What is this place? This is a nightmare.. Linduil? Is that you? Please, help me. I'd like to wake up.

In years past, we would sit together, you and I. You would tell me stories of great heroes and far off places. Those stories, they always had such happy endings...

The ones I chose to tell, yes.

But not every story has a happy ending, does it?

Truthfully, most do not.

Then may I ask a favor of you?

Anything

When you tell my story, will you say it ended happily?

I may yet, my friend, your story is not over.

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Linduil, Loremaster of Arthedain. A master of history and tales of old, but no warrior. When battle first broke out in her home, she fled back to the forest of her youth, leaving many she once called friends behind.

When she at last returned, the world that she met was who that had forgotten her and all she once knew. Yet she found kinship with those others that the world would have liked to forget. Yet she never escaped the ghosts that haunted that land.

When whispered stories of a maiden haunting the swamps of Agamaur reached her, memories came back unbidden. A young river spirit, bright eyes and ears eager to listen to tales of lands she would never see.

But it could not be her, could it? The more she heard, the more she looked, the truth could not be denied.

Naruhel, why out of all in this cursed age was this fate saved for you?

This was a fight she could not abandon. Not again. One way or another, she would save her friend.

Grief / "Spite Remembers".

Little quick sketch if Arien inbetween playing games with @tar-thelien and @gemsoflasgalen ✨️

artfight 2026 | Iarothmir and Inaaya for @thehelplessmortals

putting my favorite guy in the wringer for recreational and creative purposes

Well I'll be damned. There really is no recipe like it in the Sunset cookbook so I guess this is it.

This is the original recipe, and I'll post up the modified version separately because I've had requests, so watch this space, but I admit the photo is hard to read so here's the very original version:

1 large onion, diced (1 cup) 1 large clove garlic, minced (1 teaspoon) 1 stalk celery, diced 2 carrots, diced 2 cups peeled and diced potatoes 2 leeks (white part only), washed well and diced (optional) 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth 1/4 tsp. cayenne 1/4 tsp. freshly ground black pepper 1/4 tsp. salt, if desired, to taste 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter (next to which my mother has written "Natural") Minced parsley and chopped scallions for garnish (optional)

In a large saucepan, saute the onion and garlic in the oil, stirring, until the onions are transparent. Add the celery, carrots, potatoes, leeks, and broth. Bring the soup to a boil, reduce the heat, cover the pan, and simmer the soup until the vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes.

Stir in the cayenne, black pepper, salt, and peanut butter. Transfer the soup to a blender and puree it.

Serve the soup hot, garnished, if desired, with parsley and scallions.

out of all the replies this is the one I think about the most. wtf did wilbur do

I'm always so confused when people say they "faked" having a imaginary friend... thats like... the whole point what kid actually thought their imaginary friend was real lmao we were all playing pretend?

I picked no but I think I could realistically have said faked it a little bit, and for me that consisted of like. I knew of the concept of imaginary friends, thought that was kind of a fun concept because I didn't have many friends anyway, and then any time I would try to imagine a friend I would genuinely forget about it like 5 minutes later

Durge moment xD

My most old-school internet opinion is bring back chunky scroll bars! I don't want some scroll bar so discreet I can't even find the fucking thing. I want a nice Windows 98-level of obviousness.

A quick sketch of Fenris (because my anxiety was driving me crazy).

Sígeric, knight of Aldburg; his wife Mirvain, a merchant heiress from Pelargir; and their daughter Saethryd.

do elrond and celebrian NEED to be flirting in the stacks? I guess not

does celebrian NEED help reaching the top shelf? not here at least

does elrond NEED to be leaning in so kissably close? again, no 🤭

aka, my Celrond Academia au. Elrond is a professor at The University of Imladris and Celebrian is a Library assistant at the university :)c

"They cannot conquer forever!" said Frodo.

I always found this moment by the cross roads very moving: The last light shining on the head of the old king and Frodo feeling a sudden spark of hope when he sees that a crown is growing there.

I was thinking about Veilguard and Vox Machina and how Vex was the ‘treasurer’ of VM and is very frugal with how the money is spent at times and that merged into me thinking that Neve Gallus would probably be the Veilguard ‘treasurer’ given her background and environment growing up. I think she’d be money smart.

Then ensues her either pairing up with Lucanis, Antivan rich boy who probably thinks a banana costs ten dollars, or Rook, who gives me impulse spending vibes, and then promptly being driven insane by their respective spending habits

Example of Lucanis offering Harding 6k (i think) for standing by a door and watching his back, where Neve would just stand there like ‘that’s my mortgage’

(backup treasurer is Emmrich. no one else is allowed near the money)

Did you know? That the back is made up of terrible and evil muscles that are only waiting for their chance to betray you