REPLYGASM

berrysphase
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”

oh shit I’m so sorry that sounds utterly debilitating

Not debilitating thank god but really REALLY disruptive because the pains are so completely random and unconnected to anything you do or any direction you move or anything else that allows you to get used to an injury-related pain -_-

imindhowwelayinjune
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”

OH NO I had exactly this this past winter and it SUCKS I wish you many antivirals and a speedy recovery ♥️♥️

UNFORTUNATELY i got to the doctor too late for antivirals, but yea hope it doesn’t linger too long

pipcomix
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”

Oh fuck I got shingles when I was 22 and it was one if the worst things that’s ever happened to me I’m so fucking sorry shingles is the worst :(((

GOD, sympathy fistbump. and i was told mine is a relatively mild case – can’t imagine what a severe case feels like 😐

bamboocounting
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”

D: that’s the worst let me know if you want distracting fish sculptures

I would DEFINITELY LOVE fish sculptures where are these fish sculptures u mention

actualmermaid
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”

YO THIS IS HORRIFYING SHINGLES IS TERRIBLE

it’s p terrible BUT ALSO THE VIRUS/PHENOMENON IS REALLY COOL???

crocordile
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”

Andie oh my god, do painkillers help?? D:

NOT REALLY…….they make the pain a little less intense but no less random or frequent

thelionimybed
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”

but on the plus side I’ll buy any medical dictionary you choose to publish

Yes you should all hire me for properly vividly descriptions of all ur medical complaints

ninethousandbees
replied to your post “Are there any gay bars named Saruman Of Many Colors”

if there aren’t, there should be

actualmermaid
replied to your photo “The tumblr-reblog-like conversational graffiti on the inside of the…”

there used to be a coffee shop like this near me and then they had a water pipe explosion and couldn’t afford to repair it so they had to sell the building and it’s a hipster beer establishment now and I’m still upset

UGH….unfortunately ‘hipster beer establishment’ is ALSO an Extremely Common Vermont Occurrence but fortunately this shop has been able to stick around a long time……

crocordile
replied to your post “also witnessed today in VT: dude with a t-shirt reading “i’d tap that”…”

if you ever see it buy it for me and i’ll pay u

I will totally take you up on this.

anghraine
replied to your post “From your personal experience what seems to be the worst fandom ever?”

I was going to say that I’ve been in worse ones, but then I remember just how many people I have blocked.

I’ve been in ones i disliked more, but the sheer breadth and depth of whatthefuckery in New Star Wars fandom is headspinning, and I’ve been in a lot of fandoms in the past 11 years

ivanaskye
replied to your post “Do fans have some sort of hivemind theory I’m oblivious to that tells…”

I know you’re talking about this for multiple characters but also we all know which character you’re PARTICULARLY talking about

Ok you are DEFINITELY RIGHT but also i was thinking a lot about the baffling Faramir thing

actualmermaid
replied to your post “Do fans have some sort of hivemind theory I’m oblivious to that tells…”

“Opened a book once” = BOOK NERD. “Mentioned next to a flower once” = AVID GARDENER. “Was sad once” = ALWAYS SAD ALL THE TIME.

But it’s so much MORE befuddling when there’s like 28 major explicit canon scenes/descriptions/details/contextual dynamics that are THE EXACT OPPOSITE of that and like 1 ambiguous thing that might have been a dubious detail in support of that characterization IF AND ONLY IF they were a character with no other distinguishing features whatsoever. Also i’ve gotta say this fetish for this 1 specific type of character – the super insecure people-pleasing doormat stuttery….thing – is imo something that goes far above and beyond the generalized sledgehammery fanon thing. 

wijopat
replied to your photo “ivanaskye:

introvertproblems:
suzangean:
Introvert vs Extrovert
…”

Ambiverts(people who’s affiliation shifts based on context) are the VAST majority of us! Stop using labels and self identification to limit your potential!

