Unhealthily Attached to Fictional Characters

As requested by anonymous

Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

Canon Thorki leaning on a balcony and chatting for @belegsghost

white lady of the noldor

i'll do it for sam

And when there was only one pair of footprints in the sand, that's when Samwise Gamgee carried me

i'll do it for sam

And when there was only one pair of footprints in the sand, that's when Samwise Gamgee carried me

Thinking about all the things that could have been (Guillermo del Toro’s H*bbit movies)

Thinking about the one that got away (Guillermo del Toro’s H*bbit movies)

Feel like pure shit just want him back (Guillermo del Toro directing the H*bbit movies)

Some quotes about Del Torro’s Hobbit movies that keep me up at night:

And:

AND

Of course he wanted to make something different from lotr, he understood that The Hobbit is a very different book from lotr. He sounds so passionate about it 🥺

Here’s my first piece for the @officialtolkiensecretsanta gift exchange; Elladan & Elrohir out on a autumnal hunt !

…you’re just gonna have to wait and see!

STEPHEN SONDHEIM 1930 - 2021

May his memory be a blessing.

Let’s talk about the fabulous aromantics out there

[image description:

first image: text saying “we don’t talk enough about aromantics. so let’s talk about–

second image: text saying “aros who don’t want relationships.”

third image: text saying “aros who are polyamorous.” there is a drawing of a person holding hands with two people.

fourth image: text saying “aros who are not ace.”

fifth image: text saying “aros who do want a relationship.” there is a drawing of two people holding hands. one person says “hey i really like you platonically, wanna date?” the other person replies “yeah!”

sixth image: text saying “and those in qpr.” qpr stands for queerplatonic relationship. there is a drawing of two people, with one person’s arm around the other.

seventh image: text saying “aros who are romance repulsed.” there is a drawing of a person with their arms crossed saying “nope.”

eighth image: text saying “aros with lesser known identities.” there is a drawing of six flags: quioromantic, demiromantic, greyromantic, aroflux, akoiromantic, recipromantic.

ninth image: text saying “aros who are also ace.”

tenth image: text saying “aros who enjoy romance.” there is a drawing of a person sitting in a wheelchair. they are reading a book with a heart on the cover.

eleventh image: text saying “you are not broken.”

twelfth image: text saying “you are not heartless.”

thirteenth image: text saying “you are amazing and strong.”

fourteenth image: text on a plain flag saying “you deserve to be proud.”

fifteenth image: text saying “and celebrate who you are.”

sixteenth image: text saying “happy pride!” under the text is a drawing of a heart with the aromantic flag on it.

end description]

pride starts on a saturday u know what that means

So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

https://youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI

Here ya go

Y'know, whenever people want to talk about why aspec people 'count' as an oppressed identity, they tend to go for the big stuff like corrective rape and conversion therapy. And like, we should absolutely talk about that stuff. Obviously those things are terrible and important and we need to raise awareness and deal with them.

But I feel like people often gloss over how… quietly traumatising it is to grow up being told that there is only one way to be happy— and that everybody who doesn't conform to that norm is secretly miserable and just doesn't know it— and then to gradually realise that, for reasons that you cannot help, that is never going to happen for you.

You're not going to find a prince/princess and ride off into the sunset. Or if you do, then it's not going to look exactly the way it does in fairytales. You're not going to get a 'normal' relationship, because you are not 'normal', and everybody and everything around you keeps telling you that that's bad.

You see films where characters are presented as being financially stable, genuinely passionate about their work and surrounded by friends and family, but then spend the rest of the plot realising that the real thing they needed was a (romantic and sexual) partner, to make them 'complete'.

You absorb the idea that any relationships you have with allo people will ultimately be unfulfilling on their side, and that this will be your fault (even if you discussed things with your partner beforehand and they decided that they were a-okay with having those sorts of boundaries in a relationship) unless you deliberately force yourself into situations that you aren't comfortable with, so as to make uo for your 'defects'.

You grow up feeling lowkey gaslighted because all the adults in your life (even in LGBT+ spaces. In fact especially in LGBT+ spaces) are insisting that it's totally normal to not be attracted to anybody at your age, and then you go to school and everybody keeps pressuring you to name somebody you're attracted to because they can't imagine not being attracted to anybody at your age.

And then you get older and realise that one day you're going to be expected to leave home, and that one day all your friends are going to be expected to put aside other relationships and 'settle down' with a primary partner and you don't know what you're going to do after that because you straight up don't have a roadmap for what a 'happy ending' looks like for someone like you.

(And the LGBT+ community is little help, because so many people in there are more than happy to tell you that you're not oppressed at all. That you're like this because you don't want to have sex, and/or you don't want to have any relationships, that your orientation is some sort of choice you made— like not eating bananas— rather than an intrinsic part of you that a lot of us have at some point tried to wish away.)

Even if you're grey or demi, and do experience those feelings, you still have to deal with the fact that you're not experiencing them the 'normal' way and that that's going to effect your relationships and your ability to find one in the first place.

If you're aiming for lifelong singlehood (which is valid af) or looking for a qpp, then you're going to have to spend the rest of your life either letting people make wrong assumptions about your situation (at best that your relationship is of a different nature than it actually is, at worst that the life you've chosen is really just a consolation prize because you 'failed' at finding a romantic/sexual partner) or pulling out a powerpoint and several webpages every time you want to explain it.

This what being aspec looks like for most people, and it is constantly minimised as being unimportant and not worth fighting against— even in aspec spaces— because we've all on some level absorbed the idea that oppression is only worth fighting against if it's big, and dramatic, and immediately obvious. That all the little incidents of suffering that we experience on a daily basis are not enough to be worth bothering about.

I mean, who gives a shit if you feel broken, inherently toxic as a partner, and like you're going to be denied happiness because of your orientation? Shouldn't we all just shut up and thank our lucky stars we don't have to deal with all the stuff some of the other letters in the acronym have to put up with (leaving aside the fact that there are many aspec people who identify with more than one letter)?

So you know what? If you're aspec and you relate to anything I've said above (or can think of other things relating your your aspec-ness that I haven't mentioned) then this is me telling you now that it's enough. Even if we got rid of all the big stuff (which we're unlikely to do any time soon because— Shock! Horror!— the big stuff is actually connected to all the small stuff) we would still be unable to consider our fight 'over' because what you are experiencing is not 'basically okay' and something we should just be expected to 'put up with'.

No matter what anybody tells you, we have the right to demand more from life than this.

Kiem and Jainan from Winter’s Orbit.

jrr tolkien stands for John Rockin Rockinandrollindowntothebeach,i'mstrollin'buttheseagullspokeatmyhead;notfun!isaid,“seagulls,mmm!stopitnow!“hmmhahhmmhmmhmmhahhmmhmmhahmmhmmhmmhmhahmmhmhmhmha Tolkien

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