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Reflective Rambling / Nalana / Cassie
@reflectiverambling.bsky.social
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Your fandom Auntie. Hobbyist prone to fanatical ranting over various things primarily of the fictional kind. Book, Tea, Puppy addict, She/Her💜🤍🖤

#fanart ~*~ #saplingnote (RoP-based OCs/ AU) ~*~ #fanfic ~*~ #books ~*~ #booksky ~*~ #netgalley ~*~
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*so excited to jump back in* #booksky #reading #shadowsoftheapt
Audiobook app player for the book athe Scarab Path by Adrian Tchaikovsky purple scarab on black field with white text
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Starting work week(end) with this upcoming work thanks to #netgalley

#booksky #nonfiction #essay #racism #politics #history #contemporaryfiction
Audiobook app player for racial fictional by Hazel carby
November 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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My personal letter to @senangusking.bsky.social . I urge others who feel similarly to also write, call, and tag to let his office know where you stand.

I would prefer socials to be more of a haven from politics, but silence is also complicity.
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Finally getting around to this darling ahead of Veteran's/ Remembrance Day #booksky #historicalfiction
Audiobook player app for the book The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Checking Off a #Classic Yet Experienced for Weekend Work-Read

#booksky
Audiobook player app for the book "North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Didn't realize I had fallen behind on All Creatures... trying to remedy along with other things...am rewarded with Wolfie cameo!

Yes. I have issues. But probably not the first thing a therapist would attempt to correct. At least this one's fuzzy? And only sometimes bites?
1940s home with two women of an older age waiting to the left of a doorway in a sitting room. forefront is a black woman with short pinned hair and smart blue dress holding a box in her lap. After her is a brunette with a cap and tweed colored suit leaning down to pet the wolfhound laying at her feet
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Work Read
Hephaestion spends 500 years planning to rescue Alexander from hell. To get to the horrors beyond the gates he must navigate purgatory's cities- crafted by souls across timelines and civilizations carrying all the vices persons and society holds without the ultimatum if death.

#booksky
Audiobook player app for book trampling in the Land of wor by William lj galaini
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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"It is the first day of November, and so, today someone will die."

#booksky #reread #tradition
Audiobook player app for the book The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater crimson shade background gold text black silhouette of a girl on a horse
November 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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day 31 of #tolkientober "Destruction" Maglor moments after tossing in the last symbol of the oath that led to crumbling and severing of so many things. A history and an act that would also wither him as well.

#fanart #sketch #silmarillion #tolkien
elf sitting on rocks over water, one leg pulled up with arm resting on it, other hand covering a down turned head. bright sunset behind, colors fading out to gray down towards water
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Day 30 of #tolkientober Werewolves
Ani: "Come ON Nanu! You gotta at least -growl at me-! Huan wouldn't play with Carcharoth!"
In which Lira -really- wants to pretend to be Luthien and her sibs can't say no. El's (Beleg) helping Baur (Mablung) dress up

#fanart #saplingnote #sketch
girl dressed up in furs leaning over to pet large dog. behind her is a dancing younger girl on he right and on her left a boy in a cloak with the head of another above the dog's back , being helped into a costume
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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It's that time again #booksky *excite*
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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day 29 #tolkientober "cultivate" - to further by labor, care, or study + to encourage

Cirdan built networks, taught pupils, and created fleets. Would have loved to see him when Elrond was under his wing
#doodle #sketch #fanart
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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#tollkientober day 28: Perseverance #sketch layout

If curious,one of the biggest reasons I'm enamored with #Bronwyn is in what we know of her she continues despite circumstances.

Let's just say when she meets #Arondir 's father in #saplingnote au, it does not go well.

#fanart #rop
text with sketch rough illustrations : Enough. Yes. I am mortal. I even carry the blood of the very king you are so quick to remember as a traitor in me. I am also of my foremother. Who fled. And resisted. I have lived every day in -her- spirit. I was barely of age when I left my village, alone, before being condemned for the crime of -being abandoned- . Forced to build a home for my son while always considered outcast. Many of that 'community' found suffering nearly to the grave preferable to seeking my assistance -- with no guarantee of compensation. I screamed into deaf ears of the rising shadow and near gave my life defending them. I started over. Raised gardens praised even by your kind. I stayed on the battlefield with my son and the son – you shamed- for having no love of war until the very last moment I could before my daughter arrived. I have fought against that song in my veins that has pulled me towards dark paths at every turn. But I swear to you this – if you EVER speak of my daughter in such terms again I will unleash all of the fury that I've swallowed against you. And you will -NEVER- even -lay eyes upon- your other -grandchildren- when they greet the world. sketch outlay with illustrations with conversation text It does not change that you have still doomed my son. Of that I am -painfully- aware. And I will fight beyond my last breath for his suffering to be eased. I don't see why that is even of concern to the one who once declared his son was -dead- to him.
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Did you really think I'd get through #tolkientober w/o stealing @mgcoco.bsky.social 's #Arwen? Day 27 Libraries

headcanon: Arwen liked it Elrond asked #Erestor to mind her. He trusted her in his private library -NOT bros- and told great stories! He wasn't a stuffy curmudgeon!

