the fall will probably kill you

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

I just have to reblog because it makes me laugh EVERY TIME

I want to try so many little hobbies. Candle making, soap making, basket weaving, wood carving, book binding, baking, weaving, I want to try them all.

I almost made a post about this the other day (unless i actually did and totally forgot) but there’s so many

I was going to make a list, but then i realized this is a good time to share this book

Making Stuff and Doing things is a whole collection of old punk DIY zines about making and doing just about anything, even things you probably never knew you wanted to do.

Book binding? In there.

Making bowls from old vinyl records? I made a whole ton for my brother’s grad party last year.

Basics of guitar? Making rubber stamps? Silk screening? Composting? Homemade beer, root beer, and wine? Soymilk?? Quill pens??? All in there.

Since it’s more punk, it doesn’t have a ton of the folksy, cottage vibes/hobbies, but it’s all about being resourceful and sustainable, which they both have in common.

If i ever need to do anything I’m not sure of, I double check this book to see if there’s anything in there. It’s one of the only books on diy I’ve ever needed.

You can download the entire book as a PDF in the link above.

may I chime in with the foxfire series? same thing: tons of how-to’s on tons of topics, kind of aimed at homesteaders but also generally self reliance. 😊

most of the rest of the early ones are also on there:

edited to add, the rest of the books can be found on the other archive:

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=foxfire+book

Hey, I get sharing the Internet Archive links, but if you have the cash to do it, I'd like to encourage you to buy the Foxfire books directly from the source. Foxfire Magazine has been in production since 1966, and they still release two new issues annually!

They also have other books besides the OG magazine series, including beekeeping for absolute beginners, medicinal plants of Southern Appalachia, and Appalachian cookery.

How many of these movies have you seen that people said “you haven’t seen [blank] yet??” to me about

i, have seen, 6 movies.

I’ve seen 74 and I cannot emphasize enough you do not need to watch The Searchers. Do not watch the Searchers.

what Work is the most important? the work you have to do next. narrow the scope of focus down to that singular glittering point.

How to get out of a rut

“We are here, and this is now.” Constable Visit, a strict believer in the Omnian religion, occasionally quoted that from their holy book. Vimes understood it to mean, in less exalted copper speak, that you have to do the job that is in front of you.

--Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

"Do the job that is in front of you" has been my mantra for years now.

Me. Don't ask me which ones. All of them.

That was excruciating. Was that painful for anyone else?

You are going to be trapped in a classroom or daycare room full of children for one school day and you will have to interact with them (assume there are other adults like a teacher or daycare employee present, so you don’t have to handle lessons/rules/emergencies, but you still have to interact with the kids via play, conversation, care, etc.)

*I’m aware this is an exaggeration of the term newborn, which is being used to simplify the options.

media about people who aren't there. shows where the most important part of the story has passed. the idea that we persist after we're gone, we impact people we've never met in ways we can't fathom, so much so that we become the main character in a story we aren't around to hear. media that creates characters with intrigue, with connections, with relationships, with goals, with dreams, with life. and then they disappear. they are phantoms, projections, idols without agency in a tale about them. you know what I mean?

fuck it, Toshiro Mifune fancam set to Kate Bush

Oded Fehr (The Mummy 1999)- He was also in Resident Evil (2022) but that's outside of the cut-offs. Also, I can look him for 1000 hours no matter how shitty the movie

Brendan Fraser (The Mummy 1999)- No text propaganda submitted

No additional propaganda

me:

Hey American moots, could you potentially see a bear if you went for a walk in the woods nearest to your house?

i learned both starting in grade 3 and i'm 26

Touch typing???????? As in… typing on an iPad???

Neither. 3am is night, 5am is morning, 4am is hell.