ELSEWHERE

mek wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 10:37 am

Frodo's leaving because his boyfriend went and got married without him

I joke about this, but actually Frodo as the boy who can never truly come home from war Mordor and the burden of carrying the one ring, is extremely good. Coming back changed, and for the worse, coming back and knowing that even the people who were on that journey with you can't really understand what you went through. Coming back and, even surrounded by old comforts and familiar faces, being alone. I like that it's acknowledged.

I say he left because Sam got married, and I'm not wholly wrong -- Sam moved on, and Frodo can't. So, Frodo moves on in a different way.

Tolkien compared Frodo's and Sam's relationship as to that of a military officer and his batman. This is a relationship that is defined by the environment you're in -- once the war is over, once you go home, the relationship changes. Sometimes that change means it's lost entirely.

This makes me sad, but in a good way? Sad, but glad it’s spoken to?

One of the problems with the design of this house is that the vents carry the smell of whatever anyone is doing in the kitchen directly into my room

The rest of the household is having waffles

Closed my vent and lit a candle but the heater's on, so it's pushing the smell in anyway. I had it open so it wouldn't be so cold in here when I woke up but I'll have to remember to close it before bed on the weekends

5ish hours of sleep

It's cold in here

I did not know that and it is deeply annoying. I wonder if turning the exhaust fan on would help? Or possibly closing the kitchen vents?

Went to the thrift store with ash today and they had this really nice looking combination radio/cd player/cassette player/record player for $15 dollars, so I got that and a couple vinyls to find out if it works

It does!

I've also now put down a bid on some random records on ebay

Confirmed the CD player works, and also found a CD already in the CD tray, so: bonus CD! Already knew the radio was working, from messing around with stuff trying to figure the record player part out, so now I just need to find a cassette tape somewhere to try in the cassette player

In other news: I have zero back strength today, hooboy. I'll need to spend some time lying down so I don't spend all day hunched over

What if companies got taxed on the IPs they sit on and do nothing with