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a sinking feeling

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I meant to draw this back when I did this other doll comic as another side, to show a doll that had been cared for instead of abused, but somehow I wasn't able to finish it till like 10 minutes ago, anyway I did it *confetti*

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source

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underrated lotr moment is gandalf’s “let me risk a little more light” so the fellowship can see the ruins of dwarrowdelf.

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bedtime is a very difficult.

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Círdan, the Shipwright

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I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

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hope is a skill

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The final boss of “learning social skills” is seeing someone online say something about a special interest of yours that’d be the literal perfect opportunity for you to talk about it but deciding not to do it because the person made the comment so long ago it’d be kind of weird to reply now. If you can restrain yourself, you’ll be awarded the “King of Acting Normal” prize on national television by the president. Or so I’m told.

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Just some cosy hairbrushing

Also I got a bit got carried away with anatomical study so there is a version with a less amount of clothes

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things to do in valinor when you're visiting for the second time

go for a walk

look at the new bushes they've planted in the gardens and the dew-drop flowers light in your hands as a butterfly's landing

walk circles around the white city, running your fingers over the buildings left empty

think about vinyamar

try not to think about vinyamar

make a removed artistic critique of the new statue that they've carved, of king standing before the gates of formenos, his chin raised defiantly against doom

try to look dad in the eyes

breathe in the rose-scent of the perfumed

sleep for 3 days straight

try to ignore the whispers of the servants

go for a walk

go for a second, longer walk

bet on horseback races

lose

try to make new friends

think about a poem you want to share with curufin

remember the shit curufin pulled

vividly imagine pushing curufin off a cliff to the wolves

feel kinda bad re: cousin murder daydreams

decide the cousin murder daydreams aren't that bad if they let you out of mandos with them

have a nice family dinner where you don't bring up any dead relatives

write mom a letter you're not going to send

wonder why your little brothers are still caught, somewhere far away, in the dark

go for a walk

cry a little

come up with a really neat idea for an outfit centered around golden cuffs left yet in the ruins of nargothrond

birdwatch

turn to tell edrahil about a red-crested bird and remember edrahil is not birdwatching, as he is dead because of you

cry a little

hum a song maglor came up with

try to decide whether you're mad at maglor or not

go dancing with amarie

feel nothing

stand in square, suffocating in the cold night air

go for a walk

eat a rose in the gardens of lorien

shut yourself in your chambers

journal

try to tell your father about the open chasm in your chest and run out of words

try to remember when you've become the sort of person who runs out of words

go for a walk

return to the doors of the halls of mandos

stare at the blank white marble of the pillars

pick up your chisel

carve

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The Princess Bride is such a funny book to read after ONLY seeing the movie. Like Goldman made up a fake author from a fake country and proceeded to write the book as an abridged version of what the fake author wrote... and then he proceeds to add in notes to the "abridged version" mentioning all the boring world building stuff he skipped because it was boring.

Like shout out to William Goldman, man really did make an entire book that is just "the cool scenes you thought of in your head" and then made up a fake author to abridge so he doesn't have to connect them.

And it slaps

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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nobody will know that this is atla fanart

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Cretaceous Characters - Quetzalcoatlus meets a sub-adult triceratops. Just a silly paleoart cartoon thing of mine.

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we all talk about doing it scared doing it alone doing it weird etc. but the the hideously awful truth is that you also often have to do it stupid

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free