THIS IS VERY TRUE, thank you!!!! actually I think i would be much more accurate in describing myself this way more than pure introvert (tho def leaning more towards the introvert side).

crocordile
replied to your photo “Calm yo tits”

What happened tho? :O

He was saved by a clever ‘wait actually you didn’t fail bc you were worthless, you failed for a good reason!’ thing by Krishna, which is smth that happens like 248 times in this story. 

gurguliare
replied to your photo “@actualmermaid is the anime because of the eyes or the seto kaiba hair…”

somehow i feel like you’re accusing me of being schroedinger’s actual, mean cat

anyway it was PUREHEARTED ADMIRATION

I was NOT, because i didn’t know schroedinger’s cat was mean at all, but i gladly accept your purehearted admiration ^_^

YEAH

A MAJOR (if untenable) LOOK

berrysphase
replied to your post “��”

well that puts a new light on amon hen

THAT JUST OCCURRED TO ME AFTER I HAD POSTED THIS

gurguliare
replied to your post “��”

A CHAIR WITH A VIEW

It’s something every father needs!

kareenvorbarra
replied to your post “��”

andie!!!!! fuck!!!!!!!

Thank u, thank u, I can do this all night, i think.

FIVE TRILLION REPLIES FROM THE ENTIRE PAST MONTH

due to the notifications apocalypse i have probably missed a TON but….i am making an Attempt!

actualmermaid
replied to your post “JoJos”

“super-chiseled chiaroscuro constipation-face.” art.

i meeeeeaaaannnn….

also i forgot to mention how there’s also usually some Manly™ blood around too

ivanaskye
replied to your post “las vegas glitz pics with @ivanaskye aka ‘local couple is too femme to…”

I love us

actualmermaid
replied to your post “las vegas glitz pics with @ivanaskye aka ‘local couple is too femme to…”

too glam, not allowed

aww i’m glad u appreciate our glam, esp given how we normally looked at breakfast in the Breakfast 24 Hours place in the casino downstairs >_o

bamboocounting
replied to your post “garden-ghoul
replied to your post “.”
what…”

holy shot

(typo, but mocking invocations to the valar before they fire their steampunk cannons at the coast or something)(the something is sauron)

God i’m so weak to steampunky industrial numenor……industrial stuff is just as good an aesthetic for fantasy dystopia as yk….all the other ones that appear in fantasy imagery stuff. and especially fitting for tolkien given the immensely long timescale/overturn of eras and generations, and the sheer number of wildly different nightmare-lands in the legendarium.

girlwithouthands
replied to your post “Sometimes…meta/fixitfic tumblr posts with 65k notes….are worse….”

on one hand i’d love to know what this is about & on the other hand do I truly want to do that to myself

Idk it’s always a risk of ‘oh i REBLOGGED that terrible post before’ but otoh this is also just a general principle….

actualmermaid
replied to your post “A RANDOM DUMP OF COLORADO AND VEGAS PICS BC IM TOO LAZY TO ORGANIZE:…”

Was born in Utah, can confirm that no one knows what the deal with it is

That looks SO FUN THO

IT WAS SOOOOOOO FUN!!! i might be biased due to being high on love chemicals the whole time but IT WAS GREAT…. 

pipcomix
replied to your post “Log of the past 3 days:[[MOR] Incredibly delayed flight out of…”

Oh that is my brain cocktail also, high five

It’s a wonder of wonders!!! <3333

bamboocounting
replied to your post “Log of the past 3 days:[[MOR] Incredibly delayed flight out of…”

DDDDD: I’m glad you had many sustaining memories of a wonderful person to look at utah rocks with!

aaaaaa i dooooooo thank u!!!! /)*////*( i wish i could have taken more highway pics of other non-Utah areas too but i was sadly DRIVING while passing most of them

crocordile
replied to your post “Log of the past 3 days:[[MOR] Incredibly delayed flight out of…”

welcome back Andie and I’m so glad your trip was so incredible &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3 Sorry abt the car and internship, but I hope u can relax this Last Sunday!!

hsjdfihdsjds this reply is all moot now buttttt still <333333 

garden-ghoul
replied to your post “So I have been on vacation in first Colorado, then Las Vegas, with my…”

this sounds like a wonderful time I’m enjoying your liveblog. I’m glad u are having a good time in the Desert and in the Mountains, my natural habitat

ur natural habitat!! i have so much more appreciation for it……there’s so many little things that i never before imagined about them that i love

garden-ghoul
replied to your post “Ivana and I are in Las Vegas and while ‘’’needing food’’’ and ‘’’being…”

