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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! ♡

#the lord of the rings #art #middle earth #middle earth map #hand painted #tolkien #pottery #freehand #painting #my art #personal #major lotr feels rn #I’m soooooo proud of this yall <333 #one of the most detailed and ambitious art things I’ve done but. omg. I love it so much

oh, heavens, hear my story

a cautionary tale

of how I came to be loved, and how it came to fail

a first time for lovers, a first time in agony / the truths you will uncover will knock you on your knees

I gave it too much, I gave myself up, I lost sight of all my dignity / I've always been smart, my chameleon heart took your draining personality

and gave it to me

I wanted to please you, this performance of a lifetime

my heart to you handed, you took it for granted / and made me the villain,

all alone

—

I struggled through the winter / found cheat codes to your soul

was born to be a giver,

destined to pay the toll

—

inside you,

there's a guiltless child / who never saw his mother smile

a boy who had no sense of home

believes he's better off alone

who coils up in jealousy to mask his insecurities

and I can't fix you, god, I tried

the hourglass

I shattered

just

time

#you netflix #laufey #a matter of time #a cautionary tale #laufey a matter of time #guinevere beck #louise flannery #joe goldberg #this song just made me think so much of Beck and Louise and then that bridge is just perfecttttt for Joe oh my god!!!!#I will never be over the narrative bookending of Beck and Brontë and how their stories ended. aoughhhhh

emziess

Thumbs up, baby. Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

#project hail mary

andremichaux

THE GOOD PLACE | 1.03

#the good place

self-mortification

DONT use glasses, youll become dependent on them to see!!!! #WARONDRUGS #OVERPRESCRIPTION #CORRECTIVELENSADDICTION

derinthescarletpescatarian

I know this is a humorous exaggeration designed to show how silly it is to deny medication and mobility/quality of life aids to disabled people by applying the argument to something silly in a way that nobody would ever do but... unfortunately I have heard people say this. I've heard people suggest that people with minor sight problems shouldn't get glasses, and people needing to move to a stronger prescription should do it and should stay on as light a prescription as they can use and still function, because the glasses will "weaken their eyes" and make their eyesight worse (which is bullshit). People will pull this ableist bullshit on glasses wearers, too.

bananonbinary

unfortunately no matter how much you try to parody ableism, some completely genuine asshole out there already has you beat.

theothin

#'you wouldnt say this about wheelchairs!' yes they would.#'you wouldnt do this with a missing limb!' i promise they do#'but what about-' look just assume no matter how stupid it is that people are dicks about it

keroa

reblog if AAAAAAAAA

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numahachi

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phuiscribbles

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jukun

valbrandur

ddemotivators

AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

minervafloofderg-migrating

thegreenwolf

itsadragonaesthetic

This is such an abstract type of comedy I don’t even know how to handle it

hopecomesbacktolife

sixtiesgogobootz

bigs their eyes at you

#slskfjgjksos #kira nerys #julian bashir #jadzia dax #star trek #the sisko (affectionate)

iamaine

my most Millennial trait is that i want big screen to think properly. to compose my thoughts. app exists for your thing but no website? bad bad bad not good for think, need big screen for think. i wrote this post on the small screen btw

pnglove

#so true

hannahlockillustration

My Mum demanded! I drew an Otter. So here is an otter.

sr-roto

audio On 😂😂😂

theygender

For blind/visually impaired folks: The instruments being used to recreate these songs are two kazoos, a plastic shopping bag, a metal colander pot, a basting brush, an empty water jug, and a thin sheet of plastic, all being played by two people in an empty parking garage for the acoustics

For deaf/HoH folks: The songs being played here are near perfect renditions of the 20th Century Fox theme, the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, and the Mission Impossible theme

interestingmistakes

I can't get over how he just grabs her head and shakes while she plays kazoo to make the opening trill to the mission impossible theme

#oh this is an absolute delight <33 #sound on omg #happy tag

antsonacelery

Had a near death experience on my bike started thinking about Bones for encouragement so That’s the stage of brain worms im at yuppppppp

#REAL #look we gotta do what we gotta do #sometimes we just need our emotional support country doctah 🙂‍↕️💖#star trek #I love one (1) grumpy doctor #an apple a day keeps the doctor away perhaps but also a dr McCoy daydream a day keeps the doomdreams away. or something

kedreeva

I think that part of what irks me about AI being used even for "small" stuff like meme graphics (aside from all the larger problems obviously) is like.... the time spent on it was part of the humor. "this is a silly inconsequential joke but I had to stop everything and spend 5 minutes making it" was, at least for me, part of the joke. Someone really took time out of their day to make me look at something silly they took time out of their day to make. Now it's like someone took time out of my day to make me look at something no one even made. Stop wasting my time if you aren't wasting yours too.

catboybiologist

"Getting into this hobby is actually super cheap and easy!!!! First, start with a section of land and a house that you own and can mess up at your discretion"

catboybiologist

The original inspiration for this is that I've looked up a lot of basic woodworking stuff multiple times to try and make better and better tortoise enclosures, and ended up in this trap every time lmao

catboybiologist

"It's much cheaper to just buy this size of wood and take it to your table saw" WHAT FUCKING TABLE SAW

kaiasky

the secret is that people who have a garage with a table saw are constantly looking for reasons to justify that use of space and money. so if you find somebody with a table saw and ask if you can use it, you're actually doing them a huge favor by justifying the saw continuing to take up space. "of course I need a table saw. what if somebody needs to upgrade a turtle enclosue."