theonewhoremembers asked:
biggest-gaudiest-patronuses answered:
i feel like this is a fairytale i’ve READ
theonewhoremembers asked:
biggest-gaudiest-patronuses answered:
this ia an extremely compelling argument
consider this:
wolves are overrated and overused
badgers are cool, ecclectic and relatable
consider this:
I could not agree more
but I was trying to be punbelievably cool
It’s funny how many times someone will call a post or whatever “strong Terry Pratchett energy” when I was personally thinking “is this the spirit of Douglas Adams?” And it’s like a test if which weird brit with the Particular Writing Style you were introduced to first.
If the wry observations about human nature and social commentary have a tone of grim fatalistic resignation, it’s Douglas Adams. If it’s more of a call to action or working under the assumption that things can be improved, it’s Terry Pratchett.
concept: which member of the fellowship are you personality quiz, except there’s only one question and its “what do you think about pippin”. answers range from “bastard man, naughty boy” to “my son whom shall be cherished”
Gandalf: “bastard man, naughty boy”
Legolas: “the one who’s not as pretty as frodo”
Aragorn: “the result of my parents wishing for me to have a kid just as troublesome as I was”
Gimli: “cute kid. wait, which one is he again?”
Frodo: “every family has one. mine has 48.”
Samwise: *fond but exasperated grumbling noises*
Merry: “protecc. Protecc. PROTECC.”
Boromir: “my son whom shall be cherished.”
Pippin: “quite smart, deserves the last slice of pie”
Please send me more of these memes, I need to see literally every single one of them
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this meme is officially called Fantasy Painting Object Labeling, thanks for that @eddrian32!
I love these so much
“A British bookshop chain held a vote to find the country’s favourite book. It was The Lord of the Rings. Another one not long afterwards, held this time to find the favourite author, came up with J.R.R. Tolkien. The critics carped, which was expected but nevertheless strange. After all, the bookshops were merely using the word favourite. That’s a very personal word. No one ever said it was a synonym for best. But a critic’s chorus hailed the results as a terrible indictment of the taste of the British public, who’d been given the precious gift of democracy and were wasting it on quite unsuitable choices. There were hints of a conspiracy amongst the furry-footed fans. But there was another message, too. It ran: ‘Look, we’ve been trying to tell you for years which books are good! And you just don’t listen! You’re not listening now! You’re just going out there and buying this damn book! And the worst part is that we can’t stop you! We can tell you it’s rubbish, it’s not relevant, it’s the worst kind of escapism, it was written by an author who never came to our parties and didn’t care what we thought, but unfortunately the law allows you to go on not listening! You are stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And once again, no one listened. Instead, a couple of years later, a national newspaper’s Millennium Masterworks poll produced five works of what could loosely be called ‘narrative fiction’ among the top fifty ‘masterworks’ of the last thousand years, and, yes, there was The Lord of the Rings again.”
— Terry Pratchett, “Cult Classic” (A Slip of the Keyboard)
(Still burning mad that at least one critic did the same exact kind of carping about Pratchett’s body of work being praised by its fans, shortly after his death.)
I stumbled on an article last night where some douche was ranting about how mad he was that, in the wake of Terry’s death, people were mourning and calling him a great writer when they should have been reading something sublime like Bukowski.
In the first paragraph he said he’d never read anything by Pratchett and never intended to, which is pretty typical of that kind of angry elitism.
As someone who has been deeply impacted by Terry’s ideas about character and storytelling, that article made me so mad. Livid. Terry Pratchett levels of righteous fury.
Can I tell you how happy and unsurprised I am that Terry himself wrote such a lovely takedown of that snobbish, splainy mentality.
A thing being popular doesn’t automatically make it bad, and fantastic elements don’t make a work of literature into not-literature.
doesnt-need-to-be-here asked:
biggest-gaudiest-patronuses answered:
i’m from ohio
Lesson 1: don’t talk to the children during nap time.
Filmer: “Go to sleep.”
Kitten: “No”
Filmer: “Go to sleep!”
Kitten: “No!”
Filmer: “GO TO SLEEP.”
Kitten: “NO!”
That defeated “no…hello” at the end really makes this the eighth wonder of the world
plasmidpopper
dark-lord-of-awesomeness
the knowing eye contact women make when men are talking is the purest human connection possible
What the fuck does that even mean?
30 thousand women seem to get it
