Oblivion - Harvest Dawn |Guitar Cover| with TABS YouTube video by Campfire Knight

youtu.be/GFTnAEE1dcI?...

7! 😁

Happy Birthday Samwise Gamgee!

Born on 6 April in 1380 (by Shire-reckoning), Sam supported Frodo all the way to Mount Doom. He fathered 13 children, was Mayor of the Shire for 49 years, and sailed West after the death of his wife Rosie.

Image: "Sam and Shelob" by John Howe #Tolkien #BookSky

photoshoot of a figure leaning against a sword

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🗡️

abriction - Forbidden Bounds (lp)
Hefnfelth - One Small Quest/Lofi Spells in the Moonlight (cs)
Rune Scimitar - Cure for Enchanted Wounds (cs)
Sunken Basilica/Spife - The Churn Beneath (cs)
@mossknightcometh.bsky.social - Songs for Spring (spring ‘26 sub cs)

📷 source moodsby_v

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses.

It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them.
Yes. This exists. 😹

a figure holding a sword in a white dress on the shore at night

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🗡️

Celestielle - Requiem
Electrick Hobbit - s/t
Joy Shannon - ITFSS
@lammoth.bsky.social - Tales of Treachery
Na Zarot / PissChalice
Night Vigil (@infinitedreamscape.bsky.social) - s/t & At the Frontier of Light & Day
Oculi Melancholiarum - Antheraea
Sindar - Tower of the Sun

On 25 March in Middle-earth: in the year T.A. 3019, Frodo and Gollum reach the Cracks of Doom. Gollum steals the Ring and falls. Sauron is defeated! Cuio i Pheriain anann! Aglar'ni Pheriannath! Eglerio!

Image: "At the Cracks of Doom" by Ted Nasmith #LOTR #TolkienReadingDay #BookSky

ethereal elven sword shoot in a forest

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🗡️

Galar - Seasick (cs)
Iffernet - Life at Heart (cs/cd)
Lily of the Valley - LOTV MMXXV (cs)
Obsolitas / Arandul - Freezing Realms (cs)
Sword Breaker - Bloody Pikes (cs/lp with Sonic Raid Records)

📷 lea._.b_

my music taste also my music taste annie stegg illustration

🎨 @anniestegg.bsky.social

scythe fawn holding a spiked mace in a black dress with overlaid spiked armor pieces

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 ⛓️ & @bandcamp.com friday so support artists directly!

Arüspex - The Death Instinct (cs)
Hoarspire - Labyrinthine Realm (cs)
NIMF - Sirenoscape (cs)
@transgressivemetal.bsky.social - Extreme Transgression (cs)
Transgressive - The Year of 2025 (cs/cd)

📷 @scythefawnn.bsky.social

a person in armor rests in a field of red flowers

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🌹

Dornenbahn - Dornenbahn (cs)
Griddlekeep - Warm Welcome (cs)
Lillian Hexing - The Sound of Spiders Hatching (cs)
@thenecrosexual.bsky.social - Road to Rubble (cs with Shirley Road Records)

📷 @lohhhmyphoto

Looks like my pinky fretting hand mobility is almost back, so I can once again play my beloved minor 9th chords, and even regular minor barres, phew!

Actually the biggest struggle, especially in times when it feels there's a lot on the line

Sometimes after work you just have to lay yourself down & put on an Oblivion ambient ost mix in the background & be thankful for how far you've come

"I can't, I have plans later" The plans: My room *Somber medieval music playing*

this is what i mean when i say that im a night owl (illustration of owl reading a book)

Ew. This label & it's art is a light in the darkness 🖤

Really loving Moon Gates by Aura Merlin. Bringing me back to the feeling of comfortably exploring some magical open world. It's enchanting & perfect.

armor & rose photo with a snowy background

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🥀

lagrimas - im not strong enough for this / like when I was a kid (lp/cs)
Owlbear - Feather and Claw (cs)
Secret Sorcery - The Nine Kingdoms of the Undying (cs)
Vëlh - Stelle Cadenti (cs)

📷 karumancy on ig

The cats agree about slowing down, maybe not 15 hrs of sleep a day slowing down but yes, slowing down

Grimly, injured my right hand yesterday, a borderline fracture it seems. Music is definitely out the window for a bit. But the silver lining is that it's impetus to slow down & appreciate things despite the pain, & maybe take a step back to think about artistic direction.

snowy sword shoot by michelle.chald

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 🗡️

Baerdcyn - And the Wind Keeps Time (cs)
Diatrekhon Aster - Metroglodyte (cs)
Landstrykar - A Walk Amidst the Cairns (cs)

📷 michelle.chald

thecasualcelt photographed by tashareidphotography

stay safe, protect your neighbors, melt 🧊 ⚔️

Dreichmere - Starless Shores
European Drought - Lullabies for an elven king
@sacral-black.bsky.social - Vile Consumption
@thewillowtea.bsky.social - A Time of Renewal

📷 thecasualcelt by tashareidphotography

It got shat on a lot but I at least had fun seeing it with a friend back when it released. If there's any other dramatization of those events I don't know of it, so it was pretty novel seeing one for the first time.

As many Tolkien fans would say, it's nearly inexpressible how much his works enriched my life, year after year his characters & stories continue to offer comfort & inspiration. Forever thankful to be born at a time to have read his works.

how to remember a gothic cathedral

Teddy Pendergrass - Love T.K.O. (Official Audio) YouTube video by TeddyPendergrassVEVO

youtu.be/Pb4j2UqkOJ0?...

This song really does hit when you're going through it. Well, I'm not currently but I imagine it does - what a singer! I only recently discovered but I believe the ~20 minutes of music I've written for the next Veln album has at least one Pendergrass type chord in it.