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I’m always kntting, and this autumn, I’ve been knitting for charity, and sewing knit squares together to make blankets. Here’s me and my partner of seventeen years with blankets two and three at the donation point. I’m on the left, holding the one I dubbed ‘the ugly blanket’, which I knit all the squares for myself from scraps and oddments of yarn I’ve bought or inherited from failed knitters over the years. We’ve got two more with just ends to be woven in before they’re ready to go, bringing our personal household total to five blankets, plus all the plarn my partner’s been making that other people are crocheting into water resistant sleeping mats. Not bad for about a month’s work.

EDIT: I should clarify, the five blankets were not all knit by me, just assembled, with the exception of the Ugly Blanket. That one’s all me.

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

iamshadow21:

dachosmin:

smokesprite:

viggo mortensen’s appeal as aragorn is 70% the voice, 25% the scene where the wild horse saves him from drowning, 12% hair, 8% ‘the beacons are lit!’, 3% swinging around the broken blade, 1.03% spitting soup back into the bowl on a windy day, .3% the way he speaks elvish (which mostly fits into the voice, but its elvish so its special), and .0004% when he kicks the orc head and screams

This is blatant “smoking a pipe with his hood on in Bree” and “shoving the double doors of helm’s deep open” erasure and I will not stand for it.

I think kicking the orc head deserves more than a fraction of a percent when you factor in that:
a) He wasn’t meant to kick the head but did it in the moment because he’s that *~extra~* and wears his feelings on the outside
b) In doing so he actually broke his foot
c) Rather than swearing his head off and calling for a medic, he fucking leaned into it and transformed his actual agony into performance, and that’s the take that’s in the movie

Yeah I’m p sure the only person more dedicated to the perfect embodiment of the world than Viggo was Christopher “That’s not actually what it sounds like when you stab a man in the back” Lee, and that’s a pretty impossible bar to top.

Honourable mention to Sir Ian ‘puttin’ the gay in’ McKellan, who made sure every passionate declaration of loyalty and handholding between Sam and Frodo actually got shown on screen. We thank him for his service.

dachosmin:

smokesprite:

viggo mortensen’s appeal as aragorn is 70% the voice, 25% the scene where the wild horse saves him from drowning, 12% hair, 8% ‘the beacons are lit!’, 3% swinging around the broken blade, 1.03% spitting soup back into the bowl on a windy day, .3% the way he speaks elvish (which mostly fits into the voice, but its elvish so its special), and .0004% when he kicks the orc head and screams

This is blatant “smoking a pipe with his hood on in Bree” and “shoving the double doors of helm’s deep open” erasure and I will not stand for it.

I think kicking the orc head deserves more than a fraction of a percent when you factor in that:
a) He wasn’t meant to kick the head but did it in the moment because he’s that *~extra~* and wears his feelings on the outside
b) In doing so he actually broke his foot
c) Rather than swearing his head off and calling for a medic, he fucking leaned into it and transformed his actual agony into performance, and that’s the take that’s in the movie

Surround yourself with other beautiful brown and black and indigenous and morena and Chicana, native, Indian, mixed race, Asian, gringa, boriqua babes.
Let them uplift you.
Rage against the motherfucking machine.
Question everything anyone ever says to you or forces down your throat or makes you write a hundred times on the blackboard.
Question every man that opens his mouth and spews out a law over your body and spirit.
Question every single thing until you find the answer in a daydream.
Don’t question yourself unless you hurt someone else.
When you hurt someone else, sit down, and think, and think, and think, and then make it right.
Apologize when you fuck up.
Live forever.
Consult the ancestors while counting stars in the galaxy.
Hold wisdom under tongue until it’s absorbed into the bloodstream.
Do not be afraid.
Do not doubt yourself.
Do not hide
Be proud of your inhaler, your cane, your back brace, your acne.
Be proud of the things that the world uses to make you feel different.

Juliet’s letter to herself in Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (via biandlesbianliterature)