I turned 40 this week. Yes I am aware that the average tumblr user’s age is like half that but don’t push me. I haven’t taken my pills yet.
So in my everlasting genius and accompanying hubris I decided to throw a dinner party for my ten closest friends. This was supposed to be sort of a Hobbit birthday right, where I give things to other people.
So my crazy ass went and bought a 15lb prime rib roast.
Because this was the menu starting with the hors douvres.
1. Sliced baguette and nine different flavored butters including but not limited to: black garlic, truffle balsamic and Pinot noir.
2. Baked potato nests filled with cheese.
3. Brie bites in puff pastry with homemade cranberry sauce.
4. Bacon wrapped bay scallops
5. Fried olives stuffed with goat cheese.
Ok so then we move on to dinner:
1.Prime rib roast
2. Chicken and leek pie
3. Mushroom risotto
4. Sautéed Brussels sprouts with shallots
5. Peas and gravy
And of course we can’t forget to make dessert:
1. A three layer chocolate chip cake with chocolate buttercream between the layers, hazelnut buttercream to cover, chocolate ganache on top with drippys down the side and chopped hazelnuts for garnish (and deliciousness).
Oh and punch:
Cranberry juice, ginger ale and black currant juice with cranberries and frozen blackberries mixed in.
Sounds easy enough to do in 36 hours right?
I have a bad back and a surgically repaired ankle I feel like the mummy when the sarcophagus is opened.
If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…
Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.
Including (sigh) the em dash.
There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.
A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.
No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.
You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.
Defend the em dash.
(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)
It has come to my attention that they’re creating an LOTR game to ‘directly compete with Hogwarts Legacy’ and nothing has ever scared me more in my entire life.
Ethics of playing HL put aside it’s my understanding that most people didn’t even like the game and that it was kind of weirdly limited?
Personally what I actually want is The Elder Scrolls: Middle Earth Edition.
I want to choose my race, design my character and be able to go ANYWHERE right off the bat. I want my choices to change the story. I want the option to be a total dick if I feel like it.
I have female Dunedain hopes and dreams and I am legit worried that this is not going to be that.
The world of Middle Earth is vast and rich and begging to be made into a large scale RPG where ANYTHING is possible. I don’t want a watered down ‘look it’s just like the movies’ version.
I want to be let loose pre-War of the Ring and be allowed to be an agent of chaos.
I want to have race specific powers and magic.
Playing as an elf? Here’s extra zoom capability when you’re firing a bow.
Playing as an orc? Here’s some crazy berserker defense stats.
Playing as a Ranger? Here’s your healing powers.
Playing as a hobbit? You’re nearly invisible.
I want to interact with canon characters and creatures however I damn well feel like it.
Because I will happily give you 60-80 bucks (you thief) if I get to throat punch Tom Bombadil for a solid fifteen minutes and then go give Eowyn the lesbian ranger happy ending she deserves.
Nothing against Faramir we stan every Captain of Gondor in this house but again: agent of chaos.
I know I’m not the only one who wants this so please for the love of god just forget HL exists and make a good game.
It’s been one week since I lost my littlest guy and it still hurts like hell but here he is looking very dapper and much more like himself than after he got sick.
The other furry hooligans are doing an admirable job comforting @scarletjedi and myself but I still miss him and always will.
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