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

Ok i know i say a lot of songs from Bruce springsteen’s nebraska are about elves but this one. This one really is. And I haven’t heard this version before and it is more than usual m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ik...

i am extremely proud to announcement my partnership with lina khan and zohran mamdani about pghrt.diy to distribute transition healthcare supplies to all new yorkers. we are committed to the day-one mission of "transgender for everybody", including everyone outside of new york as well.

BING BONG BABY

Waking up to the news that a member of the Bush administration has died rather than see a Muslim elected Mayor of New York

setting a 72-hour timer. this is the NYC LIB OUT ZONE. everyone gets a free pass for expressing enthusiasm for electoral politics in this carefully delineated window. post about the power of voting!!! cry over a schmaltzy campaign video!!!! allow a brief flutter of hope in ur rotted soul!!!!

Sons of Fëanor

oh god i am the stupidest man alive (civilian attempting to get home from uptown after the marathon)

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago. He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

tolkien was a person, like any other. and assigning him to one "side" of the political spectrum or the other will never get to the heart of why fascists are drawn to his work. it's not co-opting when the framework is there. put your attachment to middle-earth aside and fight fascism in all forms.

#Tolkientober Roots

Here we go, NYC... hellgatenyc.com/ice-storms-c...

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

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

A very good explainer on some NYC ballot props. Thanks, @hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/nyc-housing-...

Inktober 2025 19.) Arctic #Melkor and #Ungoliant crossing the arctic Helcaraxe.

Caranthir sketch

Arwen and Elrond enjoying a fall day in Rivendell 🍂 #Tolkientober Day 17: Parents #art #Tolkien

trying to watch debate highlights and it's just like MODERATOR: Do you love israel: yes or yes. CUOMO: zionism is a real "abbondanza" to me! SLIWA: i was shot for saying i loved it. in 1977! MAMDANI: can you ask a question about new york MODERATOR: Okay. Would you go to the israeli day PARADE then

Inktober 2025 16.) Blunder A blunder made to a friend #maedhros #fingon

Bilbo and the Troll! ♥ #tolkientober

🎶Don't call my name, don't call my name Nolofinwe I'm not your babe, I'm not your babe Findarato Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch Just smoke my cigarette and hush Don't call my name, don't call my name ~Maitimo Nolofinwe, Nolofinwe Nolo-Nolo-Finwe, Nolo-Nolo-Finwe

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose" margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

Miserable Bilbo and his pony in the rain ♥ #tolkientober

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill. It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The Little World Next Door

i post stuff like this primarily because i mean it but also it helps to fend off the wrong kind of lord of the rings guys who occasionally follow me

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Andreth, my girl :´) #tolkien #silmarillion #jrrtolkien #athrabethfinrodahandreth #tolkienart #silmart #tolkienfanart #silmfanart #fantasy #andreth #andrethsaelind #houseofbeor

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

#Tolkientober Day 7: Ósanwë Air dropping some memes #TolkienTrewsday #art

Inktober 2025 8.) Reckless Reckless actions of the last moments of #Feanor

‘from the river to the sea’ is not a plea. it is a demand. victory and peace to the Palestinian people. two years of genocide.

There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them.

“they flip kingdoms” i am assuming can only refer to galadriel and celeborn rofllllllll

Anyway, our latest episode is live! This time around it's marriage as portrayed in Tolkien's works, which is far less straightforward than it might seem. Art as ever by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social here showcasing Galadriel's travails with the Purse...

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! Mooncakes with Earendil, Idril, and Luthien’s heraldic devices. 🥮 #Tolkien #art

Tolkientober: Hope - Yé! utúvienyes! #Tolkientober #Tolkien

#Tolkientober Day 4: Armor Life, in defiance of death #art

the sky was transgender, like a tv tuned to a gay channel

Offering #2: xeno noncon eggpreg transfem!Luthien/Celegorm ft forcefem and answering desultory questions abt "how to make eggpreg scientifically accurate" "can Celegorm ever improve" and "what is a woman" - archiveofourown.org/works/71314406