"His body recovered from his torment and became hale, but the shadow of his pain was in his heart; and he lived to wield his sword with left hand more deadly than his right had been."
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never had a thought about an elf in my life!!!!!!!
Also, according to documents we received, Adams has a new personal email address that's really funny. And this is how the event ended for Adams. Another great weekend for Mayor Adams!
"You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts. "You're here to steal our water!" yells another. Hell Gate spoke with activists in Wisconsin fighting a proposed data center....and Eric Adams?
Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now
The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.
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루시엔과 페아노리안 Lúthien and Fëanoreans "루시엔이 난쟁이들의 목걸이를 하고 있던 동안에는 어떤 요정도 감히 그녀를 공격할 엄두를 내지 못했다." #silmarillion #Luthien #feanorians #maedhros #maglor #celegorm #caranthir #curufin #amrod #amras
listening to my celrond playlist(s): a man of taste... emotional maturity... aesthetic refinement... listening to my magolfin playlist: Literally What the Fuck is Wrong With Me
I can tell you my love for ore will still be strong, after the boys of Sumer are gone.
Today I am obsessesing over the covers of E. R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros" and later Zimiamvian Trilogy illustrated by native midwesterner Barbara Remington. Just an absolutely phenomenal house style for Ballantine Books.
This is a 1938-level story from Nazi Germany
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · last wk.“‘Should I keep paying my mortgage?’ Haitian families confront impossible choices around #TPS. As Haitian TPS nears an end, families are asking who will care for their children, whether to sell their homes and whether they can survive what comes next.” haitiantimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Berlin pride was disrupted after someone drove their car into the crowd. The march has been canceled and the event evacuated. Heavy police presence is there. www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/w...
Berlin Pride parade called off after car hits crowds, police say | CNN
Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride parade was called off by the organizer on Saturday after a car crashed into a crowd at the city’s Tiergarten park, leaving several people injured, police said on ...
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writing a canon divergence au for some reason = revealing to me once again that i do not know the actual plot of the silmarillion
It hasn’t been updated in nearly twenty years, but I’m so happy this Elrond/Gil-galad fansite is still around 🥺 queencheetah.com/kingandheral...
King and Herald :: Home
This website contains slash fiction, i.e., homoerotic stories concerning two Tolkien characters: Ereinion Gil-galad and Elrond Peredhel. If you find this offensive or you are underage, please stay awa...
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i have a fantasy somewhere that if i explain the history of racial formation in england in the 18th - 19th century & the integrity of race in all these emergent nationalist fantasies and literatures from the Romantics to the Victorians in sufficient detail that people will understand
that tolkien is both indicted by colonial history, but also separately that even for the 1930s, his views are informed not by mainstream british conservatism, but by a mix of far right influences - the man was a francoist ffs - and thus he is not a "product of his time"
1. The newest anti-trans risk assessment map is here for transgender people. The situation continues to deteriorate for trans people in the United States. Idaho becomes the fourth "Do Not Travel" state, with up to 5 year prison sentences for bathroom usage. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: July 2026
Idaho becomes the latest "Do Not Travel" state for transgender people, raising the number of states transgender people should not travel through to 4.
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I've been looking at AI in fic spaces since these tools were released to the public, and it's not surprising that HR—huge numbers of new readers & writers in fandom, a promise of Manacled-like deals in the air—was where this melted down. @kaytiburt.bsky.social does a fantastic job reporting this:
Heated Rivalry is at the Center of Fanfic’s AI Reckoning
A controversial anonymous document exposing Claude remnants in fics has collided with a fandom culture of production at hyper-speed.
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NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...
America’s Greatest Work of Art Is Trash
Alternative title: FEAR NOT
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it is almost laughably american that the rise of ai has been like disastrous for tangible conditions in many lives and communities but most critique of ai is more about the moral value of toil than any of that. john calvin thou art never far from our hearts, gone though ye may be
unrestrained summer fun: making up frasier-style stupid scene titles for the one (1) fanfiction i will be writing this year
"It’s no longer far-fetched or hyperbolic to say that at any given moment...individual works of fiction—including fanworks—could be criminalized for being queer, or pornographic, or generally deviant." In our latest, @bookshop.bsky.social goes deep on growing creative censorship around the world:
The Global Crackdown on Creativity
Governments around the world are censoring—and criminalizing—the currents in which fanworks flow.
fansplaining.com
We profiled him in 2022. In a Knicks jersey. Don’t worry, we have this city covered. hellgatenyc.com/leh-boy-make...
The Legend of Leh-Boy - Hell Gate
He's everywhere. But who is he?
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Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2mo agoDear NYC journos: It's been 24 hours and still no profile of the Knicks fan in Fort Greene dancing while balancing an enormous flat screen on his head. Do better.
anyone on this webbed site into morwen or #thesilmarillion #silmart (sorry i have really boring captions here i am much funnier on tumblr)
