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Can you tell me why Frodo is so important in lotr? Why can't someone else, anyone else, carry the ring to mordor?

but someone else could.

that’s the whole point of frodo—there is nothing special about him, he’s a hobbit, he’s short and likes stories, smokes pipeweed and makes mischief, he’s a young man like other young men, except for the singularly important fact that he is the one who volunteers. there is this terrible thing that must be done, the magnitude of which no one fully understands and can never understand before it is done, but frodo says me and frodo says I will.

(when boromir is thinking of how he can use the ring to defend gondor, when aragorn is thinking of how it brought down proud isildur, when elrond is holding council and gandalf is thinking of how twisted he would become, if he ever dared—)

but then there’s frodo, who desires nothing except what he has already left behind him, and says, I will take the Ring.

it is an offer made out of absolute innocence, utter sincerity. It is made without knowing what it will make of him—and frodo loses everything to the ring, he loses peace and himself and the shire, he loses the ability to be in the world. It’s cruel, the ring is cruel, it searches out every weakness you have and feeds on it, drinks you dry and fills you with its poison instead, the ring is so cruel.

and frodo picks it up willingly. for no other reason except that it has to be done.

(the ring warps boromir into a hopeless grasping dead thing, the power of the palantir turns denethor into an old man, jealous and suspicious, it bends even saruman, once the proudest of the istari, into a mechanised warlord, sitting in his fortress and bent over his perverse creations—all the best of intentions, laid waste)

but there’s a reason gollum exists in the narrative, which is to show—well, to show what frodo might have been. because even as frodo grows mistrustful and wearied, as the burden of this ring grows heavier and heavier, he is never gollum. he is gentle to gollum. he is afraid—god frodo is so afraid for 2/3 of these books he is so tired and afraid, but he keeps moving, he walks though it would pull him into the ground, because he asked for this, he said he would.

someone else could have carried the ring to mordor, I suppose. the idea of a martyr is not dependent on the particular flesh and blood person dying for some greater purpose. but such a thing has to be chosen, lifted onto your shoulders for the right reason, the truest reasons, and followed into the dark, though it would see you burnt through and bled out.

I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.

Baby turtles for a week sounds adorable! Do you have plans to doodle it?

Funny you should ask that b/c...

I drew this this afternooon lol : ) Poor Raphie is beside himself. They're just too small for him to handle lol.

Thank you!

Rewatching the Dark Tournament saga, and feeling so much appreciation for Genkai and her arc. I just got to the part where she gives Yusuke her orb. In the discussion they have before it, she tells him she never thought of herself or her power as heroic and never needed that excuse to grow or become more powerful. It just was and it was hers and that was enough.

And add to that her whole juxtaposition with Toguro. She doesn't regret aging, she has embraced it - she has embraced her life's natural progression. And how hard it must have been for her to see the man she loved go down such a different path. Plus she deserves way more credit for not stomping everyone into the dirt for how they kept calling her ugly / whore / hag etc but I digress

Maybe it's just from getting older, but my appreciation and love for her just grows each time!

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angler merfolk and their little isopod friend 👁️ 👁️ im tempted to try and make this bookmark double sided w/ both these versions…

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it should be illegal for reddit anime dudes to have Killua profile pictures because it contributes to the misconception that Killua is your average reddit dude anime boy like no no you dont understand. He's a gay twelve year old with infinite money and dresses exactly how you would expect a gay twelve year old with infinite money to dress. He has one of the best character arcs of all time in which at one point he does impromptu brain surgery on himself as an allegory for overcoming trauma. He has a trans little sister and aggressively corrects anyone who misgenders her. He fights with yo yos and a skateboard. He almost got killed by playing darts with an ant once. He spent a million dollars on robot shaped chocolate. He looks like tjis

I find it funny when anyone has a conversation about who should be the next Batman, whether that be comic dudebros or DC themselves because they always focus on the Robin boys or relatively unknowns like Tim Fox. And they'll spent hours talking about it and weighing the merits of each character when the real answer is right in front of them the whole fucking time but they just don't want to acknowledge that clearly Cassandra Cain is the only correct answer here.

I'll accept Terry McGinnis too since he's canonly been Batman in the future but like guys cmon it's Cass. It's so obviously Cass. She's the only one that really wants it and could handle it well. I know Damian wants it too, but I also think he's still young and finding himself and that desire will likely change as he gets older. Even if it doesn't, I've talked about why I think Damian should inherit Nightwing or create his own mantle before so I'm not gonna go through it all again but tl;dr is that one of Damian's major struggles is discovering who he wants to be. He's been saddled with expectations that other people have placed on him his whole life. A good conclusion to his story would be him not inheriting either the al Ghul or Wayne legacies and instead liberating himself and being the person he decides he wants to be.

But anyways this got rambley lol. I just think that Cass should get treated like an actual potential successor for the Batman mantle instead of passed over all the time because she's a girl.

thinking about this moment a bit too much

I find it very interesting that ISABELLA thought RAY wouldn’t retaliate

yeah we know the full extent of Ray’s perspective and scheming from the beginning, more so than Isabella, but when she confronts him she knows he is a liar (and apparently a bad one)

Ray thought he was “doing a good job” at lying not actually giving Isabella information

so Isabella thought Ray was a liar just like her

He’s been watching his siblings die and not putting up a fight before so she thought he was complacent

once he lost Norman (his Leslie) she thought he would give up like he did because Ray is her son(whether she likes it or not)

Isabella thought she was giving them the happiest lift possible after knowing the truth by making them give up

but i think what Isabella never really expanded on was Ray being more like her rather than different (aka going out with a band rather than accepting the world they live in)

because ray sacrificed kids to survive just like she did

And maybe deep down she was hoping they were different

that because she had a son and not a daughter she wouldn’t make her child into a murderer that repeats the cycle

idk where this is going lol their relationship makes me too ill to think straight and put this into words XD

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Ok listen we NEED to talk about your girlfriend. I know you’re doomed by the narrative and all, but she keeps defying the will of fate with her vain and ever more desperate attempts to save you. It’s SERIOUSLY going to rend the fabric of space-time if she keeps this up. I’m not even joking. We’re all going to end up in a closed loop of decaying reality if—it’s not cute, stop laughing!!