
u/Nervous-Matter-5142

Sea shanty if you go 'into the West'
Enya has nothing of those seafaring ;I
"I had enough old man"-Robin
How high does this news anchor scale?
When the delivery fee is too high, so you just handle the logistics yourself
How the 2030s began with
The world has changed
I feel it in the water.
I feel it in the earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.
It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Dwarf-Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern each race. But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made. Deep in the land of Mordor, in the Fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged a master ring, and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
One ring to rule them all.
One by one, the free lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring, but there were some who resisted. A last alliance of men and elves marched against the armies of Mordor, and on the very slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle-Earth. Victory was near, but the power of the ring could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father’s sword.
Sauron, enemy of the free peoples of Middle-Earth, was defeated. The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever, but the hearts of men are easily corrupted. And the ring of power has a will of its own. It betrayed Isildur, to his death.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared another bearer.
It came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Misty Mountains. And there it consumed him. The ring gave to Gollum unnatural long life. For five hundred years it poisoned his mind, and in the gloom of Gollum’s cave, it waited. Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived its time had come. It abandoned Gollum, but then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, of the Shire.
For the time will soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.
Thanks Youtube community, very cool
Does Japanese YouTube have as much of an anime and manga analysis video essay like English language YouTube ?.
It's been a mainstay of my 'YouTube diet' since my earliest years using the site but I'm impulsed to ask if it's that much of a thing within the Japanese online video scene to be making potentially lengthy analysis videos on the 'domestic' animation and manga scene. If it is then I'm fairly surprised by how said YouTubers haven't become bigger cross-pollinating international names when it comes to such topics like how the 'Trash taste' channel hosts are somewhat broadly recognised when it comes to English language anime YouTubers -- personally though I mainly really only dip into watching Geoff Thew/"Mother's basement" on occasion; I liked what one they made about the past ~+30 years of 'Americanized' attempts at anime and the changing perceptions regarding it.
Not as related but does anyone else think that broadly speaking if more ppl knew about "Kishotenketsu" it would help make narrative J-pop media seem like ~+30% less 'weird' to ppl ? (even if much narrative J-pop media might well already deviate from kishotenktsu since it can be potentially more commercial in it's priorities then say a novel).
Acceptability of male toxicity in pre-cable TV past v. ~2014 past
A 2010's take from the past CH actress in contrast to someone akin to a Boomer or older .. =_= when you think about aspiring ‘tradwive’ trends though, the risk of regression and/or stagnation into something akin to the past take sinks in and stinks more.
Sometimes, I just remember Scott Free from Kingdom Come
That chin strap is the real miracle.
;] d Congratulations to all of us who've lived to see the 30th anniversary
Original source image from tvtropes.
Was the 'Popularity Polynomial' even highlighting 'the 30 yr nostalgia cycle' or not ;] ?, maybe since it was always just about sticking with the fandom instead.
`u` I'm so glad for how that image encapsulates the fandom
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"I look up to the sky
And now the world is mine
I've known it all my life
I made it, I made it
I used to dream about, the life I'm livin' now
I know that there's no doubt
I made it, I made it
Ooh, I made it
I made it, yeah
I made it, I-I-I made it "
-- Kevin Rudolf and Jay Sean in I made it (Cash money heroes)
*"Forever seek it
The crown calling me
The voice of a generation
This is my coronation"
-- Jason Paige in Millenial Monsters
The most shocking thing about Lanterns so far is that Hal might be a liberal
Perhaps I've judged you too harshly Mr. Jordan, I wasn't aware that you were based
No disrespect to Donovan Patton but this kind of Blues Clues host might've stuck longer with Gen Y toddlers
x) I doubt that the current host ('an offspring of '89) Josh Dela Cruz who likely grew up familiar w/emos would've thought of such an approach during his ~'18 audition, ~18 years ago.
Even in inundated labyrinth like liminal areas, Shakyamuni sees
I'm sure someone 'better versed' in the understanding worship space design, depictions of samsara and entities from the cosmology ( was that an asura come the video's end ?) might better remark than me when it comes to this video.
^_^ I find the 'pool room' idea cool.
Child labour laws where??? Macaulay Culkin was covered in thousands of real bees during the filming of My Girl
Here’s some quotes from a 2025 USA Today article in which Macaulay discusses this craziness:
Culkin revealed that filmmakers used real bees in the scene where the youngster searches for Vada's beloved mood ring and is >!fatally!< swarmed.
"The way they did that, they wouldn't do that today.” Culkin says production "actually released, like, thousands of bees on me."
"They put this stuff on my fingertips that smells like the queen bee" to keep him safe, he said. "So they were actually attracted to my hands. So I wasn't a threat."
"They just told me to wave my hands in front of my face so the bees could get in front of my face so it looks good for the camera and all that stuff," he added. "They told me not to touch anything. Because at one point, I touched my pants and boom, they were just attracted to my pants."
After each of the four takes concluded, Culkin would dunk his hands in hot, soapy water, "and then dart into the woods," he said. "The bee handler gave me a piece of advice, and he says, 'Human beings run faster than bees fly.' And I was like, 'But I'm 10. How fast do you think I am?'"
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>!Damn, it’s like they wanted that devastating character ending to come true!< 😭😭😭 Poor kid!!!
What did everyone think of BB The End?
Hay un chiste aqui de 'Dia de los muertos' ya que Ryan Gosling sera 'Ghost Rider'
reddit.comGVC Design and stained glass art parallels ?
Wherein I now wonder how much GVC design has semblance to stained glass
This was a book which I think was about the year in review and/or achievements and such of a certain local hospital system over a 1/4 c. ago.
It made considered w/out going through a ~+21 Jonathan Carson video on the aesthetic again as to how the sometimes muted palette colours and the 'angularity' of some stained glass art have vaguely 'guiding notions' paralleling GVC even though I'm aware of the less then Eurocentric milieu influences of the style of GVC.
You, a 40 year old, wake up tomorrow and you're 16.
You have all the memories of the last 24 years, but you're back to where you were at the age of sixteen. So you still have the mind of a forty year old, but you're in the body of a sixteen year old.
Is it moral for you to date people who are sixteen in this situation?
Is it moral for a forty year old person to date you in this situation?