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Rivendell
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I'm setting out on a new adventure!! I'm so excited to see where this goes. I've fallen head over heels for the Pokemon IP and I decided to do something with that. Follow along if watching someone discover it for the first time is something you might enjoy.
Christmas has arrived. Not done and may rearrange a few things but it’s a start and it’s so cozy. I usually leave fall up through a little bit more of November, but I’m in a supper Christmas-y mood so up the tree goes.
Aleja🎄❄️ retweeted
"We would be bad at our job if we didn't care somewhat what people think of it," Patrick McKay told SFX magazine
"That doesn't mean that they're suddenly in charge," McKay clarified
If you were good at your job there wouldn't be any backlash.
#RingsOfPower
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This has pissed off a certain subset of people so let me try again
Boys: We want books about adventures, quests, and survival with male protagonists!
Publishers: go f*ck yourself, future incel, your needs are irrelevant
While I am not playing Ocarina of Time myself, I’m watching my husband do so, & I cannot tell you how annoying it is as a horse girl that they didn’t update Epona to have a bridle and reigns and Link is just holding on to the saddle horn. It’s so incorrect it’s driving me nuts.😂
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Life Was Unexciting. His Work Is Anything But.
D.J. Taylor’s new book is part biography and part critical study of the writer behind “The Lord of the Rings.” nytimes.com/2026/11/05/books… via @NYTimesBooks
Aleja🎄❄️ retweeted
This seems a strange way to describe someone who fought at the Somme, who lost nearly all his closest friends in battle, who drank the nectar of ancient poetry with C. S. Lewis, who wholly & irrevocably re-invented the fantasy genre.
Who’s cutting onions 😭
My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years.
Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question.
"What do you miss?"
She expects hamburgers.
She almost never gets hamburgers.
And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years.
"Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio)
"If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia)
"My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas)
"We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota)
"A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan)
"Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana)
"In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona)
"Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa)
"I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania)
Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand.
Sora. Seventeen. Missouri.
"Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said.
She was wrong.
In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up.
It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to.
"Saw the storm. You home safe?"
Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways.
"Home safe."
Her host mom wrote back one line.
"Good. That's all I needed."
My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is.
They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home.
So, America. You think you've lost something.
You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather.
You don't remember doing any of it.
A kid in Tokyo will never forget.
Won’t address why a show supposedly about the Bible has 17th century characters in it or why they’re defending a show and discouraging someone to read their Bible. Calls me a bigot then limits comments. Yeah I’m really persuaded now to watch the Chosen. 🤦🏼♀️🤣
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We’re not doing this.
9/11 conspiracies broke the brains of too many retards across the Internet. A plane crashes ON CAMERA from multiple angles including the Audio and there are still mouth breathers trying convince you Israel dropped an intercontinental missile on some random street in Florida.
Shut the fuck up and eat shit. Not everything is some fucking military conspiracy. Sometimes bad shit just happens.
Deeply relived I’ve never watched this show. When I heard about it, it seemed too good to be true and now I know. 😅 What a travesty.
I don’t think you truly come to appreciate #standardtime until you have a baby. Sure I liked it when I was single and childless, but having a baby made me appreciate it and realize how amazingly our bodies thrive on this time. I never would have realized this until I had a baby.
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No I haven’t listened to the ATC recording and I never will. If you listened to my daughter’s last moments as a form of content voyeurism or morbid entertainment I’d never forgive you. All of you. If you don’t work for NTSB consider your motives.
I am so so so so soooo so SOOOOOOOO glad I have never worked in the corporate world. I’d literally be in a straight jacket with all these mind games/office politics. I have bad enough anxiety, I’m pretty sure I’d have a nervous breakdown if I had to deal with this constantly.
There’s a Gen Z lady at my workplace who applied for 4 days of annual leave.
Her leave started on Thursday, and she was expected back on Monday.
But she resumed on Wednesday.
When HR asked why she added two extra days without approval, she calmly explained:
“My leave started on Thursday. Friday was my first leave day, Saturday and Sunday were weekends, and Monday was my second working day. I still had two working days left, so I used Tuesday and Wednesday to complete my four days.”
