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The death toll has hit 100, and hit VIRGINIA btw.
Chimney Rock is flooded. The town, the entire town of Chimney Rock if GONE. Asheville is cut off from the world, all the bridges that lead into the city are flooded. My mother’s house + her mother are some of the only standing houses in their neighborhood. The rest have been crushed by fallen trees and power lines. They have no power, electricity and little contact with the people near them and are housing 10+ people each. Plus pets.
The only aid my mother, brother (who still lives with my mother) and grandmother—who already live in a rural area is from a local dairy farm and one guy who own a helicopter. Trees and power lines are blocking the only road in and out. They have to walk over 13 miles on foot to get basic supplies and support. All these people have no way to contact their family members who are stuck in their own homes. My family lives in lower income area, lots of trees and nature, and my brother is the youngest person there at 20, my mother is in her 40s and the second youngest.
I’ve seen no news coverage about this, and I know there’s more people and families both alive and dead who are trapped and suffering and are getting zero news coverage about it—even on a local level. I’m sure there’s more, and it’s worse, much worse than I can ever convey but I’m just trying to spread the word. I’m lucky to live with my dad in an area that already has, electricity, power, access to food etc., we have no way to get to my family (all the roads are blocked and the roads that are flooded).
And I (personally) think it stems from the idea that people have of the south. “Oh well why didn’t they just leave??” APPALACHIA IS ONE OF THE MOST POVERISHED REGIONS IN AMERICA THEOR ECONOMY IS COAL AND TOURISM. THESE ARE REGULAR EVERYDAY HARDWORKING PEOPLE.
“They still could have left!!” THERE ARE FUCKING MOUNTAINS!!! MY FAMILY LIVES IN THE UPSTATE AND THEY ARE ALMOST COMPLETELY CUT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD!! I HAVE SPENT TWO DAYS WORRYING FOR MY FAMILY WONDERING IF THEY WERE ALIVE!!!WONDERING IF MY PHYSICALLY DISABLED GRANDFATHER WHO LIVES EVEN FURTHER IN THE COUTRY THAN THEN IS ALIVE!!
PEOPLE ARE STUCK!! PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED WITH NO ACCESS TO A HOSPITAL!!! TENNESSEE WAS HIT, THEY AREN’T NEAR THE FUCKING COAST!!! WHY WOULD THEY EXPECT TO GET HIT??? ENTIRE TOWNS DONT EXSIST ANYMORE!!!
AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT OTHER THAN OTHER SOUTHERNERS!! BUT IF THIS HURRICANE HIT THE NORTH PEOPLE WOULD TALK ABOUT FOR WEEKS, BE DEVASTATED AND OFFER AND AID THEY CAN!! BUT BECAUSE ITS HITTING THE SOUTH NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT OTHER THAN US!!!
I learned a long time ago about the concept of mountain strong. And I really truly believe it not, our government has failed us and we only have each other to help each other out. For the days leading up to this, we heard about the impact and to be ready if we some wind and rain. I can’t get a reliable source of contact with my mother, brother, grandmother and maternal grandfather. The only reason I know their alive is because someone at the dairy farm had my dads email address and sent him an email.
Have you ever lived in fear of your family—a reasonable size for my family too—being dead? Have you ever stayed up for two night and eaten a can of beans for dinner over a camping stove only to throw it back up because your so afraid of your family being dead? Have you ever cried so hard you threw up and passed out because you were scared your last conversation with any of them ended in a fight?? And have you ever had to see the exact storm that they built up for weeks get no news coverage??? Can you imagine the fear??? The anger??
So yeah, I’m pissed as hell. And I don’t know if this will get any traction, or if anyone will read all this, but I need to spread the word any way I can.
Chimney Rock is flooded. The town, the entire town of Chimney Rock if GONE. Asheville is cut off from the world, all the bridges that lead into the city are flooded. My mother’s house + her mother are some of the only standing houses in their neighborhood. The rest have been crushed by fallen trees and power lines. They have no power, electricity and little contact with the people near them and are housing 10+ people each. Plus pets.
