My Friends Really Got Into Hamilton Recently… Yes, In 2023

A collection of classic lit relationships as the “I want a baby” text meme

This doodle is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen...

Omg, Norway's so perfectly perfecy ;-;

a very fast doodle of aph Norway I did to practice anatomy

"I’m the only one who…" by ~SonneDark

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

Sexy Times With Wang Xian Tags But It's The Star Wars Title Crawl

As requested by @toastedcoconutchips

the tale of Aragorn and Arwen is a horror story, or a cautionary tale at least.

Every time I reread the Tale of Arwen and Aragorn I think…whether Tolkien intended it or not, this is a horror story about people casting Arwen into the role of Lúthien, a tragedy about someone being compared to a heroic ancestress because of her looks so many times that she might start to believe it– but in the end finds out that she is nothing like her. And she finds out too late.

The first meeting of Aragorn and Arwen is not about Arwen at all, but her ability to look like a figure out of song, which allows Aragorn to cast himself as a heroic Beren figure (and people love those who allow them to imagine being something more than they are);

For a moment Aragorn gazed in silence, but fearing that she would pass away and never be seen again, he called to her crying, Tinúviel, Tinúviel! even as Beren had done in the Elder Days long ago. Then the maiden tured to him and smiled, and she said: ‘Who are you? And why do you call me by that name?” And he answered: “Because I believe you to be indeed Lúthien Tinúviel of whom I was singing. But if you are not she, then you walk in her likeness.” “So many have said,” she answered gravely. “Yet her name is not mine.” 

And Arwen has grown up with the story of Beren and Lúthien. As long as she can remember people have seen Lúthien in her. 

Aragorn falls in love at first sight; but not in love with Arwen, not really, because he doesn’t know her. He falls in love with the image of Lúthien while singing of her; he falls in love with the idea of himself as heroic as Beren, too. Nothing is mentioned of Arwen having feelings for him at this point. It is not at all love at first sight as it was for B&L. In fact, Elrond says she likely thinks he is below her, not just in age or experience but in lineage. I don’t think he would lie, despite his lack of enthusiasm;

But as for Arwen the Fair, Lady of Imladris and of Lórien, Evenstar of her people, she is of lineage greater than yours, and she has lived in the world already so long that to her you are but as a yearling shoot beside a young birch of many summers. She is too far above you. And so, I think, it may well seem to her. But even if it were not so, and her heart turned towards you, I should still be grieved because of the doom that is laid on us.”

Luthien did most certainly did not care about Beren’s ‘great lineage’– which was not really much of one yet at the time, at least not one to impress the half-Ainu daughter of Thingol, who claimed to be King of all Beleriand. If there is any reason for their love at all (other than high doom)– it is maybe Beren’s personality. He kills no animal. He tries to be good in a very harsh world. He was about 32 years old, and unlikely to ever be King of anything.

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Psst. Don't tell the jolkein rolkein rolkein estate, but this is amazing. DO consider buying a print from the extraordinary artist responsible:

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/leiaham/

Original Twitter thread with the artist's thoughts and commentary:

I had to do it…👀

Video: https://youtu.be/ybuLb6Ava-g

I love people with obscure knowledge or useless academic insights. I want to hear your analysis of lighting in Ratatouille. Tell me about the history of soda pop or the references to classical mythology in Macbeth. I want to know about the underlying homoerotic context of that 1930s sci-fi paperback. I think all knowledge is worthwhile knowledge. Explain to me the ecosystems that komodo dragons inhabit. Don't be afraid to learn for the sake of learning.

“Ares caught sight of Halirrhothius, a son of Poseidon, pursuing his daughter, Alcippe. Pursuit turned to annoyance and subsequently harassment as Halirrhothius displayed the fierce lust for young women he inherited from his father. When harassment turned to rape, however, Ares didn’t hesitate for a moment to brutally murder Poseidon’s son.

Poseidon, disinterested in the plight of Alcippe, was furious at Ares and called a meeting of the gods the likes of which there had never been before. Rather than meet on Mount Olympus, Poseidon convened the immortals into a court of law (the first of its kind) in the city he had lost to Athena. It was on a low hill in Athens, then, that Poseidon made his case against the God of War, calling him by all the abominable names known to man and god. The gods listened and awaited Ares’s response to the accusations of his cold-blooded murder of a fellow immortal’s son. Ares’s defense was simple: Halirrhothius suffered the fate of a rapist.”

-Ares: The Origins and History of the Greek God of War by Andrew Scott and Charles Rivers Editors