Emily
@becausechaucer.bsky.social
Proverbs 27:14 | definitely not a vampire | not as into Chaucer as it sounds from the name | ask before adding me to lists/packs/etc
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Rodgers & Hart's *There and Back Again* (The Hobbit), 1938
December 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Rodgers & Hart's *There and Back Again* (The Hobbit), 1938
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Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/
December 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/
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This. If the menswear guy comes for me, I'm not fighting, I've done something wrong. It's like if Chotiner ever asks to interview me a) no, and b) it's time to walk into the sea.
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This. If the menswear guy comes for me, I'm not fighting, I've done something wrong. It's like if Chotiner ever asks to interview me a) no, and b) it's time to walk into the sea.
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what I love about LotR is that it is at its heart about moving through a melancholy landscape largely filled with ruins, faded histories and legends - I would have filmed it that way and cut the fights to a bare minimum, plus add Merry's interest in comparative philology as a major plot element
December 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
what I love about LotR is that it is at its heart about moving through a melancholy landscape largely filled with ruins, faded histories and legends - I would have filmed it that way and cut the fights to a bare minimum, plus add Merry's interest in comparative philology as a major plot element
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My Libby holds coming in one at a time, once a week, would fix me.
600 followers would fix this account
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My Libby holds coming in one at a time, once a week, would fix me.
quick question, what's the late boomer-early x translation for "damn, bitch, you live like this?"
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
quick question, what's the late boomer-early x translation for "damn, bitch, you live like this?"
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[in tears, begging, pleading] let your medievalish characters WEAR COLORS!!!!!
Sending costumers to jail every time they put medieval-ish aristocrat characters in leather and fur. How will people know they have money if they aren't decked out in bling?
Or look at Theoden. His gold thread-embroidered tunic is something like what a high-status medieval man would actually wear.
December 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
[in tears, begging, pleading] let your medievalish characters WEAR COLORS!!!!!
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The older I get, the more I understand how he feels.
Aragorn also looks like he can't believe he's 87.
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The older I get, the more I understand how he feels.
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But Gollum did not know about potatoes, meaning they had reached Middle-earth in the 500 years since he took refuge beneath the mountains. In this essay I will
When the camera pans over the refugees gathered in Helm's Deep, they have bushel baskets full of potatoes with them, so it's not just the hobbits who know about taters.
December 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
But Gollum did not know about potatoes, meaning they had reached Middle-earth in the 500 years since he took refuge beneath the mountains. In this essay I will
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Statler: Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
Waldorf: No, but I'm judging your choice in opera attire.
Both: OH HO HO HO HO HO
Waldorf: No, but I'm judging your choice in opera attire.
Both: OH HO HO HO HO HO
Most of Gandalf's lines also work if spoken in the voice of Statler or Waldorf.
December 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Statler: Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
Waldorf: No, but I'm judging your choice in opera attire.
Both: OH HO HO HO HO HO
Waldorf: No, but I'm judging your choice in opera attire.
Both: OH HO HO HO HO HO
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Every time I watch LotR it hits me that the Rohirric and Gondorian costumes are light years better than any medieval-inspired costumes of the last decade.
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Every time I watch LotR it hits me that the Rohirric and Gondorian costumes are light years better than any medieval-inspired costumes of the last decade.
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Sending costumers to jail every time they put medieval-ish aristocrat characters in leather and fur. How will people know they have money if they aren't decked out in bling?
Or look at Theoden. His gold thread-embroidered tunic is something like what a high-status medieval man would actually wear.
December 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sending costumers to jail every time they put medieval-ish aristocrat characters in leather and fur. How will people know they have money if they aren't decked out in bling?
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4'5" hobbit getting a full-ride scholarship to play basketball for U. of Buckland.
Hobbit lads complaining about how girls won't date them if they're less than 4 ft tall.
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
4'5" hobbit getting a full-ride scholarship to play basketball for U. of Buckland.
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Happy 20th anniversary to "Samoyed and teddy bear" on Wikimedia Commons.
"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Happy 20th anniversary to "Samoyed and teddy bear" on Wikimedia Commons.
"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
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Boxing Day was traditionally a day when servants would be given a box containing gifts, bonuses, and sometimes leftover food. This red and white striped cotton twill dress was worn by a domestic servant in the 1910s. Tees Valley Museums collection. #BoxingDay #fashionhistory
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Boxing Day was traditionally a day when servants would be given a box containing gifts, bonuses, and sometimes leftover food. This red and white striped cotton twill dress was worn by a domestic servant in the 1910s. Tees Valley Museums collection. #BoxingDay #fashionhistory
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Remembering that Diana Wynne jones annoyed him by being that one student that paid attention during lectures and didn’t let him go home to finish lotr ozandends.blogspot.com/2010/03/conf...
December 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Remembering that Diana Wynne jones annoyed him by being that one student that paid attention during lectures and didn’t let him go home to finish lotr ozandends.blogspot.com/2010/03/conf...
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[being possessed by Satan] I think I’ve lost my zest for life :\
“I feel like butter scraped over too much bread” is the most hobbity way to describe being corrupted by an ancient artifact of evil.
December 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
[being possessed by Satan] I think I’ve lost my zest for life :\
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A final (?) update: pecan crescents, formerly the least appealing of the family's traditional christmas cookies, have suddenly become the favorite because they look like packing peanuts.
What the kids wanted to do with packing peanuts: form an assembly line wherein they crush them flat, then roll them as thin as they can, then pass them through the hole in a play-money coin to make sure they're small enough. The product of this factory is called "noodles of justice."
"Packing peanuts!"
--things you really don't want to hear your five year old joyfully exclaim when you're on the opposite end of the house.
--things you really don't want to hear your five year old joyfully exclaim when you're on the opposite end of the house.
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A final (?) update: pecan crescents, formerly the least appealing of the family's traditional christmas cookies, have suddenly become the favorite because they look like packing peanuts.
LOTR is a Christmas movie not because of old men with white beards or elves or gifts or because part of it happens on December 25th but because it is So Damn Long
usually when I say "LOTR marathon" I mean "one movie per day observed over three to five days of winter break"
December 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
LOTR is a Christmas movie not because of old men with white beards or elves or gifts or because part of it happens on December 25th but because it is So Damn Long
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the way to my heart is out of print history books
December 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
the way to my heart is out of print history books
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He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
December 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
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Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please."
What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!
What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!
June 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please."
What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!
What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!
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Harrison Ford ys an amazinge actor. He ys adaptable. He ys thoughtful. He ys a genius. He ys a legend who will be rememberid for centuryes. But Harrison Ford kan onlye holde a gun exactlye one (1) waye yn any role.
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Harrison Ford ys an amazinge actor. He ys adaptable. He ys thoughtful. He ys a genius. He ys a legend who will be rememberid for centuryes. But Harrison Ford kan onlye holde a gun exactlye one (1) waye yn any role.
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Just got the best idea for a Halloween costume:
Wraith Vaughan Williams
Now just need to get some incredibly nerdy musical friends who will actually get the joke
Wraith Vaughan Williams
Now just need to get some incredibly nerdy musical friends who will actually get the joke
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just got the best idea for a Halloween costume:
Wraith Vaughan Williams
Now just need to get some incredibly nerdy musical friends who will actually get the joke
Wraith Vaughan Williams
Now just need to get some incredibly nerdy musical friends who will actually get the joke