All my numenorean and Arnorian coins but I am currently making a few more

on sisters

Some museums are observing the Birds Day today so here’s the wonderfully magical petroica the pink robin to celebrate it🪶 Not a joke at all, despite what such an unusual electric colour might suggest😄

WIKIPEDIA IS 25 TODAY MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!! [Their celebration article here]

there is not NEARLY enough noise on this post !!! CELEBRATE ITS BIRTHDAYYYYYY

He was a good father once, a better man, and no matter what happened he loved his son.

AU where Sauron literally pours all of his cruelty and malice and will to dominate all life into the One Ring...

And then just fucking stares at at it for five seconds before dropping it on the ground and leaving because without all that stuff he's Nice now.

Why does this sound like crackfic C.S. Lewis would write just to get back at Tolkien for disapproving of him putting a lamppost in Narnia

If you're looking for a good, centralized collection of fundraisers for people and organizations doing on-the-ground work in Minnesota right now, someone on Bluesky put together a great resource hub for things like food support, rent relief, mutual aid, and immigrants' rights centers that I'd really love to see spread around.

And if you're local to the Twin Cities, there's a "Take Action" section with links to ways to get active, as well as some resource guides for legal observers, etc.

Those of us here in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the metro area appreciate every bit of support we can get right now, especially with the federal government cutting off things like SNAP benefits for Minnesotans and threatening further retaliation. Keep us in your thoughts, and maybe pick a cause to support, if you can.

ITS FUCKING REAL???

The Bongcloud Counter-Gambit: Hotbox Variation

Today's xkcd is going to be another hit with the boat crowd. [x]

On This Day In History

January 11th, 1922: Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin, at 14 years of age.

new mychart message! aw damn....doc says my reality and existence lab work was wayyy off so she's referring me to an Ontologist

Notice there hasnt been a wednesday this year

Suspicious.

Six days and still no Wednesday. I think it's safe to conclude that there will be no more Wednesdays ever

Image Source: The Brown Girls Project

What bothers me the most about this heartbreaking death of yet another Black woman's death from childbirth complications is that Dr. Green Smith was literally a midwife. She was educated in and worked in the field that killed women who looked just like her, that killed her, to make it better and safer. I can't help but think about how if someone who knew just how bad it could get still can fall victim to it, God knows what the rest of us are walking into.

people aren’t wrong when they describe how weird, unhinged, and shitposty The Locked Tomb is- but I don’t see enough mention of how that goes hand-in-hand with how it’s genuinely, earnestly, and effortlessly utterly heartbreaking

like, (massive spoilers) the entire series from Gideon to Nona is about how everything you ever loved is dead and dying, but that doesn’t matter because you can’t take loved away

and it delivers that phrase, which will make me cry for years and has gotten me through personal tragedy in real life, at the end of a bit about a “Free mustache rides” T-shirt

#I think what ppl don’t consider is that it’s obnoxiously silly and memey because it’s supposed to be undeniably human#there’s no aliens in this space opera#even the worst characters are unbearably human.#the earth herself is arguably the most human of them all#and what’s more human than giggling at something stupid while your heart breaks apart?#what’s more human than stopping to feel gleeful about a really fucking dumb joke?

You. You GET it.

The juxtaposition is honestly so, so important and so masterfully executed. It controls and balances the tone. It's far more memorable than most works trying to be entirely serious and Professional. It's frequently used to direct the audience's attention, like in GtN where Harrow quoting Teacher just lays out huge swaths of the plot pretty directly, but on a first read we don't have quite enough context to understand what we're looking at and then immediately get distracted by Gideon's "Surprise, my tenebrous overlord! Ghosts and you might die is my middle name!" Sometimes the humor is used to disguise lines that should garner more suspicion, too, like she's not quite the only one who says it but it's weird they still have a concept of middle names tbh? And of course the infamous None House with Left Grief, which really SHOULD be just as glaring as quoting Annabel Lee, especially with both present rather than just one or the other. So many just don't give the same consideration to "lower" references like memes or modern things that they do to "higher" "classic" art—which is textually acknowledged and played with in the way Blood of Eden names equally preserve both.

And yeah, it's so deeply also how authentic and human it makes everything. It's the way you can feel through every page how much passion Tamsyn Muir has for this story. It's not an unfiltered experience, but it still manages to feel like it in ways that really matter, and that takes so much skill to do with such intention.

It's vital to just how special these books are, and while of course I wished more people who turned up their nose could see that, I'm so grateful for how many people started out with mixed to negative feelings about it only to fall in love and understand by the end. Everyone who found Gideon's jokes jarring and intrusive in early GtN but by this passage was emotional about and grateful for Cheap Mustache Rides. I hope the impact it makes spreads and gives us more works that feel like this in the future, because it really is so wonderful.

data scientist talking to themself in the mirror to psych themself up before a presentation in 2010:

i'm looking at wearable heating pads so i can keep the furnace lower in the winter and maybe save some money, and i love the way they look like something out of a fantasy. come along my heated little squire, we've dragons to kill near the wizard tower

my heated armours