#Did you not read the fucking poem

[apollos-constant-crisis]

Had this “discussion” with enough cis people that I need to yell into the void about it. slight tw for transphobia below, however

YOU CAN NOT SEPARATE TRANS RIGHTS FROM GAY RIGHTS YOU DUMB FUCK. LEARN QUEER HISTORY, READ A SINGLE BOOK BEFORE YOU TALK TO ME YOU CHUCKLEFUCK.

“I sUpPoRt TrAnS pEoPle I jUsT dOn’T lIkE tHaT wE’rE lUmPeD tOgEtHeR bY bIgOtS” Oh so you don’t support us enough to stand with us. Did they pick you? Are you one of the good fags who knows their place? I hope you’re very secure with the enemy before they inevitably turn on you. Go fuck yourself.

[thesolitarysoul]

[everysongineverykey]

so-called doomerists when "If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot... no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human... Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. ...for ever."

[vulpinesaint]

winning at not being a total bitch to people i mildly dislike or am frustrated with (<— lying but if i say it enough it'll become true)

[technicolorxsn]

love how there are pretentious video essays that just repeat the book and meander and ramble about house of leaves. it's what zampanó would have wanted. it is not, however, what I want

[desperatecheesecubes]

So back in the day in 7th grade our English teacher had the Gifted Kids in his class make read The Outsiders and then he wanted us to make a short movie based on it and all four of us (there were only four in our grade in the program) has to contribute. I was big into making AMVs at the time so I knew basic video editing and in an effort to not make a fool of myself I front of the other three who were all in the popular crowd I volunteered to edit it. Anyway I never heard of any plans to make this fucker until I came into class one day to see it being played and my name in the credits. I got an A for work I didn’t do because the other kids didn’t like me enough to work with me. I wasn’t even upset i was excluded that’s the easiest A I’ve ever gotten

[thisismynamenowxpoetry]

When I said

I’d never leave you

I meant it

You’re still gonna live in my thoughts

When I see a world map,

You’re still going to appear

When I get a notification

I’ll think of you

And how you haven’t read that book yet

I’ll think of all the TikTok’s you deleted

And the chances I gave you

I’ll never leave you,

Well,

I hope not

Because you’ll never leave me,

My heart has a crevice reserved for you

But I hope I’ll never leave you,

I hope you’ll keep that space that you engraved

That you told me had my name,

I hope you’ll feed it,

Water it,

Check on it

I hope you’ll keep the screenshots

When you want to relive a book

I hope you’ll see cello tape

And cry

For a second

I hope you’ll look up flights to me

As a joke

I hope,

Oh god I hope

That you’ll never let me leave.

[thebonejunky]

since im talking about my tlt interpretations, i didn't think there was any actually cannibalism involved in the lyctorhood process. i thought they were only eating their cavalier's souls. but flesh cannibalism on top of that really adds another layer so i like it

[embolalia-poetry]

OF TEARS, embolalia.

[lowlyroach]

545!) Introduce

I'm so pathetically in love

And this love is so disgusting

Does everyone in love feel this ugly?

It consumes me

I surrender I have to surrender to it

Oh wait nobody here has met her

So they mustn't know

I should introduce you guys

So you can fall in love too

Her name is ugly bug and,

Ok guys wait I know what you're thinking,

She is so amazing I love her.

Huh? Wait you think she's ugly?

No guys, you're missing the fucking point

God damn it. Haven't you been listening to these?

No, we love her, not she is ugly. Oh my god

You have to love her despite the ugly

Okay I get it, but you can't just say that

Listen keep it simple

Just love her, or I'm going to fucking kill you people.

So yeah, now that you're looking

You guys feel that too?

Oh shit security is coming back

[lunar-fey]

💕 What's your favorite thing about FFVII or surrounding games?

i think cloud is so funny. i really need to play ffvii fully one of these days (perhaps the remake when its done) and i'm not entirely sure the pace or extent to which they reveal this in main game, but going into crisis core with my only knowledge of cloud being "he's the really special cool protagonist guy who has like a soul bond with sephiroth and Has To Defeat Him as like a metaphor for personal demons or like the horrors of what capitalism can create or something" and then finding out he's literally just some guy with every mental illness ever. instantly he became one of my favorite protagonists of anything ever. they really did that! AND he's a drug addict <3

special interest asks

[thelindenpapers]

Reminder:

Transphobia hurts all women, including cis women.

Statistics show that harassment and violence against cis women have increased ever since transphobes started to intensify discrimination against our trans sisters, trans brothers, and trans siblings...

This is because, as people have been encouraged to police and persecute trans folk, it has increased the ways in which people police the bodies, rights, and behaviors of women, and to demonize femininity, across the board.

Look it up.

Little cis girls have been harassed on sports fields, in schools, and on playgrounds for being tomboys and "appearing" to be trans; and some cis women have even been murdered on the mere suspicion of being trans.

The solution is NOT to be even more transphobic and find "better" ways to discriminate. 🙄 That is TRASH.

The solution is to stand firmly against the sexism that stands at the ROOT of homophobia, transphobia, and queerphobia to begin with; by standing against transphobia and discrimination against trans people.

