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Thunderblink + you’re sexy when you do dishes. 

#no idea why tumblr is randomly showing me a 5 year old post but i still miss them #thunderblink #the gifted

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sorry I wasn’t in the mood to be a person today, sorry I forgot to keep a conversation, sorry my soul needs ironing. give me a moment, a day or a so. it’ll be good. I’ll brush my hair and change my clothes. I’ll laugh a lot. I’ll say important things. it’ll be good.

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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

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The idea of english as a mother tongue is so strange to me, in my head english is how ppl communicate when there's no way in common to communicate, so english as a mother tongue sounds a bit like idk email as a mother tongue ykwim? Like english to me feels like the stuff that's used to fill the empty spaces between languages

#languages #linguistics #love that

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people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

#neurodivergent things #that exactly #once i was labelled gifted no one looked further

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But if your favorite character isn't on the floor panting and dying and in horrible pain in a terrible situation then what's even the point

#writing things #you get me

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My SILMARILLION people!

What are yalls favourite fics surrounding mahaedros and maglor? And elrond and elros? AND Elwing and Earandil aaaaaaand Glorfindel and Gilgalad

Aaaaaand the Akallabeth! What's yalls favourite Numenorean fics???

I just finished the SILMARILLION and need to let my brain go craazzzy

#thank youuu #so many great fics there #fic rec #fandom love #silmarillion #tolkien

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“Use your gifts and your talents to greatest possible effect while you can. Spread joy wherever possible. Laugh at jokes. Tell jokes. Make puns and bugger the embuggerances. Read books. Read my books. You might like them. You might find something else you like even more than them. Look for these things in life.

Question authority. Champion good causes. Speak out against injustice. Do not tolerate bullies or bigots or racists or anti-intellectuals or the narrow-minded. Use your education to challenge them. Broaden their perspectives. Make the world you interface with a happier place.

These are your choices. Choices you have been fortunate to have been given, so don’t waste them while you have them. Don’t look back in years to come and wish you had grasped a fleeting opportunity. Grasp it now with both hands, Live. Strive. Love.”

from A Little Advice for Life taken from ‘Terry Pratchett: from birth to death, a writer.’

—Sir Terry Pratchett; April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015

One of the greatest compliments I've ever received is that I resemble Sam Vimes.

Mind how you go.

#terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett

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Hi! If you're still doing the prompts, may I request a Finrod (in beleriand) + green things even among the pits and broken rocks?

Hello! Dear one! Most excellent silm artist! I apologize for being gone so long, feels like I have had several years of bad brain days in a row😭 but thank you so much for prompting me anyway - and what a prompt! I was instantly taken by an image and had to write it down. I hope you enjoy this one<3

TW for descriptions of blood, gore, bones, and general dead bodies.

They brought the bones up first.

Beren’s frame was sharp as daggers, driven into Lúthien’s arms; but he had not listened to her pleas that he eat.

"I will not rest until they can," he said, and for a long moment Lúthien had not understood: who? Rest where?

Then she understood: he meant the dead.

Lúthien was weary beyond belief, cursing the softness of her form and the six-days lost in Nargothrond, and even Huan beside her was sagging in exhaustion. But in truth, she did not want to leave anyone down there in the dark and the filth either.

So they gathered the bones. There were so many! Lúthien knew, of course, that the Eldar had skeletons; but the breadth of them, scattered about the floor, was such that she could not really connect any of it to living breathing creatures. Many of the bones had been split open and the marrow sucked out; others were splintered so badly they had wedged into the stone floor and had to be left. Despite this there were scraps of flesh, still, scattered here and there. It was like no death in the wilderness she had ever seen. These were not merely starving creatures; they had been purposefully cruel.

More than once Lúthien had to stop, and take her too-light load up under the stars, climbing the crumbling steps and breathing very steadily lest she lose all composure. Beren worked like a man possessed, but he was wasted to almost nothing, and so their grim task took long enough that the velvet blackness of the sky had begun to turn grey.

But at last it was done; they had neat rows of bones, away from the chains and the stones, laid out upon the dirt under the sky. At last there was only - only Finrod left, to carry out.

