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Fibro Jedi
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🧝🏼 #LOTRO Gamer & Guide Creator
🐱 #FFXIV Gamer & Blogger
🌐 https://fibrojedi.me.uk/
👉🏼 Hubby, Dad, Believer
⚔ Fibromyalgia/Depression/Anxiety
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📜 #Writer Profile: @fjbrodie.bsky.social
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Well, it's kinda ironic that I needed to adjust this scene-specific #sketch of Farynna. I've not managed to be on my computer today due to head cold symptoms and pain.

It's getting me down, I'm not handling it well.
The side view of a striped, feline humanoid, holding her nearside hand to her temple and scrunching her eyes in pain.
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I've been struggling with energy levels and a sensitive head all day, so haven't touched my computer.

But I have done my first attempt at sticky toffee pudding. It came out okay, but too thin as I didn't have the right tin size for the amounts in the recipe.

#baking #firsttry
A small portion of thin date sponge cake drizzled with toffee sauce, served on a white plate.
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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While it was difficult to keep trying to exercise while feeling ill, I just finished the "Tales of Transformation" event in #PokemonGo.

This long illness has meant I've put some weight back on that I've been trying to lose since July.

Things like this 👇 are small wins.
The Pokemon Keldeo - as depicted in GO - in its Resolute form. Is horn is much longer and stronger and the overall appearance is wilder, I think.
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I've managed some #LOTRO side-quests in the Cape of Umbar tonight - just a couple of hours, but that's a win.

The headache is coming back so it's meds and sleep time.

I don't know if I'll be around here tomorrow. If not, I will on Monday.

Enjoy your weekends.

#LOTROfamily
My main LOTRO character raises her right arm in a greeting. She's not in her usual garb, but in a long tunic that is largely loose material (warm climate) except for the plate chest protection. To avoid looking to obviously from the lands she is, she has an eyepatch at this point. She can't tan fast enough to not stand out at all. The backdrop is pastel pink dusk, settling over a green-looking ocean. A single ship is coming in from the horizon, but you can't see much of it as it's basically prow-facing-the-camera angle.
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Assassination by night wasn't really her style. But an aggressive war-camp of Haradrim was not what any part of the world needed right now. Except the Haradrim, obviously.

She hated doing it, but the leader was taken down with only a couple of followers, rather than alerting the whole camp.

#LOTRO
As the early hints of dawn struggle to penetrate the clouds of the night, she, dressed mostly in black and rather uncomfortably hooded and masked, stands up the hill, trying not to think of the job she had just been paid to do.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Update: I'm starting to pull through some of the symptoms of the illness(es) I've had. Fewer cold symptoms and my Fibro pain is somewhat improved today. The energy drops and poor concentration still plague me & December's too busy to be ill.

Thanks for being there for me.
My human main character in The Lord of the Rings Online, wearing a plate metal and leather strips tunic, a white hood and shoulder wrap and a lacy cloak. Behind her are palm trees dotted here and there, and the first edges of a beach coastline at a blue ocean.
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Juuuust in case you need more votes, I have Authy for the times I feel up to playing #SWTOR.
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Petit Dragonet 🐉 (presque toujours, en fait). 😄
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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One of the mounts in the Guilded Caravan set is this beautifully-outfitted camel.

Don't hear me wrong, but #LOTRO have done an awesome job of showing how uncomfortable riding camels are. Glinmaethor would be happy with a plain camel but bright colours are good too.

#LOTROfamily
Riding a camel which has bright blue fabric over its head and pack, there is a gold-colours "stick" to hold onto to steady yourself while riding, various pouches for "stuff" and a LOT of tassels. It's a local style thging. So's the camel. Which does beg the question of which ship she takes home as a camel takes up quite a lot of space...
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Shâba and Rûnax apparently didn't want to stay and be pit fighters. They somehow ported to Rohan with her.

"One day, you must be pit fighters...", she smirked, "but it is not this day."

#LOTRO #LOTROFamily #LOTR
During a gorgeous pink dusk in Rohan, Glinmaethor stands on a wall with two enormous goats from a quest in the cape of Umbar...an ocean and shipwreck away.
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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In this #LOTRO quest, you have to subdue two huge goats so the locals can make them entertainment in pit-like battles.

This is one of those "you're in a foreign country, and this is okay for them, so don't impose your morals on them" moments. You're the visitor.

#LOTROfamily
My main LOTRO character in a three-quarter quite and light turquoise tunic and dark boots. Standing behind her are two identical goats with strong horns and they tower above her.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Just taking a wee look at the new "Caravan" pack in #LOTRO. For the adventurer's point of view, I'm loving the 1H axe design (compatible with 1H swords & clubs I think), and the backpack.

Sometimes having a visual of your "bags" can be immersive.

#LOTROFamily #MMORPG
The Ceremonial "Gilded Caravan" axe has a sturdy shaft and an elegant, yet deadly half-moon blade. The accompanying weapon effect is a bit like orange fireflies or flicking embers from a fire. The Gilded Caravan Pack is a region-themed backpack featuring: A couple of rollmats, water bottle, pouches for other liquids of choice and beautiful flowery sack which is buckled to a leather "lid".
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I just loaded #LOTRO for the first time in 2-3 weeks due to this bug and headaches. Just to test what my screen tolerance is.

Then got "Celebrate Spring" notifications.

