good fucking lord we need to demystify minerals. crystals do not have healing or magical powers you guys are just getting scammed

and we are what exactly? everything we interact with is a jigsaw puzzle of atoms. everything that effects or heals us in made of atoms and vibrations. negative ions from moving water affect our mood so why wouldn't crystals?

you are getting scammed

I own a rock shop. A lady came in about three years ago and asked me which crystals are best for healing, I gently explained that they didn't have powers or healing properties. She started crying. She had late-stage cancer and no medical treatments were working. A crystal-healer had told her the only thing that would save her were crystals, then proceeded to convince her to spend $2000 on what realistically was only maybe $50 worth of Arkansas Quartz. She had two months to live, and was being strung along by scammers who gave her false hope in exchange for her life savings. I had indirectly just told this woman she was going to die, and it was hitting her all at once. Unfortunately, stuff like this is a regular occurrence. Maybe that’s my worst story, but it’s something I encounter on a weekly basis at least. Rocks, Minerals, and crystals are cool as hell but they don’t have powers. They aren’t mystical or special. I’m sorry for going off on a rant about this but it’s frustrating and it can ruin people’s lives.

If someone told you that crystals have powers, you got scammed.

If you tell other people that crystals have powers, you are scamming people.

Stop fucking scamming people!

To be fair, there are some minerals that have powers, but those minerals are Uranium and Plutonium and the powers are Radiation Damage

How I sleep every night knowing that my aroace ass is contributing to falling birth rates:

Just a little fic, just a fluffy snack to get through these Trying Times.

My golden crown of sorrow

He could be exactly what their surviving people needed, a true unity between Noldor and Sindar in the dreams he held of a new home. A king born of war and suffering and yet unstained by it. A king crowned by Manwë’s herald, acknowledge and supported by his kin. A king who could bring them to peace at last.

Cirdan reflects on his foster son's difficult life while Gil-Galad wrestles with keeping the crown as they end the First Age.

i’ve been in a big gil-galad mood lately. i like him as fingon’s child because he reminds me of fingolfin

One Week Until Tolkien OC Week!

The day's getting closer! A lot of people sound like they've got lots of exciting OCs to share but is you haven't already, check out our prompts over here. We'd be excited to hear about any and all OCs, no matter how prepared you are or when you heard about the event!!

Little Galadriel ( or the memory of little Galadriel) in Alqualondë

aro & ace books: queerplatonic relationships

refreshing my old version of this post. list of books under the cut with descriptions - more than just what's pictured!

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

info included here is brief! please see my database for full details of the books

updated 8/26

i already know there wont be anywhere near enough options but

soliloquy by an immortal cave painter.

pencil, ink, and ochre on paper

rereading pierce's early tortall books as an adult is like. they're not perfect. especially as someone brown and asian lol. but you can feel like that specific era of feminism coming off the page almost as a response to the state of the genre when it was written. the amount of times an older women would take a child or teen protagonist aside and be like just so you know you don't have to marry someone you slept with. no one can force you to be pregnant. contraceptive methods are easily available. sex workers deserve respect and care. you don't have to stay silent about abuse and despite our sexist society resources do exist to protect you. a womans body is her own. just a relentless focus on reproductive health specifically in her medieval fantasy books about dealing with gender roles

"Any time you're gonna bring someone in who has as prominent of a role as Galadriel's partner for thousands of years, the co-founder of Lothlórien, the father of Celebrían, it's a very tall order. We were very lucky when we found Jamie...wait till you see what he does this season" - Patrick McKay

Aurora Over the Helcaraxë - S&D SFW 88

Image description: Chalk on concrete landscape depicting the aurora borealis over jagged white and light blue ice formations. Bands of light green, turquoise, and blue aurora with streaks of pink. A few scattered white stars are visible in the black night sky. A dark section in the foreground might be a lake or part of the Sea, reflecting the aurora.

For @fall-for-tolkien

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thank you to @onereyofstarlight for the suggestion, and to @physicsandfandoms for inspiring the idea of an aurora Maia!

And death was his reward :)

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I think I posted a sketch for this months ago and then forgot about it, but one of @goldenatreides' posts reminded me how much this scene has haunted me since age 12 so I had to finish it.

Crazy level of trust the process with this one and tbh I'm still not sure about it. But I'm tired of staring at it so. Now you all have to.

“I think Mace [Windu] is a well thought-out character who has the trust of a lot of people throughout the universe.

It’s important to have characters that people can look at and see that they’ve made a decision to be right. Now we have a lot of antiheroes, and I’ve played a lot of them, but there’s something to be said for the pure, unadulterated good guy.”

— Samuel L. Jackson on his character Mace Windu

one of those apocalyptic things that we have decided not to talk about is that straight guys do not wash their hands in the bathroom. its fucking crazy pills man.

for sale pee hands never washed

Genuinely if you respond to posts about the current blood shortage in the US with some variation on "It's their fault for excluding gay people" you seriously need to fix your heart.