In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien drew upon the language and themes found in the old Medieval hero-tales in order to construct a kind of new mythology. The brilliance of Tolkien was in his departure from the Pagan modes of conduct and morality of these old tales, his creation of a syncretistic fusion between Christian thought and Pagan language, and so his work achieved a deep resonance with all who read it.
We find this passage at the conclusion of The Return of the King:
The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.
Adversaries in the stories that Tolkien drew upon, Grendel, Mordred and the like, often served as obstacles that the heroes could overcome through feats of strength and cunning. Sauron is not like them. When Sauron is defeated, it is not because Aragorn is stronger than him or because Gandalf is wiser. They are not. It is only that his hubris was so great that it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the thing he held so dear. It is not until the final few seconds of his existence that he realises his mistake.
I think that I Am Jazz displays a similar moment. In the pictured scene, Jazz's journey to what he believes is womanhood is almost complete. He is resting after surgery, a triumphant smile on his face, his rotting groin held together by a labyrinthine patchwork of stitches and grafts. But as Eru Ilúvatar nudged Gollum over the Crack of Doom into the fires beneath, so too does the God of our world intervene in this.
Pop!
In a second, the follies of men are undone and Jazz's crotch explodes, a meaty froth of blood and pus pouring out of the hole where his penis used to be.
PS: I really will not allow the simple 👌 gesture to belong to the moronic dogwhistling catfishing foghorning frogmarching pigsticking dickwaving few who attempt to appropriate it for their own fatuous fantasies.
This is the first time Ive seen the "OK" thing get properly shitcanned byt an old Brit queen. I'd love him to try it with the "Its OK to be white" meme.
He has a point. For everyone pearl clutching about the alt right or whatever appropriating the symbol, noone has apparently thought of fighting back in kind until now. It'd only take a few gay jews regularly making this gesture to embarrass the right wing into retreat.
Just goes to show how ineffective "bash the fash" types really are that they blindly sucked the alt right's dick about this and pepe.
Yeah it was a genius move to make anyone that claimed the ok symbol was a white supremacist symbol look unhinged, but the meme was started by white supremacist and then adopted by actual literal alt right types.
Same as the it's ok to be white meme.
The Australian Senate has narrowly voted down a motion condemning “anti-white racism”, despite government senators voting for the controversial statement echoing alt-right rhetoric.
On Monday the Senate voted 31 to 28 to reject a motion put by Pauline Hanson – the leader of the anti-immigrant nativist One Nation party – which acknowledged the “deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western civilisation” and “it is OK to be white”.
It doesn't matter if it was started by alt-rights, you retard, as the meaning of a message, in the end, is decided by who receives it. It would never be a "white supremacist symbol" if the media didn't actually take it as a "white supremacist symbol" - it would just be another "inside meme" they use, of which there are a lot.
It's beyond pathetic to let a fringe group have so much power over you as to make you stop doing a common and simple gesture that's used in most of the fucking world.
they don't want to fight back, they want to be able to call as many people "nazis" as possible. they don't care about reality, they're certainly not afraid of "nazis," they are fully aware that they're only play-acting antifascism.
They don't want to fight back, they want to be able to call as many people "nazis" as possible.
Exactly. "Losing the symbol" (lol) and "not looking like a fucking melodramatic moron" (an actual concern most normal people would have) aren't important to them.
All they want is to look woke and yell at people that don't.
Of course there are no good bantz here, /r/drama is a bubble-wrapped safe space for leftoid autists to shitpost mod-approved maymays just like every other shit-pit on this website.
Nobody's interested in or capable of actually roasting anyone anymore because all they know how to do is bleat "mdefugee" and "out out out" and whatever other shrieky boring shit until the jannysquad makes the icky scary no-no words go away again.
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-05-14
In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien drew upon the language and themes found in the old Medieval hero-tales in order to construct a kind of new mythology. The brilliance of Tolkien was in his departure from the Pagan modes of conduct and morality of these old tales, his creation of a syncretistic fusion between Christian thought and Pagan language, and so his work achieved a deep resonance with all who read it.
We find this passage at the conclusion of The Return of the King:
Adversaries in the stories that Tolkien drew upon, Grendel, Mordred and the like, often served as obstacles that the heroes could overcome through feats of strength and cunning. Sauron is not like them. When Sauron is defeated, it is not because Aragorn is stronger than him or because Gandalf is wiser. They are not. It is only that his hubris was so great that it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the thing he held so dear. It is not until the final few seconds of his existence that he realises his mistake.
I think that I Am Jazz displays a similar moment. In the pictured scene, Jazz's journey to what he believes is womanhood is almost complete. He is resting after surgery, a triumphant smile on his face, his rotting groin held together by a labyrinthine patchwork of stitches and grafts. But as Eru Ilúvatar nudged Gollum over the Crack of Doom into the fires beneath, so too does the God of our world intervene in this.
In a second, the follies of men are undone and Jazz's crotch explodes, a meaty froth of blood and pus pouring out of the hole where his penis used to be.
In that moment of blind panic and terror, Jazz is Sauron. All triumph and victory is gone. Only the Void remains.
