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How did Treasure Planet manage to come up with the greatest aesthetic in all human history? Victorian elegance plus space-age flair, with just enough dirt and grime and wear and tear to make it feel real? A combination of traditional and computer animation that perfectly embodies the movie's blend of old and futuristic? How does it get any better than that?

What for? I don’t know lmao. Here sound of DGHDA and night Stupino

It was 20 years ago (ish) :: Empire magazine publishes The Lord of the Rings: A Celebration, a special booklet enclosed with the magazine's January 2004 issue, which was released in December 2003. The booklet carried interviews with the principal cast of the LOTR trilogy as well as a significant amount of the creatives involved. The photography was taken in Watford, New York, Wellington, London, Sydney, Los Angeles, Surrey, Melbourne, and Vancouver between February and October 2003. Shown here: Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Elijah Wood (Frodo), Billy Boyd (Pippin); John Rhys-Davies (Gimli/Treebeard), Dominic Monaghan (Merry), Sean Bean (Boromir); Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Sean Astin (Sam), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn); Miranda Otto (Eowyn), Andy Serkis (Gollum/Smeagol), Liv Tyler (Arwen); Bernard Hill (Theoden), Christopher Lee (Saruman), Karl Urban (Eomer); Hugo Weaving (Elrond), David Wenham (Faramir), and Cate Blanchett (Galadriel). [Note: Dominic Monaghan's photo here is an outtake; the actual shot in the booklet can be seen here. These photoshoots provided several excellent outtakes that I'd be happy to share if there is interest.]

[ The Wellington premiere of ROTK | Air Frodo from NZ to LA | Los Angeles | Berlin | London | New York (1) | New York (2) ]

"The best response to anyone who wants to take seriously Nietzsche's fantasies about savage hunters chopping pieces off each other's bodies for failure to remit are the words of an actual hunter-gatherer — an Inuit from Greenland made famous in the Danish writer Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimo. Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indignantly:

'Up in our country we are human!' said the hunter. 'And since we are human we help each other. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs.'

The last line is something of an anthropological classic, and similar statements about the refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found through the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began 'comparing power with power, measuring, calculating' and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt.

It's not that he, like untold millions of similar egalitarian spirits throughout history, was unaware that humans have a propensity to calculate. If he wasn't aware of it, he could not have said what he did. Of course we have a propensity to calculate. We have all sorts of propensities. In any real-life situation, we have propensities that drive us in several different contradictory directions simultaneously. No one is more real than any other. The real question is which we take as the foundation of our humanity, and therefore, make the basis of our civilization. If Nietzsche's analysis of debt is helpful to us, then, it is because it reveals that when we start from the assumption that human thought is essentially a matter of commercial calculation, that buying and selling are the basis of human society — then, yes, once we begin to think about our relationship with the cosmos, we will necessarily conceive of it in terms of debt."

- David Graeber, from Debt: The First 5,000 Years, 2011.

hematophagia

st. louis of the vieux carré day 5 : hunger | feeding habits

A cosmic tribute to my current favourite comment in YouTube history

I've seen pieces from this extra comic before, but never read the full thing until today. And holy shit does it hammer home just how much the story is about class.

Multiple times, when food comes up in this comic, it’s also in context of money:

I've seen this last panel on the right brought up before in context of like, dungeon meshi's relationship with fat and eating, but in the full context of the comic it really hits how much adventuring directly consumes bodies for money.

As much as this has been part of the story the whole time, showcased as early chapters 19 and 20...

It never fully hit me before how often adventuring comes down to having no other way to make money but to throw yourself into death repeatedly. To be used, whether it’s by individual selfish people (like the resurrection group that is happy to try and get Kabru's group to kill each other to get extra gold from them in chapter 32), or by the greater cog of the Dungeon Economy in general.

Which, to be clear, is all too often how things work in the real world, too. So many jobs burn through the health and lives of workers. Dungeon Meshi just makes it literal in a new way: by making the healing and resurrection, a core part to the adventuring loop, directly use fat, muscle, and energy from the body being healed.

Imagine Amazon, but if you got injured at work, they could literally burn up some of your body to get you back to working sooner. And that was seen as an advantage of the job.

And then you have Laios, thinking about eating monsters:

Not just because he likes monsters a lot. But because it would help. He says something similar in the actual manga too, during the chapter discussing his dream with the Winged Lion

Laios wants to be able to make a home for Falin. He wants to give her a place where she never has to eat alone. And when he gets a party, he wants to give them a way to eat well. And when he runs a country, well…

He wants to ensure that everyone has enough to eat.

Food is political. Food ties into class, and money. What is deemed "proper" to eat, what is a luxury, what is crass… so much of it comes down to money.

Being judged for eating what's available, when what is “proper” isn't affordable, is already a thing that happens. People forced into work that consumes their energy is already a thing that happens.

