Tumblr is basically the flooded wwi shellhole we all come to huddle in. No one likes it but its better than standing in view of the snipers (twitter). Every once and a while someone gets a package from home and we all get a chunk of stale and slightly muddy sponge cake to nibble on.
“You got a blorbo back home, Sarge? A meow-meow? A special little guy?”
“Yeah…” [removes tattered photo from breast pocket]
“That’s nice. Really pathetic. Looks like a drowned kitten.”
“Yeah.”
“You’ll see ‘em again. Another network will pick up the show.”
had to show you guys. he looks so unbelievably bad. for context he always gets shit crusted in his fur because he doesn’t maintain it so my mom decided to give him a haircut and wanted to even it out
Someone living in Sweden during the Iron Age wore this cloak. Unfortunately, they wore it while they were murdered:
forensic analysis found the holes in the cloak match
how stabs would have penetrated the folds of the cloak when it was being worn.
Dating to 360 to 100 BCE, is also the oldest known example of a houndstooth pattern!
Nothing I will ever write will ever be as good as “unfortunately, they wore it while they were murdered”
Remember that the right person will never get tired of you even in the worst times
No, they will! But they’ll work through it, or walk away for a bit (i’m talking minutes to hours) and then come back.
People can love you and still need to get away from you for a bit. And there is nothing toxic about that — it’s good, in fact. It helps remind everyone involved that everyone has boundaries, and everyone needs time to themselves.
It’s okay. Calm down before you talk about something that made you angry while your loved one is sick. Be sure of what made you mad so you can discuss it together.
Love isn’t a one-way street, and it’s something that takes work. Part of that work is knowing when you need to step away.
not to quote an old christian rap group or wev, but love IS a verb. it is ongoing, active, and something you do consciously every day. sometimes that is fun and feels good, and sometimes it can feel crappy and hard, especially when we misstep in the journey. but it is so, so worth it.
People are always hating on Hugo Weaving’s Elrond for not being atractive enough or looking too old for an elf but
He pulled off playing a younger, dashing, more physically active version of his character really well in the Hobbit while he was actually like 20 years older LMAO
People can hate on my man Hugo but he was the only one who genuinely looked younger and more handsome somehow, all the others looked visibly older, even Cate who is so beautiful and aged extremely will did look older than in LOTR but he didn’t. I need some respect for him
I also think his actual portrayal of Elrond is fantastic — Weaving generally plays campy franchise villains (or Priscilla Queen of the Desert lmao) and I genuinely maintain that the melodramatic mannerisms carried over from those roles very much enhances his portrayal of Elrond as an intruiging and individual character and not Baby Gandalf, which was what the character could so easily have been!
Man is theatrical as FUCK, makes unhinged faces every five seconds, and aland it very much works — Elrond being a weird little freak (affectionately) is imo an absolutely perfect portrayal: Also, canon Elrond is clearly quite eccentric, just in a different way to Gandalf! Aka Gandalf is the “take your meds, grandpa” brand of eccentric, while Elrond is the “the king of england likes to walk around with a rubber duck on his head but nobody says anything because he’s the king of england” kind of eccentric.
And lest everyone forget, he fucking BODIED the Arwen storyline — that narrative could have so easily turned into a cliche “overprotective dad shows his daughter’s prom date his gun collection” deal but the total mastery of microexpressions (to the point that to this day idk whether he’s meant to be laughing or crying at the coronation) made it such a deeper, richer storyline, because you could see the slow war of attrition against his heart!
Basically, I wouldn’t find Elrond as compelling a character as I do had he been played as an archetypal sage, instead of a guy who rightly looks fucking miserable 24/7 because he spent 6000 years saying “I told you so”.
Also, I’m not going to contribute to elrond hairline discourse but imo if any elf was to develop male pattern baldness as a result of stress, it would be Elrond “Murphy’s Law in action” Peredhel.
I’m so sorry for the essay this truly is my roman empire
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