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none of this is going in my dissertation but

my illustration for @legacy-rebelsfanzine! this was super fun to work in and I've been looking forward to sharing it with you all 🩷

"Trust the Force as it trusts you to know when to strike."

Jedi Master Mace Windu and Padawan Depa Billaba 🤺

what the fuck

saxo cere comminuit brum

what the actual fuck

@nekrotikon

the word for brain here is cerebrum, and it's been literally split in two

I've seen wordplay like this before in Latin, but with compound words that are clearly made up of separate parts

but "cere" is not a word and neither is "brum"

you could translate it something like

"he split his br apart ain with a rock"

and it's only slightly less unreadable than that due to freer word order

needless to say something I'd expect more from a modern experimental poem than an ancient epic

The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”

Obscure Tolkien Blorbo: Round 1

Finduilas Faelivrin vs Halbarad

Finduilas Faelivrin:

The daughter of Orodreth and princess of Nargothrond. She was betrothed to Gwindor, but fell in love with Túrin when he came to Nargothrond. She died after being captured by orcs in that kingdom’s fall.

Halbarad:

Ranger of the north & commander of the Grey Company.

Round 1 masterpost

Listen, Finduilas is great, but I must urge everyone to vote for my beloved Halbarad!

Look at what he says to Aragorn at the entrance to the Paths of the Dead: 

'This is an evil door,' said Halbarad, 'and my death lies beyond it. I will dare to pass it nonetheless'

These lines are an expression of the - not selfless, but self-forgetting - dedication to goodness, even if you yourself cannot enjoy that goodness, that makes Tolkien's heroes so admirable. Halbarad's lines here make me think of what Frodo says to Sam near the end of Return of the King: 

'I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.'

When Frodo first takes up the burden of the Ring, he does not yet know this. Halbarad knows, and follows Aragorn into battle anyway, because he values higher than his own life a peace he will not live to see.

aaand it's done!! Three generations of the House of Finwe (+ baby celebrimbor). Added closeups under the cut!

Fingon the Valiant

In the early 80s, as the AIDS crisis swept through New York City, Howard Ashman asked his favorite musical collaborator Alan Menken to help him put a tribute to music for the lives and community that were being lost. 

This song was played at Ashman’s memorial service when he eventually died of AIDS in 1991.

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With a corner to catch the subway And a corner to buy cigars And a corner to wait for the Times to come out And a corner to lean on cars  

It was something just left to the Mardi Gras When my friends and their friends were there But it’s getting much too quiet Tonight on Sheridan Square 

I’m sure that it must mean something But it’s really too soon to tell When somebody’s gettin’ famous While nobody’s gettin’ well 

And you can send my regrets to the party I’d like to make it, but just don’t dare And why is it still so quiet Tonight on Sheridan Square? 

Johnny and Steve and Martin And a list that goes on too long Dennis and Bill and Barry You’re the reason I wrote this song 

Some of the boys have panic  But none of the boys leave town They say, “We’re on the good ship Titanic We’re gonna sing ‘til the boat goes down.“ 

And if it ended before it started Well no one told us that life is fair And why is it still so quiet Tonight on Sheridan Square? 

Somebody make a note of this You people who know the trends The wild ones are turning lovers The lovers are turning friends

And if some good rises out of everything Then the phoenix is rising there In the eyes that are scared, but softer Tonight on Sheridan Square

Johnny and Steve and Martin And a list that goes on too long Dennis and Bill and Barry You’re the reason I wrote this song

When you carry a load like we do What’s another few pounds to share? We can make it until the sun comes up And it will O'er Sheridan Square

The Valiant

we justifiably give Biden a lot of shit but I think "at least 3" is the funniest possible response to some right wing dipshit asking you how many genders there are

wait it gets better

This happened back on the campaign trail in August 2019. The screencap in question appears to be from this LGBTQ Nation article.

And here's a 2019 Newsweek article on it: Joe Biden Says 'There Are Least Three' Genders in Iowa Campaign Stop

Avery, D. (2019, August 11). Joe Biden says “there are least three” genders in Iowa campaign stop. Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-iowa-state-fair-gender-1453688

Bollinger, A. (2021, January 13). Joe Biden said “there are at least three” genders & shut down a conservative activist. LGBTQ Nation. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/01/joe-biden-said-least-three-genders-shut-conservative-activist

The fact that there's an actually functional website for the library of Babel is one of those things that fucks me up more and more the more I think about the implications.

So, if anyone hasn’t encountered the concept of the library of Babel, the idea comes from a story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, which is set inside a seemingly infinite library which contains every possible combination of letters, periods, commas and spaces that fits within 410 pages.

So like... It isn’t THAT out there that someone was able to make a digital version of it. Making an algorithm that randomly generates every possible combination of those 29 characters within that space and making a website that lets you explore those combinations are things that are pretty squarely within the scope of things you’d expect someone to be able to make a computer do.

But it begins to get pretty out there when you start thinking about all the things that are technically contained there (and that someone randomly browsing it could THEORETICALLY stumble upon) just by virtue of being one of those possible combinations of letters, spaces, commas, and periods.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that specifically mentions me by full name before giving an accurate, excruciatingly detailed, 410-page long physical description of me. There’ also many more books that SEEM to be that but are actually factually inaccurate. There’s also versions of all of those containing every possible combination of every possible typo, spelling mistake, and grammatical error.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s a perfectly accurate prediction of how and when I will die narrated in third person over the course of 410 pages. There’s also a book that contains the exact same events narrated in first person. Not only for me, but for every person in the world. There are many more that claim to be that but are actually inaccurate.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s completely blank except for the world’s funniest dick joke written right at the end of the very last page.

But chances are no one browsing that website is EVER going to see any of that because for every book we would consider useful, interesting, or even intelligible there are millions upon millions upon millions more that are just completely full of gibberish from cover to cover.

Every single thing I will ever write (barring punctuation marks that arent periods or commas and the letter ñ) is already contained somewhere on that website.

In pretty sure this is nonsense. Although the concept is marvelous, but then again, it's all Borges', I don't think we have today a computer with enough computing power, or a server with enough storage available, to put together the library of Babel. Of course you could harvest a lot of computing power from several machines, and a large server farm... but then you would be making crypto currency or GPT-5, not some proof of concept, however amazing it might be, that no one could ever actually use.

The website goes into detail about how it works. Basically it has a algorithm that uses the "coordinates" of the book (Hex number, wall number, shelf number, volume number) as a seed to generate an unique output for the contents of that book.

So for exaple the coordinates of a book could be Hex 2h6nm0lskfn87mn72k28kdkfkmpnm73k, wall 3, shelf 2, volume 4. (Though hex numbers tend to be longer because it has A LOT of hexes)

The algorithm then takes those coordinates and uses them as a seed to display the contents of the book, as long as you have the same coordinates, you always get the same book. So technically any possible book or string of text can be found on the website by finding the correct combination of coordinates.

Anyway, here are some of the books that contain the full text of your comment (you can find them if you want):

The book "bndvx coqdrgu" contains your comment on page 401.

You can find it at:

