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The World is Amazing, Actually (Part 11 or 12, I lost count)
It's been awhile since I made a post about how fucking rad the world actually is, and amidst all the pandemics and climate change and economic troubles, I felt the need.
So:
Today’s Wild Place (The Earth is An Alien Planet):
The Danakil Depression, Ethiopia:
The Danakil Depression is probably the closest you'll ever be able to come to standing on the surface of Venus (without the crushing atmosphere, of course). Choking sulphuric acid and chlorine gases fill the air, while acid ponds and geysers pepper the landscape.
- Daisy Dobrijevic, published July 4, 2022
(BTW scientists recently discovered microbes capable of surviving in this toxic, extremely hot environment, which means...well, even if we kick the bucket, life will continue. There's something comforting in knowing that no matter how bad we screw up...life will go on.)
Today’s Incredible Feat of Engineering (look! at what! we made!):
Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in Morocco, which has gone solar in a big way.
(Which means they are making a huge contribution to helping fight toxic pollution, noise pollution, water use, land destruction, and carbon emissions. No really, there are charts. Reducing carbon emissions charts. Reducing irresponsible land use charts. Charts! Graphs! Data samples!)
Today’s Cool Life Form (the rare, the weird, the beautiful):
The Hispaniolan Solenodon.
A very rare, nocturnal, shrew-like creature that is one of the few mammals able to produce venom. Look at him! Look at his snout! He's just a little guy! He will bite you and run away on his back legs! He's rare, and endangered, but not gone! Not gone yet, bitches!
(Bonus: 10 Fun Facts About the Solenodon)
Today’s Bizarre Mystery (no, seriously, wtf?):
The Great Unconformity.
Hey, remember the Grand Canyon? Remember how we can see the passage of time through each layer, going back hundreds of thousands of years?
Did you know that apparently, on this massive record of earth's geological history, there's a chunk of time missing? Science has some hypotheses about how and why this happens (and yes, it's been found in more than one place), but they are really only hypotheses, and no one's really sure what happened to, oh, 1.6 billion years, give or take.
Today’s Act of Humanity (yes, we are worth the effort):
After fleeing a war, Ukrainians rush to help Mississippi tornado victims.
"They made the 16-hour drive south to donate bottled water and volunteer with aid workers, buoyed by the idea that they could help a community facing a similar struggle to theirs.
“We had to leave our home,” Pavliuk told The Washington Post in Ukrainian, in an interview interpreted by Hrebenyk. “And they don’t have a place to go back, either.”"
NEW CATEGORY:
Today's Good News About The Future (No, It's Not Too Late and Anyone Who Says Otherwise is Selling Something):
The Saiga Antelope, a species critical to the continued survival of huge swathes of grassland, that in 2003 was down to 6% of it's population and already extinct in it's natural habitat of China and Ukraine, has rebounded back to almost 2 million strong thanks to conservation efforts.
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Gate keeping in fandom gets me SO riled up. Let people ship who they want to ship and be excited about it. Fuck all y’all who have no imagination to see outside the canon presented
#this is about that anon who messaged#I’m so furious on your behalf#how dare those people dictate how you engage with your writing and the story you want to tell#writing#lotr#lord of the rings#I’m like … so angry
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Do you think it's wrong of me to want to write a fic set in Rohan after the War of the Ring, where Eomer chooses not to marry Lothiriel of Dol Amroth, but says 'actually, if you all don't mind, I'd rather marry this other woman over here instead'?
I have several ideas for a fic like this, with variations around who the other woman is, and precisely why Eomer turns away from Lothiriel, but my LotR writing group was so hostile to all of them I ended up leaving the server. Apparently, it's considered bad form to split up a 'happy canon couple' in favour of an alternative ship.
Now I'm totally blocked, and can't find any enthusiasm to write my story at all, because every time I try, the voice at the back of my head tells me I'm doing it wrong. Which really sucks.
I don’t think it’s wrong at all!
I’m someone who also envisions Eomer with someone other than Lothiriel, if only because it doesn’t make sense it terms of dynastic marriages.
