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@ladycrow.bsky.social
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Published poet, Renaissance faire worker, Pisces, she or they, disability life chose me, f/sf/Tolkien dork, troptwt refugee from the Bad Place. ngl.link/voiceoftruth

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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Journey's End" #tolkientrewsday Some characters have ends to their journeys before the book ends. Théoden King's is almost like Thorin's writ even larger: forgiveness spoken to a hobbit on a battlefield. But also the horse! "Faithful servant yet master's bane / Lightfoot's foal, swift Snowmane."
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Does this woman (Hughes, I mean, not Caraballo) think you go to gender clinics and get repeatedly kicked in the knee? I mean, she DOES think there are clinics replumbing young kids, which is arguably a dumber idea to hold, but way to make it about you I guess. I mean both gender and your kid's knee
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#hobbitday "I am in fact a hobbit" -- Tolkien's female characters are underdeveloped but the redemption arc in "The Scouring of the Shire" is Lobelia, jailed for attacking a Sharkey minion with her umbrella. "They've took some we miss more, but there's no denying she showed more spirit than most."
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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🌻 Hobbit Day Give Away 🌻 Win a little handmade fridge magnet, shaped as cute Resident of the Shire diploma. 4” tall & 3” wide Rules 🔸 Follow this account 🔸 RT this post 🔸 Comment and tell be about you favourite autumn food Winner announced Sep. 28th. #hobbitday #tolkienweek #handmade #humanartist
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Re "toxicity" scores for bsky accounts, which is something they do want to implement: so if I qrp a piece of art that popped up on my For You from a user I don't follow, and it's so good that I exclaim, "Look at this fucking brilliant art," my toxicity score goes up. What could go wrong
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is an inexpressible number of times funnier for Dead Heads who were always like "Bobby hired fuckin who now?"
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
With regard to the Ed Sh**ran debacle:
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#tolkientrewsday theme: "City of Dreaming Spires" which of course was Matthew Arnold's phrasal invention for Oxford in "Thyrsis" - both an elegy and a heckin chonker of a poem, with an invented rhyme scheme. All very Tolkien. Out of context the phrase nods to Gondolin & to Tirion upon Tuna.
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#TolkienTrewsday - if we do not as a fandom IMMEDIATELY confront our racism/all the -isms problem then we are cooked, chat. We know what RoP antis say about Arondir and Disa, and we know what LOTRO players mean about Umbar and Harad not feeling "like Tolkien," and nobody is willing to talk about it.
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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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A drawing of a crow standing in the rain. The caption reads, "It's okay to just muddle through right now. "Good enough" is, in fact, good enough."
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soleil ✵ #1 fingolfan @skywardstruck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
don't read morgoth's ring cause you'll realize sauron is like the worst AuDHD traits cranked up to eleventy-thousand, the perfectionism and obsession with things he can't control, and you'll be like DAMN i can't believe i relate to sauron but at least he serves cunt? so that helps a bit
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Former Kanye West aide" are quite the words to have on your resume. Former lickspittle to the world's most famous nitrous fiend Nazi, then attempted White Savior of same. Also why tf does he look like Lowtax of Something Awful fame, rip in piss
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There are two people who have a permanent seat at any TTRPG I ever run in my life. Both are on Bsky. September 1 is the birthday of one of them: @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social. I have a picture of child-Laura on my fridge and I feel like she'd be proud of the adult she became. I sure am.
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Halloween is going to be piercingly sad for a lot of us but at least the art will still slap
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I can't with how beautiful this is. I guess all you need to know about me is that my high school yearbook quote was "Don't dream it, be it" -- this is a painting I can hear
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Rice, newspapers, squirt guns, lighters, toast, playing cards
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
OK, so I had this discussion with two of the four Gandalf cosplayers I saw this weekend. What is the plural of Gandalf? a. Gandalf is also the plural, like moose/moose; b. Gandalfs, as here; c. Gandalves, because JRRT had to fight his publisher to get "elves" and particularly "dwarves"; or what?
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is why I hate this "cute trend." Like I'm glad for all the Bsky users who survived septic wounds inflicted by gerbils, but my gerbil incident was following advice to "give Doug another chance." Beside my champagne for when It Happens that all Americans have, there is another bottle
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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Warning here. There's going to be plenty like me as a #CSA survivor myself or other women who have suffered violence. For who the answer here is ... a man. Whether from the abuse or the aftermath which can take decades of work to even function whilst living with If you're out there. Keep going 🙏
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
August 9, 2007 The perpetrator denies it. I must just be mad because he also cheated? Explain your OTHER victims in that framework? I'll never be able to get through this day normally. I would love to be able to ditch the fucking nightmares someday at least
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is not just about Max Miller. Mike Johnson has just given cover to every abuser. He has undermined belief in every survivor’s story. He has set an assumption that accusations are made with malice towards the accused — the ultimate victim blaming. It’s hard to overstate the harm of this.