The only aid my mother, brother (who still lives with my mother) and grandmother—who already live in a rural area is from a local dairy farm and one guy who own a helicopter. Trees and power lines are blocking the only road in and out. They have to walk over 13 miles on foot to get basic supplies and support. All these people have no way to contact their family members who are stuck in their own homes. My family lives in lower income area, lots of trees and nature, and my brother is the youngest person there at 20, my mother is in her 40s and the second youngest.
I’ve seen no news coverage about this, and I know there’s more people and families both alive and dead who are trapped and suffering and are getting zero news coverage about it—even on a local level. I’m sure there’s more, and it’s worse, much worse than I can ever convey but I’m just trying to spread the word. I’m lucky to live with my dad in an area that already has, electricity, power, access to food etc., we have no way to get to my family (all the roads are blocked and the roads that are flooded).
And I (personally) think it stems from the idea that people have of the south. “Oh well why didn’t they just leave??” APPALACHIA IS ONE OF THE MOST POVERISHED REGIONS IN AMERICA THEOR ECONOMY IS COAL AND TOURISM. THESE ARE REGULAR EVERYDAY HARDWORKING PEOPLE.
“They still could have left!!” THERE ARE FUCKING MOUNTAINS!!! MY FAMILY LIVES IN THE UPSTATE AND THEY ARE ALMOST COMPLETELY CUT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD!! I HAVE SPENT TWO DAYS WORRYING FOR MY FAMILY WONDERING IF THEY WERE ALIVE!!!WONDERING IF MY PHYSICALLY DISABLED GRANDFATHER WHO LIVES EVEN FURTHER IN THE COUTRY THAN THEN IS ALIVE!!
PEOPLE ARE STUCK!! PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED WITH NO ACCESS TO A HOSPITAL!!! TENNESSEE WAS HIT, THEY AREN’T NEAR THE FUCKING COAST!!! WHY WOULD THEY EXPECT TO GET HIT??? ENTIRE TOWNS DONT EXSIST ANYMORE!!!
AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT OTHER THAN OTHER SOUTHERNERS!! BUT IF THIS HURRICANE HIT THE NORTH PEOPLE WOULD TALK ABOUT FOR WEEKS, BE DEVASTATED AND OFFER AND AID THEY CAN!! BUT BECAUSE ITS HITTING THE SOUTH NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT OTHER THAN US!!!
I learned a long time ago about the concept of mountain strong. And I really truly believe it not, our government has failed us and we only have each other to help each other out. For the days leading up to this, we heard about the impact and to be ready if we some wind and rain. I can’t get a reliable source of contact with my mother, brother, grandmother and maternal grandfather. The only reason I know their alive is because someone at the dairy farm had my dads email address and sent him an email.
Have you ever lived in fear of your family—a reasonable size for my family too—being dead? Have you ever stayed up for two night and eaten a can of beans for dinner over a camping stove only to throw it back up because your so afraid of your family being dead? Have you ever cried so hard you threw up and passed out because you were scared your last conversation with any of them ended in a fight?? And have you ever had to see the exact storm that they built up for weeks get no news coverage??? Can you imagine the fear??? The anger??
So yeah, I’m pissed as hell. And I don’t know if this will get any traction, or if anyone will read all this, but I need to spread the word any way I can.
i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.
Since all queer people are, in fact, in a romantic relationship with Moon I…how will this affect our relationship?? Will be become a Polycule??? Will we have to choose??????? Since (i don’t think) it will stay in orbit with the earth for more than two years max, will it just be a fling???? Just like one of those cannon events that are bound to happen like a cannon event?????? How will Moon II affect us???????????
Little Frodo:( Fili and Kili:((((( LITTLE SAME WATCHING ON FONDLY:(((((((((((((((
Happy Birthday!
I love how we as a fandom have decided hobbits have tails are are essentially just the middle earth version of a cryptid.
