GO APOLLO GO

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

Going to an international studies event tomorrow for a trip I'm going on.

I also coincidentally learned how to say a few words in ASL because I want to become conversational in it at some point.

Here's the thing.

My friend and I learned how to sign penis.

So now i have the moral battle of whether or not to teach anyone who's from overseas and my age how to say that in ASL.

To dick joke or not to dick joke.

"It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you... that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something."

-- J.R.R Tolkien, The Two Towers --

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RIP Baby, you would have loved fan edits. 😔✊

Sometimes I think about how hard I want an Over the Garden Wall style adaptation of LOTR. My soul craves it. I want it desperately. Think about it. Animation. Music. Comfort. Despair. Elijah Wood. Do I need to elaborate.

When I was younger, I hated my southern (USA) accent. I hated it because I was told that I sounded ignorant and because most people outside of Western movies didn't have thick southern accents and so it seemed like the people who said that the accent sounded uneducated or ignorant were correct. I began to cover it up to seem more "normal", and even got to a point where I would have to try to put the accent on if I wanted to have the southern sound. As I got older I realized that what people were saying was stupid and have felt stupid for wanting to change that part of me. Something worthy of note is that I will instinctively thicken my accent whenever comforting someone, getting angry, or talking to certain people. Upon further examination, so do most people who grew up in the South. I was curious as to why that was and decided to ask Google. The second that I began to search, I was met once again with "why do southern accents sound uneducated" and flat out "why do southern accents sound stupid". It's kind of sad for me to see people still do this to an accent that is so pretty and know that kids still will have to go through what I have.

she dirk on my gently until everything is connected

@peterkitts Me when I try my darndest to carve it out with my bare hands

RIP Baby, you would have loved fan edits. 😔✊

Oh absolutely!

Side note, absolutely insane that we both added Sherlock Holmes to the hyperfixation list at the same time.

I was thinking about it for a moment like wtf, LOTR person I followed for the hyperfixation casually switched gears with me.

So uh, if I started an 18+ Sherlock Holmes/John Watson discord, would anyone be interested in joining?

Not to be dramatic or anything but I would sell my spleen to look like a hobbit and live their silly lil life 💗