Someday a Turtle Will Learn How to Fly

A blog full of things that I like. A positive fandom space.

[lilyhandmaiden]

Tolkientober on AO3

Now that I've finished Tolkientober, I'll be posting all my ficlets in one place on AO3. My goal is to post one per day.

Like Falling Leaves (394 words) by lilyhandmaiden Chapters: 1/31 Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Finrod Felagund & Galadriel Characters: Galadriel (Tolkien), Finrod Felagund Additional Tags: Tolkientober, Tolkientober 2025, Additional Tags to Be Added Summary: "It was not a new Valinor, this Middle Earth. It was not a gift. But it was hers. After all she had lost, all she had sacrificed, this land was hers because she had earned it." Semi-chronological glimpses into the life of Galadriel for Tolkientober 2025.

[portalibis]

Chants royaux du Puy Notre-Dame d'Amiens, c. 1518

[darkaviarymc]

Tragedy alignment chart. Feel free to use, but please reblog if you do.

[mikkeneko]

And of course the second part of the tragedy, which is: which quadrant did you think you were in vs. which one you were really in

[mynameisrocks]

[charlesoberonn]

[forensiccountermeasures]

[mun-sal-vache]

Sir Orfeo, illustrated by Errol le Cain. 

[captorations]

i. have come into the possession. of a truly excellent object. behold:

the Death of Rats, rendered in crochet

(personal story about this below the cut, tl;dr this was a gift from a previously-estranged parent)

so yeah, my father had this made and sent to me. the same man who spent my childhood deriding my interests when he bothered to acknowledge them at all, who i didn't speak to for seven years, who i never expected to end up calling "dad" ever again even after a few years of tentative bridge-mending and self-improvement. but like. i. i really think he just earned that title back. this is actual, real care and thoughtfulness. basically his friend made one of these for someone else, he recognized it as from a book series i love, and had them make another and sent it to me. i'm... honestly so touched, what the fuck

[captorations]

doing a very good job guarding a certain bookshelf

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"lupita nyong'o can't be helen of troy because helen was greek and there weren't black people in ancient greece"

DO YOU THINK THESE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE BOATS. THIS ENTIRE MOVIE IS ABOUT ONE OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS AND HIS BOAT

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

do you think these people can read

[phoenix]

Best comment I just saw "Helen of Troy was perfectly cast, because all these men are fighting about her."

[centuriespast]

Exterior view 9th century Photo Gallarus Oratory, Dingle Peninsula

[dancerinthestorm]

12-06-26

[pintsandparapets]

A scrapped illustration for Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892).

[devinellekurtz]

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.

I love him.

[toasthaste-art]

me also. as well.

[devinellekurtz]

This is the COOLEST thing I’ve seen in AGES. You both completely made my entire week.

[balrogballs]

FINROD FELAGUND

latest instalment in the Hot Elves By Balls™️ series features Finrod in an outfit I would probably actually kill people to wear… commissioned by the wonderful @justdrowthings, whose brief for this portrait included the phrases “peak why do we talk about ANYONE when this guy exists” and “major art directive - break me”, and agreeing entirely, I was only too happy to oblige 😌😌😌

commission details etc

[timelordgifs]

Rest well, Doctor. We'll be here when you get back.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I'm fucking dying bro

[evergreen-femme]

im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.

please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

[t4t4t]

תפילה להפך – מאבן בֹחן | Prayer for Transformation, from the poem "Even Boḥan" by Rabbi Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir (1322) • the Open Si

A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ספר אבן בוחן, יג Sefer Even Boḥan (§13), describing the author's wish t

[unabashedllamamusic]

Cursed be the one who announced to my father: “It’s a boy!"... ...How could he twist the course of the stars so much? How could he have erred so in his astrology? A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him For he foolishly transformed justice to poison He altered the law and transposed the lines

Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"

Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...

What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

[rebel-leia]

best of padme pt 2/∞

[sunbladeprints]

Ammoknight