BetweenHorizons | Anna Olsen
@betweenhorizons.bsky.social
30s, dancer, reader, writer of creative non-fiction, lover of Tolkien, Thranduil apologist, owner of not enough cats or bookshelves.
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Peter Thiel is founding yet another company named after something from Middle Earth.
This time it’s a bank named Erebor, a reference to the mountain which holds Smaug’s piles of gold and treasure.
This time it’s a bank named Erebor, a reference to the mountain which holds Smaug’s piles of gold and treasure.
Peter Thiel joins tech billionaires backing new lender Erebor to rival Silicon Valley Bank
Start-up named after the dragon’s mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’
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July 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Whatwhatwhatwhatwhat nooooo
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girls will be like “I needed this” and it’s the Downfall of Sauron
May 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
girls will be like “I needed this” and it’s the Downfall of Sauron
#luinelle #tolkien 🧵 Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...
Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits
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May 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#luinelle #tolkien 🧵 Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...
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Making a little Elysium. My garden is renewing my life. ❤️
Making a little Elysium. My garden is renewing my life. ❤️
The Dearest Freshness
We eat dinner outside on our patio for the first time. The air is cool, the evening sun warm. It is still too early for bugs. The Creek flows along the far edge of our yard – rushing, now, sw…
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May 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Making a little Elysium. My garden is renewing my life. ❤️
Making a little Elysium. My garden is renewing my life. ❤️
why is my BlueSky full of Grond are we being attacked
May 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
why is my BlueSky full of Grond are we being attacked
What is the derpiest bird and why is it the northern flicker
May 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
What is the derpiest bird and why is it the northern flicker
I can only catch every one word in three in the show, but Sister Michael from Derry Girls is my spirit animal.
May 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I can only catch every one word in three in the show, but Sister Michael from Derry Girls is my spirit animal.
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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
The people refusing to use AI
Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.
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May 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
Westu hál. Ferðu, Bernard Hill. 🍺
Last year on this day, The Lord of the Rings and Titanic actor Bernard Hill dies aged 79 💔
"King Théoden" R.I.P. Bernard Hill (1944-2024) 🙏
"King Théoden" R.I.P. Bernard Hill (1944-2024) 🙏
May 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Westu hál. Ferðu, Bernard Hill. 🍺
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The return to roman architecture guys are thinking too small. We should be elfmaxxing. We should be building gorgeous whimsical cities fully integrated into the natural world. We should live in Lothlórien and vacation in Rivendell. This is what they took from you
May 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The return to roman architecture guys are thinking too small. We should be elfmaxxing. We should be building gorgeous whimsical cities fully integrated into the natural world. We should live in Lothlórien and vacation in Rivendell. This is what they took from you
...I mean this is basically how I grew up, so, yes. 😅
@betweenhorizons.bsky.social built a ramshackle treehouse in the woods as a middle schooler that her parents didn’t know about. She pretended she was an elven queen. One night she fell asleep there and the police were out looking for her. She made it home fine but the mosquito bites were awful.
May 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
...I mean this is basically how I grew up, so, yes. 😅
Update, I have started filling my little empty flower beds, and they aren't growing yet but I am checking every day to see if things are sprouting yet, and it fills me with so much joy to be making things beautiful at my little home.
When I get too overwhelmed by the Big Scary, I like to go outside and look at my little yard and my little empty flower beds and think about all the things I'm going to fill them with when the winter is over, and how beautiful my little home is going to be once I've moved all the way in.
May 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Update, I have started filling my little empty flower beds, and they aren't growing yet but I am checking every day to see if things are sprouting yet, and it fills me with so much joy to be making things beautiful at my little home.
This this this. It's Tolkien's deep love and reverence for the natural world that really move me, in his books. Yes, the characters are great and the storylines are powerful, but give me his love of trees, his description of the night, his long tribute to the natural world, first. 💘 #tolkien
yeah yeah "j.r.r. tolkien describing a tree" or whatever but the descriptions of scenery in lord of the rings are genuinely so good. like upsettingly, magically good. tearing-at-your-hair-because-you-want-to-write-like-that good. and it's like every third line
May 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This this this. It's Tolkien's deep love and reverence for the natural world that really move me, in his books. Yes, the characters are great and the storylines are powerful, but give me his love of trees, his description of the night, his long tribute to the natural world, first. 💘 #tolkien
My doctor's office has old seasons of The Great British Bake Off playing on loop in their waiting room, and I gotta say, great choice. Truly 10/10. It makes me actually want to be here.
