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musou wrote

this is timely, i just marathoned the whole trilogy last weekend

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hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )

there's someone in my ffxiv guild discord that did that too last weekend... was there some sort of occasion or something related to lotr?

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musou wrote (edited )

no occasion i know of, just got the urge to do it. my partner and i both grew up heavy in the evangelical brainwashing machine so it was fun to revisit a piece of media as projected-onto by the right wing theocrats as that one, with fresh eyes. hadn't seen them since they first came out on video. without a bunch of authoritarian adults telling you how to interpret it, it's fun to focus on sam and frodo's gay longings, instead of on the weird patriarchal aragorn/arwen thing they shoehorned into the movies that wasn't really accounted for in the books. it was edifying to see the messages JRRT put in there about trying to hold on to hope in the midst of hopeless times (when you just lived through WW1 and watched all your childhood friends walk into machine gun fire), instead of just the glorification of a bunch of white noble-blooded dudes (and eowyn) in gleaming armor slaying ravenous hordes of mindless brown skinned orcs.

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hollyhoppet OP wrote

lol i forgot about the aragorn/arwen stuff like who even cares about them

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Moonside wrote

People care more about the lack of Tom Bombadil than those lmao.

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mm_ wrote

oh man how far we've come

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twovests wrote

in two more weeks since the upload of this video,

Homestuck would start

and

I'll upload it again in 720p when Youtube-HD is available in the Netherlands.

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hollyhoppet OP wrote

me: man i wish i could fav posts here like on mastodon

also me: oh yeah there's upvotes lmbo

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