Huan descended with them, this time, head hanging low, and Lúthien clutched his ruff for support as they approached her cousin’s body. The stones crackled beneath her feet.

What was left of Finrod had been barely visible as they labored, between the gloom of the prison and the darkness of the night; but now light was creeping down the stairs, and she could see the gold of his hair and the pale grey of his skin. He was splattered in old black stains, across his mouth and chest and side and legs, and new brown stains. As Lúthien approached she could see the white of bone in his chest and flashing in one arm, and had to close her eyes. Beren beside her let out a low moan.

After a moment, she opened her eyes again, feeling the first rays of the sun warming her back. Then she froze.

Finrod’s hair had been mostly shorn, and what was left was covered in the damp blackness of the pit; but somehow, through a crack in the wall, a patch of aur-hennin had grown. It crowned him in yellow and green, leaves tucked behind his ears, one flower falling forward onto his forehead, as if he had simply fallen asleep after a night’s heavy revelry.

"Beren, look!" said Lúthien, very softly, "the king has got a crown again."

For a moment she felt - outside herself. She was not Lúthien, princess of Doriath; she was the Nandor Elves who had tended to Denethor’s slain body upon the hill of Amon Ereb and, it was said, crowned him in flowers; she was the Eagle who had snatched King Fingolfin’s body from the hand of the Morgoth; she was, for a moment, someone very small, standing in an unfamiliar forest under an unfamiliar sun.

Then the moment passed, as Beren staggered in grief upon her shoulder; but his tears were, she thought, a little lighter, seeing the golden king crowned, seeing her cousin cradled in softness.

Slowly they carried him up to the light.

#oof 😭 #i love it #luthien #beren #finrod #silmarillion #tolkien #fic rec

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i already have a job and it's called keeping myself alive. why do i have to be employed on top of that

#i feel that very much

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You won't reach a point where you don't need references anymore 😭

Even artists who freedraw regularly still do studies, refer to their past work, keep character sheets at hand, etc

Please don't impose that expectation on yourself just because of a live demo, tiktok, or timelapses especially

#art things #references are the best thing #use them #it's okay to copy #it's okay to trace #(obviously there are copyright issues that you should know about but bettering your art is always okay) #anything artists *appear* to be doing without reference #is just a bunch of references that are seared into their minds

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do you ever look at Successful™ people your age and feel like you’re just floating your way thru life like a very bewildered and directionless bumblebee

#so much

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Not me getting obsessed with yet another musical

Random fanart of Ikar/Icarus with Alexander Kazmin as Icarus and Yaroslav Bayarunas as the Drifter (for @actual-bill-potts)

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I have also updated my Redbubble shop with more or less the same pieces.

Redbubble does all kind of clothes and stationery if that's more your jam, including stickers, which are most of the sales xD

I just added about 50 artworks, new and less new, to my INPRNT shop. I've had the shop for a while but I never really put in the time to upload things...

Anyway, if anyone wants a print of my art. I have very little work at the moment so it would be welcome tbh. INPRNT is great because the artist actually get 50% of the sale price, which is a lot more than Redbubble &co. And their print quality is really good.

If there's a specific artwork of mine you'd like but you don't see it there, feel free to ask! They got buried under a bit but if you scroll down you'll find the pride dragons too.

#self promo #idk how to do that but i guess i've gotta try

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freeze! ✧ ─=≡Σ((( つ•̀ω•́)つ you’re under arrest for being so lovely. copy this message to 10 other blogs (only if you want to) that you think are beautiful and deserve it. keep the game going and make others feel beautiful 💚

aww thank you so much 💙 right back at you

#fandom love

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Éowyn with the starry mantle donated by Faramir 💖

+ timelapse ❣️

#lotr #eowyn #tolkien #beautiful art

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I just added about 50 artworks, new and less new, to my INPRNT shop. I've had the shop for a while but I never really put in the time to upload things...

Anyway, if anyone wants a print of my art. I have very little work at the moment so it would be welcome tbh. INPRNT is great because the artist actually get 50% of the sale price, which is a lot more than Redbubble &co. And their print quality is really good.

If there's a specific artwork of mine you'd like but you don't see it there, feel free to ask! They got buried under a bit but if you scroll down you'll find the pride dragons too.