A final tip here for sustaining New Year's Resolutions!! 🤔💪🏼 Engage in the new, desired behavior for the behavior itself, rather than focusing on the outcome. Link threaded below with more! 💪🏼🤔📒✍️🏼🤓😎 #NewYearsResolutions #resolutionstips #behaviorchange #yougotthis #DrMattB

If you've done a New Year's Resolution, how it going? What's been helping you maintain them? What obstacles have you encountered? Share with us below! 👇🏼💪🏼🙌🏼 [📸: Social Media Manager Kathryn practicing yoga! 💪🏼🧘🏼‍♀️🙌🏼] #NewYearsResolutions #resolutions #behaviorchange #yougotthis #DrMattB

Fans: Noooo Gandalf doesn't appear until at least the third age, this conflicts with established canooooon!!! Tolkien: "Gandalf Visits Middle-earth Again to Hang with Galadriel" Tags: Gandalf/Galadriel AU, yearning, hurt/comfort, heart to heart, friends to lovers(?), where is Celeborn?

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TTT Middle-earth Map Monday: Five Swift Streams Join The Man of the West as he continues his journeys in southern Gondor, moving into the green fields of Lebennin where the people are hardy and numerous. youtu.be/TDZUXCbGJUU?...

TTT Week 106 - Tolkien Tuesday: Her Dragon is Absurd When an artist fails to meet Tolkien’s standards, it’s time to call in Pauline Baynes! Join The Man of the West as we revisit the Letters on Tolkien Tuesday. youtu.be/5ZB-CwuSEBU?...

Look I’m not sure I can handle a world war and a civil war at the same time can we just pick one please

Dusty here. Cookie day 2 update. Confined in his safe space. Hiding in plain sight. Sassy but not running. Curious. Hoomom showed him what a litter box is all about by digging & scratching in it. He got it cause he's been using them. Hooray. Eating well. So far so excellent. Take care pals 🩷

2026 is three weeks old and already Billy Joel could write an entire We Didn’t Start the Fire about it

Just going to leave this here, now obviously this does not mean you have to, but I would be grateful for forever <3 ko-fi.com/themerryuniv...

The first character to feature in our #NumenorFaithfulCalendar will be revealed this Friday to coincide with #TROPRewatch so stay tuned!

"You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin ~ to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours ~ closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo."

Very early days but starting to put together an authority list of primary-world people as part of the Tolkien Linked Open Data Project: github.com/digitaltolki...

Hello Bluesky hive!! I have a friend in NYC who's looking to permanently house a couple of foster kitties. Any leads to anyone who might be interested and able? Lmk, ty!! 🐱😻

Indigenous dance as protest LET'S GO

I just got all emotional reading The Shaping of Middle Earth because Eärendil FINALLY got to deliver his message to the Valar and succeed in his quest after many, many drafts where he did not

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monday mood:

Seeing RotK yesterday in theaters was nothing short of epic. I've watched it on smaller screens all these years so being up close to a huge screen with good speakers was like watching it for the first time!!

The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money

Back home from a quick Colorado Springs visit — snapped a pretty surreal sunrise this AM near the Garden of the Gods area. The clouds look like someone painted them!

I SEEN THINGS

The idea we went with was: what if the Faithful needed a way to raise money? Why not a calendar with some of their most attractive members? But we also wanted it to be tasteful, so anyone who buys a copy can proudly display it at home - nothing will be over a 16-Rating. #NumenorFaithfulCalendar

And with this, a wrap 🎁 on my 2025 Nuttiness. Review up in Dance Informa! ✨ Thank you, Ballet RI, for bringing the magic!! ✨🩰💂🏻‍♀️🐀🍬✍🏻👏🏻 📸: Kelsey Paff Photography #TheNutcracker #BalletRI #enchantment #ballet #dancereviews

WIPedy WIP...hoping to finish this afternoon 🙂‍↕️ #Merryisdabesthobbit

BLEP

Thank you, Minnesota open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

Margrethe II is apparently a mad fan of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. She became an official Tolkien artist and her illustrations were included in a 1977 Danish edition under the pseudonym Ingahild Grathmer. #art #LOTR #Tolkien #MiddleEarth

396 – Questions After Nightfall 33 Come celebrate the New Year with us here at The PPP as The Man of the West welcomes The Sage of the South! James and Alan invite our listeners to the Common Room, answering their questions again in our 33rd Questions After Nightfall! pdst.fm/e/tracking.s...

ELENDIL WIP YAY

Birbfest Day 17th: Spangled Cotinga Trying a bit of color for today’s Birbfest postcard and I’m obsessed with this bird’s palette 😭💙💜 #birbfest2026 #sketchbook #birdart #art

#StreetArt in #France #Redon : Jef

Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom release a joint statement:

CHONK 😻😻😻

Continuing my ‘actually sharing my art here’ streak, here’s a commission from November based on my own fic, featuring Elwing my beloved, pictured here in Aman. Fic: archiveofourown.org/works/73535261 More Silm Art: zizkhanart.carrd.co #silmarillion #elwing #silmart #lordoftherings

On this day in Middle-earth 📅 On 13 January the Fellowship of the Ring reach the West-gate of Moria.⁠ ⁠ The Doors of Durin are among the most iconic images in Tolkien’s world and I really enjoyed drawing them opening "Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you see the answer."

TTT Week 105 - Silmarillion Saturday: Utúlie’n Aurë! And The Man of the West answered crying “Auta i lómë! The night is passing!” Or maybe that was the army of Fingon when they heard the trumpet of Turgon, who finally decided to do something. youtu.be/71RsYXoYoU8?...

Treasure flower August 17th 2024

There is a reason he’s forced to cause all of this chaos. He has NO PLAN. He funds no programs, no healthcare, no education, no lower prices, money coming in only supports more chaos. He envies other dictators. I challenge ANYONE to tell me just one single thing he’s accomplished? Discussion open

We CaN't AfFoRd SiNgLe PaYeR

Angel baby Lotus had her first puppy class and may have been the kid who keeps interrupting the teacher.

"We Shall Always March Ahead" #StreetArt #mural in #Atlanta (L to R) Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Coretta King, John Lewis #Artist: Muhammad Yungai #CivilRights #CivilRightsMural #art #CivilRightsArt #murals

got this and last week’s uploaded to ao3 if you prefer that: archiveofourown.org/works/77782266

TTT Week 105 - Third Age Thursday: You Shall Be Summoned Once Again Perhaps this is a reference to jury duty for The Man of the West. Or perhaps it’s part of Isildur’s curse on the Men of the Mountains as we continue our look at the Men of Darkness in the Third Age. youtu.be/SVBEB7EcrVw?...

TTT Week 105 - First Age Friday: Felt Old Age Creep Upon Him The Man of the West is wondering who’s behind these episode titles. Tuor leads the refugees of Gondolin to safety before deciding it’s time to sail off into the sunset. youtu.be/QYi9fp010lE?...

Sunset Ireland - Sunburst over Hollygrove lake, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography

#ForestFriday #FridayFog