Wanderings of a Bibliophile

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[wanderingalicewrites]

Dealing With Dragons

In the kingdom of Lumière there is a Prophecy. (There is always a Prophecy.) One of the queen's children will grow to be a wise and just ruler. The other will belong to a dragon. When the twins come out a boy and a girl, everyone assumes the daughter will be abducted by dragons. After all, everyone knows that dragons only take princesses. They don't expect Gustave to decide that's complete bullshit.

This is my contribution to the 2026 Anniversary Swap over in the Gestral Village on Discord!! It was a delight to write, and I'm keeping the prompt I was given to use for more ideas down the line.

[irishironclad]

anti-nuclear idiots won't tell you this but only 1 guy has ever died from radiation in the entire US nuclear power industry from its inception to the modern day.

[all-hail-trudos]

Isn't the bigger concern what happens when things go wrong and the plant has a meltdown?

A problem that we've also successfully solved in multiple ways. Best of all being Thorium reactors which literally shut themselves down before they get out of hand.

[irishironclad]

There's only been one meltdown in the US where no one died and there was no long lasting environmental impact.

The soviets fucked up massively one time and suddenly the rest of us have to be afraid of nothing

[trainbrain27]

Modern designs can't melt down. Even older designs required several people to do several very wrong things over a period of time while ignoring warnings and disabling safety systems. Half the folks that hate nuclear are basing it on something approximately this dumb:

[thrown-away-opinions]

"okay but what if something goes REALLY WRONG though?"

I need everyone to understand that the worst nuclear disasters in human history, combined, have done less harm to the world and to humans than Coal Power does every single year.

You think Chernobyl and Fukushima were really that bad? You're looking at maybe about 4,000 and 2,000 people who died in those incidents, with the overwhelming majority of them being attributed to long-term cancer years and years after. Otherwise, Nuclear power's annual death toll during normal usage amounts to statistically ZERO.

Coal power is estimated to have caused 460,000 deaths between 1999 and 2020 alone. And that's not even counting the environmental damage, the latent radiation exposure because coal plants and coal particulate is more radioactive than the worst, least reliable nuclear power plant ever made, the infrastructure strain, the political ramifications of countries shutting down nuclear power to become more reliant on low quality local coal and imported oil, the strain it puts on the medical industry to have so many more people who will need extensive treatment, and the cost of labor and resources that has to go into trying to keep every coal plant from being even worse than they already are.

Or we could build more nuclear power plants, and suddenly find ourselves with an abundance of excess cheap, safe energy that would alleviate all of the problems our global power grid is facing right now because we keep trying to use wind and solar to offset the damage coal is already doing, and that just leads to us using more coal.

[thefryingdutchie]

the argument i keep hearing from anti-nuclear peeps is "how to store the nuclear waste" which, while a good argument and an important point to make, probably shouldnt be enough to outweigh the benefits of nuclear energy or to make the damage of coal seem like the "better alternative" by comparison solely based on this argument

[silent-calling]

The answer is "we make thorium salt reactors and never have to worry about that." LFTRs are what's known as "walk away safe," meaning they are designed in such a way that they can't melt down. They also use a fuel that's never "spent" in the same way uranium fuel rods are.

In the event they hit temperatures beyond safe parameters, the molten salt melts the failsafe barriers and pours in. Additionally, they operate at lower pressures compared to traditional counterparts, which minimizes potential for explosion - which was already incredibly low.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[rabbitdoubts]

since i learned verso's birthday (2/22) is "cat day" in japan, i had an urge to draw him with cat ears...

[drulalovescas]

everybody say thank you, fanfiction

[luncheon-aspic]

??????

[mammalianmammals]

Silky Anteater a.k.a. Pygmy Anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), family Cyclopedidae, found in southern Mexico, Central America, and the northern half of South America

* Nocturnal

[teaboot]

THEY ARE MY FAVOURITE ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[dinovelvet]

[shatterpath]

The view from Calvin's neighbor's house.

[monkeyislandtwo]

fonts will be named shit like viscera antique, 16 bit dreams, doctor's orders, bingo condensed, googly, wish you were here

[equos-bipes]

for your consideration

[kadens-a-bee]

When the pairing is so good that it doesn’t matter if you see it as romantic or platonic. What matters is that you see them and know that one is not complete without the other. Frequently bought together. Do not separate. If you separate them one of them will bite you

[writingdose]

hot take, I don’t think any fic is “badly written” as long as it’s written with love

[trufflesmushroom]

patricia lockwood has officially completed 6 years of her full 1000 year sentence

[trufflesmushroom]

patricia lockwood has officially completed 7 years of her full 1000 year sentence

[maskenjager]

(Gustave voice) Fascinating

[snakesneaksnack]

And Gustave version

“Researching in the workshop.”

[wellwhiskey]

embroidery from peacockandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[deadbranch]

Reblog if you're okay with receiving asks for backstory info on any/all of your fics.

