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"welcome to the real worl-" I WAS WELCOMED TO THE REAL WORLD WHEN I WAS BORN NOT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!ARE YPU CALLJNG ME A NEWBORN!?!?!??????GRRRRRRRGG!!!

my dads response could not have been better

important addition

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exhausted

Compulsory Aliveness by Tabitha Lean

The only thing Malice likes more than being outside is having inside outside.

First feline inventor of the outdoor blanket fort

if we had cat ears it would kinda be a problem because my ears would be permanently locked on airplane mode and everyone will think im ungrateful and full of hate and they would be correct

something about lotr that I truly appreciate is its love for Bilbo. it is so hard to put this into words... but as someone whose first Tolkien book was The Hobbit and loves Bilbo Baggins, it just! makes me Feel Things. the way Frodo has so many fond memories of Bilbo, and misses him, and wants so badly to see him again. how the hobbits sing songs that were passed on to them by Bilbo. how they casually refer to events in Bilbo's adventure, stories that they heard as children and grew up with. how so many other characters are friends with Bilbo: the elves (who joke with him and listen to his poetry)! the dwarves (who would not betray him to Sauron)! don't forget Gandalf and Elrond! and Aragorn! who can forget Aragorn reciting that bit of poetry Bilbo wrote for him! Sam talking about the tales that really mattered, and wondering if the end of their tale might be like old Mr. Bilbo's. Pippin's last thoughts before getting knocked out at the battle of the black gate suddenly drifting back to Bilbo; the eagles came in his tale, long ago. the good things that happened in The Hobbit aren't undone in lotr: lotr looks at old adventures and tales with reverence and love! and Bilbo himself, though his story is touched with nuanced and bittersweet sorrow, finds peace in the end. something immensely comforting about how the planned ending of his book he lived happily ever after till the end of his days is fulfilled

Adding @katekatharos's tags because they're great:

#I think this hits why I so rarely like sequel works #its so often well everything the characters you loved suffered for didn’t last #didnt matter #also they’ve continued to suffer #their happy ending didnt last #Bilbo’s does #and yes there’s now another worse threat #but the victories won in the hobbit haven’t been negated by it #they help to defeat it #nothing more so then Bilbo’s pity of Gollum #that defining character moment is what saves the world #in another book it would so easily have been that pity was what led to the new disaster #a lesson in the original characters reluctance to commit murder coming back to haunt their successors #but it’s the oppposite

obviously bigotry isnt rational but "women are naturally worse at spatial reasoning and math" is a wild opinion to have when women have historically been the primary textile producers in a lot of societies. have you ever seen a tablet weaving pattern

women also used to do the family taxes

and women are currently more academicaly successful then men (at least in my country)

and now that women are more academically successful, society has entered into a new era of anti-intellectualism. it's not coincidental

it cannot be stressed enough nor pointed out too often that the way this works and always has worked is that whatever women are doing is bad. when what women are doing changes, then what is bad changes so that what women are doing is always what's bad. what jobs are for women and therefore are bad have changed in the past and will change in the future. the only constant is that women are bad and what women do is bad and they will make up brand new explanations for it every time but it is always simply that women are bad.

when people think that having sex is a distraction from godliness, then women love sex because they're bad. when people think that sex is a natural and healthy part of human life, then women hate sex because they're bad. when women are known for doing math, then math is bad and the true intellectual pursuit is reading. when women are known for reading, then reading is bad and the true test of intellectual rigor is doing math. when being a chef is a good thing it's a job for men. when cooking is women's work it's bad.

nothing iv'e said is hypothetical or A Theory, im literally describing actual historical perceptions and actual changes therein

Did you hear about the coin for the transgender background actor as a hobbit, which features a portrait of the character smoking pipe weed?

It's a tolkein tokin' token trans rep token.

This punchline hits like a series of pipes dropping out of the closet in a 1950s sitcom.

one of my earliest video game memories was my neighbor from down the street burning me a copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon onto a CD and giving it to me for free, with the caveat that one day a week he would sit behind me and backseat game HARD. like "build this here, okay now build this here, no not there, HERE, okay now make a path here," etc etc. i never minded it at the time, i genuinely had no idea how to play so i thought he was teaching me. years later i learned that him and his family were Orthodox Jewish and him backseat gaming me was his way of getting around the Sabbath ban on playing video games

CRIMINAL MINDS 2.21 — "Open Season"

Yes yes yes this scene thank you for the tag, heehehehe

It’s funny because this scene must be based on the memoir Special Agent by Candis DeLong. In it she describes being out looking at clothes at a department store on lunch break with another female agent and overhearing a conversation between a man and a woman in which he says he’s an FBI agent. They peer around some clothes racks thinking that they’re going to see one of their fellow agents trying to get a date, and when they don’t recognize the guy they go over and pretend to be interested in the big strong FBI agent themselves and ask to see his badge. The guy actually pulled out a fake badge, whereupon they said “Huh, that doesn’t look anything like ours…”, produced their own badges and arrested him for impersonating an FBI agent. (I remember this bit from a 25 year old book because I actually stole it myself for a fic)

Exquisite. Glorious. 10/10 thank you for sharing.

reblog for largest possible sample size please

More relevant than ever.

I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

This page from one of my history books looks like a lesbian utopia.

Source: Reclaiming Lost Ground by Neale McGoldrick & Margaret Crocco

Very similar vibes - this 1899 illustration from Puck of butchy (for the time) lesbians looking like the coolest, hottest women to ever walk the earth