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Ardalambion (this one has a lot of helpful links and info about Tolkien’s languages)
Council of Elrond Workbooks (Sindarin or Quenya)
English-Elvish translator (this one is word-for-word only, so I don’t recommend this one for more than single words, as it doesn’t take…
UPDATE: I edited the chart to more accurately reflect descriptions based on all the input I have had. The updated chart can be found here
Ancalagon the Black
“Before the rising of the sun Eärendil slew Ancalagon the Black, the mightiest of the dragon-host, and cast him from the sky; and he fell upon the towers of Thangorodrim, and they were broken in his ruin.”
Now in the Atlas of Middle Earth apparently there is a drawing by tolkien that would indicate that Thangorodrim was about 35,000 ft high. For comparison that is a good bit taller than Mt. Everest which is29,029 feet. I cannot confirm this right now as my copy of the Atlas is on loan to a friend but that seems reasonable to me.
Anyhow, that means that Ancalagon the Black must have been enormous to crush them under his bulk.
My guess at the size of some of the other Winged Dragons in the War of Wrath
“out of the pits of Angband there issued the winged dragons, that had not before been seen; and so sudden and ruinous was the onset of that dreadful fleet that the host of the Valar was driven back, for the coming of the dragons was with great thunder, and lightning, and a tempest of fire.”
While obviously none of these other dragons were as big as Ancalagon, I imagine that at least some of them were pretty huge by this description.
Glaurung
“In the front of that fire came Glaurung the golden, father of dragons, in his full might; and in his train were Balrogs, and behind them came the black armies of the Orcs in multitudes such as the Noldor had never before seen or imagined. And they assaulted the fortresses of the Noldor, and broke the leaguer about Angband, and slew wherever they found them the Noldor and their allies.”
Now Glaurung is hard to place size-wise as Tolkien never really says but as Father of Dragons he must have been quite large and so Tolkien seems to describe him. He also looks quite large in Tolkien’s drawing but this is one that could definitely be argued.
Drake of Gondolin
“but even as Tuor comes nigh driving the Orcs, one of those brazen snakes heaves against the western wall and a great mass of it shakes and falls, and behind comes a creature of fire and Balrogs upon it. Flames gust from the jaws of that worm and folk wither before it,”
So in Tolkien’s early writings on the Fall of Gondolin found in HoME there are a good number of dragons at the Fall of Gondolin and they knock down the walls and stuff. Again, pretty big.
Scatha
Scatha the Worm was a mighty Long-worm of the Grey Mountains and one of the greatest Dragons to infest that range of the north. He was slain by Fram. Again, not much info so size reflects my best guess.
Smaug
My assessment of Smaug’s size was based largely off Tolkien’s drawings some of which are above.
So those are my sources, nice and simple. Again if you have anything more specific, send it my way.
As far as I’m concerned, the only thing that matters is what’s in the story, and where we can take that story if we want to (in sum: everywhere).
Creator intentions, or commentary about creator intentions, or creator’s fakeout commentary about their intentions, while interesting, are not that important, in the end. The story is the story, and it is what it is. It’s out there to be interpreted and reinterpreted as we see fit. Creator intentions are all well and good, but if they aren’t watertight in the story (which is always), if the opposite argument can be made using evidence from the narrative (certainly always), we’re cooking with gas.
Slash fandoms have existed for a long time in spite of the original intentions of creators. Many creators have been actively and openly hostile to slash fandoms. There has been eyerolling, dismissive commentary, explicit prohibitions, and lawsuits. But slash fandoms have flourished anyway.
As far as I can tell, nothing can kill a slash pairing. Creators can marry characters off, kill them, make them as butch and heterosexual as they possibly can, and slash fandoms will keep on thriving. Maybe it’s because we like the challenge. Maybe it just adds angsty fuel to the fire, and you know where all that angst leads.
There is always an explanation to be made, a narrative or character loophole to exploit, a perfectly reasonable way to continue doing as we do. Human beings are too complicated to restrict that way, and I mean both fictional people and their fans. We aren’t going to be boxed in by canon, because narrative is naturally non-restrictive. No matter what the creator’s intentions are, narrative will set us free. Their stories will just give us more loopholes and ideas, always. They will never shut that door.
Long live slash fandom!
“We aren’t going to be boxed in by canon, because narrative is naturally non-restrictive. No matter what the creator’s intentions are, narrative will set us free.”
