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Aberration

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It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point. 

And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again. 

And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil. 

“I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.”

So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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Stimboy !!! he/him pls

all the trinkets work like actual fidgets !!

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Monster Researcher Eclair encounters a Sphinx

The rest of the story is on Patreon

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since staff hates seeing transition timelines, I knew I just had to chime in :3 (especially since my gf did one)

Strange looking boy failure vs hot tranny lesbian

fuck @staff and that little bitch boy matt

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Sucks to suck

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mom listen. you need to help me order this shirt. yes, it says "call me a 737 cause i've got a few screws loose and I sucked a guy off". trust me it's very creative. you don't get it because you don't follow corporate crime in aerospace

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Remembered this one omake direct author appeal page, and just how hard it goes. You only get one life, so why hold yourself back for no reason.

Are you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go full cute!?

Source is Danshikou ni Dokusareta Otokonoko (Mangadex) which is surprisingly sweeter than you'd think from the initial premise

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https://twitter.com/vagina_museum/status/1628046312275935232

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genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people's attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn't even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with "btw i made all of this up" and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

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is google insane or did it forget about the legal right to ablocking lol. are they trying to challenge the EU? bc they're not going to win that one. europe doesnt think this shit is cute

ive been flicking settings and programs on and off and updating drivers and shit trying to get youtube to load faster but it's being artificially throttled by google bc im using firefox

like. did they forget what antitrust suits are

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fav customer is old gay man who’s lived in boystown since the 70s. he was talking abt how he used to be basically a skinny twink who killed at clubs. i said “must be tough to be gorgeous” and he said “well i was gorgeous!” and i said “no you still are!!” and he said “oh please. when i come out of the shower and see myself in the mirror i sit shiva”

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when u exit hyperfocus mode and ur immediately hit with every status effect ever