My favorite scenes in the LotR books are the ones where Legolas has vital information and just decides it's not important to share.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

Legolas please gain a sense of urgency

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

the frustrating thing about talking about like, why people don't have web presences outside of meta, is that... it is not a thing where people are doing this because they don't care about people not being able to access their information. meta has been successful because they figured out how to lower the level of friction involved in "being on the internet" such that people who weren't Online were able to very easily navigate Being Online. before FB you did not really get people online who weren't Online People. "just learn html/css" is a useless sentiment to express because we are talking about a systemic problem wherein insta/FB are literally more accessible for the person maintaining the web presence to manage. what we need is 1. widespread recognition that this is a problem 2. ideally open source alternatives to meta platforms which are just as easy and accessible for random non-Online type people to use and maintain information on 3. outreach about these alternatives such that non-Online people would be made aware of them & why they offer advantages to meta (people being able to get the information without making an account!)

i understand the frustration with this phenomenon. but it's not helpful to get really "oh if individual people would simply know things they do not know and then intentionally make different choices" about it because it's a problem that's been intentionally designed by meta. i know on tumblr we are all Online Freaks but like. having and maintaining a website is actually NOT as easy and accessible as having and maintaining an insta account. that's simply the truth. denying that in order to be judgmental is pointless. obviously I think it's a huge problem that a lot of information is meta-locked atm and we absolutely should be calling that out and talking about alternatives! and again! i get the frustration. but looking at the notes on that post about this, SO many people are responding with nasty attitudes about the individual people who are maintaining these web presences/implying or stating outright that it's just as easy to have a website and it ISN'T. like that's just not true! why do you think this is an issue in the first place?

we all know adult humans dont get enough enrichment but the other day i was walkin home past an empty playground and impulsively ran over to spin myself on this zipline merry-go-round contraption for a few minutes and it really did feel like it unlocked some neglected part of my brain. like damn we really should all go outside and play more. fuck. they werent kidding with this play time thing. have you guys heard about play time. it could be huge.

“I had time to run home and pack a bag and get to the beach where the boats were waiting,” said a member of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (Collins). “We literally had minutes to get on the boats and flee before it took our town.
“Once we left my house finally after packing what I could in a pack sack, the fire was right behind our place. We had to run to the beach and once we got there, it was only moments before the fire had jumped over the (train) track and was coming for us.”

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You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

ironically enough, bringing a plushie to a public setting as an adult requires a tremendous level of emotional development, and attempting to shame an adult for having a plushie in public requires a significant amount of immaturity. this applies to a surprising number of things.

Trace amounts of Monica in my life