if you haven’t kept track of what’s happened with twitter, elon fucked the servers so you can only read 600 posts. scrolled and posted for 5 minutes and im locked out. this rules lol
the kingdom of saudi arabia sovreign wealth fund invested billions of dollars in helping elon buy twitter because the crown prince of saudi arabia is a moron. if elon ever visits the middle east they’re gonna grind him into hamburger
and y'know what, for the hell of it and because none of y'all can use Google, let’s drop the full quote right here:
“Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?”
ah yes clearly the words of some hack who just Doesn’t Get It the way I do. get a load of Faux Intellectual GRRM daring to suggest that people in power face difficult choices and are vulnerable to basic individual flaws that may have consequences for the people they’re ruling. curse him and his grimdark nihilism where characters are unreliable and have conflicts and live in harmful systems which surely are just there to be Grimdark and not to encourage me to analyze or engage with the text in any way. him and those Game of Thrones books (that I never read all the way through if at all but I saw some of the show, which must make me an expert just like watching the LotR movies did) singlehandedly ruined my Good Pure Fantasy where the good guys are pretty elves and the bad guys are all irredeemable and darker skinned but don’t think about that part too deeply it was a different time :( man don’t you miss the good old days when fantasy was Pure and Happy