I’m very fond of you and I am quickly becoming fond of ivana by proxy

THANKS and also GOOD bc she is a wonderful good and deserves fondness ^_^

theotherwesley
replied to your post “I JUST REALIZED THAT THE MENELTARMA IS A MESA”

WEIRD MESA-GIANT-TREE-CONSPIRACY-THEORY CONFIRMED!!!! #exposed #confirmed #ancientValarAliens

YUP. valar stompin’ around, thinking that just bc the continents are all scrambled no one’s gonna figure it out….

nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui
replied to your post “I JUST REALIZED THAT THE MENELTARMA IS A MESA”

I always read it as a volcano – that’d explain the cone shape as well as the sudden coming-into-existence and equally sudden and eruptive end of Númenor… XD

that WOULD make sense but otoh too straightforward! why not choose a theory that raises more questions than it answers….that’s how it works right……

crocordile
replied to your post “002 – Elwing/Earendil?”

earendil is a noldo savugsdnjisd, also seconding star spray (i feel like……………i read a fic once…… idk tho………), also, the ocean? ouch, also: big yes

omg i suddenly very badly want your thoughts on how meeting ar-pharazon would go

i sort of started vaguely outlining a mini-fic about it actually but mostly i figure….multi-stage debate built on a ton of future events that pharazon never imagined or could have foreseen….sort of like, on some level, he was also vaguely apologized to on behalf of his ancestors who didn’t get enough of an explanation – i.e., centered around that quote from the Akallabeth: 

“The love of Arda was set in your hearts by Ilúvatar, and he does not plant to no purpose. Nonetheless, many ages of Men unborn may pass ere that purpose is made known; and to you it will be revealed and not to the Valar.”

and kind of like…..ok, compromise, you can be in suspended animation so that you can still be alive and in the world when what answers you seek will be revealed to Men….and get to meet the ancestors whom you hold up as proof of your deserving to see aman…..etc

the-artifice-of-eternity
replied to your photo “#just kshatriya things”

This reminds me of Thor trying to pick up the cat he doesn’t know is actually the World Serpent, and getting humiliated. *squints at Indo-Europeans*

lmaaaoooooo….i should also mention, this is FAR from the only time this trope of humbling-a-big-ego-via-temporary-humiliation-that-fosters-self-compassion-and-perspectitve-rather-than-resentment in hindu mythology…..it’s kinda obsessed with that trope

berrysphase
replied to your post “002 – Elwing/Earendil?”

“furry” huh do tell

well more like a “feathery” but you kno >_o

nelyafinwe
replied to your post “˜aspen groves’ also known as ‘lothlorien’—”

pando = the OG lorien in aman

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

aspens are also just by their nature, w the cloning, such very legendarium-compatible trees

imindhowwelayinjune
replied to your post “FRIENDSHIP CANCELLED WITH VERMONT. NOW COLORADO IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND.”

Yea u like that orogeny doncha

SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE……I’M WEAK

imindhowwelayinjune
replied to your post “FRIENDSHIP CANCELLED WITH VERMONT. NOW COLORADO IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND.”

COME SAY HI

god i’m still super disappointed i wasn’t able to make it 😦 SOMETIME THO….since i’m def visiting colorado again sometime soon…..

simaethae
replied to your post “I have a bright red rental car and 100 miles of highway with…”

i’m really psyched to watch two episodes and then blacklist it on tumblr, gonna be great

avoyagetoarcturus
replied to your post “I have a bright red rental car and 100 miles of highway with…”

At least Tolkien fan blogs will get more popular & people’ll get more curious about the books. Lol

awwwww u guys are so good at silver linings <333

replygasm

a mass of neglected replies from the previous 2 weeks under the cut!!!

ivanaskye
replied to your photoset “Thanks United Airlines, your optimism is appreciated”

������ I think I know where this flight is going…

😛 😛 😛 ofc ofc

pipcomix replied to your post “My woeful attention span means I have sanguinely given up on focusing…”

One is a sport and the other is not. Conclusion: you are a jock

kareenvorbarra
replied to your post “My woeful attention span means I have sanguinely given up on focusing…”

my gf is the world’s best sleeper, can’t relate

crocordile
replied to your post “My woeful attention span means I have sanguinely given up on focusing…”

PIPCOMIX WITH THE HOTTEST TAKE OF THE CENTURY TBH

LISTEN– i am quite sure i also procrastinate and multitask for sport. extreme sports. adrenaline thrills. etc.
berrysphase
replied to your post “Also: while listening to Live at the Met on the car radio for some…”

well look we just wouldn’t have Donizetti write the music k

I don’t know who Donizetti is bc maybe i’m a fake classical music fan

illregretthisname
replied to your photo “@thulimo @moringottos”

birds eat honey????

