Oh God, It's So Beautiful

americans on twitter commenting on protests in Belarus saying shit like "this is whats gonna happen in november look closely" like... FUCK YOU!!! this isnt about your problems with Trump, dont compare 25 years of Lukashenko's presidency, who's literally called the last dictator of europe, with 4 years of Trump okay. just dont.

Some gorgeous person a while back made a post about if various other famous elves had been part of the fellowship instead of legolas, one of them being Maglor, and now I can’t stop thinking about that au

Elrond: Hi Frodo. This is my dad. He’ll be coming with you on your impossible quest.

Frodo: Wait, I thought your dad was Earendil? Bilbo did a whole musical number about it.

Elrond: Yes, that was awkward for all of us. Have fun!

(more hilarious outtakes beneath cut)

Czytaj dalej

:'D

Erwin: Okay that’s it. I’ve waited long enough and I need to know the truth. Are you two dating?

Hanji: Erwin! How could you insinuate such a thing? Of course Levi and I aren’t dating!

Levi: We’re married.

okay, i am, i confess

Love being brutally called out by the British Library

Ha~~ -bebe de su taza de café -

(he knows her knock)

(her face connie’s face aaughghg)

‘ … i’ve spent all this time and energy …”

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i feel like there are two extremes when it comes to the fëanorians: woobification or demonization, and i think both of them suck the life out of the characters. 

“fëanor/his sons did nothing wrong!” is a weird hill to die on considering how much the text itself disagrees, but i’ve seen people make memes and short posts echoing the sentiment. they usually side with them bc they’ve grown attached to the characters and can’t bear the thought of liking morally gray war criminals, so they rationalize this discrepancy by absolving the characters of any guilt and mentally categorizing them and their actions as always good and just, thereby avoiding having to ask themselves “why do i like these garbage elves?”. it’s a very boring way to go about viewing media - to always have to agree morally with a character to enjoy them.

“fëanor/his sons are absolute monsters who fucked everything up and deserve their fate” is the next extreme i see, and in some ways i actually don’t mind this as much as the other one, despite being a fëanorian fan myself. it’s more rooted in the text imho and understandable if you just look at the result of fëanor’s actions. that said, i feel like it isn’t a fair reading of the text and this viewpoint completely ignores the several times we are told about the good and noble deeds and intentions of fëanor and his sons. i also see this same sentiment in posts bashing on the kidnap dads. that does piss me off tbh, because i see people trying to claim that maglor and/or maedhros were abusive, something we have zero textual basis for. all we are told of their relationship is that “…(maglor) cherished them, and love grew after between them, as little might be thought…”. that’s it, and i take it at face value. as a survivor of familial abuse, i find it bizarre that people want the relationship to be toxic. maybe it’s because they can’t conceptualize terrible people making good guardians, i don’t know. all i know is that viewing maglor and maedhros as inherently evil and bad is glossing over one of the most interesting and compelling dynamics in the whole book to me - that of the brothers and elrond and elros. the idea that these arguably awful dudes find some semblance of family again with these twins who are survivors of the very kinslaying they committed? it’s strange and touching and the one of the last bits of good in the entire rest of the quenta silmarillion. if you write off all the fëanorians as assholes, you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater and losing out on enjoying the best written morally gray characters in all of tolkien’s works.

tl;dr: viewing the fëanorians as either wholly good or wholly evil is incredibly boring! gray morality is fascinating!

AND THEN HE JUST WALKS AWAY LMAO... what an icon

Y'all, sometimes it's not your trauma or the disorder or the way you process information. Sometimes you're just in the wrong and you could have behaved better. Sometimes you're just a dickhead and you gotta recognize it and own it.

Knowing the difference is tough, but it really does help you on the road to recovery or on the road to managing your symptoms. Taking the time to recognize that in myself helps me know when I can give more or when I really do need help and understanding. Sometimes we are just assholes and that's when you gotta go "I'm sorry, what can I do moving forward?" And in that asking? You get to explain where you need help.

klaus, to his cult: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh they're gonna clean up ur looks,,, with all the lies in the books,,, to make a citizen out of you,,,