Books   About “I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.” Hobbits Shuffling Tumblr (3.0; @thisfirewillcatch)http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4b7433cb3877a783cd9eb4dd1a12a51e/tumblr_mhrrm9F4dr1qcp3ino1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51053341943http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51053341943Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:17 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/95a5aa261ca47dc28b95f783dea0cba2/tumblr_mn6k3fDShD1rwbixko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://chrek4lyfe.tumblr.com/post/51044227718/i-figure-people-would-ask-him-for-a-reblogable-so" target="_blank">chrek4lyfe</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I figure people would ask him for a reblogable so I made one myself</p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51049287658http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51049287658Tue, 21 May 2013 21:39:55 -0700<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://waiting-for-the-tardis.tumblr.com/post/50944919459/sometimes-i-only-like-things-bc-everybodys-so" target="_blank">waiting-for-the-tardis</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>sometimes i only like things bc everybody’s so bitter about them it’s like the reverse of being passive aggressive im positive aggressive</p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51048941297http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51048941297Tue, 21 May 2013 21:34:05 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5e940ab9bee12a678ab8839ef12102c8/tumblr_mlo2mjaecr1qaufsto3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/58552519d35a1f3e44949f10296073f1/tumblr_mlo2mjaecr1qaufsto1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d02204a8d785c073310c2066efeb2e6c/tumblr_mlo2mjaecr1qaufsto2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/68860692c887b7bedda12ed871cc7af4/tumblr_mlo2mjaecr1qaufsto4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thinknoblethoughts.tumblr.com/post/50987643560/i-took-a-7-week-coast-to-coast-road-trip-after" target="_blank">thinknoblethoughts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p><em>I took a 7 week coast to coast road trip after being laid off from Boeing. I didn’t have a camper but realized that being able to pull off the road at a rest or truck stop was the way to go to make the trip affordable. With a few sheets of 1/2” plywood and misc. hardware this is what I came up with. The effort was well worth the time and materials.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>perfect.</p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51045167438http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51045167438Tue, 21 May 2013 20:36:33 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/07a8c37818e5291c62ec97acb47b9bc8/tumblr_mn4jju4z5f1qj77gfo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://its-salah.tumblr.com/post/50952663491/the-unseen-sea" target="_blank">its-salah</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>The Unseen Sea.</em></p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51023711108http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/51023711108Tue, 21 May 2013 16:07:10 -0700<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sfux.tumblr.com/post/50881786326/i-feel-like-people-who-eat-breakfast-really-have" target="_blank">sfux</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together</p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50991692360http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50991692360Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:35 -0700not me ever20 minutes to get ready in the morning and who has time for toast<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/982cb92cdc4c0fa61bd09c9aca457f8c/tumblr_mn420aytWf1r7ukq0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://symplegades.tumblr.com/post/50969424348/by-andrea-huemmer" target="_blank">symplegades</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreahuemmer/5419552953/in/faves-75449930@N07/" target="_blank">Andrea Huemmer</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50970190393http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50970190393Mon, 20 May 2013 22:11:53 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/455057dcedbe9a3a3f7cd3826095ecf0/tumblr_mk5xaqI6s01qjvnc4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/508a82b1a9fd2eb955c9c66dba1f2918/tumblr_mk5xaqI6s01qjvnc4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9f345b79707431da582b717a0185fe4f/tumblr_mk5xaqI6s01qjvnc4o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c11369bb4bf53f04b1736d30e6d82c5f/tumblr_mk5xaqI6s01qjvnc4o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fbb1edf3223eb19b504bf8d6b10a36aa/tumblr_mk5xaqI6s01qjvnc4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://travelingcolors.tumblr.com/post/46200514034/spring-time-in-paris-france-by-liz-rusby" target="_blank">travelingcolors</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellarosebyliz/sets/72157617732855780/detail/?page=2" target="_blank"><strong>Spring time in Paris | France</strong> (by Liz Rusby)</a></p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50968894724http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50968894724Mon, 20 May 2013 21:48:50 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8wv0lmhGm1qgmt5yo6_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8wv0lmhGm1qgmt5yo5_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8wv0lmhGm1qgmt5yo3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8wv0lmhGm1qgmt5yo4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8wv0lmhGm1qgmt5yo1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8wv0lmhGm1qgmt5yo2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50952320628http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50952320628Mon, 20 May 2013 18:12:30 -0700THEY ALL GREW UP SO MUCHOH MY GOD THIS SHOWbuffy<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://soselfimportant.tumblr.com/post/48418948527/4-35-blaze-it-sorry-traffic-was-crazy" target="_blank">soselfimportant</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>4:35 Blaze it sorry traffic was crazy</p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50942502412http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50942502412Mon, 20 May 2013 16:06:15 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/69f9961e0d3b21104b7caf26bd44c274/tumblr_mktk544zNr1s7qo7ho1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6ca57931d927cbef91d6b137b1fb5f0b/tumblr_mktk544zNr1s7qo7ho2_500.png"/><br/> <br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50940424667http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50940424667Mon, 