Every time I think of how Star Wars messed up Finn's story I get mad. I am not a person who gets mad about Star Wars. This is an exception. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL.

There are times I’ve kind of wished I’d never written Shadow-Bride’, but any time I go back and reread bits of it I find myself remembering how much I like it still and am glad I did. Awww Shadow-Bride Celeborn, I’m sorry you’re not really in it beyond this because I like your attitude!

so (& #tropspoilers just in case) I wouldn't put much stock in FoF 'leaks' and conclusions anyway, but even if JCB actually is 'a book elf' I don't get the leap to "therefore he's either Glorfindel or Celeborn"? There are quite a lot of elves in those books.

"I asked Grok, and..." Okay, well I asked a gonk droid, and it went gonk.

Flu mostly gone, leaving me with the usual post-viral several weeks of coughing so hard that my chest hurts :(

Diego Luna and Genevieve O’Reilly behind the scenes of ANDOR Season 2

Also! if there’s two of you to share the parenting you can trade off 20 minutes of writing time here and there, like so. (headcanon accepted on this one, too, I bet Perrin Fertha kids’ birthday parties featured an open bar for the parents.)

As kind as summer Elros & Elrond #elros #elrond #lotr #silmarillion #trop

Honestly: I don’t have more free time than I did at uni, but I have more of the kind of commitments that let me write on my phone in 3.5-minute chunks of time while sitting at the cafe at a kids’ soft play party, and I am both better at and more in need of that kind of writing now.

I have a hard time throwing something out if it has a nice pattern, so I “recycled” a Tory Burch shopping bag into a work of art. 🙂

The flu is finally releasing me from its deathlike grip yayyyyy (and I can go back to work! muted yayyyyy)

Also the cousin of this in TV show fandoms: “While I did watch this sci-fi/fantasy show I see myself as someone more into prestige drama, and therefore all you nerds who like its associated shows/books/genres need to be quiet and let me, the Normie Whisperer, explain why you’re having fun wrong.”

This hoya’s going through its goth phase

Someone handed this to my grandpa in an Inwood bar, c. 1946

I sympathise with the frustration at a certain flavour of TTRPG fans claiming it's elitist to learn the rules of the game you're playing, but I have to laugh at analogies like "you wouldn't say it's elitist to watch a TV show you claim to be a fan of"; people in TV show fandoms 100% do say that.

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks

My Tom Thumb jade flowered!

Random stairwell in a Porto apartment complex #Photography #Monochrome #B&W #Architecture📷

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

pleeeeeease

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

all right everyone it’s time for Round 2 of If They Can Do It With Darth Maul…

Saw a grumble about AO3 writers that included complaints about what’s tagged as the “main ship” and “when I’m browsing the blorbo/skrunkly tag I expect to see…”, and of course! this was someone who does not write themselves. 🫠 You’re not the boss of me, random entitled reader.

In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! #Galadriel #RingsofPower #TROP

This is why I want General Jar Jar getting brought out of retirement to tee up against Thrawn. Because if you look at everything, Jar Jar was elbows deep in a ton of shit. And Thrawn is gonna badly misread that.

you may as well try writing whatever it is you've got it mind. too ambitious? weird? niche? who cares? no point putting restraints on yourself. most of us are making it up as we go anyway. let it rip, as a treat. the best part is just doing it and trying.

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/

plant colours:

Yeah :D

the fear of checking your notifications and not knowing if it's 30+ like 31 or 30+ like the international society of pedantic strangers just reviewed your post at their annual conference

Things AO3 will let you do that may not be immediately obvious, A Thread: 1) search for fics with your desired ship *and no other ships* - use ‘otp:true’ in the search filter bar, like this:

Elrond and Elros, the Little Twin Stars ⭐️ #art

Andor (2022-2025), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)

thanks online thesaurus site for suggesting that the word I was looking for to describe someone letting all their feelings show on their face in a vulnerable way, was 'bodacious'.

ohhhhhh.

Fandom isn’t your job. Take a month off. Take 3 years off. Post incomplete fics. Post incomplete art. Never post again. Switch fandoms. Stay loyal to one fandom only. Do whatever tf you want. You literally make all the rules of engagement in this arena.

Why am I STILL ill this is RIDICULOUS I shall be lodging some form of complaint.

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👀

Watercolour painting of a dog called Lilah! #dogs #dogsofbluesky #art #watercolours #paintings #petportraits

I bet Zoomers haven't even done TWO of these things

Good news! Even though my 6-year-old and her group of equally feral friends are now “a proper werewolf pack”, she has agreed she will refer to the rest of us as “my human family.”

virtue signalling is good actually

Prince Thousand-Enemies

every time i’m about to respond to someone online with a terrible opinion i have to remind myself that Europol just exposed a SIM farm platform that powered 49 million fake social media accounts. engagement farming is real. don’t raise your cortisol over bots, oomfies

I hate being ill (she coughs, dramatically)

and every weirdly intense rant about how Celeborn is not even interesting or important and also is very bad for her actually and also is not even worth talking about! (a 🧵, 1/58)… same.

Bluesky developer blog on ‘group-private data’ (ie, private accounts/circles/friendslock): docs.bsky.app/blog

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

For the first time ever the school called my husband rather than me about a sick child! except: this is one of the few times I can drop work more easily than he can, so I picked her up anyway which surely won’t help my Please Call The Parent Who Is Listed As First Parent To Contact campaign.