Trying My Hand At Designing S1 Crew. Was Just Going To Design Tim But Then I Drew A Sasha And Then I

bran doodle bc he’s my art block boy

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

Again from rereading Sherlock Holmes stories, I need to know who dramatized and adapted the Granada series so I can give them a little kiss on the forehead for expanding on the themes so well. There are times I think they even improved the source material. The Dying Detective is the best example imo but Greek Interpreter might be second. Wisteria Lodge is also an improvement but that was a coincidence

The Rosette Nebula

Credit: John Corban with ESA/HUBBLE

Rose petal nebula.

Originally completed on 20th July 2022.

My interpretation: Pretty simply, I imagined a nebula that looks like an open rose from a particular angle. And maybe it does exist somewhere out there in the infinite expanse of space. Who can say.

She’s just as unstable, but not as obvious, because she’s trying to distract her own problems with his problems. (Lucy Liu on Joan Watson)

One of the funniest consequences of attending any concert after binging TMA/TMAGP episodes is that apparently you keep imagining everyone getting brutally Slaughtered as the sharp lights flash on their half hidden faces...

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

What if.. Glorfindel joined the Fellowship,,

Ned, after finishing.

Also, what Catelyn was looking at when she thought about how many more of Ned’s children she could have.

Watching Melanie and Georgie attempt to avoid the fact that they basically just chucked the Fears into other universes to get rid of them in their own when talking to Sam is really something