Last word:
When these things blow up, I often see a lot of criticism of fan entitlement. I believe this exists, and I think it can be corrosive. I don’t see it myself, but I keep very secluded here, all told – I follow very few people and never, ever venture into the comments section of anything. But since there can sometimes be misunderstandings (or miscommunication on my part), I want to make clear what it is that gets me riled up.
It isn’t Benedict. Do I think he’s completely innocent? No more than I think that fans are completely innocent – I think we’re ALL very human, and we’re all coming from intensely personal places, him included. My beef isn’t with him, it’s with a mass media that uses fangirls for clickbait in predictably, consistently pathologizing terms. Yesterday’s NYM piece described his female fandom as a “seismic force of female hysteria,” and that right there is what I’m angry with. That this keeps happening in relation to Benedict is happenstance – it happens that he’s in two Christmas films and one Oscar contender, so his press for those has kind of bunched up – as it did this time last year with a similar roster of films – so he’s currently the media ‘it’ man. That’s as it is.
When I say we’re on a break – jokingly! – what I mean is that I want to keep on liking him, and his press is currently such that I feel like being a female fan of his is a liability. I’m tired of being characterized as something I’m not. I don’t care what he personally thinks of me – I can only imagine what kinds of fan encounters he’s had, and inasmuch as we all know someone we kind of side-eye in real life, I can’t help but think that some of those have probably been some kind of alarming. I don’t live his life, I don’t presume to say what he should think/say/do. I love his work – I really do. And I want to keep on loving it.
So we’re on a break while he finishes out this press junket (probably through The Hobbit). NOT because I suddenly hate him, not because I want him to act a certain way, but because the press seems compelled to keep dragging his female fans into interviews with him, and – some of you may think I’m making excuses for him; I suppose that’s possible, but for me I see it as giving him the benefit of the doubt, because that’s what I do. I think he’s tired, I think he’s got interview after interview after interview coming at him, and things are said. And, as I said above, he’s entitled to his experiences and opinions – they affect my life not at all. I simply have had it with the press attempting to capitalize on his current celebrity by scapegoating his female fans. They make choices when they decide to set up photoshoots with ‘rabid fangirls’, and those choices are just one more nail in the coffin of female fan representation.
THAT is my beef, that’s what I’m angry about, and it could be literally any celebrity – it isn’t about Benedict in any meaningful way for me, it’s about this hyperbolic discourse of fangirl representation, in which our pleasures, our passions, the fact that we do love something or someone, is ridiculed and set up as the excessive extreme against which ‘normal’ fandom is constituted – in which ‘normal’ is a kind of rational, distanced, masculinist appreciation, I suppose (we conveniently forget the passion of sports fans – or valorize it when, say, and underdog team wins a major sports tournament – until there are actual casualties).
ENTP~ Prove themselves with arrogance and arguing
ENTJ~ Hyper critical
ENFP~ Can’t stop smiling more than usual
ENFJ~ They will act like perfection itself before you
ESTP~ Awkward
ESTJ~ Ultra listener and attentive
ESFP~ Make complete fools of themselves, in a cute way
ESFJ~ Brags
INTP~ Intense trolling
INTJ~ Stalkerish
INFP~ By the time you figure it out they like someone else
INFJ~ You don’t know and never will
ISTP~ Confronts you directly
ISTJ~ Ultra intense eye contact
ISFP~ *blushes
ISFJ~ Lots of little glances and smilesFor whatever reason, I couldn’t read the whole thing. Also, it’s embarrassing to see that the INFP thing is basically right.
I have several done years of RPing, and this has taken me to countless different forums and, if you are at all familiar with RP forums, let me tell you, they were the lowest of the low some six or seven years ago.
In one of these forums, a legendary tale happened, a tale that, if I can ever recommend one thing to you, it is this:
A story that happened to an anonymous RPer years ago.
Anyone will be able to appreciate it (and trust me, you will), but if you are kinsmen or kinswomen to me, if you ever had to experience the shittiest of RP forums and their terrible userbases, particularly that one guy that does whatever he wants and is an asshole that clearly godmods but gets away with it because the actual mods don’t give a damn, you will find the beauty behind the ballad that much brighter.
Just trust me on this one. It’s not a particularly long read, either.
I hope you enjoy The Ballad of Edgardo
This is absolute pure gold; completely made my night.