The gender binary isn't real, bioesentiallism blows (not in the good way), and patriarchal structures are not worth defending.

Let people be whatever hue and color and texture of gender they are, stop policing them about it!

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 362

Adjective: Shiny

Noun: Bottle

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Shiny: (of a smooth surface) reflecting light, typically because very clean or polished

Bottle: a container, typically made of glass or plastic and with a narrow neck, used for storing drinks or other liquids; the contents of a bottle; (informal) used in reference to heavy drinking; a bottle fitted with a nipple for giving milk or other drinks to babies and very young children; a large metal cylinder holding liquefied gas

[vulpinesaint]

sorry thinking about how i wrote an entirely lovecraft themed poem about transgenderism for my beginning creative writing class last semester and one single person besides the professor in that room full of english majors recognized that it was referencing lovecraft. i do not mean this in a way that shames people for not having read stuff or for not having the means to read stuff. but oh my god guys does anyone who is getting a higher level education in literature even look at the literary sources of common phenomena in media nowadays

[astronicht]

Okay I'm almost done with Fellowship, here's an incomplete list of shit I noticed and thought was buck fucking wild on my first ever read-thru: medieval edition.

In literally the second line of the book, Tolkien implies that Bilbo Baggins wrote a story which was preserved alongside the in-universe version of the Mabinogion (aka the best-known collection of Welsh myths; I promise this is batshit). This is because The Hobbit has been preserved, in Tolkien's AU version of our world, in a "selection of the Red Book of Westmarch" (Prologue, Concerning Hobbits). If you're a medievalist and you see something called "The Red Book of" or "The Black Book of" etc it's a Thing. In this case, a cheeky reference to the Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest). There are a few Red Books, but only Hergest has stories).

not a medieval thing but i did not expect one common theory among hobbits for the death of Frodo's parents to be A RUMORED MURDER-SUICIDE.

At the beginning of the book a few hobbits report seeing a moving elm tree up on the moors, heading west (thru or past the Shire). I mentioned this in another post, but another rule: if you see an elm tree, that's a Girl Tree. In Norse creation myth, the first people were carved from driftwood by the gods. Their names were Askr (Ash, as in the tree), the first man, and Embla (debated, but likely elm tree), the first woman. A lot of ppl have I think guessed that that was an ent-wife, but like. Literally that was a GIRL. TREE.

Medieval thing: I used to read the runes on the covers of The Hobbit and LOTR for fun when I worked in a bookshop. There's a mix of Old Norse (viking) and Old English runes in use, but all the ones I've noticed so far are real and readable if you know runes.

Tom Bombadil makes perfect sense if you once spent months of your life researching the early medieval art of galdor, which was the use of poems or songs to do a form of word-magic, often incorporating gibberish. If you think maybe Tolkien did not base the entirety of Fellowship so far around learning and using galdor and thus the power of words and stories, that is fine I cannot force you. He did personally translate "galdor" in Beowulf as "spell" (spell, amusingly, used to mean "story"). And also he named an elf Galdor. Like he very much did name an elf Galdor.

Tom Bombadil in fact does galdor from the moment we meet him. He arrives and fights the evil galdor (song) of the willow tree ("old gray willow-man, he's a mighty singer"), which is singing the hobbits to sleep and possibly eating them, with a galdor (song) of his own. Then he wanders off still singing, incorporating gibberish. I think it was at this point that I started clawing my face.

THEN Tom Bombadil makes perfect sense if you've read the description of the scop's songs in Beowulf (Beowulf again, but hey, Tolkien did famously a. translate it b. write a fanfiction about it called Sellic Spell where he gave Beowulf an arguably homoerotic Best Friend). The scop (pronounched shop) is a poet who sings about deeds on earth, but also by profession must know how to sing the song or tell the story of how the cosmos itself came to be. The wise-singer who knows the deep lore of the early universe is a standard trope in Old English literature, not just Beowulf! Anyway Tom Bombadil takes everyone home and tells them THE ENTIRE STORY OF ALL THE AGES OF THE EARTH BACKWARDS UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE MOMENT OF CREATION, THE BIG BANG ITSELF and then Frodo Baggins falls asleep.

Tom Bombadil knows about plate tectonics

This is sort of a lie, Tom Bombadil describes the oceans of old being in a different place, which works as a standard visual of Old English creation, which being Christian followed vaguely Genesis lines, and vaguely Christian Genesis involves a lot of water. TOLKIEN knew about plate tectonics though.

Actually I just checked whether Tolkien knew about plate tectonics because I know the advent of plate tectonics theory took forever bc people HATED it and Alfred Wegener suffered for like 50 years. So! actually while Tolkien was writing LOTR, the scientific community was literally still not sure plate tectonics existed. Tom Bombadil knew tho.

Remember that next time you (a geologist) are forced to look at the Middle Earth map.

I'm not even done with Tom Bombadil but I'm stopping here tonight. Plate tectonics got me. There's a great early (but almost high!) medieval treatise on cosmology and also volcanoes and i wonder if tolkien read it. oh my god. i'm going to bed.

edit: part II

[ancientmyrddin]

new mental illness unlocked