Eowyn has already married into Gondor, therefore Eomer doing the same is a waste of a marriage. And I know this is LOTR, so Marrying for Love is a thing(tm). But even in canon you cannot tell me Eomer and Lothiriel know each other well enough to have their marriage be for love rather than politics.
All this to say, splitting up a “happy canon couple” is part of fandom tradition. And the people you engaged with clearly sucked. I’m sorry you had to put up with that.
Ship and let ship is the motto of fandom. So please ship Eomer away with whoever you so desire to ship him with! It can only broaden the fandom and bring new perspectives and insights 💕
As for writing with the block. I know it’s hard when you’ve so unfairly been discouraged, but try and think of everyone who will gain something from your story. Who will enjoy it, love it, see something to delight in. And ultimately, if anything, write it out of spite. Fuck those who told you not to. Fuck them and their family farm.
Addenda (I’ve had a lot of wine): ok also! LOTR is about love, right? So why not explore different aspects and relationship potentials? Write Eomer with another woman! That’s so cool! Explore what that might look like—it can only be a net benefit to us all. Fuck anyone who says otherwise. I will personally fight them.
#ask#reply#Eomer#lotr#lord of the rings#apologies in advance for any typos#I’ve had some wine#but honestly gate keeping in fandom is the literal worst#fuck those people on that server#shame on them for making you feel shame#anon
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Man, I miss the internet when you could just freely browse all sorts of niche blogs and fan sites without having to have an account anywhere... There was so much to explore! Now you need to have an account with Instagram and Tiktok before they'll let you see anything, or it's locked behind a paywall on someone's Patreon.
We used to "browse," like we were wandering free in a big pasture, and now it's a "feed," where someone keeps shoveling stuff into a trough in front of your face and you have to keep choking it down.
I miss "Free Range" internet is what I'm saying, I guess. Not this Content Factory Farming crap.
#i miss forums#there are still some around but it's not the same#i hate discord with a passion lol#but that's just me and how my brain works and how I like to engage with people on the intrenet
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#it's an indicator of how explicit the sexual content is#i'm in my mid-30s#been in fandom for circa 20 years give or take#first encountered them on livejournal
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It comes to Éomer as he spends the night awake, turning over the Crebain like fresh graven dirt, that Jorunn said something of deep meaning to him recently. Well, one of many things, but he thinks she was attempting to explain the man who is her son who does not know he is her son. Gríma had been fluttering about, unconscious, his souls everywhere, his mind—well, wherever it is Gríma’s mind goes when it goes from itself. Éomer certainly doesn’t know.
She said, in the midst of their drip-drab, though eye-opening conversation, Amongst all the men in the world, you will not find one who will not bite if the gods bait him. What are we but children in need? Children of need.
Éomer rolls to his side facing the hearth. He watches the flames jump a bit then tuck down, then dance again. He thinks he is a man who will bite if baited—gods, have these last weeks, months, not proven that? Therefore, can he truly judge someone for being the same?
Scope is the matter, he thinks. Intention, also. He intends good, Gríma intends selfishness. Or something approximating selfishness. Regardless, from it is born great harm.
Is this what Gríma meant by his intimation that they have similarities? That they will both take temptations god-offered and run for as long as they can with them? Eyes slide shut, he drifts, moonless in his mind. Unmoored he dreams and when he does it is of water and the dark cold of towers.
Eomer and Grima are having a great, fun time! Jorunn's meddling will remain one of my favourite things
#eomer#grima wormtongue#what makes a king#part II: the electric boogaloo#writing#lotr#lord of the rings#griomer#jorunn#call me maybe
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I think the book version of Gríma was a bit more complex than the movie version but Brad Dourif was perfectly cast for the role.
