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Jude
@jude.athrabeth.com
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i do some podcasts:
- Athrabeth, @podcast.athrabeth.com
- Nionwe on @athraplay.athrabeth.com
- Babylon Podject, @babylonpod.page
- @compleat.bibliography.show‬

Tolkien Academic, Space Lizard Appreciator, Necromancy Enthusiast, Krakoan Ideologue

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I had fun with these
athraplay.athrabeth.com AthraPlay RPG Podcast @athraplay.athrabeth.com · 2d
Cael: Elerina I'm not doing this.

Happy Valentine's Day to all the hobbits, elves, dwarves, humans, orcs, balrogs, wizards, and witch kings who listen to our podcast!
February 15, 2026 at 1:07 AM
jude.athrabeth.com
1. Jean gray, just so I can make that situation more messy
2. Finrod but I’d just stare at him all starry eyed
3. Honestly I know so little about dc. Probably oracle?
4. Garak. I would be lucky to come out of it alive and with my wallet and I’d do it again
gailsimone.bsky.social Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d
You are unattached and can date one choice each from the following categories.

Whom do you pick?

1) A Marvel mutant

2) A Tolkien character

3) A Justice Leaguer

4) A Star Trek Character

One choice for each category, GO!
February 15, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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olddog.games
I don't know who keeps doing this but you have to stop I'm begging you
February 13, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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justen.babylonpod.page
Without X-Plain the X-Men, Compleat Discography and Babylon Podject would not exist, simple as that. The original and the GOAT.
February 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
i have submitted a talk proposal to @westmoot.org and i'm fine, not anxious at all
a close up of a green ball on a table
Alt: michaelangelo, the ninja turtle who is a party dude, looks up and says "HE'S NOT FINE!" thanks mikey
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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the expected enshittification of @discord.com begins, with age verification bullshit now looming. i'd love to not have to do the "where are we all going net" mambo every few years.

i wanna suggest irc but i'm guessing some of you CHILDREN dont even know what that is. and it doesnt have gifs.
February 9, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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the tremendous irony of the books section being shuttered by the guy who created amazon...
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12d
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
Michael Calderone & • 26m Executive editor Matt Murray just announced a "strategic reset" and cuts in meeting with Washington Post staff going on now Michael Calderone & • 20m The Post will be closing sports "in its current form" Michael Calderone • 17m The Post is shrinking international, restructuring metro Michael Calderone @ @mlcalderone X.com The Post is eliminating Books section 7:44 AM • 2/4/26 • 461 Views
February 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
jude.athrabeth.com
MERPs is a WILD thing to look at, as a Tolkien scholar and a fan of adaptations and ttrpgs. It occupies this space this is at once ABSURD for its total disinterest in being "canonical" (not that i ascribe to that idea w/r/t tolkien) and is really interesting creatively as a result
kierongillen.bsky.social Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 12d
Started the day nosing at ICE's MERPS, the first licensed Middle Earth ttrpg, and fascinated by its choices. Its first two new region supplements after launch are Umbar and Ardor. Neither of these two regions are on the map most folks likely know.

It's also set 1400 years before Lord of the Rings.
1st edition MERP supplements Angmar: Land of the Witch King (1982)[4] A Campaign and Adventure Guidebook for Middle-earth (1982) Umbar: Haven of the Corsairs (1982) The Court of Ardor in Southern Middle Earth (1982) Isengard and Northern Gondor (1983) Northern Mirkwood: The Wood-Elves Realm (1983) Southern Mirkwood: Haunt of the Necromancer (1983)
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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But also, this may be one of the best conflict-of-interest statements ever?
Screenshot of an excerpt from the article in the previous post. Text reads: "[Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green's DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.]"
February 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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literally every word in that description appeals to me
makapatag.bsky.social vajramaterialist mystic @makapatag.bsky.social · 14d
SWORDS UP, WANDERERS.
THE PEOPLE ARE WAITING.
MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPEN.
WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE.

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is an Ultraviolent Tropical Gothic Xianxia RPG. Martial artists and mystics wander and survive a Buddho-Communist Dark Fantasy world. Out for free!👇🏽
10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN, ALL THE PROLETARIAT WILL SHEAR AWAY THE BOURGEOISIE
February 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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man fuck those transphobes wizard houses, the real ones wanna know which Evangelion figures you have on your shelf
February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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this tolkien thing i'm working on has me reading about the most boring aspects of the Catholic church than i could ever have wanted to
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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This is the quote he's referring to and damned if every one of us who's worked in traditional tv prior to the streaming era isn't silently screaming in frustration right now. TV worked perfectly well before everyone tried to become GoT
question and answer on a deadline interview with HBO chief Casey Bloys. Deadline: is the success of the pitt a lesson that you don't have to spend twenty million an episode to get a big commercially successful and acclaimed show? Bloys: I don't know if it's a lesson so much as it's the history of television, there is a reason why shows were designed this way. what we were hoping for and what the pitt delivered was more than six or eight weeks of episodes, 15 weeks of weekly engagement but also and probably most importantly in this environment setting up a show that is creatively capable of coming back within a year and with producers who are able to do that. that obviously used to be the norm ans as an industry we've gotten away from it as shows have gotten bigger and more complicated: special effects, shooting overseas and all of the things that make shows bigger and more cinematic but also more challenging to produce. the idea of getting back to the basics back to what television was the people who know how to do that, it's a skill and john and scott and noah know how to do that, john has made some of the best shows with the highest episode counts there are. so if you want to achieve those things you have to go to people who understand how to set it up and execute on that.
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Charmander is five years old. He just today figured out fetch. Despite his sister literally living for the ball. That dog hadn’t got two brain cells to rub together.
February 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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fucking techbros
January 29, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Finally, someone Nionwe hates more than Elrond
January 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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i respect that apple's knucklehead UI choices and my other grumble of the day (why you so expensive HiMD! 50 bucks for a single disc?!?!?!?!) are extremely petty and small. thats all i got bandwidth for today.
January 28, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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if you love liquid glass, i'm happy for you, but i think its ugly as fucking sin and its a constant annoyance to me that i can't turn that shit off.
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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i sometimes look at my skeets and then think about all the tolkien scholars who follow me and worry about the fact that next time we talk at a conference the fact that i post horny on main about space lizards will be hanging there in the air between us
oldenoughtosay.com madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · Oct 1
I once again apologise to anyone who followed me for professional reasons
January 27, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Kermit the frog sitting on a log surrounded by flowers Text: "what radicalised you?" empathy bro, literally just wanting people to be treated like human beings
January 25, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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it takes the slightest mention of l5r to re-ignite my love for that trash franchise. i dont know what it is about this problematic magical samurai world that has its hooks in me but every time it comes up im fighting the urge to bribe my friends to play the old ccg or start a new rpg campaign
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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asking the real questions over here
impavid.us 🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 25d
Why are people bent out of shape about He-Man having pronouns when the actual thing we should be upset about is Jared Leto playing Skeletor
January 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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credit where it's due, this is nice at least
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 25d
Notching a rare win: House passed spending bills with all anti-trans riders removed—no care bans, no school funding threats, nothing.
Sarah McBride and Dem appropriators fought for this for months. open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...
BREAKING: House Passes Spending Bills With All Anti-Trans Riders Stripped Out
Provisions targeting gender-affirming care and trans students were removed during negotiations. The bill now heads to the Senate
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:49 AM