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@alayanabeth.bsky.social
Wordsmith and poet, Indie author, Tolkien nerd, kiwi in the Inner Hebrides, she/they. River Daughter (meander phase)
Relationship status: single [malt] 🥃
#RingsofPower #Tolkien #LOTR
#Poetry #Poem #IsleofMull
https://mybook.to/OnWildAir
Relationship status: single [malt] 🥃
#RingsofPower #Tolkien #LOTR
#Poetry #Poem #IsleofMull
https://mybook.to/OnWildAir
Pinned
I'm going to hang my shingle out properly by 'fessing that I've been reading Tolkien, and about Tolkien, for over half a century, and I'm currently obsessed with Rings of Power
Mother of Uruks
River Daughter
Stone-singer in Training
She/they
I play DnD/BG3 & recommend Vampire Therapist
Mother of Uruks
River Daughter
Stone-singer in Training
She/they
I play DnD/BG3 & recommend Vampire Therapist
It's going to be a cold one, but... ☀️💛
An expotition might be called for 🪣🏖
An expotition might be called for 🪣🏖
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It's going to be a cold one, but... ☀️💛
An expotition might be called for 🪣🏖
An expotition might be called for 🪣🏖
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10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
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Christmas is coming
The goose is getting fat
How about a silly card
The features the word twat?
And if that doesn’t
float your boat
There’s jaws and Luke and shit
I know it’s early to flog cards
But I’m just that kind of tit...
*PROSTITUTING MY ART KLAXON*
Dippyfishcards.etsy.com #bsnm #mhhsbd
The goose is getting fat
How about a silly card
The features the word twat?
And if that doesn’t
float your boat
There’s jaws and Luke and shit
I know it’s early to flog cards
But I’m just that kind of tit...
*PROSTITUTING MY ART KLAXON*
Dippyfishcards.etsy.com #bsnm #mhhsbd
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Christmas is coming
The goose is getting fat
How about a silly card
The features the word twat?
And if that doesn’t
float your boat
There’s jaws and Luke and shit
I know it’s early to flog cards
But I’m just that kind of tit...
*PROSTITUTING MY ART KLAXON*
Dippyfishcards.etsy.com #bsnm #mhhsbd
The goose is getting fat
How about a silly card
The features the word twat?
And if that doesn’t
float your boat
There’s jaws and Luke and shit
I know it’s early to flog cards
But I’m just that kind of tit...
*PROSTITUTING MY ART KLAXON*
Dippyfishcards.etsy.com #bsnm #mhhsbd
I want to post this to remind myself when I feel low and gloomy, that Sat8/Sun9 Nov 2025 were dry, clear & remarkably warm. Usually by this point in November I'm deep in the early stages of winter depression, with not even the hope of sun. This weekend I took two fine walks and the sun shone on me.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I want to post this to remind myself when I feel low and gloomy, that Sat8/Sun9 Nov 2025 were dry, clear & remarkably warm. Usually by this point in November I'm deep in the early stages of winter depression, with not even the hope of sun. This weekend I took two fine walks and the sun shone on me.
Found #TheWinter10 for #Wildflowerhour on Isle of Mull
Red clover, dandelion, gorse (hooray, kissing's back in season), rhododendron, common groundsel, mouse-eared hawkweed, daisy, Vinca major, smooth hawkweed, common knapweed
Red clover, dandelion, gorse (hooray, kissing's back in season), rhododendron, common groundsel, mouse-eared hawkweed, daisy, Vinca major, smooth hawkweed, common knapweed
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Found #TheWinter10 for #Wildflowerhour on Isle of Mull
Red clover, dandelion, gorse (hooray, kissing's back in season), rhododendron, common groundsel, mouse-eared hawkweed, daisy, Vinca major, smooth hawkweed, common knapweed
Red clover, dandelion, gorse (hooray, kissing's back in season), rhododendron, common groundsel, mouse-eared hawkweed, daisy, Vinca major, smooth hawkweed, common knapweed
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Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Me at the party on Saturday when Abba's Dancing Queen came on
Forever 11 💗
Forever 11 💗
TOAD WILL NOW DANCE, AND HE WILL BE WONDERFUL.
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Me at the party on Saturday when Abba's Dancing Queen came on
Forever 11 💗
Forever 11 💗
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PLEASE REGARD MY MAGNIFICENT HELMET :)
Prints available - just ask for deets. I’ve not listed em yet!
Prints available - just ask for deets. I’ve not listed em yet!
Great DnD session tonight. I love that we can all be a bit deranged, a bit creative, a bit unhinged , and (in the hands of a competent DM - not me btw) it becomes a more-or-less coherent narrative
I'm loving my barbarian, Vka. Art by @gingertotty.bsky.social
I'm loving my barbarian, Vka. Art by @gingertotty.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
PLEASE REGARD MY MAGNIFICENT HELMET :)
Prints available - just ask for deets. I’ve not listed em yet!
Prints available - just ask for deets. I’ve not listed em yet!
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
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If you haven’t seen Attack the Block, what are you waiting for?
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If you haven’t seen Attack the Block, what are you waiting for?
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Loved the Oscar Wilde quote read out at the start of Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ceremony this evening:
“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”
Yay books!
(book in pic was in my goody bag, not the winner)
“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”
Yay books!
(book in pic was in my goody bag, not the winner)
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Loved the Oscar Wilde quote read out at the start of Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ceremony this evening:
“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”
Yay books!
(book in pic was in my goody bag, not the winner)
“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”
Yay books!
