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The Carrock: Northern California smial @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Come join The Carrock Smial in September to talk about your favorite minor character from the legendarium! Dying to explain why you love Radagast or Bill the Pony (how DARE I call Bill minor)? We want to hear it! More info in the link in our bio.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@greatesttrek.com Oh my God, I sat in my car for several minutes after I got home today just to hear the results of today's episode's game, and it was so worth it! Well played, Adam!

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I used to never feel earthquakes. Now that we live in an eleventh floor condo, I definitely feel them.

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The Carrock: Northern California smial @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Come show off something cool from your Tolkien collection at the June meeting of The Carrock Northern California Smial on June 23rd from 8:00-9:00 PM PST on Zoom! Link in bio for email list and Discord link

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Repost with your first crush ... sigh ... fine ...

the character Chetarra from the animated show Thundercats

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Leaving Faerie (#Westmoot2026) for the "real world."

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Nik 🧡 #1 Balrog enthusiast @tenetke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Good morning #Westmoot26! This is TODAY, and you’d better not miss it, because the whole gang is here AND we have minis, AND….oh did someone say AthraCOSPLAY???????? 1:30 pm in Minas Tirith!

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you're going to be at Westmoot, I'm going to be one of three loremasters running a One Ring table top roleplaying game. I'll be running a light, cozy Hobbit game. All levels of ttrpg experience are welcome!

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The Carrock: Northern California smial @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Join us tomorrow as we talk about the cozy side of Tolkien's Legendarium!

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I don't know how to explain this, but X-Files era David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are Team Rocket.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Sam Witwer voice acting as Maul with Ray Park doing MoCap ... what more could you possibly ask for? They're both just the best at what they do.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy First Contact Day!

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Give me an animated Lord of the Rings in the style of Disney's Robin Hood, with all the characters as some form of anthropomorphic animals.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Well, just woke up from my first "the cancer is back" dream. I'm sure I'll be having those every once in a while so I guess I should just get used to it, but damn ... that was unsettling.

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The Carrock: Northern California smial @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Join The Carrock Smial for our (the day before) Tolkien Reading Day Meeting on Tuesday March 24 from 8:00-9:00 on Zoom, where we will be talking about the Unlikely Heroes of Tolkien's Legendarium. Link in bio for our email list and Discord link

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I've been reading Tolkien's letters, and I came across this today in letter 61. It seemed sadly relevant. "How stupid everything is! and war multiplies the stupidity by 3 and its power by itself: so one’s precious days are ruled by (3x)² when x=normal human crassitude (and that’s bad enough)."

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So ever since chemo, my sweat smells different, like in a bad way. So that's fun. It's been two months since I last took chemo, so I hope this goes away eventually, because DAMN.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Reading the script for the unmade John Boorman LotR movie, and what the actual fuck? It is absolutely bananas. Frodo and Galadriel bang.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

First CT Scan post treatment today. Getting my first glimpse of what this is going to feel like every 6 months for the next 5 years. Spoiler: it feels bad. Today we find out if the chemo did its job.

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The Carrock: Northern California smial @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Come join the Carrock Smial for some Tolkien talk on Jan 20! Link in bio to sign up for our mailing list and Discord!

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Got my genetic tests back today and relieved to hear that I don't have any genetic markers that make me more prone to cancer. I really didn't want to be a mutant whose mutant power was just "cancer."

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This is trolling at this point, with the name, right? It has to be, right? I mean, come on. Tech bros, please keep Tolkien's name out of your mouth.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

We interrupt this rewatch of Sliders to rewatch the John Wick movies (so I can watch the fourth one which I have not seen)

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

4 days of chemo pills left. I am so close to being done with this phase of things. Side effects this time around are worse: the general fatigue, and my whole mouth just feels weird, and I am always have a weird metallic taste, but I can do this. Home stretch. Bring it on Let's fucking go.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I no longer wish to be called a librarian. From now on, I am a loremaster.

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The Carrock: Northern California smial @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Hope to see all you Carrock members for our meeting on Tuesday! More info below. And any new folks who would like to join us, please sign up at the link in our bio and you will be sent the link for the Zoom!

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Yesterday was my final chemo infusion. I'm not totally done with treatment yet. I have two weeks of pills to go, and the next few days I'll be feeling pretty rough, but damn it felt good to ring that bell. The finish line is in sight.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Nooooo! I got sent to Whamhalla during freaking chemo! That just feels like adding insult to injury!

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Halfway through my last chemo infusion. Let's fucking go.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Just about one month until I can run again. It's over three months since my last run, and I miss it every day. In related news, I did not (with my one lottery ticket) get into Western States 100. Thank goodness! 😂

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Well this made my day. The AR50 page has a picture of me on its main page banner. I'm the one directly behind the lady in pink.

a line of runners with trees and water in the background

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

A red book cover that reads: Dragonlance Chronicles, Volume 1 Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

It shows a fall forest scene where a red dragon lurks behind three people: a red haired and bearded man in leather armor, holding a bow, a blonde woman in leather holding a staff, and a man in armor with a long mustache.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I miss pepperoni pizza so much. It's been like four months (not supposed to have cured meats while on chemo). I think about it pretty constantly at this point.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Hear me out ... a Lord of The Rings film adaptation where everyone is still played by humans, but only Tom Bombadil is played by a Muppet.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with five bands you've seen in concert multiple times. Shakey Graves Frightened Rabbit The Shins Less Than Jake Tori Amos

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Easily half the marching bands in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade are the Spartans.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I honestly have so much to be thankful for this year. I'm still here, still fighting, and I'm so close to being done with this chemo bullshit. Add to that my amazing friends and family supporting me every step of the way, and despite everything I'm going through, I'm an extremely lucky person.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Sometimes I'll see a list of "stocking stuffers" and they'll be like $40 or $50 items. I used to get oranges and Hershey Kisses in my stocking.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

The characters from the 90s TV show Sliders standing next to what appears to be Tesla coils.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Of all the changes made to the Lord of the Rings movies, the one that makes me the saddest is that Bilbo never got back to the Lonely Mountain like he does in the book.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I finished SeaQuest yesterday. Next up in the rewatching 90s sci-fi rotation, Sliiiiiiiiiiiders.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It's amazing how something that is actively saving your life is also capable of making you feel this shitty. Thank you chemo, but also fuck you chemo.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Round three starts today. It's going to be a rough few days, but you know what I'm thinking about right now? How much I fucking love my life. This is so fucking hard, but I love my life so damn much. And this is what I have to do to get back to it.

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Yesterday I found out that Darwin from SeaQuest DSV was actually an animatronic puppet and not a real dolphin, and I woke up still thinking about it. Seriously, what the hell?

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Rob @jankybarns.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Finished my rewatch of Highlander: The Series. Honestly, when I started, I went in assuming that the show wouldn't hold up, but damn, it really does. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I do not have high hopes for the movie The Source, though "hold up" is not the right term, since it was terrible at the time.

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