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People on this website will really mock anti-vaxxers and flat earthers for ignoring scientists and getting their alternative facts from facebook, and then turn around and insist they know more history than historians and more archaeology than archaeologists because they read an unsourced tumblr post once

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TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

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The top Boromir I did today, the bottom one was last year, I'm pretty glad how I improved and whatnot.

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Every night a beautiful spectre named You've Got Kudos appears and haunts me with the knowledge I should be writing fanfic

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few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

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nothing scarier than being a fan of a fic and then becoming mutuals with the author. like hi shakespeare. big fan of your fake dating au

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I get that being frozen for 100 years is a tough thing to go through but honestly Aang should have used it for comedy more

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

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I don't post about work much on here, but I've spent all day rewriting/formatting/redoing accessibility features on a government document to remove all mentions of "diversity" because the federal client is worried the document will be flagged and banned by DOGE keyword searches.

The context? A wide diversity of organic products. It's a document about organic food labels.

It's taken months of back-and-forth with the client to redo this document. All these taxpayer dollars spent on fixing the wording because we can't afford to offend the new administration. This is all my company seems to do lately.

Three cheers for government efficiency

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This always makes me want to give yet another shoutout to Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, which is possibly the only fantasy novel I’ve ever read that gives so much respect and visibility to “women’s work” like sewing and weaving and acknowledges the power that domestic arts- and the women who do them- can hold.

Here we have rich, powerful men carelessly using magic to conjure up incredible garments and jewelry and dresses and the like, and the only people who can see how frightening and insidious it is are the women who know firsthand just how much time and effort and skill are needed to make those things and therefore understand the cost that kind of magic will have on the user!

Not to mention exploring the complex math those skills take to the point of literally equating weaving and knitting to magic- oooooh I’m gonna have to reread the book again soon

Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.

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I haven’t seen this video and it’s been a good while since I’ve read the LOTR books in their entirety, but I seem to remember Boromir being noticeably LESS obsessed with bloodlines and purity than Aragorn, Faramir, or most of the other characters. He’s a huge fan of Rohan while everyone else in Gondor goes around calling them lesser men or men of twilight or whatever, and his concern for Gondor’s decline has nothing to do with the lack of specific blood being in its leaders and everything to do with them losing a fucking war, right??

Am I missing something? I’m not going to watch that video so I guess I’ll never know. Either way RIP to my blood pressure

People will make youtube videos about Boromir and not even consult me about it. And look what happens! 'Boromir and our Relapse into Facism' a video that manages to accurately observe the Dunedain's claim of 'racial superiority' but then appears to decide that that is really only a problem inherent in Boromir and is completely disinterested in examining how the entire story and worldbuilding of Middle-earth is set up to reinforce and justify that claim. Aragorn's fine apparently, it doesnt matter that his strongest argument for claiming the throne of Gondor is due to his divinely superior lineage. We're ignoring his immediate expansionist conquest of the east and south. We do not care that his blood and the reintroduction of elven blood is supposed to 'rejuvinate' Gondor's tragic 'decline' and Faramir's diatribe in favour of Gondor returning to being a 'queen among queens, feared only as one might fear a man old and wise' isn't even worth a mention. Fuck Boromir for being incredulous about a 111 year old man who is 3.5 feet tall walking all the way to Mordor though I guess.

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Anyone gonna tell me coelacanth was pronounced like that or was i just supposed learn that from a video about fossils

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"As strange as it may seem, I grew up in the world he created. For me, the cities of The Silmarillion are more real than Babylon."

- Christopher Tolkien

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Suez Canal memes, a collection

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“In the face of current threats to our liberties, this project is a reminder of the principles and guts of generations of Bostonians, and it is expressed on the same sites where our history has played out over the centuries.”

Under the pseudonym "Silence Dogood," a group of artists projected a series of anti-tyranny messages onto the Old State House in Boston Tuesday.