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Surely you want more than nothing?

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tell God to come fight me in the parking lot.
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side blog of @ghost-on-stairs. i'm more active on here than i am on there.

One of the funny things about LotR is that almost every people in it professes to disbelieve in the supernatural, but because they live in a fantasy world their baseline for "natural" is so jacked up. The Rohirrim are like, yeah, there's a wizard in this tower and ancient tradition that we have no reason to doubt says this mountain is full of ghosts, but walking trees? Short people? I don't think so. Galadriel is like, "Listen I heard you describe what I do as magic and look I just gotta clear some things up, okay." Gondorians are like, yeah, of course the Enemy has spectres of men who lived long ago and never died and can now fly above us and incapacitate us with just their voices. This is just a fact of life, okay? But shut up about this magic weed that makes comatose people better. That's an old wives' tale. Royalty? Press X to doubt.

The people group in Tolkien's work who seem most receptive to magic and least restricted by their own notions of what it can do actually seem to be the hobbits. And they use it to avoid meeting people they don't want to talk to

do you have a "type" in fav characters?

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i get brain worms about characters that throw themselves into a role or duty to a sometimes unhealthy degree while keeping the messy human parts of themselves in a separate box that they only open on special occasions. see: muir lo (The Traitor Baru Cormorant) sam vimes (Discworld) camilla hect (the locked tomb) i also have an eternal soft spot for characters who are not good, and they know it, but they are determined to do good despite. see: pretty much every terry pratchett protagonist pretty much every t. kingfisher protagonist

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

"You know the drill."

I actually do not know the drill. I have no idea what drill we are talking about. I can use a drill but didn't bring my own, on the account that I do not own one and if I did, it wouldn't have occurred to me to bring it with me. I am, however, holding a screwdriver. That's not mine either, but since I have no idea how I got it or whose it was in the first place, I guess I'll accept that I accidentally stole it and it's mine now. But all in all, I have no idea what we are supposed to be doing now.

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