creature elf connoisseur

20s ⊹ he/him elves is cats.

[plutolichen]

art tag

This is the SFW blog. I'm also @pseudohades here and on ao3/bsky if you're an adult and Thranduil getting his back blown out is your sort of thing. Fair warning, I block minors who interact on that blog.

[maleinmari]

Bard "body pillow" and his husband "sprawled all over the bed" Thranduil

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[tolkienrsb]

The Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2026 sign ups are open!

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Whether you’re returning or joining for the first time, we’d love to have you along for the journey.

Follow this finely crafted link to our sign-up forms!

[tolkienrsb]

Do you know you can still sign up as an artist for TRSB?

[plutolichen]

Amarië and Finrod doodles for @bishkebab

[ministarfruit]

the bird gossipmongering in this town is insane

[ministarfruit]

I love absolutely everything you do!!!! Especially Bard and Thranduil I love them so much I just need them to cuddle *screams incoherently* *clears throat* Ahem. Anyway. Thank you for all the amazing work you do!!

thank you so much! I am so fond of them at the moment... tucking them in bed just for you

[transformativeworks]

Updates to "No Fandom" Additional Tags, April 2026

AO3 tag wranglers have canonized some new "No Fandom" additional tags and revised subtag and metatag relationships of existing "No Fandom" canonical tags. Check out the latest news post for details: https://otw-news.org/avmusbtb

[iischaos]

Ok but hear me out. Thorin snaps out of goldsickness a little earlier, just in time for the elven army to show up, so the dwarves and Thranduil and Bard all meet to negotiate together.

Thranduil, upon walking into the tent and seeing Bard for the first time: decides the best thing to do in this situation is to give a rather detailed and explicit description of all the things he wants Bard to do with him, in Sindarin.

Thorin, who does not speak Sindarin but sees Bard's eyebrows fly up and really doesn't want him any more angry than he is over Thorin setting a dragon on his people and then nearly going back on his word to help them: If he wanted to insult you, he'd do it in Westron. Trust me on this, I would know. It was probably something nice.

Bilbo, who does in fact speak Sindarin, grinning next to Thorin: Oh, it was VERY complimentary.

Thorin, desperate to not cause a diplomatic incident: You know what he said?

Bilbo: Oh I'd be quite happy to translate.

Thranduil, who was entirely unaware that anyone else here spoke Sindarin and is trying to cover his embarrassment: Absolutely not.

Bilbo, having the time of his life: Oh don't be so upset about it, we hobbits aren't nearly as prudish as the rest of you.

Thranduil, getting defensive: That was not meant for your ears.

Bilbo: Well if they were meant for his I would suggest saying them in a language he can understand.

Bard, who spent years working with elves, somewhat amused and in pretty decent Sindarin: Oh I understood.

[animentality]

[the-grey-hunt]

here is a link to the screenshotted IWF article, which does not directly mention pro/anti online discourse, but does talk about false reports in the general

here is a link to the unsourced letter/site in the fourth screenshot beginning with "In May 2019"

the screenshotted tweet-in-a-tweet, also from the IWF, appears to be real, but I currently can't actually look at it on twitter; it may have been deleted. Searching the exact phrasing in quotes turns up a reply to that tweet, and the search result contains the text of the original, but it isn't visible when you click the link.

I found the site in the third screenshot, the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children, but couldn't find the screenshotted page.

[the-grey-hunt]

thanks to some detective work by my friend, it looks like the NCMEC image is a screenshot of the website's homepage from on or before May 26, 2021, per the wayback machine/archive.org

this is also a good time to point out that the tweets above were screenshotted so that the date of posting is not visible! The changing homepage of the NCMEC site means that even though this post is from March 3, 2026, the tweet with the screenshots and possibly multiple of the images in this tumblr post are multiple years old.

[genderqueer-rick-grayson]

OK but it’s still worth reporting proship content because the people making it are likely to be abusing real kids and should be investigated

[darklinaforever]

Oh my god... You are really stupid.

@starrfettii

[starrfettii]

Whole post about the harm of reporting fictional content, and this idiot responds by saying you still should. I need antis to learn how to differentiate between fiction and reality. No it’s not worth it, moron. You can’t be real.

[genderqueer-rick-grayson]

what are people supposed to do then?

“if you see something, say something”

if someone is writing/drawing CP and getting off to that it’s only a matter of time before they hurt a real kid, if they haven’t already

[starrfettii]

You’re a fucking idiot.

[plutolichen]

everyone shut up and look at my cat

[bi-widower-dads]

BARDUIL MONTH 2026 - anomalies

30 unusual prompts for 30 days of Barduil! endless credit to @dogblessyoutascha for all the suggestions! Do as few or as many as you'd like, and make whatever you'd like -- playlists, moodboards, art, fics, interpretive dances -- just remember to tag the blog so we can see it and share it here!

ancient times

foxglove

false spring

memory gaps

rainfall

the road to you

time loop

a sound in the dark

equinox

last frost

oleander

a haunted heart

renewal

phantom limbs

crystal ball

transformation

in another life

unfamiliar stars

daylight

multiverse

peripheral vision

wisteria

death is but a door

moon shadows

uncommon language

lily of the valley

hollow earth

missing identity

bedtime story

birdsong

[bellflowermini]

the alchemist

[teddywesworl]

i do write for attention, actually, because that's a normal reason to create art

[teddywesworl]

did you hear about that actor performing a play in front of a crowd? clearly only doing it for attention

[teddywesworl]

im trying to say something and im not gonna say it in an empty room

[lena221bee]

tags by @yuanzhous

[ministarfruit]

I looove when legolas is depicted with catlike tendencies

[ministarfruit]

big fan of whatever these two had going on in battle of the five armies

[benjeklaar]

anyways i hope this whole fiasco made y’all understand the importance of a reblog. please don’t just forget about how much gifmakers/artists/writers/etc appreciate your reblog again when this has all cooled down.