20 May 2013 15:39:18 -0700elementary<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7y3cvh2bS1qea4huo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50888222214http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50888222214Sun, 19 May 2013 22:34:12 -0700moonrise kingdom<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/648c3e83c1705f63f50edd86c5f67376/tumblr_mm60sr5lan1rdes1jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50885370822http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50885370822Sun, 19 May 2013 21:42:55 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9d7e98b3451e2a504e188dbf4b781573/tumblr_mmgip9r2wX1r42bd3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50880338822http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50880338822Sun, 19 May 2013 20:29:18 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/15f35b859b62a051751f9e880d11f17c/tumblr_mn29dgXMmB1qaf0ggo2_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9532b630dc62241cf80345cb1e15a6b5/tumblr_mn29dgXMmB1qaf0ggo1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/734fa6e33d2925bf7f4038760f7efae4/tumblr_mn29dgXMmB1qaf0ggo8_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a473ec0d7bec813ea45ac17d59a3976c/tumblr_mn29dgXMmB1qaf0ggo3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f45dbca4796d4d70d68b1ca55bfe957d/tumblr_mn29dgXMmB1qaf0ggo4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e70e98e5a16e8c8a3f0e4ef4d0b3edef/tumblr_mn29dgXMmB1qaf0ggo5_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/243d019047c71e92a5846da6a1954ff8/tumblr_mn29dgXMmB1qaf0ggo6_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1a0cf5c362113f8d20358286a7e456ec/tumblr_mn29dgXMmB1qaf0ggo7_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><em><strong><small>As a society, we are fascinated by fictional psychopaths.</small></strong> <small>Humankind has an ‘ongoing… fascination with tales of gruesome murders and evil villain. Popular culture abounds with depictions of the mad and the bad; and aberrant psychology has proved a fertile source of such material to the novelist and the reader alike. Perhaps no single disorder holds as much morbid cultural appeal as psychopathy.</small></em></p> <p><em><small>There is no question… that readers feel empathy with and sympathy for fictional characters and other aspects of fictional worlds’, yet it is difficult to see how one can empathise and identify with a character who is himself incapable of empathy. If empathy and identification are both the goal and the reward of reading literature, then we are left with a striking ambivalence which needs to be explored. </small></em></p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50876618523http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50876618523Sun, 19 May 2013 19:41:00 -0700dexterhannibalthe shiningbatmanthe followingsweeney todd<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://greater-reality.tumblr.com/post/39691058045/everyone-who-terrifies-you-is-sixty-five-percent" target="_blank">greater-reality</a>:</p> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <p>Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.<br/>And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes<br/>you cannot even breathe deeply, and<br/>the night sky is no home, and<br/>you have cried yourself to sleep enough times<br/>that you are down to your last two percent, but</p> <p>nothing is infinite,<br/>not even loss.</p> <p>You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day<br/>you are going to find yourself again.  </p> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50871645446http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50871645446Sun, 19 May 2013 18:38:50 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ddfc575e9dc201d0fd408ed504c79586/tumblr_mjvso3Hvrt1rozn13o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50863949831http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50863949831Sun, 19 May 2013 16:56:24 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d685d548416c9ec83e7408376525e48f/tumblr_mmroq7VTYM1r2v9jao1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c90ffe638f6d86e444816d897b683ba1/tumblr_mmroq7VTYM1r2v9jao3_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a007581e5018b84e50af174d7e6c09aa/tumblr_mmroq7VTYM1r2v9jao2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50859810705http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50859810705Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:44 -0700castle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c26d59ac3fad5d76f9bd0000b4d56741/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo1_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bb3a1bad15e9aaaf7b561988143bf43e/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo2_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6b8a6d212402c3e15589c96d91215f53/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo5_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/da86d5554c8f6f7a01e15c5fef545fb9/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo4_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d77d48d135aa9dd059b9ed3f87ecfd31/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo3_r2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0dc88fadbe89aea33f66180bb54e8dc7/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo6_r2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c2a39e136c9110268e94926b3fa307f5/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo7_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a6f6abb427384acca70da1724cf3406d/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo10_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6d491dd1496a1116207a62774763479d/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo8_r2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/739f2ece76c8b2e8d65181bcdf9a2587/tumblr_mmo1mf1VXk1r6f6deo9_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p>Buffy the Vampire Slayer + <em>foreshadowing</em></p> </blockquote>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50856484555http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50856484555Sun, 19 May 2013 15:16:41 -0700buffy<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0619bf30aa8cc0834e9cb50a723472d1/tumblr_mn090oLZ091rpk0ono1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50839073054http://thisfirewillcatch.tumblr.com/post/50839073054Sun, 19 May 2013 11:42:20 -0700dollhouse