visitor

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

tolkien was a person, like any other. and assigning him to one "side" of the political spectrum or the other will never get to the heart of why fascists are drawn to his work.

it's not co-opting when the framework is there. put your attachment to middle-earth aside and fight fascism in all forms.

Gil-galad placing his hand on a wall covered with various pictures connected by strings (a balrog, an elf warrior, Sauron, Aule, Ungoliant, a cow, mithril, the Silmarils, the trees of Valinor, the Misty Mountains, Tom Bombadil), all leading to a glowing tree being hit by lightning. Elrond looks surprised.

#Tolkientober

Roots

Masked Federal Agents Storm Canal Street in Raid Targeting Immigrant Vendors During the raid, small crowds formed near agents, with protesters calling them "fucking fascists" and "scum."

Here we go, NYC...

hellgatenyc.com/ice-storms-c...

Ink illustration of a gigantic bat flying above a gigantic wolf in a clearing at night, the moon high above

talking about Beren and Lúthien next time on @bythebywater.bsky.social (and since it’s October I drew their scary forms)

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

A Crash Course in the 3 Controversial Housing Ballot Proposals Do they represent YIMBY "Abundance" magic or an anti-democratic "power grab"?

A very good explainer on some NYC ballot props. Thanks, @hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/nyc-housing-...

Inktober 2025 19.) Arctic
#Melkor and #Ungoliant crossing the arctic Helcaraxe.

Caranthir sketch

A toddler Arwen on Elrond's shoulders, she is happily reaching at fall leaves that surround them. Elrond has a gentle smile.

Arwen and Elrond enjoying a fall day in Rivendell 🍂

#Tolkientober Day 17: Parents #art #Tolkien

trying to watch debate highlights and it's just like

MODERATOR: Do you love israel: yes or yes.
CUOMO: zionism is a real "abbondanza" to me!
SLIWA: i was shot for saying i loved it. in 1977!
MAMDANI: can you ask a question about new york
MODERATOR: Okay. Would you go to the israeli day PARADE then

Inktober 2025 16.) Blunder
A blunder made to a friend
#maedhros #fingon

Bilbo and the Troll! ♥
#tolkientober

(she’s not broken, she’s just a baby… but her boyfriend’s like a dad just like a dad 😔)

🎶Don't call my name, don't call my name
Nolofinwe
I'm not your babe, I'm not your babe
Findarato
Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch
Just smoke my cigarette and hush
Don't call my name, don't call my name
~Maitimo

Nolofinwe, Nolofinwe
Nolo-Nolo-Finwe, Nolo-Nolo-Finwe

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

Miserable Bilbo and his pony in the rain ♥ #tolkientober

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Annatar from the Rings of Power with a tweet from Chase Passive Income: Huge dating mistake I made: Only dating women in their 20s The problem: they have low salaries and don't have a valuable professional network Then I realized that 60-year old men make 10x as much and have amazing professional networks Now I exclusively date men in their 60s No coincidence that my career and investments have taken off.

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

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A knight from a worn book leans over to kiss his beloved on a different book, The Lonely Prince. Stars glow around them, small lilies, star and glass bead pendants, and a string of hearts on a porcelain pot..

The Little World Next Door

i post stuff like this primarily because i mean it but also it helps to fend off the wrong kind of lord of the rings guys who occasionally follow me

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Andreth has brown, braided hair she is holding with both her hands as she looks wishfully up to her right. She has brown green eyes and a dark tattoo on her lip to her chin and hands. She is wearing a green dress with a blue belt, a redish coat over, and a cape shaped like moth wings with fur on top. Her braid is held with bronze pins shaped like moths as well as pale ribbons. She is wearing a belt, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings in bronze and different coloured pearls, as well as a loose cirlet.

Andreth, my girl :´)

#tolkien #silmarillion #jrrtolkien #athrabethfinrodahandreth #tolkienart #silmart #tolkienfanart #silmfanart #fantasy #andreth #andrethsaelind #houseofbeor

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.