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Happy Pride!

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New pens!!! I got a pair of Jinhao 10s and I love them. One is a blue and orange gradient with silver accents and one is a marbled red with gold. Blue Jinhao inked with De Atramentis Fog Grey and red Jinhao inked with Colorverse Coffee Break.

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Painting the Hiroshima memorial tree in Tavistock Square. Various artist watercolours on Hahnemuhle paper.

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Flowers and butterflies - it must be spring! Small Tortoiseshell/nässelfjäril, and Common Brimstone/citronfjäril. Värmland, Sweden (April 10, 2020).

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Rewatching the extended fellowship of the ring compelled me to make this shitpost video of Legolas and Aragorn being besties

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Sigge, a Gute Sheep/gutefår. Värmland, Sweden (March 21, 2020).

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earring | c. 550 - 330 BCE | persian, achaemenid empire

in the detroit institute of arts collection

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Of all the redemption arcs in popular fantasy media, I feel like Theoden's in The Lord of the Rings is the most overlooked.

The movies emphasize the magical control that the evil powers exercise over Theoden, but in the books, it's more obviously a depiction of bad kingship, in the British medieval sense. Theoden takes bad advice; he neglects his family; he fails to reward his knights; and he leaves his people vulnerable to attack. He also does not honor his kingdom's promises to help nearby kingdoms, as we can tell from Boromir's account of what Gondor has been going through.

Gandalf doesn't just cast out the curse and magically fix everything. He encourages Theoden to free himself from his bad advisor, but Theoden has to take all the subsequent steps. And those choices are not easy; after so much neglect, his knights are scattered, and his only option for defending his people is to gather them at Helm's Deep. The siege does not go well. His people are afraid and despairing. But nevertheless, he holds firm and charges out to meet the enemy -- and Gandalf literally meets him halfway, bringing with him the lost knights, whom Theoden welcomes and rewards after the battle.

Theoden could have just gone home after that. But when Gondor calls for aid, Theoden proves his worth by honoring his promises. He keeps his oaths not only to his people but to his allies.

And the climax of his redemption in the book is not his death, but his leadership. The ride of the Rohirrim against Sauron's armies is described in lavish detail, with an uncharacteristically heated pace: Theoden leads the entire line of Rohan, his banner streaming behind him in the wind as they race toward their foe. And that's the end of the chapter.

I love Theoden's arc so much, and especially that moment so much, because the message is not that he has to win battles or seek power. He just has to keep fighting. Theoden's greatest enemy isn't really Sauron: it's despair. And over the course of the book, he keeps choosing hope and action over despair and hesitation, until finally he can lead his people with courage.

As someone who struggles a lot with despair, I really needed to hear that story.

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A fun new way to swatch watercolours: Colour Buddies! Various artist watercolours in Khadi Paper sketchbook.

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Got some pictures of Jupiter with my phone and a cheap phone lens! I got excited when I saw the band but sadly it wasn’t Saturn. So excited to catch one of the moons though!

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Dyed fabric from the Hoteiya store.  Ukiyo-e woodblock print, About 1810, Japan, by artist Kikugawa Eizan.

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🚨KOSA is back and being pushed heavily in congress right now

I really hate to do this, but KOSA, the bill that is a mass censorship and surveillance bill that will specifically censor all LGBT content online to "protect kids", is back.

KOSA advocates have brought in support from Elon Musk (I wish I was making this up) and are trying to get him to get Donald Trump to speak out in support of it. (And they lie and tell us it's not an anti-queer bill 🙄). The reason so is because the holdouts that are stopping this from passing are...republicans. It's GOP House leaders Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson. If they succeed and put this in an end of year spending bill, it will be near impossible to get it out and it will most likely be passed. Pro-KOSA advocates were on the hill today pushing hard to pass it. They have a lot of support behind them. There is only two weeks left in congress, so if they don't succeed, it's over.

The ONLY way this bill has stalled so much so far is because of calls driven to congress. It has worked and can still work. Please, spread this as much as you can and call House leadership and spread the word! You don't have to be from their district. You can pretend to be GOP. It doesn't matter, just call and voice your opposition. Trump and Musk clearly have a lot of sway over these people and I'm really scared they will succeed at the last minute!!

Here are their numbers: Scalise: 202-225-3015 Johnson: 202-225-2777

If you don't know what to say, use either call script! It takes less than a minute, I swear.

SOURCE: https://x.com/omaseddiq/status/1866621865793314845?t=9pJm-QRdqJg30E_rVuhINw&s=19

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Very very tiny very small fellowship

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i feel like some people are fundamentally misunderstanding why we're so excited by this

to me, it's not for us, the shippers. it's for them, jim and spock.

for 30 years, their story ended with them being separated - jim dying alone in an unsatisfying (to most) way, and spock being on his own for 100+ years while all his friends and family around him die.

and now we know that they weren't alone in the end, the universe or whatever force it was brought them back together.

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hey so what the actual fuck

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Time to post my favorite sequences from Samurai Jack