I just read the whole article and holy shit. After he turned 18, they gave him a paper to sign saying it was “adoption papers” when it was ACTUALLY conservatorship. Like, they just control his money, likeness, etc, but he is not a legal part of their family.
And he just found out the lie THIS YEAR. They lied to him for 20 YEARS.
And he is STILL stuck under the conservatorship. Remember, the same thing that made Britney Spears’ life a living hell? Right now, his attorneys are pushing an end to that conservatorship. Which it NEEDS to end.
Free Michael Oher because this is DISGUSTING. I can’t believe that poor kid was taken advantage of like that and is STILL stuck under that.
Not even MENTIONING how disgusting it is that a well off white family took advantage of a black kid. I’m furious on his behalf.
Miyazaki has intense survivor’s guilt about surviving the bombing of Japan (which he only did because of luck and privilage), a lot of years of anger at Japan’s imperialism, years of anger over his father helping Japan wage war (he was director if the company that supplied rudders for Japan’s warplanes), years of frustrationg with the anime industry, etc etc.
The Ring: If I had a quarter for every time a hobbit picked me up, I’d have two quarters. The Ring: Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Of all the bearers of Sauron’s ring, 4 of them were hobbits.
I was wrong. It’s 5. Not 4
The lineage of ring bearers is as follows.
Sauron.
Isildur
Deagol
Sméagol
Bilbo
Frodo
Samwise
I love how Deagol counts as a ring bearer even though he had it in his possession for all of like five seconds
He held it for the rest of of his life!
[Image description: Tweet by @banalplay saying “but something happened then that the ring did not intend. it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, the same fuckin thing that just had it for like 500 years.” End Image Description.] Link to original here. Otherwise reblogging for the final rb there, which made me cackle.
From the ring’s perspective:
1. Home, the finger of my creator and other self.
2. Well, I don’t like it but I can work with this. Cause some trouble, get some revenge, find my way home, this is fine.
3. What the fuck is you?
4. Right personality, wrong species, I don’t know what you are but I hate you and I don’t know why you’re so resistant to my powers.
5. NO NO NO there are goblins everywhere how did I find another one of THESE horrible things. This one’s even more resistant than the last one and also disgustingly nice. I suffer.
6. Listen, I’ll cooperate, just get me the fuck out of this hellhole full of small cheerful people my power doesn’t work on properly. No, not like that. I hate you. Please stop.
7. FUCK
8. (Frodo again) I still hate you with every molecule of my mortal form but at least you’re not number seven. Think I’m starting to get through finally.
9. (Smeagol again) YES it’s you I actually missed you now get me back to the Master and NO FUCK NO I HATE YOOOOUUUUU…. *fzt*
you CHAIN The One Ring?! you chain it like the prisoner?! oh! OH! trauma! deep psychological trauma for hobbits for One Thousand Years!
About ½ of your friends probably don’t think of you as their friend.
Climbing the social ladder causes a lot of one- sided friendships, because those lower on the ladder often claim to be friends with people who are higher up, while those at the top are more selective about who they consider to be in their circle.
Basically, no matter where you land on the ladder, you have more fake friendships than you think you do.
