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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me)
@alayanabeth.bsky.social
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Wordsmith and poet, Indie author, Tolkien nerd, kiwi in the Inner Hebrides, she/they. River Daughter (meander phase)
Relationship status: single [malt] 🥃

#RingsofPower #Tolkien #LOTR
#Poetry #Poem #IsleofMull

https://mybook.to/OnWildAir
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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · Oct 17
I'm going to hang my shingle out properly by 'fessing that I've been reading Tolkien, and about Tolkien, for over half a century, and I'm currently obsessed with Rings of Power

Mother of Uruks
River Daughter
Stone-singer in Training

She/they

I play DnD/BG3 & recommend Vampire Therapist
Elrond in Rings of Power Disa in Rings of Power Adar in Rings of Power Mirdania in Rings of Power
alayanabeth.bsky.social
Series Acclimation Mil (Star Trek Academy S1Ep5)

No spoilers, please. I'm watching very slowly because so. many. thoughts.

1. I love you, Sam. You're the most amazing thing Star Trek has created since Tin Man

2. You're not just an emissary. You're a new species

3. Hell, yeah
February 6, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Excited for people to read this one now I've tweaked it.
Microsoft’s AI strategy is one of the most deranged, confused product strategies in history, shoving OpenAI’s chatbots into every crevice imaginable for a most-unclear gain, burning hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars training models that nobody likes and custom silicon for inference for services that nobody uses. They hire random managerial types from other companies in the hopes that a guy who failed in his last role will succeed at Microsoft, they create new AI teams in the hopes that having a new team will fix a problem it is unable to truly describe. In reality, Microsoft’s leadership likely realizes that AI is a dead end, but the only thing Microsoft knows how to do is spend, fire and hire. It is terrible at innovation, so it will hire people and let them spend money on what it believes will work, even if it isn’t sure why. Once that fails, it will repeat the cycle again and again with more money. This has always worked, other than the times that it hasn’t. Turning this cadillac-sized company around is going to be a nightmare Its largest customer is OpenAI, which lost at least $9 billion in 2025 and will run out of money in the next two years whether it raises a $100 billion round or not, and no, I don’t mean the $100 billion NVIDIA deal I said was bullshit months ago, I mean the new $100 billion round that NVIDIA might invest $20 billion in. Microsoft has spent north of $200 billion building one of the most embarrassingly-weak business lines I’ve seen in history. Satya Nadella stinks at his job and should be ashamed for the dishonour he’s brought upon Redmond, especially for making bumbling failmasters like Mustafa Suleyman and Jay Parikh rich multiple times over. Nadella deserves every moment of humiliation that’s to come for what he’s put his employees through. From the people I’ve talked to, everything at Microsoft runs through a crazed, histrionic obsession with AI, pushed entirely from the SLT (Senior Leadership Team), with the only way…
February 6, 2026 at 5:46 AM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
I've reached part 4 of the prologue in my project to handwrite The Fellowship of the Ring into a set of journals

At this point I came so close to writing "the orcs of the mind" (instead of "orcs of the mine")

Nothing to do with listening to the Rings of Power soundtrack 😉
Handwritten text from The Fellowship of the Ring, prologue 4: Of the Finding of the Ring
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
No females hazel flowers yet in Isle if Mull (they're tiny, red, and open on bare branches) but I spent so long trying to focus my phone on a red bud that this chap came to check up on me

Also out of focus, but ain't that song sweet? He was barely a foot away from me
February 2, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
Panel 1: A cartoon worm appears out of a book, shocking the reader and saying "Greetings, booklover! I'm Wormy! Your virtual Reading companion!" Panel 2: Wormy continues "This is an enhanced Book! There's so much more to it than boring old words!" The reader says "I like the words." Panel 3: Wormy "Of course! I've promoted you to 'bibliophile' and added you to the 'hi-brow lit chat' group. You have 33 welcome messages!" Reader "I just want to read!" Panel 4: Wormy "Ok! I've set your status to 'monk-ish devotion?. You have earned 85 commitment stars and are now in the silver league!" Reader "Umm... How do I get into the gold league?" Panel 5: Caption "And so..." Wormy is saying "Congratulations! You won a (top networker' Trophy and 165 Community coins! Do you want to purchase membership of the 'diamond league Private library?" The reader has put the book aside and shouts excitedly "Yes! Yes!!"
February 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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"Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till..."
- Gandalf, Ch. 9, The Last Debate.
January 31, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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redwyrm.bsky.social
What are your favorite books that have inspired you as a dungeon master?
DM Tip from a 9 year old: Read lots of books for inspiration. If you can’t read, learn to read, so you can read lots of books. It really helps you be a better Dungeon Master.
January 30, 2026 at 7:18 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
Okay Startrek Academy. Ep3 was annoying and crap, but Ep4 is bloody excellent

I'm in
January 29, 2026 at 3:21 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
It's 2pm on Thursday. I've completed or wound down all the things I was doing today, because I start work at 4pm

In 2 hours

What was I thinking?
cookie monster is wearing a white shirt and tie and sitting on a table .
Alt: cookie monster twiddling his fingers on a desk and looking bored.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
I have begun the great project of my time 👁

After Lyme disease, the constant creative voice in my mind, bubbling up with stories, is silent. To give it time to heal, I've embarked on a different journey. To transcribe The Lord of the Rings into handwritten journals
#LOTR #trop
The blank cover of a dark green A5 writing journal A hand-drawn cover page featuring three interlocking rings in blue, yellow, and red, surrounded by an orange ring. The page is titled "The Fellowship of the Ring", handwritten in black ink
January 28, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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succupony.bsky.social
It's not that people just can't figure it out because its just too gosh-darn difficult, but that nobody wants use it because it's an environment-destroying job-stealing boondoggle that only exists to further enrich billionaire ip-hoarders and their stranglehold on how much of our lives we even own
January 28, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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kathleengmaz.bsky.social
It's Tendi Tuesday. Everybody hug! 💚🖖
A scene from Star Trek lower decks of Tendi hugging T Lynn
January 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

"Then came the mouths"

Brand new SciFi, just out in paperback 🪐
louiestowell.bsky.social Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16d
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

"Lie detected!"

