femgirlfriend-moved:

when you enter a grocery store for ‘a few items’ thinking 'you don’t need a cart’ that’s the devil speaking

eosofspades:

queerasflux:

blushingallthewayhome:

Question for all my followers. How many of y’all are still wearing masks everywhere? And are you doing this because you’re mandated to or out of an abundance of caution?

listen. listen. the pandemic is still fucking happening. “abundance of caution” my ass. people are fucking dying every fucking day, of course I’m wearing a goddamn mask. Of course I am. I don’t want me to die, I don’t want my loved ones to die, I don’t want my asshole neighbor to die even tho I hate him. I’m going to wear the fucking mask until the plague stops happening.

faustandfurious:

faustandfurious:

Whenever I read LotR and reach the battle between Eowyn and the Witch-king, I get the impression that the reason why the prophecy loophole works isn’t that the Witch-king is unkillable except for some illogical weakness nobody had thought about yet for misogynistic reasons, but that the Witch-king himself derives so much of his power from the fear he instills in others and from his own belief that he is unkillable. Eowyn doesn’t fear him, because she doesn’t fear death. When she twists his words right back at him, she’s not trying to exploit a prophecy loophole, she’s just making a play on the double meaning of the word «man» with fairly standard battlefield bravado.

But, crucially, it gets the Witch-king wondering if there might be an actual loophole in the prophecy. He starts doubting his own invincibility. There’s no logical reason why a woman might be able to kill him if a man cannot, but prophecies are tricky things. What if …

And this is what undoes him, in the end. This last minute doubt. The Witch-king, deep down, believes that Eowyn can kill him, thus making it possible for her to do so.

The elves care about the prophecy. The Witch-king cares about the prophecy. All the old, powerful beings of Middle Earth play by the rules of prophecy and live by the logic of Norse Sagas and Germanic legends.

Eowyn marches up to the Witch-king like Jared (19), goes “that sign won’t stop me because I can’t read”, and because the storybook logic, the fairytale logic, of the prophecy allows for her kill him, the Witch-king as a creature of stories and nightmares has to play by his own rules and die by her sword.

swan2swan:

Disney: “Mr. Hirsch, you’re not allowed to show gay characters in your children’s cartoon.”

Every Cartoon Creator for the Next Ten Years:

normal-horoscopes:

gaslightgallows:

plain-flavoured-english:

normal-horoscopes:

normal-horoscopes:

You fanfiction people are insane. Y'all will say shit like “I hate writing original fiction, I prefer it when the characters have an established dynamic.” And then headcannon the characters to where their dynamic is completely different.

“I like fanfiction because using an established world is a good shorthand for other readers!” And then write shit like “The avengers but they’re actually the starving orphaned children of a kindly french barrel maker during the 30 years war.”

Essentially we play with characters the way we used to play with Barbies

By dismembering them and swapping out the heads

YES!!! KILL!!!

kajedheat:

apolloendymion:

normal-horoscopes:

Y'all. “Hell is empty and the devil’s are here” is not one of those epic Tumblr quotes. It’s from The Tempest. The Shakespeare one.

remember when that furry post went around with “you have nothing to lose but your chains” and people were saying “this is such a raw ass line and it’s from a furry post” but it’s literally karl marx

When people thought Justin McElroy adlibbed “Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” and like. That saying has been around forever.

squidwardisanoctopus asked:

So In feet of clay, is there a reason sir terry pratchett chose to use golems as opposed to another mythical automaton? For example, the kratt is another Eastern European option. Why a golem specifically?

neil-gaiman:

First of all, the kratt is an Estonian story, not Eastern European. Estonia is in Northern Europe, near Finland. Golems are from Jewish mythology, and not Eastern European.

It’s obviously hard to speak for Terry, given that he’s dead and we never really chatted about Golems vs kratts specifically, but I would hazard a guess that the reason that Terry wrote a book called Feet of Clay about Golems is because he wanted to, and got to explore Jewish/Yiddish myth in his own way, and the power of the written word, not to mention do some Yiddish jokes, and so the Golem lore allowed him to tell his story in a fashion that say kratt [who aren’t made of clay, thus losing the book’s punning title, but from household objects, and are brought to life by giving the Devil three drops of blood and not by writing things and/or placing writing in or on their heads, thus losing more of the book’s themes, and who have to keep working and need to be given impossible tasks to destroy them] wouldn’t have. Also, most people have heard of golems, but I had to stop and check kratt, and I couldn’t name any other mystical automatons that would work in a Discworld setting that would have given Terry that plot.

Why this and not that is a hard enough question for any living author. I don’t think it’s answerable for a dead author. But I hope this has given you something to think about.

iamthecutestofborg:

trappedinavelociraptor:

intactics-deactivated20211231:

#he’s right but his neighbors fucking hated him probably

milf-adjacent:

lysanderish:

etherealthief:

kaedeakamatsu:

killowave: