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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

thing is if your town is small enough you know everyone there and you know most of these people are broke just like you, and then you see them advocating for the private property of idk a megafuckton of a castle. Pal. Pal. I know you. what are you doing

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

- my criminal law professor, probably

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I can’t explain how frustrating debates over characters’ moral positionalities are to me. I don’t think media analysis’s ultimate goal is to place characters in a black or white box. I don’t care about boxes. I don’t care whether Feanor, a fictional tool and nonexistent man, is morally good or bad.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the grip is, in fact, slipping, and we're hitting rock bottom in a few minutes. Sorry for the delay but you know the economy etc etc etc

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ok listen "you can always speak up" doesnt work with family where it's pretty much understood that peace must be maintained at all costs, and your family doesn't really want to hurt you, they’re family! they’re blood, they love you, why can't you be happy, why can't you just fucking shut up

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I really should get the infamous grip but how how in this economy etc etc etc

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

family meticulously designed to drive me mad and me, personally what a work of architecture really

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it’s easy to say that women and queer authors and authors of color are held to higher standards because of mere animosity towards them but i think a major mechanism of that is this diarist image of them where their work is about themselves and its contents are loved or hated in that light

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i had a professor in undergrad who said that male authors are understood to be capable of abstraction from themselves whereas all women are diarists whose work directly reflects them, even to their admirers, and i think a lot about how that effect propels heightened scrutiny on certain authors

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this sparrow book is good, got me out of a reading slump but it's very not good for my mood. I can't put it down but I should

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the thing is sometimes the point is not romance sometimes the point is that we dispose freely of anyone we deem to be sullying the path to the throne we will sit upon thinking all the while how right we really are. Or something like that.

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

silmarillion fans handshake the rabbis of old and at the middle it says “who tf was this character’s wife though? we have to make up something about her”

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

rejoice I've learned some very cool new words today

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this fandom is truly something because on one side you'll get full critical essays with notes and bibliography about the source material and thoughtful discussions of racism and misogyny and on the other people complaining about smartasses and *aren't you tired of being a hater*

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

puzzling the importance and emphasis fandom places on good motherhood when it comes to female characters as though being a good mother was the only good quality a fc could have. But also what if she wasn't a good mother after all. Does that mean she's a bad friend/companion/artisan etc. person? uh

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

law students in my country are seldom required to take written exams so I dont see how ai can be a problem here. That said 2 critiques: 1) this leaves students unprepared to deal with academic writing or writing in general; 2) the way oral exams are structured is no guarantee of deep comprehension

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

also can you people be for real please. You cannot assume people aren't being anti ai enough just because they don't post ''ai sucks'' every other day. Get. A. Grip.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

anyway. really looking forward to reading this one

Book cover for "Classicism: How the West Invented the Ancient World"
by Marchella Ward and description: "We’ve been sold a story about the ancient world: Greece gave us democracy, Rome gave us law, and the West inherited the lot. It’s a neat, noble timeline. It is also a dangerous lie. In Classicism: How the West Invented the Ancient World, Marchella Ward reveals this specific version of history for what it really is: not a neutral record of facts, but the structural foundation for modern Islamophobia.

What links the genocides of the Palestinians in Gaza, the Uyghurs in East Turkestan, and Muslim populations in India? In a word, ‘classicism’—the dominant narrative of world history in which nations and peoples find their origins in a pre-Islamic time. Muslims are, in this narrative, a people without ancient history: scandalous outsiders who threaten the myth of the nation.

Urgent, accessible, and unapologetic, Classicism demands a counter-narrative to the standard Western script. Ward finds the building blocks for this new history in Islamism, long positioned as the enemy, but here offering vital provocations towards a better world not just for Muslims but for all those living on the underside of colonial modernity."

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

People are so weird about Dostoevsky. People are so weird about classics in general and about what universality means in particular.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

forced to have lunch with the most annoying relatives tomorrow and it's been spiking my anxiety for days. And like would I survive yes of course but do I wonder why I must endure this ordeal. Also quite yes

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

just to be clear about what kind of a joke of a person I am: most of my thesis is at this point written in its most significant parts in text messages I've sent to myself on whatsapp but won't write it on my doc lmao bc doc is *scary* and it bites

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🍂🖋️ Thelien🖋️🍂 COMMISSIONS OPEN @tarrthelien.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Quildalaco for @//tolkienocweek on tumblr Day 2┃Friends He is Caranthir´s spymaster, and one of the biggest smapartists out there - basically, he tricks Caranthir into thinking he is a sorcerer and a half Leprawn. #oc:quidalaco #tolkienoc #tolkien #silmarillion #silmart #tolkienart #elves #fantasy

