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Reblog with what you would tell your 13-year-old self in the tags.

Seeing this post about a month ago made me order a giant atlas and a miniature address book! I spent an evening writing down all my important contacts and put the atlas in my car - and I've honestly never felt more secure. To be honest, I'd missed this! I have a lot of nostalgia around reading maps from an atlas and printing off directions from MapQuest, and flipping through my parents' address books when I was younger. I'm glad I did this. Thanks OP!

i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it's common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i'm starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that's what it's built for. but nowadays we don't think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don't keep address books anymore because it's all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it's all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you're still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.

first dawn of a new year ✨

Hi Katia! I have been friends with Hayley forever and I hear about you so much and I am honestly shocked I have never followed you. Looking forward to the fruit of your LOTRart labors!!!

Oh my, this is so funny! I hardly encounter "real people" online. Welcome! It's a delight to have you! And rest assured, my LotR art queue is 400+ posts long and only getting worse... you should see my browser tabs. 😱

oh wait, it's the internet, you can

Attention Tolkien Fans!

I am excited to announce that lotrart is nearing 2,000 posts! This has gotten so much bigger than I ever could have anticipated and I'm so happy that people love this collection of fanart as much as I do.

With that in mind, this is one for the tags! If you're interested in rediscovering some of the most breathtaking, <100-note art posts from Tumblr's byegone era, please come and join me! I may be busy, but my queue is busier. this is a bold-faced lie I will reblog art from any Tolkien-adjacent anything if you send it to me - the original LotR trilogy, the Peter Jackson films, The Silmarillion my beloved, Rings of Power, and anything else you can think of - so please reach out to drop me links to your favourite art and artists! My mission is to get as much old stuff recirculating as I possibly can.

I have almost no followers and so am probably screaming into the void here, but! An important addition to this:

Respiratory distress is the number one cause of cardiac arrest in children.

This isn't the case with adults (I believe the main cause is arrhythmia? but don't quote me) but kids? Absolutely. It's not a terribly intuitive thing - I think we usually expect people to stop breathing because their heart has stopped, but in children it's very much the other way around.

So this kind of thing is VITALLY IMPORTANT to remember when you're using things like essential oils and cleaning products that a child could be sensitive to! Their little bodies are fragile, and they really, REALLY need to breathe. Keep an eye out for respiratory issues in children, especially if there's something new that has been introduced into their environment.

Oh my god, food extract is not the same as an essential oil.

Food extract is the flavoring of something cooked down into a carrier oil or alcohol that is safe for human ingestion.

Essential oil is the pure extract of the plant refined down and distilled for concentrated medicinal purposes to a significantly higher strength than simply adding ground up mint leaves to your water. The two are not comparable in any way.

Cinnamon extract and cinnamon essential oil are not the same thing.

One is about 100 times the strength of the other and can also cause acute organ failure. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the food extract.

Sweet gods I’m not trying to be mean, I want you to be aware and safe and stop putting yourselves and others at risk. Please.

happy crab day! <3333

Happy crab day to you as well!!! Thank you for the carcinisation. I can't remember how in the world (much less when) we started following each other, but you're always a constant on my dash and I appreciate it! ❤️🦀

For the female character ask, what about Master Vokara Che? She's such a cool character and there really isn't enough content on her out there.

You are right Anon! I am not sure if this is her canon appearance (I used one I found on Wookieepedia) but I really love Vokara!

can you all tell me and be haters for a bit