draw stick figures. sing off key. write bad poems. sew ugly clothes. run slowly. flirt clumisly. play video games on easy. you do not need to be good at something to enjoy the act. talent is overrated. do things you like doing. it’s ok to suck
jesus christ yall dont play video games on easy oh my god
You never play a video game on easy no matter how hard it is to get through.
my least favorite thing that happens on this post is people who support it- except when it comes to the thing they’re good at
gamers say “never play on easy”
artists say “sing off key but for the love of god no stick figures”
singers say “all this but if you can’t sing keep your mouth shut”
you know what? i know your type. you’re all jerks & you’re not fun to be around.
have fun jacking off to the concept of superiority at your wet blanket convention. i’ll be over here actually enjoying myself
write even though you think you’re awful! take dumb photos for instagram! wear your make up as bright or dark as you want! just enjoy your life and be you!
Because a Silmarillion Jingle Bells is making the rounds just now, I was reminded of a beautiful blast from the past that I actually managed to find in my disorderly mailbox, and now I feel the urge to share it!
Written by FF.net author Ellipsis in (I think) 2003. Got randomly deleted (no, not by the original author) in 2006. High time to bring it back (if that hasn’t already happened)!
The Silmarillion Slaying Song
Maedhros:
Dashing through Arda,
On a wond’rous stallion grey,
O’er the fields we go,
Fighting all the way (ha ha ha).
Horns in chill air ring,
Making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and sing this slaying song tonight!
Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to fight and chase them night and day!
Hey! Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to fight and chase them night and day!
Celegorm:
An Age or two ago,
I thought I’d take a ride,
And soon my brothers dear
Were riding by my side.
The wars were long and hard,
Misfortune seemed our lot,
For we found only doom and death,
And the Silmarils were lost!
Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to try and regain them night and day!
Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to try and regain them night and day!
Maglor:
An Age or two ago,
This story I must tell,
I held a shining jewel,
But in the seas it fell.
The ages drifted by,
As by the seas I stayed,
And soon tales of the Silmarils
Will quickly fade away.
Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to stand and cast them all away!
Hey! Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to stand and cast them all away!
Fëanor:
The Silmarils shine bright,
Go at it while you’re young,
Take your brothers tonight,
And sing this slaying song.
Just swear an Oath for me,
And ride with greatest speed,
And when the World comes to an End,
Perhaps we’ll be redeemed!
Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to fight and chase them night and day!
Hey! Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to fight and chase them night and day!
Chase them night and day!
Silmarils, Silmarils, sparkle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to fight and chase them night and day!
–sung by Maedhros, wearing the forced smile of a broken man and with the slightly deranged look in his eyes of someone who has seen too much.
I’ve been having a lot of Arthurian feelings lately, so I thought that I’d put together a selective list of medieval Arthurian texts and where to find them. If I’m duplicating a masterpost of someone else’s hard work that I’ve failed to find in tag searches, apologies (and let me know so I can link back in this for maximum Arthurian goodness!)
Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain
Only sections deal with Arthur, but 1) the whole thing is enjoyable and 2) this version has Vortigern and dragons. Full text here.
Layamon’s Brut
Like Geoffrey, Layamon is writing a history of Britain, and Arthur is part of it. It’s readable in Middle English if you have a little bit of background or a lot of patience. Have a link to the Arthurian sections in modern English.
The Mabinogion
These are wondrous and strange and I love them; they are a world of homeliness and magic, where ravens soar and Arthur plays chess for the fate of the earth and bargains with magic beasts, but also where Arthur and his knights sit around telling stories and playing games and eating chicken in the afternoons. (The Mabinogion is also why I started crying when Ioan Gruffudd’s voice-over for the terrible King Arthur movie started; I need to hear more Arthurian stories read in a Welsh voice.) Victorian translation online here, modern one for sale here.
Gottfried von Straßburg, Tristan
Angst, pain, poetry. Full text online here, edition for sale here. There are those who prefer Béroul’s version, but… I just really love Gottfried. It’s so imbued with a sense of the sadness of the world, and the nobility of human endeavor! I have feelings.
