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Bestowed the honour of ‘human family’ by the local primary school wolf pack || elves, spaceships, stories

Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/users/eye_of_a_cat/works

Tags: #RingsofPower #Doriath #MyFic
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Louis MacNeice, ‘Hidden Ice’ (1936)
Poem: Louis MacNeice, ‘Hidden Ice’ Hidden Ice There are few songs for domesticity For routine work, money-making or scholarship Though these are apt for eulogy or for tragedy. And I would praise our adaptability Who can spend years and years in offices and beds Every morning twirling the napkin ring, A twitter of inconsequent vitality. And I would praise our inconceivable stamina Who work to the clock and calendar and maintain The equilibrium of nerves and notions, Our mild bravado in the face of time. Those who ignore disarm. The domestic ambush The pleated lampshade the defeatist clock May never be consummated and we may never Strike on the rock beneath the calm upholstering. But some though buoyed by habit, though convoyed By habitual faces and hands that help the food Or help one with one's coat, have lost their bearings Struck hidden ice or currents no one noted. One was found like Judas kissing flowers And one who sat between the clock and the sun Lies like a Saint Sebastian full of arrows Feathered from his own hobby, his pet hours.
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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oops.
Small green plant, prayer pepper, with lots of bright green leaves Prayer pepper with a bare stalk now missing most of its leaves
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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awwww
Chalk handwriting on a wall says ‘You are loved’
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Tumblr post by knightessc, 2 Sep: “Oh, you think it's "adorable" that I fell asleep on your lap? Well, it's a mark of my utter contempt. That's how little I fear you.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Andor screencap, Perrin talking to Mon Mothma: “It’s always best to let them down gently. Or so I’ve been told.” Andor screencap, Mon replying: “We have a long day, Perrin.”
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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aaaaaaand we’re muting the other fanfic subreddit too.
reddit screenshot from r/fanfiction. Title: “Should “sharing” a partner be…” Answer: “Correct tagging would be: A/B, A/C, B&C. Failing to include B&C would indeed give the impression you were concerned about, of a love triangle/ breakup. You need all three. A/B/C by definition is 3 way poly and includes B/C. Not having B and C in a relationship in the story would mean that using A/B/C is mistagging and people would be 100% correct to report your fic for incorrect tags. However, most readers would probably fall somewhere on the sliding scale of either clicking the back button and never thinking about it again or being sufficiently pissed they mute you and never read any of your work in future because they felt lied to and that”
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Ludovico De Luigi (1933-2025), ‘The Insects are Set Free in the City’
Painting of a futuristic dystopian Venice, covered in huge insects: butterflies and pond-skaters
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Isn’t it! I love it. Had it for a few months now and it’s growing little by little!
Small jade plant with weird pyramid shaped column leaves, crassula ‘Buddha’s Temple’ Slightly bigger jade plant with weird pyramid shaped column leaves, crassula ‘Buddha’s Temple’
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Should’ve brought Perrin to Yavin because the fallout damage from their party conversations could have taken out the Death Star.
Andor screencap, Mon and Perrin at a bar at a party where the bartender is putting squigs (small eels) in drinks: she says “Not for me”, he says “I’ll have hers.” Andor screencap: Perrin to Mon, “You used to like it.” Andor screencap: Mon to Perrin, “I was just better at pretending.” Andor screencap: Perrin to Mon, “Well, that I find hard to believe.”
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I think this summarises so many of where those takes are coming from honestly:
screenshot of tweet thread from user ‘charlie @kinderhooks’, Sep 17: “i think honestly the majority of fandom problems today come down to a lot of these people do not want to be in fandom. they have no interest in engaging with the material beyond regurgitating what is explicitly given in canon. that's where their enjoyment starts and stops.” “which is a normal way to engage with tv, and i feel that way about most shows. it's why i don't read fic or make headcanons or discourse 95% of the things i watch. but it makes the idea of other people engaging with this material in any sort of way confusing to them” “it also leads to the idea that someone's fic/art/random post is a) smth they desperately want to see happen in the show b) an endorsement of the thing they apparently want to happen in the show c) smth they think is Right and Correct. none of that has ever been true of fandom.” “fic isn’t about what you want to be canon, it's about exploring diff aspects of this world outside canon. this is why so many fandoms seem to struggle w/ the idea of noncanon ships now- bc they can't understand investing time and energy into something you won't see come 'true'.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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right? AO3 accounts are free, random grumpy critic; if you want your own thing so badly then…
Will Smith ‘ta-da’ meme, showing the AO3 ‘post a new work’ screen
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The corporate system my employer spent a great deal of money on and is currently sapping away my will to live:
book text: “Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for Exhibit A. Where they go wrong, of course, is assuming that the wretched road is evil simply because of the incredible carnage and frustration it engenders every day. In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil odegra in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'. The thousands of motorists who daily fume their way around its serpentine lengths have the same effect as water on a prayer wheel, grinding out an endless fog of low-grade evil to pollute the metaphysical atmosphere for scores of miles around.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Photo of a book page showing music notation with lyrics from Treebeard’s song in LOTR, with Tengwar lettering at the head and foot of each page
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I do love the implication here that there is a “Galadriel, SPECIFICALLY” line in that ban, and that this is how she responded.
photo of book text: “The question Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva? and the question at the end of her song (Vol. I, p. 389), What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?, refer to the special position of Galadriel. She was the last survivor of the princes and queens who had led the revolting Noldor to exile in Middle-earth. After the overthrow of Morgoth at the end of the First Age a ban was set upon her return, and she had replied proudly that she had no wish to do so.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I like plants that look weird.
