Ask not for whom the gurdy hurds. It hurds for thee.

númenórean pottery fragments dated between s.a. 3253-3319. discovered on the southwestern shores of gondor

I’m starting to think some of y’all haven’t actually felt the rain on your skin… which is crazy because no one else can feel it for you

ooh such interesting stuff going on with gender and death in Sophocles fragment 523 (from Polyxena):

1) Achilles is referring to himself in the feminine, using the feminine participle λιποῦσα, because he's a ghost, a ψυχή, and therefore a grammatically feminine entity even when the word ψυχή isn't actually in the sentence for the participle to have to agree with

and 2) he calls the streams of the Acheron ἄρσενας, which does indeed mean "strong" or "mighty" but which also just means "male" or "masculine"

so the underworld itself is a masculine place, but a place that renders men grammatically feminine upon their deaths...

WIP Word Guessing Game

Rules: Send me an ask with a word and I'll post a sentence or paragraph from one of my WIPs that contains that word!

If you manage to stump me, I'll write three sentences and share these.

If you want to play please feel free to reblog/repost this so people can send you words.

Persuasion is a particularly comforting read, because it's a book where good things happen, not in spite of the bad things or as consolation for the bad things, but often because of the bad things.

Anne loses her family home, and her family moves to a city she hates instead of staying in the familiar countryside like she wanted, but being forced outside her comfort zone is good for her. She's useful to her nephews, she strengthens her friendship with the Musgroves, she makes new friends with the Harvilles and Captain Benwick. It allows Captain Wentworth to come back into her life, and that seems like a bad thing at first, but it allows her to move past the regret of the past and into a new relationship.

Louisa's injury is a terrible turn of events, but it brings Louisa and Benwick together, and allows Anne to show her true worth in a way that makes Wentworth admit his love for her.

Even Anne's great regret, her refusal of Wentworth that led to eight years of misery, turns out to be a good thing. Wentworth's disappointment made him throw himself into his career, and his lack of a wife gave him freedom to go on voyages and into battles without worrying about how it would affect a family that relied on him. Anne's rejection--his first taste of failure--gave him enough maturity to keep the money that he made, and he came home a rich man who could well support a wife. Instead of starting out married life with stress and worry over uncertain funds, they are able to wed as people who are financially stable and secure in their love for each other.

It's a deeper, richer message than just saying that good things come to those who wait, or that someday you might get enough good things in life to make up for the bad stuff. It's saying that your suffering might be the necessary step to bringing about a life that's better than you could have hoped for. And that's very comforting.

hi so yeah im trying to find the hotel california and i know i have to take the highway to hell but i accidentally turned left onto the boulevard of broken dreams. i took the first hard right onto the rocky road to dublin cuz i thought it would loop back around but it didnt lol and i know im waaaaaay off course bc i just drove by the house of the rising sun haha. so how many miles until i get to the hotel

500 MILES?!?!?!

It's been a few years since I drew these but I wanted to get them out there. Here you have my vision of, in order, Cair Paravel, Anvard, and Tashbaan.

For Cair Paravel I referenced a picture of Mont Saint Michel, for Anvard a drawing in an Austrian castle I once spent the night at, and Tashbaan was drawn without a reference.

All of the pictures are pencil and soft pastel on paper, then edited a bit to bring out the colors.

The full saga of Margie and the Nuns (so far). Realised I never compiled these in one place.! Also, bonus Margies!

I've been looking for a fun/quick little animation sideproject to flex my frame-by-frame muscles, so introducing Margie! A cat-goose dragon based on this little fella from this medieval manuscript

Some additional thoughts

Reblog if you are Bad Queer Representation.

oh captain #mycaptain

What are we thinking about tonight?

That’s right Noldo Theatre✨

Heres a little bonus flashback to Valinor of Mags getting ready for a show, yknow as a treat