this is the 90s kid in me but i wish minidisc were still a thing. there is just something so much more viscerally satisfying about inserting a disc. sure streaming is easy but if my favorite bands offered albums on minidisc, i'd buy them in a heartbeat.

im not even going to sing the baby back ribs song any more, get fucked chilis

okay SCIENCE you claim to be all SCIENCEY but why is a GOOSEfish the juvenile form of a MONKfish??? THATS NOT WHERE MONKS COME FROM SCIENCE! next you'll be telling me geese come from barnacles, like this is some kind of three stage pokemon evolution.

i need worse friends who wont send me gorgeous tolkien editions, $500 dollar mechanical keyboards, and fancy japanese stationary.

Dracula adaptation, set primarily in London, Ohio. Dracula lives in a castle that’s alway described as “just across the boarder” or “a hour east of Youngstown,” or maybe even just “it’s in Pittsburgh.,” but the pun is never spoken.

After 'destroying' Sauron in Forodwaith, the Uruks travelled to the South. Many dangers left their numbers diminished, so they took shelter in a cave system inside the Misty Mountains... where they stayed for centuries. There, Adar made sure to pass the old Uruk stories to the new generations✨🐺🔥

I am “shopping for swords on Amazon” depressed tonight

alternative ideas considered: - Finrod was right - @clarelmoore.bsky.social is wrong about Finrod - Orc Daddy (for my fellow Adar fans)

Tolkienology (?): so how do we say fuck? puhta just means "to copulate" but thats pretty literal...

Unsurprisingly my 9 year old doesn’t want to listen to my lecture about critical media consumption OR my tirades about end stage capitalism

Elf Dwarf Human Orc

2026 is looking like a stacked year for games i give a shit about. here are a few of them i'm feral to get my paws on 1. Castelevania: Belmonts Curse 2. Emberville 3. Witchbrook 4. Raccoin (MARCH 31!!) 5. Warhammer Survivors

bajoran earrings etsy

i'm replaying Animal Crossing with Oliver right now and every time we torment Blathers with a new bug donation i think of @dreamstobecome.bsky.social 's cosplay from a few years ago that went viral

I had fun with these

1. Jean gray, just so I can make that situation more messy 2. Finrod but I’d just stare at him all starry eyed 3. Honestly I know so little about dc. Probably oracle? 4. Garak. I would be lucky to come out of it alive and with my wallet and I’d do it again

I don't know who keeps doing this but you have to stop I'm begging you

Without X-Plain the X-Men, Compleat Discography and Babylon Podject would not exist, simple as that. The original and the GOAT.

i have submitted a talk proposal to @westmoot.org and i'm fine, not anxious at all

the expected enshittification of @discord.com begins, with age verification bullshit now looming. i'd love to not have to do the "where are we all going net" mambo every few years. i wanna suggest irc but i'm guessing some of you CHILDREN dont even know what that is. and it doesnt have gifs.

the tremendous irony of the books section being shuttered by the guy who created amazon...

MERPs is a WILD thing to look at, as a Tolkien scholar and a fan of adaptations and ttrpgs. It occupies this space this is at once ABSURD for its total disinterest in being "canonical" (not that i ascribe to that idea w/r/t tolkien) and is really interesting creatively as a result

But also, this may be one of the best conflict-of-interest statements ever?

literally every word in that description appeals to me

man fuck those transphobes wizard houses, the real ones wanna know which Evangelion figures you have on your shelf

this tolkien thing i'm working on has me reading about the most boring aspects of the Catholic church than i could ever have wanted to

This is the quote he's referring to and damned if every one of us who's worked in traditional tv prior to the streaming era isn't silently screaming in frustration right now. TV worked perfectly well before everyone tried to become GoT

Charmander is five years old. He just today figured out fetch. Despite his sister literally living for the ball. That dog hadn’t got two brain cells to rub together.

fucking techbros

Finally, someone Nionwe hates more than Elrond

i respect that apple's knucklehead UI choices and my other grumble of the day (why you so expensive HiMD! 50 bucks for a single disc?!?!?!?!) are extremely petty and small. thats all i got bandwidth for today.

if you love liquid glass, i'm happy for you, but i think its ugly as fucking sin and its a constant annoyance to me that i can't turn that shit off.

i sometimes look at my skeets and then think about all the tolkien scholars who follow me and worry about the fact that next time we talk at a conference the fact that i post horny on main about space lizards will be hanging there in the air between us

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

it takes the slightest mention of l5r to re-ignite my love for that trash franchise. i dont know what it is about this problematic magical samurai world that has its hooks in me but every time it comes up im fighting the urge to bribe my friends to play the old ccg or start a new rpg campaign

asking the real questions over here

credit where it's due, this is nice at least

its colder than a wampa's taint out there today. be safe everyone

this is the same idiotic behavior that resulted in perfectly good cubicles being replaced with those godawful open floor plans

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

god this is cool. i miss google reader every day. its death really was the start of the enshittification of google

in which jude, once again, has an absolute fit about the fact that bajorans dont know what orbs are

"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?" "Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"

"Cholera could stop spreading if people stop drinking from this dirty river," warns man who shat in the river

This is you guys on here

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

its the year of our dark lord 2025 and i'm buy l5r starter decks to try and hook my mtg group

i feel this in my aching soul