Torturamedieval - Lulia

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

I've posted two of the exact same image see if you can spot any differences

Some cherik fan art for the masses

Sobbing this is so cute

the double take😭 I know what you are Erik

Zack Fair is one of the video game guys ever made. He's a sweetheart. He believes government propaganda. He commits multiple war crimes and says "Oh yeah!" afterwards. He joins newsletter fanclubs for people he knows in real life. His coworkers call him puppy dog to his face. He's the beating heart trapped under the floorboards of the narrative. One time he pretended to let a nine year old beat him up. He's a country hick and proud of it. He loved one unimportant loner man so hard that the entire story of final fantasy vii exists. He's a government experiment. He's in a book club.

Interpreting Marius from an historical angle with consideration of the values of ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy is valid.

Interpreting Marius from the angle of the author’s intentions and statements about him is valid.

Interpreting Marius from the angle of gothic romance/gothic horror is valid.

Interpreting Marius from the angle of 21st century values and modern social politics is valid (and can be very interesting!).

Preferring one or several of these interpretations to others is valid.

Behaving like having/preferring a certain interpretation of a literary character is morally superior or morally reprehensible is, actually, a bit of a dick move.

And also, sorry to say this, but… the interpretation of a person who has read all available canon material about a character, will always be more valid than that of people who have not. If you want to discuss the books, you have to actually read them. And yes, of course this takes time, but it’s not hard to contextualize interpretations and statements with a sentence like “I have only read books x and y at this point" or even to say "I don't feel like I know enough to give a balanced interpretation on this yet."

Sorry let me just—