May 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My doctor's office has old seasons of The Great British Bake Off playing on loop in their waiting room, and I gotta say, great choice. Truly 10/10. It makes me actually want to be here.
Okay #luinelle #tolkien friends - what can you tell me about Turkish influences in Tolkien's languages, particularly Black Speech? Someone commented on it to me recently, and I don't know anything about this - was his Black Speech influenced by Turkish, or is that a connection drawn after the fact?
April 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
When I get too overwhelmed by the Big Scary, I like to go outside and look at my little yard and my little empty flower beds and think about all the things I'm going to fill them with when the winter is over, and how beautiful my little home is going to be once I've moved all the way in.
April 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
When I get too overwhelmed by the Big Scary, I like to go outside and look at my little yard and my little empty flower beds and think about all the things I'm going to fill them with when the winter is over, and how beautiful my little home is going to be once I've moved all the way in.
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A really easy way to check yourself is to ask “is this something Morgoth would do?” and if the answer is yes, don’t do it!
March 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A really easy way to check yourself is to ask “is this something Morgoth would do?” and if the answer is yes, don’t do it!
"Are you aware that the entire west wing and Astronomer's Tower are burning?"
"I thought they'd killed you. I lost my temper."
Okayyyyy so turns out Daine is me. I am Daine. Haha oops. #tortall #tamorapierce
"I thought they'd killed you. I lost my temper."
Okayyyyy so turns out Daine is me. I am Daine. Haha oops. #tortall #tamorapierce
March 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Are you aware that the entire west wing and Astronomer's Tower are burning?"
"I thought they'd killed you. I lost my temper."
Okayyyyy so turns out Daine is me. I am Daine. Haha oops. #tortall #tamorapierce
"I thought they'd killed you. I lost my temper."
Okayyyyy so turns out Daine is me. I am Daine. Haha oops. #tortall #tamorapierce
Omg, Daine taking justice into her own hands, in Emperor Mage? Yes, girl. I *feel* you. Let's effing GO. #tortall #tamorapierce
March 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Omg, Daine taking justice into her own hands, in Emperor Mage? Yes, girl. I *feel* you. Let's effing GO. #tortall #tamorapierce
Oh. My god.
No one is talking about how often 11 year old girls switch places with their twin brother to fulfill their forbidden dream of becoming a knight and if I’m being honest, it’s a Tortall shame.
March 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Oh. My god.
Continuing in Tortall: I've now read Kel, Alanna, Aly, & am half through Daine's books. Kel will always be my favorite. But I'm realizing tht at age 10, I didn't *get* Alanna the way I do now. Kel informed much of my childhood, but I think Alanna is the spirit of my adulthood. #tortall #tamorapierce
March 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Continuing in Tortall: I've now read Kel, Alanna, Aly, & am half through Daine's books. Kel will always be my favorite. But I'm realizing tht at age 10, I didn't *get* Alanna the way I do now. Kel informed much of my childhood, but I think Alanna is the spirit of my adulthood. #tortall #tamorapierce
The most terrifying thing I do every day is take a vitamin pill the size of the tower of Orthanc. I am not convinced that choking on it one of these days won't be how I die. Why can't we make it half the size and just take two?? -_-
March 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The most terrifying thing I do every day is take a vitamin pill the size of the tower of Orthanc. I am not convinced that choking on it one of these days won't be how I die. Why can't we make it half the size and just take two?? -_-
don't let bitterness become you
Elysium
Brother, do you believe in an afterlife?Where our souls will both collidein some great Elysiumway up in the sky? It is hard to sit with Ash Wednesday. This day has always been a difficult one for me. I didn't know what it was, when I first saw it being observed, sitting in the chapel of my college, watching students leave with the sign of the cross in ash on their foreheads.
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March 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
don't let bitterness become you