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My dream for the election is that it’s definitive. I want a 2012-style Election Day where everyone built it up beforehand to possibly be close but then the results start rolling in and it was like “Oh, nevermind. It’s obviously Obama. Everyone go to bed.”

I just want voters to put a stake right through the heart of Trumpism so that it crumbles to ash before our eyes. That’s the dream.

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I know I’ve said this before but vampires

don’t show up on camera

can fly/scale walls

immune to bullets

can break into any safe by turning into fog or some bullshit

could probably hypnotize security guards as needed

therefore I am in dire need of a heist film where a group of vampires band together to steal back their old stuff from museums

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omfg i forgot that i never showed tumblr my greatest achievement. my pride and joy, my pi-ass de résistance

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$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

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...I may need to add frogs to my list of plushie crafts in addition to dragons and elephants.

i dont think i posted these but here i made a little frog pattern to make tiny frog toys with my grandma

this is the first lil guy I made while still learning how i should sew it

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One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

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Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do

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*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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You got it! In order, we have: - Katrina Van Tassel (from the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" half of 1949's "Ichabod and Mr. Toad") - Slue-Foot Sue (from the Pecos Bill segment of 1948's "Melody Time") - Cinderella (1950) - Princess Jasmine (from "Aladdin" in 1992) - Megara (from "Hercules" in 1997) - Esmerelda (from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in 1996) - Lieutenant Helga Katrina Sinclair (from "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" in 2001) - Tinkerbell (from 1953's "Peter Pan") - Ariel (from 1989's "The Little Mermaid") - Charlotte La Bouff (from 2009's "The Princess and the Frog") - Orwen (from 1985's "The Black Cauldron") - Jessica Rabbit (from 1988's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," technically released under Disney subsidiary Buena Vista Pictures) - Yzma (from 2000's "The Emperor's New Groove")

When people give Elsa crap for being "too sexy" for Disney

It’s like,

have

you

seen

what

Disney

has

done

before?

For gods sake, Ariel had a nude scene.

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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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If I may, as someone who is fairly well-versed on both fronts (and, full disclosure, I identify as neither a Silver Elf nor a Tolkien elf; I actually identify my kintype as one of the ljósálfar), I can certainly see where this misconception comes from.  Yes, there are many similarities, and yes, Tolkien is referenced in a number of the Silver Elf materials, but his creations and his works are seen as more of an aspirational example rather than a literal identity component.  However, the histories, culture and language of the Silver Elves vs. the various types of Tolkien Elves are greatly divergent (I can go into this on a far more detailed level, if you wish, but for the moment I won’t bog this down with discourse and references and direct comparison and contrast).

You are correct in citing that Lord of the Rings was a key component of many elfkin awakenings and it is something of a bonding element in many elf-based communities, both back in the 1960s and 1970s when it was published and the Bakshi and Rankin/Bass films were released and again in the late 1990s/early 2000s when the Peter Jackson films were being made and subsequently came out (and as someone who entered the community around that time and who is not a fictionkin, it made finding my own place in it and better understanding my kintype quite the slog); and no doubt we’ll see a fresh influx once the new Amazon series debuts.  And there certainly *are* a number of long-standing elfkin communities outside of the Silver Elves who *do* believe they are literally Tolkien Quendi, and some members of the Silver Elf community may consider themselves Quendi as well.  However, I would consider it erroneous to claim that the Silver Elves are Quendi or fictionkin as a whole, even if they do embrace certain overlapping elements.

But should you find that source, I would be interested in seeing it!

Hi there! I happened to notice on one of your posts that you said that the Silver Elves were Tolkien Elves and thus in a sense an early form of fictionkin. I was wondering if you could please tell me where you got that information, because as 1) a deep-in-the-weeds Tolkien fan and 2) someone who found succor with the Silver Elves as a newly-awakened 'Kin 20 years ago, they are something very different than Tolkien's Quendi in my experience. Thank you!

I’m... honestly not sure where I originally heard it; I tried to find the source and I’m failing to. I know I’ve heard it around from multiple people who’ve been active in the community longer than I have, although it’s probably not as accurate to say most of them were Tolkien elves as to say they hold a lot of similarities and I seem to remember it wasn’t uncommon for them to have awakened and/or met each other through Lord of the Rings. It’s possible I’m wrong about that entirely; it’s something I’ve heard a lot but I’m failing to find sources right this second.

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...OK, I think I have an idea for Lothlórien that kinda fits with both these ideas and hits similar beats to the canon.

Let’s say it started off as a fairytale-themed amusement park.  Charming, but small, out-of-the-way, and when the novelty started wearing off, so too did the traffic.  The original owner headed out, mumbling something about trying to find a way to bring in more money, but really just was sick of dealing with the failing park and never came back, and the hotel across the river or interstate or whatever (Amon Lanc, anybody?) that used to hold all the guests also started falling into ruin.  But the carnies that helped keep it running, they stayed, because that was home and they were basically family, so they stuck around, trying to keep things at least kinda presentable.

Then, one day, some other guy shows up.  Slick, charming city-slicker from a big city not far west of there, but he’s a genuinely decent guy.  Absolutely falls in love with the place and the people working and living there.  Thinks it has a lot of potential, but still wants to keep reasonably true to the original idea.  So, takes over ownership, he builds up the area, tries to make it an all-inclusive resort.  Renders the old hotel across the way obsolete, but there’s still some potential for rivalry there, so he kinda-sorta keeps an eye on it.  But for a while, things are pretty awesome.

Then there’s some kind of disaster that strikes the place where he’s from.  Partially is what causes the old train system between there and the park to close down, and they’ve got some space at the park-resort, so he opens his doors to the people fleeing the disaster area, including members of his family (hard to tell if they’re blood or just found family, but not really the point), offering shelter and jobs.  From that point on, though, safety becomes a real concern, so caution is urged, but he manages to make them feel safe.  At least, he does up until he’s headed off for a destination wedding with his fiancee and never makes it back.  After that, paranoia starts running high, and the new proxy-owners who were very close to that owner don’t want anything else happening to the people living and working there, so the park eventually shuts down and nature begins closing in, but they don’t have the heart to make people leave, not when it was the second owner’s dream to make the place so wonderful.  So now, it’s pretty much just a motley lot of old carnies and refugees doing their best as a community there, and only rarely do people manage to get there now.

In the ideal modern lotr au, all locations should have an eery, abandoned vibe (like they do in the books). The kind of locations you stumble over on a road trip and are haunted by for the rest of your life. 

Tom Bombadil’s house as an old tourist trap that hasn’t been altered since the 70s run by a too-friendly owner and his suspiciously beautiful wife. 

Weathertop as a giant factory that became redundant decades ago and was left to rot. 

Rivendell as a breathtakingly beautiful hotel that was fully booked every night in its heydey, but now is lucky to have more than two guests at a time. 

Moria as an abandoned subway system… but is it abandoned? 

Lothlórien as a fairytale themed amusement park built in the 50s that went out of business and was reclaimed by nature.  

…I could go on.