#book Grima is my preferred Grima hands down#and i've some opinions on the appearance choices made for the film because they don't always make sense#once a man of rohan - the only black haired person in the entirely blond country#stupid#his clothes are out of sync as well and not in a way I agree with#it's fine to have him be sumptuous and in darker colours - film being visual that makes sense as a way to call him out#and lush clothes make sense for him as a character - performance of power and wealth and a way to make himself seem bigger etc.#but they should broadly still align with the culture he lives in and they don't really. also how he performs power is interesting & I think#Grima is a man who is deeply aware of performativity of identity - including gender - and would seek to make himself a little more masculin#even if it's not something he personally jives with but as a means of fitting in and being more Acceptable in the eyes of the court#where such things do matter#that said - Brad Dourif was perfectly cast#no one could do it better#grima wormtongue#also Rohan being entirely blond doesn't make sense at all#the royal family itself was intermarried with Gondor - yet somehow no dark haired children from those marriages? makes no sense#anyway#lotr#lord of the rings
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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
#I've encountered a corpse unexpectadly before#and I was silent. Then very quietly said “oh lord”#in my experience it's something that makes you quiet then sort of sad
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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????
I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.
Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?
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Chapters: 6/7
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF, platonic academy of florence, Historical RPF, Original Work
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Marsilio Ficino/Giovanni Cavalcanti
Additional Tags: Pazzi Conspiracy, overwrought catholic gays living in dangerous times, flag that this takes place both in 1478 and in the early 1460s, this is 15th century florence therefore, the approach to m/m relationships is more or less period appropriate, which is to say Giovanni is about 17 and Marsilio 28 when they meet, Marsilio just wants to unify platonic philosophy with catholic theology, Period Typical Violence, lots of feelings about plato and faith and queerness
Summary:
It is 1478 and the Pazzi Conspiracy occurred not four weeks ago, Giovanni is made of nerves and has many feelings about Marsilio who may, or may not, have known about the assassination ahead of time. Also, he has many feelings about the nature of Desire and Touch and Love and wants to know why Marsilio hasn’t figured out a solution to their relationship dilemma yet.
In 1461/62 Giovanni is meeting Marsilio for the first time and thinks this small, strange man might be worth knowing even if he is utterly odd and disappears for long periods of time in his room while telling everyone that he is utterly fine.
Essentially, this is more or less a bit of a long winded meditation on a relationship.
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‘I feel that we should speak,’ Marsilio declares.
‘About what?’ Giovanni marks his place and sets the volume aside. Suddenly, his hands are shaky. He has become uncertain in a matter of seconds. It is the intensity of Marsilio, the determination and fierceness of his expression.
‘What is going on, Giovanni?’
Giovanni’s mouth opens, closes. He shakes his head, confusion replacing nerves.
‘Your mood has been everywhere since your arrival. Today you are jovial, yesterday you were prickly, Friday you were morose and kept staring at me as if I were about to vanish, Thursday you were…I can’t recall but it was something strange. I begrudge no man his emotions, never, but I would like to know the cause and do not say the Pazzi plot. This is surely far more than that.’
‘Is that not enough?’ Giovanni retorts. ‘Can I not be in a mood simply because I witnessed my father’s old friend executed? Because I witnessed men I’ve known as companions tortured and butchered by our Medici prince? Because the man I love was threatened by the very one doing the executing?’
Marsilio takes a stool from a corner and places himself so they are face-to-face. Gathering Giovanni’s hands in his own, Marsilio thumbs Giovanni’s lifeline, raises them to turn over and kiss knuckles, lets them fall away.
Giovanni’s shoulders relax a hair and he slowly exhales.
Glory be! they are actually talking to each other!
Also, we get some Marsilio family gossip in the chapter notes.
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Oh yeah there's a part 2 of the horse desensitizing that I love.
🐎: Hey what's with that tiny predator, the one you're hold- WOAH WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT UP SO HIGH
#things that make me think of rohan#please envision grima and eomer doing this#grima: holding the cat HIGH UP. you will be fine Isthunn#Isthunn his horse: I DOUBT. I DOUBT. I DOUBT.#grima wormtongue#eomer
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I can't get over how much this picture looks like three dudes you would have met at the '80s at a grateful Dead concert.
