Flights of Fancy

Stark Loyalist

[trinuviel]

I don't choose the ship, the ship chooses me - and I stand helpless before its power.

[regaliasonata]

One thing I need from S4 is for AMC execs to back off and let's the crew go crazy with the shows production from now on, more creative liberty. Like give them a huge budget and allow them to make at least 12 episodes for QotD.

[importantcatpics]

[fashion-runways]

GEORGES HOBEIKA Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[rogue-ai-cat]

And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.

Source

[galadriel1010]

Number 10 does not have a front door handle. It can only be opened from the inside. This means that if there is a police officer on duty outside the door, their main role is knocking so that someone can come and let Larry in. If there is no officer on duty right outside the door, a member of the press corps will go over and knock for him.

[annabelle--cane]

saw someone be wrong about a tv show in a social media post and I'm being so brave about it

[wizardarchetypes]

[rosieandthemoon]

Lupins & Foxgloves {via Milli Proust}

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Les Fleurs Animées (The Flowers Personified) — J.J. Grandville (1847)

[themakeupbrush]

Guo Pei Spring 2026

[themakeupbrush]

Guo Pei Spring 2026

[buffyfan145]

I haven't seen this shared over here yet but it's been discussed over on Twitter and Instagram, but there are other clips of "ROP" s3 that was shown during the SDCC panel that included bts things like Sauron's throne, but also had a clip of Galadriel telling others (I'm guessing Arondir and maybe Elrond) that she can actually feel Sauron and that he was getting closer to them. Multiple fans at the panel confirmed it and some journalists that live-tweeted included it too but Amazon still hasn't released any of these clips. So does seem to confirm like we thought the crown has fully connected her and Sauron mentally and emotionally. 😀

[bebewrites]

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almos

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

[twizzlersandvanillacoke]

From the article:

"One small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds, and he’s almost certain that the customers are AI labs, noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs. He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books, meaning that an AI company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found.

“I personally have mixed feelings about all of this,” the bookseller told 404. “It benefits me financially as well as by clearing out old inventory that is otherwise unlikely to sell. I’ve been well-suited for these sales with inventory from overseas and foreign language books.

From a Google search:

PISBN allows publishers, retailers, and libraries to track and manage books more efficiently. Each ISBN corresponds to one specific edition of a publication, making it essential for smooth global circulation.

[the-zenith-calls]

My favorite scenes in the LotR books are the ones where Legolas has vital information and just decides it's not important to share.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

Legolas please gain a sense of urgency

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

It's because legolas hasn't spent enough time with non-elves to remember that they don't know what he knows.

gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"

"I wonder what aragorn is listening for? must be hard to hear, what with all of the horses. How many horses are there, actually? 1... 2... 3..."

[taavicleric]

"What do your elvish eyes see?" is Aragorn saying, as politely as possible, "Because the REST OF US are at a significant disadvantage, Prince Dipshit."

[hailturinturambar]

I love how Sauron is the most cruel being alive during this period of Middle-earth and is trying to enslave all the peoples, AND YET he still finds time to get a new hairstyle.

[wulfhalls]

EYYYYYYY EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY‼️‼️‼️‼️

[bunnynoldo]

[helenvader]

He's just a guy who loves animals.

[sauron-the-sexy]

Exhibit A:

Warg calmed and fed. ✔️

Exhibit B:

Horse unharmed, trots away happily. ✔️

[visenyaism]

imagine being tired as fuuuuuuuuck from walking for weeks in the cold and wet riverlands woods covered in leeches no horse no nothing and now you have weeks of walking ahead of you yet because your brother in arms gave up gay vacation with you to lead his suicide cult down the righteous path to nowhere so it’s time to hit the road destination: your insane evangelical uncle ser denys raenolds of the Hightower and your sensitive nephson who is getting talked into becoming the doomed figurehead of a failed evangelical reconquista and you’re going to die at that too because war is hell and also you have omega rejection sickness

[visenyaism]

Boyfriend martyred you claw your way across a continent at war with omega rejection sickness in lickety split no less only for your fruity gay poppers evangelical cousin to call you a faggot at the dinner table and your sensitive nephson to be like whyyyy did you abandon me and then someone tries to kill you a plot you only thwarted due to your gay taste in men and discerning omega nose and yet. You can’t help but feel like you were supposed to die like three chapters ago