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It was Crowley.

#good omens #james webb space telescope #this is perfect

Instead of being a productive grown-up, I’ve decided to rewatch Bleach … so have a blue haired catboy or whatever.

#bleach #grimmjow #my art #fanart #drawing has been hard lately

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[image description: tweet by Netchimen’s Reverie that reads “Tolkien describing places that are evil: no trees grow there” /end description]

This is doubtless because of his experience of the trenches in the Great War.

Like, this is what things looked like to soldiers who fought in that war (image in black and white of a solitary soldier walking across a muddy wasteland pocked with puddles):

Here’s Delville Wood, the site of a battle in 1916 (sepia image of a wasteland dotted with broken and dead trees):

Here’s an image from the Battle of the Somme, in which Tolkien participated (image of soldiers standing above and inside a trench or earthwork in a grey wasteland; smoke from artillery is on the horizon)

So yeah: no trees = evil was Tolkien’s own direct lived experience. It’s precisely why Mordor and the wastelands around it look like they do in his books.

brunhiddensmusings

the plateau of gorgoroth, the heartland of mordor, is described as being scarred by countless pits dug by orcs the true seat of evil is full of foxholes and trenches

khantoelessar

There’s a lesson to be learned here.

purlturtle

I hope Tolkien would be happy to learn that a hundred years on, trees grow again here:

From The Atlantic.

nightbringer24

I think that Tolkien would be very happy to see that.

themodernmaccabee

The trees have reclaimed the land in which hell had been brought

#tolkien

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Since I’m back on tumblr I thought I’d repost my old comic from 2018. A lot of things have changed since then and sometimes a dried out ‘never give up’ doesn’t quite hit anymore. But even when burnout sometimes feels less heavy, this brings back some hope.

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This is meaningful to me, especially because I can’t do some of the same types of art I used to love–partially due to perfectionism, partially due to my chronic pain that has impacted my hands/fingers/wrists and grip strength.

It’s okay to take a break from something if it no longer brings you joy. It’s also okay to come back to something and work back up to the ability level you once were at.

Our journeys are not always linear, and that’s okay.

#just a little reminder to myself