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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...

oh God though imagine the edit wars...

we have got to bring back ship manifestos! (she says, having still not uploaded the 2000s-era Delenn/Lennier manifesto from the archives. BUT I WILL)

oh I know the feeling!

a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background Alt: Elrond jumping off the top of a waterfall

when the Noldors' shit is just too much

i miss livejournal - and when google worked. ship manifestos and fandom intro posts. i'm not getting on tiktok to watch someone explain this to me incorrectly while putting their makeup on.

"Enemies to lovers" should mean "we have been drawn into a conflict that is bigger than either of us that has alienated us from society to the point where my enemy is the only one who understands me" and should involve at least one murder attempt.

Not: "my new co-worker is meant to me :( but hot?"

Truth.

Star Wars image of a Coruscant skyline at sunset

Text: "What she thinks is that she’s already wondering what she can’t see: the title of the holobook left on the unit near the window, the contents of those neatly closed storage compartments, where his bedroom must be. She used to tease him that he never seemed to sleep but that was years ago, that was before. Now she’s watched him dreaming beside her in her bed and even then found herself watching the flicker of his eyes and wondering what he was seeing. She can’t seem to bear him being in any way out of her reach. And yet: he is, and she has to accept that. For several months now she’s been ignoring all the signs she doesn’t want to see - the nights he’s out when she calls him at home, the days he’ll tell her he has to leave for an appointment he’s had to reschedule, the messages he stops reading as soon as she’s in the room. The ways he looks at her when he thinks she isn’t watching as if there’s something he wants to say and can’t. It’s all rather inescapably obvious and she shouldn’t have ignored it as long as she has."

Andor fic: 'It won't do to dream of caramel', Mon/Erskin, 3500 words, E. #MyFic

archiveofourown.org/works/80074196

I know :(

(I mean that in an entirely positive way!)

I do think it's at its best as a fictional universe when it picks some incidental thing up that's mentioned in passing and really *runs* with it. Entire canon is basically Crack Treated Seriously.

Late post for valentine's day ! Elrond and Celebrian (bonus Elladan and Elrohir)

Tentacle creature with an eyestalk (a dianoga) in Star Wars

Text: “they completely dried out. While physically hermaphroditic, dianoga could choose to identify as female, diangous (the most common gender), or male. The mating process involved partners exchanging eggs with one another. The”

text: “spoke a deep, complex humming language. Because its reverberations carried so completely in the water, that language scared away all nearby prey. Their people venerated water, which they called "the Great Cleanser When It Was Time to Be Cleansed," and believed in reincarnation."”

text: “before the Battle of Yavin, a female dianoga named Omi was captured by Vodrans, who handed her to members of the Empire en route to their new Death Star battle station. She was dumped intr the Death Star's garbage masher 3263827, where she would feed on the”

“oh did that tentacle creature thing in the Death Star trash compactor have a name or was it just Tentacle Creature Thing?”
Twenty minutes later: “…I see.”

MELIAN (looking Galadriel in the eye): has some misfortune befallen your family?
GALADRIEL: woah you got some nice trees here in Doriath, damn look at that one over there

RIGHT? Finally!

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

- Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet, Clea
born on this day, 1912

#BookSky
#LawrenceDurrell

Cover of September 1990 issue of BLK, National Black Lesbian and Gay Newsmagazine, with Audre Lorde sporting her new locs

This quote is from a fabulous really long interview in the Sept. 1990 issue of BLK. It's an amazing discussion that covers lots of global politics, including her views on the collapse of the USSR and the supposed triumph of capitalism. Right now you can find it here:

edan.si.edu/slideshow/vi...

Oh nicely done!

ikr

Oh, damn, that’s hideous. I’m sorry 🫂

anyone familiar with British politics will know that any news that isn't entirely negative will be closely followed by a sustained bombardment of misery that will make you want to fucking die. but currently it's Friday, it's payday, and the fascists have lost

screenshot from 'The influence of transphobia, homonationalism and anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms' discussing homonationalism

screenshot from 'The influence of transphobia, homonationalism and anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms' discussing homonationalism

screenshot from 'The influence of transphobia, homonationalism and anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms' discussing homonationalism

🌈My peer-reviewed articles on anti-fans & anti-BL attitudes are available to read publicly for free at independent.academia.edu/SamanthaAbur...

(below screenshots are a sample from 'The influence of transphobia, homonationalism & anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms')

I just rewatched some clips from a seminal TV show for me - Space: Above and Beyond

“Shuffle the Wild Cards, and deal ‘em!”

Actual chills

yep, allowed! I don’t see much of it though. archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#is_n...

on the other hand it's B5, we're surely all too old and jaded for fighting now.

Lizzen I swear to God if I get yelled at about YET ANOTHER canon husband...