i can't help but think these ppl signing permission forms for their kids to leave public school and attend christian classes are weak af. when i was in bible school, you did that shit AFTER SCHOOL and on WEEKENDS to prove your commitment. ya'll never would have survived early 00's teen bible study.

GO BACK TO THE SHADOW

my ed class assigned me to come up with an anchor text, and i foolishly decided to look up the courses i could *realistically* end up teaching, and now have fallen back into a SGGK-shaped rabbit hole.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

sometimes when i wake up i immediately check discord notifs and then by the time i've had my coffee i have completely forgotten what they were or what i was going to reply to. i will never learn not to do this.

i just realized i forgot to finish & post one of the prompts i got back at xmas. oh my god.

thank you for this thread! i had an off-the-cuff comic turned into a meme and it's such a weird feeling that my art is just being spread out there without any credit here's a version with my name on it, im fine with people using that one :)

arondir 🌄💚 (I added a mallorn tree + leaves in hopes that he ends up in lothlórien one day) #ringsofpower #arondir

i get that ppl are disappointed that they didn't get their fanon dwarf lover celebrimbor but i cannot emphasize enough how DURIN AND ELROND are so good??? and they are ALL OF THAT and MORE?

trop celebrimbor fandom is so weird it's like a bunch of people who have moved on, one person who posts fucking genAI trash, two people who are uncomfortably into HP, three other guys who are chill, and me

Daydreaming of it and mapping it out in your head in its entirety and then not getting to it for several years counts as writing

TROP is an AU in that everything in the silm still happens, but for slightly different reasons. sauron has to come back to numenor as a captive bc galadriel ruined his intro. celebrimbor makes the three rings first because halbrand doesn't have 400 years to wait.

man, i don't wanna be around VC 🧛 fandom if those old men don't fuck this season

my new "what are you doing after graduation?" is going to be "so are you gonna start teaching?"

Occasionally, I've been branching out into other Tolkien character ships and had a great time reading this... Annatar: I'm a divine being, it'll be fine. Reader: it was very much not fine!

mom i frew up :(

i really miss writing my seasons of the second age series sometimes. sometimes the plotting was frustrating, but i wasn't anxious in the same way i am w current projects. i feel so self-conscious and nervous writing book!verse fic. anyone else?

trying to read angbang fic but getting unexpectedly squicked by the insistence to portray sauron as a sexy secretary. being a secretary is not sexy :(

personally "stem the flow" is my silvergifting anthem rn but i appreciate that paris sees it as the toxic relationship between gandalf and the balrog. do they have history? did they date each other pre-morgoth? what's the lore?

i must admit, i am a little baffled by booktok publishing culture. people are so defeatist about not finding an agent or publisher. idk. you got the internet. we have lulu and domains. ao3 allows original fiction. post it, see what happens...?

my coworker came into my office today to show me that RTD said there would be a press release soon and that "there is hope!" 💀

thank GOD, i thought she forgot about me 🥰

happy pride!

tumblr is already at it inventing "major problems" for queer people that only exist in their insular fandom discord communities :') happy pride!!!

Pride

It's pride month waheyyy 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Pride Month lovely Rainbow people!

#haladriel | Stem the Flow

uh. you don't have to subtweet me, you can just reply? this isn't twitter

my pain has been back recently and i'm like, how the fuck did i live with this for a decade, this is awful

ao3 stats are weird, not for the usual reasons, but because the fics i've written as an adult with a degree and romantic experience have a few hundred hits and the fics i wrote when i was 15-19 range from 30k-100k hits.

my garden is in muahahahaHAHAHAHA

it kills me when someone is like "why does no one in tolkien fandom talk about this?" and i can think of a forum thread from like 2006 where they did indeed talk about this

my partner's besties are visiting and one of them said "your instagram stories are so interesting and unique, it's like everything is a deep cut that i don't understand but they're fascinating and so funny" and like i'll be riding that high for weeks

i was nervous about my first few class assignments bc i've never taken a pedagogy course before, and i'm terrified of a poor grade on my transcripts for future grad work, but i got an A! 🎉 now i just hope i did my morphology right. 😪

tried really hard to get a picture of tegan in this forge so i could make a silly joke but she was NOT having it, we got attacked by a wasp, and then the park lady came to lock up

being a silmarillion fan is like here is a joke about my ocs that is based on a note about pronunciation of one dialect of a fictional language that does not really appear in any of the well known story lines

i really enjoy talking to ya'll on this site, but the censorship is making it hard to use it. If bsky starts blocking me from talking to half the people i know because they occasionally post adult content, i will leave because i won't have a reason to be here without people to follow.

i can't see any nsfw labeled posts on this site because bsky hides them unless i give them my government ID (in response to a law they aren't subject to, and that no other site obeys). i'm sure i'm about to lose access to talking to people on here. 🙄

there's a difference between having a coworker, family member, or acquaintance that is casually transphobic and being FRIENDS with a TERF. you can whittle away at one and model tolerance and acceptance. you cannot "put up with" a radical transphobe without enabling transphobia.

wait why is annatar a quenya name

Reminds me of my quest to find all the places from which Tolkien might have derived "dwimmerlayk" as an epithet for the Witch King: www.tumblr.com/lilyhandmaid...

every time i see someone say "tolkien got that from medieval literature/history!" i become extremely annoying because i want to know What he read, Where he found it, and How they know because did he ever say that? are there parallels? are we making an inference or a wild guess?

Was talking about this with a friend earlier and it’s always a good time to share again for those who’ve not yet had the joy! The complete ‘MsScribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography’ charlottelennox.livejournal.com/887.html

@scottmccloud.bsky.social From over on the Insta, our Eli Bishop with a delightful non-answer answer for the morning

last time i found a zine i wanted on ebay, someone i know sniped me, and as i'm currently waiting for this seller to get back to me with a bundle and i'm SWEATING

has this deadass been on my wall for a whole year now while i continue to poke away at the story 💀

keeping these things private and away from study is a CRIME!!! i hope someone buys it and donates it to an archive.