Latest Posts by q587p - Page 2
i think that at this point. at THIS point of Things. you can pretty safely assume that almost no one is Doing Well, so instead of being a real shitlord about tiny problems, maybe instead go out of your way to be kinder and more patient to everyone around you.
or at least fucking fake it.
or at least just be quiet.
So the James Webb telescope just took a picture of a galaxy that is 29 million light years away.
If that wasn't cool enough NASA decided to peel away all the cosmic dust in order to see the bones of the Galaxy itself.
AND IT'S BREATHTAKING
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Living through genocide in this day and age is so deeply weird. I cried on the train today while listening to Halsey because I casually decided to go on Twitter and first thing I saw there was the photos of the bodies they found in Izyum. I go on Tumblr and I reblog every post about it in between photos of gorgeous actresses. I go on Twitter and I laugh at memes while thinking about the woman from my hometown the Russians killed and then dumped her body in the central street and no one dared to get her for hours, I`m thinking about the blue and yellow bracelet, I`m thinking about Bucha, I`m trying to imagine just how many it is - 80k dead in Mariupol, I`m thinking about how am I gonna keep living with a hole in my heart, and then I go back to liking pretty pictures online.
Ukrainians wait for the Declaration of Independence to be pronounced near the Supreme Council building in Kyiv on the 24th of August, 1991
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лучшее!
Clark never felt pain until after he became Superman.
“Lilith and Eve" by SAYAE Heroika Arts, 2018
A few years later I decided to return to Magic, played Prerelease, decided to buy few bundles of the latest releases – and was very disappointed. The visual guide is the main reason for taking them. I am sad that I did not read the composition before buying, and now I regret the money spent…
Hi! As someone working in a country where English isn’t the primary language ordering an English language bundle and then using the set booklet to help in drafts and sealed at the LGS I found was really useful. What prompted removing them from the Core 2020 set and the upcoming ELD set (if I read the packs and content article right)?
Here’s the story. We constantly do market research on products to make sure we’re including the right components. This means we seek out Bundle buyers and ask them to rate the importance to them of each item that comes with it.
The card guides are much beloved by a small subset, but are generally disregarded by the majority of buyers. We kept the card guide in the set for many years despite the poor showing in the market research, because we personally liked them.
But eventually, the market research caught up. It became hard to justify something that the vast majority said they didn’t care about.
I feel your pain. I too liked the card guides. But I recognize that if enough consumers don’t want something, we need to find things they do want.
That’s the reason.
The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Can you tell me why Frodo is so important in lotr? Why can't someone else, anyone else, carry the ring to mordor?
but someone else could.
that’s the whole point of frodo—there is nothing special about him, he’s a hobbit, he’s short and likes stories, smokes pipeweed and makes mischief, he’s a young man like other young men, except for the singularly important fact that he is the one who volunteers. there is this terrible thing that must be done, the magnitude of which no one fully understands and can never understand before it is done, but frodo says me and frodo says I will.
(when boromir is thinking of how he can use the ring to defend gondor, when aragorn is thinking of how it brought down proud isildur, when elrond is holding council and gandalf is thinking of how twisted he would become, if he ever dared—)
but then there’s frodo, who desires nothing except what he has already left behind him, and says, I will take the Ring.
it is an offer made out of absolute innocence, utter sincerity. It is made without knowing what it will make of him—and frodo loses everything to the ring, he loses peace and himself and the shire, he loses the ability to be in the world. It’s cruel, the ring is cruel, it searches out every weakness you have and feeds on it, drinks you dry and fills you with its poison instead, the ring is so cruel.
and frodo picks it up willingly. for no other reason except that it has to be done.
(the ring warps boromir into a hopeless grasping dead thing, the power of the palantir turns denethor into an old man, jealous and suspicious, it bends even saruman, once the proudest of the istari, into a mechanised warlord, sitting in his fortress and bent over his perverse creations—all the best of intentions, laid waste)
but there’s a reason gollum exists in the narrative, which is to show—well, to show what frodo might have been. because even as frodo grows mistrustful and wearied, as the burden of this ring grows heavier and heavier, he is never gollum. he is gentle to gollum. he is afraid—god frodo is so afraid for 2/3 of these books he is so tired and afraid, but he keeps moving, he walks though it would pull him into the ground, because he asked for this, he said he would.
someone else could have carried the ring to mordor, I suppose. the idea of a martyr is not dependent on the particular flesh and blood person dying for some greater purpose. but such a thing has to be chosen, lifted onto your shoulders for the right reason, the truest reasons, and followed into the dark, though it would see you burnt through and bled out.
I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.
Lovers of Valdero // Lovers of Hasanlu // Bronze Age Scythian Couple // Sarcophagus of the Spouses // Etruscan Sarcophagi // Roman Sarcophagus // Ilka Scarneo Monument // A Memorial to Marriage, Patricia Cronin
what’s the cheat code for stable mental health
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most inspirational little book from all inspirational little books I've ever read – 'Art Matters' by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell. this little book contains four essays, my favorite is 'Make Good Art' it's really awesome.
'When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. THIS IS GREAT. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. YOU DO NOT. AND YOU SHOULD NOT. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. AND YOU CAN. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again. Yet.'
– Neil Gaiman.
The greatest video since “The History of Japan”
Din carrying Grogu properly
• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony
- Jill Thomas Doyle
consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about
The hobbits invent a fun game called ‘how close can we get to our friends before they notice us’
easy mode: Gimli (makes a lot of noise himself, very easy to sneak up on)
medium mode: Boromir (challenging enough to be great fun)
hard more: Aragorn (VERY attentive to his surroundings)
expert mode: Legolas
The hobbits invent a fun game called ‘how close can we get to our friends before they notice us’
easy mode: Gimli (makes a lot of noise himself, very easy to sneak up on)
medium mode: Boromir (challenging enough to be great fun)
hard more: Aragorn (VERY attentive to his surroundings)
expert mode: Legolas
If someone said "show me the cutest animal I've never seen before", what would you show them?
the pygmy jerboa!