Dungeon Meshi has a lot of fantastical elements, but boy is its examination of food and class very real.

lesbians will be invented next Thursday im shakign

Falin's Moving Castle

put me down,

chilchuck is the most powerful character in the manga just for this

My favorite Tolkien illustrations by Cor Blok in no particular order:

Bilbo and Gollum. Bilbo is the moon for some reason which is cool i guess

Smeagol and Deagol. I love the seaweed in the background, great attention to detail

Frodo serving Robin Hood-realness at his and Bilbo’s birthday party. Literally iconic

Isildur taking the ring from Sauron. Its great but I would like to see more of Sauron than just his hand, because I think he has the potential to look really cool

Pippin jumping into the bath at Crickhollow… no comment

Bilbo gives the Mithril coat to Frodo. Great poses, very stiff and awkward. I like it.

The fellowship. This one is a classic.

Gandalf and the balrog. Amazing

Boromir trying to take the ring from Frodo. I love the way he reaches for his sword, it looks very natural

Merry and Pippin and Treebeard. I like his legs and the fact that it looks like he’s wearing shorts.

I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

the borgias / moments of being, 'a sketch of the past', virginia woolf / dune (2021) dir. denis villeneuve / house of the dragon / sisters, daisy johnson / we are missing a present; the butterfly’s burden: selected poems, mahmoud darwish / cynthia ozik / my name is memory, ann brashares / the piano teacher, elfriede jelinek

I have yet made another dumb animatic !https://youtu.be/1f1xtifIKVs

theres something abt those cunty 90s anime men thats so alluring i think it was all the estrogen they were putting in the water

Dog homages and metaphors in songs:

i get mean when i’m nervous like a bad dog

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i only talk to dogs cause they don’t understand me, my teeth are yellow, hello world

would you like me a little better if they were white like yours?

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i bet on losing dogs, i know theyre losing and i pay for my place by the ring

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you’re an angel, im a dog

or you’re a dog and im your man

you believe me like a god, i destroy you like i am

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i’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies

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you always said how you love dogs, i don’t know if i count.

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i’m just a dog with no bite, this is all i’ve ever known

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i am the dog under your couch, gnashing teeth and open mouth. i shouldnt have clawed my own way out.

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if you’d been a dog they would have drowned you at birth

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so i will wait for the next time you want me, like a dog with a bird at your door

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into this world we’re thrown, like a dog without a bone

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those thoughts i cant deny, these sleeping dogs won’t lie, and now i tried but its eating me apart inside

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i’m tired of begging for the things that i want, i’m oversleeping like a dog on the floor

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death inspires me like a dog, inspires a rabbit

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She loves me like a dog

And when we mess around, I'll let her known the truth

I can't rely on hope with fate

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One last kiss, I love you like a pack of dogs

If you wanna know what lyric came from where just comment and ask, artists in tags

I Bet on Losing Dogs / Cop Car / I'm Your Man

on being a dog, being eaten by dogs, needing like a dog, losing like a dog

i bet on losing dogs, melody chua / the odyssey, homer (trans. by emily wilson) / l’oublié! (forgotten), émile betsellère / you want it darker, leonard cohen / i’m your man, mitski / jezebel eaten by dogs, aurelia de sousa / 1 kings 21:19 / roadside attractions with the dogs of america, ada limón / i bet on losing dogs, mitski

The Lord of the Rings - art by Donato Giancola

i love unrequited love, i love blind devotion, i love guard dogs. i love being desperately obsessed with the object of your affections. i love when devotion rots into cruelty, i love when love doesn't know any better, i love when love is ugly. i love defanging and declawing yourself just to be loved. i love when a character will wait for the next time they will be loved like a bird or a dog at their beloved’s door. i love when love is insanity and by the LORD do i love betting on losing dogs

jon snow (special interest is taxes) versus theon greyjoy (the reason that adderall was invented) little sad gayboy duel is happening in my mind always

I care about my Eowyn joins the Witch King au a normal amount

edit: quickly want to clear up the guy she’s protecting + carrying is Faramir, the guy she’s fighting is Eomer, for the drama hehe

This has to be illegal

This app which is NOT approved by Ao3 asks their users to subscribe and pay money, in order to read works we have put on Ao3 for FREE.

Ao3 is NON-Profit, This is our work this app is making money off! This is theft imo

Here is the link to this SHITTY APP on google play!

Here is the link to this SHITTY APP on Iphone store!

many thanks to jon @dxppercxdxver for letting me make many contextless nonsensical sharpe statements at him tonight

GUYS GUYS GUYS SOMETHING AMAZING JUST HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A “lost” Lord of the Rings adaptation has just been found and put back up on Youtube!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vquKyNdgH3s

It’s a Russian Teleplay adaptation of Lord of the Rings with absolutely Perfect special effects (the hobbits are the size of rabbits!)

This adaptation PREDATES the obscure Finnish minsieries adaptation by two years!! (check out my #hobitit and #hobitit hot takes tag if you don’t know what I’m talking about!)

