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i had to build this while following instructions for my discovery course and to my surprise i felt the exact same feeling that i did when i used to play with legos. so i ordered 3 small lego sets and i am so excited. never stop playing

ugh i failed

gonna stab @berry818 on their birthday sorry you were born on the ides of march that’s just the way the cookie crumbles

writing this post as they buy me alcohol btw

Art by Jean Michel Coriou.

last night was a smuggling run around the west indies

only person in the Vatican museum today who knew that Laka’s presence was there….

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.

Stalhrim Armor

beep boop homework robot. its 1:30am and i get to go to bed. i started my day at 8:30am. i have had about 6 hours of homework time and 6 hours of class today. in ONE DAY i have talked about and/or worked on the following… passato prossimo, hijras, whatever happened in my discovery class, native american gender frameworks new and old, two spirits, depictions of androgyny and genders beyond man and woman in hinduism and other religions (christianity actually (kind of)), a brief history of muslim tajikistan and their civil war, the difference between fun and pleasure in regards to militia violence, and finally, political unrest in morocco. HOW am i expected to remember all of this… it has been ONE DAY.

angst sets in