Net neutrality is dead.At least that’s the verdict of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which today struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order from 2010 that forced Internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable to abide by the principles of network neutrality. These principles broadly stipulate that ISP network management must be transparent, and that ISPs can’t engage in practices that block, stifle or discriminate against (lawful) websites or traffic types on the Internet.
That’s the bare bones story, wrapped in ugly acronyms (FCC, ISP, etc.). But why should you care that network neutrality (“net neutrality”) may be gone for good?
1. No more net neutrality means ISPs can now discriminate against content they dislike.
Everyone gets their Internet from an Internet service provider — an ISP like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Under net neutrality rules, these ISPs have to treat all content you access over the Internet “roughly the same way“ — they can’t speed up traffic from websites they like or delay competitor’s traffic.
Now, with net neutrality gone, ISPs can discriminate, favoring their business partners while delaying or blocking websites they don’t like. Think your cable CEO hates free online porn? Now you’ll know for sure!
2. No more net neutrality means ISPs can now force websites to PAY for faster content delivery.
You know how some sites you go to just load slower than others? Usually, that’s just because the slower site is image heavy, poorly coded, or dealing with intense server load. But with net neutrality gone, ISPs can now start charging hefty fees to websites that want quick content delivery — shifting the long load times to poorer sites that can’t pay up.
Prefer indie retailers to Amazon.com? You may be in for a frustrating future.
3. Destroying net neutrality is bad for small businesses.
Put together items one and two and it becomes clear — negating net neutrality is bad for small businesses. If ISPs force website owners pay for faster load times, tiny retailers and personal websites will be the ones to suffer from slower content delivery.
Alternately — or additionally — ISPs will have no reason not to favor partner sites: Time Warner Cable, for instance, might favor the website of CNN (owned by the Time Warner Corporation) over the websites of competing cable news networks MSNBC and Fox News. Still, it’s the indies again that will lose out here. While Time Warner Cable might favor CNN and Comcast MSNBC, independent news networks almost certainly won’t get special treatment from any ISPs. Expand this out to music sites, web publishing, etc., and you begin to see the problem.
In extreme cases, ISPs may hinder or block content that isn’t produced by partners —much like AT&T did when it owned the telephone networks back in the day.
4. Without net neutrality, entire types of online traffic (like Netflix) may be in jeopardy.
Netflix watchers and BitTorrent users might want to beware — soon your beloved services may not work like they used to. Now that net neutrality’s down for the count, ISPs can discriminate against entire types of traffic: For instance, an ISP could slow or block all peer-to-peer file sharing, or all online video streaming.
Think it sounds unbelievably stupid for an ISP to stifle a certain traffic types indiscriminately? Comcast has seen reason to stifle both streaming video and peer-to-peer in the past.
From an ISP’s perspective, discriminating against some traffic types makes business sense: Many ISPs are also cable television providers, which means the “cord-cutting” enabled by peer-to-peer and streaming online video isn’t good for their bottom line.
5. Without net neutrality, your ISPs can make even more money without actually improving the Internet.
Right now, America’s broadband is slow. It’s slow because ISPs can already make gobs of money by charging the rich a ton for high-quality Internet while leaving the rest of America with subpar (or no) service.
Now, with net neutrality gone, ISPs will be able to make even more money off their existing customer base. They won’t need to improve service or bring broadband to rural areas because they’ll be able to keep growing (financially, at least) by charging content providers more for faster delivery and charging customers more for faster access. In all likelihood, Tuesday’s ruling means the problems with America’s Internet will be magnified.
This FINALLY shows up on my dashboard and it only has 300 notes.
Here’s a petition on Whitehouse.gov that needs 88,000+ by the middle of February:
SIGNAL BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS SHIT AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE AIN’T HAVIN’ IT!
SIGN IT
Yeah, I’m beating this horse because IT AIN’T DEAD ENOUGH.
Look, here is the deal. The FCC has different categories of stuff it regulates. Level 1 is ‘telecommunications.’ I.e. services that provide the fundamental building blocks of communications in this country.
Level 2 is ‘information services.’ This is stuff that is useful, yes, but if somebody fucks with it a bit then you’re not fundamentally disrupting, redefining, or controlling life as American citizens live it.
Back in 2002, the FCC (for reasons unknown to God or man) decided to label The Internet, as ‘information services.’
