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One of the most masculine things you can do is to serve others, particularly your wife and kids. Don’t let anyone tell you different.
Master Samwise
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Master Samwise
@samwise_master
Catholic, nerdy dad who likes to talk about fantasy and sci-fi books, movies/TV shows, and video games.
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Joined November 2022
- Modern storytelling has a villain problem: it doesn't want to make them evil. Villains have become so sympathetic that we're not even sure if they are supposed to be the "real heroes", according to the author. But some recent stories buck this trend. They say "No. Our
- Only 20 more years until he's the same age as the man he played on screen.Happy Birthday Viggo Mortensen who turns 67 years old today
- I need you all to understand something. Demons are demons. Orcs are orcs. Monsters are monsters. They’re not stand-ins for anything. They’re not allegories for anyone. They do not represent anything other than perhaps an embodiment of evil. Stop being weird.
- Several reasons: 1) Tolkien’s life experiences were far broader and deeper than most people these days. He fought in World War I and was a professor of philology at Oxford. 2) He didn’t have any aspirations to make a living writing books. He obviously already had his job; The
- In this article, the author admits to watching all of THREE MINUTES of Bluey and judging based off of whatever those three minutes contained (he doesn't even say). As a Christian father who has seen almost every episode of Bluey, let me say this: Bandit is an amazing father. HeHow a beloved children's cartoon turns fathers into mothers — and what the Bible says about it dlvr.it/TF36xj
Readers added contextBluey is so named because she is a Blue Heeler, a type of Australian cattle dog. She, like many girls, takes her coloring from her dad. Chilli, the mom, is a Red Heeler. The younger pup, Bingo, takes her coloring from her mom. It’s not gender commentary. bluey.tv/characters/blu… - My kids all get a book at bedtime. They are 6, 4, and 2, so the younger kids typically pick picture books while my oldest prefers me to read him books about bugs or sports or some other topic. That’s great. I want them to read what they want to read. But I also want to make
- I’m finally playing Skyrim for the first time. Give me advice.
- “So your client is one of the city’s richest men?” “Yes” “And you think he is secretly a vigilante who spends his night beating criminals with his bear hands?” “That’s right, Dave.” “And your plan is to blackmail this man?”
- I’m not even halfway through this book, but I can confidently recommend it wholeheartedly. It’s absolutely fantastic. I will most certainly be referencing it in practically every future video on LotR.
- In the midst of a tale about monsters and magic, Geralt stops to ruminate on how his mother’s ability to murder him before his birth is a “holy and irrefutable right.” Yeah, I’m done with this garbage.
- Replying to @MauLer93"We don't need to go to war." Yes you do. You're an orc. You fight. It's literally the only thing you know how to do.