Hex: 0emxx3s6bjq2w9j12vnfnfjz4s1jmmhp8h093wi69sp4kbyjyb8jcoclgip2u9w17wbeg3adpk6x7q1slz8j5vysb00iaqbb54x4k5xyw8jfy5uwpxaxcxobi2w78ie3xmmvg9p24ouapzzjazjb9cnyt2jtfyg4yn2le5ugmdrzgho6opfsa5lf8fp1bar50gect1xpigbq4hrddbz0sgydgc8x9lo4vzmtcc7xdkrpewdk076gsu8ybpc0v8x4lkcmfl2e56vhql4mz49yh6bvh8xn9i9jgw6j0ubt7j0t5hhmzmv1akwgnwrit81umxp6rh3pqvqlaiuumybly3z2nuo7whu9n0ur9pjbiwikz55wk9um0cqqpebxpptt758ngmpxz03igt4vulobf7m45828vegjvnx3ddxd1ciq0lmi6yp2zohu0z4po15sxgcaxtje5paslutinpgn42lpggsc5zaa5kjvrwtsyapp421l3xvknan5l9cpdb44438ntgbxgklt8cxkce3t5uv15ih2hylur32sczv7ood2wg3wass29rbtyn12az9spb47luejr4bw5lu81gw7vg704b2idnv6ywww5py3z7bbnqqzz6t789bemq49aqabnvs7l1k3r6azjlyk3q9iwd6lcl26o9f5jr2r6toxcqgj7eyvpuubratzygxctxk2y7z44ff1cyd8w1np0y2u0n3q3aonmz9zb2dxu1xtrnkjbtqerzr1y6mdfxmxpp7hwswy9h75yvggxk1doz1t4i0k5s7mn6vy46adkkh83zgrac0eei9awhqje5cnam1617wlovl2lhfs49lnqpulmfhjlnzw7b6oupxfjfgfcdk227tbjkd9iolzl9dulvcvcon85x63gbsv1psy6cxajccw6t3ibpgtesriivli0oooskzxwd6bq71c57k9e1c5djhxwnfqcrti259gh12n7ev752ethp9lb8oqvpju2imiui7x3swtvxcanor4ey4xg3qer5y6pf5hjaig4gxzodj7zrpj6huc2chd9hmaz1eno8asfonq132kh03siaud63wltdtdd04lycj77b4ptogc9gd5t5gfmhfstu4259s6eaf68ww1qtyzzfcvbjcuj7i3bvj21njvy1j6j2gjnf84ith07shhkdwkd3h3lphts5r7gvp3kq02xka15n3wbhq751ansi09dkmbt7m4vyhek4wgir2p6bylr65l0lja4owz1ynydmfpfiu2x4708vs1wix79ucmj99miy55vk79752mm6ojdfcc9pad5qigq1b9dm61dne6aloycp27siswfj39iwjop0h9bi9svlkjmvp4272qtk3oywajw7l7lpoq48yjdjt75kzbbqlqeomyznurtg27ubsni2abmbcrntlbxee5vdbqxzm8eoyogladuu7ls8kiddkunxygolko4fenay8olzq489c3o42gknqjoc6micb2hoxt8ktc6kai5xy86zsminrx8rig7kt4l60eu3e6n8iq272egb05eoyquyq6z7zfb9kbjqz0vvripriydl741xt1vxtcu0ct82akvp0qjmzj4anu08rdxbv4myi6bk60un31836qx90x0kyj2jxnemt5d7tauh59st7uxsjuzq9j9ai6r1j5pw4lants7nndw0mda5xt0wem88f1u9g6ddtwgiyzohu2dvpy5n0rkux8yv9zc2qkpqff44wgpxiwzccvglpcmx8znh8plqdgbc709xbglarlvxmb5q6ijgrma3zdubputuohdqfr6cnyf1mnvmwvadxu74adhhy5m8797f1n363bur87xftzyv7kwvjjlrf2obqp3qsqhtajkssmlgnuriedyokudtqumyrxgoptq3nq2xxpph78dsh45urmyh48ah91ilvc2y0chkbhp99g9uk9f5ss0vb98rzjrto7aalli2n2ang4lh8c1zflvhhqhyrepctkwaynnaukw9ip8pf01umtt0hwyi35abicb7f078x0r30yqqf6nb3j64g6zalwsxwpl6w3mkstlh44u6gkeqmkf2n4350sksrjnajfsansg7z64wade52me3t2s7oxor3389ch31jinzaiql1x7gbq6ld39ijjfrtsxyk90wsdcbhg0vqgz5782pm99wky35dbqk7hdp8upph1t1107lpucw2j85noesfc12z84gginfd81y9ikhkqjqz717y7h37ever71p6c3vkia59dzvr5qli2azrwll7vdsovmtqn6ypxvr5qul3yauqbtgqexyyz6c6pveytqj7ldzxd9zf45x7jvyrl8qqj73oju0a9mww9pwz9ttehnsm13e6zrt2jz6fg6wwbzedrruv7bjwi5n3kns98qtw03cyhxlk2rgd66a16ystlxiirevafxerlhn7iny4irxbi5t5bmr2ijczs53ok3uq5eejxz7qi8vpwfsll4bwyh7ar3qj59ekav0ylhb0dmgvxqovxbcghrq91yema2kbosng2kcvi8qwf5twq9pekak6fgrp4uibk6ecbr0kd2grzgo1b8bhbipf0gsd0xl7bj5ut65xfdewy7h7wybfn8ytfemv4eg81cpnbfz3z3jik1adq3hq8liebuj2uzw01mgcqditmndj7ef4zp1dyudhr605kudr1gzrjex94rvgjsxh2ugxj7bueejyf3e5tm83ec8cyfh1tqihfeqi58cg6ew8l1i48qo9a0lwa0qlb0coypetkw0ekr60fimhail04g0m4zh48gdg3c6woz9y05naby7aut2ruvkljfaecuvg9jiwkoycxns4haiasgh5cl2sxbxqrsx4zrykcym0ybo2p8y9enmnn9hrrnycdvt3rbuwjk4pbbtq9u0y6300afecn9xkzia4ktw6frsj37qgapxf8pxgzs4g3bztpva0931cfzgkewknva9csghm9quqwj1gpn4j4dnf2up69cb5569xqbeklgzegooswl5ghmmffgarutq0kc0dehpblxedt8ckxkntk57v0oi9gmsdvlt9w1tosfcyyj58huygc46rrwq6oe4m4cw5ycj0snawz322c46z5qgzsttchjz0g6qr2fyxh0gw70w13n7x0cm91p8rdjh6har9p2edsbt4lqrd9r6u4680srea7b0di2z6cgr8f6acaq9nlgeiaehi8d5

