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"this too shall pass" well can it fucking get on with it

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anyone else hyped for the probably upcoming eruption of T coronae borealis (T CrB) the recurring nova in the constellation corona borealis

#nebulas and novas and night skies #more things in heaven and earth

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@lotr20 Day 6: Healing ⇢ Éowyn & Faramir

‘Then must I leave my own people, man of Gondor?’ she said. ‘And would you have your proud folk say of you: “There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North! Was there no woman of the race of Númenor to choose?”’ ‘I would,’ said Faramir. And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. And many indeed saw them and the light that shone about them as they came down from the walls and went hand in hand to the Houses of Healing. And to the Warden of the Houses Faramir said: ‘Here is the Lady Éowyn of Rohan, and now she is healed.’

#all things will grow with joy there

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Logis du Feés, France by Sies Kranen

#ref #it was a good persimmon custard

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hey fellas i just opened my word processor and stared blankly at my screen for 15 minutes by the clock. so. barring miracles sighs n shadows is not gonna be updating this week. possibly also not next week either. up until now i have been pretending i'm not really in crisis mode as a sorta fake-it-'til-you-make-it if-i-don't-look-at-it-it's-not-there hack, but i think we have finally reached the limits of that approach, so. sorry about the wait see y'all in a bit i guess

#by barring miracles i do mean miracles; if you are of a praying disposition i would appreciate prayer. ain't nothin' else fixin' this shit. #(dog's been real fuckin sick the past couple weeks. plus a whole lotta other shit but that's what's been taking it out of me the most.) #anyway. i simply lack the wherewithal to be writing anymore. it'll come back when it comes back i guess 🙃 #until then i will be watching a lot of d20 and doing a lot of knitting and generally turning my brain Fully The Fuck Off whenever possible #(rejoice in the lord always but if you can't make your rejoicing from scratch then storebought dnd comedy is fine)

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Good old Merry did wHAT .

#this herbology nerd is SO ready to just fucking stab someone. i love him so much #gen

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Tarot card for my warden - Ace of Swords

#this is #no story but your own #To Me. #also #wouldn't it be knife

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Iceland

#every now and then i think 'FUCK i wish i lived in iceland' and then i remember. four hours of daylight in winter & obscene grocery prices. #(and All Sun All The Time wasn't that great for my sleep either tbh) #but still. man. what a country. #it was a good persimmon custard

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Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjö"

#HUH #horrid language. HORRID language #time flies like an arrow fruit flies like a banana

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You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.

Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.

#gen

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The Dipòsit de les Aigües Library, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia.

This library is set up in a 19th-century water reservoir located in the heart of Barcelona. After 100 years of different uses -old people’s home, storage for the fire brigade, car park for the local police department, archive for the Court of Justice- it became property of the Pompeu Fabra University in 1992. Since then, it’s the university’s library.

Photos by Arq Foto, Burçin Yildirim on Flickr, and The ISA Journal.

#WOAH #ref

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Golden Fields, Amber Brunsden — 2023 Oil on canvas

#:O #et vertice sidera tangam

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narnia au where their parents were with them at the train station during the beginning of Prince Caspian. To say goodbye to them. Their parents being a little bit clingy(ptsd and overprotectiveness) wanted to both see them off on the train. The parents accidentally end up in Narnia with them. Shenanigans abound. Just imagine these two proper British parents having to deal with the fact that a magical talking lion made their children Kings and Queens, and they were for 15 years in Narnia, Narnia in general, watching their children fight and command armies, Caspian, and the fact that their kids are not really children anymore. Also Mrs and Mr Pevensies having to rely on their children in this unfamiliar place.

ooh yes, there is definitely untapped potential in Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie ending up in Narnia. They would struggle so much with everything. Why are there talking animals and trees and water. Why won't our children listen to us. Who gave our tiny daughter a dagger. Why are her siblings acting like Lucy having a dagger is fine.

Also, if they tag along from the start of PC, they would quickly meet Trumpkin, and I'm laughing so hard at the thought. Because he's also a pretty skeptical person, but they'd have different ideas of what counts as reasonable.

Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie: a real dwarf? How is he here? How did we get here?

Lucy: oh, Aslan probably summoned us.

Trumpkin: the magical king lion? don't be ridiculous. everyone knows there haven't been talking lions in Narnia in centuries

Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie: but other animals talking is normal

Trumpkin: obviously

Also the battle at the end? There are very serious thoughts to be had about the parents seeing their children all grown up, and realizing how capable they are (and mourning a little at how much responsibility they've obviously had to shoulder so young. they sent their children to the countryside to give them as much childhood as they could, and instead war found them. war and greater burdens than they would have had back home), but I keep getting distracted trying to decide which would be funnier, the book or the movie version.

Movie:

Mr. and Mrs. P: Lucy's not riding into battle! None of you should, but especially her!

Peter: don't be ridiculous

Peter: she's riding alone into the forest to find a lion

Or there's the book version of events, where Peter, Edmund, and Caspian fight in the battle while Susan and Lucy are off riding around on a lion, and literal Bacchus shows up with Silenus and a bunch of maenads and they conjure grape vines and wine everywhere.

(askfjdl and then Edmund eats dirt. The dryads are eating dirt at the victory feast and Edmund eats some because it looks like chocolate and imagine his parents. They've just started accepting their children actually are grown up and capable and royalty--and then their youngest son eats dirt.)

Also, maybe Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie look at Caspian and go "oh, another child carrying way too much responsibility. oh, you're an orphan and your uncle tried to kill you? okay, we have five children now"

#oh this would slap #no story but your own

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ROTK ANNIVERSARY WEEK | Hope [6/7] ➼ "Hope is kindled."

#the beacon sequence is simply SO important to me #sinome maruvan ar hildinyar

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Vijay Sarathy aka Canvasoul (Indian, b. 1995, Chennai, India, based in the Himalayas) - Photography

#et vertice sidera tangam #if every man is true

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Re-reading the Silmarillion and I don't know how I missed the bit about the light of the two trees mingling during Fëanor and Fingolfin's reconciliation. Had to rough this up to get it out of my head

#OOF #property law #the matter of song

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homegirl luthien & the Best Boy

reminder that my ko-fi is up, if u feel inclined to visit it! :)

#oh i LOVE them #gen