The Blood of the Covenant is Thicker Than the Water of the Womb

Mostly LotRO these days. Call me Snowy. I post a lot about my OCs. Morgoth is the name of my cat. In this house we believe Elves have free will.

[rohirric-hunter]

STOP! 🛑

Are you on my blog because you are considering reblogging a post of mine that has nothing to do with you with some sort of inflammatory commentary, in pursuit of a fight with someone you've never spoken to before, or raving about misinformation on a personal anecdote?

STOP! 🛑

DON'T DO THAT!

Close Tumblr. Open Google Maps. Type "bakeries near me" into the search bar. Choose one of the results. Go there. Purchase a delightful, freshly baked sweet or savory treat. Go outside. Locate the nearest tree. Sit, stand, or lay under the tree while you consume your delightful, freshly baked sweet or savory treat. If you still remember who I am when you are done, repeat this process as many times as necessary until you forget about me and whatever stupid shit you were mad about.

HAVE A NICE DAY. OR THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES

[kzlatkova]

Anyone who's ever done anything creative needs to fucking see this.

[hiveswap]

Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

[hiveswap]

Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

[kowai-kabuki-tanuki]

please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.

This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.

[hiveswap]

It took them two tries to ban it?

[kvotheunkvothe]

[inthefallofasparrow]

Can we ban it from Earth, too?

[stevebucky-deactivated20221119]

[catgirl-greatsword]

its wednesday

[thecrimerat]

Irrelevant

[just-petty-thoughts]

End of my rope tuesday wednesday

[beardedmrbean]

I just want to love you

[a-wild-haggis]

[21chrysanthemums]

great tag addition by sepulchritude

[rohirric-hunter]

If anyone else enjoys watching AI bots break....

[zdf-deactivated20251121]

[tolkien-feels]

I feel like Bilbo would teach the elves of Rivendell the concept of a mathom with the express purpose of oh so politely asking them over dinner how were the Silmarils not a mathom

[tolkien-feels]

Random Feanorian elf inherited by Elrond: That's not... No.

Bilbo: Oh so they were useful?

Elf: Well. No, not exactly

Bilbo: But the owners didn't want to throw them away.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: And they were in possession of several people over the course of years.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: That's a mathom.

Elf: No! We loved them because were very pretty!!! And one of a kind!!! Crafted by hands more skilled than any of ours!!!

Bilbo: Yes, like my great aunt's set of painted dishcloths

Elf, in tears: The Silmarils were not like your great aunt's set of painted dishcloths

Bilbo: How's The Great Mathom War as a title for a poem about the First Age?

[tolkien-feels]

By the way, it's important to me that Elrond supports Bilbo's claim and finds it quite insightful actually

[beardedmrbean]

[tumbwr]

[tumbwr]

music is literally so songs as fuck and dont you forget it

[thesnadger]

One of the paradoxes of the modern internet is that I genuinely understand sites need to get revenue somewhere, and while I don't love ads I'm actually okay seeing relatively unintrusive ads on a free site, hearing words from sponsors, etc.

But the modern internet is so full of modal popups and video ads on autoplay and trackers that using it without an adblocker is basically impossible, so everything gets blocked.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Right? Developers had three very, very simple rules that they needed to follow as part of the unspoken agreement between us and them that let them generate revenue from us looking at content:

Don't let ads hinder or outweigh the actual purpose people have for coming to your page/site (be that through extreme obtrusiveness or through slowing their browser to a crawl)

Vet your ads and don't bombard people with nsfw content

Vet your ads and don't give people fucking malware

And that was fine! It worked! But sometime in the past ~decade 90%* of sites decided that was too hard, and that they'd really just like to make money off of the plebs without any sort of accountability packaged in, and so the average web user had to start protecting themselves with countermeasures that up until then had been relegated to small and relatively unobtrusive circles of privacy enthusiasts. The users didn't start this war.

[beatcroc]

to you that's just a funny kitty but to me that's my MUTUAL'S funny kitty. [smugly] i know its name.

[purr-in-ink]

🐾🤍

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[pussyluvr2000]

Every job application in 2026 is like can you please tell us a bedtime story

[rohirric-hunter]

Also someone got on that post and said that the fact that you have to turn off search engine indexing separately for each blog was intentional so you would forget to do it, and listen. Listen. I love a good conspiracy theory. I love assuming that everything bad that happens is because of some nefarious cabal of shady individuals who are out to Get Us. But in this case I'm pretty sure that it's just because that's a setting you would want to control on a per-blog basis.

I never said anything about it here because it was under my real name, but for a few years I used a Tumblr sideblog to host my art portfolio. It was my last Tumblr account, not this one, but it was just a random sideblog attached to my account that had my real name and art portfolio on it, because hosting was free and back then Tumblr let you have a lot more freedom with the HTML of your blog theme. Now I'm not doing that anymore but if I was, I would absolutely want that to be available to search engine indexes, because the whole point was to get searched up! That's why you put your portfolio online! I would be so pissed off if turning that feature off for my personal blog also locked my portfolio out of web searches

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy