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@eyeofacat.bsky.social

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"We have to find parables; we have to tell stories to unriddle the world" (Alan Garner). Elves, spaceships, worldbuilding. NSFW fandom alt: @conundrumoftime Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/users/eye_of_a_cat/works Tags: #RingsofPower #Doriath #MyFic

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 1d

Andor: ‘To guard until the break of day’, Mon/Erskin, 700 words, T.

archiveofourown.org/works/72199006

Andor screencap: Mon Mothma at her daughter’s wedding, looming at the figure of a large statue staring down from the middle of a celebrating crowd

text: “"There's a legend that these are the priestesses themselves, you know. They gave up everything that made them living beings so that Chandrila could be guarded by metal and stone."
"Quite a sacrifice." Not that it had helped: the Rakatan Empire gnawed through the planet all the same. He doesn't say this part out loud, but she looks at him as though she knows it anyway and has resigned herself to facing it.”

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 4d

The plot of the next Simpsons movie should be the kids at Springfield Elementary digging up a time capsule that was buried 40 years ago and realizing they're the same children who buried it because their world hasn't aged in 4 decades.

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world's third smartest horse @nanocorn.bsky.social · 14h

genuinely the most irritating thing in the world is when things get mainstream popular and suddenly every culture war freak decides theyre the true original fans and wont shut up about it

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 1d

excellent 🧵 about "queerbaiting"

Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 2d

I should be going to sleep but instead I'm doing this, I'm of the camp that is somewhat skeptical about the utility of the concept of queerbaiting in general, but I think if you are going to accept it as a useful concept you have to actually understand what it is to meaningfully use it!

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Jen Grogan 🐙📖📚 @eightarmsedits.bsky.social · 1d

Bernie meme:

I am once again asking you (the estate of John Steinbeck) to release the werewolf novel.

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 1d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Raquel ⚔️ TROP era 💍 @raquelnekro.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober

Day 10: Disa and Durin 🖤⛰️

Fine liners and ink washing.

#tolkientober #inktober #disa #durin #dwarves #inks #traditionalart

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Derek Barrantes @molluskshell.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolkientober Day 11: Sting

“I will give you a name,” he said to it, “and I shall call you Sting.”

Taking up the last page of my current sketchbook is Bilbo and his sword Sting!

A colored illustration of a brave-looking Bilbo Baggins holding Sting. His left hand is inside his jacket pocket.

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 1d

It’ll come back one day sooner or later I’m sure, but I’m so sorry you had to deal with that. 🫂

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 1d

Andor: ‘To guard until the break of day’, Mon/Erskin, 700 words, T.

archiveofourown.org/works/72199006

Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 1d

ugh 🫂

Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 1d

“touch her and die” is on my sure-fine-whatever list of tropes, but “die so that I might curl up at her feet covered in blood and be told I’m good” - now we’re talking.

Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 1d

yessssssss

two tumblr posts from user “petshopbutch
Oct 18, 2023

“submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for.”

“love how much attention this post is getting i knew the gay people in my phone would understand me. btw here's the picture that inspired me to make this post in the first place:”
photo of a guardian sheepdog with head and neck covered in blood, lying before a sheep that’s pressing its head down to the dog’s.

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Autobot Proudfellow 💍 @jobot935.bsky.social · 2d

Saw folks having a moan about Ao3 again, so decided to have a brief fandom history lesson about Why and How Ao3 came to be.

It was quite literally the one time that fandoms united to push back against censorship.

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💬 0 🔁 4623 ❤️ 11416 · Wee bit of fandom history lesson, cos some of us were there when Ao3 was made … Pre-Ao3 most of fandom was on LiveJournal. Like they used to be THE place to hang out if you…

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

yeah, I’ve only ever managed to combine moving and decluttering with the unpacking part!

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Lefty @lefty.unhingedfellowship.lol · 3d

„The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.“
I’m doing a TRoP villains series on Instagram mainly with the #inktober prompts. ☺️
The older Durin is perfect for „reckless“ and „rings“ 💍 #tolkientober #tolkienart #khazaddum

Black and white pastel drawing of King Durin III., an elderly dwarf with a stubborn gaze and an extensive beard, wearing a metal crown

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 3d

followed you! (I’m ‘conundrumoftime’ on there)

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 5d

An enormous ball of entangled long Furbies rolled over me and I joined with them and their thoughts, and we spent about 2 hours rolling around town, warbling, collecting litter to throw away later, contemplating the cosmos. We had a blast. I eventually fell off near the gas station and walked home.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 4d

The printer is tasked with moving the spiritual (digital) into the physical (ink on paper) and so it bridges the Cartesian divide.

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone I know who’s on there is in calm low-drama instances for hobbies & tech, so it works fine there, but for fandom? where at least 3% of people at any given time have 14 hours a day to spend on social media working up insanely moralised grudges over people for ship wars? noooooooooo.

Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 4d

lrp: why I just don’t think Mastodon will be The Place Where Fandom Mass-Migrates Next, because the idea of “Discord, except server mods can see your email & IP, read your DMs, and block you from seeing the posts of anyone associated with another server they have beef with” is untempting.

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Jenn / CaptainHanyuu 💖✨ -> POLARIS 2025 @captainhanyuu.art · 19d

I was also on .art and it didn't sit right with me that the admin could ban ENTIRE OTHER INSTANCES WITH MY FRIENDS ON THEM, the .social one was banned because "they don't moderate the way I want them to" which, I'm sorry, is completely bonkers.

Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 20d

yall I'm sorry, but I won't go back to mastodon. that place is a digital HOA, and is rife with abuse of power and insane drama. I was stuck in the .art instance, and the person who ran it walled us in and completely isolated us from every other instance. I've heard of far worse

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 4d

I love comments like this so much 🥰

screenshot of part of an AO3 comment reading “everything. I could chew on the dynamics at play here forever.”

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 4d

2004: wow social media keep in touch with your friends online

2026: you are about to be held accountable by a 14 year old for a passive aggressive email you sent in 1991. overhead, vultures drift in lazy circles

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𝕊𝕒𝕘𝕖🍃 @sagegarnish.bsky.social · 4d

I would honestly rather be friends with someone whose kinks/ships make me wanna choke but who is a kind person who tags and also doesn’t judge, than to be friends with someone who loves all the same ships as me, hates the ones I hate, but who is a rancid turd to ppl about it

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