Title text: No, we actually do have a woman who’s basically part of our fellowship. She lives in Rivendell, you wouldn’t know her.

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Gimli son of gloin is in fact a male

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Gimli-san of Gloin

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Love me some xkcd

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A feminist masterpiece.

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Crushing the Bechdel test!

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Absolutely brutal.

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Technically passes the bechdel test

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There are, technically, more scenes where two female characters interact but

this made me laugh lol

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Yeah they forgot about the scene where the mom put the kids on the horse in Two Towers! I think that’s it though.

One of many reasons why I completely agree with the decision to swap out Glorfindel for Arwen. Disappointed not to see him but I get it and agree.

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I will have to check, but I don’t think that counts because the mom talks primarily to the son.

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At least they don’t talk about men

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Technically passes the Bechdel test

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Technically this passes the Becel Test, where they don’t talk about butter

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Isn’t there also the scene when the mom puts them on the horse?

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How can he say that? Legolas is like right there.

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It took me an awfully long time to realise that Legolas was played by Orlando Bloom, that Bloom was the name of that guy from Pirates of the Caribbean, and that that guy and Legolas were the same. In my defence I was around toddler age when the LotR films came out. It must have been a great time having LotR and Harry Potter plus other fantasy being put out.

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It was an amazing time. I miss those days, as all do who live through such times.

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The 2000s were a pretty great era for film and tv. LOTR and HP as you said, plus the first couple of Spider-Man movies with Toby McGuire, X Men, and the Star Wars prequels were very exciting, albeit disappointing. TV was great then with Lost, Jack Bauer, and House in full stride. And the Matrix! Holy fucking shit man, you’ll never understand being in the theater opening weekend and seeing Trinity beat up those cops with bullet timing for the first time. Whole theater lost its shit, we’d never seen anything like it.

I feel like that was the end of the era where there were some core anchor shows and movies that EVERYONE saw. Now there’s just so much content on so many platforms, and big budget movies and tv shows are intentionally bad (google fan baiting) so the culture is changing. Who knows where it’ll go from here.

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I’m hearing a lot about cancellations. The growth of AI doesn’t bode well for quality. But I’m hoping the pay-dispute is settled favourably between workers and companies.

Did you hear about the Eragon series that’s supposed to be due? It was confirmed some time ago.

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There is an app called Easy XKCD on the play store and it’s a great XKCD reader. I just pulled this up on there to show my gf. I love it so much lol.

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Do you hide your lemmy or social media from your gf lol?

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No? It’s just easier to share that way and it includes bottom text. She doesn’t care about using lemmy. She didn’t like Reddit either.

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Gotcha.

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