now why would they call it that

someone needs to let the perpetual stew guy know about this

currently reading “now i surrender” by álvaro enrigue and i’m quite enamoured with how the author writes in what are essentially footnotes. i love you asides about the historical context & it makes the writing so dense and meaty which i really really enjoy

we all got that one old friend of our mom’s who we really sense feels kind of weird about not being our father. it’s fine, it’s all good, just thank him for being so nice to you and keep it pushing

no longer possessed

the consequences of jesus is my boyfriend music are just beginning to be studied

downsides of growing up evangelical: getting sandblasted by a lauren daigle needledrop on network television

something possessed me this month

all of tolkien’s work really just comes back to grief in the end

it’s so moving that the third theme, filled with sorrow and grief over melkor’s marring, was the theme that created the children of iluvatar.

anyone at my place of business: if you could just hop on a quick call to discuss the—
me: BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE SPOKE TO THE DARKNESS ALONE IN THE BITTER WATCHES OF THE NIGHT WHEN ALL HER LIFE SEEMED SHRINKING AND THE WALLS OF HER BOWER CLOSING IN ABOUT HER, A HUTCH TO TRAMMEL SOME WILD THING IN?

never watching sports ever again

A bunch of deep sea fishes including a gulper eel and some angler fish.

Creatures from the deepest sea

“Before them in the West the world lay still, formless and grey; but even as they looked, the shadows of night melted, the colours of the waking earth returned… the White Mountains, rising into pale peaks of jet, tipped with glimmering snows, flushed with the rose of morning.” GAH

“For once more the lust of battle was on him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell
people. And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them.” i can’t stand him!!!!!!!!!

tolkien’s prose is so good that it makes me mad

“aikanár the sharp-flame loved thee. for thy sake now he will never take the hand of any bride of his own kindred but live alone to the end remembering the morning” “for one year, one day of the flame i would have given all: kin, youth, and hope itself” john tolkien i can’t STAND you

the key inaccuracy you see in sports yaoi a lot isn’t actually people not knowing how these games and leagues work it’s people who don’t watch sports having no metric for what kind of gay stuff is acceptable for straight guy athletes to do together and what kind of gay stuff is gay

i had hockey boy classmates and they all stripped naked, stood together in a line, took a photo (butts to the camera) and posted it to instagram. crazy stuff.

tennis you have bewitched me body and soul. i love you carlos alcaraz one of the greatest to ever do it

Carlos Alcaraz Career Grand Slam complete.

22 years old...

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maedhros 🤴

the fate of finduilas 🌿
parallel to ophelia by millais
#finduilas #silmarillion #silm #lotr #tolkien #art #ophelia

i finished 3 novels in 2 days while ill and it activated a sleeper agent in me like jason bourne so now i’m reading All The Time

i am getting back into reading if anyone would like to follow me on storygraph @/brimflod

Tears unnumbered.
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#myart #silmarillion (my 1st go at digital art, an old maglor from last year that im still fond of.. he’s just purple to me, you know?)

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

having a niche experience on nyt connections today

on any page he’ll just be like “the night was clear, cool, and starry, but smoke-like wisps of mist were creeping up the hill-sides from the streams and deep meadows. thin-clad birches, swaying in a light wind above their heads, made a black net against the pale sky.” and you’re like YESSSSS