Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!

— Éowyn, The Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Paintings by Matthew Stewart, Nick Robles, Chris Rahn, Çağlayan Kaya Göksoy, Craig Spearing, and Stephen Graham Walsh

fanart of this wrinkly little beast that i have been seeing on my dash................ (@pangur-and-grim ’s belphegor)

They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before

And here is where you can get them! (mostly American)

And specific labels:

And many of these have sales several times a year so if you're patient you don't need to buy full price for any of it.

For operas, ballets and theatre:

Opus Arte

Alfira from Baldur’s Gate 3!! I never post my art ajnodwjnowdj this is kinda scary D:

(should work on anatomy arghhh)

(sorry for the quality procrerate kinda sucks)

Final result: the majority of voters have NEVER HEARD OF this film. Only one person has seen it.

This film is about a transwoman who returns to her hometown, hoping to become a police officer to set an example for her community. Prolific Malayam language actor Jayasurya, who plays the lead, described it as the most difficult role he's ever done but felt it was important to bring respect and dignity to the trans community.

It is currently available on YouTube.

Commission for Xavier.

I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

[image description: a bright white field of a foot of snow with a long white 19th C wooden house in the center. Background is a forest with deciduous and coniferous trees and a little grey sky]

”you are a lawyer he is a hamster” 😭😭😭😭

Losing my mind rn

Happy solstice! Here is a print I got to make for a local solstice celebration.

6 layer screen print on 16x20 card stock, edition of 65

Frodo and The One Ring (redraw from the return of the king)

I love hobbit mail boxes so much

they look great in hanbok