Tiny snowman, doing his best

here’s some of my thoughts on guillermo del toro’s frankenstein! open.substack.com/pub/erulasse...

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

That's Galadriel

When folks write things designed to make you panic, you should take a breath and ask - is this designed to make me engage? Or is it actually trying to inform?

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Similarly Shelob is something that looks like a spider!!!

Maybe the sickest burn I've ever seen in my life is the closed-captioning feeling the need to explain Jacob's pun. #AbbottElementary

I've also now posted the first five chapters of this one on AO3

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Got my first couple spambot fanfic comments! Exciting times!

So much water, and yet so much thirst… #TROPRewatch

where there is love, it is never truly dark. 🍃 a sapling growing in the depths of khazad-dûm for #TROPRewatch week 2: depths/deep.

Some are bent over to listen to secrets. Try sharing your troubles (and triumphs) with a tree. (I'm moving soon, and I'm not going to miss my apartment, but I am going to miss my neighborhood trees.)

Brand new prints available today of "Goldberry's Washing Day"! A marvelous fairy-tale scene. More links in comments! www.miriamellis.com/product-page... #Tolkien #TolkienArt #Goldberry #TomBombadil #TheLordoftheRings #Hobbits

Instead of poking Gandalf's cheeks, I do wish Nori had booped his nose. #TROPRewatch

Just in time! I have finished my piece for the #TROPRewatch #TROPReforged episode 1 prompt. For each of the storylines in the episode, two characters (Galadriel and Elrond, Bronwyn and Arondir, and Nori and Poppy) reflect on what "home" means to them. archiveofourown.org/works/738491...

1.1: "Home" for #TROPrewatch + #TROPreforged One of my favourite scenes of TROP. And it was perfect for the prompt!✨ The conflict in Galadriel is so huge and Valinor feels so imposing (almost terrifying) that even the first time I watched the show (still not very convinced) it gave me the chills👀

I don't know why this made me laugh so hard

#TROPRewatch returns tonight with S1E2; and the #TROPReforged prompt is Depths/Deep. We’re looking forward to your thoughts and creations! #TROP #RingsofPower

Kinda fun that writers of medieval manuscripts were cracking open the emoji keyboard

bilbo baggins is a man who kind of has a woman’s narrative. like the whole thing about the tension between domestic life and adventure and the social consequences of leaving your place in society, having in wit what you lack in strength, and so on. he’s a man with a plucky heroine’s story

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

All my Tolkientober ficlets in one place on AO3! I'll be (hopefully) posting one of them per day. archiveofourown.org/works/737406...

good morning gang, let’s all suffer together

All my Tolkientober ficlets in one place on AO3! I'll be (hopefully) posting one of them per day. archiveofourown.org/works/737406...

here’s a link to the tumblr page for #troprewatch in case you want to pop over and see what people are sharing there! www.tumblr.com/troprewatch

You heard me

She's a homMEOWner and she has no idea

I am a homeowner today AND I'm going to see Florence and the Machine in April

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

#Tolkientober Day 19: Transformation Tw// Blood At some point, his blood started to run black 💔🖤 P.S: It had been a while since I wanted to draw this and today's prompt was perfect! I'm glad I managed to finish this one on time ^^ #Adar #Moriondor #Morgoth

#Tolkientober day 19: transformation “His trees began to sprout and grow, as if time was in a hurry and wished to make one year do for twenty. In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April.”

day 21 #tolkientober - A connection with deep #roots

#tolkientober in caverns ♥

#Tolkientober day 28: perseverance “The fire of their hearts was young, […] and finding no other way they endured at last the terror of the Helcaraxë and the cruel hills of ice. Few of the deeds of the Noldor thereafter surpassed that desperate crossing in hardihood or woe.” #TolkienTrewsday

day 31 of #tolkientober "Destruction" Maglor moments after tossing in the last symbol of the oath that led to crumbling and severing of so many things. A history and an act that would also wither him as well. #fanart #sketch #silmarillion #tolkien

I'm supposed to close on my condo tomorrow, and all I feel is 100% dread that something will go wrong or already has and I don't know it yet.

I'm really trying to catch up on everything everyone's been making and posting, btw.

I'm really proud of this finale piece, and proud that I managed to complete all 31 #Tolkientober prompts. Thanks to anyone who engaged with my writing over the past month!

Life kept me from completing #Tolkientober yesterday, but here it is today: my 31st and last piece for #tolkientober2025: Destruction "They said Lúthien tore down the fortress of Tol-in-Gaurhoth with mind and magic alone." Enjoy the Fall of Dol Guldur! www.tumblr.com/lilyhandmaid...

i just appreciate that they kept to the spirit of the original story and fridged finrod to further a woman's story.

Hot singles are making an impact in your area! #TROPRewatch

Life kept me from completing #Tolkientober yesterday, but here it is today: my 31st and last piece for #tolkientober2025: Destruction "They said Lúthien tore down the fortress of Tol-in-Gaurhoth with mind and magic alone." Enjoy the Fall of Dol Guldur! www.tumblr.com/lilyhandmaid...