Tag: bamboocounting

thelioninmybed replied to your post:                   thelioninmybed replied to your post:
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   shit probably   

   If I’m not sorry for the cannibalism and silm insertion, I am sorry for that   

those proofs were such a blast srsly ❤

simaethae replied to your post:                  thelioninmybed replied to your post:
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   clearly this is the best format to respond: lion had
better be sorry it was her who talked me into making the post in the
first place                               

   and this is the thanks i get. “buckle up babes”. *drags hand slowly down face*      

I AM GENUINELY SORRY BUT I AM ALSO GIGGLING SO HARD

bamboocounting replied to your post:                   Your brain is so cute!         

   the underbrain series…    

I googled this but came up with no results and now I’m alarmed????

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post:                  Your brain is so cute!                

   Either very sweet or very, very ominous    

*eyes OP suspiciously* no kidnap i

meme replies part 2

valaraukars replied to your post:                  finrod + humans                

   Not through this post yet but omg you mentioned st first contact :_:
and that scene :_: I love Star Trek so muchhhhhh sorry    

I looooove Star Trek one of my biggest formative fiction experiences tbh. One of the main reasons I am so hostile to the gross proxy-xenophobic ‘evil attacking/cold manipulative aliens vs humans” trope

valaraukars replied to your post:                  finrod + humans                

   Nooooooooooo oh my god ;;_;;   

yavieriel replied to your post:                  finrod + humans                

  I am now deeply upset by this, excuse you                

siadea replied to your post:                  finrod + humans                

  It’s how Finrod would want to be remembered, probably.                

crocordile replied to your post:                  finrod + humans                

 
Same as yav wtf I love it ;____;              

LMAO. I’m very pleased. 😀

yavieriel replied to your post:
                   meme replies                

   I. Uh. Definitely was not remembering certain eras and niches in
fandom which I may or may not have spent an undisclosed amount of time
in.  And certainly not thinking about exactly that weird fanon about
exotic beautiful Erestor with the super black hair.   

   (You know that post about how, when you get to the end of the tag
for your OTP, you go back to the beginning and lower your standards?  
Except this was mid-2000   

   ’s so no AO3, just lots of tiny niche archives and personal author sites to wander into and wtf at.)    

lmao I, unfortunately, only get pickier and pickier over time until I finally stop being lazy and start writing fic. anyway the small in-hindsight window I had into early 2000s lotr fandom was pretty wild. mostly I’m super glad I wasn’t in it, because I get the impression that I couldn’t have possibly gone through it and come out the other side without hating legolas like burning…

simaethae replied to your post:                   actualmermaid replied to your post:              …                

   that post is up to 5,588 notes largely for that one law student’s
analysis that misses the point about transmission on death, I HAVE
REGRETS (thank god for xkit notification blocker)    

GOD THAT’S TOO BAD. I didn’t see that analysis addition, I don’t think. What happened?

bamboocounting replied to your post:
                   Elros + Facial hair                

   and you’ve convinced me that elros has to do the cordelia naismith hair dye trick to maintain his legitimacy, thank    

I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT VORKOSIGAN SAGA SORRY but I’m sure this is a funny comment

thelioninmybed replied to your post:
                   Elros + Facial hair                      

   This was actually me, idk why i was on anon, this is what comes of drunk phone posting     

  Anyway, ANIME SIDEBURNS thank you so much                    

The type that FLOW IN THE WIND

valaraukars

replied to your post:
                   Elros + Facial hair                        

The soul patch comment……… how dare u

    I think elves and their hair get too much time in
the spotlight though… imo we don’t spend enough time discussing
Mannish hair. Like maybe beor was one of those guys with a bald spot at
the age of 25 and thus sporting a semicircular coif…. how many of the
Edain had really amazing unibrows… was the classic atani hairdo closer
to the nostalgic princely bowl cut or the 80s fantasy permed mullet?
QUESTIONS                

dfjdkhgvdjghlsjkdf

Have you seen the, uh, LOTR-illustrated-with-medieval-style-art fanart, by any chance…? It’s not quite as ridiculous as it could be re: historical hairstyles, but it’s a sight 

thearrogantemu replied to your post:        Top 3 moments in the legendarium?  

   well all right now I’m crying.    

gurguliare replied to your post:        Top 3 moments in the legendarium?        

   i hate STUPID tolkien and his STUPID BOOKS    

berrysphase replied to your post:            Top 3 moments in the legendarium?  

   yES   

   help my heart    

bamboocounting replied to your post:                  Top 3 moments in the legendarium?                

   I saw the first clause of no.3 and started wailing no no NOooooo    

aw u guys 😀

berrysphase replied to your post:         Top 3 moments in the legendarium?   

   this was def hard mode and this is the perfect answer    

Indecision hack: don’t think at all. Thinking is for the weak.

crocordile replied to your post: Hi! 🙂 Top 3 valar? and /or Top 3 ships?

   excellent ships btw                

u can tell I have a type, which is interspecies and also has a meltdown when they think their partner died, even if Legolas’s meltdown is HA. HA. WHAT. I DIDN’T HAVE A MELTDOWN.

gurguliare replied to your post:                  I’m not the same anon who asked you your favorite…                

   omg yeah i’m not sure i’d remember anything about treasure island if it didn’t END with that classic, jaws snapped shut    

right, one of those actually well-done bitch-u-thought’s, like, connect-the-dots but this one dot that isn’t where you expected it to be suddenly changes the entire picture retroactively, and if you ever read it again (as i did). anyway kdjhfkkdjgv lol i could never forget treasure island because of multiple little things – probably being too young for it when i read it. but yeah uh I still don’t entirely remember the whole plot tbh

bamboocounting replied to your post:                   I’m not the same anon who asked you your favorite…                

   the sea overcomes–! (should I read this book too)    

Only if you like wordy old uber-british adventure books that hit almost every pirate story cliche ever (because it invented almost all of them)! iirc it was a lot of fun to read but tbh that last paragraph is the best thing in it, definitely the only bit that really elevates it, as far as I remember.

mixed replies

bamboocounting replied to your post:                  imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post:        …                

   clearly I missed out on my roadtrip to the NE in summer    

In the summer there is nothing in NE but mosquitoes if you’re not on the sea coast! (Though it is a great drive). No I’m probably lying and forgetting something great but that’s how it seems….

