Queen Lucy

"Tea is at four." gay and golden-haired. Annika, she/her, 20something. NotAnakin on ao3. artist. crafter. musician. narnian. trekkie. religiously ambiguous. cat mom. adventures. soundtracks. books. love. middle-earth. there is always hope. (icon: k_pupu picrew) vintage style not vintage values. one of my mutuals said that if I was a Star Trek alien I’d be a Bajoran, and described me as “extremely passionate; extremely bisexual” which is 1) extremely flattering and 2) correct ❣️

[hopecomesbacktolife]

at last, it’s complete, it’s done!!! I’m so, so proud of this and had sooo very much fun making it. this tea cup is my

~ mugnum opus ~

freehanded map of Middle-earth, painted by me; completely painted by hand, no tracing, stencils, computerized or automated anything, etc., painted with a combination of size 000 detail brush and the tip of a sewing pin for the detail work.

based on the maps in the back of the Lord of the Rings books, showing Middle-earth in the Third Age. the handle has the Tengwar script from the One Ring, also painted by hand.

I worked on this mostly in intervals on the weekends, starting in late December 2024, as my work hours meant I couldn’t visit the pottery studio during the week. I didn’t go every single weekend, but probably like something close to every other weekend! I finally finished the last few finishing touches on it this past Sunday, and it was sent to their kiln for firing and glazing. I just got to pick it up yesterday and can’t get over how vivid and striking the colors are now that it’s all finished and glazed to be food-safe💞

The bottom of the mug’s interior has a Mallorn leaf painted on it (this was done solely with the 000 brush, since a sewing pin is too short to reach to the bottom of the mug) I also included a picture with the light reflecting off of it to show the slight texture I painted with the leaf’s veins and silver accents, to match the fellowship cloak pins.

There’s also Mallorn leaves climbing up the barrier under the handle where the map splits, and then on the exterior bottom of the mug I added Tolkien’s logo along with the designation of the map, my initials, and the year I spent painting it!

I had so, so much fun painting this, like… what an absolute delight to be devoted to this project for so long. I have so many in progress photos from various stages, and honestly I lost count of how many hours this took— but it meant almost a year’s worth of weekend visits to the pottery studio and getting to gradually see more and more of the map take shape on this mug!! I truly had so, so much fun with this and am so proud of how it turned out. I love this so much and had to share ♡

edited the post because I realized that I’d accidentally added one photo twice, and left out another photo: this has now been fixed! ♡

[hopecomesbacktolife]

amaze amaze amaze!!!!!!!!!! ☀️🛰️✨

NSF Inouye Solar Telescope Enables Major Discovery of a Hidden Solar Process - NSO - National Solar Observatory

Scientists using the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the Sun, shedding light on solar activity and spa

I’m just filled with awe and trying not to cry at work while looking at this image. it’s so beautiful and stunning. it looks like amber, and like honey, and like oak leaves, and like 19th century botanical jacquard textiles. I just— 🥹

space!!!!!!!!! 🌌🛰️❣️✨🌏☀️

this isn’t PHM related but I’m including this track here because it’s how I feel looking at this image and reading this article ♡

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[shisasan]

We will walk over the meadows and you will tell me stories.

25 July, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

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Grzegorz Jacek Olejniczak, (Polish b.1968), Moments Before the Storm, 2026, Acrylic and oil technique

[idontwanttoboldlygo]

T'hy'la is such a wild thing to have as canon because I always forget it's not a fanfic thing and get shocked whenever it makes an appearance

[explore-history-castle-monument]

Château de LA MOTTE, Châteaurenard, Loiret, France

[postcard-from-the-past]

100 years ago:

[sergle]

are you guys hearing about this dude working to developing a vaccine for cats that he's hoping would like. theoretically double their lifespans?

[sergle]

turns out i wasn't making that up, his name is Dr. Toru Miyazaki! he also wrote a book called "The Day Cats Live To Be Thirty", so cats are kind of his thing.

apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.

Could the macrophage-derived protein AIM save cats from kidney disease?

As they age, almost all cats develop kidney disease, from which they eventually die. Just as in humans, kidney disease i

Cat Kidney Disease Cure Nears Reality: Dr. Toru Miyazaki’s AIM Therapy

Dr. Toru Miyazaki’s AIM injection for cat kidney disease enters trials in 2025, aiming for a 2027 release. Greycoat Research supports the sc

[moki-dokie]

whoa wait i actually read the articles and it's so much cooler than just that!!

dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!

although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!

on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.

furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.

annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D

man just think, not only could our kitties start living longer, healthier lives, but just maybe dialysis will become as rare and obsolete as the iron lung is for people. what a badass Dr. Toru is!

[fluxxdog]

"But I don't want to turn people into dinosaurs. I wanna cure kittie kidneys!"

[rorleuaisen]

Update: So they have done clinical trials and have submitted it for approval as of april 2026. They are expecting it to be available late 2026/early 2027

AIM Kidney Drug for Cats: 2026 Approval Update — How It Works, Efficacy & Expected Cost | Carelogy

The AIM protein drug for feline chronic kidney disease has been submitted for approval in Japan (April 2026). We break down clinical trial d

As for the study itself, the 360 day follow up on stage 3 kidney failure kitties showed that the control had a survival rate of about 20%, while the test group had a survival rate of 80%

New 2026 study: AIM protein boosts cat kidney disease survival from 20% to 80%. Discover how this scientific breakthrough is changing the fu

[idiomagic]

Our cat Scout is in the early stages of kidney disease. This might be available in time to save her!

[kokoluwie]

[fuckyeahplattenbau]

Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

[awallflowerdraws]

hail mary, full of grace

[theslowesthnery]

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[whitealbum]

did you guys know that this website is for fun

[veilfemme]

Anyone else stare at their mutuals like 👀👀👀👀 “please dm me. You seem so cool and I wanna be friends. “

[ezekiel13]

Whenever I text someone happy birthday I always have to double check and then I panic and worry that I’ve somehow gotten their birthday wrong this year and I read the date wrong on the messages from last year and my calendar is wrong. #Normal

[memory-of-stargazing]

“It just means you have to work double as hard as most people!”

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

Why do you think disabled people deserve less rest than mentally & physically abled people?

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I will remind people that one of the biggest signs of a scam is urgency. A scammer does not want you to look away or click out of the tab or hang up the phone. They make you feel like there's a very close time limit, like you have to act NOW if you want to protect your bank account/not get arrested/help your (grand)child/save an animal/save a person/etc, and they will use manipulation tactics like guilt tripping and making you feel rushed to keep you from taking a step back and having a moment to think.

If someone who is asking for money is rushing you, making you feel pressured to give them money immediately and making you feel guilty or like you're in some sort of danger if you have any questions or doubts or hesitation, they are scamming you. They are doing everything they can to get your money before you have time to think or do any research, and then they vanish as soon as they get what they want.