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if only dog had a bigger bed available, or perhaps two. maybe even a human bed. alas, he must make do with a measly little pillow.

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Revenge!

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“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made

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I feel like Bruce Wayne projects the kind of amiable playboy 'fun' vibe that he'd be the type of celebrity that certain interviewers feel comfortable surprising with puppies.

You know the kind of shows I mean.

The late-night talk show situations where they're making benign small talk with their smiling guest, and there's a segment where animals get brought out, usually to talk about some sort of ecological relief effort.

So you're watching your trash TV talk show late at night, and you get to watch billionaire pretty boy Bruce Wayne be begrudgingly talked into holding a (relatively) harmless creature which inevitably gets a lot of delighted shrieks from the audience as it starts being a lot more active than the handler promised. And to his credit, Bruce doesn't flinch, he doesn't freak out. But his eyes are a little wide, and his voice a little tight as the smile on his face takes on a slight rictus quality before he's inevitably rescued by an apologetic handler who is also laughing because they all know there was no real danger, it was just funny to put Bruce, who is an undeniable good sport and already laughing along, out of his comfort zone for the sake of charity.

Meanwhile, up in the Justice League headquarters, several founding members of the League are wondering how fast they can get a fake Oscar award shipped to the space station because fuck off. Absolutely fuck off, Bruce. Where the fuck did he study? Juilliard? (Probably.)

(Clark ends up going to a novelty store during the commercial break. It's faster than trying to get anything shipped, even with the infrastructure Bats built for them. He finds it several days later taped to his console in a conspicuously empty briefing room. It's gaudy and awful, the words "Best Actor" engraved on the plaque. No one's around to see him smile. No one comments when it vanishes. Everyone thinks it's been yeeted out an airlock. Dick absolutely comments when it shows up in the manor, stashed in one of the trophy cases that sprung up for all the bat kids' school awards. Bruce has no idea how it got there. Must have been Alfred. (It was not.))

Anyway, consider, for your amusement, Bruce Wayne getting highjacked on The Gotham Toight Show with a handful of wriggling puppies and, for a split second, not having to pretend he's delighted to be there.

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Happy Lughnasadh!  As of this week (1Aug - 7Aug), we start teetering on the slope of the astronomical sine curve and are heading into the long downhill slide. The northern hemisphere is about to start losing daylight at precipitous rates.

If you have light-sensitive SAD, or any other sort of season-related mood disorders, NOW is the time to start

taking vitamin D, or

scaling back on commitments, or

preparing spoon-free options (freezing meals, picking out outfits, planning activities in advance) that can allow you to keep up self-care when things go bad, or

considering using the light box, or

getting serious about tracking your symptoms, or

setting up plans with friends and family about what kind of support they can give you and how to let them know you need it, or

talking to your doctor about meds, or

putting serious effort into your daily self-care routine to make it as habitual and subconscious as possible, or

scheduling nap times, or

any other form of self-care that you know or suspect will work for you. signed, your friendly neighborhood astrophysics nerd with a seasonal mood disorder

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From the OP: "If you sit at a desk or stare at your phone all day, this is for you. Here's how to undo the damage: - Banded Chin Tucks - Strengthen your neck flexors and fight forward head posture - Banded Pull-Aparts - Target your rotator cuff and improve shoulder stability - Banded Abduction - Activate the midline of your scapula for better posture - Lateral Deltoid Raises - Build shoulder stability and control - Banded Up-and-Overs – Boost scapular mobility and range of motion These simple banded drills will help you stand taller, move better, and feel stronger - even after hours at a desk."

Some of these are the same or similar to the exercises my physical therapist taught me.

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I think that Celebrimbor came to Sirion exactly once, to do some advanced smith-work that could only be done on the spot—a new city gate?—and Elwing’s advisors and guardians did their 110% best to keep him away from her. Celebrimbor understood completely and abided by this entirely. Elwing, however, was 13 years old and rebellious, so she evaded her guards; hid the Jewel securely in a pouch under her shirt, so no Light seeped out; and snuck to where she could get a good view of the Fëanorian at work. The Fëanorian with his broad shoulders and fine hair tied neatly back from the forge o’er which he labored, the flames which only reflected the intensity of his spirit at work, so fascinating and dangerous and beautifully in-tune with the song of the metal taking shape in his deft hands…

Elwing, age 13 and rebellious, spent the subsequent summer constructing very secret, increasingly elaborate fantasies about how she would mend all the hurts of the Eldar by marrying the last, un-Marred scion of her family’s sworn enemies, and then naturally together they would lead all the people of Beleriand in a great war upon the Enemy, whom she would in the end cast down herself like if Lúthien had been armed with a Silmaril from the start…

Then the autumn squalls sent Eärendil home from his summer at sea, and Elwing forgot most of her daydreams, because there had really never been anyone for Elwing and Eärendil, the two half-elves at the end of the world, except each other. (Except of course that Eärendil was also for the Sea, and Elwing for the Jewel, and each for their respective peoples…but these things only drew them closer together.)

