*Me walking up earlier checking the NFL scores and looking at the remaining match-ups realising it’s gonna be another Super Bowl involving the Pats probably* UUURRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

I wrote a little article about the age of marriage and having babies in medieval Europe, it's mostly a collection of what I found on the topic in my library In NW Europe child marriage was RARE! Read here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/01/18/a... or here; fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/age-of-mar...

If Charlotte Brändström has no defenders left for being very real and saying this, I am dead.

I slept for 10 hours…

Deleted my Gladiators posts because of TYPO. But the new event was still shit. I can't see that one surviving very long tbh.

I really love when things reflect in the water.

Leith I am in you.

I can’t believe I’ve been in Scotland for nearly 15 years and visited Edinburgh countless times and this is the first time I’m getting a tram.

I was feeling a little sad about fic again last night (but trying not to let it rule me) so getting a comment that praises my characterisation this morning felt like someone somewhere decided I needed a boost 🥹

Sophie Turner legit looks like she stepped out of my computer while I was playing Tomb Raider II endlessly 1997-98 and the rage farm is still in full swing. It's ridiculous.

Should be writing new fic, constantly poking at one I supposedly finished instead.

I wonder if The Ghoul is just stuck there now 🤔

You guys can probably tell now why I was mad about the factor picking January to decide "hey, we're doing roofing work on your building - it's super expensive!" because yeah, there's now £££ on my credit card thanks to Hot Toys 😂 Also my car is in for a service on Monday. January man 😩

A lot of you know that I wasn’t the biggest fan of the Loki series, there were parts I liked but overall I was a little upset by it. For some reason I decided to order this fucking thing over a year ago and now I’m conflicted. Do I enjoy Loki and his glorious actual hair or rip-off another fan?

Kinda frustrating that every time there’s a popular M/F ship (probably happens to M/M too tbh) out come the accusations of women self-inserting. I imagine most Ghoulcys are like me and approach shipping as “I’m essentially the camera watching this very interesting dynamic” but tbh (1/2)

I feel like people are maybe passing over this anon fic because of the Celeborn/Galadriel/Sauron tag but I promise it’s worth it for the end scene. archiveofourown.org/works/77651331

I’m in an all day team-building exercise, send help.

The me of even 10 years ago would’ve been all over an extended LOTRs anniversary release at the cinema but the me of now is like, “when will I have time?” 😩😆 (I guess I don’t feel a pressing urge because unfortunately I’m old enough to have done them all the very first time lol)

My car key battery is dying and is demonstrating very well the problem with manufacturers removing and actual keyhole from you door… (There’s actually a concealed one but it means having to yank a panel off the handle 🙄)

Someone impaling someone else with a sharp object. All-timer shipping material. Never fails. #Falloutspoilers

Catching up with Fallout expecting to have the best worst time 😂

Eww, everything's changed with how my feeds look?

Bravissimo really reading the room by sending me a "get holiday ready!" email advertising swimwear when I need to find all that money for the factor. New swimwear might happen but at this rate, I'm wearing it in the shower/bath 😂

Acting like Jenrick is some massive scalp like there's not a hell of a lot of people in the UK who think he's a turbo prick and most foreigners are like "...who?" What a riddy.

This is really cool btw! 💚

Merry payday to me, the factor is wanting several hundred pounds for roofing/chimney work on our tenement block 🙃

Just catching up on the Jenrick stuff and what a riddy.

I WILL post about my beef with Glasgow City Council and get zero responses. Idgaf.

*Opening my Notes app because I’ve had another idea for my latest fic* *Reads “write this one in past tense” instruction to self* *Realises I’ve started writing the fic in present tense* 🙃

I was talking to someone about my David Rose themed bookmark yesterday so behold Booksky, my occasional Schitt’s Creek brainrot meeting my extensive reading habit. I’m very fond of this.

I’m gonna be a bitch but, from what I’ve gathered, the latest “we think this author is using AI” drama on AO3 seems to be more about sour grapes that someone is getting a lot of engagement and less about artistic integrity. Then again, I get mid-low attention and got an “this is AI” comment once 🙄

We're about to see a pivot to, "well, it doesn't matter what the actors think!" of immense proportions now Walton has essentially said it's not a father-daughter dynamic. And no, I'm not a hypocrite on this: I don't care if the actors/writers have opposing views to mine, they're not the boss of me.

Me: but Warrington does have two stations. Me after looking a bit harder: oh… omg WHAT?! Also, don’t put TWO Hulls out in the universe!

I’m so tired of “em-dashes mean it was written by AI” being thrown around a year after, quite famously, a spiteful little roaster scraped AO3 and stole a bunch of fic. Can’t believe we have to keep repeating WHERE do you think LLMs learned writing quirks FROM?!

“You ship A/B, which I hate so I’m going to treat you like you need to be driven out of town.” “You’re friendly/neutral toward A/C shippers so despite us both shipping A/B I’m going to be an utter dick to you.” “You don’t ship A/B correctly.” Can some of you please get into team sports instead?

YES. Chill, ffs, I’m not shipping this AT you!

Spending my January-March looking at maps of Middle Earth in the Second and Third Age for the second year in a row 😆

For the Haladriel exchange: I may or may not have read/bookmarked some stuff by the person I'm writing for this time, but I won't confirm or deny because it risks narrowing it down too much. However, I'm being a massive creep on THEIR bookmarks 😂

Scott Adams might not see your mean jokes but a lot of other sociopaths who know people will make jokes about them when they die will

Urgh people fancasting Cavill as Aragorn…

“For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hands…” - #sauron #galadriel

It’s days like today (receiving an exchange prompt) that I cling to because tbh sometimes it’s a bit really very shit feeling pre-judged by the wider Tolkien fandom, and even other Rings of Power fans tbh. But whatever anyone thinks, my little Haladriel corner is nice and uplifts my creativity.

Heartbreaking, all three prompts you received are really good 😂

Love it when some selfish dickhead parks so close to your front bumper you have to do a 12-point turn to get out of a parking space 🥰

The best thing about this remains that it won't work most of the time, because if fic writers commission anyone, they'll commission a big (known) fandom artist or one of our friends who does fan art. And sometimes that's the same person. Unfortunately not everyone is fandom savvy :(

Finally starting on TNM S2 and there's a S1 recap to which my husband's reaction was: fucking hell, he looks young (about Tom.) The march of time is a harsh mistress 😂

Not seen the documentary, but I can believe this unfortunately.

Accusing this place of being "the place where people add wank to song titles" is irritating af because, my guy/girl/neither - some of us LOATHE that shit too! It's boring! But tbh, I don't even see it, because I must be following people who *aren't* "my humour peaked in 2011 on early Twitter."

New article: Though hobbits did not claim vast wealth or power, their lives were nonetheless rich in other ways. They may be seen by others as humble or lowly, but their hearts and homes were bursting with beauty, truth, and goodness... Read here: www.teawithtolkien.com/blog/establi...

“𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅.” - Going to post my art here too so here’s a little Martanis treat from @iconicament3.bsky.social’s fic, Chains of Light and Shadow.