Byron *probably At Least Once*:

Just another day in the survey corps…ಠ_ಠ

Art/Comic by Estelle // Translation by Akaritakutranslations // Find this comic untranslated here // Reposting elsewhere is allowed but please give credit to the artist and translator

It’s the end of the year, so it’s time for a decade redraw! I chose my piece of Legolas after the battle at the gates of Mordor, which I first drew while in New Zealand in 2009. I liked the idea of him having lost/given away/destroyed his arm guard in the chaos of the previous few weeks. My redraw is sort of the next breath, when he looks up and realizes that the gates are down, the mountain is crumbling, and the tower of Barad-Dur with its fiery eye is no longer standing.

I know I haven’t posted as much LotR content since my own books started being published, but I have a lot of feelings about this character and this scene in particular. Legolas is practically the last Elf anybody would choose to go on a quest to save Middle Earth. He’s the least noble of any Elvish heroes, with absolutely no deeds to his name besides losing Gollum (oops), he’s from the least of the Elf-realms, and he has unremarkable lineage at best and bleak family history at worst. His grandfather led a disastrous charge at the Battle of Dagorlad that got his whole company killed (Book of Unfinished Tales), which Thranduil witnessed first hand. The passage that comes after is one of my favorites:

“[Thranduil] had seen the horror of Mordor and could not forget it. If ever he looked south, its memory dimmed the light of the sun, and though he knew that it was now broken and deserted and under the vigilance of the Kings of Men, fear spoke in his heart that it was not conquered forever: it would arise again.”

And now here’s his son, who almost certainly expected to die that day for a world he has no moral obligation to, surrounded by absolutely none of his kin, sitting on the threshold of Mordor, instrument of Sauron’s final destruction and LIKE? Come on, that’s a great arc.

makes sense :3

omg this is the fucking saddest thing I have read... don't let this post die please... let this spread!

i never thought i’d see the day where i’d have to do this

i was on a video call with my girlfriend again today from 2 pm to 5 pm, and we discussed the following:

she once again was unable to sign on for class due to wifi issues.

she hadn’t had any food or water yet

when she finally did eat, it was french toast

she didn’t get water, but instead a sprite, which at least has water in it

she has anorexia, along with another kind (arfid? i don’t remember) that isn’t very common, but it basically means she has to have certain foods at certain temperatures, which is why she likes cheez-its but not cheese

she ADHD, anxiety, ODD, OCD, ASD, and depression, and she’s going to be tested for tourette’s

her eating disorder started when she was six, and when she was eight she was on adderall when she was eight for about a year before she was taken off the medication, because if she had continued taking it she would have literally starved to death

the guidance counselor at our school told her that:

she didn’t look mentally disabled

she didn’t have an eating disorder, it was just the medication

she couldn’t use they/them pronouns

we both agreed that the previous school year wasn’t good for either of us because:

she pulled all-nighters every night

due to the constant all-nighters, she often fell asleep in class

she was mostly running off of anxiety

i would break down crying at least three times a day due to sheer stress

she was to stressed to eat, and i didn’t have the time

it took a serious toll on our mental, emotional, and physical health

there are a lot of things that a lot of people don’t understand, but please understand this: my girlfriend’s been through so much her whole life, and i can’t pretend that i know how hard it is, or that i’ve had it even nearly as bad as she has. she’s stuck inside and i want to help her so much, but i don’t know how to. so every note this post gets is a day she has to take good care of herself. she is an amazing person, and i hate seeing her hurting.

and after the curse she is only able to post screenshots

modern au where narcissus is a tiktok influencer and echo runs a fanpage

so the megalodon is most definitely extinct? how do scientists know?

well, the thing about large predators is that they leave an impact on an ecosystem big enough that you can tell they’re there, even if you never observe one directly. in this case, we know they’re definitely extinct because of the behavior of whales! whales used to max out at about 50 ft long and were fast and agile, entirely because of predation by megalodon!

but about 2 million years ago, our whales began to rapidly increase in size until we ended up with real monsters like the blue whale. this pretty directly lines up with the extinction of megalodon, and the removal of the pressure they were putting on large whale populations.

basically, large whales can get away with being gigantic, slow tanks in the oceans today because there simply isn’t a predator big enough to take them on anymore. if megalodon still existed, we would be seeing its impact on whale populations! whales would be smaller, and a hell of a lot more skittish than they are.

everything in a given ecosystem is connected, and you can often get important information about the unknown parts by observing the behavior of other parts of the ecosystem.

Happy birthday, Tooru! :D <3 Wszystkiego najlepszego! #OikawaBirthday2017

Ha~~ -bebe de su taza de café -

Haven’t touched my tablet in a while due to school //crie Another series of Fairy tail “Photos”! sorry for the late replies