Chrétien de Troyes, Le Chevalier de la Charette
Chrétien is the reason Monty Python has French jokes. Pick a romance, any romance, but The Knight of the Cartis my favorite Chrétien starting point. I also really like Yvain, though, and have seen it in new eyes ever since hearing a conference paper arguing that his lion could be read as a service animal! ❤
Note: I’m leaving out Chrétien’s and Wolfram’s Percival romances; if you want to read about the quest for the Holy Grail, more power to you.
Marie de France, Lay of Sir Launfal
I needed to get Marie on here! And this is a haunting look at the proximity and distance of faerie in an Arthurian world. Full text here, contextualizing notes here.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
This is such a great poem about community and landscape, magic and honor, fear and desire. I first read Tolkien’s translation, but have recently been really into Armitage’s (which has the Middle English in parallel text, yay.)
Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur
I sometimes ask myself why it is that I love Malory so much, and I think it’s because he’s such a great storyteller. And the emotional realism of this will punch you in the gut. Repeatedly. There’s a reason Steinbeck chose to retell this version.
Wild Hunt is a European folk myth involving a ghostly or supernatural group of huntsmen passing in wild pursuit. The hunters may be either elves or fairies or the dead. The myth of the Wild Hunt originally comes from a Scandinavian legend that has become fairly widespread and varied (the leader of the retinue could be Odin, Hecate, Herne the Hunter, etc.)
When you delete things off of a mobile device (like a phone or digital camera), the file goes to your phone’s recycle bin (just like on a desktop computer or laptop), typically an invisible folder named .trashes or .trash. There, it continues to take up the same amount of memory storage as it did before you ‘deleted’ it. To empty your mobile device’s recycling bin, plug your phone into your desktop or laptop via USB as a memory device, right click on your desktop/laptop’s recycling bin/trash, and tell it to empty your recycling bin/empty trash. Your computer will empty all .trash/.trashes folders, including the one on your phone, actually deleting the files permanently this time, freeing up your phone/camera’s memory space. Reblog to save a life.
(I know this works on MAC with my Andriod, it’s not too far a stretch to do the same on Windows and/or with other phones as well. In fact, it should be easier to do on Windows since Windows Explorer is more conducive to finding hidden folders.)
FINDING THIS RANDOM POST ON MY DASHBOARD GAVE ME THE BEST ANSWER TO SHIT I’VE BEEN GOOGLING ABOUT FOR MONTHS!!!
The point where I became certain that TLJ had more respect for Kylo than for Finn was when we were shown how their wounds from the end of the last movie were treated.
We see the stages Kylo goes through to heal his, from freshly-bruised-up-&-bandaged to a team of droids meticulously stitching his cheek back together with synthetic skin. Rian Johnson himself even went out of his way to have Kylo Ren’s scar redesigned from the last movie, because, as he said, “it looked goofy.” With so much time and effort put into a single scratch on the face, that must mean Finn getting stabbed in the shoulder and nearly having his spine severed by Kylo Ren’s lightsaber will be talked about and dealt with in great detail!
Nope.
Neither of Finn’s wounds, which were so severe they put him into a *coma*, I’d like to remind you, are ever mentioned or seen. Meanwhile, we get about six scenes centered on Kylo’s lil boo-boo.
“But Pop, he was in that bacta suit thingy! Obviously the Resistance had better healing technology! Don’t be so nitpicky.”
Mhm. Yes. The struggling, underfunded, undermanned Resistance has better healthcare than the evil superpower run by all the richest people from the former evil superpower. OKAY! SURE!
They don’t mention Finn’s wounds once. Not once. Even if you think TLJ is the greatest Star Wars movie to date, think about that for a second. Think if they had just glossed over Luke having a metal hand, or skipped straight to Han being right as rain the moment he was pulled out of carbonite he’d been stuck in for years. How cheated would you have felt? How many great scenes would have been lost?
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