Look I'm already confused enough sleeping the day, without moving the seasons around 🤔

#LOTROfamily
My main LOTRO character standing in the pouring rain, hand on her chin in thoughtful confusion.
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Hi all,

I've had something of a win tonight: about 4 hrs at my PC doing #writing in #Obsidian. It's all dark mode, so a slow reintroduction of screens.

But I've been able to collate story-specific info so I can properly plan and write it.

Very tired with the bug still, though.
Just a small screenshot from the free application Obsidian, which I'm using to organise my story writing into one place.
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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I just want to give a big #ThankYou across socials to you if you're in my #Patreon Crew or have supported via #KoFi.

As things stand, I don't have to cut blog costs or gaming subs (LOTRO & FFXIV) & can continue helping with some family bills too.

All without ads.

Thank you.
My main LOTRO character in a plate-protected leather tunic, white hood and shoulder wrap, waving. The background is blue sea, palm trees and craggy rocks.
November 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Case in point...I had to re-read this quest objective, because I was convinced I had to steal banana's from goblins as punishment for stealing the locals' sheep.

Bandanas, FJ, Bandanas.

Not bananas.

#LOTRO #LOTROfamily #MMORPG
A summary of a LOTRO quest objective and rewards. The only thing that matters for this post is that the Next Objective is: Collect goblin bandanas × 16
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The last few weeks have been challenging for me. And draining too. I've barely gamed, mostly due to head sensitivity and partly due to time.

My aim is to make a weekly "plan" to balance everything and get #gaming back in at a good amount while allowing space for other things.
My LOTRO main character sat next to a "pumpkin huorn" a semi-sentient type of tree that walks behind you as a passive pet. Or maybe it's passively-aggressively muttering about me in huornish.
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Recent, unpolished, imperfect art attempts.

I echo your sentiments, BTW (even if my words might be tweaked a little).
Hand drawn, chibi biped found in a witch outfit. Wood circles I have burned patterns on using pyrography. One is a balled-up hedgehog, the other is about the wise men from the Christmas account, as a tree decoration.
October 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Thanks @dreadfulsanity.bsky.social for reposting this cartoon for my first real laugh of the last few days.

#halloween #vampire #cartoon
A person lies asleep in a hospital bed while having a blood transfusion. At the window, a vampire looks in, grins and thinks "They're Refillable?!"
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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I found an old #LOTRO drawing while looking for something completely different.

I'm pretty sure I did the style like NJ's favourite show 5 or so years ago.

#lotrofamily @officiallotro.bsky.social
A hand-drawn colour picture of several of my LOTRO characters but in a kids' show style, which is almost chibi, but with taller bodies. It depicts (from left to right) a male elf, a female hobbit, a female human with a curved sword raised, another male elf holding a book and staff, a male hobbit and a female Beorning (in human form)
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I've put up a preview of my upcoming #FFXIV All Saints' Wake 2025 guide onto #Patreon for Crew-member Early-Access.

It will go live on Wednesday afternoon UK time, with new pictures of the rewards sometime on Friday afternoon.

Thanks.

#FF14
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A FFXIV Miqo'te looking sideways slyly, while being partially shadowed in darkness. The text simply reads "FFXIV All Saints Wake 2025". Yes I know it should be "All Saints' Wake" to be grammatically correct, but I think it looks weird on headers that I make.
October 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Thank you for your encouragement about my #LOTRO Fall Festival guide. I've finally started the event myself now.

I'm off for sleep and rest (and meds).

G'night // #StaySafe // #BeKind
A young-ish woman (she's in her 30s in my head, I don't know where "young" is in anyone's eyes any more) in a dark grey dress waves to the camera. In the background, the sky is changing to the pinks of sundown behind the trees further down the hill.
October 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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While you can't apply an aura to your cauldron, #LOTRO are getting adventurous and the contents do in fact create green bubbles.

I definitely don't want to know what's in it. And the tooltip is "mysteriously" devoid of explanation.

#LOTROfamily
October 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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A Work-in-Progress outfit using two of the newer cosmetics from @officiallotro.bsky.social: Golden Lion Armour (dyed black) and the Ceremonial Jaunty Sword (with the Golden Lion aura).

(Full List in ALT text).

This tunic is great and I have other shoulder and feet items that don't clip🙌.

#LOTRO
Side view of an outfit with a the huge curved sword and the lace cloak being the main focuses from this angle. The bracers' full name is the "Leather Bracers of the Gentle Stag", but I ran out of space in the post text. An outfit featuring a white hood, a folded shoulder-wrap that ends in a coil on the left shoulder, and an armoured tunic, where the chest area has plate armour and the lower half is made up of vertical strips of studded leather. Full Item list is: - Golden Lion Armour (Dyed Black) - Ceremonial Jaunty Sword (with Golden Lion Weapon Aura). Other items are - Hood of the White Mountains (quest reward) | White Dye - Autumn Shade Shoulder-guards (Lalia's) | White Dye - Bridal Veil (Midsummer Festival) - Mariner's Boots (I think mariner class starter gear) - Leather Bracers of the Gentle Stag (Dunland Quest reward) | White Dye though I've already changed it to black)
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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[Cross-Platform] After a week of illness, I've managed to have some time questing in #LOTRO. I've done most of the Shield Isles soloable quests, so next time it's on towards Umbar, the actual city.

PS: The new birder trousers (pictured) dye well. Need tips on non-clipping boots!
My main LOTRO Character in a Black and dark yellow mariner-style top and black, belted trousers. She's standing high on a ship looking beyond the "camera" and shielding her eyes as she does.
October 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM