musingmollusk:

This is your friendly reminder that in the original Lord of the Rings books the forces of Sauron were not the colonialist caricatures of indigenous societies that are portrayed in every single piece of media based on the books, but rather symbolized the effect of unchecked industrialization on war.

Tolkien came up with a lot of his ideas while he was fighting in World War I. Orcs aren’t barbarians with necklaces made from teeth and badly made spears. Orcs are barbed wire and the sound of a machine gun. Orcs are the idea of crouching in a muddy trench knowing that outside there are creations you can only begin to imagine that are coming freshly-made from an assembly line with the sole purpose of trying to kill you.

gaybabytenno:

swiftasacoursing:

listen I’m all for creative approaches to weapons in video games but there is nothing. NOTHING. funnier than the Lex. you could be scrolling down the secondary list like

“hm there’s a hand cannon, laser cutter, rocket launcher, gun, throwing st— wait a gun?”

lex is just..gun. no gimmicks. no special effects. no WARFRAME™️©️®️ aesthetic. just Gun

I know what to use this gun for

applecherry108:

A character can still be a great character without being a good person.

In fact, some of the best characters are terrible people.

Because a character’s worth should be based on how complex and interesting they are, not their morality if they were real.

thesylverlining:

uhHHHH I don’t mean to be dramatic or anything but I literally wrote 50k words in two weeks without fuckening trying, like won NaNoWriMo in 2 weeks, TWO WEEKS, after joining 4thewords.com and I’m like

w h a t

  • OK so it’s pretty much like Neopets + Gaia Online + RPG, But You Level Up Through Writing
  • You “battle” cute online critters with your word count
  • You can dress up your avatar and whatnot and there are different regions and crafting quests
  • and my weird brain apparently responds VERY WELL to nerd gamification
  • because Holy Shit I wrote 50,600 words in 2 fuckening weeks
  • and am now 4thewords’ new hype squad
  • (also if you join, use the referral code PEUOC65061 so if you get a full membership, which I totally am, we will both be rewarded)

basically, wow I have never been this productive in my LIFE and I can’t wait for their July mini nanowrimo event (they’re doing a pride month one right now so you can get a rainbow shirt and fight rainbow beasties it’s freakin adorable)

and if this sounds like something you would enjoy, go for it, try to catch me, just do it, come at me friends let’s write some good shit together

Source: thesylverlining