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Chapters: 6/7
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF, platonic academy of florence, Historical RPF, Original Work
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Marsilio Ficino/Giovanni Cavalcanti
Additional Tags: Pazzi Conspiracy, overwrought catholic gays living in dangerous times, flag that this takes place both in 1478 and in the early 1460s, this is 15th century florence therefore, the approach to m/m relationships is more or less period appropriate, which is to say Giovanni is about 17 and Marsilio 28 when they meet, Marsilio just wants to unify platonic philosophy with catholic theology, Period Typical Violence, lots of feelings about plato and faith and queerness
Summary:
It is 1478 and the Pazzi Conspiracy occurred not four weeks ago, Giovanni is made of nerves and has many feelings about Marsilio who may, or may not, have known about the assassination ahead of time. Also, he has many feelings about the nature of Desire and Touch and Love and wants to know why Marsilio hasn't figured out a solution to their relationship dilemma yet.
In 1461/62 Giovanni is meeting Marsilio for the first time and thinks this small, strange man might be worth knowing even if he is utterly odd and disappears for long periods of time in his room while telling everyone that he is utterly fine.
Essentially, this is more or less a bit of a long winded meditation on a relationship.
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Obligatory Excerpt
‘I feel that we should speak,’ Marsilio declares.
‘About what?’ Giovanni marks his place and sets the volume aside. Suddenly, his hands are shaky. He has become uncertain in a matter of seconds. It is the intensity of Marsilio, the determination and fierceness of his expression.
‘What is going on, Giovanni?’
Giovanni’s mouth opens, closes. He shakes his head, confusion replacing nerves.
‘Your mood has been everywhere since your arrival. Today you are jovial, yesterday you were prickly, Friday you were morose and kept staring at me as if I were about to vanish, Thursday you were...I can’t recall but it was something strange. I begrudge no man his emotions, never, but I would like to know the cause and do not say the Pazzi plot. This is surely far more than that.’
‘Is that not enough?’ Giovanni retorts. ‘Can I not be in a mood simply because I witnessed my father’s old friend executed? Because I witnessed men I’ve known as companions tortured and butchered by our Medici prince? Because the man I love was threatened by the very one doing the executing?’
Marsilio takes a stool from a corner and places himself so they are face-to-face. Gathering Giovanni’s hands in his own, Marsilio thumbs Giovanni’s lifeline, raises them to turn over and kiss knuckles, lets them fall away.
Giovanni’s shoulders relax a hair and he slowly exhales.
Glory be! they are actually talking to each other!
Also, we get some Marsilio family gossip in the chapter notes.
#it's about dead carlo#these men and their five million emotions#marsilio ficino#giovanni cavalcanti#writing#the feast day of san giovanni#the magi#kinda sorta#15th century#renaissance italy
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Shawarma eggplant is a satisfying plant-based dish that has all the spices and flavors of your favorite grilled meat. This vegetarian main is versatile and customizable, and can be prepared in advance, making it ideal for hosting. A slather of Michael Solomonv’s herbaceous, spicy Yemenite zhug on top adds necessary zing and heat. For a little extra protein, drizzle the roasted eggplant with tahini, serve it on a swirl of labneh or add roasted chickpeas on top.
Olive oil is eggplant’s best friend, making it satisfyingly rich. First you’ll brush oil onto the eggplant before it’s roasted, then drizzle it mid-bake, and again when it comes out of the oven. Crusted with spices, the eggplant emerges from the oven browned and fork-tender. You can swap the homemade shawarma spice blend with your favorite store-bought mix; and if you’re not an eggplant fan, you can swap it for thick-cut cauliflower steaks or large zucchini and summer squash.
Note: Eggplant can be made in advance, stored in the refrigerator and reheated in a covered baking dish until warm.
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During his panel at Comic Con Stockholm on Nov 5, Sean Astin discussed the relationship between Sam and Frodo.

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The first funny bitch was Cain, who straight up lied to God after killing his brother.
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