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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 · 9d

As ever all my Celeborn/Sauron theories are jokey wishcasting, unless I’m right in which case ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR.

Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Lefty @lefty.unhingedfellowship.lol · 1d

„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 · 12h

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

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 17d

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 · 18d

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 · 1d

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 · 6d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

there’s no expiry date on fic, it’ll be ready when it’s ready! (Hope Alton Towers is good - I haven’t been there since it still had Nemesis, much-missed)

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

Sauron in 2nd-age Eregion

Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · 2d

I’d join a polycule just to disrupt the power structure

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

right? Say what you like about shipping drama but at least we’re not in the news for sectarian violence…

Em @hms-terrorble.bsky.social · 2d

It's always specific sorts of fandoms as well. You'd never see people who like sports being told to stop liking that thing. Which is weird when football fans cause so many problems.

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

My daughter found me a good leaf.

leaf from a Swedish whitebeam tree, now red with autumn colours

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

Chapter 5/7: a Coruscant dinner party, a card game in a safehouse.

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

they grow up so fast 🥹

Screenshot from Scrivener, showing '50,334 words'

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 3d

I do not wish to learn about the "protocols" of the social media site I am on. I just want to make lil jokes with my friends and not see nazis. Why is this so hard for anyone who makes a social media site to understand

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

the best boy.

Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

all the hugs for you 💛🫂

Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

oh, no! Ouch :(

Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 2d

proposal: stop fighting with the Tiktok kids over Kinktober and write some whump instead.

Screenshot: "October 2025
WHUMPTOBER
31 days of whump-based prompts.
No. 1
"Please don't cry."
No. 2
Lamb to the Slaughter | Ceremony | Beg for Forgiveness
"You've got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears."
Prophecy | Sewer | Taking Accountability
No. 3
"I look in people's windows, transfixed by rose golden glows."
Isolation | Candlelight | Found Family No. 4 "Don't be scared, I've done this before."
Non-Human Whumper | Iron Rod | Loss of Powers
No. 5 "My panic's at the ceiling, but I'm face down on the carpet."
Quivering | Dream Journal | Phobia
No. 6 "No grave can hold my body down."
Caught in a Net | Medical Restraints | Pinned to the Wall
No. 7
"Tell me that you're okay, and I'm fine."
Trapped with the Enemy | Elevator | Pushed Beyond Breaking Point
No. 8 "Oh horror, oh horror, what did you see?"
Self-Inflicted Injury | Held at Gunpoint | Dissociation
No. 9
"We'll make it alright to come undone."
undone."
Touch | Flashbacks | Scalding

No. 10 "There's nothing you can ever say, nothing you can ever do."
Without Consent | Secrets | Lips Sewn Shut

screenshot: "October 2025
WHUMPTOBER
31 days of whump-based prompts.
No. 11 "Can you get through all the pain inside you?"
Hidden Injury | Laceration | Forced Reveal
No. 12 "It'll be for nothing."
Cardiac Arrest | Sacred Place | Withholding Medical Treatment
No. 13
"How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished."
Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement
No. 14
"In the end, it's worthwhile."
Ignoring an Illness | Body Bag | Wounded Caretaker
No. 15
"You can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts." Failed Rescue Attempt | Body Part in the Mail | Live-Streamed Torture
No. 16 "I've had the rug pulled beneath my feet."
Repressed Trauma | Permanent Marker | Disorientation
No. 17
"Tell me there's a hope for me."
Internal Bleeding | Coma | Redemption
No. 18
"As the world caves in."
Dystopia | Ruins | Environmental Whump
No. 19
"You're on your own, lost in the wild Dehumanisation| Living Weapon | On Patrol.
"That's new."
No. 20
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation."

"October 2025
WHUMPTOBER
31 days of whump-based prompts.
No. 21 "Sold my soul, broke my bones."
Kneeling | Makeshift Splint | Brainwashed
No.22 "All the battles I want to win, nothing matters but giving in."
Self-Sacrifice | Collar | Hunted for Sport
No. 23 "How'd I get to this place?"
Intubation | ICU | Choking
No.24 "I must confess that I feel like a monster."
Came Back Wrong | Painful Transformation | Amnesia
No. 25 "Have you earned your stripes?"
Lost Faith | Collision Course | Left to Die
No. 26 "Nothing like a relapse to rehash the kid who was scared."
Relapse | Drawn Curtains | Power Cut
No.27 "Would you even want me, looking like a zombie?"
Surgical Scars | X-Ray | Bedside Vigil
No. 28 "I could always see straight through you."
Backstabbing | Constellation | Creative Restraints
No.29 "I hope you see the sun someday in the darkness."
Fainting | Broken Dishes Last One Standing
No.30 "I'm putting my trust in an entire half-empty glass."
Burn it Down Mirror Confrontation
No.31 "Even with the smallest cuts, you can still lose so much blood."
Bleeding Out | Gunshot Wound| Rescued by the Enemy."

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