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truly from the bottom of my heart i hate the level of enshittification etsy has reached because it's still the best place to buy patterns for my hobby and every time i go scrolling through endless ai-generated bullshit to finally dig up a human-designed pattern i like, i'm hit with a deluge of 'popular!! 563 people are looking at this right now!! it's in 134632 baskets!! you must buy immediately!!!' it's a pdf file. it's a fucking pdf file. do you get off on trying to give people fomo over a fucking pdf file. fuck off. get diarrhea forever.

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third age Mairon i think he wears multi-layered clothing in a third age despite living literally next to a volcano

and you can imagine in your head an obscene amount of gold under this garment

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You are never letting a WIP rot. You are doing it a service. Your WIP is a sourdough starter and the five words you wrote that one day were all it needed to sustain itself. It will bubble and be ready when you are.

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Did you know that JRR Tolkien wrote an unpublished epilogue to Lord of the Rings? It's achingly, beautifully wistful in the way that only Lord of the Rings is. I revisited it recently because I'm guesting on my friends' LOTR podcast, and THAT reminded me that I drew a comic of the epilogue back in 2021 (all text is entirely canon). Anyway I thought folks on this website might enjoy it!

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Another interview [full of spoilers if you haven't seen the season finale of Murderbot] - Entertainment Weekly

Alexander Skarsgård unpacks emotional Murderbot finale scene that nearly made him cry: 'I'm a goddamn android!'

Can you talk about that last conversation with Gurathin? I didn't expect such an emotional moment between them.

I probably can't talk about it without crying because it really was an emotional moment. It was the last scene we shot together, and so it was the end of six months together in Toronto, and it really was the most beautiful group of people that I've worked with and one of the most special experiences of my career, to say goodbye on camera, but also off camera in a way. 

It was the last scene, and then we were all going off to our different places around the world. It was emotional and it was hard to not cry. I wanted Murderbot to feel something in the scene, but I also didn't want to. I'm a goddamn Android, I don't want to cry! In that moment, that would've been out of character. You often hear actors like pushing, trying to cry on camera — this was definitely the opposite, where it just felt like it was just bubbling up and I was really fighting to hold it back, because I definitely felt that moment.

Especially when David [Dastmalchian] is opposite you crying.

Yeah. I love him and I'm so happy that we got to end it with that scene. It felt like a proper goodbye between two characters, but also two actors in a way. And we kind of worked a bit on the dialogue there.

In some previous drafts, Murderbot was a bit more verbal and explained a bit more about what it was doing and why. But I love the idea of, throughout, the whole notion of "Check the perimeter" has been such a thing away for it to get away from the group. And I thought it'd be interesting to kind of end it with the simplicity of that, but this time it really means something else, and it is something that Murderbot has to do.

And for Gurathin, who's been going after Murderbot during this whole journey and calling Murderbot out on like, "Oh, check the perimeter? I see what you're doing" to focus the scene around that. "I am going to check the perimeter" and Gurathin going, "Yeah, you go check the perimeter." I thought that was a beautiful way to end that relationship… For now.

there is more at the link

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Who are generally more well-behaved? Seals or sea lions?

This might help put things into perspective. 😅

But in all honesty, our animals are amazing! Each individual has unique challenges and strengths, but they are all good pinns.

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“Ah, caro mio~ 🖤” “Mon Seigneur… 🖤”

Yes. Yes, it is, indeed, Angbang as Gomez and Morticia. I did not know I needed this but now I crave it with a vengeance.

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@valar-did-me-wrong finally drew Adar!

Inspired by his mention of sage blossoms in his first scene.

The pose is a bit wonky, but the sketch hated me for some reason, hence why this took so long. So I just wanted to finish it lol

Fingon is up next, and art requests are staying open :)

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