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Colour illustration in purples, pinky oranges and some hints of blue, in horizontal A4 format. It depicts a cave interior in which appears Adar crouching down at the left of the image, a bonfire before him, extending his hands to recreate shadow-shapes in the wall of a cave before a crowd of young Uruks (from babies to teens), who are sitting before him. They seem to be very invested in the story Adar is telling, supporting it with the shadows he is projecting on the wall. Behind the crowd there is an old Uruk who wears an animal skull over her head painting the wall of the cave with red figures depicting Uruks wielding weapons and accompanied by the blue figures of wargs, under a crescent moon at the top of the painted scene. The source of light is the bonfire (in bright white) which is releasing star-shaped sparks to the ceiling, one of them placed right where the shadow of the warg-hed projected on the wall would have its eye.

After 'destroying' Sauron in Forodwaith, the Uruks travelled to the South. Many dangers left their numbers diminished, so they took shelter in a cave system inside the Misty Mountains... where they stayed for centuries.

There, Adar made sure to pass the old Uruk stories to the new generations✨🐺🔥

this person wouldn’t have lasted a day on LiveJournal

what on earth?

it’s fucking bleak.

🫂

Photograph of a group of hen and chick succulents

Like rain drops on water, our succulents ripples out in concentric circles
#art #photography #succulents

"Yeah, man, I've always wanted to live in a glass city in the desert made by slaves... and you don't pay any tax? Yeah, man, thank god for slaves."

(video www.instagram.com/reels/DTQUZS... by Tom Nestor on Instagram)

Andor screencap: Perrin saying “Must everything be boring and sad?”

nobody better get on my back about canon husbands either for or against I swear to Valen…

Uploaded some Babylon 5 Delenn and Delenn/Lennier meta I wrote on LJ back in 2004.

archiveofourown.org/works/80492181

Utter vile nonsense. Russia has hit so so many schools and kindergartens, killing and injuring children week on week

Tumblr post by mercurialmilk: screenshot of a comment that reads "I guess you could interpret it that way if you wanted something to be upset about" with caption: new reaction image for 'posting something on the internet and having it be wildly misinterpreted'

oh this is becoming a regular in my lexicon

text: “The high hills look as though a giant hand has thrown an old blanket over them to hide their shame. Far below them in the one main street, shops have closed in a debris of bleached advertisements and broken glass. There are derelict houses, derelict chapels, and though a hand has written 'Free Wales' on a wall, it has done so in discreet small letters in case someone might. This is a place of the dead.”

💙📚 Reading Byron Rogers’ _The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail_. Ebbw Vale in the early 80s:

Shadowheart statue 👑
#BaldursGate3 #BG3

I sometimes think "should I find a way of gently explaining the fandom stuff so it doesn't scare people?" and then conclude, eh, no, it's a fandom account, they'll find out in their own time.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office:

Getting to the last one like

The kidnapping of General von Kriepe in Crete is a hell of a story, though anything featuring Patrick Leigh Fermor is always a hell of a story.

oh, not even fics! Books unconnected to fandom. A surreal moment.

Celeborn would want everyone to touch grass 😇

ooooh China Mieville! I don't remember Perdido Street Station very well apart from it being the moth one, but I reread one of his short story collections not too long ago and loved it.

I really recommend Storygraph as a way to track reading, btw (and apparently for some deeply odd people to stalk my reading habits as proof for why my fandom elf opinions are bad and wrong but 🤷‍♀️). If you're on there too I'm 'bilberry'. It's free to sign up, or Plus gives you more stats for £3/month.

Storygraph screenshot of pie charts and bar charts: "@bilberry's February 2026 Wrap-Up Fiction/ nonfiction • fiction (75%) • nonfiction (25%) Page number: • ‹300 (67%) • 300-499 (33%) Audiobook length • ‹8:00 (100%). Genre bar chart: Science Fiction LGBTOIA+ Contemporary Reference Romance, all 1 book. Format: • print (50%) digital (25%) audio (25%).

Storygraph screenshot of book cover collage. "@bilberry's February 2026 Reads: AMAL EL-MOHTAR and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War. Helen Dunmore, With Your Crooked Heart. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights. Ursula K. Leguin, Steering the CRAFT A 21ST-CENTURY GUIDE SAILING THE SEA of story."

Storygraph screenshot, "@bilberry's February 2026 Wrap-Up Books, 4. Average book length 250 pages. Average time to finish 16 days."

Reading wrap-up for February! 💙📚

They are such fun! One of my favourite things about fandom.

sometimes layers of erotic metaphor are there because the author is into something weirder than fucking and sometimes layers of erotic metaphor are there because the author can’t look at fucking too directly and i think plenty of people who think they’re the former are actually the latter

may i offer you some shrews in these trying times

Elwing and the silmaril

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Also you should write a Byler one! I would read it!

What Not Reading Does to Your Writing More thoughts on "TV brain prose" and why reading is, yes, useful for your writing.

This is a good and really interesting piece, on writing:

countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...