I Have Learnt That Throwing Up And Trying To Sleep Afterwards Can Be Greatly Improved By Listening To

i have learnt that throwing up and trying to sleep afterwards can be greatly improved by listening to music

everybody say 'thank you Geoff and Song of Durin'

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rb to stare at a mutual like this:

OH THIS POST IS ABOUT TLOTR AND ITS MOVIE ADAPTATION I THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT THE PERCY JACKSON MOVIES AND WAS CONFUSED

One difference between the Lord of the Rings books and the Peter Jackson films that I find really interesting is what the hobbits find when they return to the Shire.

In the books, they return from the War, only to see that the war has not left their home untouched. Not only has it not left their home unscathed, battle and conflict is still actively ravaging the Shire. They return, weary and battle-scarred, to find a home actively wounded and in need of rescue and healing. All four launch themselves into defending their home and rousting those harming it, and eventually succeed. But their idyllic home has been damaged, and even once healed, is never quite again the Shire they set out to save.

In contrast, in the Jackson films, they return to a Shire shockingly untouched by the horrors of war. The hobbits of the Shire talk, in the Green Dragon in Fellowship of the Ring, about not getting involved with issues "beyond our borders," and it seems those issues have not invaded their sanctuary. After having been bowed to by kings, dwarves, elves, and men alike at the coronation in Gondor, their only acknowledgment upon returning home is a skeptical head shake from an older hobbit.

One of the most poignant scenes to me in Return of the King (and there are a considerable amount) is the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are sitting in the Green Dragon. The pub patrons bustle around them, talking loudly, clapping excitedly, drinking cheerfully, just as they had in the beginning of the story. But the four hobbits sit silently, watching almost curiously at what was once familiar but is now foreign to them. Their home has not changed. But they have.

Which is the deeper hurt? To come to your home to find it irrevocably changed, despite all you did to keep it untouched and the same? Or to return home but no longer feeling at home, because it is only you that is irrevocably changed?

the fact that i knew exactly who this was about by the final 'con' is amazing

The experience of a new hyperfixation being a band

Cons:

No overarching story or characters to chew on, just real people with real lives

Listening to songs over and over and over till I get every drop of dopamine out of them I can and being paranoid on when it’s gonna run dry

The urge to lie in bed listening to music and do absolutely fuck all else

The fact of them being real people makes embarrassment over hyperfixation go up by 200%

Trying to satiate the want for more content requires social media (don’t have shit other than tumblr and not about to get instagram just to follow some theater kids)

Even finding the scraps of social media reposts I can on what platforms I DO have makes me feel slimy, like I’m becoming the worst type of fan

Just the barest acknowledgment that any member is attractive awakens some latent puritanical instinct who shouts “EW YOU’RE ATTRACTED TO A REAL HUMAN PERSON? CRINGE” at me and it’s really annoying.

Despite being a band of basically fully grown theater kids (theater men?), they are all either heterosexual, spoken for, or both, and all interactions are so completely platonic that there is no reason to ship any of them.

Pros:

There. There’s no reason to ship. Any of them.

Oh my god. I don’t feel the urge to ship any of them.

It’s all platonic. Completely. Platonic.

I don’t have to worry about shipping wars. Or if one ship is considered problematic or not. I just simply don’t care.

I’m free.

I’m fucking FREE!

I’M GONNA COME UP WITH AN AU SO UTTERLY DIVORCED FROM THE SOURCE MATERIAL IT’LL BE LIKE CALLING 50 SHADES OF GREY A SPIN-OFF OF DRACULA!

AND I’M GONNA MAKE EVERYTHING RATED MATURE AT WORSE WITH ZERO ROMANCE INVOLVED! ALL FRIENDSHIP ALL THE TIME!

AND NOBODY CAN FUCKING STOP ME!!!

Oh yeah their harmonies are really good too. I mean have you heard their cover of Nothing Else Matters? Who let them do that? Cruel and unusual use of talent

WHOSE ARSE DID YOU PULL THIS OUT OF MATE

WHAT THE HARMONIES WAHTHEWHEET WHAHRF

EZXXC FUCKING CUSE ME WHAT TE WAS JW WHWO TOLD HIM THIS WAS OKAY

AH TRUMPET???

OH MY GOD

THESE FUCKING

OH HIGH GEOFF YOU CAN BUGGER ALL THE WAY OFF

THESE FUCKING CHORDS

SLEEEEEEP WHAT

THAT IS SO CRUNCHY

GEOFF