I'm not into sad old polar explorers, but there's so much potential for Terror-like shenanigans in Arvedui's misadventures in Forochel.

Daily bunny no.3232 is passing in the night

Trilobites kinda creep me out, ngl.

On the subject of measles!

I'll grant that most hatred of Liz Bruenig is justified, but the attacks on Bruenig's measles article are coming across to me as that bitch over there, daring to eat crackers. But while I've brought kids to the morgue, I've never gotten in a twitter argument with Liz, so what do I know?

Where’s my modern Olympian AU at???

Showing cool women in palaeoart 子著 based in China, does adorable science communication books

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

The Cowl of Sauron is finished! For his first official outing, the Great Eye brought Dog on a walk.

I'm enjoying the gay hockey show but cannot stop laughing at how the third episode is literally a coffeeshop AU brought to life on television. The fifteen second fight was the best part of the episode.

I do not think the guy who calls himself Sauron the Great, Lord of the Rings, King of the Earth has particularly low self-esteem.

When I'm brimming with feelings I can't find the right words for, sometimes all I can manage is a picture. Love and strength to Minnesota in this heartbreaking time.

The Devonian Period Dunkleosteus didn’t have teeth but instead exposed jaws that self sharpened like two knives every time they opened and closed their mouth. Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 📚🦕 grab yours here: a.co/d/jiarhqN #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #evolution

Re lrb, idk about violently exploding trees, but i have heard them crack due to the cold. probably something to do with sap expanding as it rapidly freezes, would be my guess.

“The Ents are going to war”

Cardiac arrest *is* a minor electrical failure, god willing…

I read something that I’d been avoiding for Reasons and wow, I’m kinda glad I did because it’s not good and I get to feel superior.

Happy “today is 3 minutes longer” to those who celebrate.

The Beavers Yule✨🎄 Created for my agency’s monthly art prompt~ I’m traveling back to Savannah this weekend to spend the holidays with my family and I’ll be baking a yule log cake myself ☃️ . #kidlitart #illustration

I love the snow, but I always miss CA this time of year. Christmas isn't the same without lights on palm trees.

1. The Gnomish Lexicon has a word for lawyer. Gnomish would become Sindarin; there is no equivalent Qenya or Quenya word. 2. "War crime" is a meaningless concept applied to actions in the First Age, since war crimes are a construct of international law that Elves don't have.

Everyone stop, this is important

It remains my firm headcanon that Pharazon looks like Luthien.

Someday I'll come up with an OC for Elf Chomsky. In the meantime, have some Optimality Theory in Aman: archiveofourown.org/works/279233...

The other thing with this is that the versions of Quenya and Sindarin that we have are both as they are spoken in Third Age Western Middle-earth. I would never write the dialect of Sindarin the First Age Noldor used, because we *do not know* nearly enough about it to even guess at what's correct.

I am a hypocrite here because I have literally written characters having a conversation in my conlang of Tolkien's conlangs and expected the reader to more or less understand it.

One reason why bsky is nice for random Silm thoughts is that I can post things publicly here that I do want to talk/lecture about but where, if I posted them on tumblr, there'd be the strong possibility of hurting people's feelings. I like talking about writing choices! I don't like hurting feelings

I wish I didn't have such a strong negative reaction to how the Silm fandom uses thee/thou. Another fic I was enjoying, but the frequent use of it takes me out every time. It's something that *breaks* immersion for me.

cryptids

talking about Beren and Lúthien next time on @bythebywater.bsky.social (and since it’s October I drew their scary forms)

Favorite sign today:

There’s also the chaos option of marking long vowels by doubling the letter: don’t Findekaano and Findaraato look nice? I very much support not using diareses, which are completely unnecessary and only a transliteration convention.

OTW is a dysfunctional disaster, but I am beyond glad that AO3 exists and that (english fic-writing) fandom is no longer dependent on small ma'n'pa archives.

Something I've been drawing today. I woke up this morning with the thought of it in my head, and wanted to see if I could make it work.

It's funny, the longer I've been in fandom and reading fanfic, the more I prefer using just the Silm names. If I ever wrote Age of the Trees fic (I won't), I'd 100% go with the characters' Sindarin names (for those that have Sindarin names, obviously I wouldn't Sindarinize, say, Anaire's name)

I remain so fascinated by Eregion having a large Iathrin population (doriath diaspora?) and what you could do with that. Especially with the coup!

Illustration of the Silurian Period based on fossils in Scotland. The first animals to live on land were tiny arthropods, escaping predators and eating food in fields of cooksonia plants. Art from my new book DINOSAURS preorder here: a.co/d/fGVwsX0 #sciart #paleoart #evolution #fossiladdict

A newly discovered Devonian trackway in Poland reveals lungfish ancestors testing land mobility 10 million years before the first known tetrapod traces. phys.org/news/2025-08... #fossils #paleontology

Day 10: Dachshunds. An incredible commission I got to do recently, painting a card for 6 dachshunds' 10th birthday party. 🎂🎉 #doggust #doggust2025

Stuck on the next chapter of fuck monastery and what C's punishment should entail. I set it up so it would involve a count of some sort, which worked for my initial idea (needleplay) but I'm not actually that into needleplay and don't really know how to write it.

Bigfin squids (genus Magnapinna) have a reputation for being these almost eldritch creatures because of some low resolution photos, but I think they are quite beautiful, spaghetti arms and all.

ffs, shipweeks are not the place for platonic gen content

We only rate dogs. This is the goth cousin of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Please understand it's not just a phase, and only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (credit u/vincidelaunc)

Silvergifting week - Romance

Daily bunny no.3035 is out catching fireflies

Behold, new (old) fic. Includes a Shall These Bones Live outtake. archiveofourown.org/works/279233...

We don’t talk enough about how pretty Sarati is!

Sometimes I think about how Maedhros giving Fingon the elessar as a wedding gift means that Fingon married Maedhros’s kid

Be normal about mothers: silm fandom challenge,…. I’d say failed, but that implies there was ever a possibility of success.