“Neither Blake nor Milton saw battle itself. That Tolkien did may explain the central or climactic role of battles in his stories. The tank-like ‘dragons’ in the assault on Gondolin strongly imply that this is the case. So does the strategic importance of timing in many of Tolkien’s fictional clashes. The failure of units to coordinate their attacks, a disastrous feature of the Battle of Unnumbered Tears as developed in the ‘Silmarillion’, parallels a fatal problem in the Somme offensive. The last-minute intervention of a fresh force to save the day, a staple of military engagements in Middle-earth, may seem less realistic and more ‘escapist’, but this was the part his own battalion played in the taking of Ovillers and the rescue of the Warwickshires, when he was present as a signaller.”
— John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
personally I like to think steve’s birthday isn’t actually July 4th but someone asked him when his birthday was when he was doing his little show tour thingy and he just said it as an accident and/or a panic response in a bid to seem even more patriotic and everyone believed him and now it’s like 100 years later and he’s too deep in the lie to back out now bc he knows all the avenger’s would fucking publicly roast him if he admitted july 4th wasn’t actually his birthday- like he would literally never live that down- so he lives his life in fear that some bitch ass historian is gonna find his birth certificate and expose him
avengers: happy birthday, steve!
bucky, eyes narrowing: what the fuck your birthday isn’t until-
steve, holding back tears: shut up
Bucky tries to hand him a birthday card one cold December day, and Steve tackles him out a window before anyone else can see what he’s holding
Disaster girl tries to cope in the real world, fails, finds a hot dude instead.
Fucks ones self
A disaster bi and his cat have a mental breakdown and fall in love with a hot dominatrix along the way.
Tired pan dies a few times, finds herself literally both a smoking bf and a glowing gf
Trauma gay gets invited on a date and quotes vines the whole time
Four teenagers fight spirits and make shitty life choices
(Summaries of three of my on/off projects)
– Queer woman with psychic powers defeats her abusive ex-girlfriend through the Power of Love and Friendship
– Romeo and Juliet but with LGBTQ+ vampires and werewolves, and the Main Conflict is started one Chaotic Neutral cat witch who hates nice things
– Hell is a bureaucracy, human girl with parasitic demon snakey arm tries to find her sister’s soul; at the same time resident demon fuckboy and his squad mess with the embodiment of chaos and start a cataclysmic event
Kids rebel against thier parents and a grown man
Two 10 year old twin kids with their lives learning many things as doctor/nurse team in waiting
16 year old plant girl has family issues.
Scooby-Doo on steroids, except things are actually dangerous (feat. Donald Duck and friends)
Imagine if all of your (my) favorite fairytales took place in New York during a steampunk version of the second industrial revolution, featuring a fake psychic Cinderella, Robin Hood with child laborers, orphans, and immigrants, and the Nutcracker mixed with the Steadfast Tin Soldier, with a clockwork cyborg boy and a blind girl with a white Alsatian dog that acts as the girl’s sidekick and protector.
Clairvoyant realizes the veil between worlds has started trying to eat worlds, attempts to solve by hitting things with a sword a vampire gave her.
Depressed homeless man with attachment issues gets adopted by a two-year-old made of patchwork corpse parts.
Poison expert takes control of young man’s body, regrets it because it gives him too many Feels.
smartmouthed runaway and his psychic wolf companion fail Miserably at being subtle.
Peter Parker: -on meeting Loki, offers his hand- Hi, I’m Peter!
Loki: -shakes his hand- Loki of Asgard.
Peter: Aren’t you like…a bad guy?
Loki: It varies from moment to moment.
Peter: So like…on a scale of one to ten, ten being the worst evil imaginable, like…killing puppies, and one being I’ll spit on your hotdog…where are you right now?
Loki: …maybe a three?
Peter: Cool. Lemme know if it gets above a six.
Loki: -thinking- I like him.
It had been a joke, a flippant line, but somehow, Loki found himself taking the youth up on it.
It was hard living around these heroic Avengers, hard trying to stay close to Thor. And when he felt his need for mischief rise too high, when he felt exasperation with these Midgardians turn too close to spite, he would casually say “Six.” to the young man, or sometimes “Seven.”
And Peter would spend the rest of his day with Loki. He would badger him with questions about magic, or drag him across his beloved city to see its entertainments, or take him along stopping petty crimes. He grounded Loki to the here and now, and distracted him from the churning, jagged shards of ice in his mind.
WE NEED LOKI AND PETER FICS
Yeah, the people who write the comics agree with you
imagine if someone really pissed Loki off and he turns to Peter and just “IT’s A TEN, CHILD”
unviersity application: what are your three best qualities? me: im gay i have soft hair and sometimes i cry because i love my friends
“I’m gay” = I am confident in myself and my sexuality; “I have soft hair” = I take care of myself and my body well, and put effort into my appearance; and “Sometimes I cry because I love my friends” = I have a kind and compassionate heart
there you go thats three amazing and wonderful things about you isnt that grand!!!!! good luck with those applications and live your dream!!!!!!!!
this is the best response i’ve gotten on this post so far im gonna cry i love you
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