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RareBehemoth
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He/him - Warhammer enthusiast and professional complainer.
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
Wish I could internalize this
brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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dresdencodak.com
Quenta Silmarillion Chapter 2: "Of Aulë and Yavanna" (3/6)
Aulë hammers away at molten metal in a cave as Yavanna looks on from her forest
January 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
rarebehemoth.bsky.social
I've had impromptu TED talks with my friends about the intense irony in calling your mass surveillance scam "Plantir." We could probably solve the energy crisis by hooking up a turbine to Tolkien's rapidly spinning corpse.
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
The trend precedes this but in the 90s when every sitcom started depicting marriage as a relationship between a hypercompetent, long-suffering, overburdened woman and the overgrown manchild whose antics she has to sighingly indulge … that probably wasn’t great.
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM