hi i’m riff and i believe in female supremacy 😊 i’m a lesbian and an atheist and i think religion is cringe. i love to read, crochet, and play video games. trying to build female community
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Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)
What beauty! And what power!
watched return of the king extended edition in theaters. bawled my eyes out multiple times. thought it would quench this lotr hyperfix i’ve been on but it instead has inflamed it. i read the books like three months ago but i want to read them again. i need to inject samwise gamgee into my veins
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) // Dir. Peter Jackson
"To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire."
— LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)
“I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you,” is one of the rawest lines in all of fiction and it pierces me like a blade every time I hear it
The house of his spirit crumbles... He is burning... Already burning...
Denethor & His Son Faramir + Ivan the Terrible & His Son Ivan
I have seen many artists' renditions of this painting, yet I have yet to see one with Denethor and Faramir, despite its narrative potential for perfection. So I tasked myself to bring it into existence--
No but like, this is the thing about Sam carrying Frodo and the ring up the mountain. It's a cool scene in the movie, but they don't explain what's happening at all. The ring at this point is so heavy Frodo can't even lift his head. It's like essentially a cinder-block he has to carry around his neck. And finally he gives up and Sam offers to carry him and:
DO YOU GUYS GET IT? THE RING IS A BURDEN, BUT FRODO ISN'T. FRODO DOESN'T WEIGH ANYTHING TO SAM. SAM CAN LIFT HIM EASILY!!!! HE'S NOT A BURDEN AT ALL I —
Have you considered that women dont want to be friends with you or your wife because youre weird and unlikable?
no :) we’re delightful people
People being like "we must abandon religion!!!" in the sort of conditions where religion is crucial in keeping people going are... something.
In what situation would religion be required because the human spirit cannot be trusted to keep people going on its own? In what situation would it be preferable to pass the buck of optimism from confidence in oneself to an unknowable, often demanding external being and becoming reliant on it?
In a situation where the goal is for people to accept their conditions without rebelling, to find moral virtue in suffering and subordination, it's incredibly convenient when the aim is to impoverish people's critical thinking, their will to self-determination, their legitimacy to question power, and their desire for change and, above all, for democracy.
