uh hi hello I really am coming back soon/eventually I promise! Life is just a bit Much rn, etc etc etc, but in the meantime:
mutuals if your address has changed since we last corresponded, or mutuals if we haven’t actually corresponded in the past but you’d like to, could you please dm me your address? and what winter holidays if any you celebrate?
xo I really will return soon I mean it!!! possibly with modern au bookshop fake relash holiday fic bc idk why NOT
Anonymous asked: there’s a lot of people who aren’t voting for good reasons and aren’t being annoying and condescending and self righteous like you are
Anyway, on the Florida ballot is restoring the right to vote for felons, and only voters have the power to extend that power to them.
So when we talk about voter suppression being rooted in anti-Blackness historically, and inaccessibility of voting, and then act self righteous about NOT voting for our personal political reasons, we take power away from people who don’t have a choice or a voice like felons who can not get the vote without us.
Okay I know we always go on about Marvel’s uncanny casting ability.
But if you thought they were the only ones, let me draw your attention to this man:
Viggo Mortensen, aka Aragorn son of Arathorn, aka Sexiest Ranger in Middle Earth
would hike, often for more than a day, to remote filming locations, in costume, for the sake of authenticity
was the best swordsman Bob Anderson (swordsmaster/instructor for LotR, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc) says he has ever trained
occasionally writes poetry (more book!canon than film!canon but um hello)
does all his own stunts
lived all over and speaks about 23940209384 languages
you know that scene at the end of Fellowship when he’s fighting the Uruk-hai? And one throws a dagger at him and he hits it away with his sword? Yeah, the guy who threw it was supposed to miss, but accidentally threw it directly at Viggo. Who just casually Aragorned and hit it away.
They actually cast Aragorn to play Aragorn
Can I just add a few things?
Would randomly give chocolates to the hobbits
According to John Rhys-Davis (aka Gimli), whenever you have a large cast, one or two actors will naturally become the leaders. Guess who ended up in that role.
Single-handedly convinced cast and crew to camp out to shoot a scene in the sunrise
Once hit a wild rabbit with his car by accident. Promptly stopped his car and went to see if the rabbit was dead, needed a vet or if the only merciful thing to do was to finish killing him. The rabbit was dead. Viggo realized he was hungry. So he took the rabbit, made a fire by the roadside and ate it.
According to cast and crew, sometimes you’d just see him disappear in the middle of the night and suddenly he’d come back with fish he’d caught
Had his sword with him at all times. Slept with once.
The best horse rider of the cast, hands down. Rides better than lots of pros, according to a horse trainer. Couldn’t bear to part with his horse at the end of the shooting, so he bough him. The next movie of his also involved horses, and he bought his horse in that one, too.
Knows how to survive in the wild. I’m not kidding.
Hand-stitched a few things in his costume for an authentic “I live away from civilization” Ranger feel. Also told the weapons department to make him a small bow because “Aragorn lives in the wild, he needs a hunting bow, or he’ll starve to death” - literally nobody else had thought about that. Also requested a small stone to sharpen his sword. Suggested that Aragorn would take Boromir’s arm guards after his death.
Speaking of hand-stitching, once he was touring Japan with a reporter for an article. Walked into a store, took a tshirt, bought it, cut off the print and hand-stitched it into the hat he was wearing. The reporter was going “?????????” the entire time.
Peter Jackson literally sometimes called him Aragorn by accident
They just let Viggo loose in the New Zealand wilds and filmed him, he wasn’t even acting.
I mean, the casting was perfect, but let’s not forget that they cast Stuart Townsend FIRST and had already start filming when they realized he was Not The Guy to play Aragorn. Viggo was on their short list pre-Townsend, so they called him up and pitched a 15 month (not including reshoots) trilogy to him with a “and you’d have to start, like, RIGHT NOW” at the end. He’d never read LotR, but his 12yo son had, and when he mentioned it, Henry basically said “DAD, IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU.” So thank you again to Henry Mortensen for our perfect Aragorn.
