April Vote Incentive
The April vote incentive is posted. It’s obviously a work in progress. It was going to be the Valentines Day picture, with the dirty version showing select ladies in between bar choices, but as I was draw it, it didn’t make sense that they’d be posting like that without bras on. Not that many of you would have minded I’m sure.
The story behind this post is the ladies visit Jeanette’s Bras in… Hollywood I believe. Jenette’s Bras being run by Jenette Goldstein, the actress that played Vasquez in Aliens (as well as John Connor’s step mom in Terminator 2 and other rolls.) Apparently she’s a fairly chesty woman, which wasn’t super obvious in Aliens cause she was in the best shape of her life in that film. Anyway, she’d gone for a long time in her life without ever properly being fitted for one, and when she finally did get someone who knew what they were doing, she was like “Oh! bras don’t suck!” And she opened a bra shop for well endowed ladies.
I thought it would be a fun PR thing if the team stopped by. Obviously Jenette knows about were-jaguars and all that. She’s savvy. And since she knew the whole team was coming (the female portion anyway) she stocked up on some sub-D sizes as well.
As far as I know, the Ainur were sent to Middlr-Earth to help the people, not do the work for them. Yes, it could have ended with Sauron taking over the world, but people tend to grow with the challenges. Help too little and people die. Help too much and sooner or later people die because they rely on you too much.
I found Gandalf’s reaction heartbraking in Rivendell when Frodo took up the ring. The wound Frodo got was bad enough, but Gandalf knew that even if his friend survived this, the journey would change him forever. In all probability he would never be quite te carefree Hobbit he had been.
Gandalf could have stopped Frodo, but his friend had to make his own decisions. That makes Saruman’s betrayal much worse. Gandalf was ready to let good friends go to their deaths while Saruman took the easy way and was ready to sacrifice the world just for his own survival.
At least that’s how I see it.
And under basic ethics as practiced in the last 50 years that still makes Gandalf a monster because he allowed Frodo to volunteer without informed consent. There’s not a third-rate community college IRB in the world that would approve that kind of science these days.
I prefer not to think about ethics while getting my LOTR on. ;)
From what I understand, Gandalf LITERALLY couldn’t do anything about it. Gandalf could have personally carried the ring and dropped it in, yes… but he wasn’t allowed to. Which makes it painful for him, VERY painful… like a parent watching their kids screwing up again and again. And you want to do it for them, so they don’t have to struggle and suffer… but if you do that, you rob the kid of their triumph, of their successes, you smother them and don’t let them grow.
Because Gandalf didn’t stop Frodo, Frodo did indeed suffer… and he and his friends also proved the worth of Hobbit-kind to all of Middle Earth. And at the very end, Frodo got to leave with the elves, got to spend the rest of his existence with the elves… and Samwise inherited Bag End, married, had kids, and became known as Sam Gardener because his agricultural skills (which had fixed the Shire after Saruman’s attempts to destroy it at the end) were legend… :)
About Gandalf carrying the ring – he feared even to touch it because it was so corrupting. Everyone (except Tom Bombadil) who touched it was corrupted to its will. Almost anyone who it was offered to felt it. Boromir was corrupted by it, and he only handled the chain it hung by – through gloves.
Gandalf did not take the ring because he could not. He resisted the temptation (more than once, IIRC) when it was offered to him (my interpretation here:) because he understood it, and thus feared it so much.
Fuck the Masquerade, somethings are just more important!
Gangnam Style!
Quivering Mounds of Love Pudding is actually a traditional meal for high feast days on certain sex-segregated Greek Islands.
You are leaving something out of the shower scenes. I wish I could put my finger on it……
I can’t help but feel that Dabbler gets a little too much abuse here from some of her teammates. She did something nice. She also did it to a teammate who KNOWS what Dabbler is and what she does… she did it to a teammate who then got home and ended up having a furious masturbatory session rather than a possibly dangerous one night stand. This kind of strikes me as the equivalent of sharing a pita pocket filled with hummus and veggies with a hungry teammate, then getting slapped later because they realized it was technically vegan food.
uhhhh wut? groping Max’s boobs by ambush is “something nice”?
They are talking about the warming spell on Sydney while at the vault. The one that also led to “it’s just you and me tonight Eddie!” (Edward Elric body pillow).
And then Sydney’s retaliation for the acute side effects.
Nicely done!
Of course her response was to bluff it out but still, very funny!
Does the vote incentives link not work for anyone else or is it just me?
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