(yes, it's a loki book, I keep them on my desk to refer to when editing)
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 16d
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

"It pulls at my clothing and sometimes I feel I've got to pick it up, cuddle and kiss it."
January 21, 2026 at 9:50 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
Okay, today seems to be a good day to remind myself (and all of you) that if you have a great conversation with someone about Tolkien's books, and/or the films, and that pivots into hating on Rings of Power, it's perfectly okay to block without engaging

We don't owe trolls and haters a reply
a woman holding a bow and arrow says " go back to the shadow "
ALT: a woman holding a bow and arrow says " go back to the shadow "
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January 21, 2026 at 8:56 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
My bedroom is, as always, a work in progress, but for the first time in months I can see straight out the door with no boxes in the way

Jareth is allowed in every room except this one, so he's stationed himself where he can see me at all times. (He's also in front of the big storage heater 😉)
View across a bed, with a pair of outstretched legs in trousers and slippers, out the door to a small hallway where a tabby-and-white cat is lying on a soft rug.
January 21, 2026 at 8:40 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
This is the way 🍂🍃
rosemarymosco.com Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 17d
How to get into nature.
A four-panel comic titled "how to get into nature". In panel 1, a person kneels in the woods, looking down at a red-backed salamander, and the text says "notice a living thing." In panel 2, the text says "notice some other things that live near it," and there's a starflower, springtail, ant, little wood satyr butterfly, and salamander on the leaf litter. In panel 3, covered in creatures, plants, and a colorful starburst, the text says "Notice the connections between them, discover the wider ecosystem, learn about its histories, and find yourself following links from bedrock to stratosphere, between biotic and abiotic, at scales both microbial and massive, until you’re hopelessly overwhelmed by the wonder of it all." In panel 4, the text says "Fall into a daze and let moss engulf you." The person from the first panel is still kneeling in the woods, looking happy as moss slowly engulfs them, and they're saying "This is for the best."
January 20, 2026 at 3:53 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
Oh. My. Actual.

Fellowship of the Ring on the big screen was A.mazing! Everything hit so hard, I was fully immersed from moment one. Best films ever made bar none

LOTR movies are a masterclass in all the techniques & creativity & sheer frigging effort that make great movies
January 19, 2026 at 10:56 PM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
Here I go: Fellowship of the Ring on the big screen. I'm dying to see it again
A white woman with long grey hair, wearing a Misty Mountains t-shirt, and an elven leaf of Lórien brooch on her black fleece jacket, is standing in a hotel room taking her own picture in the mirror
January 19, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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lsdaif.bsky.social
I feel like we’re living in a dystopian novel so dystopian that even if Huxley, Orwell and Bradbury had collaborated on a book, the three of them together couldn’t have dreamt this shit up.
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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I missed again #PortfolioDay 🎨🥲

Raquel here, illustrator and comic artist, I work both with digital and traditional techniques, always open for commissions (altough I am quite busy lately 😅).

nekroticism.portfoliobox.net
ko-fi.com/nekroticism

#illustration #adar #trop #oc #ghash #blasphemous
Adar Blasphemous' Penitent One Blasphemous' Perpetva Ghash
January 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Yvonne Marjot with this poignant poem of loss ❤️ in our Christmas-Winter anthology. @alayanabeth.bsky.social

www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
January 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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eyeofacat.bsky.social
“but he isn’t a main POV book character so they’d have to flesh him out more for the show based on what we know about him! Can’t imagine they’d have any interest in doing THAT in this show about the Second Age featuring Gil-galad, Pharazon, Isildir, Elendil, two Durins, Míriel, Círdan, Pharazon…”
January 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
Best. Advice. Ever.
joannechocolat.bsky.social Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23d
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2680:
Don’t be afraid of failure. Failure means you tried something. No one ever succeeds without trying and failing - often, many times.
January 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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erulasse.bsky.social
a moment of silence for the cast and crew of stranger things who worked really hard on practical sets and difficult camera movements and stunts regardless of writing
January 13, 2026 at 3:32 AM
alayanabeth.bsky.social
Two of my winter poems appear in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social new Winter anthology. I'm just beginning to read and appreciate all the other poets who are here with me, all of us chafing cold hands and blowing steam into the chilly air of January

www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
The cover of Black Bough Poetry's Christmas and Winter poetry anthology volume 6. A linocut-style picture of a cat in a warm kitchen full of food and warmth looking out a window at Christmas lights and passers-by My poem Anniversary, published in Black Bough Poetry's Christmas and Winter poetry anthology no.6 Ice-bound, winter borne: cradled in the island arc of the Hebrides, light prisms only into cold colours. I have turned to stone, stand islanded myself, pouring a libation of memories, though all the blood in my veins could not melt a single slender blade of the ice that ensheathes you. The year pauses at the fulcrum, needing only a breath to tip it towards spring. My poem 'Slip' from Black Bough Poetry's Christmas and Winter anthology 6 Ice grips me, lace cuffs and collar. Glass glows colourless as silence. Blades glisten, polished edge sliding deep into my unwary hand. Warmth blossoms, red as sunset, bargain of life in this still-as-death white world.
January 11, 2026 at 7:08 PM