So has anyone ever noticed that Cadbury Creme Eggs have a full fledged Fëanorian star on them?
For it is said that Fëanor began a long and secret labour, and he summoned all his lore, and his power, and his subtle skill; and at the end of all he made the Creme Eggs. As great jewels they were in form. Like orbs of richest chocolate they appeared, yet they were tastier than all others, so that no mortal could disparage or refuse them within the Kingdom of Arda. Yet that chocolate was to the Creme Eggs but as is the body to the Children of Ilúvatar: the house of its inner fire, that is within it and yet in all parts of it, and is its life. And the inner fire of the Creme Eggs Fëanor made of the blended fondant of the Sugar Canes of Valinor, whose glucose lives in them yet, though the Sugar Canes have long withered. All who dwelt in Aman were filled with wonder and delight at the work of Fëanor. – The Silmarillion, Cadbury™ Ed. 2015.
it’s kind of interesting to me, from a business standpoint that Tumblr in particular hasn’t adopted some form of transparency with regard to how they operate? Like, obviously, the user base of a social media site doesn’t need to know every little detail of how the site is run but imagine the goodwill that could be brought by a weekly or bi-weekly behind-the-scenes update as to the status of things?
e.g. “Replies are taking longer to reimplement than we had predicted due to a new coding method we decided to adopt for future site updates. We aim to have them back by x date. Thanks for your patience.”
little bits like that wouldn’t be unwelcome at all I think.
You realize those updates would just be “Kevin got wasted on pbr and pushed an untested code update to the master and now everything about replies are fucked and we don’t actually know how to fix it, cause the person who got it working in the first place quit after that dude wouldn’t stop wearing his tie as a belt.”
Website update: Nothing is fucking working properly because everyone is too busy shopping for unusual ties to wear as belts. I’ve been alone in the office for three months now. I fucking hate you david karp.
You know, seen from a certain point of view, “Do You Hear What I Hear?” is a song about a really weird game of Telephone.
The Night Wind tells the Little Lamb about a star.
The
Little Lamb, understandably freaked out by the fact that the sky is
talking, runs to the Shepherd Boy going “The sky is talking! It’s got a
big voice!” (and, based on what I know of sheep, probably also “Will it
eat me?!” and “Can I eat it?”)
And then it goes off the rails.
The Shepherd Boy stomps off to tell the Mighty King (and how well
connected is this kid, anyhow? He just shows up at the palace, waves to
the guards, walks on in) that there’s a child shivering in the cold and
we should bring him silver and gold (We? Does this kid have silver and gold on hand, too? Which…might explain the ease of getting an audience, actually…)
At
no point does the Shepherd Boy mention that his source of information
is a possibly delusional sheep, which, okay, I might not bring that up
to begin with, either. But how does the Shepherd Boy know any of this?
The Lamb is still back in the field babbling about a voice in the sky
talking about stars. Where did the child come from? Did the Shepherd Boy
make a detour and find all this out? Why even bring the Lamb into it,
in that case? And why is the Mighty King going “Whoa! One of my peasants
just waltzed in to tell me about a disadvantaged child? THIS MEANS
PEACE AND LIGHT!”
Honestly, if you’re that easily impressed, you
have to figure that a new faith gets founded in the kingdom practically
daily. “Your Majesty, the washerwoman’s here and she says there’s a fish
in the stream with a–” “ALL HAIL DAGON!”
Look, I know it’s a
Christmas carol, I am just saying that the narrative does not follow
logically from the Night Wind talking about stars to the King informing
the populace that there’s a new religion in town. There are some gaps.
…yes, I am also really, really annoying to sit next to at movies.
If you ever question the depths of depravity available to you in Skyrim please refer to this story;
I am unable to finish the Thieves Guild quest because I accidentally killed an essential quest npc. Erikur in Solitude, you probably know him because his sister wont shut up about it. Erikur was the last quest giver I needed to become the master of the Thieves Guild. He is suppose to be essential, as in he cannot be killed ever because important npc is important.
‘So where is he?’ I hear you asking.
He is gone.
Gone into my characters tummy. You see, I was fooling around with the glorious weapon that is the Wabbajack and happened to turn Erikur into a sweetroll….and then I ate him. I ate Erikur. He’s gone forever. Into my tummy.
I glitched out a main questline because I turned a man into a sweetroll and then I c o n s u m e d h i m.
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