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Tourists I love your happiness and I am glad you are having a nice time, but for fuck’s actual sake MOVE

who cares if it's bad, have you seen some of the shit people are reading these days

Read ‘Convenience Store Woman’ last year and would really recommend it

Covering for half my colleagues and getting snapped at for things I got handed responsibility for approximately 25 minutes ago

Monday…

Pinterest (I know) sent me an email titled 'Fan fiction writing tips for you' that was screenshots of lists of tips and one of the first ones was to add more LGBTQ+ male characters because why are all the men straight!, and I've had a little "???" in a thought balloon floating above my head all day.

literally every day my wife or I go outside with our daughter people go out of their way to be friendly, offer aid or a kind word, no matter where we've traveled. it's nice to remember that hostility as default mode of interaction is not destiny, much as it benefits some to pretend it is

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

Seconded. Everything I write at the moment is rarepairs, I do not give a fuck about stats and I’m having a great time.

the thing is that sometimes there are cases when the fans are actually right and it’s still not a good idea to listen to them because then you start listening to them when they aren’t, which is most of the time

Posting tradfash memes on the Orthodoxy subrreddit does not count as attending a religious service

why would care if showrunners, actors etc approve of my ship? i just like ships from what i see i dont need confirmation of it being "allowed" or canon if i like thinking about two blorbos n a complex sexy situationship, thats just my brain doing its thing i don't audit that shit

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

the thing about bluesky is that it sucks but a social media site that doesn't work is still better than twitter

If I get time later on I’ll post more about Tolkien basing Galadriel on figures of evil enchantresses because I’m so fascinated by it. Compare Éomer’s “if you have her favour, then you also are net-weavers and sorcerers” with this, from pre-LOTR ‘Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’:

“greetings, Rohirrim! Yes we are mysterious travellers to your land but fear not! We bring a letter of recommendation from the terrifying forest sorceress of your childhood stories :)”

I love how weird and unsettling Lothlórien is even in relatively normal conversations. Celeborn here’s already musing aloud about how he’d use hobbits during a siege, and Galadriel has forgotten how normal conversations work.

there is a beauty in it, you see. I can imagine anything in the void. there are conversations happening behind your wildest dreams in the abyss. what prophecies and heresies do you hear in your chasm?

plants plants plants

Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral: You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks: www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

Scraped my knuckles walking too close to a wall on my blind side this morning. A 60:40 blame split between the vision issues and the issues whereby I was not paying attention because I was trying to remember the name of the guy who played Jean Valjean and then was the bishop in the film.

JD Vance is a recent convert so for Catholics this must be like when I have to listen to NuTrek haters claim that unlike the new shows, DS9, VOYAGER and ENTERPRISE were universally beloved from the moment they premiered

JD Vance still in that American right-wing Catholic convert “what the Pope does not understand…” thing where they end up rerunning a bunch of medieval heresies, I see. Theology of the groupchat.

Great £2 charity shop find - autobiography of a Danish musician’s childhood and gradual blindness, written in 1956.

Sketchin' while they're in my thoughts.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

Fighting over (a map of) Middle-earth

happy neil banging out the tunes day to all who celebrate

Thank you thank youuuuuu to beloved @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social for sending on further images of Li Yunrui as Celeborn (Modern AU) and Celeborn (Silver-Haired Catboy).

hey look it's the Celeborn and Luthien merch that they sell in the Menegroth gift-shop.

I mean, I’d disagree, but also I do not even want to be having that conversation because I don’t need the world to Have A Take on the inherent value of my hobbies that I do for fun.

i need. so many ppl in fandom to take this to heart. and internalize it. "getting recreationally mad." is such a great way to put like 99% of the dumb ass discourse i see.

Having a very politics week this week (derogatory/affectionate)

Katharine Hepburn by Ernest Bachrach for Sylvia Scarlett (1935).

Blue & Gold 🖤 #art #painting

Saw a Tumblr poll on this where the winning option by miles was “Okay, so:”

ok NOW i bet Zelenskyy will thank JD Vance

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

I've been on the internet since the days of IRC, I know fandoms have always been on a spectrum of batshit, but freaks who behaved like narcissistic capitalist cryptofascists were a minority back then. I miss the days when the drama was marrying your blorbos on the astral plane and starting a cult.

There is a thing fandom does where all female characters get sorted into two boxes, one labelled ‘interesting/flawed/part of wider plot/has interests beyond domestic sphere/therefore, not interested in having children’ and one labelled ‘naturally maternal instead :)’ and it is eternally annoying.

its really funny that the last jedi throne room scene became such an important, load bearing part of last jedi hate when like. i mean look at it

For National Poetry Month, we would like to remind you that we publish all time bangers, such as Staircase wit by Rhiannon McGavin, from TBQ6:

just popping on here to remind everyone that being married is cool as fuck and if you don't like your partner you're doing it wrong

There’s nothing a Tunnock’s Tea Cake can’t solve.

Can’t show you the other WIP bc it’s for Saurondriel fest but have a tarot Galadriel

You deserve a B-wing for the weekend. 🖖