you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that

The problem with Reddit is that I really like it for hobby stuff (r/succulents and r/aquariums yayyy), and this means I regularly forget what it’s like for fandom-related anything and get tempted into going to look. again.

Why does my cat want to drink my coffee this morning?

My personal suspicion is that a lot of them feel faintly humiliated because they can't use chopsticks well or don't like chilli oil or black vinegar, and instead of either accepting that or changing it, they want to burn down everything that reminds them that they're uncool

hi #TROPRewatch #TROPReforged people!! don’t forget we have an ao3 collection for any fic you complete for this event here: archiveofourown.org/collections/... and check out our tumblr: www.tumblr.com/troprewatch please tag us there and we’ll rb any of your creations :)

As a certified hater, I never get into fights with these easy steps: 1 - complain in private to your best buddy who Gets It 2 - don't bother posting about it 3 - if you see a thing that sucks: scroll away

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

i keep cracking up at this post on AI writing

I am reading a thing for work and it is VERY VERY BAD, like ‘how in the world did you get funding to produce this’ kind of bad, and it has just made me so absurdly grumpy.

I genuinely think this is an universal thing literally nobody loves their country as much as a person who heard an American express a mildly negative opinion about it

A load of onions washed up on the beach and someone rescued a load of them and ate them and things are kicking off on Facebook. Am now very invested in the sea-onion-saga. #TeamOnion

I was so young and naive on Monday.

Intermittent reminder ahead of all TROP S3 stuff: please do not explain to me how you just cannot stand Celeborn but it’s not a ship war and you have really good reasons for that because the fandom drove you to it and... I am not your audience! I do not caaaare and I do not believe you.

Or rather, America is on Russia’s side, Russia is only on its own side

I mean to be fair, platforms 13 and 14 at Piccadilly are pretty far away from the rest of Manchester, maybe that bit's right

Rings of Power elf horses doing airs above the ground in battle <3

Once saw "It's not romantic, she's only holding his face like that because she feels guilty about the scar she's touching [that he got fighting in an org whose motto is to live and die for her, which he left her side to join after he couldn't bear to be around her husband any more]" and. well.

🌿 elrond peredhel 🌿 for a lovely mutual who supported me on kofi, tried my take on elrond! with some new lighting and actual hands lol #silm #silmarillion #silmart #lotr #lordoftherings #elrond #tolkien #tolkienart #art #GoldenAtreidesArt

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

I wouldn't spend any amount of time on this at all if it was Just a fake story. Fake stories go viral all the time (UberEats, Jamaican Masterpiece), whatev. But this one was also leading people to specific conclusions about what women in fandom are like, based on something that didn't happen

debating whether to try designing their parents tho their mom isnt named... also obsessed w the Celeborn fam all having tree names (litterally the same name as important trees in Aman/Numenor/Gondor w/e) they can live on in this way at least. except Elmo ig. anyway my Sindar bias is abt to come out

Do you ever sometimes stop in the middle of a Tuesday and think about how some of the Noldor who had stood with the Feanorians all the way through the First Age and sacked Doriath and Alqualondë turned on the Feanorians mid-kinslaying at Sirion to fight for Elwing against them? no haha me neither.

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

Don’t you ‘in your orbit’ me, Tumblr. This may be my circus but I want nothing to do with that monkey.

Exclusive leak from S3 of Dread Pirate Galadriel rescuing Princess Celeborn from the Pit of Despair #TheRingsofPower Source: it came to me in a dream

I was going to say “I wrote this!” but on reflection no I didn’t because it was Sauron who was pregnant in that fic. letting the side down as ever 😔

okay we have moved to Fun Storytime with the Risk Register which is. bleaker.

Having a brief, odd Monday morning of Liking My Job. I am sure this phase will pass with my next Teams ping.

I think it was @geogvma.bsky.social who pointed out that every single leftwing 9/11 truther of the 2010s, was a full on neo nazi by 2019. I am willing to bet that every communist dabbling in antisemitism right now, will be a full on neo nazi by the end of this decade.

“Rosie Cotton dancing. She had ribbons in her hair. If ever I was to marry someone, it would’ve been her. It would’ve been her.” Hey so I saw @alexandriamonikart.bsky.social ‘s LOTR post and it made me cry (rude) so I did this to get the emotionsTM outta me #lordoftherings #lordoftheringsart

‘candy heart threats’

A fluffy guy

Due to popular demand (3 people asked lmao) here’s a Sauron thirst trap for everyone on this app ✨ - #Sauron | Outrageous - #halbrand #annatar #ringsofpower #trop #charlievickers

I’m in a cafe and there’s a very small baby crying at the next table, and my breasts are trying to start up the milk letdown reflex. “ALERT ALERT SMALL THING MAKING NOISE WE HAVE ONE TOOL HERE GO GO GO” no! stop it!

Come on, The Telegraph. Your crossword’s still good.

It's all about dedication and time.. I've spent the better half of my life #drawing and #painting. Skills take time to develop and don't happen overnight. Just like with anything, you have to practice! In this video, you can see my art progress from childhood to age 30. #noai #glowup

the best ships I've experienced are like non-canon ships from shows that ended 5-10 years ago no weirdos arguing about "it won't go canon tho!", noone asking the cast/crew about it, and there's multiple 50k fics from 2011

[Q]:If you could kidnap one world leader,who would it be? UK Defense Secretary Healey: I'd take Putin into custody.Hold him account for these war crimes.Hold him account for what I saw in Bucha on one of my first visits to Ukraine.For the abduction of some of the Ukrainian kids that I met in Irpin

Dreamed I was lost in the Barbican on the way to meet Werner Herzog & my thumbs & tongue were made of wax & kept melting & when I finally found him he took one look at me, eyes filled with pity, disgust & a deep intimacy with the void & said “Rose, the furnace of your vanity is destroying you”

Full post on Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/schlocktober...

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#TROPRewatch catchup with s1e8!!!

If your answer is "No! What a weird question! Sport teams and athletes want to do sports and get their reward. That is what sports is about"... then why do you want to do exactly the same with creatives?

Thought this before when observing a esspecially ignorant one who got roasted by the disabled community (he instrumentalized): Would you think athletes and sports teams would appreciate to be replaced with robots doing all the sports, so they only have to watch and take the trophy/medal afterwards?

Love how any time someone's pitching an AI tool to fiction writers it's done with the assumption that *of course* the creativity is the bit you'll want or need to outsource. "It can generate ideas for you!" yeah thanks I'm not short of ideas - can it come make dinner so I have time to write them?

Witch Hare #kaseyart #penandink

For those interested, here's Stephen Mitchell's translation:

I still wonder if there is something to be made of the parallel between Sauron offering Adar wine on their first meeting and Galadriel offering Elrond water on their first meeting, and the webs of loyalty and betrayal in those dynamics. #TROPRewatch

This is a fantastic resource for anyone thinking of basing a fictional language on any endangered real-life language, not just Scots Gaelic. gaelic.co/gaelic-for-a... #BookSky 📚💙 #languages #worldbuilding #BookSky 🪐📚

"What wrong did the golden house of Finarfin do...?" [Unfinished Tales]