So now, when people tried to pass a big ol’ law through Congress that says, “ISPs aren’t allowed to fuck with internet traffic or play favorites,” the courts said, “That’s not allowed, if you’re going to label the Internet as a category 2 service. However, we really highly advise the FCC to change the Internet to category 1 service, because we don’t know what you guys are smoking over there but even WE can tell that’s what it should be. In which case we’ll give this bill the stamp of approval so hard that the paper’ll smoke afterwards.”
So BASICALLY this is SUPER-EASY TO FIX, and all it needs is for the FCC to get off its apparently addled duff and make the change.
Which is what these petitions are for.
So seriously. SIGN THEM.
IMPORTANT!!! Why You Should Be Freaking Out About The End Of Net Neutrality
[This post contains one mild, general Sign of Three spoiler beneath the cut. It’s otherwise spoiler-free.]
The release of the first two episodes is causing renewed fervor in all areas of the fandom, including the shippers. Especially the shippers, as always.
Flat out: when I first watched Study in Pink, I thought I was looking at a canonically gay Holmes. It soon turned out to be more complicated than that, but I continued to hold onto strong emotions about those two. That what I see on-screen is two people falling in love—whether they realize it or not, whether it’s sexual or not. I’ve often told myself, “Even if the writers don’t intend it that way, I can still enjoy it that way.”
After all, as a queer person… there are paltry pickings for representative romances. But representation aside, even: what a beautiful dynamic, don’t you think?
I was content to enjoy that thought over in my own little corner.
But now, something’s changed.
And I look around and realize that I’m steeping in homophobia.
This is so true. And I’m ashamed, because I remember a year or two back, this was exactly my attitude.
I was talking about Sherlock with a friend, back then (this was before I watched the series), and I remember discussing the Holmes/Watson relationship with her. All I’d seen from the BBC show were various pictures of Sherlock and John in strange poses at crime scenes. I was however, aware that ACD certainly hadn’t written intentional romance in his books, and yet there was a lot of Johnlock fics out there.
I remember bringing up the fact there was so much gay fanfiction for Sherlock, and laughing at it a little. Wow, so much of it, people can be a little crazy huh?
She was a big Johnlock shipper. She just stared at me and went, well I ship it. I didn’t really understand why she looked so shocked, I thought it was just because she shipped them very intensely.
No, this wasn’t intentionally mean spirited. No, I’m not homophobic, or I’d like to hope I’m not. But, I just didn’t realise then that this was passive-aggressively homophobic.
Really, if John was replaced with a female, and they did all exactly the same things as the show (I’ve seen it now), we would all unmistakeably go, they’re going to be a couple. So obvious. From the first episode, from the first bloody twenty minutes, yep. Look at all those undertones, those long drawn out gazes even domestically. People would not laugh this pairing off as just a joke, they’d be expecting this romance (rightfully, according to them).
Put two males in that situation (or two females), and suddenly everyone’s going wow, epic friendship. Romance? Don’t be silly, they’re good friends, don’t mistake it. Cute that you want it though.
This is what media encourages. It’s a good joke, isn’t it, hilarious to watch. But it’s not actually going to happen, we all know that.
What I’m trying to say? That even though we pat ourselves on the back for being liberal, for being able to talk about LGBTQ issues openly now, media (and other unconscious actions) still perpetuate a certain dismissive stigma against these relationships. It’s not blatantly homophobic (at least, until you take in how often this occurs in media), but it’s there, and it continues to encourage this attitude.
Reblogging for this beautiful additional commentary. Thank you.
It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.
HOLY SHIT THEY EAT CAPSAICIN FOR FUN
YOU GUYS I HEARD A HUMAN ONCE ATE AN AIRPLANE.
A HUMAN CAN KEEP FIGHTING FOR HOURS EVEN AFTER YOU SHOOT IT
humans are a proud warrior race with a pantheon of bloody gods: Ram-Bo, Schwarzenegger, etc.
REMOVING A LIMB WILL NOT FATALLY INCAPACITATE HUMANS: ALWAYS DESTROY THE HEAD.
WARNING: HUMANS CAN DETECT YOU EVEN AT NIGHT BY TRACKING VIBRATIONS THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE
WARNING: HUMANS CAN REPRODUCE AT A RATE OF 1 PER SPACEYEAR. DESTROY INFESTATIONS IMMEDIATELY
THE HUMAN MOUTH HAS OVER THIRTY OUTCROPS OF BONE AND POWERFUL JAW MUSCLES.
