she was not magnificent

Charles Wright, “Body and Soul II”, A Short History of the Shadow: Poems

Chance would’ve inspired some dope Renaissance paintings 👼🏼

ok I may have gotten a little carried away with this

no, no, this is perfect

bit mad innit. This whole thing

The trick is that they're all self inserts. Every character you write is an expression of some understanding of yourself, or desire for something better, or a million other things. It all comes from you.

Mereth Aderthad 2025 is coming in July, and we are excited to have many fans who are presenting their meta, research, and scholarship at the event! But even though Tolkien fans engage in deep research and thinking about the legendarium all the time, making the step to presenting that work at conferences can feel intimidating. Even in a field as friendly to fan and independent scholarship as Tolkien studies is, the trappings of academia remain and, unless you have academic training, these can be a barrier to participation.

To help demystify conference proposals and presentations, over the next few months, we will be holding sessions aimed at helping fans make the sideways step to Tolkien scholarship by presenting their work at a Tolkien conference. Our next session is about how to put together the paper and presentation that you will share at the event, including various approaches to conference presentations, how to structure a presentation to maintain audience interest and not exceed time limits, and tools/strategies for using multimedia. (If you missed our first session, it can be found here: So You Want to Present at a Tolkien Conference? Writing the Proposal.)

Date: Saturday,12 April 2025 Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Time (what is this in my timezone?)  Location: RSVP to have the link emailed to you

After the session, there will be time for questions, and we will stay online for a collaborative writing session for anyone who is interested.

All are welcome to attend and participate to whatever extent they feel comfortable! (In other words, you can keep your camera off and there are no breakout rooms.)

Can't make it on April 12? We will record the session so that anyone can view it.

If you need to change your Zoom display name before or while attending, learn how to do that here.

This is TODAY! If you'd like to attend, you can join us here. Lurkers are welcome if you just want to listen in!

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Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

(Sound on.) We’re all doomed.

It is simply not fulfilling to enjoy media in the height of its popularity. You need to show up so late to the party that everybody else is gone and the hosts are asleep so you can rummage through their trash for chip dip and stale hors d’oeurves to eat alone in the dark like a dirty little raccoon secret

Showing up after the hype has ended means you get the Small Fandom Experience (only a few folks are still active and it’s not overwhelming to interact with them) with the Large Fandom Bonuses (tons of posts of all different sorts even if the fandom was never a large fandom even at its height, finding it after it’s had years to accumulate The Good Stuff hits like you discovered an entire theme park dedicated to just Things I Specifically Like)

Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week

Drinking spiders??!

You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.

And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.

I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.

We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.

I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.

It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.

#WE HAVE SPIDERS IN AOTEAROA and they serve CUNT#im gonna steal ice cream from work this weekend and make spiders with it. i will steal the fizzy from work also#i fucking hate my boss 

Living your best life I see

“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,

I applaud the effort that went into this seconds-long bit.

(THE LAMP IS STICKING STRAIGHT OUT FROM THE WALL!)

For anyone who wants a side-by-side comparison to appreciate everything that moved, here you go:

My favourite detail is the plants on the windowsill getting rotated up sideways