My favourite insult line so far 🤣❤️

Puffins!

The beautiful French frigate L'Hermione from 1780, sailing in line astern behind a modern French Aquitaine class frigate Provence, 2015

“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.

Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has

The old magic is robust enough to survive a decade of use and it's compatible with every wand, staff, scroll, and charm in our collection.

The new magic stops working after three days and every spell uses proprietary runes.

Our preferences, as an archiving institution, should be pretty clear.

You try to get guidance for the new magic and the king's sorcerers maybe will answer you in a few days with an unhelpful suggestion to buy the newest orb.

You need guidance for the old magic and a dozen retired middle-aged wizards will pop up to explain it to you rune by rune if necessary.

March 27 - Prompts

Meta Thursday! Share your meta/headcanons about a culture in Tolkien's world.

The optional weekly theme is: Rivalry, Competition, Victory

It's the final meta Thursday of March! Tell us about your cultural worldbuilding this time!

If you want to share your responses to these prompts with us, you can tag us here on tumblr, or put them into our AO3 collection.

arthurian fandom

“So, what’s the canon?”

“But was Mordred Arthur’s son in the original legend?”

“Yes but what’s the original book?”

I love the fact that the notes are full of people arguing for their favorite version of canon.  :-D 

Boromir doesn’t understand Elvish physics.

officially-cool youtuber Tech Tangents was working on an old Tandy machine and discovered the most hilarious quit menu in all of software, buried in an obscure astrology program for DOS:

THE "MAYBE QUIT" OPTION!

For too long, computer programs have been asking if we're sure we want to quit, and only giving us a binary yes/no option. Finally we can leave whether we quit or not up to fate.

And yeah. When he tried it out, it failed to quit a few times and then quit. It seems it just flips a coin when you select it and either quits/does nothing based on it.

The End of the Curse, Maeglor & Maedhros

- Wavesheep

Julius von Klever (Russian, 1850 -1924)

Erlkönig, 1887

“Father, do you not see the King of the Alder Trees? The King with his crown and tail?” “Son, it is just a streak of mist.”

- Goethe (excerpt, my translation), 1782

human and bug relations will change by the end of the century

Some sketches from The Silmarillion.

Dwarven prospectors find mithril deposite.

Writing, at its core, is an utterly lonely experience. I both love it and hate if for that.

I think a lot about how, for millennia of unlettered humans, storytelling would have been social by nature, so you'd always have an audience responding in real time. We're hard on ourselves for craving comments and validation but it's a completely natural instinct to expect them. Grug friends laugh and clap when Grug tell story. No clapping means friends gone away or maybe killed by sabertooth cat, of course Grug sad