“I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo. So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who…”

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

“I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo.
So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien (via citythatistocome)

Since I just dinged citythatistocome for misattributing a movie quote to Charlotte Brontë, I feel compelled to reblog this, and celebrate the fact that this is, in fact, Tolkien, rather than the movie version. Yay!

Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/60339219583.

I don’t want to identify with the Ice King, but it’s…

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

I don’t want to identify with the Ice King, but it’s kind of like Mr. Collins in P&P: I dislike him, I know I’m supposed to dislike him, everyone else in the story dislikes him, and… I can’t kid myself: I have things in common with him. 

Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/48116285719.

Empathy Test

Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Empathy Test:

vanyumm:

0 – 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20)
33 – 52 = average (most women score about 47 and most men score about 42)
53 – 63 is above average
64 – 80 is very high
80 is maximum 

If you want to show your followers your result put it in the TAGS

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