for all their yapping and whining and bitching about the romantsy audience's lack of media literacy, litfic booktubers will deliver their specialist analysis through (no joke no joke) a series of vaguely human noises

Proof you’re best buddies with grandma is that you caught covid together <333

Just realised I cannot in fact read outside my comfort zone and gothic doesn’t really do it for me :( sad I really wanted to like that Rebecca book uh

“In light is [Varda’s] power and joy… [Melkor], she knew from before the making of the Music and [she] rejected him, and he hated her, and feared her more than all others whom Eru made.” Elbereth Lady of the Stars

actually I need a full compensation no shit no shit

Affirmation of the day: whatever your job is, charge family members extra.

Campaign to normalise journalists saying "As if, ya melt!" when politicians try to bullshit them.

there'll never come a time when I'm not madly drawn to minstrels. Look, just the chance to look at history and memory through their pens, how power and factions and then personal interests shape what they choose to pass on and and. There'll never come a time when I'm not madly drawn to minstrels

Note not to take syllogisms too seriously or you’ll come to the obviously false conclusion that efficient bureaucracy is found where law students are scarce.

If I win the lottery there will be signs. (Giant cheese wheel)

lalwen —— silmarillion.

Where “genuine goodness” encompasses: helping free the North from Melkor’s forces (something that *incidentally* positions him as a “good” and “strong” lord under whom it is safe to serve); feeling remorse over Elured&Elurin and searching for them

hot news and it's not that I had a character-induced realization about myself but that said character is not Maglor.

yes there is a certain catholicism to middle earth but tolkien did not make it actual catholicism because he subconsciously knew that if fingolfin coexisted with the bible one of his formative sexual experiences would be getting inappropriately hard while reading genesis 4

worst joke of it all is that I'm supposed to defend my thesis right. HOW am I supposed to defend something I've done, I'm completely unable to defend something I've done

for months I've been in such a state that I've done nothing but readreadread in my spare time but now I've apparently exceeded my normal anxiety levels and for the past two days I've found myself staring at nothing while going through several panic attacks <3

the noldor treat the burning of the ships as little more than collateral damage never considering their significance for the Teleri. Not quite a fratricide but. Nevertheless it is a senseless and callous destruction of a people’s past, present, and future

Maedhros’ motive for abstaining from the burning of the ships remains ambiguous as it is unclear whether it stems from loyalty or from an awareness that they would stand no chance without Fingolfin’s host. It could easily be both, both

likewise, you can't make loyalty lord/vassal or warrior or whatever cute. the dominance element is potent. the abnegation of the self is erotic, but it isn't wholesome.

Books and newspapers must adapt to the rapidly worsening eyesight and print in *at least* size 14 font. You call it a literacy crisis, I call it a myopia crisis

Hyperpolitics is the book I needed to come to terms with a feeling I’ve had for years about how ephemeral political movements and engagement feel today and I know this might sound like a “good old days” attitude but

maedhros 🔥🗡️ #silmarillion

i sexted you in elvish pls respond

at the risk of sounding like a hooligan but I'm so glad of the outcome of a constitutional referendum that rejected a poorly written reform and what could have been a first step toward the erosion of judicial independence

had the nicest stroll after voting at 8.21 a.m. (truly the experience).

constitutional referendum in a few days, get ready for me to start screaming on here because I know I will for fuck's sake

I've officially shed my human condition (not that I ever fully identified with it in the first place. I've always felt closer to a hippocampus anyway). I'm a thesis now. I exist only insofar as I am one. I don't own my thoughts. My flesh is inconsistent.

maemags.....

"You thought I was bringing you flowers?"

planning my post-RotE strategy because I just know I'll feel sick af so I figured I’d read some nonfiction and start an AssApprentice reread to help me cope™️

The paradox of those who reject "utopia" by clinging to a so-called balance between humanism and pragmatism lies in the belief that The Right Order can conquer without crushing something under its boot.

We really need to take the time to reflect on utopias but seriously. Deeply distressing that even in our most unbridled fantasies we're unable to imagine freedom from conflict and domination

any cat born after the dawn of time can't cook. all they know is meow meow, chase the red dot, take naps, eat churu and lie

Fuck it. I'm crying already.

received direct confirmation of this from one of the most educated people I know. It wasn’t new but it was still astonishing to hear someone dear to me say “I don’t want to call what I know into question, because afterward I wouldn’t know what to hold on to and that’s terrifying”. It is! It is!

If you nursed any doubts about the extent of my pettiness know I'm discussing a textbook I had to study for an exam I took in *July* and which I had already obliquely referenced months ago as "a book that should have been a Tumblr post"

that damn State Theory textbook postulates that constitutional law + scholars alone are required to grapple with a politically charged framework - false given that constitutional law reverberates throughout the entire legal system (regulation of contract, property etc)

Here's The Life I Always Wanted (Fitz And The Fool)

Oh yeah youre Palestinian tell me you dont hate hindutvas iranian diaspora jews and white Christians prove it prove youre human enough for me only to do nothing because I am stupid and an islamophobe orientalist

The shit you people ask of Palestinians is some of the most heinous, undignifying things I have ever seen in my entire life, I literally can not imagine seeing children with their heads blown open while being demanded to explain you dont hate xyz people

No extensive experience with fantasy but if I were to identify a difference between Tolkien and RH I'd say that while the former's worldbuilding presents itself as an internally "indisputable" structure, the latter constructs a world that persistently interrogates both itself + its underlying logic

RotE experience: from a tetralogy about dragons and their keepers (rich in political/cultural dilemmas yet. whimsical) to a subsequent trilogy steeped in layered solitudes, delving into the persistence of abusive cycles + the price one is expected to endure in order to belong to a family or a state

Elrond has had ENOUGH #Tolkien #art

별보라 Star-Spray 날개 그리다 사망함 #silmarillion #elwing

proof that I'm in the darkest depths of my thesis: barely 3 glasses of wine made me tipsy, borderline drunk - which means I can't even benefit from that very strange fluency that takes over when I'm tipsy and makes me suddenly burst into fanfic and write in solid English

Celebrimbor Fëanorion and the bloodied star #Celebrimbor #silmarillion #lotr #trop #digitalart

Latest commission: Maedhros Fëanorian in his Treelit Little Shit™️ era, ie arrogant Years of the Trees prince for feyandferal on Tumblr. Truly went wild with the hair for ‘this guy is literally called Carrots for half his life’ reasons 😈🥕 #silmarillion #silmart #lotr #tolkien

Aredhel the white in pretty armor <3 tried to do my marker art style in digital and it went...okay I think? #Aredhel #silmarillion #tolkien #tolkienfanart #tolkienart