During Frodo and Sam’s march to Orodruin when they’re pretending to be orcs, an orc captain asks Frodo if he’s okay. Frodo admits he’s suicidal. The orc captain tries to provide emotional support and vents to Sam about how Mordor’s military-industrial complex is killing all their youth and he wants to change that, but he’s unfortunately only gonna be able to protect Frodo until they get to the Black Gates and then it’s open war.
I was lying on a bed, surrounded by people who were speaking Quenya. I tried to lift my right hand because it itched, but it wasn’t there. When I tried to sit up someone told me to lie still. Red hair fell into my eyes.
Frodo and Sam get to Mount Doom but all the lava is frozen
so they have to dig a hole in the ice-lava to bury the Ring and destroy
it. Meanwhile a random dwarf from Valar know where is on the other side
of the lava hacking his way through with a battle axe trying to get to
Frodo and Sam and kill them.
I was a famous author and went on Stephen Colbert’s show to be
interviewed, but halfway through the interview Sauron showed up and I
had to song-battle him (I failed, and then Elrond had to come save my
ass).
Legolas and Gimli broke into the Dwarvish afterlife in Valinor by accident and wound up having dinner with Thorin’s Company. Thorin not only didn’t recognize them but thought they were both dwarvish women. Legolas was horribly embarrassed and insisted Gimli go find Gloín and tell him the truth right now. (Bonus points goes to this dream, because mid-dream I started thinking ‘wow, this would make a great fanfiction’.)
Bilbo was pissed off because he couldn’t find his favorite tea.
Somehow I wound up on the field of corpses after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. I found Fingon’s severed head and what was left of his corpse, and I held the head in my arms and sang ‘History Has Its Eyes On You’ from Hamilton to it as an elegy.
Today the government announced that on February 11 2017, a plebiscite (compulsory vote) will be put to the citizens of Australia to answer the question: “Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?”
The Australian government is pledging $15 million in public funding (tax money) towards the “Yes” and “No” advocacy groups.
This means $7.5 million dollars worth of tax money is being spent on a campaign against LGBTI+ human rights.
This means 5 dehumanising months of LGBTI+ people being forced to have their humanity “debated” on.
Of children listening to hateful homophobic rhetoric. Of LGBTI+ people’s lives and well-being being put in danger.
Even worse, the fact that Parliament isn’t voting on the issue themselves means the likelihood of the plebiscite passing (allowing “same-sex” marriage) is actually very low. There’s no logical reason for Parliament not to vote on the issue because in Australia, the definition of marriage is civil (governmental), and not religious.
Essentially a tonne of money is being used in a bid to prevent marriage equality passing in Australia and endangering the lives of LGBTI+ citizens.
LGBTI+ people in Australia are hurting today.
#NoPlebiscite is the tag being used on Twitter in protest, please consider helping.
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