Your family have something precious.
Someone comes and kills your family and steals your family’s precious thing.
You try to get it back but you can’t they are too powerful
Then someone else comes and beats the bad guy and takes the precious thing.
But they will not give it back to you.
Their argument is they did all the hard work. They risked their lives. They lost their friends and family to fight Evil while you tried but failed.
Surely they deserve a little piece of rewards?
Also, they said you do not own that precious thing to begin with. That thing is too good and must be shared with everyone for maximum benefit.
But you grew up with that precious thing in your home and lost your family over that thing and you want to keep it. You dead family will want to have it back.
Of course your family did not make that thing out of air. But your family were the ones to reshape it on so something fascinating, something precious.
You want your family’s precious thing back, and those heroes of the stories ignore your pleads.
Your probably think this is about Silmarils.
But this is also how a lot of Sindar elves think about their lost lands.
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Imagine you are a Sindar elf that goes back to where your hometown was after the Long Piece started.
Noldor has built a new city in their own style over the ruin of your home
And they welcome you to stay offering citizenship like they are the owner of the land
They imposed new laws, that are different with laws of you people, and they called their laws advanced and right
If you don’t like the laws, you have the “freedom” to leave. They built this place, after all.
You look at that hill over there. You know the name of that hill. Your father brought you there on your begetting days and planted trees.
Your father was abducted by orcs when the Constrainer came from the west. You don’t know if he is alive or not and you don’t know which is the kinder fate.
Now the trees are gone and there are Noldor houses over the hill, and they gave the hill a new name you do not like.
You want to ask if the trees were burnt in the war, or cut down to make places for the house. You kept your questions to yourself.
They came to fight the dark enemy and they brought back your lost homeland. They do not deserve that hostility.
So you live at their city, learn their language, follow their laws, and in your head you call that hill by its old name.
Then one day the words reached you, and you lost it, you went to your Noldor neighbors to ask is that true is that true you came on ships stained by blood of my own people across the sea
They did not look at your eyes, and you know the rumor is true.
But they had no problem looking at your eyes before. They only show guilt after you find out their crimes
You followed their laws.
But what laws did they follow killing your family to steal their ships?
Had circumstances been difficult, would they kill you to steal your land?
But you will not know. You will not afford to find out.
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I just realized something; it's only after becoming part of this community that I realize how "simplified" Elvis has become in our culture, if that's the right word for it.
Like, a lot of people just think of him as the guy with an over-exaggerated Southern accent in sparkly jumpsuits who marries (usually drunk) people in Las Vegas. And of course all the stupid "jokes" about his weight, love life, drug addiction and the way he died. Unfortunately, that's mostly what I knew of him before I joined this community.
unfortunately, this is what the media and such turned him into over the years and people still see him as this. they couldn't be more wrong though as i'm sure you found out. he's so so so much more and he deserves to be treated with respect for all he's done and for the human being he is.
in the words of sally hoedel: "elvis culturally shifted the universe." 🤍
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... There's really people in this fandom making fanart of red skinned Katara??? The fuck is wrong with ya'll? For fucks sake, would it kill you to actually look shit up before you decide "hey that's cool, let me make art of it🤓". Because guess what? It's racist. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about in regards to red skinned characters:
That is what I'm talking about. That shit right there is why I have not watched Peter Pan in years. It's disgusting. It's offensive. It's racist. So do yourself a favor and actually educate yourself about this stuff before you decide to make art of it. And to those of you who actually do know about red skinned characters and think that it is perfectly OK to draw and you don't care? Fuck you.
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honestly one of the greatest joys of speaking another language is surprising people who assume you can’t understand them xD
like i was in cadets yeah? and every summer i’d go stay on a military base for training, and ofc there’re people from all over the country there. so at one point a few guys in the flight as well as our officer are talking & they realize they all speak french so they switch languages right? 
well i was doing something nearby & lowkey eavesdropping—i would’ve joined in but i can’t hold a conversation at a fluent pace so i didn’t bother, but i was having fun trying to understand what they were saying—when the officer, who was usually very strict and proper, says “tabarnak,” which is basically the strongest curse word that exists in québécois (it literally means tabernacle, which is where the eucharist—the body and blood of christ—are stored in a catholic church, but is used kinda like the word fuck in english. all the strongest curse words in québec french are related to catholicism)
so i look at him with this huge exaggerated gasp & say “sir” in the most scandalized tone i can muster, and this poor man oh my god. he WHIPS AROUND to look at me with the most stricken expression on his face like “YOU SPEAK FRENCH?! WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY SOMETHING” and i just shrug and go “you didn’t ask”
it’s been years and i’m still laughing about it 💀💀💀
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Here’s my gaming hot take;
im so saddened, and sick and tired of the fact that so many games are being flooded with chuds who want to turn everything competitive and don’t know how to fucking have fun
“I only play to climb ranks/win for a team/will scream insults if you aren’t in a clan” thats fine and dandy but you keep joining matches and staying in matches with like 9 other players who do not give a flying fuck and would rather not deal with your howler monkey ass screaming at the top of your lungs when you die once and decide to rage quit. Most people don’t care about your K-D or the fact you’re in some superficial and stupid clan full of other fragile egos. Learn to have fun instead of compensating for the fact you never bothered to practice anything else to become skilled in and can’t make your parents proud of you with literally anything (and thus screaming at others to take it out on them).
And I hate the fact that devs, sometimes much to their own detriment, are trying to cater to the merry little band of shrieking donkeys by gearing up all their shit for just that and trying to pretend the casual crowd isn’t there
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