🍃 Frodo and Bilbo Baggins 🍂
I have been on bad mode lately so I rewatched my favorite series and obviously I did some doodles of my favorites hobbits.
This is genuine question I have, that i technically could google but i don’t feel like it, so I’ll ask the strangers in my phone instead.
Why is it that when I discover a celebrity that everyone else seems to know, I get so…angry? I’ll click on a comment and the people replying to it will be like “Notice me senpai!!!1!” Or whatever and I’m left to simmer in my own thoughts and confusion over who this person is. It’s like “Who are you???” Because all the people are like “I’ve been following you since 1845!! Love your stuff!!!” Or whatever and I feel so angry and almost embarrassed that I don’t know who that person is. I’m sure these a physiological explanation or maybe it’s my intense fear of being left out. Idk.
It’s the one instance I can’t blame something on my parents divorce and I struggle to make jokes about it..bc how do you make jokes about that kind of situation???
Me, at any given moment
This post kind of made me wonder why there’s such a big culture around drinking and the whole ‘first drink’ when you turn 21. And drinking at high school parties,,y’know? Idk I can’t word rn but I just makes me wonder
what was the first type of alcohol you ever tried/drank?
wine
beer
vodka
tequila
whiskey
cider
hard seltzers
gin
brandy
saké
oh my god anon how could you forget to include _____!
I've never had alcohol/I don't remember/I'm bald
My babies who lived happily ever after who I love and raised Frodo together!!!!
WHY CAN’T THEY JUST BE HAPPY
Merry my baby!! I am holding him so gently!! I love him
i cant formulate words rn but i want you to know that ever since you sent me that one reply about merry and his fear of being left behind you’ve enlightened me. opened my eyes to the beautiful truth of complex character design lying just below my nose. he’s like my favorite character now and i think about him and what you said all the time. how could you do this to me (positive). thank you. im sorry if this weird but i needed to you to know that its your fault (in a good way) that im a merry stan now
No don't be sorry at all!! Merry is one of my favorite characters too and I think there's so much more to be said about him (like how the position he is put in with Eowyn can retroactively represent a lot of marginalized men and how often they really don't get treated like Real men or provided the same "male privilege" that men normally would be—though I doubt this was Tolkien's intent, or at least not in the way I'm imagining it)
But I think Merry gets ignored by the fandom a lot because some people don't understand his character and just lump him in with Pippin (whether because they haven't read the books or some other reason). Nothing in the books would've happened if Merry hadn't bothered to look deeper into Frodo's business and was SO adamant about not leaving his side. Not letting him go to Rivendell alone. without HIM. Not Pippin, not Fatry, not even Sam (because, believe it or not, in the books he actually Wasn't very close to Frodo until they started to truly get to know eachother in Rivendell, away from the constraints of their class barrier in the Shire). MERRY didn't want to be left behind. I mean this aspect of character and his development comes to its crux when everyone marches to the Black Gate and he resigns to accept the role he has played and waits in the Houses of Healing with Eowyn and Faramir, but in the movies that literally just DOESN'T HAPPEN. He's just suddenly Better and goes with Pippin anyway (another way the movies reduced his character).
I didn't think that my LOTR character opinions impacted anyone so much but I'm very glad they have :) reading this genuinely made me so happy. thank you!!
“It’s been a long week,” I say in the middle of the day on Monday.
Well since this quest was very dangerous they likely would have planned to come in slowly, as to not draw attention to themselves. Since by this time they Dwarven race, specifically those of Erebor were mostly living in the wilds and wandering around for any money they could get to send back to family who lived in the Blue Mountains (which im pretty sure is where Thorin settled his surviving people). Like what I think happened Dwalin and Balin. Dwalin is much more wild looking, and heavily armed aswell as more scary looking. While Balin has clothes that aren’t too worn, and could even be relatively new, and he also is physically much older (and is the oldest in the movies) and not as heavily armed as his brother.
