Summary:The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is a collection of poems set in Middle-earth around the time of The Lord of the Rings. Some of them are purported to be written by Frodo or Sam, but many have more mysterious origins, or have clearly been passed down from older times as oral tradition among hobbits.
Why should I check out this canon? Did you enjoy the Hobbit poetry in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, such as Roads Go Ever On and On or Sam's poem about the Oliphaunt? Would you like to read more poetry about and by hobbits? Then The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is the canon for you! From the ridiculous "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" to the epic "The Hoard" to the sad "Sea-bell" and "The Last Ship," there's all kinds of poems here for the enjoying!
Where can I get this? The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is sold as a book on its own wherever you would normally purchase books. It’s also available in Kindle format from Amazon. If you aren’t able to obtain it for whatever reason, let me (@elwinfortuna) know, and I’ll provide you with a copy.
What fanworks already exist? There are 21 works so far on AO3, and they involve everything from femslash about Mee and Shee, to exploring what Gorcrows are, to works inspired by the various poems.
I have had some personal-training sessions, and I am now trying to get better acquainted with my lats.
Because the personal trainer guy was all 'engage the lats, pull from the lats' and I was 'whut?'. So between us we've worked that I barely know how to use these muscles, that my shoulders take the strain when I try to do pull-up-related exercises and this is (i) much harder than it should be (ii) bad for my joints. So I'm doing a lot of lat-activation drills, and when I'm sitting on the sofa of an evening I'm (sometimes) flexing my lats, just trying to remind my body, my self, that this is how it works. Weird.
Overhead mobility is the other thing which needs a lot of work, because I cannot do an overhead squat to save my life. I can go down, or I can lift up, but if I'm down my arms are not going to go up and back. Also forty-plus years of desk work means that I round my back, and hunch over like a vulture on road-kill which is not good for the thoracic spine (and I now know about the thoracic spine).
I have tried pilates, I did a weekly class for most of 2023 and I can't say I enjoyed it. It was either boring (because I could do the exercise) or annoying (because I couldn't do the exercise) and the best I can say about it was that it was marginally less aggravating than yoga. I used to come home from the pilates class in a sour grumpy mood, opposite of crossfit where I come home all boing boing boing, and then bore Himself by talking about what exercises I did.
TLDR; I am rather disconnected from my body and trying to do better.
Sometimes, people ponder profound questions like: "What's the meaning of life?", "Are we alone in the Universe?", or "What happens if you throw a paper airplane from the International Space Station)?"
Luckily, we now have an answer to the third one, because eventually, someone was bound to try it:
Screeching into PGW day 4 with a few hours to spare because I was in a Zoom meeting. I pulled ahead of the great Hi Nay relisten to resolve the pickle Evelyn was in, and it tickles me that the first time they took her out on field work on purpose, she promised to sever a chunk of her immortal soul. I was going to make a joke about overachieving freshmen, but honestly - she’s been handling a lot of the research for their little Scooby gang. She of all people would appreciate the value of leaving behind a record. Sure, Mari and co want to believe they’ll solve the problem for good, but as Evelyn well knows, other people had big ambitions too. And now a new generation is trying to piece together what they left behind. Every first hand narrative helps.
British progressives have suffered major setbacks in recent years, in both public opinion and court rulings. Was a backlash inevitable, and are new tactics needed?
3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses?
4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad?
5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it?
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“We’re so grateful for the response that Murderbot has received, and delighted that we’re getting to go back to Martha Wells’ world to work with Alexander, Apple, CBS Studios and the rest of the team,” Chris and Paul Weitz, said in a statement Thursday.
For anyone interested in making a site/section on their site for their fics, here's a really good template for a fanfiction masterlist that just got posted online! Created by ceu. There's easy to follow documentation on how it works, and links to HTML tutorials if you're not familiar or need a refresher on there as well.
As said on the page showcasing the template too, it was inspired by this portfolio template by Kaylee Rowena. Which would be great for anyone who makes fanart! I might end up using this template myself whenever I get to revamping my art galleries on my own site.