If you’ve been following me for a while you know that I LOVE baffling obscure Lord of the Rings adaptations so much but I’d never even heard of this one!!!!?? How have I never heard of it??

I guess that makes this the *actual* first live-action adaptation of Lord of the Rings?? (Unless there’s yet another even MORE secret obscure adaptation I don’t know about?)

All this time I thought Hobitit was the first live-action adaptation of Lord of the Rings but it wasn’t!!!!??????? My entire world is upside-down…..the world has changed, I feel it in the earth, I feel it in the water, I smell it in the air………this is big news…..I can’t wait til I have time to watch it. I guess I’ll have to learn Russian though since there don’t seem to be English subtitles yet XD

“There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?”

phantomseptember said:Recommendations? Recommendations?

yES so probably most of these everyone already knows but anyway

tumblr musicians:

Adele McAllister (btw you can buy some of her songs; I think my favourite is I Sit Beside the Fire and Think)

mythalll’s Lament for Boromir

culumacilinte’s Tom Bombadil’s Song

khyeili’s Dis’s lullaby

really-saraleee’s Inudoy kurdulu

asongofparody

youtube musicians:

Eurielle (my favourite is Song of Durin)

Karliene’s Lament for Boromir 

beriahim (really like his The Lay of Nimrodel but has more tolkien-based)

friendryfire (has both original songs, songs based on Tolkien and covers of other songs translated to sindarin; really like their Singer on the Shore I think about Maglor?) 

Yolanda Mott

Forest Elves’s Lullaby From a Distant Land (their original song in Quenya)

Alex Hruban’s Feanor’s Lament loove the chorus of this one

The Piano Guys - Arwen’s Vigil 

Professional ones:

Айрэ и Саруман / Aire & Saruman (basically all of their songs are either Tolkien or Robin Hobb based)

Caprice (their Of Beren and Luthien is lovely, though I think they have more tolkien-based)

Oonagh (songs Orome, Eldamar and Gäa)

Хелависа / Melnitsa has a cover of May it Be in russian and under name  Хелависа / Hellawes has more Tolkien-based (Legolas’s Song to the Sea is really nice)

Bob Catley (his The End of Summer is about Galadriel)

Lind Erebros (the whole album Elven Oratory, it’s mostly instrumental)

Aonis (Fall of Gil-Galad to make yourself sad)

Broceliande (Galadriel’s Lament to make yourself even sadder)

The Hobbitons

The Fellowship (some of their songs are on youtube)

The Tolkien Ensemble (love their Galadriel’s Song of Eldamar)

Blind Guardian is obvious but still great–

Summoning’s In Hollow Halls Beneath The Fells (thanks to noteli for telling me about the band)

Bttlelore has basically all songs based on Tolkien (really love their Fangorn; thanks to duresteintrepide for telling me about them)

LotR musical’s songs are always great

also in BBC’s Dramatization Bill Nighy (Sam’s voice) sung the lovely Song of Gil-Galad

definitely missed out a lot

I was having a lotr discussion with my friend about how much we'd last carrying the one ring, until I suddenly came up with a question. Does the ring's power increase with each bearer because it hold the darkness and corruption of each of them?

This not only would change the perspective of the story but actually give sense to a LOT of things. First of all:

The ring is sentient, it has a will of its own, and clearly willingly links itself to people and exerts its power, literally molding and manipulating their very minds, to the point were even once destroyed Frodo and Bilbo are still linked to it in some ways, with an old delirious Bilbo still asking about the ring. If the rings power lasts withing it's bearers after it's gone, why shouldn't the ring also keep the darkness and corruption those people suffered when carrying the ring, storing and fueling its power, making it stronger.

This would entail that Frodo isn't only carrying his burden, but that of Sauron, Isildur, Smeagle and Bilbo, making it and even more indescribable burden and ultimately impossible task. It also explains why he must be the sole ring-bearer something which Elrond and Galadriel stress, eventhough sharing the burden of the ring would've been a logical choice for most people (at least between the hobbit and elves who have a greater resistance). Since this would mean that the ring would be contaminated by each ones darkness making it even stronger and harder to carry.

It would also better explain how even Sam, after only carrying it for a few hours while he thought Frodo was dead, had trouble giving it back to Frodo. As a character Sam would at least resist as much as Frodo, and yet, in only a few hours he was already heavily influenced, because the ring would already be carrying Frodo's burden and darkness. When given back to Frodo it then became an even heavier burden for him, to the point were he couldn't stand. While this would be the expected after carrying the ring for a year, it could have also been influenced by Frodo now also carrying Sam's burden and darkness from thinking Frodo was dead and taking responsibility of the ring. Of course this just makes the "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you" moment even MORE impactful, they literally carry each other.

Anyway this convo ended up lasting from 10pm to 1am and led to thesis worth material that I need 7 business days to digest, but will soon put into actual comprehensible writing.

"HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY DIDN'T?"