andie, she/her, 26, united states. this blog is full of Tolkien. also other art, photos, fandoms, and big-eyes-emoji stuff, but mostly Tolkien. i tag! my girlfriend is bright ivanaskye, who is a lot, but not too much
(i) of Fëanor’s death, The Silmarillion (ii) of Thorin’s death, The Hobbit (iii) of Boromir’s death, The Two Towers (iv) Thomas von Kempen, Prayers and Meditations on the Life of Christ
Dear lord, when I get to heaven Please let me bring my man When he comes tell me that you’ll let him in Father tell me if you can. – Lana Del Ray – Young and Beautiful
I just used it again and realized how often I use it so I thought I’d post it here.
I don’t remember where I learned it but the general idea is that if you’re writing something and need to stop, it’s VERY important to be conscious of that stopping point.
In my opinion, the best place to stop is in the middle of a sentence.
Stopping in the middle of your train of thought is super helpful because your first instinct when you come back to your writing is to fill that gap in, so to speak. Jump in like this, and you’ve already made some progress! This is especially helpful for someone like me, who has a hard time starting writing but really gets into it once I find my groove.
Example of where I left off yesterday:
And here it is the moment I got back to my doc a few minutes ago:
Bam! A nice brisk start that leads to an extended writing session.
Anyways, that’s my tip! Hope it helps someone as much as it’s helped me.
how much do you think it frustrates the Joker that a man in a bat costume punching a clown should be the funniest thing in existence but everyone in Gotham has decided to take it seriously
I wish I had the right words to talk about the phenomenon I mean wherein certain adults have that Piece of themselves as children Locked Into Place like a foreign object inserted into the flesh and your body just grows a scar tissue AROUND it but it’s always fully there inside you like dissolvable sutures that your body never managed to dissolve, just encased them in scar tissue and left them
a foreign object was inserted under your skin as a child and stayed there BUT the foreign object is also a miniature copy of the person you were when it happened. living inside of you always and kind of trapped there by your own immune system
other analogies: how when you insert a tiny irritant such as a piece of sand an oyster will grow layers and layers of junk around it and if people insert small bits of shell SHAPED like something the resulting pearl will also be shaped like that bc it is the result of years and years of being plastered over by protective slimes so you can SEE THE SHAPE the original object was even though its an object so deep inside the pearl coatings theres no way to see the object ITSELF
when someone chains a bike to a tree and the tree just grows around it and when you cut slices out of the trunk and count the rings you can tell the EXACT age the tree was when it had the bike chained to it
“The core experiences of psychological trauma are disempowerment and disconnection from others. Recovery, therefore, is based upon the empowerment of the survivor and the creation of new connections. Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. In her renewed connections with other people, the survivor re-creates the psychological faculties that were damaged or deformed by the traumatic experience. These faculties include the basic capacities for trust, autonomy, initiative, competence, identity, and intimacy. Just as these capabilities are originally formed in relationships with other people, they must be reformed in such relationships.
The first principle of recovery is the empowerment of the survivor. She must be the author and arbiter of her own recovery. Others may offer advice, support, assistance, affection, and care, but not cure. Many benevolent and well-intentioned attempts to assist the survivor founder because this fundamental principle of empowerment is not observed. No intervention that takes power away from the survivor can possibly foster her recovery, no matter how much it appears to be in her immediate best interest.”
“No intervention that takes power away from the survivor can possibly foster her recovery, no matter how much it appears to be in her immediate best interest.”
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth 