austen novels

to be completely honest every single time timothee chalamet is mentioned in my hearing i think about this post

tv around midterm elections is just one ad comes on that’s like Are You Tired Of Transgender Migrants Selling Your Job To China? Vote Farmer John. and the very next ad is like Farmer John Hates Pennsylbama Families. Vote Democrat Shmemocrat Instead. This Ad Funded By The American Israel Public Aff—

it’s fun to read my posts from 2022 where i was descending into madness on argon and amrod caffeine before i had even discovered curufin and argon cocaine

whenever i’m shvitzing in 100 degree heat in september i remind myself that if i lived further north where it is cooler i would have to deal with more of a w*nter and i count my blessings….the concept of seeing snow outside and nonetheless being expected to leave my home….nay

sometimes i remember that part in fellowship of the ring where they’re attacked by wolves in the night and they kill them but when they wake up in the morning there are no wolf carcasses or any sign of them except that the arrows that had been in the wolves bodies are laid out for them undamaged

after a hard day’s work what a person needs most is to open up a word processor and beat the shit out of oomf (one of my feanorians)

i don’t know if this makes any sense but i feel like the phenomenon of people who are into stories they like primarily through wikis and lore youtube videos is in some ways a cultural precursor to ai. like. not wanting to experience the art yourself but preferring it third hand and sort of garbled

GRRM’s infamous comment about aragorn’s tax policy is frequently taken out of context and defensively overreacted to but i will say it is immensely funny of him to be (as he says there) much more interested in the practical problems of administering a kingdom and yet also pretty bad with numbers

there’s a lot you can say about why country music at one time had a real pro worker sympathy that it has largely lost but the biggest thing is just that that was the lived experience of its stars. dolly parton was born in a one room cabin to an illiterate sharecropper, the fourth of twelve children

it is absolutely true that the dynamics of fandom have drastically changed in the last 10 years as it has become more mainstream but occasionally people will suggest that fandom wasn’t also crazy before and that’s a revisionism i cannot stand for. i was there, gandalf…i was there 3000 discourses ago

in my heart one of the worst things rhaenyra ever did to alicent was simply being happy as a mother and honestly liking her sons rather than living with a bitter cocktail of love and resentment towards them. worse yet that the sons in question were for the most part nice boys

one of the only unfortunate aspects of being an elf knower of both conscience and perfect breasts is that you will inevitably encounter left/progressive tolkien scholars with (in your opinion) awful taste but ideologically you will nonetheless have to support them in this conservative space

maedhros 🤴

i’m just saying that if we weren’t supposed to be perverts about gil-galad tolkien should not have had people singing of his long sword and keen lance millennia after he died. that’s way too phallic to promote any sort of decency

don’t get me wrong the american press is also biblically evil but the media in the uk is like if every single publication was tmz for some reason

american gothic is best experienced in a real piece of shit gas station in the middle of nowhere. the landscape is lovely, but there are bars on the windows. you walk in and nothing is exactly dirty but there’s a nicotine grime on everything. the selection is bad. they are polite but watchful of you

Sons of Finwë It was fun trying to make them match, yet still look distinctive, despite their common traits in design. #tolkien #silmarillion #feanor #fingolfin #finarfin #tolkienart #silmart #fantasy #elves

everywhere you go as an adult someone is asking you if you want to pay $5-$10 for some kind of fancy fruit juice and the thing is that i am always going to say yes. i always want to have a juice

the craziest thing about wattpad back in the day was not even the quality of the fic (or lack thereof) but rather that it had no usable organization really so like you just had to search the site for the general concept of blorbo and receive an algorithmized What’s Popular of all things about him

if i had a vampire boyfriend i wouldn’t let him drink my blood until he got really desperate and pathetic with it. whiny and needy and hungry. then i’d give him a little and be so condescending about it. sorry. what were you saying?

it’s funny that i was never into reylo because to be honest the likes on many of my posts are about 10 fujoshis who got too into lord of the rings, 10 gay men who got too into lord of the rings, a few middle aged jewish fathers who got too into lord of the rings, and a roman legion of reylo shippers

i understand that it was more efficient not to include this but it always feels like kind of a shame that house of the dragon just picks up in s2 with alicent/criston already being established because the most interesting part of that relationship is how it started

míriel’s haunting is a delicious layer of halenthir to me because the sexiest saw trap you can possibly put a man whose entire family is intergenerationally fucked up by the death of his grandmother into is to have him fall in love with a woman who will die

fire & blood enjoyers are so funny because they will tell you they don’t do ocs but their favorite character is a barely mentioned targaryen with one known personality trait…..baby. yes you do. that is your oc. and that’s okay. we love that for you <3

i think a core weirdness of the elves of mirkwood and the dwarves of erebor is that they are clearly meant to be a narrative echo of the doriathrim and the dwarves of nogrod but there is no real nauglamir incident which leaves this kind of gap there about why that hatred would be so intense

the most annoying thing about stupid book marketing is that you know most of the time the author doesn’t want to be doing this either. they also don’t want to be up there telling you their book is like [popular thing] mixed with [popular thing] and contains [ao3 tag] [ao3 tag] and [vague aesthetic]