lyrium:

how have i never heard of archive.org until today.. it’s an internet library that functions just like a real one, as in you borrow the books for 2 weeks and then they are returned to the archive. you can dl pdfs as well, but you’ll lose access after the 2 week period. it’s all free tho, literally just like a real library. i was searching for a cheap copy of this serial murder book from the 90s for my thesis and i found it for free on here. there’s like.. no gimmick at all? i’m so amazed. i literally just signed up and now i’m reading a super hq scan of this book for free. i love libraries.

waltzingwithfire:

“No, no, it had started before that, it had to have, it started the first night we’d met, when he was waiting for me outside of Dumbledore’s office, when he’d recited facts and names and dates straight from Hogwarts, A History and I’d realized, even if I couldn’t admit it then, even if I couldn’t verbalize it just yet - I’d realized that there was someone else who had felt alone enough in a new place, a new world, to memorize all twelve hundred pages of that stupid stupid stupid fucking book -”

— Hermione about Tom (Nightmare by Provocative Envy)

wetraveled:

I hope something unexpectedly good happens to you this week.

sunflorally:

part of being an adult is living with regret and not allowing it to consume you. the older you get, the more mistakes you make, the more opportunities you missed, the more people you’ve let down. forgive yourself. don’t beat yourself up. you’re still learning: this is a journey.

purplebuddhaproject:

“Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full.”

— Yasmin Mogahed (via purplebuddhaquotes)

justastormie:

penmeetspage:

lotrfansaredorcs-the-white:

It’s weird that Aragorn has a reputation for being a Loner™ when every time the heroes go to a new place they find out Aragorn Has Friends There. If you could theoretically have friends there, then Aragorn Has Friends There

They meet Aragorn in Bree, turns out he’s Friends with Gandalf, then makes Friends with the hobbits, then they arrive at Rivendell and what a twist he’s also Friends with the Rivendell elves! especially Arwen and Elrond! There’s an elf from Mirkwood in their fellowship who was already his Friend, but he also quickly becomes Friends with the dwarf from Ered Luin who hates that elf’s guts.  Boromir of Gondor initially WANTS to hate him but within a couple weeks he’s calling Aragorn his brother. The Fellowship arrives at Lorien and oh  Aragorn didn’t bring it up but he’s also Good Friends with Galadriel and Haldir and Celeborn and all them too! They travel to Rohan and Aragorn’s like “oh yeah I didn’t mention it before but I’m Friends with the people of Rohan, I knew King Theoden as a kid, and–”. He even makes Friends with his horse

 Aragorn tries to befriend everyone, from a 3-foot tall hobbit who’s not yet an adult to an elf-queen-sorceress older than the moon. He doesn’t seem grim/lonely because he’s friendless, he seems grim and lonely because he has so many friends, in so many places, that he’s always missing someone

#I feel it speaks to the lotr themes of what makes kingship #that aragorn’s most notable powers are his healing and ability to make friends (lullabyknell)

I love that Gandalf and Aragon are two sides of ‘oh it’s that guy’ coin. When Gandalf shows up everyone says it with a tone of Well What Bullshit Is Gonna Go Down Now? With Aragorn it’s Honey Look! The Feral Cat Came Back!!! Who Wants A Treat? And aragorn’s ’…I do’