Demanding more stories about Númenórean kings with just a crippling chewing tobacco habit or a thing about rolling their own cigars.

Finrod discovering the Secondborn just so he’d have an infinite supply of babies to kiss.

The first hobbit gardener to achieve pumpkin big enough to put a grown hobbit within for the purpose of Merriment and Delight went down in the history books, I can tell you that much.

You need reams of research experience to qualify for a role to gain research experience. They might not have designed it to lock out anyone whose undergrad experience was non-normative but that’s how it functions.

It’s weird and frustrating to apply for roles at institutions that specifically serve people w. your conditions (which you know because you used to get care there!) and get dismissed because your resume is too thin. Because you spent your formative years getting medical care.

me any time i have to research gemstone cutting. lapidarists love to taunt the crow-brained poor of the world with their creations.

he’s got an entire site dedicated to a gemstone named sphalerite which I’m pretty sure is a psy-op by the spanish government but is ridiculously charming about it.

Hoping life gets easier for you

Fatty Bolger deserves a tremendously large handcannon that he keeps at his bedside and must brandish whilst in his velvet slippers and tasseled nightcap.

get’em