my friend who yes is a swiftie sends me swiftie updates and it would not be conversant for me to respond with "omg magolfin" so i will subject this audience instead to the fact that (a) i'm not proud of this, but elizabeth taylor is The #1 magolfin song (b) i am cursed w the gift of prophecy

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

The walk and talk info dumps all take place in warehouses as they stock up for the battles with reasonably priced bulk goods, but everyone agrees it was surprisingly seamless and honestly answered a lot of questions about the political economy of Beleriand

Nobody should adapt any of the Silmarillion to film UNLESS it’s a mockumentary-style travelogue of ‘Of Beleriand and its Realms’

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Peeps! I have arisen from my social media slumber (again 😅) to come promote my new article with Fansplaining! Super excited for this to be out as it's been in the works for a while now. 5,000 words. African fandom deep dive. Language capital. Decolonialism. Let's go! 🚀

What possible jurisdiction does the Northern District of Texas have over health care services by NYU?

Major breaking news tonight. NYU Langone has received a federal criminal subpoena over its provision of trans youth care. The subpoena originates from a grand jury empaneled in the Northern District of Texas. It's a massive escalation in attacks on trans poviders. Read our breaking story:

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

good morning fellow twinks. my monthly ‘dropping art and leaving‘ post features Ulfang, who in my fic is a very hot 5’5 male manipulator who is fucking Maedhros, whom he despises, because unfortunately he has a height and horrible-person kink 🥰 #silmarillion #lotr #silmart

CHESS does not deserve any tonys but it does somehow deserve a tony for having the most comprehensive CHESS soundtrack to date

This is probably gonna gain traction soon, so I want to ground everyone before the fear that may come. The purpose of memos like this is probably best understood as to create fear. If they had the resources and ability to conduct mass crackdowns on trans groups, they would just do it.

Anyway I'm hoping TROP s3 brings me what I want most of all: Sauron/Celeborn shipbait.

The Fellowship Departs Rivendell, traditional Chinese ink painting #Tolkien #art I will have prints of these at Westmoot 2026!

was doodling fingon to calm down bc i'm super stressed rn enjoy🫶

never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a hugo award-winning sff author what they were posting about isabel fall in 2020

Legolas and Gimli in Lothlorien. New #lotr cels are now available at our ebay shop. Get yours autographed! ebay.us/m/zVATIu

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

It's not a violation of New York City's sanctuary laws for the NYPD to literally clear a path for ICE to make arrests (or escape the wrath of protesters)—which, according to video from the scene and eyewitness reports, is exactly what they did in Bushwick on Saturday night.

Episode 86 is live on Megaphonic! This time around we talked about some key figures for the entire legendarium #Tolkien created — namely, Fëanor and his jerk sons. (We used somewhat more pungent language, granted.) Art by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social as ever!

The subplot about Elrond and Arwen in the movies is so funny to me because it implies that the second he finishes establishing and equipping and dispatching the Fellowship he turns around and is like "Well, they're fucked. We're rolling out of here boys and girls, pack it up, let's go, let's go!"

Found the Cher quote that i apparently had taped to my work desktop in 2018

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

it is 150-160 years later and we are being told by the Supreme Court we can’t have all the Reconstruction amendments at the same time

explaining hesychasm to this coked out homosexual

we all know I have no life, so:

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

the thing that's so unbelievably weird about this is that it's a dogwhistle against the culture that invented algebra

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Hungary was the playbook for anti LGBTQ policy in the west. Don't say gay in Florida was modeled on policies adopted there, which they modeled off of Russia. Same with ending legal recognition of trans people. They restricted access to transition care in 2020. www.hrw.org/news/2023/02...

Today in good comments 🥚

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

every new yorker giving erin shit for this post better be sending the mayor a comment asking him to do something to protect trans kids www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Trump has surged large federal deployments to LA and Chicago, the 2nd and 3rd largest cities in the nation, but, while there have been arrests and operations here, not to its largest and most heavily immigrant, NYC. For @boltsmag.org, I took stock of local leaders' thinking around how to prepare

1. In devastating news, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of conversion therapy, a practice the UN calls torture. The ruling could have catastrophic consequences, writes Jackson in her sole dissent. The ruling comes on trans day of visibility. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Still have yet to be paid from my job. Community is all I have. Out of levothyroxine (miscalculated how much I still have). Thank you so much

Latest portrait commission: Imagine waking up to the High King of the Noldor Ereinion Gil-Galad staring at you with fuck-me eyes only to reach out to his slutty little nightgown and realise it’s the Third Age and the High King is a High Crisp. It was all a sex dream. #silmarillion #silmart

Arwen and Asfaloth 🤍 #lotr #lordoftherings

He looks like if The Matrix was about being cis.

Trans masc and his body

you also get something akin to this in elf spheres where there’ll be a post doing criticism of the views that are baked into tolkien’s work and people reply explaining how they’ve personally reinterpreted it so it no longer carries that meaning and now they don’t have to think about it

honestly the best accessible example of interacting with other stories in a distinctly christian way is that thing where it became popular online in the 2010s to claim that there was some totally unverifiable “original version” of various myths where things were more progressive

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

Someone should ask Mayor Mamdani at his press conference if he intends to direct H+H to absorb the trans youth patients from NYU Langone and other regional hospitals that illegally ended care, and if he plans to hold them accountable with NYC’s human rights ordinances. He still has no comment.

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

Trump Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans Under a new rule, the State Dept will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally. transitics.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

CELEBORN????

Sick day sketchbook page (I'm on the mend)

Conservatives were on the record in January 2023 in the NYT saying explicitly that they targeted trans youth to be able to ban transitioning for everyone. They admitted it but then every dumb centrist was like "but what about the evidence on trans youth." And here we are.