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Fandom spaces have GOT to stop finding out about concept art & saying they were supposed to have x or y. That’s not how concept art works, there isn’t a secret better show they decided to hide from you for no reason

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I am trying SO HARD to avoid Emberdark spoilers but it seems like EVERY SINGLE bookmaker that I follow has read it and already has a review out on it. Somebody please help me I can't get my hands on it until the Tor release

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rb to give prev a very good cookie

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If you have a phone you can write. There's a hobby. If you have a phone you can record videos and take pictures. There's a hobby. Sketchbooks are cheap at Walmart and not bad quality - I've got like 10 of them. Pencils are cheap at Walmart. Go to a thrift store and get some really cheap books - 2nd & Charles will often sell used paperbacks for $2.50. If you dont want to pay any money, go on a walk. If you dont have room where you are to walk, exercise in your home. Even if you dont have weights you can still stretch, do push ups, sit ups, and more.

You not having a hobby is not a product of your financial situation, its a product of your laziness.

This person wrote a manifesto I ain’t reading all that but this is literally the type of behavior im talking about the idea hobbies all cost money is so removed from reality if you have the time to pick up your phone and write 7 paragraphs on how im victimizing you with my offhanded post you have the time to watch a movie on YouTube with your very same phone instead come on now. How is you freaking out on the internet helping any of these issues

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At long last, somebody has finaly created the Springlock Suit, from the hit game series "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BUILD A SPRINGLOCK SUIT"

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This is a really specific complaint but I’ve noticed that people who defend fanfic tend to demean books in the process sometimes. Like when I see people defending fanfic, they’ll say “they have passion for what they’re writing” and like hey…. You know people who write original fiction also have passion for it… right? As a fic writer who is also writing original fiction, the passion I feel for my original characters and story is just like it is for fanfic. Idk like there was this whole conversation around criticizing fan fiction and people were saying it’s not okay to do because they do write for free (true), it’s bad fandom etiquette (also true), and that “they write it for the love of the material” which is true but that’s where you lose me because why are authors of original fiction being framed as if they’re just doing so for money and have no passion for their story😭

My hot take is that people (and I think we can see this with booktok) forget authors are people and get comfortable being mean as fuck to them. Recently they bullied an author off instagram for writing books that feature trauma and the poor author had to come online and clarify she experienced the trauma in the book so people would leave her alone. Another author got bullied off of instagram because of her opinion on a fucking HUNGER GAMES CHARACTER. I’ve seen authors getting tagged in hate videos and being left hateful comments. If this was in a fandom it would rightfully be called out. Yet it isn’t with this.

If you’re not a writer, you don’t know how hard it is to write. You truly do not understand. It doesn’t cost anything to be kind.

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Somehow I can’t see chuck norris begging anyone to do anything. Also isn’t he ded

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it's genuinely frightening how many "leftist activists" seem to be, above all else, downright chomping at the bit to find groups of people they think they're allowed to hurt. some of you are downright enthusiastic about finding targets, more than you are about doing anything to lift up marginalized communities, and then some of the targets you find are marginalized communities. like wow asshole good job shitting on "weird queers" that's awesome you're really helping everyone out here that's great. great job talking about all the horrible things you hope happen to the powerless citizens of a country that's doing terrible things, you're really showing a lot of compassion, talking about how you hope they all die. You understand that they are also human beings.

like dude fuck off. human rights are for all humans even the ones you don't like

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Being a Tolkien fan is so funny because once you put your friends on lotr they want more and you have to just recommend them the equivalent of a fucking encyclopedia.

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how the hell did jrrt write the silmarillion without tolkien gateway

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for the right person, all you have to do is exist

read that again

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The silm fandom is so funny yall will literally try to draw moral equivalencies between a character who was kinda mean to ur blorbo and literal war criminals lmao.

Like the list of grievances against Thingol is:

- kinda arrogant

- didn’t give the fancy gem back to the ppl who murdered his brother’s people

- Banned the language of said murderers bc there is literally no policy precedent for this kinda thing since mass murder hadn’t existed up until now.

- Didn’t want his only child to marry a mortal man and risk never seeing her again. (He got over it btw)

And then the ppl they’re saying he’s just as bad if not worse than have:

-committed not one, not two, but THREE kinslayings

-had a secret city where you’ll be killed if you wanna leave.

-literally attacked a refugee camp

Like am I missing something here?? Thingol’s greatest sin is that he’s arrogant and kinda haughty, no shit Sherlock he’s a king and managed to rizz a goddess, I’d think I’m the shit too but last I checked he didn’t kill anyone.

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was thinking about how elrond is kind of the central character in tolkiens legendarium, and like damn HE REALLY IS. even though he might not be as old as some other more “accomplished” characters, he outlived most of them. he’s literally connected to everyone, all the main stories of the silm i can find MINIMUM one character he has a relationship with (and it’s usually more!). like, he’s connected to beren and luthien (b&l > dior & nimloth > elwing & eärendil), he’s connected to the fall of gondolin (eärendil), he’s connected to the fall of numenor (elros + descendants), of course he’s connected to the feanorians through maglor, to the house of finarfin through celebrian, connected to children of hurin through thingol (explained above) and finduilas who is his cousin (in some way idk how family trees work). LITERALLY even connected to the AINUR by being part maia. this man has fucking CONNECTIONS. and by the third age he’s just hanging out ruling the most chill elf settlement in the last two ages while glorfindel (shiniest elf in arda hello, fucking slayer of balrogs if you even care) hangs out in the corner. HE ESTABLISHES THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING YOU GUYS. HIS ACTIONS INDIRECTLY DESTROY SAURON. HES A PEREDHEL. ON BOTH SIDES. HIS EXISTENCE UNITES MEN AND ELVES EVERYONE 👏 ARE WE PAYING ATTENTION

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I love the word “innit” british people cooked with that one