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A WB kid in an HBO World. Still tryin 2 impress the cool kids. Lapsed writer, freelance librarian, amateur detective. I log in to @ my friends (real and imagined) I've been getting really into like, deleting my posts within five minutes of making them?

A red flame in Barad-dûr, based on the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre episode. I wanted the city to look both industrial and unsettling, so I tried to use a real mix of building styles, and avoid too many curves/natural shapes.

A scan of a pen and ink drawing of Barad-dûr, inspired by the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre episode. It shows the moment when Frodo, on Mount Doom, looks towards Barad-dûr and as the clouds part sees a red flame in the highest tower, the only image of Sauron the books give us. The drawing depicts barad-dûr in dense, hatched pen, full of narrow, crowded streets and industrial buildings, shrouded in darkness and cloud. A red pen has been used to mark the flame, the only colour in the drawing.

New on ye olde blog: "Still Time." With TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA coming soon to a theater near you, I dive deep into how director Jane Schoenbrun uses THE PINK OPAQUE in their last film I SAW THE TV GLOW, one of my favorites of the decade. prodigalcinephile.com/2026/08/01/s...

Still Time

“It was raining last night and I couldn’t sleep, so I started my favorite TV show again, The Pink Opaque.” So says Justice Smith’s Owen in voiceover in the first scene which…

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People type “sickos_haha_yes.jpg” in reply as though they rename and organize their images... a more realistic filename-based reaction would be f2fv5q4k6qxw2lrgcu5dg562.webp

heard from a friend that there are chaos marines alive in the 41st millenium that were around during the horus heresy era and so Flanagan 40k project could in theory do a dual-timeline showing characters ten thousand years apart and I just think that's funny

the university launched its Strategic Modernization Initiative today, sending all staff members a custom link to an idenifiable survey where we are supposed to fill out percentages of how we spend our time. It is due August 7th. We have been in union contract negotiations for months. Come on.