(book in pic was in my goody bag, not the winner)
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life events have gotten me thinking about what matters to me. in the top tier is books. i love books. i am made out of books. all my life i have discovered myself and re-discovered myself through books, and i am a librarian because i want these transformative opportunities for everyone.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
life events have gotten me thinking about what matters to me. in the top tier is books. i love books. i am made out of books. all my life i have discovered myself and re-discovered myself through books, and i am a librarian because i want these transformative opportunities for everyone.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 11:
It's fine to write about darkness. We need the darkness to know the light. Exploring darkness in fiction helps people to know and understand their monsters, and sometimes to overcome them - all in the safe space of the page...
It's fine to write about darkness. We need the darkness to know the light. Exploring darkness in fiction helps people to know and understand their monsters, and sometimes to overcome them - all in the safe space of the page...
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 11:
It's fine to write about darkness. We need the darkness to know the light. Exploring darkness in fiction helps people to know and understand their monsters, and sometimes to overcome them - all in the safe space of the page...
It's fine to write about darkness. We need the darkness to know the light. Exploring darkness in fiction helps people to know and understand their monsters, and sometimes to overcome them - all in the safe space of the page...
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"I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements."
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements."
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Good doggo 🥺
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Good doggo 🥺
Gracious! What could have caused this explosion? Could it be... this tiny mushroom? 🤣#funguspower
November 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Gracious! What could have caused this explosion? Could it be... this tiny mushroom? 🤣#funguspower
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Annoyed at gross tech companies named after Tolkien things? Just look at this list of species with Tolkien names instead, guarantee your day will be 110% better! tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Species...
Species named after Tolkien's works
Many species and even entire genera have been named after elements of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. Some items on the list are junior synonyms, i.e. they were coined...
tolkiengateway.net
April 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Annoyed at gross tech companies named after Tolkien things? Just look at this list of species with Tolkien names instead, guarantee your day will be 110% better! tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Species...
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#TROPRewatch returns Tomorrow 31 Oct!! 9pm your local time!
And don’t forget to take part in #TROPReforged! Looking forward to seeing what everyone makes.
Remember to use both hashtags in your posts so the Feed picks it up!
And don’t forget to take part in #TROPReforged! Looking forward to seeing what everyone makes.
Remember to use both hashtags in your posts so the Feed picks it up!
A reminder that #TROPRewatch Winter Edition starts in one week's time, on 31 Oct. As before, we'll be doing the rolling 9pm local time start, but feel free to join in when able.
We also have #TROPReforged fanworks event running alongside; looking forward to everyone's creations #RingsofPower #TROP
We also have #TROPReforged fanworks event running alongside; looking forward to everyone's creations #RingsofPower #TROP
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#TROPRewatch returns Tomorrow 31 Oct!! 9pm your local time!
And don’t forget to take part in #TROPReforged! Looking forward to seeing what everyone makes.
Remember to use both hashtags in your posts so the Feed picks it up!
And don’t forget to take part in #TROPReforged! Looking forward to seeing what everyone makes.
Remember to use both hashtags in your posts so the Feed picks it up!
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How to train your oak seedling 🌱
Resistance workouts are important for all living things
You need to replicate the wind that indoor trees will face when in the wild later, or they will not survive
There is only one way to this
Resistance workouts are important for all living things
You need to replicate the wind that indoor trees will face when in the wild later, or they will not survive
There is only one way to this
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How to train your oak seedling 🌱
Resistance workouts are important for all living things
You need to replicate the wind that indoor trees will face when in the wild later, or they will not survive
There is only one way to this
Resistance workouts are important for all living things
You need to replicate the wind that indoor trees will face when in the wild later, or they will not survive
There is only one way to this
Ooh look, lucky me 🤣🤣🤣
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ooh look, lucky me 🤣🤣🤣
Great DnD session tonight. I love that we can all be a bit deranged, a bit creative, a bit unhinged , and (in the hands of a competent DM - not me btw) it becomes a more-or-less coherent narrative
I'm loving my barbarian, Vka. Art by @gingertotty.bsky.social
I'm loving my barbarian, Vka. Art by @gingertotty.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Great DnD session tonight. I love that we can all be a bit deranged, a bit creative, a bit unhinged , and (in the hands of a competent DM - not me btw) it becomes a more-or-less coherent narrative
I'm loving my barbarian, Vka. Art by @gingertotty.bsky.social
I'm loving my barbarian, Vka. Art by @gingertotty.bsky.social
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"Problems for [Tolkien's] listeners would be compounded by his tendency to pursue lines of thought like a fox dashing from covert to covert, as he does in all versions of ‘On Fairy-stories’."
- @johngarthwriter.bsky.social in the latest Journal of Inklings Studies. 15.2 (2025) open access.
- @johngarthwriter.bsky.social in the latest Journal of Inklings Studies. 15.2 (2025) open access.
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"Problems for [Tolkien's] listeners would be compounded by his tendency to pursue lines of thought like a fox dashing from covert to covert, as he does in all versions of ‘On Fairy-stories’."
- @johngarthwriter.bsky.social in the latest Journal of Inklings Studies. 15.2 (2025) open access.
- @johngarthwriter.bsky.social in the latest Journal of Inklings Studies. 15.2 (2025) open access.
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RIP English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, died this day 1400, best known for The Canterbury Tales.
"The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...
"The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...
October 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
RIP English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, died this day 1400, best known for The Canterbury Tales.
"The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...
"The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...