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1 i_Chapo-d_my_pants 2019-05-14
https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1127844934734700545?s=20
based and 👌💊'd
1 trilateral1 2019-05-14
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6cNBdyWkAAd87u.jpg
1 Wheretheflowersgrew 2019-05-14
This is the first time Ive seen the "OK" thing get properly shitcanned byt an old Brit queen. I'd love him to try it with the "Its OK to be white" meme.
1 d538GNCUIXPz4doFxgLx 2019-05-14
He has a point. For everyone pearl clutching about the alt right or whatever appropriating the symbol, noone has apparently thought of fighting back in kind until now. It'd only take a few gay jews regularly making this gesture to embarrass the right wing into retreat.
Just goes to show how ineffective "bash the fash" types really are that they blindly sucked the alt right's dick about this and pepe.
1 Wheretheflowersgrew 2019-05-14
Yeah it was a genius move to make anyone that claimed the ok symbol was a white supremacist symbol look unhinged, but the meme was started by white supremacist and then adopted by actual literal alt right types.
Same as the it's ok to be white meme.
On Monday the Senate voted 31 to 28 to reject a motion put by Pauline Hanson – the leader of the anti-immigrant nativist One Nation party – which acknowledged the “deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western civilisation” and “it is OK to be white”.
31-28!
1 necrocannibal2 2019-05-14
It doesn't matter if it was started by alt-rights, you retard, as the meaning of a message, in the end, is decided by who receives it. It would never be a "white supremacist symbol" if the media didn't actually take it as a "white supremacist symbol" - it would just be another "inside meme" they use, of which there are a lot.
It's beyond pathetic to let a fringe group have so much power over you as to make you stop doing a common and simple gesture that's used in most of the fucking world.
1 Wheretheflowersgrew 2019-05-14
Lol, I agree and that's what I was trying to say.
1 trilateral1 2019-05-14
if /pol/ declared dental hygiene the new symbol of white supremacy, you'd let your teeth rot out of your mouth.
you clown
1 Wheretheflowersgrew 2019-05-14
Wow not what I meant at all.
1 trilateral1 2019-05-14
not you
1 Kellerbier 2019-05-14
doubtful
1 trilateral1 2019-05-14
they don't want to fight back, they want to be able to call as many people "nazis" as possible. they don't care about reality, they're certainly not afraid of "nazis," they are fully aware that they're only play-acting antifascism.
the wokesphere and /pol/ are symbiotic.
1 Rentokill_boy 2019-05-14
two sides of the same coin
two shoes on the same horse
1 MoreSpikes 2019-05-14
2 cents from 2 rads? But that's just Chapo tho...
1 I_FART_OUT_MY_BUTT69 2019-05-14
Deep.
1 hotelbutare 2019-05-14
Exactly. "Losing the symbol" (lol) and "not looking like a fucking melodramatic moron" (an actual concern most normal people would have) aren't important to them.
All they want is to look woke and yell at people that don't.
1 HodorTheDoorHolder_ 2019-05-14
It's almost as if their existence is directly tied to the existence of the alt-right.
1 Feanorfanclub 2019-05-14
It wasn't even theirs to begin with they just wanted to see if they could make people rage about nothing.
1 GeauxHouston22 2019-05-14
and it worked, which is lame and sad and pathetic but also predictable
1 Rentokill_boy 2019-05-14
steven fry has always been ironically based
1 WholesomeDrama 2019-05-14
and unironically kinda cute 😍
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-05-14
I do too, his “Wagner and Me” documentary is really good if you’re a culturedfag like me 🍷🧐
That said, “catfishing” doesn’t mean what you think it means, Jeeves.
1 TooManySuperShotguns 2019-05-14
What is with the random branch of the thread where crazy people are taking about their mental illnesses
1 newcomer_ts 2019-05-14
lmao - that's what the tweet was about
1 Fart__Boy__Slim 2019-05-14
We already know he's British.
1 Elite_AI 2019-05-14
You have a very high opinion of Britfags if you think the majority of them qualify for even pseudo-intellectual
1 KKKUMARASWAMY 2019-05-14
Behead those who insult Stephen
1 Elite_AI 2019-05-14
he's a massive ponce though
1 ab_ra_ca_dabba 2019-05-14
Manlet vs Stephen Fry debate bring it on
1 owmytrussy 2019-05-14
I say we make the nazi salute into the official trans rights sign
1 pol__invictus__risen 2019-05-14
Friendly reminder that breathing oxygen is an alt right hate symbol.
1 AutoModerator 2019-05-14
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Nobody's interested in or capable of actually roasting anyone anymore because all they know how to do is bleat "mdefugee" and "out out out" and whatever other shrieky boring shit until the jannysquad makes the icky scary no-no words go away again.
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1 iReadshampoo 2019-05-14
Yeah ok buddy
1 OnionBits 2019-05-14
Stephen is actually great and very funny
1 Kellerbier 2019-05-14
Stephen fry fuckin rules, you're a faggot. And not the fun kind of faggot who acts flamboyant and sucks dick, just a garbage faggot that nobody likes.