Silmarillion & Nonsense

RIP AND TEAR as a family activity

The mac and cheese haver

Some day I'm going to run a trad fantasy dungeon crawler campaign where instead of unbroken ten-thousand-year dynasties, every time the player characters need to interact with the nobility, etc. I use a set of lookup tables to randomly generate the kingdom's current political situation. If the new results are irreconcilable with the old, there was a revolution while they were down in the dungeon and they didn't notice.

Fascinated by the idea that having a player character with a noble backstory accelerates the pace of political turmoil because each downtime counts as a separate instance of "interacting with nobility".

Historian: and then after thousands of years of relative stability, the Third Age finally came to a close, followed by the Age of We're Not Gonna Fucking Get Into This Bullshit.

Others can be found on this list along with other environmental world building

Hey trans friends in the US, has your state made it difficult or next to impossible to get the healthcare you need? Can't afford to leave home and/or want to stay and fight? Yah me too.

Well I know of many, many sky friends spread throughout the us who would like to go on a free little weekend sky adventure. :]

Check em out and chat about em with even more friends.

Ps: they also help those with uteruses go on a safe vaycay too ✨️✨️

The pilots giving a hand are highly experienced professionals(unlike me, I'm still a newbie😅), most who fly the big planes for work also own little planes either for fun &/or to keep up their skills. Pilots often use their little birds to hop around to visit friends far away anyways, so what's a few more flights to a friend in need?

Btw if anyone wants to help in any way pilots, mechanics, funds, people organizing, or just anything in general, contact them and see what you can offer.

Or hell, since it seems we're gonna be in this hellscape for a long time (hopefully not) if you have the means too, look into becoming a pilot or plane mechanic yourself. Cant afford too? Check out the National Gay Pilot's Association, they offer scholarships for a local flying or a&p school near you. Being real, it's not easy, ngl. But worth :]

In case this post/I get nuked or for whatever, uuuuh it'd be good if all 5000+ of yall made a post (not just a reblog) of this too. + It'd be good if more people can get the news thru other reaches too, like on other socials, etc. I've met the organizers of this and many pilots and other volunteers. They're genuinely good people/ excellent and the ones I know are very safe pilots.

this organization is amazing. Here’s an article about one of their pilots and the work they do: https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/elevated-access-abortion-pilots/

“…and it was then that Elrond first saw Celebrían, and loved her, though he said nothing of it.”

- Unfinished Tales, History of Galadriel and Celeborn.

“Galadriel, however, saw plenty, and so went to the kinslayer cousin she had hidden away in her closet, saying, Makalaurë, you’re not going to believe this, to which he replied, It can’t be that bad. Galadriel, weary with the weight of centuries, passed him a large glass of wine and said, It is like Maitimo and Findekano all over again, to which he said, with great horror, Oh no, and then both she and Maglor drank deeply at the memories. They spoke at length and between the two of them a plan was formed.

Celeborn listened, though he held his tongue, as he had promised to pretend ignorance in the matter of secret-kinslayer cousins. King Gil-Galad was also aware of this meeting, but Elrond’s heart-sickness had led to the rise of unfinished paperwork, and so he was very happy to ignore Maglor’s existence in favor of getting the two young elves together.

The next few days saw the plan unfold, though with it came the loss of several pots of tea, two very nice china cups, a tunic, a window, three spoons, and a priceless statue. By the end of the seventh day, Gil-Galad had even more paperwork than before and came to two horrifying realizations. One, that none of Finwë’s grandchildren actually knew anything about admitting one’s emotions in a normal manner, and two, he was going to have to solve the problem of Elrond and Celebrían himself.”

- Unfinished Fic Idea #347, Untitled

The Light in your Heart - Rescue of Maedhros - Digital Painting 2019 The rescue of Maedhros by Fingon and Thorondor. My interpretation of the story in Tolkien`s Silmarillion. 

— what are we holding onto, sam?

So a few days ago I got a comment on one of my stories. It was not the worst comment I have ever gotten but it was not nice either. I found it rude, demanding, and condescending. I confess, my reply to this comment was snarky and sarcastic.

I then got a reply from the poster claiming they were very blunt due to being neurodivergent and that they could not help it. They just wanted me to write them a story. I had ruined their good opinion of me.

I wrote back apologizing for hurting their feelings. I explained they had also hurt my feelings and that my response was partially in response to that, partially because I know who comments like that affect authors. That we work hard on our stories. I pointed out they had not even said they liked my story. I gave them advice on how they could have phrased their comment instead that would have made it less offensive to the author. At this point I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Yeah no, they sent another response calling it victim blaming and cyber bullying. The victim blaming was pointed out solely in response to the first line they said which was 'I am sorry your feelings were hurt' Also got an accusation of name calling, which no I did not. At this point I am just going to delete their comments and block them.

For people who consider themselves to be blunt but want to consider the author's feelings as well, here is some comment advice. The comment I received that started this was 0/4.

Finrod: Where are we going today?

Beren: You tell me, you're leading us.

Finrod: I don't even know where are we right now.

Допустим, Махтан

Let's say Mahtan

a very cursed birthday cake.

Cos Sauron's tower looks like a birthday candle

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Sometimes u just gotta make yourself a quesadilla and move the fuck on

The worst part about this post??? People saying “with cheese!” Bitch cheese is literally in the word if it had no cheese it would be a dilla