@thulimo confirm/deny??

bamboocounting
replied to your post “bamboocounting replied to your post:                  *inches towards…”

earendil on the verge of being struck by a gem-bearing wife

I AM STEALING IT FOREVER <33333

girlwithouthands
replied to your post “girlwithouthands replied to your post:                   i have always…”

there’s this one scene in the story of siegfried it really reminds me of, after mimer plays his harp for siegfried and tells him about his history… it’s a very poignant moment and i wonder if jirt was inspired by that

DEF COULD BE…..god i should really read up some more on them primary sources, they all sound super raw-batshittery-of-tolkien and also really fun

garden-ghoul replied to your post:                   I quite liked hearing you read that poem! Do you…                

   I just love how you end every line of the poem on a down-turned
intonation, it makes it all sound vaguely ominous, which is appropriate
for this poem! tired, dark, cold.    

did….i…..thank u ghoul i’m glad you think ‘ominous’ is the appropriate vibe for this poem, it’s a good!!

nelyafinwe replied to your post:                   God the fact the version of that “what if…                

   It is the cherry on top of the entire post    

it does bring it all around full circle doesn’t it. maybe op will reblog the addition. not getting my hopes up.

actualmermaid replied to your post:                   God the fact the version of that “what if…                

   what if… people stopped blaming tolkien for their own failure to read tolkien    

INconcEIVable!!!!!!! 

berrysphase replied to your post: “from “I am in too great doubt to rule. To prepare or to let be? To…”

*chinhands*

!!! tell me more….what part was most chinhands….should i blab some more….u know i could speculate about this stuff all day….big eyes emoji…..

thelioninmybed replied to your post:                   deliver me from self-conscious insecure…                

   ‘G-Gil-Galad sempai noticed me!’    

i hate you too :X

(…….maybe @ age 20)

Glorfindel for the meme?

How I feel about this character: I love him!! The glimpses we see of him, very very early in history and very very late, are really cute and memorable and interesting. His best qualities are emphasized really clearly, which many really good characters in LOTR don’t get to have.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: IDK? Elrond I guess, I like that old wise noble/even older and even wiser loyal subordinate dynamic. Maybe Gildor Inglorion hypothetically, just bc the two characters’ histories from the First Age clash really awkwardly.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Glorfindel x Idril <3<3<3 (he also helped dig the sekrit tunnel)

My unpopular opinion about this character: He WAS super useful to have around in the Third Age? I’m *drags hands down face* but unfortunately not surprised that the majority of Silm fans have never even looked at the 3 page Lotr Appendix B timeline of the third age, let alone glance at Appendix A. Arnor and the surrounding lands were a hot mess and torn apart by the Witch-King of Angmar – less than 200 miles north of Rivendell, which attacked and was attacked by easterlings, nazgul, etc, multiple times.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I WISH HE HAD MET EOWYN AND FISTBUMPED HER FOR FULFILLING HIS PROPHECY

my het ship: idkkkkkk? i guess one-sided glorfindel/elenwe is cute!

my fem/slash ship: uh see above

my OTP: I have none!

my OT3: this is a really ship-heavy meme. Glorfindel/Elrond/Celebrian?

my cross over ship: Jean Valjean….this is based on ACTUAL points of convergence

my kink: Every Hair Kink feasible

a head cannon fact: He visited Aragorn and Arwen a ton until they died, both to keep an eye on them, and so that he could tell Elrond about their lives when he sailed as well.

my gender bend: I’m VERY SAD that the ‘pulled to death by his beautiful golden hair’ would have pretty different narrative connotations if Glorfindel was female. I love that detail.