@caro-que-si thanks for your comment. What I meant by neurotypical asshole kids is exactly that. The neurotypical kids who bought up fidget spinners and (less commonly) fidget cubes as just a toy to play with, do tricks with, and create a new fad toy. By making them more popular with neurotypicals, yes that makes them easier to come by as now every store between here and high hell sells them, but that also means that places are banning them because kids were being stupid with them and broke stuff or were annoying staff with them. Which means that people who visit those places, or work in those places who are neurodivergent can’t use them either.
Kids who dont need fidget spinners as a stim toy or as a easy quiet acceptable fidget toy, don’t use them as such. They play with them. They do tricks with them. The throw them across the room to their friends to see if they can catch it still spinning. I’ve had to confiscate them during an overnight I was working because a kid would rather try and figure out “new sick tricks” to do with it on the boat than pay attention while we were working with a rather important line on the vessel.
As such I do not want to be perceived as one of these kids, and I don’t want to associate myself with these kids. While I am an adult, it is still a self conscious fear and insecurity I have. I have put off getting a spinner for a long time because the neurotypical kids who bought them up so quick have made them feel like they aren’t foe people liie me anymore.
hey a quick psa,, if u know someone who has memory issues, please dont belittle them or get frustrated with them for being forgetful or w/e because like.. trust me, we are fully aware of how bad our memory can be, and its just as frustrating for us too? so please just be nice thanks
Pippin: finally i’m getting the respect i deserve from these peasants
so accurate i am choking on my carrot. this is making me giggle harder than it should. I love Pippin so much.
I don’t think there will come time when I’m not reblogging this. Sorry guys.
no no no you guys don’t understand, Pippin is someone really important in the Shire! The books don’t talk about it a lot, and the movies won’t touch that stuff with a bargepole, but Pippin will be inheriting land rights to about a quarter of the Shire. He’s second in line to becoming military leader of all Hobbits. His dad is currently in charge of that stuff, but he’s completely aware of it, and educated for it, and that’s why he’s such an over privileged little shit in the books.
I thought it was a shame the movies didn’t talk about class differences in the Shire. Also puts M&P stealing food in an uglier light.
To be fair, at the time of the Party, Pippin would have been 12, which puts it back into a more acceptable light. And they’re stealing food from Bilbo, a wealthy and eccentric family member, which again makes things a bit different.
But yes, when they call Pippin Ernil i Perrianath - Prince of the Halflings - they are actually completely spot on.
And when Pippin tells Bergil “my father farms the land around Tuckborough” he’s deliberately downplaying his class so that he can greet the boy as an equal rather than a superior. It’s Pippin’s most adult moment in the series. Bergil is engaging in a status contest which Pippin can totally win - but instead chooses not to compete. Pippin is a gilded and spoiled lordling in the Shire, but he becomes a Man of Gondor.
Yeah, to add a bit of unnecessary trivia/level of preciseness, Frodo is the oldest of the four; he was born in 2968, was (obviously) 33 at the time of the Party, and so he’s 51 here. Sam’s second-oldest; born in 2980, he was 21 when Bilbo left and is 39 at this point. Merry’s two years younger than Sam, making him 18 or 19 in 3001, when the Party took place, and Pippin was born in 2990, so he was actually 10 or 11 during the Party, and during this scene they’re ~37 and ~29, respectively.
So yeah, Pippin’s the youngest by a lot. Plus, taking hobbit aging into account, he really is still in the equivalent of his teens; remember the Party was half to celebrate Frodo’s coming-of-age at 33, and Pippin’s around twenty years younger than Frodo.
This fucked me up. I didn’t read the books and in the movie it was shown like Frodo took off with the ring like 2 days after Bilbo’s gone away, but it was 17 years after that. OMFG.
Also worth noting that “Merry and Pippin stealing food” isn’t in the book - raiding Farmer Maggot’s fields, specifically the mushrooms, is something Frodo used to do when he was a kid, before his parents died and he moved to Hobbiton to live with Bilbo. Frodo’s still afraid of Maggot’s guard dogs, but the farmer himself is sympathetic and helpful when he finds Frodo & Co. cutting through his field.
