happy autumn!!!

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Thoughts on me making a character who’s called Babe (Babis true name but-)

He used to be a very charming sales man~pusher of ideas~ give my wife money to make her cool designers or you’ll be losing out on the coolest thing ever

Ex very charming man. Kinda has fuck boy energy even though he is very loyal to his wife but- do you get the vision? Blonde man, works out for aesthetics, does finger guns a lot, some dude has done that thing where they draw lines to show the “authority” of the couple? And he is absolutely leaning into his wife and she does have murder eyes but like, we love Grey

Everyone on the program: omg cool mummies!!!

Me, literally holding back tears: they are so far from home. Are their souls scared? Has anyone even offered them bread in the afterlife?

people for real don't get it how many advisors told me "the class isn't that hard" and now here i am stressed to the point of breaking down daily

MUTUAL VIBE CHECK ASK GAME!!! u r pink and green 2 me. also orange. absolute little fucking creature <3

im like a little bug >:]]]] creeping and crawling and scuttling towards u at incredible speeds

which is funnier, knoland truthing, or "noland doesn't know how to spell knowledge for some reason" truthing. like it's not that he's bad at spelling in general. just that one word.

oh arceus. the thing is... that probably got peer-reviewed.

all the brains are told to go pick a symbol name that matches their first initial. and noland just shows up like 'uhhhh nolledge??'

and all the brains are SO used to him being the smart one. that they all independently go 'huh, i must have been spelling that word wrong this entire time. wack.'. so every single one of them approves the word 'nolledge'.

every. single. one.

im like right at the part in dgs 2-5 right before the rEaL tRuth about the professor case is revealed and whatever shit went on between klint and genshin and i dont give a fuck at this point so i unmuted the klint van zieks tag after like a year and started scrolling through all his posts to find like cool fanart and memes and stuff

and i had NO idea that i was going to come across so much klint/genshin content aHUAHFKJHSKJFHS

like that’s the real twist of 2-5 not that genshin actually was the real killer or klint was the real killer (i still dunno who it actually was) or herlock and mikotoba were partners or iris is barok’s niece, but actually that genshin and klint were FUCKING

this is the funniest shit to me it’s like the one thing i didnt get spoiled until now, everything else was fair game

barok and kazuma being worsties and genshin and klint looking at them from the afterlike and klint’s like damn they should have a sword fight that would fix their relationship and genshin’s like right??????

I can deduce that genshin probably killed klint in an angsty homoerotic battle to the death just from fanart and stuff and that is like S tier ship material so i ship it even though i barely know either of them why not ill find out the context next week from jelloapocalypse

I want to be able to write so bad I have so many ideas but unfortunately...

my absolute favourite thing about levelling up sch/smn is knowing that my OC can't read :)

guitar clinic

Okay I'm almost done with Fellowship, here's an incomplete list of shit I noticed and thought was buck fucking wild on my first ever read-thru: medieval edition.

In literally the second line of the book, Tolkien implies that Bilbo Baggins wrote a story which was preserved alongside the in-universe version of the Mabinogion (aka the best-known collection of Welsh myths; I promise this is batshit). This is because The Hobbit has been preserved, in Tolkien's AU version of our world, in a "selection of the Red Book of Westmarch" (Prologue, Concerning Hobbits). If you're a medievalist and you see something called "The Red Book of" or "The Black Book of" etc it's a Thing. In this case, a cheeky reference to the Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest). There are a few Red Books, but only Hergest has stories).

not a medieval thing but i did not expect one common theory among hobbits for the death of Frodo's parents to be A RUMORED MURDER-SUICIDE.

At the beginning of the book a few hobbits report seeing a moving elm tree up on the moors, heading west (thru or past the Shire). I mentioned this in another post, but another rule: if you see an elm tree, that's a Girl Tree. In Norse creation myth, the first people were carved from driftwood by the gods. Their names were Askr (Ash, as in the tree), the first man, and Embla (debated, but likely elm tree), the first woman. A lot of ppl have I think guessed that that was an ent-wife, but like. Literally that was a GIRL. TREE.

Medieval thing: I used to read the runes on the covers of The Hobbit and LOTR for fun when I worked in a bookshop. There's a mix of Old Norse (viking) and Old English runes in use, but all the ones I've noticed so far are real and readable if you know runes.

Tom Bombadil makes perfect sense if you once spent months of your life researching the early medieval art of galdor, which was the use of poems or songs to do a form of word-magic, often incorporating gibberish. If you think maybe Tolkien did not base the entirety of Fellowship so far around learning and using galdor and thus the power of words and stories, that is fine I cannot force you. He did personally translate "galdor" in Beowulf as "spell" (spell, amusingly, used to mean "story"). And also he named an elf Galdor. Like he very much did name an elf Galdor.

Tom Bombadil in fact does galdor from the moment we meet him. He arrives and fights the evil galdor (song) of the willow tree ("old gray willow-man, he's a mighty singer"), which is singing the hobbits to sleep and possibly eating them, with a galdor (song) of his own. Then he wanders off still singing, incorporating gibberish. I think it was at this point that I started clawing my face.

THEN Tom Bombadil makes perfect sense if you've read the description of the scop's songs in Beowulf (Beowulf again, but hey, Tolkien did famously a. translate it b. write a fanfiction about it called Sellic Spell where he gave Beowulf an arguably homoerotic Best Friend). The scop (pronounched shop) is a poet who sings about deeds on earth, but also by profession must know how to sing the song or tell the story of how the cosmos itself came to be. The wise-singer who knows the deep lore of the early universe is a standard trope in Old English literature, not just Beowulf! Anyway Tom Bombadil takes everyone home and tells them THE ENTIRE STORY OF ALL THE AGES OF THE EARTH BACKWARDS UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE MOMENT OF CREATION, THE BIG BANG ITSELF and then Frodo Baggins falls asleep.

Tom Bombadil knows about plate tectonics

This is sort of a lie, Tom Bombadil describes the oceans of old being in a different place, which works as a standard visual of Old English creation, which being Christian followed vaguely Genesis lines, and vaguely Christian Genesis involves a lot of water. TOLKIEN knew about plate tectonics though.

Actually I just checked whether Tolkien knew about plate tectonics because I know the advent of plate tectonics theory took forever bc people HATED it and Alfred Wegener suffered for like 50 years. So! actually while Tolkien was writing LOTR, the scientific community was literally still not sure plate tectonics existed. Tom Bombadil knew tho.

Remember that next time you (a geologist) are forced to look at the Middle Earth map.

I'm not even done with Tom Bombadil but I'm stopping here tonight. Plate tectonics got me. There's a great early (but almost high!) medieval treatise on cosmology and also volcanoes and i wonder if tolkien read it. oh my god. i'm going to bed.

edit: part II