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still very much got the watermill theatre's revival of the lord of the rings musical on the brain... cannot stop thinking about the 4 hobbits and every time they all rushed to cuddle each other i just i cannot 😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖

[commissions open!] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

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Van Helsing in movie adaptations: Dracula's nemesis

Van Helsing in the book: Dracula's real estate lawyer's wife's girlfriend's fiancé's boyfriend's university professor

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mole crickets might just be one of the cutest bugs ive ever seen in my fugging life im not even messing around i feel like i wanna kiss them and hug them and pet them like a little puppy doggy

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i love things that come in glass jars because once its over the glass jar is mine

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Everybody Scream Florence and the Machine

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Hesitant Alien, 01/18/2015

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cat can:

snuggle

biting you

eat food AND plastic

so scared of car sounds

locate Bug

Make sounds

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These lines (first from the films, thereafter from the books) taught me something profoundly essential about how to be there for a friend, a lover, or a loved one when they are consumed by despair, weighed down by grief, or overwhelmed by the weight of mental torment. It taught me that some burdens are sacredly personal; untransferable tasks that each of us must face in our own time and way.

Yet, while we cannot take their pain or carry their burden for them (no matter how much we wish we could), there is something else we can do. While we cannot lift their burden, we can lift them. We can carry their weary body, their weary heart, as they bear the weight of their pain. In doing so, we offer them a sanctuary — a place of care and safety, where they can begin to confront their hurt without the fear of being alone in its gaze.

While the pain may be theirs to bear, the journey through it need not be traveled in solitude.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, I love you.

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Had a cozy Hobbit Party with @reginalds yesterday to watch the Lord of the Rings musical, and of course, we had to put together a splendid little feast to enjoy along with it - Emily made the most amazing plum upside-down cake~!!

Middle Earth will always be a special place, and its stories always seem to back around into my life when they're most needed. I wish I'd gotten to see the show in person while it was in Melbourne, but experiencing it at all is the main thing, really. Seeing new life breathed into old, familiar characters, taking the journey alongside them with fresh eyes and a different perspective, and all the years of love that's still being shared for these stories - it's something very special indeed.

I'll hopefully be able to articulate more thoughts on the musical eventually, but for now, it's just time to have the music play on a loop in my head while I mentally rotate The Fellowship for the foreseeable future~🍃

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…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls

EDIT FOR JAN 2025: I’M MAKING A ZINE OF MISS PIGGY FASHIONS. It is happening, I have heard your comments. Please stay tuned to my instagram for updates!! Here’s a preview:

thank you for like, a bajillion notes!!!

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talking with @kchzndrvh and came up with this together! rumi's balcony is covered in a forest of plants, and from one of the artists' visual development sketches, celine's home has a full on garden, so: headcanon that rumi inherited a love of plants and gardening from celine.

rumi's instagram is at least 30% posts of just plants like "I got this handsome boy yesterday! It's a ficus umbellata, native to western Africa. :) #myficus"

they have staff who do the housecleaning but rumi writes out very specific page-long care instructions for each of the plants when they're on tour. she names the plants too.

after every world tour she does an IG livestream of how her plants have been doing since she last saw them 4 months ago, and does a little Q&A, but she tells her mods to only show her the questions about the plants.

it's 80% "boring" leaf-only plants, and some of those things that only flower like once every few years at midnight for 2 hours. one of them is expected to flower only when the group is in Europe and she barely resists rescheduling just bc she's so professional. but she gets bobby to set up a livestream of the plant, and the fans start watching it too... #herkadupul

and then. it flowers for those 2 hours. when they're in the middle of a concert.

after the concert:

and thats all she will ever be able to bring herself to say about it

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well. did you know. there's actually a second part to me and my friend @velteris' #herkadupul idea (this post here)

because while "my kadupul" may be all that rumi can bring herself to say about it, her beloved teammates had something to add once they finished the encores and hit backstage.

namely, a photo of rumi post tweeting 'my kadupul':

(i paid @ptanalo to draw this for me btw and u too can commission her to draw your silly desires ^^)

predictably it explodes social media

so there's all of this happening live in social media and-- wait, what's this!

It's. it's, BY GOD WHO COULD HAVE SEEN HER COMING IN WITH A STEEL CHAIR

yay👍

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Shout-out to the three lil storks outside my house for making me want to draw babydorah