Since I know there's a lot of fannish folks here I thought these would be worth sharing!
I've apparently been "busy" today. I went to ordenchaz's place this morning, then came home for lunch. I was picked up for book group at 1:30, and got back home at 4:45. I drove to pick up meal right away.
Picked up a library book. Did extra (evening) Duolingo Listened to the last (as of now) Kencyr book (Hodgell) via Kindle-speak
We’re at the midpoint of Podcast Girls Week, but as we reach the weekend hopefully we’re gathering steam. Here are today’s prompts:
Nobody understands her like I do… Recognize a woman from a podcast you think is niche and/or underappreciated.
Or the eternal classic… AU
In celebration of AU, my favourite theme, here’s a few AUs from our behind the scenes writing discussions where we imagine Hi Nay AUs to keep our writing brains fresh and silly.
Sol - The Hunt // Kerri - The Beholding Max - The Spiral // Merril - The Web
in under the wire for @podcastgirlsweek crossover theme! Took the @ftlcast girls and their fear entities, because I’m nothing if not self-indulgent ;)
Bringing this back from 2020’s @podcastgirlsweek since I can’t do anything new, but the crossover can work for today’s au theme hehe
Can’t write anything new at the moment because I am working on that mahoosive fic for these gorls 😤 so I’m participating in spirit you just won’t see the full result until September!
Nobody understands her like I do… Sirena Halcyon you will always be famous. TO ME.
I was rereading the scripts of Primordial Deep to refresh myself on the sequence of events that destroyed the first Tiamat, and remembered that one of the scientists had developed a substance called “The Tears of Tiamat.” It’s unclear what it was meant for but it’s kind of like napalm and acid at once.
Sirena seems scared of it. Someone died from it. Did the surviving crew trapped down there spend a while carrying it around as defense against the giant prehistoric crocodilians and mosasaurs that haunt the Tiamat’s halls? The only thing they could have on hand that could even stand a chance at protecting them from these creatures. But like any weapon, it’s just as dangerous to you as it is to anything you want to point it at, and someone trying to fend off a monster spilled it all over themself instead… I imagine Sirena locking it away after that, deciding it was too dangerous to keep out, to carry around, oh God she was carrying this thing on her person the whole time. She seems to have gotten really efficient at hunting the animals without it, with blood as bait and urine as repellent and chains to lash them down and tangle them up. Every time Sirena used a chain to knock down and bind a barusuchus, she thinks, this would be so much easier if I could just throw some Tears of Tiamat at it. And then she remembers Dr. Solana Cyra who died screaming before the crocodile could even get to her, and she tells herself, that is what will happen otherwise. You survived down here for years. It’s such a sunk cost at this point. you can’t die now, and definitely not like that.
And then she wraps a crocodile in chains, drowns it, then hoists it up and skins it and eats it.
I wonder SO much about Eris from Wolf 359. She was an AI who had no stable crew. Hera was the “mother program” that took care of the station and the crew inside it, and Rhea was the same way; both developed real fondness, friendship, and solidarity with their humans over time. Enlil we see less of but he seems to like his job flying a jet, and have positive interactions with his passengers.
But Eris was designed to be antagonistic. that’s her job. she meets a crew once, puts them through a VR dream nightmare, and teaches them to appreciate each other more when she’s not there harassing them.
WHAT was her socialization like? Does she ever get any stability? She gets fractured into iterations and placed in boxes on stations, with the data beamed back to Earth. does she have memories of all these selves, all these human crews she met once just to torment… she seems almost wistful when she meets Lovelace. Does she like her life? Does she like her job? Does she have other AI friends??? Eris deserves a life post-Goddard. Set her free to be an internet troll, she’d get to carry out her function while also meeting all sorts of people.
that day gwen stormed into lena’s office and demanded she enforce a stricter dress code. lena looks at her and said “do you have something to share with the class”
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