HUMAN BITES CAN BE FATALLY INFECTIOUS EVEN TO OTHER HUMANS
WARNING: HUMANS CAN AND WILL USE IMPROVISED WEAPONS. SEE CLASSIFIED DATA LABELED J. CHAN.
HUMANS CAN PROJECT BIOWEAPONS FROM ALMOST EVERY ORIFICE ON THEIR BODY. DO NOT INHALE
OH GOD THE HUMANS FIGURED OUT DOOR HANDLES OH GOD OH GOD
More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life. Our endurance, shock resistance, and ability to recover from injury is absurdly high compared to almost any other animal. We often use the phrase “healthy as a horse” to connote heartiness – but compared to a human, a horse is as fragile as spun glass. There’s mounting evidence that our primitive ancestors would hunt large prey simply by following it at a walking pace, without sleep or rest, until it died of exhaustion; it’s called pursuit predation. Basically, we’re the Terminator.
(The only other animal that can sort of keep up with us? Dogs. That’s why we use them for hunting. And even then, it’s only “sort of”.)
Now extrapolate that to a galaxy in which most sapient life did not evolve from hyper-specialised pursuit predators:
- Our strength and speed is nothing to write home about, but we don’t need to overpower or outrun you. We just need to outlast you – and by any other species’ standards, we just plain don’t get tired.
- Where a simple broken leg will cause most species to go into shock and die, we can recover from virtually any injury that’s not immediately fatal. Even traumatic dismemberment isn’t necessarily a career-ending injury for a human.
- We heal from injuries with extreme rapidity, recovering in weeks from wounds that would take others months or years to heal. The results aren’t pretty – humans have hyperactive scar tissue, among our other survival-oriented traits – but they’re highly functional.
- Speaking of scarring, look at our medical science. We developed surgery centuries before developing even the most rudimentary anesthetics or life support. In extermis, humans have been known to perform surgery on themselves – and survive. Thanks to our extreme heartiness, we regard as routine medical procedures what most other species would regard as inventive forms of murder. We even perform radical surgery on ourselves for purely cosmetic reasons.
In essence, we’d be Space Orcs.
I do hope you realize I’m going to be picking up this stuff and running with it right?
Our jaws have too many TEETH in them, so we developed a way to WELD METAL TO OUR TEETH and FORCE THE BONES IN OUR JAW to restructure over the course of years to fit them back into shape, and then we continue to wear metal in out mouths to keep them in place.
We formed cohabitative relationships with tiny mammals and insects we keep at bay from bothering us by death, often using little analouge traps.
And by god, we will eat anything.
For years I didn’t understand the whole running other animals to death concept, since, of course, there are tons of animals that run faster than us, but I finally got it explained to me. It’s because we can still breathe properly while we run/jog. Most other animals can’t do that, so while humans can just trot along for miles and miles, deer (for one example) will overheat/suffocate until their bodies simply give out.
It’s not just our complex-thinking brains that put us at the top of the food chain. Our bodies are incredibly well-equipped for survival.
It’s contagious.: friendlytroll: astrakiseki: prokopetz: mikhailvladimirovich: bogleech:…
Mutha Fuckin’ SOPA Is Back! (Aug. 23, 2013)
The Obama administration announced that it will be bringing back a piece of SOPA legislation that would make streaming copyrighted material a felony.Can you believe this shit? When we finally get one off our backs, they try and bring up another bill AGAIN. We already said no to the first one, so why do they think that this is any better? For those of you who don’t know what SOPA is, it was a bill back in 2011 that the govn’t tried to pass that said that posting any copyrighted music or even COVERS of said music would be considered a felony. A. FELONY.
Sign the petition below, and let’s keep our internet the way we like it.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sopa-2013/LMzMVrQF
not only the action of posting covers would be a felony, but also making fanart and writing fanfiction. Please, guys. It only takes a moment to make an account and click a button. If you’ve ever made a cover, drawn fanart, or written fanfic, or enjoyed any of the above, PLEASE go sign this petition.signal boost this shitSo if you’re in a fandom, you’re basically screwed. I don’t know how Tumblr hasn’t imploded because of this.Some times I think that the stereotype of young people being apathetic is directly related to the fact that no one listens when we say ‘knock it off.’ Times like this, I think I’m pretty damn certain.Actually, I forgot to comment about this.
The reason why Tumblr hasn’t imploded about this is because, well kids, people really ARE as stupid and apathetic as you think they are.