Wall: 2

Shelf: 3

Volume: 17

The book "hskbbmap.qzdhy" contains you comment on page 276

You can find it at:

Hex: 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

Wall: 1

Shelf: 2

Volume: 28

i wanted to add this explanation to this extreme mindscrew of a post bc as i suspected there's no earthly way the actual library of babel in numeric form could be stored anywhere on a server. the stuff is generated on demand.

i am NOT thinking about urbs antiqua fuit (top ten aeneid lines that make me self combust) but isn’t it cool how karthago and italia are geographically (and will be politically) Against one another. and yet the first time carthage is named in the poem (as the urbs antiqua! you thought that was going to be troy or rome lol) it literally elides into italy. karthagitaliam. augh

idk how to properly put this one into words but things would be so much better if instead of 'let men in media be intimate without it being mistaken for gay' we could have something more along the lines of like. 'let men in media be intimate without the fear of being mistaken for gay' by which I mean not that it's bad to read it in a gay way -- rather that it's good that it can be read in a gay way because it means that the intimacy is so meaningful & resilient that the potential it contains for a gay reading does nothing to threaten any platonic reading that may or may not exist. if that makes sense. that platonic intimacy can be (mis)taken for romance is something in its favor, and in fact we'll only every get truly good platonic intimacy in media if the people making it are able to stop being afraid of it being read that way, otherwise it'll continuously be poisoned & lessened by that fear

More art of Aragorn from the upcoming Lord of the Rings set for Magic the Gathering. Lots of spoilers dropped today for the set.

Jedi June 2023

A creative fandom event dedicated to appreciating the Jedi, taking place during the entire month of June! Each week will feature two prompts, around which people can create fanwork (of any kind – fic, art, cosplay, edits, anything you can think of) or meta focusing on the Jedi and the Jedi Order. All eras and continuities are welcome; OCs, established characters, doesn’t matter – it just needs to be about appreciating the Jedi!

Rules:

If you are participating, please tag your work/meta with #jedi june and/or @ this blog so that I will see it and reblog it here. All work must be your own. Feel free to crosspost it off-site.

This is an appreciation event, focusing on what we love and enjoy about the Jedi – not what we don’t. This is not the place to air your grievances with the Code, take potshots at the Council, prop certain Jedi/certain eras of Jedi up at the expense of others, or disparage the Jedi Order or their philosophy (including the concept of non-attachment) and way of life in any way. You are free to do that on your own time if that’s your thing, but it has no place within this event.

AUs and crossovers are allowed, with caveats: again, the purpose of this event is to appreciate the Jedi as Jedi, so sticking your favorite Jedi characters in something like a modern AU or making them all Sith or Mandalorian is not really within the spirit of this event. However, AUs such as making a non-Jedi character a Jedi, having a character survive their canon death, giving a character a different teacher or padawan, or killing Palpatine off-screen in an unspecified yet embarrassing and painful manner, would all be perfectly fine. Use your best judgement to determine whether an AU fits the spirit of the event or not.

Ships are allowed as long as they’re not between a child and adult, and following the above rules.

Following the prompts is encouraged, but not required. Any sort of pro-Jedi content is encouraged all year month long, and if tagged (and following the rules), will be reblogged. Note that there is a change in the event this year - previously, prompts were associated with Saturday and Sunday of each week. Going forward, the prompts will be associated with the week in general, rather than the weekend specifically. As a result, we have a total of 10 prompts this year, instead of 8!

As another change, we have an AO3 collection this year!

Prompts:

Week 1 (June 1 - 4):

Prompt 1: Guidance

Prompt 2: Knighting

Week 2 (June 5 - 11):

Prompt 1: Diplomacy

Prompt 2: The Force

Week 3 (June 12 - 18):

Prompt 1: Visions

Prompt 2: Confronting Fear

Week 4 (June 19 - 25):

Prompt 1: Focus

Prompt 2: Gathering

Week 5 (June 26 - 30):

Prompt 1: Friendship

Prompt 2: Tragedy Averted

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask! I hope you will have fun participating!

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It's time!

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~

“And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.”

Don’t know about you all but Aragorn in the upcoming Lord of the Rings set for Magic the Gathering looks pretty bad ass.