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.
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Galadriel's Power in Lord of the Rings
Alt: A film clip from Lord of the Rings in which Galadriel, played by Cate Blanchett, proclaims, "All shall love me and despair!" An effect has been applied to the movie film so that she looks blue-skinned and creepy, with her robes flying around her in some wind out of nowhere.
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A Balrog of Morgoth. What did you say? A Balrog of Morgoth.
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Gandalf vs. Balrog: Lord of the Rings
Alt: Gandalf vs. Balrog: Lord of the Rings. Gandalf faces off against a 14-foot-tall fire demon wielding a fiery whip, who would make a perfectly fine James Bond if we could find them the obligatory one-night stand.
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is the kind of wild, performative cruelty that I was subjected to btw, intentionally deprived of comfort
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If I had one copper piece for every time I, a forever DM, have had a SURPRISE TTRPG session sprung on me that was going to be mandatory, unavoidable, and in TWO HOURS, I would have no copper pieces and thus be unable to buy a 10' pole or 50' of rope (or a fucking pencil, goddamn)
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But this take itself is almost the literal definition of casting Magic Missile for no reason in order to attack the darkness.
Headline from the publication The Guardian. It says, "The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I'd ban them for anyone over 12." The byline says the author is Emily Watkins. There is a picture of a brown-haired white woman with red lipstick and no place at my Dungeons and Dragons table.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Fake accounts and fantasists used to put in a little effort. This is just... mid.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 01/08/2026
Some people deserve monuments as grand as their legacy. Harriet Tubman was reimagined as an ancient monument, the kind once reserved for kings and gods. Ruin of a Giant (Harriet Tubman) by Tavares Strachan. 🎥 IG: @UPB #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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MMORPG.com @mmorpg.com · 01/08/2026
Exclusive: LotRO's The Wolves of Mordor Expansion Brings Two Ambitious New Systems To Middle-earth This Fall www.mmorpg.com/interviews/e...
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Please look at this because it is brilliant
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just so folks know, I am mercilessly blocking any and all accounts that share AI slop political memes like that Charlie Brown shit with two Snoopy and four Linus. Lazy boomerposting instead of USING YOUR WORDS? "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" - Audre Lorde
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Old Man Green (he/him) @neurocrusty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just today I had the experience of someone I know, who's a "good guy", effectively dismiss an abuse allegation by reposting the abuser. It's not just the "bad men" denying abuse. It's pervasive. Or put differently, it may not be all men, but it's most of them.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I think what’s really at stake is that there are vast swaths of sexual life in which women have sex that they don’t want, with men who know their opportunity to avoid or decline it has been curtailed, and men are outraged that this sex, which they feel they are entitled to, is being called “rape.”
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Many give slack to Peter Jackson for everything he changed, all his fuckups, but insist this show can't be enjoyable because it's not 1:1 the Silmarillion, which no one has full rights to. They cite the Deep Magic to me ("Elves wouldn't do that!") despite my being there, etc. Fuck that, I'm pro-fun
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Amanda Deibert @amandadeibert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Clearly Little Caesar. He will divide the gall of the others into three parts
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Grateful Dead "If I knew the way, I would take you home" - Ripple
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/07/2026
When Democrats take power, they must immediately cancel all of Elon Musk’s government welfare checks. Like and repost if you want this to happen.
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Man quickly disassembles a big round thingy.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I may have posted it before but in case you haven’t seen her here is my capybara pebble. She had fallen out of an old flint wall in Linton Cambridgeshire & was lying on the pavement 🤎
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
While all of this Andy Serkis bullshit has been deservedly blowing up, David "The Trouble With Tribbles" Gerrold, elsenet, has been vigorously stanning genAI as a creative writing tool, calling people who disagree "harangutans," saying criticism is "chimpanzee screeching." Wtf, Tribble Guy. Wtf
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Andy Serkis has not merely jumped the shark, he has jumped over Fonzie in the middle of jumping his own shark, and I cannot be fucked to care about the Hunt for Gollum movie. This is coming from someone who owns 3 Silmarillions and knows where they all are btw www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Andy Serkis: Animal Farm star defends lack of diversity in Lord of the Rings cast
Kate Winslet, Jamie Dornan and Anya Taylor-Joy are among the stars who have been cast so far.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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smol opposite borb @ladycrow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This terven wretch, who is clearly not critiquing liberals from a point left of them, has described me on two of these points: I will gleefully repress anyone I find not obeying the rule against doing a rape
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/07/2026
It’s always ACAB with a certain sort until a man gets accused of rape and then it’s “why didn’t she file a police report.”
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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Chavez raping Dolores Huerta. Platner raping Jenny Racicot. Both these women keeping quiet out of fear that coming forward would damage their respective political movements. My good fellow bitches, if "the cause" doesn't give a shit about you, YOU are free from obligation to give a shit about IT
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