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I'm Liz. She/Her pronouns. Living in Colorado. Working in a library. big fucking nerd. small fucking baby.
it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010
preach!
Gilgamesh fandom grab your ancient sumerian tablets
if you set off a rube goldberg type death trap to kill someone, if it’s a long enough machine, it ceases to become your fault if somebody dies at the end. that’s how I’ve gotten away with it all these years, and why I’m still going to heaven.
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
I regret to inform everyone that @catchaspark’s reblog was made in 2017 and that Taking the Hobbits to Isengard was actually published 17 years ago, not 12 years ago.
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18 years! Happy Taking The Hobbits to Isengard day!
listening to music with headphones is so awesome especially when it shoots straight into your brain and you can pick out all its little layers like sandwich ingredients
Next installment of Lord of the Rings AU: It’s Fine, Everybody’s Fine is Aragorn’s coronation, at which Boromir W E E P S:
I think in a circumstance where Boromir lives, or even just in interacting with Faramir in canon, Aragorn would be very aware of the optics of striding in out of the wilderness to take a throne that the line of stewards had been fighting and dying for in his absence (Thorongil cosplay aside). Cool thing is, in this AU, seeing the king’s throne filled and experiencing Gondor at peace for the first time in living history is more than Boromir EVER hoped for.
The day the White Tree sapling blooms, Aragorn wakes up Faramir and Boromir like a six-year-old on Christmas:
And then there’s that FIRST SUNRISE over the Mountains of Shadow, when day breaks over a defeated east that’s clean and clear and Boromir WEEPS AGAIN because he NEVER THOUGHT he’d see such a thing and YES this is a THIRST TRAP why do you ASK
Hell yeah I gave him a tattoo, it’s the seven stars of Gondor plus a coastal rockrose that grows in sandy soils along the Mediterranean because I figure that’s like Dol Amroth in honor of HIS MOM because I LOVE SYMBOLISM
He deleted it so quickly but I need everyone to see this Chris Fleming video because it has fundamentally changed me
“I understand I’m going to have to go into the witness protection program after releasing this, but are Taylor Swift fans just people who haven’t cum? Is that what’s going on? I have spent countless sleepless nights trying toget to the bottom of what what is the common denominator of these people, because there’s not that many horse girls in the world. If this were just an equestrian empire that she’d built, she’d be playing mid sized theaters, tops. But oh, she Taylor Swift is the spokesperson for those who haven’t achieved orgasm. That’s. Oh, my God.The clarity that comes with this realization. Taylor Swift is the Che Guevara for those who are ashamed of their own labias. I would also be front row gnashing my teeth at that Popsicle stick. If my one experience with pleasure was accidentally in a Radisson hot tub, I oh, my God .I would also be willing to die for this sentient Lisa Frank notebook. If my one dalliance with bodily nirvana was on a very turbulent flight, this is what’s happening.”
Almost. Years ago my computer suddenly stopped working and lost everything on it. Fortunately a relatively recent backup still existed bc of my family, a recent parts switch, and dumb luck. But last year a friend of mine got hacked and lost close to everything he had done creatively in the last 17-ish years. Art. Novels in progress. Entire conlangs. DnD character Sheets. Music he had made. All gone. He never backed any of it up. Few months later I started this habit (or ritual, almost) of drawing a reminder beast any time I would make a full complete backup. In hopes that seeing these things might remind others and myself. (Another factor here is that I am an animator and some of the stuff on my computer took literal years to make. And the film university I go to urges us to take this stuff seriously, too.)
oh, i am finally old enough to know why my parents took so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go only to sit down for another round of coffee. what would i tell myself, at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too. take in the extra hour with your friend and her family. when you get home, write down every moment in your diary. one day you will be older and you will be waving goodbye to your best friend, and you will turn the key to start your beat up little car engine, and you will look back over your shoulder. her hair will be blowing in the wind and she will be beautiful and you will be, for a moment, struck by all of it. what you will feel is so wide and nameless that it will engulf you. and you will think of being 14 and kicking her under the table in math every time you wanted to whisper something behind the teacher’s back. you will think about how long the days felt, and how you could hold her hand whenever you wished, but you didn’t. and you will think about all of the people you could have lingered with. and you will wish, more than you have ever felt a wish, that the universe just gave you that - more time to linger. more time to say - i love you. i know i need to leave, but i don’t want to leave you. and when i go, i am leaving a piece of my heart that lingers too.
one more round of coffee. the days are so short, and you are so lovely.
“The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.” (mikko harvey)
Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish voted on by my lovely Patreons for June!
A cozy scene from Legends & Lattes (by @travis_baldree), featuring Viv and Tandri trying out Thimble’s scrumptious Cinnamon Roll!
If you missed it, reading this book for this SAW prompted me to make my own Cinnamon Rolls from scratch (for research, of course!) I have a highlight of these shenanigans on my Instagram. 😂
Are we excited for the Bookshops & Bonedust prequel? 🔥
Aww this is great! I’m glad there’s more art since I finished reading and went on my initial fan-art quest.
