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i’ll forgive a fat girl for so many annoying things simply because i know how fucking miserable it is to be a fat girl. like. you dont get to exist freely and with any joy until you go through a decades long soul search full of extreme emotional pain OR you nearly kill yourself to become something society might accept. or you toughen up after years of bullying forced you to be more confident. literally there is no painless route to being a fat girl in your 20 somethings. so like. fat girls can be annoying as a treat. you have all been annoying our whole lives

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botw au idea i had for a while that has abruptly decided to re-emerge in the year 2024

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ive just been born into the world what are some good games for beginners

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fëanorian week day five ✷ curufin

“And after Celegorm Curufin spoke, more softly but with no less power, conjuring in the minds of the Elves a vision of war and the ruin of Nargothrond. So great a fear did he set in their hearts that not until the time of Túrin would any Elf of that realm go into open battle; but with stealth and ambush, with wizardry and poisoned dart, they pursued all strangers, forgetting the bonds of kinship. Thus they fell from the valour and freedom of the Elves of old, and their land was darkened.”

-JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion, “Of Beren and Lúthien”

[ID: A picspam comprised of 12 images, mainly in dark red with accents of off-white.

1: A painting of several pomegranates sitting on a decorated cloth / 2: Carpeted stairs with holes worn through the fabric / 3: A glass tipped over on a lace tablecloth, now stained with wine / 4: Text reading “curufinwë” in an off-white rectangular frame with a red background / 5: Red flames / 6: A chessboard with ornately carved pieces / 7: A vestibule in the Taj Mahal, decorated with carved panels surrounding an arched doorway / 8: Stars in a red nebula / 9: Same format as Image 4, but the text reads “atarinkë” / 10: A jeweled crown sitting on a velvet-lined chair / 11: Haphazardly stacked books in various shades of red / 12: A brown-skinned person’s hands. They are wearing traditional Indian rings and bangles and a red and gold robe /End ID]

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I refuse to apologize for being soft—let me fall in love with life. let me sing and speak to my house-plants, let me dance in my bedroom with headphones, let me read by my windowsill when it’s pouring outside. let me stroke my friend’s face and say something sappy. let me be unapologetically happy for the little things that make my day better. life’s too short anyway, at least let me love it every step of the way

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high school is soo funny in hindsight. the entire time you're there thinking it's the most important period of your life and then the second you're out you're like well that was fucking stupid

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Being in fandom is like, oh the Europeans are going to sleep, the early side Americans are awake, the late side Americans are awake, the Brits are up at all hours, and what the heck is going on with the Australians?

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LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING (2003)

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Mandos and Vaire ☁️

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It can be really hard to learn to engage in positive self talk, but sometimes it's easier to start by pretending it's coming from a friend, first 💜

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One thing I love is that Tolkien never gives any specifics about Sauron's appearance in the Silmarillion, beyond the facts that he is "fair" and "beautiful." Unlike with many other Tolkien characters, there's no mention of his hair or eye color, his height, or anything else about his physical appearance as Annatar or any of his other fair forms.

It could just be because he is a shapeshifter and such details aren't important, as they aren't permanent, but I think Tolkien was a clever enough writer to have an additional purpose for it.

It allows the reader to picture Sauron as whatever is most fair to them.

In a way, it grants Sauron with the very power of shapeshifting that he has in the books; he can appear different to each reader and form himself into whatever is most fair and seductive in their own eyes.

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My Muppet Princess Bride drawings found their way to Facebook and from that came a ton of good suggestions for scenes. Rizzo as a R.O.U.S. has been suggested by a lot of different folks for as long as I've been doing these drawings, but I was never quite sure how to handle the scene until a commenter suggested Rizzo's line. Maybe it resonated with me because I can kinda relate to Rizzo in this moment (especially so soon after Valentines Day!). Thanks to Paul Adams who provided Rizzo's line, and gave me permission to use it in this drawing.

And shout-out to movie-screencaps.com for providing the backgrounds, I like to edit shots from the movie for my backgrounds because it allows me to focus on the fun part of drawing Muppets. There's also just something fun about 'painting' the Muppets into the actual film.

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The Wait.

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Mr. Spock holding a cat. for your troubles.

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This scene has probably been one of the most requested ones since I started doing these Muppet Princess Bride illustrations, but I held off attempting it for the longest time because I had no idea if I could pull off Miss Piggy's famous karate chop, and the shot of Kermit falling down the hill. But after hunkering down and putting pen to (digital) paper I managed to get something I'm pretty proud of!

Honestly, I'd love to see Muppet Princess Bride become a reality if only because I wanna see them huck Kermit down a hill. Muppets being thrown is peak comedy to me. 

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