![a graphic design of an imaginary sign in an upper class area, perhaps a university. the sign reads: "[acid hazard symbol]. WARNING. THIS AREA IS MONITORED AND REGULARLY MISTED WITH CORROSIVE ACID TO DETER LOITERING. [no skateboarding, no sitting, and no tents symbols]. Thank you for keeping Our City Clean™"](https://64.media.tumblr.com/63a98c5ebeba04e050ae2a020843c8cd/2d9b904f2636ac48-c3/s1280x1920/bef77017afbf09b9d8bf6670ff6d4d7358ba3a0d.png)
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Rough transcription of my reactions to this:
"WHAT THE FUoh it's art WAIT, THAT'S ART? HOLY SHIT THAT IS GOOD and the political themes are great"
...I reblogged this before but uh didn´t know it was art WOW
hey wait! i know you! we used to be chained next to each other in the cave! wow, so good to see you, how are ya? man. remember how we used to talk about the shadows on the wall together. gosh that was a long time ago. but hey. sure is one heck of a sun out here, right? it's good to see you.
i wrote this post with happy tears in my eyes sitting in a parking lot after getting coffee for 3 hours with someone i did youth shakespeare with when we were teenagers and hadn't seen in 15 years, in which time we both transitioned, got into nerd shit, found a job that feels good, found people to spend our gay little lives with, and coincidentally moved to the same city. this is exactly how it felt. never ever ever kill yourself
sorry that you think my fictional ship is illegal. I actually consulted a fictional lawyer about it and he had a talk with a fictional cop about the fictional laws and then they both looked at me, and very seriously said "we'll allow it because it's hot."
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Let's aknowledge how much time it took to write all of this stuff
you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.
You’ll all sleep a lot better when you realise that actually most people, rather than being purity in human form or evil incarnate, are in fact just some guy.
my boy ❄️
Merlin, after fixing yet another love enchantment attempt: Why did the potion work on everyone, but Leon?
Gaius: Well, love potions can be tricky. If a persons heart is already completely in love with and wholly devoted to someone, the effect might not take hold
Arthur: But Leon isn’t courting anyone?
Merlin: I wonder who his true love is
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Leon, alone in his bedroom: Man, I love The Knights code
Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".
not wanting to be outdone by the benders in the gang, sokka invents the flamethrower, the supersoaker, the leaf blower, and the concept of throwing rocks at people
this is canon. to me.
wait did anyone draw this already
Today I met happiness
