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I am inconsolable.

Because this is the whole thing, isn't it? Sam Vimes wants to be back in his own present, with his wife and his Watch and his world, but he can't yet. He can't just let this play out and abandon it, because that would mean people died on his watch (heh). And if he made that call... well. He wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore.

He has to do this. He has to do the job that's in front of him. And I haven't read this book before, so I don't know how it all turns out, and neither does he, anymore, but this integrity, this factory default setting of Sam Vimes to care about people and fight for them... I just get so emotional when Pratchett lays bare his thesis statement or the fundamental essence of his characters... I don't even have an analytical point here I'm just Feeling a Lot

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The People’s Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May

John Keel

Cecil Clapman

Horace Nancyball

Billy Wiglet

Dai Dickins

Ned Coates

Reg Shoe (temporarily)

Terry Pratchett

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Alright, I will start with this one then - everything starts with the glorious revolution and everything starts with the night watch 🌸

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horrible news: you have to practice to level up your skills because it's unrealistic to think you'll be good at everything first try

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Eärendil sails to Valinor...

His story is one of my favorites. Maybe because it illustrates well.

Today Professor Tolkien sails into the West, so it is a very symbolic illustration. Thank you for all everything Professor!🖤

This illustration combines the real experiances of sailing on @shiplagrace (ship, crew... and yes we saw aurora borealis from the deck) and melancholy of one of Middle-earth's greateat stories. So I hope it worked!😁

#amonhenart2024 #travel #tolkientrewsday #tolksoc #tolkienart #silmarillion #earendil #ctutolkiena

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Here comes my @tolkienrsb 2024 art! (Acrylic, 40x80cm) I've also been fascinated by the time period in the Years of the Trees before the conflicts within the Noldor truly boil over, but when they are just starting to arise. The "Finwëan family picnic" painting has in some form or another been going back and forth from WIP/abandoned WIP since 2021, so I am also happy to finally have done the idea justice :D

The fic for this piece has been written by @skaelds, who managed to beautifully bring the painting alive in her words and expand on the little moments we see, tying the little scenes together in the evening that the family shares at their yearly picnic. As the Finwëans try to cherish the yearly meeting, the many little tensions and cracks in the peace beautifully explore this strange moment in Aman. You can find the fic here

Rating: General Audiences No Archive Warnings Category: F/M Relationships: general Finwëan family relationships Characters: Finwë, Indis and most of the kids & grandkids Additional Tags: Family Fluff, Tension, Years of the Trees, Dysfunctional Family

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Luigi Lucioni - The Three Graces (1949)

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Lilo & Stitch (2002)

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When you have an inside joke and it terrifies everyone

(gotta get back in the swing of drawing these two aaaaaaa!!)

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‘stories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like you’ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblr

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The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

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i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

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Reached out to a biologist to request some info about an extinct species of freshwater shrimp and the email she sent in response was not only lovely and helpful but also kind of poetry to me? People who study invertebrates are actually the most hopeful and compassionate scientists that we have.

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