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.

I got the sweetest handwritten card from the parent of a patient today and that is worth a thousand kudos on ao3 🥹

A narnia atlas! What could have been!

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I spit out my drink infotel.ca/newsitem/mam...

Found ~4500 words of fuck monastery porn i'd cut from the last chapter. Debating posting it on tumblr, since i don't see myself repurposing it in a proper fic. cons: not actually that great, somewhat fragmentary pro: contains a reference to being fisted by pengolodh's slender elegant scribe's hand

my politics be like

Happy father's day to elrond <3

New Radiodont just dropped. Mosura fentoni. #paleoart #sciart #art #arthropod #cambrian

Pour les francophones un petit article sur la terrestrialisation des plantes pour ce #FossilFriday 🌿⛏️ lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/pla... #paleobotany #fossil

I'm actually broadly uncomfortable with how much nerds have won the culture war against normies, as a nerd. I preferred it when we were getting bullied a little bit.

The Known Regions of Octopolis 🐙🦑🐡

Do I dare venture to the garden store today?

One thing I'll never post on tumblr and will probably regret here, but re: one of the day's discourses: I thought I was ace as a teen. Then took celexa and nope! I was depressed. Sexual awakening thanks to an SSRI.

...I should probably not try to grow or eat rue just because the Romans cooked with it and I think their cuisine is genuinely great and I am curious what rue would add to dishes that I've previously left it out of.

Thinking about when I saw the first draft of Mount Doom, the chapter, where Sam and Frodo struggle on together without hope, and how Tolkien's tears stained the page.

Part of the reason I dislike RoP's version of C is that ROP!C is old and not that attractive and has terrible fashion sense. And that's fine, actually. I dislike for many more reasons, of course, but it's fine to want your favorites to be hot!

On occasion I get jealous of Europe for its hedgehogs, but then I remember we have skunks!

This is up there with the theory that Tolkien elves have tentacle vaginas and I love it even more.

Love it when cuttlefish have dilated pupils like this. They look so cute and dopey. 🦑📷Stickpen

cheese is woke now

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Darkly funny that Tolkien predicted the current moment right down to the Nazi-LARPing "orc cults," wrote a few pages about it, then determined it was depressing and sucked too much to be worth writing about.

Really, what is it with fantasy and not understanding that Arda or Planetos don't have teleporters? Like presumably the showrunners have traveled from one place to another, whether by foot or train or car or plane, and thus experienced travel time

"Trouble understanding cause and effect" really is one of the fatal flaws of RoP.

Immunity from the MMR vaccine can wane over time. Even if you did receive the full vaccine series as a child, it might be worth checking titre levels to see if you have immunity.

The odds of being attacked by a turkey are low, but never zero.

Even if anti-trans mania were an immutable belief among the electorate, it would be wrong and shameful to pander and surrender to it. But it's not, and that makes the surrender... well, not morally worse bc it's morally unconscionable regardless, but more pathetic.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

This is Aldo. He is a good boy. But also... a bad boy. 13/10

I think everything considered, I enjoyed War of the Rohirrim much more than either of the other two adaptations I saw this year. The physics was stupid but less so than RoP and bulbosaur eating a mumak was completely out there but amusing in retrospect.

I've been playing world of warcraft (i know, i know) for the first time in a good six+ years and it's so weird (not in a bad way!) how my fingers still remember old keybindings. or how i remember what routes to take to go somewhere. and i still have images in my head of different zones...