also before it starts to happen: if i see a single person calling july “gay wrath month” or saying “we deserve a second one” it is ON SIGHT. that is DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH. abled queers i will run you over with my wheelchair if you so much as reblog one of those comments.
hello! reblog this version instead!
Hello! Disabled person here. Did you know those of us declared legally disabled and collect SSI and benefits are barred from getting married? Yep! I’m also queer so this isn’t hate at all, it’s a call to action: if you love marriage equality, come help us fight for ours.
Chris Pine refuses to answer the question “Would you swipe left or right for Anna Kendrick on Tinder?” and instead gives this response
the clip in the link took me from having kind of a standard, pretty-celebrity crush on Chris Pine to being like “holy shit, I think I would genuinely and in a non-horny fashion like this guy if I knew him in person.“ I mean, he takes a super fucking inappropriate question, gives it the complete lack of acknowledgement it deserves, and says something so intelligent and thoughtful instead of whatever weird answer he was expected to give that nobody even remembers what the original terrible question was by the time he’s done talking.
If Chris Pine ever stops being a class act, please nobody tell me, my heart can’t handle it.
anyone else know in their heart that they would absolutely adore smoking cigarettes so they have to avoid them like the plague or just me
unfortunately smoking cigarettes does, in fact, looks sick as fuck. i’m not willing to risk lung cancer to look cool but the fact must be stated that smoking a cigarette looks dope as hell
J.R.R. Tolkien would have loved magical girl anime due to one of the genre’s core premises of individuals overcoming both internal and external darkness through the powers of hope and companionship in the face of great evil. In this essay I will
The people have spoken.
So… anyone else thinking about the Fellowship of the Ring cosplaying as Sailor Senshi?
Better: a mahou shoujo series BASED on Lord of the Rings, where the transformation mcguffin would be a ring.
The main character has to actively avoid using the transformation mcguffin if we’re keeping true to the source material.
That would come later - at first she would use it quite often, but then notice in terror that it not only makes her strong enough to defeat the monster of the week, but actually draws even more monsters to her location, endangering innocents.
So it would become a struggle: she could use it and help her friends in a fight, but that would mean worse horrors in the future. And then the Nazguls would show up.
The source material would have to be bastardized a little bit - like with all works only based on the motifs of a book - but it might have been a fun concept. Just imagine Gollum as a deranged, malnourished, schizophrenic Japanese school girl.That would be hilarious xD
So… In this version elves are the frilly, pink and friendship-themed magical girls while the dwarves are the deconstructed, grim, heavy metal themed ones?
I would say:
Hobbits -
frilly, pink and friendship-themed magical girls
Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli -
deconstructed, and heavy metal themed but not that grim. Something like Symphogear. Merry and Pippin would also get an upgrade later on to fit their Gondor and Rohan character developments.
(Maybe also Arwen or Eowen as a “Sixth Ranger”?)
Gandalf, Galadriel and Saruman - deconstructed but not that futuristic. Maybe Gandalf after becoming White.
Nazguls and Sauron - HEAVILY deconstructed, with lots of magitech kibble, that makes them look more like Sirens from Azur Lane
Gollum - more deranged version of the Hobbits, but with elements of the Nazgul kibble to show the corruption, when transformed. Normally more like a thinner and even less sane Gasai Yuno.
I didn’t really expect my shitpost (an accurate shitpost, but a shitpost nonetheless) to go in this direction, but I’m not necessarily complaining.
OKAY SO, revisiting this, I feel that we’ve all missed a very important point.
The Gandalf the Grey equivalent is the stuffed-animal-esque mascot. She gets a human form and proper magical girl transformation when she comes back as Gandalf the White.
Gollum is a magical girl but he fucked up
Okay
BUT!
In keeping with the theme here, as the series goes on, not only do more powerful enemies show up but Frodo-chan starts to become corrupted. There should be a personal struggle with “If I use this power, I lose myself” and “If I don’t use this power, I can’t help my friends.”
Sam, obviously, never give up on trying to help Frodo-chan overcome the struggle until the Final Battle and the obvious realization that the transformation mcguffin must be destroyed. But at the end of the battle, Gollum steals it just before it erupts with Evil Energy and destroys itself and Gollum.
The Hobbits are your standard Magical Girl fare. The One Ring is a cursed object that makes Frodo-chan stronger than the rest, but must be destroyed because of its evil influence. Sam is the shy one. Merry is always slightly dirty, and Pippen always has a bandage somewhere.
Boromir, Faramir, and Aragorn, along with most of the Men, are standard knight types. Aragorn becomes king at the end.
Legolas and the Elves are samurai-esque.
Gimli, and by extension the other Dwarves, are Viking types.
Gandalf pulls a King Bumi. He starts off old and frail looking, but with an air of immense power. He’s the kind-hearted teacher who acts as a guiding hand for the group, only to sacrifice himself to save them at the end of the first season. He comes back in the next season with a pallet swapped outfit and just absolutely shredded.
Shadowfax is a unicorn.
The Ring Wraiths are Dark Knights riding not quite dragons. Sauron is the Darkest of the Knights.
I feel like it might be better if Sauron stayed in the background, empowering the Nazgul and the various monsters that pop up.
Maybe Frodo-chan is different from the other magical girls specifically because her powers are tied to the ring. The other hobbits have their magical girl powers given to them by Gandalf, while the men, dwarves, and elves inherit them from family members or some larger network of magical girls.
Frodo-chan is an outlier among the hobbits, because she inherits the Ring from her aunt, rather than being empowered by Gandalf. She might still know Gandalf because Aunt Bilbo was a magical-girl in her youth, but Gandalf isn’t responsible for turning her into a magical girl so much as ensuring that the ring goes to her like Bilbo intended.
This also raises some interesting questions about what happens to Sam, Pippin, and Merry when Gandalf dies. If it diminishes their power, then that might explain why Merry and Pippin upgrade to knight types later on, while Sam just makes due with the reduced power through sheer determination (except for a brief stint when Frodo-chan is captured and she has to use the Ring. Everyone agrees that that was one of the most epic episodes in the series.).
That would mean when Gandalf dies, the Hobbits’ transformation items either break or lose power, but wouldn’t be restored when he is resurrected. I think that’s reasonable.
I imagined Sauron as a shadowy background character, definitely an evil knight type but never shown in detail. The Uruk-hai and Goblins would be two different tiers of monsters and act as troops of the Nazgûl.
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