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bnuuys | Tolkien. uni thesis on Feanor as Faust | dragon age prolly | she/her

cecil roth: so it’s like another name in hebrew used only in religious contexts in addition to the english one used in daily life tolkien, his orientalism particles vibrating hard enough to burn a hole in the fabric of reality: Even On Their Tombs They Do Not Write It

i picture caranthir with this menacing resting scowl but for maedhros i think it’s not as simple as his expression being hostile but more that one has this deeply unnerving almost nauseous feeling that he is looking through you. he incites prey animal instincts in a person

you ever pick up a book and there's an aura to it that is like... this feels like it might be queer. not anything advertised as such, the synopsis is about something else. and then you read it. and it is queer.

not engaging with social media for a while has you reading stuff people write and going like y'all get viciously mad over genuinely inane stuff. maybe being nasty all the time and surrounded by nasty people all the time does kill neurons

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

I cut people out of my life before because of the way they talked about others they called friends behind said friends' backs. and I'll do it again. they're nothing and they deserve nothing.

castlevania has a lot of flaws but something utterly broke my brain when during the season 1 finale dracula goes like "my boy. lisa I'm killing my boy." insane. the broken voice. the moment of lucidity. the feanorism.

I think if you're going to do a macbeth story you shouldn't open it with three "witches" meeting up and super literally quoting and namedropping macbeth, and then reappearing casually here and there to do the whole "you'll be king". you're leaning too hard on your source. you need to trust yourself.

i mean sure it might be politically questionable when ‘found family’ just forces unrelated characters into traditional familial roles but most of all it’s not quite as sexy. far more romantic for the relationship to be brotherfatherloverfriend than neatly any one of those things

I don't think real history should be allowed to do things like "the last emperor of Rome was named Romulus Augustus after the first emperor and the founder of the city". That's too much symbolic swag.