@jankybarns.bsky.social
Tolkien nerd, ultra runner, librarian Just trying my best out here
Reading the script for the unmade John Boorman LotR movie, and what the actual fuck? It is absolutely bananas.
Frodo and Galadriel bang.
Like, sure he's evil, but does he really deserve to be played by Jared Leto?
23.01.2026 15:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This feels like an insult to Skeletor
23.01.2026 15:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oh man, I'm so sorry. Glad it sounds like they caught it early. You'll be in my thoughts. Fuck cancer so goddamn much.
18.01.2026 12:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That's genuinely good to hear. I'm hoping that today was just the "first one" jitters.
09.01.2026 16:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0First CT Scan post treatment today. Getting my first glimpse of what this is going to feel like every 6 months for the next 5 years. Spoiler: it feels bad. Today we find out if the chemo did its job.
09.01.2026 14:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I honestly think they're trolling at this point.
09.01.2026 01:42 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Carrock: Northern Calfironia Smial Join us for a Smial meeting Tuesday January 20 8-9 pm pst on Zoom Theme: Tom Emanuel's "The Tale We've Fallen Into" link to paper and video of the talk in info email Use our Google Form to sign up or email us at: thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Come join the Carrock Smial for some Tolkien talk on Jan 20!
Link in bio to sign up for our mailing list and Discord!
Holy shit. That is something. π
03.01.2026 01:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Got my genetic tests back today and relieved to hear that I don't have any genetic markers that make me more prone to cancer. I really didn't want to be a mutant whose mutant power was just "cancer."
30.12.2025 00:00 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm convinced this is intentional trolling at this point.
29.12.2025 15:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is trolling at this point, with the name, right? It has to be, right? I mean, come on.
Tech bros, please keep Tolkien's name out of your mouth.
A t-shirt with the picture of a Bigfoot, two hands touching fingers with a light between them, and the movie title Cry Wilderness
Hope got me this one.
Wilderness!!!!
We interrupt this rewatch of Sliders to rewatch the John Wick movies (so I can watch the fourth one which I have not seen)
21.12.2025 13:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pippin stands up and says "you son of a bitch, I'm in"
21.12.2025 13:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 04 days of chemo pills left. I am so close to being done with this phase of things. Side effects this time around are worse: the general fatigue, and my whole mouth just feels weird, and I am always have a weird metallic taste, but I can do this. Home stretch. Bring it on Let's fucking go.
20.12.2025 05:09 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I no longer wish to be called a librarian. From now on, I am a loremaster.
17.12.2025 13:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hope to see all you Carrock members for our meeting on Tuesday! More info below. And any new folks who would like to join us, please sign up at the link in our bio and you will be sent the link for the Zoom!
15.12.2025 02:32 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Walking into 2026 like
13.12.2025 15:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yesterday was my final chemo infusion. I'm not totally done with treatment yet. I have two weeks of pills to go, and the next few days I'll be feeling pretty rough, but damn it felt good to ring that bell.
The finish line is in sight.
Nooooo! I got sent to Whamhalla during freaking chemo! That just feels like adding insult to injury!
10.12.2025 23:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Halfway through my last chemo infusion. Let's fucking go.
10.12.2025 23:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Darwin. Love. Union Representation.
10.12.2025 22:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That all makes a ton of sense. Yeah, once I found out he wasn't real, I did start to notice how limited the shots of Darwin were (I was in the third season at the time).
10.12.2025 22:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I somehow got through high school, then college as an English major, then 14 years as an English teacher without reading Hamlet. Not sure how that even happened.
10.12.2025 19:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If chance you call it π
07.12.2025 19:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 02 Casa 2 Blanca
07.12.2025 16:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Just about one month until I can run again. It's over three months since my last run, and I miss it every day.
In related news, I did not (with my one lottery ticket) get into Western States 100. Thank goodness! π
I'm excited. I read A Wizard of Earthsea back when I was like 10 and I remembered loving it, but never read any of the others. I reread it a couple months ago, and I'm stoked to read the whole series now.
07.12.2025 04:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0