just realized this Saint Peter looks like George Lucas

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

Anna May Wong for the Broadway play, On The Spot. Portrait by Joseph Grant, 1932.

You're trapped on the last TV show you watched. Where are you? …it’s not looking good for me.

the peak Babylon 5 season one moment is that there's this deeply moving moment where one of the characters sits shiva for a dead father, in one of the very few examples of Judaism in sci-fi being earnestly practiced, and it is inexplicably stapled to the racist alien MMA plot that everyone hates

that turns it from her honoring this dwarf so greatly that she gave him something she would not give even to fëanor to “i would sooner give my hair to this *dwarf* than you” which in the context is loaded beyond belief about dwarves more than anything about fëanor

Deux carpes dans une cascade - Katsushika Hokusai.

If TROP does not show the Hobbits getting introduced to pipeweed by Numenoreans then frankly Amazon need to hand those licensing rights back in shame.

so it turns out if you watch star wars with a seven and nine year old, all your star wars takes will fall away. you will find peace, as the pure artistic intent guiding the entire franchise is revealed to you (laser sword go bzzzoooooo)

me: I just think, if you did eat a worm, it would taste all muddy. small, intense child: I would rinse it under the tap for a LONG time.

Amid the chaos of life, there is always room for beauty. Pause for a moment. I’ve brought you two paintings by an artist from Odesa. 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Atsmanchuk (1923-1974)

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After 'destroying' Sauron in Forodwaith, the Uruks travelled to the South. Many dangers left their numbers diminished, so they took shelter in a cave system inside the Misty Mountains... where they stayed for centuries. There, Adar made sure to pass the old Uruk stories to the new generations✨🐺🔥

Like rain drops on water, our succulents ripples out in concentric circles #art #photography #succulents

"Yeah, man, I've always wanted to live in a glass city in the desert made by slaves... and you don't pay any tax? Yeah, man, thank god for slaves." (video www.instagram.com/reels/DTQUZS... by Tom Nestor on Instagram)

Uploaded some Babylon 5 Delenn and Delenn/Lennier meta I wrote on LJ back in 2004. archiveofourown.org/works/80492181

Utter vile nonsense. Russia has hit so so many schools and kindergartens, killing and injuring children week on week

oh this is becoming a regular in my lexicon

💙📚 Reading Byron Rogers’ _The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail_. Ebbw Vale in the early 80s:

Shadowheart statue 👑 #BaldursGate3 #BG3

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office:

Getting to the last one like

The kidnapping of General von Kriepe in Crete is a hell of a story, though anything featuring Patrick Leigh Fermor is always a hell of a story.

I really recommend Storygraph as a way to track reading, btw (and apparently for some deeply odd people to stalk my reading habits as proof for why my fandom elf opinions are bad and wrong but 🤷‍♀️). If you're on there too I'm 'bilberry'. It's free to sign up, or Plus gives you more stats for £3/month.

Reading wrap-up for February! 💙📚

sometimes layers of erotic metaphor are there because the author is into something weirder than fucking and sometimes layers of erotic metaphor are there because the author can’t look at fucking too directly and i think plenty of people who think they’re the former are actually the latter

may i offer you some shrews in these trying times

Elwing and the silmaril

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

This is a good and really interesting piece, on writing: countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...

when the Noldors' shit is just too much

i miss livejournal - and when google worked. ship manifestos and fandom intro posts. i'm not getting on tiktok to watch someone explain this to me incorrectly while putting their makeup on.

"Enemies to lovers" should mean "we have been drawn into a conflict that is bigger than either of us that has alienated us from society to the point where my enemy is the only one who understands me" and should involve at least one murder attempt. Not: "my new co-worker is meant to me :( but hot?"

Truth.

Andor fic: 'It won't do to dream of caramel', Mon/Erskin, 3500 words, E. #MyFic archiveofourown.org/works/80074196

Late post for valentine's day ! Elrond and Celebrian (bonus Elladan and Elrohir)

“oh did that tentacle creature thing in the Death Star trash compactor have a name or was it just Tentacle Creature Thing?” Twenty minutes later: “…I see.”

MELIAN (looking Galadriel in the eye): has some misfortune befallen your family? GALADRIEL: woah you got some nice trees here in Doriath, damn look at that one over there

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. - Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet, Clea born on this day, 1912 #BookSky #LawrenceDurrell

This quote is from a fabulous really long interview in the Sept. 1990 issue of BLK. It's an amazing discussion that covers lots of global politics, including her views on the collapse of the USSR and the supposed triumph of capitalism. Right now you can find it here: edan.si.edu/slideshow/vi...

Oh nicely done!

ikr

anyone familiar with British politics will know that any news that isn't entirely negative will be closely followed by a sustained bombardment of misery that will make you want to fucking die. but currently it's Friday, it's payday, and the fascists have lost

🌈My peer-reviewed articles on anti-fans & anti-BL attitudes are available to read publicly for free at independent.academia.edu/SamanthaAbur... (below screenshots are a sample from 'The influence of transphobia, homonationalism & anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms')

I just rewatched some clips from a seminal TV show for me - Space: Above and Beyond “Shuffle the Wild Cards, and deal ‘em!” Actual chills

Should I put some 20-year-old ship meta up on AO3? hmm. Pros: - AO3 explicitly allows it - AO3 is for archiving & currently this exists only on a locked post on an old blog - I've uploaded fic this old before - encouraging more meta on AO3, be the change I want to see etc. - it's interesting?

Getting eye strain on my blind side is a particularly annoying kind of pain. I’m sorry what have YOU been working so hard at there?

Gorton and Denton, you too could have this if you play your cards right.

Not long now until everyone gets to massively over-interpret a by-election, in line with their prior beliefs! Can't wait. Fun times.