only recently learned how to pronounce scylla

she/her, age starts with a 3 now. Mostly posting about Tolkien and regency novels Scyllas_revenge on AO3

[scyllas-revenge]

Tolkien Fanfic Masterlist

Welcome to my new and improved list of Tolkien fics! The one-shots are posted to Tumblr as well as AO3. 

Boromir

Burn Like Cold Iron (ongoing, 175k+ words) Boromir/OC, rated T

BLCI bonus content- snippets, fanart, memes, and general ramblings - with new writing snippets!

Customer Service (complete, 6k words) Boromir/Reader, rated M

Sword Master (complete, 1.7k words), Boromir/Reader, rated E,

A Shield Against the Snow (complete, 1.5k words), Boromir/Reader, rated T

A Thief in the Night (complete, 1.3k words), Boromir/Reader, rated G

Gen Boromir fics

The Floor is Molasses (complete, 2.6k words), with fanart!

A Strange Likeness, Part 1 (ongoing, 1k words)

Son of Gondor, can you hear the ocean? (complete, 6.2k words), a weird AU where Boromir dies, written for TRSB 2025- New!

Eomer

A Helping Hand (complete, 800 words), Eomer/Reader, rated T

Death by Chocolate (complete, 1.3k words), Modern Eomer/OC, rated G, now with fanart!

Where I Am Needed Most (complete, 3.2k words) Eomer/OC, rated T

Wildest Dreams (complete, 1.2k words) Eomer/Reader, rated T

Faramir 

Chicken Soup for the Soul (complete, 1.7k words) Faramir/Eowyn, rated G

An Idiot’s Guide to Gift-Giving (complete, 4.9k words) Faramir/Eowyn, rated T

Legolas

Leap of Faith, Part 1 and Part 2 (complete, 1.5k words) Legolas/Reader, rated G

Other Tolkien fics

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (complete, 7.2k words), gen Fellowship shenanigans, written for TRSB 2022

Labor of Love (complete, 2.7k words), Bilbo & Aragorn, written for THAUC 2022

Something Burrowed, Something Blue (complete, 11k words), hobbit OC/ fairy OC, pre-canon, written for TRSB 2023

Changing of the Seasons (complete, 10k words), very slight Boromir/OC, written for TRSB 2024

Forests Strange and Fell (complete, 2.2k words), gen Eowyn, Eomer & Theodred, written for TRSB 2025 - New!

[planet4546b]

im currently completely losing it about the great stalacpipe organ. are you fucking kidding me they made an organ out of a CAVE???? IT TAKES UP THREE ACRES??? i legit am about to lose it

[planet4546b]

this is a comment left on a recording of moonlight sonata played on an organ that is literally made out of a cave and its making me so emotional its not even funny

[image id: a youtube comment that reads ‘wonderful…and the moon has never shone there…’ end id.]

[marlynnofmany]

All that and no pictures??

According to Wikipedia, it works by hidden rubber mallets on the naturally-musical stalactites that tourguides have been knocking on for over a century. The guy who made the organ may have gotten the idea when his son whacked his head on a stalactite.

Here’s a video. It is hauntingly beautiful.

[spirit-pyrite]

In case anyone is looking, here’s the link to the video op mentions.

https://youtu.be/HsKUUn29tSs

[scyllas-revenge]

I’ve driven past Luray Caverns a million times and had no idea there was an underground organ there! I’ve never been (the $36 price tag is a bit crazy for a small cavern) but I looked it up bc I’d spend all my money to see an underground organ performance. Alas:

Performances from the console are only approved for publicity purposes involving television programs, news segments, documentaries, or celebrity appearances.

God damn it someone get a celebrity up in here NOW

[cestpasfaux24601]

“What have I done?”

[secondbeatsongs]

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

[sockdreams]

We often eat pie at work...for morale.

[eerian-sadow]

"As a treat" implies a special occasion, a temporary state. "For morale" makes the joy essential, because you have to have good morale to keep going.

[cockworkangels]

wow this is too intimate to share with my close friends or family let me put this on my tumblr blog for hundreds of strangers to see

[charlesoberonn]

The wise man, when caught naked in public, covers not his junk but his face.

[black-and-yellow]

Trying to draw Boromir

[funstyle]

teenage girls in fiction: hes so cute i wanna slow dance with him at prom :3 hehe

real teenage girls: imagine if he got injured and i had to tend to his wounds and i could watch him seize up a bit as i disinfect them and in the haze of fever he sees me as an angel

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

[deramin2]

Every time I hear a white vegan say that I want to throw the rubble of the Klamath Dams at them.

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.

The Klamath River Runs Free

The Klamath River Runs Free

[supreme-leader-stoat]

#also do you have any idea how much conservation is funded by people who want to eat those animals#at least in the us anytime someone buys ammo or hunting equipment or hunting licenses that money goes directly to state wildlife agencies

[werewolf-transgenderism]

breaking news! new beautiful photo of the best species of frog in the world just dropped

cochranella euknemos, 📸 nuqui_herping on instagram

[werewolf-transgenderism]

for everyone in the notes lamenting that this guy is poisonous: they are not! they're just pretty :) since they're a glass frog, their major defense mechanism is being translucent and hiding their blood while they sleep so they look extra translucent and blend in with leaves <3

[werewolf-transgenderism]

they put ~90% of their red blood cells in their livers while they sleep :) so they look extra translucent and leafish

[madeleineengland]

They are even better 🌒

[werewolf-transgenderism]

oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils 🥺🥺🥺 brb I will draw an artist’s rendition

[werewolf-transgenderism]

^ like this. waaaaaugh 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[damsel-understresss]

im so sorry i never participated in the reblog game you tagged me in i love you very much im just so tired

[cottagecoredracula]

Drew the tiniest little Boromir with my oil pastels

[authorkims]

[heinous-bitch]

you forgot the best one

[goodluckdetective]

So Hank Green got caught using AI and it’s a whole huge blow up, and I really don’t have much interest in adding to the pile on.

However, I do think this case is great example of what happens when smart people decide they can use these systems “responsibly.”

Let’s put aside the plagiarism and the energy use for a second (not that these don’t matter, but they’re not relevant to my point at the moment) and pretend these systems were made with entirely properly obtained info and ran on only solar, but otherwise were entirely the same. If you’re a person, you might think “okay, I’m going to only use this to come up with ideas for my next paper: I’m going to do all the research myself and the writing, I’m just gonna brainstorm topics.”

The thing is, even if you’re trying to limit use to just “brainstorming” the chatbot isn’t going to limit itself to just brainstorming. You might ask it “what should I write about involving Greek history” and it may suggest “the plague of Athens” but it’s also going to suggest some “basic info” on the plague of Athens that you might end up picking up and deciding your topic is. It’s going to provide you with “research.” And even if you decide to check that research yourself, that’s still setting you down a specific path you might not have picked organically.

And speaking of double checking its “research”, fact checking is a time heavy process. Not only now do you have to read the original text the bot provided, but you also have to compare it line by line with the summary the bot provided. That’s more time than it would have taken to just read the article by itself. And with any time heavy task, people are going to get lazy. And in original research being lazy might mean skimming a paper or an abstract, chatbots allow you to be lazy without looking at the article at all.

And soon enough, despite telling yourself you were only going to use it for brainstorming, you have offloaded topic generation, research and eventually even drafting because that’s what these bots are intended to do. They are not meant to serve as research tools or help brainstorm or serve as a bouncing off board: they are built to encourage maximum engagement. And that means if you go at them with the best of ethical intentions, they are built to tempt you to use them as much as possible, regardless of whatever line you drew in the sand for yourself.

Anyway, my main thought here is you are not smart enough to outwit the dopamine machine. It wants your attention and nothing more. Do not assume you can resist just because you know what’s under the hood.

[thefunkypenguinus]

The truth is, doing good research is time-consuming and inconvenient, even if it’s on a topic you profess to love. People will do anything to make getting work done easier.

I do physical therapy for a stretched muscle, and there are a few exercises that annoy me, but I know if I skip them once in a routine, I will take that as permission for myself to skip them indefinitely. I think that’s what using LLMs does for general tasks.

[evilwizard]

my liege you cannot trust this buffoon. he doesn’t even begin every other sentence with “my liege.” he‘ll never whisper in your ear the way i do it, my liege. sire. your fuckableness

[sprinkledsalt]

I mean......this is one of the most well-known ways AI fucks up! It makes shit up! It hallucinates! That's a big reason why it shouldn't be seen as acceptable to just read AI summaries instead of actually reading the sources themselves, because you can't trust whatever the AI shits back out at you. And the bluesky poster is what gets me, like, people go "oh well that's why you have to check AI in your research!" There's still option B: do this kind of research the way everyone did it up until 20-fucking-23 and don't use Claude or ShitGPT.

More takes from the replies:

(this last one gets down to so much AI discourse lmao)

[scyllas-revenge]

Why write a nonfiction book then? If you don’t like doing research?? I used to write research papers all the time for work and school, and genuinely, finding a good resource and reading it was fun! It was interesting! It was, dare I say, the entire fucking point! He “only” used it to do the research, read the research, and summarize the research- my good sir that’s the book! That’s the whole thing!