Wait my state has amazing sailing and boating etc on the lake + famous cryptid, but then again it also has blue-green algae blooms, so…

But btw, um…I have heard that coffee-taste is a variable genetic thing, but I would HIGHLY recommend maple syrup in coffee if you can get it reasonably. It complements coffee far more than any other sweetener imo.

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post:                   imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post:        …                

   when i meet other new englanders out west we happily reminisce about
the terrible things about new england. if i so much as hear a whisper
of a westerner talking smack about new england i will be down on them
like a ton of wet cod.    

YES. Also, complaining about how terrible the winters are, only to then turn around and laugh @ ppl who flip out over an inch of snow (even though that’s totally unfair, reasonable infrastructure assumptions, etc, but still…)

actualmermaid replied to your post:                   [[MOR] thelioninmybed replied to your post:   …                

   *hack fantasy writer voice* my series is different than your usual
boring Tolkien fantasy because it’s like, morally gray and stuff    

dkjfhdkjfdhj THE NOISE I JUST MADE

(sorry and now I’m also thinking of the movies and crrrrinnnging…)

yavieriel replied to your post:                  [[MOR]] thelioninmybed replied to your post:   …                

   “…basically every group is simultaneously in the wrong about one
thing and in the right about another thing and the perpetrators of one
thing and the recipients of another thing and these things change
drastically over the course of multiple wildly different periods of
time,” just like real life!  And then the purity police wonder why sane
reasonable people call them out for being shitty.  Bless you for saying
this.    

  Also this is why Tolkien’s cultures/relationships/etc. are
believable, he let so many things be just as messy and ambiguous as they
are in real life, with just enough idealization to sweeten it nicely.  

Aw thanks…and “just enough idealization to sweeten it nicely” haha yes also a good thing imo.

simaethae replied to your post: reply post number something

   i mean, i super do not care at all about authorial
intent tbh? but equally i accept that, you know, the people who objected
to human sacrifice might *arguably* have had a legit concern. :p      
       

Wait wait did we just switch sides or smth
lol 😀 Yeah wait sorry what I meant was, I feel like a lot of fans who
trumpet like, super resistant readings and stuff, aren’t actually resisting
against concepts as bullheaded or rigid or thoughtless as they think
they are….or w/e. Like I think a lot of the stuff is possible to get
from the text without like, saying the narrators’ experiences are illegitimate

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post:                  How many Vermont™ cliches are checked off by “went…                

   There are no words to describe how much you just made me miss New England    

I’M SORRY. I remember in college I would miss it so much I would do sappy shit like have new englandy shitty posters, and also get into arguments with friends about how upstate new york is nothing like new england…

thearrogantemu replied to your post:                   Aesthetic: The deckled edge of a book. Full of…                

   My google search history: “uneven edge of book”.    

I feel very reassured by this! also i appreciate the specifying of the edge texture. it makes an important difference.

thelioninmybed replied to your post:                  How many Vermont™ cliches are checked off by “went…                

 
never mind deckled, I had to look up sugar-on-snow, this is wild                

sugar on snow is the best thing there is. however, if you come late in the day, you get the syrup from the bottom of the vat, which when put in contact with snow turns into a hard glob instead of chewy goodness. the hard glob is still good, but…

bamboocounting replied to your post: someone has to be obvious, so: mushroom feast in rivendell….

  your true nature, revealed! MUA HA HA—- no, I
can’t claim inspiration, just – all the sundry ‘map is the territory’
books I’ve come across.                

dkjfghd the genius is in the MATCHING. I mean, I stole the one I sent you from…uh…your blog….i will read invisible cities sometime soon

bamboocounting replied to your post:
                   gurguliare replied to your post:                  …                

   that’s. a perfectly unpleasant way of getting objects to glow.   

I’m…not a scientist at all, I only know hyper-advanced stuff and the periodic table, nothing in between, but I have this vague suspicion that in some kind of interpretation, this is actually how radiation works from the photons’ pov

gurguliare replied to your post:                 gurguliare replied to your post:                  …                

   yes.    

WAIT DID WE MANAGE TO CAP A CONVERSATION BEFORE 1 AM

replying things

bamboocounting replied to your post:                   replies                

   yyyYYEAH why only have An Aesop about overstepping when you could
have elrond,  taking in the travel weary Faithful and being presented
with a single precious tome preserved from elros’s day    

BUT IT SUCKS AND IS MEAN

bamboocounting replied to your post:                   replies                

   he opens it to the frontispiece and unthinkingly utters, “oh, man,
he does look like a goat,” to the outrage of the Men because of the
many, many letters that elros had sent, complaining about all the
statuary that used this particular image as a reference   

   with the same unfortunate beard  

WHY DON’T YOU JUST WRITE THIS FIC. OR FANCOMIC.

bamboocounting replied to your post:                  replies                

   (obvs this presumes that elrond never went to numenor/that he had no
self control after millennia –) (or maybe he just thinks it. all the
jokes he can no longer make to elros’s face…!)    

I mean, is this not the best thing about completely ???? stretches of canon time, literally any AU that doesn’t change the beginning and ending is A-okay. Or, equally terriblllllleeeee.