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Can you handle the heat? 😏

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your research will lead you to mysterious places. (a book so niche it's not even on goodreads)

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Smaug <3

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If you want a Tolkienesque man, you have to become a Tolkienesque woman….

Be six feet tall, have gray eyes, and long hair

Weave spells of enchantment upon your enemies through your singing

Create strikingly lifelike sculptures

Dance in glades

Slay the embodiment of fear and death

Protect your own woodland realm

Help the resistance effort to overthrow the enemy that took over your land

Give good advice

Decorate your home with water lilies floating in pots of water

Only give your shiny hair out to short kings

Befriend a giant dog

Give gifts

Weave a really good banner

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there was an educational event at a castle where I met a very fascinating man. He has no social media and when I asked where I could learn more about him and his work, he told me that he’d changed his website to declare his retirement so NO. He said at SOME POINT he will publish a proper book so WATCH OUT. He has beautiful hand-illuminated books he’s made about the social and economic history of lenscraft. He had glasses you could try on, and showed how optical physics was understood in medieval Europe and the Middle East. He showed how you could read a manuscript through a round bottle of water, and put his demonstration spectacles on the kids. He is RETIRING GO AWAY (he will explain everything.) what a great, great niche he has. I want to learn more about him but I also love his mystery. He said I could have these pictures. I guess what I’m really asking is how can I find out when his book comes out

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gay_irl

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Belphie has gotten soooooo much better, but at his core he's still an annoying baby

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House of Finwë family tree, based on the later version from HoME. I chose to stop at Elrond & Elros' generation, but later added Arwen as a side note, which is why her brothers are not included.

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Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

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Do anime girls dream of 3D guys?

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Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825

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I am BEGGING for an open-world game with a functioning train or tram.

Like, you actually have to wait for it in real-time, physically step on, then wait for your stop with the ability to actually explore it and chat with the other riders

No loading screens

And when you aren’t on it, you can look over and see it doing its route without you, picking up and dropping off patrons whether you’re there or not

please i need a video game that captures the joy of free public transit

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it’s ascanio maria sforza and josquin des prez again! I just think they’re neat, and there’s no one stopping me from drawing increasingly niche art of renaissance figures

-new light on the dating of josquin’s ‘hercules mass,’ willem elders and andré d'olérargues

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Catalina de Motril, credit to sheebsfeedandseed on Instagram

“In the records, Catalina is identified as a slave and royal bedmaker. She is not accorded a surname and Catalina was probably not her real name. She was born in Motril, Granada, which until 1492 was an autonomous Muslim kingdom. As such, she almost certainly grew up a Muslim moor. But before 1501 she was enslaved, probably converted and placed in the service of Catherine of Aragon.”

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Poet, I beg you by that God whom you did not know…