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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

Hello! I'm Katia. I've been in online fandom for 15+ years and enjoy too many things to list out here.

I don't reblog stuff, but if I followed you randomly and you're confused as to why, it might be because I run @lotrart, a blog dedicated to digging up long-lost Tolkien fanart here on Tumblr! Feel free to have a look-through over there if that's something you'd like. I also have @secondarymutation, an X-Men blog from way back when Days of Future Past came out - it's a lot more fast and loose but it's one of the places I'm more active, and I reblog a lot of art, memes, and (much like on lotrart) old stuff from the golden days of Tumblr fandom. Come follow me on either of those blogs if you're interested in that sort of thing! I'll likely follow you back (with this one). :)

if you like suits, yes suits that goddamn legal drama from 2010s tv, follow me at @harvardspecter fml

If you're worried that I'm a child following your adults-only blog, never fear - my birth year starts with 19. ;)

She Aplo on my cheilus till i

Reading a star trek book that promises garak will show up and I’m like, man, I’m a long way in, where is he, and then Geordi and data suddenly run into a guy getting the absolute shit kicked out of him by bajorans and it’s just like

Theeeeere’s my boy~~~

Update:

April Fool's Day in my household has always traditionally been observed in silly, largely harmless ways (as a child I put my clothes on backwards for school, tied the sink nozzle down, and put stickers on my parents' backs), but the Tapening™ began a few years back when my father lovingly, attentively wrapped a long strip of blue painter's tape around my phone.

Couldn't find the blue tape this year, so for lack of my usual agent of chaos, I whipped out my roll of novelty Rosie the Riveter packing tape (!) and Rosie'd the house.

Happy Tape-ril Fool's

April Fool's Day in my household has always traditionally been observed in silly, largely harmless ways (as a child I put my clothes on backwards for school, tied the sink nozzle down, and put stickers on my parents' backs), but the Tapening™ began a few years back when my father lovingly, attentively wrapped a long strip of blue painter's tape around my phone.

Couldn't find the blue tape this year, so for lack of my usual agent of chaos, I whipped out my roll of novelty Rosie the Riveter packing tape (!) and Rosie'd the house.

Happy Tape-ril Fool's

Tumblr rn

pov: you just open tumblr app

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

I realise a lot of girl’s Gay Awakenings was kiera knightly or kristen stewart which is cool phenomena tbh but I’m rlly interested in other Gay Awakenings like for example mine was morena baccarin in firefly and also gemma artenton in st trinians. CALLING ALL GAYS (boys and nb babes included)!! reblog with ur non kiera/k-stew Gay Awakening!!!

…i may have put way too much time into this

some notable catchphrases of 2013:

bitch I might be

do she got the booty ? she doooooooooo ! 

swiggity swag

the D

wen u mom com home and make hte spagehti

“ hello______, im dad “ 

AYYY LMAO

W R I T I N G  I N T E N S E  W O R D S  L I K E  T H I S 

 perfect _____ don’t exis-

And now, the weather

at least 2 potato

we’ve come full circle ! 

life hack :

[ __________ INTENSIFIES]

so many

such doge. much wow. very smile. 

mahogany 

*sweats nervously*

same. 

spooper hot choclety milk

#SHERLOCKLIVES

I read the New York Times headline for this ("Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order to Destroy Fan’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Sequel" - article should be unlocked and readable for all!) and thought "Ah shit, they're coming for fanworks again? Really?" And then I read the article.

He. He what?

Well. Clearly this was his mistake, we should all know at this point not to shove our work down the throats of the copyright holders. But still, forcing him to destroy all copies? Really? That's a bit ridiculous don't you th-

Yeah, alright. Knock yourselves out, Tolkien estate.

the Guardian

Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on Lord of the Rings fanfiction author

Demetrious Polychron ordered to destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King after claiming Amazon prequel infringed his copyright

“The US-based author Demetrious Polychron published what he described as the “pitch-perfect” Lord of the Rings follow-up in 2022, titled The Fellowship of the King. He planned for the book to be the first of a seven-part series inspired by the franchise.

“But the following April, Polychron attempted to sue the Tolkien estate and Amazon over the spin-off TV series The Rings of Power, which he claimed infringed the copyright in his book. A California court dismissed the case after the judge ruled that Polychron’s text was, in fact, infringing on Amazon’s prequel, released in September 2022.”

“Robot Story” del artista: Vaskange.

“Endless Robot Feelings” melodía: Por Adrien Melano.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

happy four seasons total landscaping day to all who celebrate

Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.

i think supernatural should end with d*stiel becoming canon but then immediately pulling a bury your gays. sorry i know homophobia isn’t funny but at the same time that would literally be so hilarious

Happy third anniversary to Tumblr's emergency announcement system

what a week huh?

just had to take a fucking second and close my eyes because i remembered that on the night of november 5th tumblr had convinced me, an outsider, that this was an actual gif of Castiel Supernatural being sent to mega fruit hell

destiel, putin, etc, how are you forgetting the real star of the november 5th? how soon you forget gritty.......

the iconicism of the gritty memes

the saviour of philly

the true reason for trump’s downfall

the one who was promised

the truest most honest part of this day

gritty

yeah no guys i can't do sunday. yeah its gonna be 3 years since destiel confession. yeah its gonna be all day

I am being eaten but very gently and politely

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

ds9 characters as onion/reductress articles

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.