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She/her. Mostly here for fandom. Old enough to know better. Shrikeseams in most places. Adult for 10+ years and that's all the age you need.
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We once again will have scissor lifts, five point harnesses, and various tree strands for non-binary (defined broadly) community members who wish to croak ominous portents from the trees. Please remember to dress warmly! A Soothsayer Supply Group will make the rounds with hot cocoa & extra gloves.
December 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!
December 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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It’s really good, you guys.
ANYWAY happy Friday! Today is a good day to get THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST and read it safely indoors! :D (Or wrap it up and give it to some unsuspecting person, I don't know your life.)

A finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Aurora, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Award! 🦊🦄🍎
The Butcher of the Forest
"A perfect mix of horror and fantasy."—The New York Times“The Butcher of the Forest” shows exactly why Mohamed is one of fantasy’s rising stars."—T...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Not one I take, Baruch HaShem, but if you take Nevidolol you'll want to check your bottles
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I’m so very tired of “Trump doesn’t care about that!” posts. Thank you, yes, this is not news. His lack of caring is well-documented. It’s not actually necessary to breathlessly inform people of this anymore.
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.

So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Look, there's my wheel, and my antique wheel waiting restoration, and the hand me down rigid heddle loom, and the inherited floor loom mid-restoration for which I'm learning new wood and metal skills... look I'm saying I definitely don't have a problem, right, I have... useful tools!
You start to knit. You get weirdly interested in the properties of different fibres. You learn to spin. And then, then God help you, then you start looking at looms
December 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The witch is a threshold creature. Wood's tangled border, shore's salt-line blur. For at the feral edges of the land her magic is mighty. The fluid boundary of the marsh offers reflected nephomantic glimpses, a rush of whispered wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Surely someone has written the selfpub shifter romance about Beorn the vegan werebear beekeeper.

Surely.
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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drawing yew trees is hard x_x
December 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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unfortunately, peregrine took, a key device of this story is that the world, white shores and green country included, eventually becomes a jail and g-d has set man free. the price of that freedom is not knowing what lies outside. alas this does not make for as heartwarming of a scene
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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in the return of the king film when gandalf comforts pippin about the prospect of dying by describing the white shores and far green country under the swift sunrise i always half expect him to be like “i mean that’s where i’m going. i have no idea about your ass” because pippin is mortal
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Sneak peek of our new Cozy Casual pose reference pack with Luca (@gnomedic.bsky.social) ! 🤎✨
December 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This was too good not to have alt text.

So here you go.

Credit to O.P. here as well.
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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It’s not because we oppose dignity in death.

It’s not because we’re against bodily autonomy.

It’s because we know we live in a deeply eugenicist society that doesn’t value the lives of disabled people.

We’re seen as “useless eaters” and have to constantly fight for care
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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I celebrate this day a print by @houndsaint.bsky.social. As a red fox holothere, I felt myself acutely represented in this work. My interpretative musings are stashed in the alt-text’s second paragraph.
December 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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@tkingfisher.com imagine the horrors we could have inflicted on Islamophobes if only we had known
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Enjoy some Elrond in his ‘dead wife montage’ era, ie some fanart for ‘the years start coming and they don’t start coming’ by lonelyvisitor aka The Fic of All Time 🫶🏽 #silmarillion
December 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
re: prev about frustration tolerance, that is literally why I'm encouraging my nephew so much about art, and the kind of thing I am telling him. it is such an important skill that I did not learn until I was an adult.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Being unable to tolerate frustration + chasing social media clout gotta be a big reason why ppl jumped on the gen ai machine to churn out slop
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
OKAY SO while I do think the calaquendi probably do some basic babyproofing. if their toddlers DO get into the cleaning supply cabinet they can just like. go pick baby up from Mandos in like a month. like IT IS NOT IDEAL but also the dead child stakes are. different.
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Had a dream last night that was the usual mess, but at the end, I was watching a giant polar bear walk toward me, carrying a volcano like a snailshell on its back.

“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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"Farming is stupid," says @sarahday.org as we walk back in from disentangling the LGDs, who had managed to get their collars hooked together, terrifying the sheep with a vision of a very low rent Cerberus at 0445.
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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My morning has been artfully immortalized.
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Join the dark Lord's forces!
Be part of the biggest army in all of arda.
Talk to the stunning personal messenger of Mairon, Thuringwethil to join our Ranks today!
#silmart #tolkien #Thuringwethil #adorkastock (used her pose)
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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One of my classics
Happy Christian Pride Month ⛪️
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM