By God, I'll not lose Hardy!

I love writing and moaning about writing, history, reading, pretty things, cute things, and silly things. This tumblr is a mixed bag of them all! Perpetually stuck in rarepair hell. My fic on AO3. Dreamwidth.

[jace-targaryen]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002) dir. peter jackson

[through-a-historic-lens]

The Gardener At Stonehenge Mowing The Lawn, 1955

[samwwise]

[ymutate]

Jim Musil (American, b.1976)

"Tidal Wetlands," 2025

Acrylic, 16 x 16 in

[heckofabecca]

wip sigrid&tauriel

[nimphelos]

of his [aldarion’s] first journey little is known, save that he made the friendship of círdan and gil-galad

[benjaminbadger]

I think there's some medias that you just cannot meaningfully engage with if your main priority is shipping

[benjaminbadger]

(Tired aroace voice, metaphorical cigarette in hand) You don't have to make them kiss... they don't always have to kiss...

[bear-ylee-stable]

So many other kinds of human connection get put to the wayside with our current culture’s obsession with romantic love.

Don’t get me wrong it’s ok to ship romance but it doesn’t have to be the only type of relationship we celebrate in media, fandom space included.

[benjaminbadger]

[pulsingvoid]

i can't do this anymore guys. dostoevsky never wrote this. please. can anyone hear me. if you do proper research the earliest version of this quote is from like a 2010 facebook quote with a magenta flower on it. it's gotten so bad that it's even credited to him on goodreads but nobody can source where he wrote it because he fucking didn't. i can't keep seeing this in your web weaves. dostoevsky the author of crime and punishment did not in fact write "you were destined for me. perhaps as a punishment". that is just simply not true. please nod and tell me you understand

[foggyeyes]

"this quote was attributed to me. perhaps as a punishment." -dostoevsky

[bebx]

[reallyseally]

yumyumyum big bites

[nudityandnerdery]

Hey, we’re in line for some absurd temperatures here in the southwest this week. This is very important to know and keep in mind. Be safe, stay hydrated, stay out of the sun as much as you can.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

re ehrc guidance. which is not legally binding.

[shifgrethors]

just remembered that time when i asked tumblr for recommendations of books on jewish folklore and someone unironically was like “you should read the gemara!”

a. i spent 16 years in orthodox day school, i guarantee i’ve learned a fuck ton of gemara.

b. you need to SPECIFY. the gemara is over 5,000 pages long and has 37 masechtot. over 2 million words!!!!! do you want me to read about sheydim or dybbuks or do you want me to read about legal disputes of tree ownership? because there’s a ton of the latter.

[yehuditexcalibur]

If you still want recs:

“Ascending Jacob's Ladder: Jewish Views of Angels, Demons, and Evil Spirits” by Rabbi Ronald Isaacs

“A Treasury of Jewish Folklore” by Nathan Ausubel

“Divination, Magic, and Healing: The Book of Jewish Folklore” by Rabbi Ronald Isaacs

“Elijah’s Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales” by Howard Schwartz

“Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales” by Howard Schwartz

“Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid” by Moshe Idel

“Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion” by Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg

“Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism: The Supernatural in Jewish Thought” by Gedalyah Nigal

“Mimekor Yisrael: Selected Jewish Classical Folktales” by Micha Berdyczewski

“Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World” by Howard Schwartz

“Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories” by Howard Schwartz

“Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick” by Isaac Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

“The Bride Who Argued With G-d: Tales From the Trea­sury of Jew­ish Folklore” by Hava Ben-Zvi

“The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World” by Howard Schwartz

“The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic & Mysticism” by Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis

“Yiddish Folktales” by Beatrice Weinreich

[evies-grace]

EVERYONE SAY AHHHH

[nocompromise-noregrets]

@verecunda :D

[tosquinha]

baby thranduil’s time in doriath tho give me that pls?

[freesiavacadoo]

they’re so loudddd

[peasant-player]

"..And as she knelt before him her tears fell upon his feet like rain upon stone; and Mandos was moved to pity, who never before was moved, nor has been since."

-Of beren and Luthien