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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 BLFC (Reno, NV) & Chico Anime (NorCal) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 20h

Remember:

- they DO NOT CARE about your arguments/rebuttals

- they DO NOT CARE about your dunks

- the person running the accounts was specifically hired to drive engagement BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY; it’s the algorithm they’re catering to

This is a game, and to them you are data to be manipulated.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 2h

Wahhhh Frodo and Sam are off on their boat and that’s my Fellowship of the Ring reread finished. Boromir fucked up and I don’t wanna talk about it 🥲🥲🥲 onto The Two Towers next. I have a vague idea for the fic I want to write but no clue how I’m actually going to muster up the willpower to write it

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Your pirate feline @mrpancot.bsky.social · 23h

Hello again ,coming back from my breakdown
Here I decided to draw edizzy with some of my insecurities, also trying a new paint way
#ofmd #ourflagmeansdeath#edizzy #izzyhands #edteach

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 3h

because Boromir threatens to *hurt* Frodo, when he’s the one who prides himself so much on his strength being to protect people and to help the Company. And Bilbo of course is so upset about the title of burglar that it weighs on him even 60 years later—even though that’s literally what he is lol.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 3h

I love that every time someone tries to steal the Ring they lie about it. Bilbo’s convoluted tale and Boromir’s “I got angry.” the way the Ring picks people’s worst faults, the things they WOULD lie about or refuse to accept in themselves, to be the mechanism by which it convinces them to steal it.

Where have you been, Boromir?' asked
Aragorn. 'Have you seen Frodo?"
Boromir hesitated for a second. 'Yes, and no,' he answered slowly. 'Yes: I found him some way up the hill, and I spoke to him. I urged him to come to Minas Tirith and not to go east. I grew angry and he left me. He vanished. I have never seen such a thing happen before, though I have heard of it in tales. He must have put the Ring on. I could not find him again. I thought he would return to you.'
"Is that all that you have to say?' said Aragorn, looking hard and not too kindly at Boromir.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 3h

it’s salty boromir hours 😭😭😭 poor guy but he really is being a bit of a jerk about it

Boromir held out long against this choice; but when it became plain that Frodo would follow Aragorn, wherever he went, he gave in. 'It is not the way of the Men of Minas Tirith to desert their friends at need, he said, 'and you will need my strength, if ever you are to reach the Tindrock. To the tall isle I will go, but no further. There I shall turn to my home, alone if my help has not earned the reward of any companionship.'

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 4h

he straight up says “goodbye, fair Arwen!” here and *takes Frodo’s hand and leaves* and the story is like “and he never came back here again” and I’m NOT supposed to think Aragorn isn’t in literal romantic love with Frodo at this point???

At the hill's foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they once had been in this same place. For the grim years were removed from the face of Aragorn, and he seemed clothed in white, a young lord tall and fair; and he spoke words in the Elvish tongue to one whom Frodo could not see. Arwen vanimelda, namárie! he said, and then he drew a breath, and returning out of his thought he looked at Frodo and smiled.
'Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth, he said, 'and here my heart dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread, you and I. Come with me!' And taking Frodo's hand in his, he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as living man.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 4h

this is kitty cat behavior (yowling or leaping off perch when startled)

hide from Orcs. He sprang lightly up from the ground and caught a branch that grew from the trunk high above his head. But even as he swung there for a moment, a voice spoke suddenly from the tree-shadows above him.
'Daro! it said in commanding tone, and Legolas dropped back to earth in surprise and fear. He shrank against the bole of the tree.

'Ai! ai!' wailed Legolas. 'A Balrog! A Balrog is come!' Gimli stared with wide eyes. 'Durin's Bane!' he cried, and letting his axe fall he covered his face.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 4h

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 6h

This!
Red states are not ALL red.
Those of us making them purple are dealing with the same garbage policies and shit attitudes.
And no, we don't always have the ability to "just move".

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 4h

illustration showing an 18th century guillotine with a banner reading "no kings no tyrants"

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 4h

through the WHOLE story that he might not be making decisions with the full picture and he needed to listen to others. He speaks up because he questions things!!!!!!! THAT’S A GOOD TRAIT!!!!!!!!

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 4h

and the thing is Boromir is still like “lead on!” because he still trusts Aragorn!!! I just. I love him. He knows he can be wrong so he trusts the Fellowship 😭😭😭 and it makes me so sad that Boromir is the one remembered as breaking apart the Fellowship when he actually had the most self-awareness

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like Boromir being like “I don’t know who to trust right now and people have said scary things” is relatable and sad. Like sure Aragorn is right all the time, so it’s like… Fine. But in the real world I like the guy who’s like “hang on I have differing sources and I need to sort through this”

we must enter the Golden Wood, you say. But of that perilous land we have heard in Gondor, and it is said that few come out who once go in; and of that few none have escaped unscathed.'
'Say not unscathed, but if you say unchanged, then maybe you will speak the truth, said Aragorn. 'But lore wanes in Gondor, Boromir, if in the city of those who once were wise they now speak evil of Lothlórien. Believe what you will, there is no other way for us - unless you would go back to Moria-gate, or scale the pathless mountains, or swim the Great River all alone.'
"Then lead on!' said Boromir. 'But it is
perilous!'
'Perilous indeed, said Aragorn, 'fair and perilous; but only evil need fear it, or those who bring some evil with them. Follow me!'

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 5h

Ahahaha there’s pics of us up on bsky lol (in the background of a pic of other, cooler protesters)

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 8h

(Which is good because it’s not “staying at home doomscrolling and then yelling at anyone who suggests that perhaps working herself into a terrified panic re: the state of the world, is not helpful.”)

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 8h

My mom is going to the protest with me and my dad today!!!!

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