I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?

My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.

A few months later

All hail the High Warden of Gondor.

Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.

I’m going to wear this on my head like a raccoon and show everyone

BRO?

the written word is masturbatory! stop thinking and writing about scenarios and characters !

Writing because it makes you feel good.

Sweet holy Thoth protect us from such dreadful self-indulgent perversions.

... ...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(breath)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

(gasps)

HAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHA

ow

(clutches one's aching ribs)

Why the everlasting feck does anyone THINK writers write? ALL writers?

....Plainly some people need to go take a hot shower. ...Or ten.

(walks off shaking head) Gods but what a sad deprived life some folks apparently lead. And they think it's normal. (shudder)

Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

The Story of Mermaid and Cat

I thought of something cute and I just have to draw it before I forgot about it :)

don’t feed it

Feel free to send this to that faraway friend who needs a hug. Sometimes you just feel like bursting through their computer screen, how dare they live so far away!!

au where they're already friends and are a menace to canaan house

Three Vibes.

I absolutely hate it when I hear that my name gets brought up at publishing meetings as an example of "authors who made social media work for them." Like fuck you, the lesson you should've learnt from my case was "take a chance on a book an editor is eager to acquire even if it's in a genre that hasn't been selling well" (Iron Widow got shot down at every major American publisher for market reasons even though many editors wanted it), not "LET'S PUSH AUTHORS TO BECOME INFLUENCERS." The skillset someone needs to be popular on social media is completely different than what's used to write books. Why would you force the average author to shake their ass on TikTok instead of DOING THE MARKETING THAT IS YOUR JOB and letting authors write in peace

who wants to see the funniest photo of my cat i ever took

my little man looks blasted out of his fucking mind

do you think martin scorsese knows that tumblr exists

some poor pr flunky this morning, taking the deepest breath of his life, about to list off the 95 levels of niche internet backstory required to explain why several media outlets have reached out to his boss for comment about a movie he never made: well sir,

A TOUR OF THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT BY MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE

(Yes, the French government actually let me in dressed like that)

Crow skiing down a roof with a small lid or something….

@illwynd

Holy s- it really is. That crow is teaching itself to snowboard.  Every time I think I know how smart corvids are, they surprise me more.

i want to add this 🥲

Amazing addition

Babe wake up, new Hualian official art with Calamity Xie Lian and Wu Ming 🥹💕

Elon wyd

I genuinely wish I could see inside Musk’s head or at least get an explanation for how he was thinking his plans would work out.

Like it’s clear now he is fantastically out of touch with reality but I still really wanna know like, to what degree. Did he think people would accept his ultimatum? Did he genuinely think it would only take like 300 people to keep Twitter running?

I was an intern at SpaceX years ago, back it when it was a much smaller company — after Elon got hair plugs, but before his cult of personality was in full swing. I have some insight to offer here.

Back when I was at SpaceX, Elon was basically a child king. He was an important figurehead who provided the company with the money, power, and PR, but he didn’t have the knowledge or (frankly) maturity to handle day-to-day decision making and everyone knew that. He was surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to manipulate him into making good decisions.

Not me crying over the "Good Night Oppy" documentary on Prime.

I logged in to watch Good Omens and got completely sidetracked and now I'm having emotions over robots and Space. Again.

They engineers keep calling Opportunity "my child" and I'm 😭

Oh no. Well. I guess I'll be spending part of tomorrow crying as well, because there's no way I'm not watching that.

Listen. They played music to the rovers every "morning" to wake them up because it's a tradition to wake astronauts up with music.

And the way their voices all wobbled when they thought Spirit was dead and she came back to life listening to ABBA.

"So when you're near me, darling Can't you hear me, S.O.S.? The love you gave me Nothing else can save me, S.O.S."

I AM UNWELL.

when you're reading smut and that middle aged man has a little too much stamina

I'm really sorry that I keep rbing this and showing y'all tags but this put actual tears in my eyes

compiling my favorite "peepaw CAN fuck" tags