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Don't have a blunt but I figure this will work

Remember to smoke a fat blunt tonight in honor of Halsin

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People often say LOTR is a story about hope. (I'm reminded of it because someone said it in the notes of my Faramir post.) And that's true, but it's not the whole picture: LOTR is in large part a story about having to go on in the absence of hope.

Frodo has lost hope, as well as the ability to access any positive emotion, by Return. He is already losing it in Towers: he keeps going through duty and determination and of course Sam's constant help.

For most of the story, Sam is fueled by hope, which is why it's such a huge moment when he finally lets go of the hope of surviving and returning home, and focuses on making it to the Mountain. To speed their way and lighten the load, he throws his beloved pots and pans into a pit, accepting that he will never cook, or eat, again.

When Eowyn kills the Witch King, she's beyond hope and seeking for a glorious death in battle. It's possible that in addition to her love and loyalty for Théoden, she's strengthened by her hopelessness, the fear of the Nazgúl cannot touch someone who's already past despair.

Faramir is his father's son, he doesn't have any more hope of Gondor's victory or survival than Denethor does, he says as much to Frodo. What hope have we? It is long since we had any hope. ... We are a failing people, a springless autumn. He knows he's fighting a losing war and it's killing him. When he rejects the ring, he doesn't do it in the hope that his people can survive without it, he has good reason to believe they cannot. He acts correctly in the absence of hope.

Of course LOTR has a (mostly) happy ending, all the unlikely hopes come true, the characters who have lost hope gain what they didn't even hope for, and everyone is rewarded for their bravery and goodness, so on some level the message is that hope was justified. But the book never chastises characters who lost hope, it was completely reasonable of them to do so. Despair pushed Théoden and Denethor into inaction, pushed Saruman into collaboration, but the characters who despaired and held up under the weight of despair are Tolkien's real heroes.

(In an early draft of Return, Frodo and Sam receive honorary titles in Noldorin: Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable, respectively. Then he cut it, probably because it was stating the themes of the entire book way too obviously, because this is what Tolkien cared about, really: enduring beyond hope. Without hope.)

Also, people who know more than me about the concept of estel, feel free to @ me.

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Today in neighborhood chalk drawings

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^ This is my average resting heart rate for the week

^ This is my average resting heart rate for a month

^ here it is over six months

^ And finally this is my average resting heart rate over a little under a year

For context: I have pulmonary hypertension, a type of heart failure that has no cure, and can have some pretty dire prognoses. It’s a huge win for me if we can just maintain my health at Not Dead. But it’s really cool to see this kind of measurable improvement, and the thing that correlates with these trends?

Bringing this sweet lady home

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It rained the exact window of time we were out

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I know when my heart aches it’s not for no reason, but it isn’t always clear to me why. So I just sit there and be sad for a while

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Tonight’s insomnia art

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they are going to hug

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So learning digital drawing is going well

I am not at all struggling

No issues here

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Sorry almost forgot

Listening to the Magnus Archives for the first time, just finished season 1

I could be wrong but I feel like this is where everyone is at. Will have to see

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Listening to the Magnus Archives for the first time, just finished season 1

I could be wrong but I feel like this is where everyone is at. Will have to see

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I like when people say things like “respect blue collar workers!” and then the same people turn around and completely dismiss the years of training it takes to be able to do that type of work safely and effectively.

“Telling people not to do their own electrical work because it’s dangerous is classist bc not everyone can afford an electrician” “I can’t believe that plumber charged me so much money for less than an hour of work, what a scam!” “In the post-capitalist utopia everyone will just take turns doing all types of blue-collar work, instead of years-long apprenticeships we’ll just give them a course in high school or something” “Building and safety codes are just pointless bureaucracy meant to stop the average citizen from being able to build their own structures” “I would love to be a farmer and just hang out tending to plants all day”

These are all things I have seen on this website by self-proclaimed worker’s rights advocates and I hope I don’t have to explain how incredibly insulting and dismissive it is when it’s not outright dangerous. There’s a LOT that needs to be fixed about our current labor system but “pretending like training and safety protocols aren’t important” and “pretending that those jobs are actually really easy and any layperson can do them” are uh. Not good solutions.

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A new variant has been added!

Hemprich’s Hornbill (Lophoceros hemprichii) © Steve Garvie

It hatches from brown, dark, dry, dull, floppy, long, loose, other, outer, rapid, reddish, rocky, similar, and white eggs.

squawkoverflow - the ultimate bird collecting game          🥚 hatch    ❤️ collect     🤝 connect

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Source

Friendly reminder that the USPS is a public service - it does not need to break even or make a profit like corporations. Fuck Louis DeJoy.

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YOU ASKED FOR IT AND HERE YOU HAVE IT - Part 2 of the evil and rage filled sped up isopod gifs

source for all of these: isopod eats channel