It takes some REAL coaxing to get people to care about things other than penises and cats and other trifling, unnecessary things that can survive perfectly capable without their gawking and cooing.
People in the masses are dumbasses.
Because not one person will take the time to sit down and think and actually READ what’s awfully important.
Let me break it down, followers for I feel most of you are perfectly capable, free thinking folks that actually has some life in the gray mater in your calcium husk.
- 1.All that OTP, OT3, BFFships, shipping/armadas that you have accumulated over the years of really enjoying something and being a fan, it’s going to fucking disappear. All. Of. Your. Precious. Websites (some questionable, some popular, some obscure). That cater. To your kinks. About your favorite pairing. Will. FUCKING. D-I-S-A-P-P-E-A-R. Yes, fanfiction.net will go down. Adultfanfiction.net will go down (painfully). AO3 (archive of our own, for those who don’t know) will go down. ANY. AND. ALL. FANFICTION. WILL. D-I-S-A-P-P-E-A-R. And not only that, kids. The authors, probably totally innocent human beings (I use “innocent” very loosely), fans JUST LIKE YOU are now felons. That means, kids… FANFICTION AUTHORS. WILL BE GRADED. THE SAME WAY. A FELON WOULD. BECAUSE THEY SIMPLY ENJOYED SOMETHING SO MUCH THAT IT STIMULATED THEIR CREATIVE SPIRIT TO TAKE THE TIME AND BUILD UP THAT RESUME TO GAIN CARPAL TUNNEL BECAUSE THEY LOVE SOMETHING TO ACTUALLY EITHER TYPE IT OR PEN-TO-PAPER IT OR DO FUCKING BOTH.
- You know those… beautiful webcomics that sometimes caters to and blends in all of your favorite things? The one that immediately pops in my mind is Grim Tales From Down Below and PPG:D (all Snafu content). KISS THOSE GOOD-BYE. It’s going in the incinerator.
- Oh, also… I know most of you have favorite artists from around the art WWW world. I fucking love Blackstorm and I REALLY fucking love EarlGreyxx. Blackstorm makes by far the sexiest gotdamn IchiGrimm art I’ve ever seen in my life. EarlyGreyxx is a surgeon with Pokemon gijinkas (gijinkas = the humanization of animals/things). THEY TOO. WILL BE. LABELED. AS FELONS. FOR SIMPLY DOING SOMETHING THEY LOVE. WHICH IS CATER TO YOU (for they’re sharing this art for the world to see) AND CATER TO THEMSELVES (‘cause let’s face it, art is very selfish and self-fulfilling). IT. WILL. BE. I-L-L–E-G-A-L. Kiss all those art sites you believe to your heart of hearts to be better than deviantart INCLUDING deviantart that last kiss goodnight ‘cause they’re all gonna get fuckin’ buried. That includes e-shuushuu.net simply because it CARRIES the fanart.
- Take the time to watch this balloon, think how far this will balloon. You may think it won’t effect you. What about those MLP:FIM figurines you love so much made by somebody other than the folks who own MLP:FIM? IT’S GONE. Those gorge art pieces featuring you with somebody of fiction that you took the time and money to pay for? IT’S GONE (by the way, you’re probably gonna be considered a felon for simply promoting this art by buying it from the artist who is also now a felon). Those awesome cross-over pieces that circulate around Tumblr? Disney meets Pokemon? Digimon meets Attack On Titan? Pokemon meets EVERYTHING UNDER THE FUCKING BLACK SUN (and the glow cloud)? You will… never… see it… again… Plain and simple.
- DO NOT. EVEN. GET. ME. STARTED. ON. FUCKING. ROLEPLAYING WEBSITES.
Think of all those times when a simple fucking picture of your favorite thing brightened an otherwise shitty day.
Think of all those times fanfiction probably saved you from going to a deep and dark place that you felt you couldn’t escape, remember that little window of light making you smile through your tears.
Think of all those times role-playing simply in the same UNIVERSE as your favorite thing made you feel like you could fly if only for a moment.
But then again, since this won’t get nearly as much attention as a picture of a kitten or a vulture or a penis or vagina or whatever, I guess you don’t give a fuck.
And the government is gonna continuously prey on that fact: You don’t give a fuck.
Keep in mind kids, the ones who give less than a fuck than you is forever gonna be the gotdamn government.
Stay stupid, kids.
Love ya.
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