the wistful lamenting voice of mary travers: lord i’m one, lord i’m two, lord i’m three, lord I’m four, lord i’m 500 miles from my home. not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name, lord I can’t go a-home this a-way
me, getting choked up: the fellowship….
500 miles by peter paul and mary becoming a popular short form video audio has been a landmine for me because, due to me being the way that i am, that song makes me so upset about lord of the rings
totally agree! which makes it very interesting to me that he is so willing to talk about castration (and interested in castration, even) because i have the sense that plenty more people would be much more squeamish about it than about rape
(sorry i just saw you’d already seen that, while i was typing this! 😭) but yes. very interesting element all around that i think doesn’t get explored enough
yeah! i was talking about this in the thread above but i also think it kind of highlights the gender issues in the worldbuild because in all the castration it is very aware that many aspects of this world imply frequent sexual violence to men but men don’t get raped that much relative to women
if i say that game of thrones' problem is that men don't get raped in it more it sounds like i am being facetious but i am 100% serious when i say that the gendered problem with how this worldbuild works is less in the fact that women get raped a lot and more in that men don't also in the sense that if you create a brutal, hierarchical society that is incredibly preocuppied with emasculation and with sexual violence it logically follows that men are raped by other men a lot as a method of domination and as an emasculation and we don't see that very much the presence of so much castration highlights this also because like the narrative itself is aware that this worldbuild implies sexual violence to men a way of emasculating them and displays that violence in the form of castration but it mostly doesnt want to think about men being raped
i was trying to articulate this point and realized i had already written a thread on it. my mind
it continually surprises me how few people seem to put together that the asoiaf universe is incredibly preoccupied with castration. everyone understandably discusses the incest and the way everyone is underage but the castration thing is roughly as prevalent and yet seems to fly under the radar
actually kind of distressing how beautifully shot empire strikes back is. why does a fuckin star wars movie look like this
🤝🤝🤝 you get it. it’s like i can go for whatever you’re cooking as long as that’s an ingredient
i have said this before but it remains true that a lot of different maedhros characterizations can work for me but the key thing is i need to feel like that man has the mental and physical wherewithal to amputate his own leg on an 18th century battlefield if need be
a question many people who are curufin have asked themselves
it’s always the nolofinwion “must i surrender all my own wishes to what would best serve my father?” vs. the fëanorian “yes, obviously. what kind of question is that”
bastardy is the sexiest thing any feudal setting can explore but it’s best when it’s ambiguous. a bastard who is declared as such is also interesting, but so much of the anxiety has gone out of it. much better to have everyone, the character included, very nervous about who really fathered them
FRRRRR that’s crazy. and the biblical whither thou goest as well???
here at caranthirs dot bsky dot social we make every effort to cause that man organ failures
stick figure violence meme where a feral looking guy with red eyes and cartoon sharp teeth is trying to get under a door and it says “to whoever made this please. open the door please I won’t bite. I just want to talk”
“you are a wood elf, anyway, though elves of any kind are strange folk. yet you comfort me. where you go, i will go.” —> “but you are a dwarf, and dwarves are strange folk. i do not like this place, and i shall like it no more by the light of day. but you comfort me, gimli”
do you ever remember that despite the ubiquity of peter jackson’s concept of them, gimli and legolas are like 400% more homoerotic in the book. peter was actually toning that shit down
yes exactly
[trying to communicate how hot it is in my office] i’m sweating like a whor—[remembering my principles] like a. like a vanya in church right now
tolkien is whimsical and hopeful in a way that’s easy to render saccharine and stupid but also haunted and choking on its own grief in perfect tandem with that to create a very specific medievalism and none of this can be achieved when your main goal is to make a billion dollars
on a practical level the challenge of tolkien adaptations is the fact that making anything on that scale is going to involve a studio that will want mcu style blockbuster schlock for their money but artistically the challenge is that the tone is just unlike almost anything else
we all got that one old friend of our mom’s who we really sense feels kind of weird about not being our father. it’s fine, it’s all good, just thank him for being so nice to you and keep it pushing
men’s sports frequently being homophobic and women’s sports frequently being openly gay has nothing to do with whether women are broadly more progressive or something, it’s that most sports are culturally considered masculine pursuits which makes them conforming for men but kind of queer for women
i mean to be honest we’re jews so that’s not our orientation towards this at all either but i understand what you’re saying
clearly, it was memorable to me and therefore served the purpose lol
my mother is forever a comedian for specifically telling me what was done to the men of shechem when i was a small child because we frequently interacted with a lot of evangelicals who talked about everyone in the bible being righteous and she needed to set the record straight
you know how there is a midrash where after simeon and levi slaughter the men of shechem to avenge the rape of their sister dinah, simeon then marries dinah himself? that is the spiritual ancestor to shipping aredhel/celegorm
sports yaoi is warrior homosexuality for modern man
it was sort of entertaining to me to see people get into a popular hockey yaoi and then be seemingly taken aback to find out that in real life hockey is actually really macho and homophobic because the fact that hockey is macho and homophobic is the entire reason hockey yaoi would appeal
