Have you considered that you don't actually know how these "silly girls" engage with their "silly books"/that they might take more from them than you do from [insert blandest litfic author]?

I just cant get that annoyed over a genre I have very little interest in but! Have you considered that your strenuous defense of media literacy fails to account for structural educational deficiencies?

for all their yapping and whining and bitching about the romantsy audience's lack of media literacy, litfic booktubers will deliver their specialist analysis through (no joke no joke) a series of vaguely human noises

(((She caught it first)))

Proof you’re best buddies with grandma is that you caught covid together <333

ooh thank you! They both look mmmh very interesting indeed! I'll see if my bookshop has them/can order them for me. This one looks exactly like something I'd read, especially since I've recently discovered that I actually like fantasy (???) but I'm just very poorly read in the genre lol

May be a passing preference as I’m not in the mood for gloom right now. I said it before but I need my existential crises delivered through whimsy or convoluted plots and everything has to feel “too much” (so dramatic it’s ridiculous)

Just realised I cannot in fact read outside my comfort zone and gothic doesn’t really do it for me :( sad I really wanted to like that Rebecca book uh

“In light is [Varda’s] power and joy… [Melkor], she knew from before the making of the Music and [she] rejected him, and he hated her, and feared her more than all others whom Eru made.”

Elbereth Lady of the Stars

actually I need a full compensation no shit no shit

Affirmation of the day: whatever your job is, charge family members extra.

beautiful!! (and: good luck!! :) hope your baby will like and enjoy it :D)

Campaign to normalise journalists saying "As if, ya melt!" when politicians try to bullshit them.

Starling latest acquisition I'm so obsessed Sa help me

there'll never come a time when I'm not madly drawn to minstrels. Look, just the chance to look at history and memory through their pens, how power and factions and then personal interests shape what they choose to pass on and and. There'll never come a time when I'm not madly drawn to minstrels

One of my 13 personalities forbade me from elaborating on how we reached that conclusion. It’s just for our giggles and petty asses.

Note not to take syllogisms too seriously or you’ll come to the obviously false conclusion that efficient bureaucracy is found where law students are scarce.

If I win the lottery there will be signs.
(Giant cheese wheel)

lalwen —— silmarillion.

A king is one who can hold his own etc which I also interpret as exercising jurisdiction aka dispensing justice - especially on behalf of the minus potens & through this role that they begin to build something like a “state”. So “goodness” and heroics play a very precise role in all that

Maedhros is fascinating to examine in this light bc “goodness” in his case seems to reinforce a specific model of rulership especially visible in late roman/early medieval sources.

All this is to say that I’m very reluctant to settle on a single explanation, since people are rarely motivated by just one thing; good intentions often coexist with self-serving purposes.

This in turn raises further questions about the purpose of this whole “acquisition” of children - especially royal ones -and I’m not convinced it is driven solely by remorse. Like yea there’s *also* that

(which glosses over the fact that their home + that of many less princely children is gone forever). Then proceeding to *acquire* another set of twins.

Where “genuine goodness” encompasses: helping free the North from Melkor’s forces (something that *incidentally* positions him as a “good” and “strong” lord under whom it is safe to serve); feeling remorse over Elured&Elurin and searching for them

yeah I know what you all think and I might be poor but indeed I'm in possession of other toys to play with :PPP

hot news and it's not that I had a character-induced realization about myself but that said character is not Maglor.

yes there is a certain catholicism to middle earth but tolkien did not make it actual catholicism because he subconsciously knew that if fingolfin coexisted with the bible one of his formative sexual experiences would be getting inappropriately hard while reading genesis 4

worst joke of it all is that I'm supposed to defend my thesis right. HOW am I supposed to defend something I've done, I'm completely unable to defend something I've done