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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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"Why do all these elves have 20 goddamn names" is of course also a classic step in the Silmarillion Experience.

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"Why is Feanor such a bitch" This commenter asks, unknowingly channeling the spirit of all Feanor's half siblings

Gottem

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"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

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“All moans of pleasure, which can be problematic as they can sometimes be associated with pain or discomfort, will be replaced with enthusiastic yippees to keep the tone consensual” -CaitVi kinktober account probably

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Gottem

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I think this picture of my gf helping fix my car should be in the MoMa

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ppl on this website will say that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it and then recycle the same "This Marginalized Queer Group Is Actually Bad And It's Actually Okay To Bully Them And Harass Them" discourse every year like clockwork

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Hobbiton has a yearly poutine festival when the potato harvest comes in. The contest portion is taken extremely seriously. I know this to be true in my soul Tolkien just forgot to include it.

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I think Fingon should just be bafflingly good at sneaking into places. Like obviously there’s the whole rescuing Maedhros thing, but I think he should break into/out of other places. He spends his childhood sneaking away from adult supervision. He regularly sneaks into Formenos during Feanor’s banishment to visit Maedhros. He regularly sneaks out of Dor-Lomin and Barad Eithel despite his father constantly increasing defenses to prevent him from doing so. He breaks out of Mandos one day, refuses to explain himself, and comes back sometime later with a Maedhros he just broke out of Mandos.

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One moment in the Silmarillion that I see little represented and perhaps underestimated on its own, is Finwë's last stand against Morgoth (I know that he's not liked in certain corners of the fandom). His sacrifice sets the tone for all his descendants' deaths (and this fact is acknowledged and quoted, this is true), but it's not just his death's echo and symbolism, the cataclysm that sets Fëanor's arc in motion. It's the entire context that has much more potential. And granted , much of it is not in the published Silmarillion, but neither are Tolkien's other versions of the legendarium so little known in the fandom.

The tension, the horror of this growing sudden darkness, the fact that Fëanor was away, the fact that his grandchildren are instead there and they flee, and how does that weight on their conscience? They relay what happened to their own father, and Finwe's death is gruesome and bloody, terribly similar to Fingolfin's, or Fingon's.

And Finwe. What were his thoughts, how did he fight? He was facing a Vala, for the first time ever an Elda was facing a Vala - the old enemy that had haunted the Quendi ever since their awakening, the enemy from which Finwe had defended his people and brought them against all hope in a land where such horror and death would not find them.

Witnessing it, hearing of it, the death of this father that was so dearly beloved, the death of a king who has led his people for almost 4,000 years, through the darkness of Cuivienen to the light of Aman — he must have been loved beyond reason by his family and people. No wonder they moved a continent to avenge him.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that I see few retellings of Finwe's last stand, though it's as much heroic a death as the others.

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I know in my heart that Rook’s beef with the First Warden is infinitesimal compared to the loathing the First Warden and HoF must have for each other after DAI. Not even an archdemon could invoke the levels of outrage that spark when they have the misfortune of being within the same square mile. HoF probably fell to their knees when they got word someone punched Jowin Glastrum and it wasn’t them

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this guy posted this video called “unethical money making hacks” and was like “i’m selling bullshit art!” and he was buying prints from kmart and covering them in joint compound and making interesting shapes in the joint compound and then selling it as “textured wall art” like sorry bro that’s just regular art you made art i know it feels like bullshit but you’re actually just making art rn

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I'm neither a believer in ghosts nor a disbeliever but a secret third thing

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how many tons of cement would we need to fill in Silicon Valley, hypothetically speaking

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