Or they could have traveled together (minus Thorin who went North first) but either separated or got lost and only reunited at Bag-end. (Except for Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Ori, Nori, and Dori who could have found each other and went to Bag-end together). But I do adore the idea of them playing the middle earth equivalent of rock paper scissors to figure who should go first, or just straight up fighting it out.
it always confused why everyone would arrive at bilbo’s house separately if they all traveled to the shire together but then i realized. that trick gandalf pulls on beorn. where he has everyone come in slowly instead of all at once. its the same thing hes doing to bilbo.
now the question remains: is this gandalf’s go-to plan when trying to make someone okay with having 13 dwarves in their house, or does he view bilbo and beorn as both uniquely unhinged individuals who need to be handled like a wild animal that could bite at any minute? i need to Know
And somewhere in the undying lands, Frodo is laughing his ass off
sam being elected mayor like 80 bajillion times in a row is so funny because you know after the second or third time hes completely over it and just wants to get back to gardening but he's such an eminently trustworthy kindhearted hobbit chad that he cant STOP getting elected. in a desperate attempt to derail his own campaign at the ripe old age of 85 he confesses to having had hot gay sex with frodo baggins back in the day but all the young gay hobbits are like "based" and he wins in a historic landslide
And pippin is like 15 for hobbits too, so another hobbit would also be like “where tf are your parents kid” too😭
the fact that pippin can pass as a human child is so funny to me. imagine you’re in a battle and you just see this fucking toddler running around with a knife. you’re a big scary troll and you’re like “im not gonna fight this tiny baby, where are his parents?” and then the baby kills you and fortnite dances on your body
"ohh thorin trusts Bilbo above his own family and kin because he just loves him sooo much because I think romantic love is superior to any other form of love" or maybe it was he was experiencing a severe episode of paranoid psychosis and he implicitly trusted Bilbo because he was the only person in the Company who didn't have any preexisting, longstanding loyalities to him (as a King or brother-in-arms or Family or otherwise) and followed him purely out his own desire to and he saw Bilbo stay by his side even after his contract had ended even though he knew how much he wanted to go home (and had every reason to at that point). maybe it was because he knew Bilbo would had nothing to gain by betraying him (re: no birthright to the crown, no desire for riches or property, etc). Maybe he believed he could confide into Bilbo because he felt like he wasn't responsible for his safety in the same way he felt responsible for his nephews or his kin (as their King), and he no longer need to mantain any sort of formalities or barriers with him (because Thorin is not. his. King).
sorry I just refuse to believe Thorin doesn't love his nephews as much as he loves Bilbo (someone who he'd only known for 6~ months at that point) and I think there's a lot of better ways to explain his behavior here
I'm done
“everyone interprets characters differently” unfortunately so true! thankfully I was blessed with an intense preternatural insight into their core beings (watched and paid attention) and I don’t have to worry
15 minutes used to be a long time you know. now its barely 15 minutes
girl you've been running through my mind all day
I need Thilbo fic recs that recognize the cultural differences between hobbits and dwarves. Because dwarves are loud and affectionate species. They slap each other on the back, they hug, the weird headbutt thing Dwalin and Balin do, they make jokes about their friends. They show their affections loudly. They aren’t afraid to show off their love for someone. Dwarves are a proud race and they show that quite often. But hobbits are a more quiet kind of love. Hand holding, forehead kisses, hand kisses, laying your head in their shoulder, falling asleep while they read to you, bouquets of flowers, picnics in a secluded area with all your favorite foods, baking together, reading together, admiring the stars kind of love. Hobbits are much more reserved than Dwarves. They take pride in their hosting skills and gardens. And I NEED to see Bilbo and Thorïn bumbling around trying to follow each others courting traditions and failing miserably RIGHT NOW.
Reblog if the ending of botfa never happened for you and they all lived happily ever after because they did yes they did they all lived and died of old age in fact no they never died they’re all immortal legends that definitely didn’t die because they didn’t not even joking