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

ultimately I think I'm unable to vibe with a lot of het smut anymore bc the way it engages with desire is pretty much removed from how I experience it, insofar as desire is something performed on the woman rather than something she feels

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

btw maemags is at its most compelling to me in a post 3rd kinslaying scenario where I can easily imagine them being levelled out/lord-vassal relationship having become far less pronounced after they've lost possibly everything

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

the maemags sexcomedy started from the funny premise "what if the woman maglor is sexually entangled with moans his brother's name during intercourse" then progressed into several readings of What Is A Man After All, and escalated into me enjoying the reading more than doing any of the writing tbh

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🍂🖋️ Thelien🖋️🍂 COMMISSIONS OPEN @tarrthelien.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sons of Finwë It was fun trying to make them match, yet still look distinctive, despite their common traits in design. #tolkien #silmarillion #feanor #fingolfin #finarfin #tolkienart #silmart #fantasy #elves

Fingolfin is standing to Fëanor´s left, in a dark blue tunic, a white sash, a blue plain robe, and a lighter one with a floral pattern on top. He is wearing silver jewelry. Angled just in front of him to the side stands Fëanor in a white tunic, red sash, and black robe, over that, he is wearing a red and white robe. He is wearing golden jewelry. Finarfin is sitting on the ground in front of them, he is dressed in a white tunic, two green robes, the outer one with golden floral embroidery, and a light yellow shawl. He is wearing golden and silver jewelry and has blond, unbraided hair, opposite of his two brothers' black braided hair.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I also kinda understand why tlk exerts such a pull on right-wingers but that said statement n.2 in the series pretty much clashes with those reasons & it’s no less explicit.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

people are so weird about people

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I remember not liking Seven Kings Must Die very much but on a recent rewatch yeah, it's not good but damn if only it were good. It's half-made but that half hits hard enough

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

self imposed posting ban for user nycteris

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

what if I changed my username to athelbumf. Athelstand? Athelstopstopdon't

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

note I'm just throwing a rock here and 'm no film critic but I wonder whether feminist criticism of an adaptation that's so detached from its source should happen on its own terms without drawing continuous parallels to the text.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

anyway everyone must have their own personal meter for what makes prose rich because I started reading this guy gavriel guy since everyone seemed convinced he fell into the category but he really does not. to me.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

okay this is getting ridiculous now. My cousin is showing me misogynistic sketches on yt and asking me if I got the joke. Yeah I wish I didn't. Like okay you've become a chauvinist great but can you at least be a chauvinist in private no?

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm trying Guy Gavriel Kay. Wish me luck

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I fear tolkien and hobb have successfully ruined the fantasy genre for me, in the sense that nothing else can compare.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think my only 10 days of respite from thesis are about to be ruined. Cheers to that

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sheepstealler did nothing wrong.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

about the PerformativityTM: "the show has female characters throwing swords: feminist!" is no less a shallow criticism than "oh my god they gave the FC a love interest and that's misogynistic". Which perfectly sums up the terms of the discussion. Sadly.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Okay I'm a little pissed because the ita edition of BoLT has varda and manwe gathering "powerful wings" instead of "wings of power", and those are two completely different things. I thought they had (BoLT) canonical wings??

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

thing is I'm a great refuter of the whole let people enjoy things, but conversely let people hate things is no more compelling bc haterism can actually bear fruit when it's done critically. Otherwise you're just on the same level as people passively nodding along with whatever gets thrown at them

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I never say this but I think I just wrote the best argued paragraph of my entire thesis, it's just mwah perfect. All the more satisfying bc this was the freaking liminal topic I was struggling to understand and had to read an embarrassing number of papers about.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

as a rule I'm pretty good at cutting unnecessary words and phrasing from my fics, but my thesis is verbose in some? many? points, and I can't tell whether I should be able to use fewer words if I truly mastered the topic or if I'm just. like this.

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

this seems relevant. for me. today

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nycteris @nycterisg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

what I mean is. Fandoms are very keen on giving so much importance on pointless things and treating poorly important things that would deserve more thought and tact; the trivial becomes existential and the existential trivial. No sense of proportion.

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

elladan and elrohir aren’t in pj’s movies because he was afraid of the power of the dionysian madness that even remotely sexyman elf twins on screen would’ve unleashed on society

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