sketchbook page of pine martens
waaa
Some winning snowplow names in the Mass Dept of Transportation’s 2025-2026 contest for elementary and middle school kids:
- Sleet Caroline
- You’re Killing Me Squalls
- KPop Snow Hunter
- Master Snowda
- Frost Responder
- Cleopathra
- Scrape Codder
(Past years’ winners at link also!)
Official Post of Massachusetts
LET THE CROSS STITCH HIT THE FLOOR
Have a pattern link I guess if you want
let the cross stitch be decor
I FOUND IT FINALLY!
“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin (via thebookwormunderground)
What writer hasn’t finished their first draft and thought, “the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me”?
I've never been more devastated that I'm going to miss an event in my life. What a fucking icon.
never mind, I can make it!!
Update;
She expected maybe 5-10 people to show up. There were about 100.
I gave out scotch eggs to commemorate the occasion.
She gave a beautiful speech, was blindfolded, then kicked REAL good. Crumpled. Gave us a thumbs up.
Applause. Then the flute. Then a moment's silence.
Absolutely beautiful. I fucking love trans people and Glasgow and trans Glaswegians.
Ok thank GOD there’s an update.
overcast alpine
Great Egret dancing, Hungary. Photo by Bence Máté
Driving in Boston is so funny because the street names are so old they make no sense now! There’s no river on river street, no beach on beach street, no school on school street, no market on market street, no quarter on quarter street, no hope on hope street, no mercy on mercy street, and no escape on any street at all
Official Post of Massachusetts
gothic horror is when there's a location. cosmic horror is when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing. folk horror is when you're outside.
if you’re reading this, i’m wishing for the universe to be kind to you
For all my mutuals, this and a grilled cheese cut diagonal
in a kill it with your sword kill it with your sword amen mood today




