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TOMORROW... All going well... At last I will defeat this pile of sofa junk
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its one of these:
haven't done the chairs yet as it was 11pm so we had to stop but all round great flatpack experience? couple of points where i think the instructions could have been clearer but otherwise it all went very smoothly. table flaps easy to set up (I've encountered some puzzling ones) and whole thing feels very sturdy. might get some cushions to put on the seats bcos they don't look very comfy. will report back after assembling them!
i told myself i was done w flatpack furniture and yet somehow have ended up with more flatpack furniture. TO BE FAIR tho the big one we did today was genuinely a delight to assemble.
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i told myself i was done w flatpack furniture and yet somehow have ended up with more flatpack furniture. TO BE FAIR tho the big one we did today was genuinely a delight to assemble.
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another fun fact about hobbits is that they are very xenophobic. this is kinda touched on in the movies w stuff like the joke about Sam not liking 'foreign food' but is more explicit in the books to the degree that Frodo is flat-out racist against humans. (no joke this is a character flaw he has to overcome early in the narrative)
it's a weird case as this is represented as a deep-seated flaw in hobbit society (credit where it's due, Tolkien had his issues (so many issues) but is actually relatively critical of British society, particularly wrt class)
but late on in the book during the Scouring of the Shire the Shire actually is invaded by outsiders and the result is, in part, an uncomfortable reminder that when it comes to human & hobbit interactions the power dynamic is very heavily stacked against hobbits due to the physical size difference between them. (there's a particularly nasty moment in there when one of Saruman's goons refers to them as 'little rat people')
the text ultimately does come down in favour of 'hobbits should be more open to having contact with outsiders but for their own protection the Shire should remain a no humans zone' and on a purely in-universe level I can't really argue with that!
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anyway wrt actual LOTR canon: Hobbit society 100% is pro monarchy but also anti big government. historically they were nominally subjects of the King of Arnor (they were given the Shire to live in at his behest) but were largely left to govern themselves.
when the Kingdom of Arnor fell apart they appointed a regent called the Thain to take the place of the king but the Thain is a largely ceremonial positio.n who only has actual authority in (extremely rare) times of war
they also have a mayor (full title Mayor of Michael Delving) which is an elected position. Buckland (where the Brandybucks are from) is socially part of the Shire but politically speaking actually a separate self-governing country run by a feudal lord.
in practice however each individual hobbit family manages its own affairs. the various gentlehobbit families such as the Tooks and Bagginses have a formal head of the family who is in charge. it's implied that wealthy hobbits are typically landowners who have a degree of at least nominal authority over their territory (see: Tookland) but the text doesn't get into this too much.
hobbit society seems to very strongly value both tradition and people being able to manage their own affairs. they are on board with having a king but would be horrified if said king ever tried to actually interfere with their business.
as a side note, a fun (?) fact is that Bilbo Baggins was actually the head of the Baggins family until he left the Shire for good at which point the position passed to Frodo. if you read between the lines a bit this is probably part of the reason why ownership of Bag End is so contentious.
also reading between the lines, we can infer logically that ownership of Bag End also extends to owning at least the rest of the hill and possibly some more of hobbiton? as Lotho Sackville-Baggins was able to do things like evicting families and demolishing houses after buying it.
anyway with deepest regret i must report that not only are Bilbo and Frodo Baggins landlords, Frodo is almost certainly Sam's landlord. sorry. :(
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actually thinking about it. i didn't register till looking him up just now that he was old enough for this but Brian Jacques lived through WWII & grew up under rationing (this is why there's such a big focus on food in the books) which does kind of put different spin on the whole narrative? are the rats analogous to nazis.
Redwall has really Weird Politics but my gut feeling is that they're the kind of Weird Politics that come from the author not thinking stuff through (see: why is it an Abbey when they don't seem to be religious) moreso than anything else
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Redwall has really Weird Politics but my gut feeling is that they're the kind of Weird Politics that come from the author not thinking stuff through (see: why is it an Abbey when they don't seem to be religious) moreso than anything else
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i think The Animals of Farthing Wood is a tricky one politically bcos my impression is that it's pretty low on the anthropomorphism spectrum. the animals like talk & think like sentient beings but for the most part just live like regular animals? it depicts talking animals killing & eating other talking animals with relatively little moral condemnation. so. not sure human politics really applies.
(just had a look into it & i get the impression that animals who kill and eat other animals on screen are depicted as like, assholes, but contrast w something like An American Tail which is very high on the anthropomorphism spectrum & depicts predation as something cats could just kinda stop doing if they wanted)
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we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen
also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote
suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response
#interesting question!!#i actually do have a scream reflex when startled#so there are some circumstances where i think i would do the fictional woman shriek#however seeing a dead body unexpectedly is probably not going to be startling in the right way#so im voting gasp#i have seen a dead body but not unexpectedly#and did find the experience very frightening
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A very niche recurring problem I have in my life: sometimes I look at my doll's house w it's Edwardian furnishings and consider that realistically the kind of household I'm trying to evoke would probably have a maid and that to complete the aesthetic it would make sense to get a maid doll. But then I think about having a doll in there whose entire purpose would be to serve the other dolls and the idea makes me uncomfortable so I don't do it.
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'lute oil' is a lie jaskier made up to explain to people why he always has lube on his person
Demographic of people in the Witcher fandom iirc convinced there's such a thing as 'lute oil' which best as I can tell is incorrect
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Demographic of people in the Witcher fandom iirc convinced there's such a thing as 'lute oil' which best as I can tell is incorrect
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fandom sucks now I never see PSAs for writers about what can and cannot be used as lube
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if you asked Pooh how he thinks society should be run he'd have a think about it & then describe some kind of communist utopia where no-one is in charge and everyone shares and helps each other and then he'd say 'but that's probably a bad idea, I'm a bear of very little brain' and wander away to look at a butterfly or something
btw i think if you tried to explain politics to Winnie the Pooh he wouldn't really get it & then if you went on explaining he'd be like 'why can't we all just be nice to each other' and you'd be like you got me there Pooh. I just don't know. :(
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btw i think if you tried to explain politics to Winnie the Pooh he wouldn't really get it & then if you went on explaining he'd be like 'why can't we all just be nice to each other' and you'd be like you got me there Pooh. I just don't know. :(
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on the one hand:
Borrowers (at least the ones we see in the books) are very big on tradition & their attitude towards humans has shades of xenophobia - this is a major source of tension throughout the books
their society is also canonically sexist
they do seem to Absorb various cultural things from humans and live below the floors of an english country house
on the other hand:
their attitude towards humans is, up to a point, legitimately justified as humans are physically threatening to them & have hurt them in the past; arguably they are an oppressed and marginalised group
they live by a kind of hunter-gatherer economic system where they take what they need and no more rather than a capitalist model
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they do start trying to acquire wealth at the earliest opportunity, even if their definition of 'wealth' is just kinda 'having nice furniture'. this is played as like a Bad Thing for them to be doing which you could read as 'acquisition of wealth is bad' but is probably closer to 'upward class mobility is bad'
i do NOT think the borrowers would understand human politics like, at all. if you tried to explain politics to them they'd just be like
someone in the comments of that post mentioned the Borrowers and im mulling that one over now
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