Small green jade plant; crassula ‘Buddha’s Temple’
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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I have no idea what I was going for here but this seemed like a BRILLIANT idea at 1.30am until I looked at it the next morning
screencap of garbled text: "elrinds clothes familiar smell elf fabric not rough southlander garb, that he'd gradulaeey"
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Some baby succulents I’m growing from leaf props - love the variety
Small leaf propagated succulent - small green cluster of bright green leaves with furred edges Small succulent, some kind of echeveria probably, turquoise and pink Small succulent growing, graptoveria ‘lovely rose’, shaped like rose flowers Small succulent growing from leaf prop, rounded green leaves with red pointed tips
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Really glad this one is flowering - it’s so pretty
False Christmas cactus blooming with white flowers
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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just for the record: both of these fics are mine, both made me really and equally happy, and I’m leaving and muting that sub.
screenshot: “Stats: Published: 2022-12-15 Completed: 2024-08-28 Words: 265,716 Chapters: 43/43 Comments: 1,396 Kudos: 1,813 Bookmarks: 363 Hits: 75,058” screenshot: “Stats: Published: 2025-10-09 Words: 711 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 1 Kudos: 13 Hits: 71”
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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okay I’m organising some kind of propaganda leaflet airdrop over the AO3 subreddit titled “GET OUT OF THERE LOOK HOW UNHAPPY IT’S MAKING YOU ALL”
screenshot: “count, l've hidden clicks with a skin on and off but every time I get weak and check it has not stopped and it's driving me up the walls. I'm a small author, I get a handful of Kudos and sometimes a lovely comment, but then traction usually falls asleep. I never had this odd climbing of clicks on anything else before. And yes, it's just a reader who has it open in a tab for later, I know, 1 know, that's likely it. No big deal. Still feels like every day someone new clicks the story and flees because it was so bad. I wish that tab owner would just get it over with after what feels like half a year and leave it alone. They're probably not even gonna like it.” screenshot: “Always post in parts, one a week ideally. This is the way to get engagement up and build the stats so it'll show up when people sort by kudos, comments, or bookmarks. Posting something all at once when you could serialise it is almost always a mistake on AO3.” screenshot: “It's got more to do with ratios than hard numbers. I pay more attention to comments and bookmarks than I do kudos and hits. High hits with low comments/bookmarks is a sign that people click in and out, and don't want to return. With that said, that can also be a sign that your tagging/summary is not representative. Low hits usually just means quiet fandom or bad marketing, basically.” screenshot: “I often see when people post about feeling down about their stats people often say not to focus on that. I think its an unfortunate thing we do as a society as a whole. Telling someone to feel different then they feel is very minimizing and gives the message of get over it, even if well intentioned. We see it when people die "theyre in a better place" instead of "this is so painful, how are you"”
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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they’re fiiiiiiiine
screenshot of a tweet: “Cat (gone to b-sky) X.com @eye_of_a_cat no YOU'RE editing your Celeborn/ Annatar fanfic at the park while intermittently shouting "yes, I'm looking! that was a GREAT slide, well DONE!" in the direction of wherever your kids are. 12:20 • 30/08/2023 • 813 Views”
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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speaking of ceilidhs (and in honour of me actually remembering my wedding anniversary in good time this year!) this was my wedding ceilidh:
part of a black and white photo from a wedding - someone in a white wedding dress standing next to someone in a kilt part of a black and white photo from a wedding - someone in a white wedding dress dancing with someone in a kilt
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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This is not the post I was on there to find but I am glad I did because I 100% stand by it.
screenshot of a tweet: “Cat 03/09/2023 Reading discussions about Tolkien elf dancing (don't ask) where a lot of people think it's either sedate formal medieval dances or ballet. You are ALL WRONG! Elves throw ceilidhs. Prob. the kind where someone ends up flung upside-down behind the band.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Unexpected shadow art on the wall
Shadow of branches and leaves in a narrow panel next to the curving neck of a lamp
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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False Christmas cactus,
Schlumbergera truncata. This flowers in November rather than Christmas cactus flowering in December, and I love that the American name for it is therefore ‘Thanksgiving cactus’
White flower of a winter cactus, close-up showing veiny petals and pink tinges
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM