Something almost bitter about how Denethor held the line for years, how Denethor endured despair and grief for years, and kept Gondor in the hands of those loyal to it, and only right at the end did he break, and succumb to years of suffering, and decide that instead of waiting any longer for the unbeatable enemy to kill him, he would at deny the enemy that and take his death (and Faramir’s) into his own hands, and because of that his legacy would forever be tarnished and scorned, meanwhile we know that for five years Theoden had succumbed, Theoden had given in, he had granted power in his land to a traitor, his people and his family suffered, and he only pulled it together right at the end for a glorious last stand and because of that he would be honoured for years to come as a great and noble warrior king.
And there is something to be said for celebrating those who manage to heal and recover from such despair, but then you have to ask what Denethor might have achieved had he been able to heal as welll.
Connor, I need you to look me straight in the eyes and promise me, unless it’s for health reasons, that you will never touch your moles because they are fucking beautiful.
sorry for the obnoxious watermark, but my drawings are doing numbers on twt and I’ve already saw people remove it with AI, so yeah. As always no watermark and other versions only on patreon
Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.
Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!
Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn’t make more than last year!
Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you’re profitable!
Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn’t make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!
If you’re not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!
my dad (Maori) works on a ship with all Maori/Tongan/Samoan fisherman- and one Aussie guy called Jake.
And that wasn’t done on purpose just sort of how it ended up, but Jake recently got an injury so they put him on a Different boat just for a little bit (a sit in the wheelhouse and scout type of boat, instead of the main fishing one) and he only got back to my dad’s ship today and he was apparently like Shaking. He was Traumatised.
Dad said Jake kept pulling him aside and going “They were all yelling on there, but in a MEAN way” “They didn’t clean… Like at ALL”
Jake experienced what a boat full of old school Aussie fisherman is like. That is the norm Jake. You just happened to be on the all Island boy boat on your first go out. “It was time for dinner and they had FROZEN nuggets” Jake that’s what they have on ships that are out at sea for months at a time.
On my dad’s boat they are eating fresh fish and coconut milk Ceviche. They’re grilling steaks on an open bbq on the deck that probably is not regulation. All the guys have their own special knives to prepare sashimi every couple days. Everyone is happily doing their own work so they can clock out early and set up a movie on the deck. Jake did you genuinely believe that’s what every boat was doing.
Local Australian man is fed fresh juices and smoked fish for first time- refuses to go back to beef jerky boat life
jake that first night when they served a freezer tray tv dinner and not an overflowing plate of fish that’s probably going for conservatively like $40-$80 bucks a kilo but the guys decided Eh we’ll catch more let’s just fry it up:
i want to ensure that noone ever calls me a liar on the internet and want to confirm that island boy dinner is very real and it’s waiting for you
ALT