#fanart #sketch
Child sitting in swirlled patterned bench in front of similar bookcase reading a scroll, swinging her feet girl sitting on the side of man's lap in swirly styled bench reading a book. Girl in skirt and short sleeves long straight dark hair with duck/cow-lick anime style bang, kicking feet. Man in flowing robes with long hair pinned back.
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Day 25 #cuivienen #tolkientober

#fanart #sketch
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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low key #tolkientober entry tonight. Thangorodrim, the once eyrie of the eagles #fanart #doodle
October 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Day 24 of #tolkientober "Monuments" - #uinen statuary being one of #earien 's art studies.

Didn't have access to show-canon sculpture when I had time to do that part. 😥

#fanart #numenor #ringsofpower #rop #tolkien
closeup profile of young woman on left. On right far off shot of her in the background and the statue she's sketching of a woman raising out of waves reaching out and floating hair
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#tolkientober is the 'birthday' of my beloved Ashfield.How could I not use the "horses" prompt to bring him back? With him is an attempt at a fixture of my #saplingnote /Seams Vaelah- one of Bronwyn's students whom she protected when they were briefly captive when migrating

#fanart #ringsofpower
October 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Just doing my usual stretching a prompt to self indulge

day 22 of #tolkientober "Spirit"(ed) - personal energy/drive and...well...
#Beleg and #Huan on or just bonding before the Night of the hunt... because I luff my boys.

#fanart #tolkien #silmarillion #sketch
dark haired elf crouching down, looking back over his shoulder with his hand on his bowstring. giant wolf hound standing on large tree stump snarling as he looks right, deep on wooden path
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
reflectiverambling.bsky.social
Or this version

...I need to reread the light novels and manga I have 😭 and hurry up and get the ones I don't
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
October 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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day 21 #tolkientober - A connection with deep #roots
Two figures standing in front of a table. one sitting with head down, red haired in armor. One tall at right brown hair and cloak standing. standing between stone archway with tree with golden leaves
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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truly stretching the 'loneliness' prompt. Entirely self indulgent and a nod to @lomionart.bsky.social for always being so kind...and hopefully forgiving for me stealing their #maeglin for an unsolicited #saplingnote crossover.

This is about a week's worth of words for El

#tolkientober #fanart
M-m-m-mister Ma-Mae...Maeglin? Er. Lord. Sir. Um... I...I know s..strangers prob...probably are mean to you 'c-cause you did some bad things. Buh...But Mother taught me that people only do bad things if they're sad. Or if they didn't have someone to help them. An...And I don't know what I'd do if I lost Mother...Or if Ada wasn't very nice even if we gave him all kinds of chances and love. And it doesn't feel great when people don't really want to be with you. They just like things they can get from you. Most people want to know Ada or like playing with Ani and get stuck with me. That's okay. I don't like a lot of their games anyway. Mother says that you shouldn't listen to those who don't really want to get to know us. Everyone makes mistakes. That doesn't mean they didn't learn! You should always help them do better. You shouldn't just think things about them and be rude. No one believes that Honeybract is just sleeping or that the Pups understand me. They laugh. They wouldn't if they'd really listen or if they heard Theo and Ada tell them about meeting Honeybract's family. Or that we didn't even have to train the pups much! Elves aren't better than humans either! They even lie! Ada's Adar says all sorts of nasty things that aren't true. He calls Mother all sorts of names. He says we're abom-ba-d-amations. I know I -shouldn't- call anyone stupid...but how can Lira and Baur be abom-ba-da-mations? Babies can't be bad. They can't even talk! Um..er...sorry..uh..I mean...you shouldn't always believe everything you hear. No one should be lonely. That doesn't help your heart get better. And, um, I don't know when your begetting day is. It's not..not much but, um.... “This is from Honeybract and me. My pups wanted you to have their favorite stick. Whisper But I think it's just because they hoped you might visit and play some time. That's kind of selfish so...so...you really don't have to. But..um...”
October 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Reading this is an amazing + bizarre experience. During I'm completely invested in characters + moment.Yet finishing the past 2 felt like not a lot and EVERYTHING happened. Aka true to real war+politics. It makes it hard to review and rec ...while wanting everyone to join in. #booksky
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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say 18 of #tolkientober "Maps" Nori and the star guide
#fanart #sketch #rop #ringsofpower #Nori
frizzy haired harfoot standing ove ra desk and papers. Upclose of her hand tracing over a page of constellations
October 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM