Multiple figures from Lord of the Rings legendarium, drawn in pen and ink. Cirdan the Shipwright holding his tools, Melian, Arwen sitting toward the front with Elrond behind her, Galadriel, Gil-Galad, Gandalf, Celebrimbor
Legends of the Quendi. Private Lord of the Rings commission. Pen and ink with gold and watercolor. Melian, Celebrimbor, Elrond, Galadriel, Gil-Galad, Cirdan, Gandalf, Arwen #lotr #lordoftherings #penandink
Last night in the auditorium:
Drama teacher: pls silence your phones
Me, to my ex: my phone has been silent since 2006.
Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.
Just being EXTRA CAREFUL.
ah, fine, let’s go to the beach
Here at hotel Kyle, we fill your days with Kyle staring at you and asking if you’re having a good time bc what if you’re not oh god and this makes you hate me—oh look another historical monument!
Except maybe @jenhaneve.bsky.social — taking her to the coast ends in my near death
Feeling sentimental and want to say thanks to all the internet turned irl friends who trusted 16 year old me to not ax murder then when they visited me/moved here to live with me etc etc.
My house is always open and I’ll drive you to the coast!
I was considering posting my work online again sometime in 2022. Then generative AI became a thing—that idea died. I don’t want to feed someone else’s cash cow… I don’t want my words cut up and butchered and turned into milquetoast slop while real people are harmed. Anonymous (North America)
Writers are increasingly hesitant to share their work online because of AI—per the findings of our recent Creativity & AI survey, the damage AI has wrought on writing communities is psychological as well as material.
But that’s not the full story 🧵👇
Full blog post: ellipsus.com/blog/survey-...
🫂 oh no!! I’m sending you hugs and good thoughts!!
Both rails are painted now and so am I
Yeah, for sure. It definitely feels conflicting—like I have zero feelings for him but I see why I did and it feels like a gut punch afterwards
Also none of these idiots UNDERSTOOD Tolkien, if they ever even read it. Sauron, Palantir, all of these things were reprehensible. Tolkien was ANTI INDUSTRY—he wanted GARDENS AND POTATOES!!!!
Kind of hate how easy it is to talk to ex when we are at things for our daughter. It feels like I’m betraying myself somehow by having a normal time talking to him. We still have a lot in common, obviously—we had SOMETHING to talk about for 11 years.
Idk. My kid rocked her songs tho!
🫂🫂 I also know this tune. 😔
Memo to self: buy flowers for kiddo for her play tomorrow
I second the WATCH IT!!!
Let’s get margs.
I got stuck in a figure skating loop on TikTok and—
OMGGGGGG 🥺🥺🥺
AHHHHHH THANK YOU????
Saw a still from faux news with Lindsey Graham looking like he just spent a week on a drunk crying bender in Myrtle Beach and I couldn’t be happier. Hope your liver fails, dude!
No…I’ve been informed they did say something on tumblr about being excited to read, but I’m not active there anymore really. So far I’ve mostly been like “it be what it be” but I got in my head last night lol
Reread “like real people do” by @myrsinemezzo.bsky.social the other night and had to doodle the girls
my exchange fic giftee never commented and it is driving me slightly insane (delete this girl)
I have hEDS!
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
top panel: jack and rose in the titanic movie, the scene where he shows her his sketchbook. bottom panel: his sketches are those fun S figures everyone drew as kids
LOGGING ON
Weird shit I think to myself “my toes feel faint.”
Like??? What does that mean except I feel like I’m about to pass out but I feel it in my toes!!! That makes no damn sense.
Don’t worry I’m laying down I can’t pass out if I’m horizontal.
Seeing as I already have hEDS, POTS and MCAS—plus probable immune activation—gut motility just makes sense.
