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It's really important when you're at work to go out there and really give it your 60%. Maybe 35%.

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the song of achilles has truly done so much for the anti-intellectual lgbt community 🙏

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Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

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Write zeta as a different squiggle every time.

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RYEOWOOK IS GETTING MARRIED!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

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Some people: The Silmarillion is a work of such literary significance. 

Me: Obviously Feanor would choose charmander, but would Fingolfin go with squirtle or bulbasaur? What does the text tell us?

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God season one of nuwho is so. Your budget is a half-eaten cheese sandwich. Your props department is the rubbish tip behind the BBC studio offices. You may use one (1) cgi, and also photoshop that is exceedingly bad even for 2005. And its one of the best seasons of television ever made

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KYUHYUN x WON JI AN

그렇지 않아' MV | KYUHYUN EP 'Restart'

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ursa minor, or "bear minimum",

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the piped tags discourse is actually so funny. never change silm fandom <3

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oh so you like Homer??? name every simile

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birds really do be kinda freaky anyway you should all go watch the boy and the heron

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‪sometimes I can’t believe there are ppl who don’t wash their rice before cooking it but then I rmr that western medicine was revolutionized by the simple act of washing your hands

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need you all to know rick astley was given his own NYE show on the bbc and the very first song he played after the fireworks stopped was never gonna give you up. the new year is 14 minutes old and the whole of the UK has been rickrolled. this is the tone for 2024

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who else up hurkleing their durkleing

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Elrond: Let's maybe not swear a binding oath to keep jewelry away from an Ainu at all cost. Let's maybe. Let's maybe just like, pinky promise to do our best. Trust me on this, you don't want to swear any oaths