actualjo:

merianymerosmartell:

We all thought Loki was the odd one out but it turns out Thor is actually the friendly jock middle child in a family of bitchy drama club goths

This is honestly so great

(Source: goldenshuri)

katzedecimal:

jumpingjacktrash:

acesofspade:

the-real-seebs:

jumpingjacktrash:

newvagabond:

infiniteragequit:

sothisistherapy:

ericfvckingharris:

Growing up in an abusive household is a fucking trip dude……If you’ve never had someone angrily wash a dish at you or fold a sock in your direction then how are you gonna understand why I get nervous when you quietly do the laundry, or why I ask “are you mad at me?” when you set the bag of groceries down too hard? It’s a totally different way of living and it impacts you long after you’ve left the situation.

This is so important.

Abused kids speak a language you can’t learn

My heart races when I hear someone sigh and then the adrenaline takes forever to wear off. I hate having these reactions even when I know I am safe.

@ my friends who relate to this: please feel free to ask me for confirmation at any time that we are ok. i won’t get mad. go ahead and test me, try it out, prove it. however many times you need to hear me go “huh? nah, all’s well!” is however many times i’ll say it.

and i promise that if we are not ok i’ll be honest about that too, and it won’t be the end of the world. i may go like “meh, i’m actually pretty grumpy right now about [thing]” and you can be like “sorry i will fix [thing]” and i will be like “thank you i appreciate”and then we’ll be ok again. i won’t hold a grudge and i definitely will not angrily fold a sock at you.

again, as many times as this needs to happen, i’m up for that. i love you and i’m in it for the long haul. our friendship is worth it.

agreed

Also the constant jump-scares despite telling the person you can’t handle them, but they don’t stop because they think watching you flinch in abject terror is funny.

Or getting anxious and scared whenever someone calls your name in even a vaguely threatening voice because what did I do now?? Did I do something??

hey, so, if someone’s doing this, they’re being an asshole and it’s not cool.

folks, do not do this. you found out your friend’s panic button, your job is to NOT press it.

i mean sometimes it’s not really possible to avoid it all the time. like seebs and i get loud when we get excited, and because of sensory processing disorder we don’t always notice our own volume. when rah lived with us she used to bunny-freeze at loudness. many times, we didn’t notice we were being loud until she was already upset. and tbh we were really perplexed sometimes, because we were sometimes being happy loud but it was still scary. we weren’t always super good about it. shit happens.

but you don’t do it on purpose. you just don’t. that’s really shitty.

I grew up in a household that included the OP’s description of household chores as a vehicle for abuse. I get extremely anxious in perfectly clean houses and I have trouble keeping my own house clean because of panic attacks. I’ve a formal diagnosis of PTSD which my in-laws laughed about.

So I demonstrated.

I took my glass to the kitchen and slammed it onto the counter, opened the dishwasher with more force than necessary and slammed the glass in, glaring at various in-laws one at a time. The room was silent, in-laws all looking at each other with apprehension and growing anxiety. Then I looked at the dishwasher and declared it a mess, glared at my hostess and told her this many years and you still can’t load a dishwasher properly what’s the matter with you and proceeded to reload the dishwasher, all the while glaring, muttering, and slamming. Then they looked at my spouse, who was sitting with a HUGE grin. “Yeah, she GREW UP with that. I witnessed it. It’s NOT the same as ‘angry cleaning’” he told them, “you weren’t sure if she was actually pissed, right? Or what she was going to do next? Or if she was going to get violent or start really yelling at Hostess? That’s the difference.” They stopped laughing.

(Source: satanhaus)

lotrfansaredorcs:

• Most composers spend just 10-12ish weeks working on a film’s music. John Williams spent around 14 weeks on each Star Wars movie, 40ish weeks total for the whole OT……but composing the LOTR trilogy’s soundtrack took four years
  
• The vocals you hear in the soundtrack are usually in one of Tolkien’s languages (esp. Elvish). The English translations of the lyrics are all poems, or quotes from the book, or occasionally even quotes from other parts of the films that are relevant to the scene
• When there were no finished scenes for him to score, Howard Shore would develop musical themes inspired by the scripts or passages from the book. That’s how he got all Middle-Earth locations have their own unique sound: he was able to compose drafts of “what Gondor would sound like” and “what Lorien would sound like” long before any scenes in those places were filmed
• Shore has said his favorite parts to score were always the little heartfelt moments between Frodo and Sam
  

Originally posted by tlotrgifs

• Shore wrote over 100 unique leitmotifs/musical themes to represent specific people, places, and things in Middle Earth (over 160 if you count The Hobbit)
• The ones we all talk about are the Fellowship theme, the main Shire Theme, and the themes for places like Gondor, Mordor, Rohan, and Rivendell…but a lot of the more subtle ones get overlooked and underappreciated
  
• Like Aragorn’s theme. It’s a lot less “obvious” than the others because, like Aragorn himself, it adapts to take on the color of whatever place Aragorn is in: it’s played on dramatic broody stringed instruments in Bree, on horns in  battle scenes, softly on the flute with Arwen in Rivendell….
• Eowyn has not just one but three different leitmotifs to represent her
• Gollum and Smeagol both have their own leitmotifs! Whose theme music is playing in the scene can often tell you whether the Gollum or Smeagol side is “winning” at the moment

Originally posted by middleearthsource

• The melody for Gollum’s Song in the end credits of the The Two Towers is the Smeagol and Gollum themes smushed together (it’s Symbolic)
• And then there’s the really obscure ones. Like there’s a melody that plays at Boromir’s death that shows up again in ROTK in scenes that foreshadow a major death or loss
• Wikipedia actually has a list of these leitmotifs, click this link and scroll down to check it out if you’re bored
  

Originally posted by arwencuar

• Shore wanted the theme music to grow alongside the characters– so that as the characters changed, their theme music would change with them.  
• You can hear that most clearly in the Shire theme. Like the hobbits, it goes through A Lot 
  
• Like compare the childish lil penny whistle theme you hear in Concerning Hobbits/the beginning of FOTR with (throws a dart at random Beautiful Tragic Hobbit Character Development scene because there WAY TOO MANY to choose from) the scene when Pippin finds Merry on the battlefield, where you hear a kind of shattered and broken but more mature version of that same theme in the background 

• I could write you a book on how much I love the way the Shire theme grows across the course of these films 
• Unlike the hero’s themes, which constantly change and grow, the villain’s themes (The One Ring theme, the Isengard theme, etc) remain basically the same from the very beginning of FOTR to the end of ROTK. Shore said this was an intentional choice: to emphasize that evil is static, while good is capable of change
• Shore has said that between all the music that made into the movies and the music that didn’t, he composed enough for “a month of continuous listening”……..where can I sign up