If not all, specify which ones in the tags.

[tanoraqui]

that theory that the Arkenstone is a Silmaril…it’s doubly implausible, but imagine if nobody knew. If the dwarves were guarded enough of their greatest treasure that…you wouldn’t even need to hide it from that many people, honestly. Mostly a few elves, and all wizards.

and then Bilbo sidles up to Gandalf like, “Thorin and all are holed up in the Mountain, but I think they’re being nuts, so I…kind of stole the Arkenstone, I think.” And (it’s been thousands of years since the light of the trees was doused save for the precious brilliance locked away in Feanor’s gems, since oaths and blood and war that raged until the skies cracked and the earth shattered, and the little people of the Shire have no memory of it at all) he pulls out a fucking Silmaril.

[tanoraqui]

Gandalf: *spittake*

Gandalf: *hurriedly glances at Thranduil. the king of Mirkwood’s eyes shine with curiosity and greed, but not recognition, nor the terrible lust that overtook Feanor and his sons. right, right, he was never in Thingol’s court while the jewel that Luthien and Beren took was there. we’re good. we’re good for now*

Gandalf: That’s, uh, nice, Bilbo. Put it away, would you?

[tanoraqui]

Gandalf, telepathically(?): EMERGENCY RINGBEARERS ONLY CONFAB NOW

Gandalf: [mental image of a goddam Silmaril in hobbit hands, labelled “thisfuckingrockagain.jpg”]

Galadriel, who watched 95% of her family slaughter everyone within 100 miles for several thousand years over these things, including each other and themselves: no.

Elrond, who was very nearly one of those people slaughtered, and did watch most of his town be killed before he and his twin were kidnapped for a while: Absolutely Fucking Not.

Gandalf: Apparently fucking yes. The legendary Arkenstone-

Galadriel: You’ve got to be kidding me.

Elrond: Thorin Oakenshield has a Silmaril right now?

Gandalf: No, no.

Gandalf: Bilbo stole it.

Elrond: *wordless sputtering*

Gandalf: @Galadriel [information packet: BilboBagginsoftheShire.pdf]

Galadriel: Oh yes, Belladonna’s boy, you were telling me about him last winter. 

Galadriel: Btw, orc+warg army probably coming your way. Spotted it in the mirror last night. Thank goodness we dealt with Dol Goldur at least, huh?

Elrond: No fucking shit.

[tanoraqui]

Gandalf @Gwaihir Windlord: hey, sorry to bother you again, I know it’s nearly mating season. but we have a situation again

Gandalf: [thisfuckingrockagain.jpg]

Gandalf: [oncomingorcwargarmy.jpg]

Gandalf: [flashbacktobadasseaglesinwarofwrathhinthint.mov]

[avelera]

I mean, given that Tolkien retconned “The Hobbit” so Bilbo’s little invisibility ring became an ancient piece of jewelry that controls minds and drives the mighty mad, one can at least understand why it seems plausible that the other shiny white gem that destroys empires and makes the mighty go mad with greed could be linked from his kid’s book to his gigantic early mythology in retrospect??

[crazy-pages]

You know this actually explains a lot about why Gandalf didn’t immediately raise the alarm about Bilbo’s ring out of an abundance of caution. I mean, what are the odds, what are the fucking odds, that this one little hobbit stole both a Silmaril and the Ring of Power? Like, you are Gandalf the Grey and you have already dealt with the heart attack to end all heart attacks because this little innocent fool stole a world war inspiring artifact once. You still get flashbacks every time Bilbo offers to show you something and have to employ all of your angel’s serenity and thousands of years of learned composure not start giBbERinG “ pleaseletitnotbeanotherartifactpleaseletitnotbeanotherartifact”. And then. AND THEN! One day he’s like, “hey Gandalf let me show you this neat ring I found back on our journey”. And on the inside a tiny part of you is screaming “nottheoneringnottheoneringnottheonering” while a more rational part of your brain assures you it could not possibly be the one- “It’s this plain gold ring that’s very precious to me and turns me invisible!”

AND THEN YOU FUCK OFF AND SEARCH THROUGH EVERY POSSIBLE TOME YOU CAN TO PROVE IT CAN’T REALLY BE THE RING OF POWER, SAURON’S RING OF POWER, THAT RING, THE ONE RING, LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE TOME, BEFORE FINALLY FUCKING ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THIS SHIT IS REALLY HAPPENING AGAIN

[countesskittymeow]

@shewhodoesnotexist what says you? :P

[shewhodoesnotexist]

I’ve never been a proponent of this theory, but I gotta admit the idea of Bilbo finding two world war inspiring artifacts is alluring ;D

Next you’ll be telling me Sting is Gurthang

[abrownpanther]

Sting may or may not be Angrist, the knife that Beren used to get the Silmarill off of Morgoth’s crown

[pepperonyscience]

I. LOVE. ALL. OF. THIS.

[shock]

simplifying models for kids in science today

[ironwoman359]

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