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Fun fact: Characters giving prophecies as they die is pretty common in Shakespeare, and when it happens, the prophecies almost always come true

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Something told the wild geese it was time to go

Something told the wild geese It was time to go, Though the fields lay golden Something whispered, "snow." Leaves were green and stirring, Berries, luster-glossed, But beneath warm feathers Something cautioned, "frost." All the sagging orchards Steamed with amber spice, But each wild breast stiffened At remembered ice. Something told the wild geese It was time to fly, Summer sun was on their wings, Winter in their cry.

— Rachel Field, "Something Told The Wild Geese It was Time to Go" in "Branches Green" (Houghton Mifflin, 1934). (via Make Believe Boutique)

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ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

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Someone finally let Rob Aramayo ramble about Elrond!

"You just kissed your mother in law."

"Yeah. I did...I did do that..." His face here was so funny, he knew it was coming lol

Best choice to have nerd of the rings interview him so he could ramble to his hearts content!

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Gown at Tippett

1828

Whitaker Auctions

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The joy of The Rings of Power is that it showed us that Celebrimbor wasn't a fighter. He isn't this big, buff beefy elf that fandom previously portrayed him as. He makes weapons, but he doesn't use them. He has knowledge but he doesn't kill. He chooses long robes and gowns of vibrant colors, rather than armor, sword, or shield.

And despite that all, he is still perhaps the bravest elf to have ever walked the face of Middle Earth. He didn't need to be a macho type of elf to withstand the greatest foe of elven kind. He did so with his kind actions, and words.

He didn't die fighting with steel blades and fists, he died unarmed, yet still his words were enough to render Sauron helpless at the end. To make him rethink everything he'd done, to make him fear his inevitable end.

This is also important because it parallels Celebrimbor to Frodo. Frodo has no weapons, no armor, no sword or shield when he destroys the ring. He is as he is.

I am so glad that TROP gave us this version of Celebrimbor. I always, always felt that he was like that and never saw it reflected in fandom spaces and now we get it canonically. And it such a huge part of his character.

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This is incredible. People literally begging Lymond to shut the fuck up, "almost tearful", while he chunters away uninterrupted for 2 hours on his stone block

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It's like we all collectively forgot as a society that friendship and just connection in general takes effort. Even if you meet someone you immediately click with, it takes hanging out about 20 times (!) to become friends. And guess what, some of those 20 meetings might be awkward or unimpressive.

We all want to reap the benefits (having a friend circle, having a partner, getting married) without doing the work (going to events, interacting with people, learning to handle conflict maturely, dating). Myself included. If I could, I'd never leave the house or go on another mediocre date again... except, that's part of the process.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the cure to the loneliness epidemic is touching some grass and building tolerance for tedious in-person interactions.

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Artist: 📸 The Pulp Girls

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“Oh, damn!” said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. “Hi, driver!”

The taxi man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into Lower Regent Street across the route of a 19 ‘bus, a 38-B and a bicycle, bent an unwilling ear.

“I’ve left the catalogue behind,” said Lord Peter deprecatingly, “uncommonly careless of me. D'you mind puttin’ back to where we came from?”

“To the Savile Club, sir?”

“No—110A Piccadilly—just beyond—thank you.”

–Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?, Chapter I, 1923.

Photo: Piccadilly Circus, 1924. (x, x)

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I read this novel as a teenager and have never forgotten it. Such a beautiful book.

In religion a different year revolves within the natural one, the seasons making a background for it. Philippa was now seeing the cycle for the fifth time; it began as autumn reddened the Abbey's wild cherries and sent the yellow birch leaves spinning in the park, while the beeches in the avenue stood deep in fallen leaves; the hedges were bright with rose hips and briony berries, and Dame Beatrice's vases for the sanctuary were filled with Michaelmas daisies or sent the pungent smell of chrysanthemums into the choir.

In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden

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Night in Pompeii. Photos taken last week by Marco Macri

Night in Pompeii. October 2024

© Marco Macri

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Queen's Thief's final year of Yuletide exchange eligibility

...is 2024! Sign-ups are from October 8th to October 18th. If you sometimes offer or request QT in the Yuletide exchange, consider doing so one last time! First time? None better!

Q: Are a lot of people interested in Queen's Thief fic this year?

A: Yuletide always has a lot of interest in QT: it’s in the top 5 most-written about fandoms in Yuletide! It's reliably popular in requests and offers alike, and the fandom has an active fic scene that I can report is excited to go out with a bang.

Q: What characters have been nominated?

A: The usual suspects are all nominated—Gen, Irene, Helen, Sophos, Costis, Kamet, Pheris. We also have Gen’s mother and children (Eugenia and Hector); the Magus, Aristogiton, and Ion of Attolia; and Timris and Verix. And we have worldbuilding!

Q: Wait, what's Yuletide?

A: Giant annual fic exchange for rare fandoms. Works are posted on Ao3, but see the admin team's Dreamwidth as a hub for links and information: https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/

Q: Wait, why are we losing eligibility?

A: We're posting a lot of fic! To be too big for Yuletide, we have to have 1,000 fics or more that are 1,000 words or longer, complete, and in English on Ao3. @hamiathesgiftexchange and I have done the math: we will hit this before next year's nominations.

Q: I have another question!

A: DM me here or say hello in the fan Discord! https://discord.gg/JYJufae