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Rob
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Tolkien nerd, ultra runner, librarian

Just trying my best out here
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
The characters from the 90s TV show Sliders standing next to what appears to be Tesla coils.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Dammit Sam
A baby making a fist with the words "Top Test Bottom Text"
September 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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When I got home from surgery, I got myself a gift, a Knightweave cloak. It came today, which was good , because I needed something good to happen today to put a smile on my face.

Grey for the Rangers of the Grey Company, who rode with Aragorn on the Paths of the Dead, and came out the other side.
an Asian person wearing a grey cloak standing in front of some bookshelves
September 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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OK, this is legitimately making me feel better
a photo collage showing three photos: the title screen of Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring movie, a bunch of junk food, and me sitting on the couch in a cloak and eating a red vine.
August 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Like what if this was me all day?
A scene from Fellowship of the Ring showing Strider sitting at a table in an inn. He is wearing a cloak and smoking a pipe and just generally looks like a badass
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
a scene from Bob's Burgers with Tina face down on a couch and the text "come out tonight?" and then "cancer"
August 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Wow. Fuck you, fortune cookie. That's not "fortune." That's cancer.

Sorry... the dark humor is load bearing
A fortune that reads "The fortune you seek is already within you."
August 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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What perfect album came out when you were 16?

Picking one was hard. Also in the running were Tori Amos - Under the Pink, Jeff Buckley - Grace, and Portishead - Dummy
The cover of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York
July 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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From an interview of Allan Heinberg, show runner of Sandman (link in comment). Just an absolutely gross thing to say. Even if you only take the things Neil has full on admitted to, they're vile and disgusting. So Allan, you can fuck right off with this "room for nuance" and "everybody has a truth."
He is an executive producer on the show, and he’s been a brilliant and — I will just tell you, in my experience — he’s been nothing but loving and generous. And I don’t know that if I had created a comic and some guy came in and made it into a TV show, I don’t know that I would have been as loving and trusting and generous. And that’s my Neil Gaiman experience. I can’t speak about any of the allegations, because I don’t know anything. So I feel for everyone involved, and I wish we lived in a world where there was room for nuance, and everybody’s point of view is valid, including Neil’s. And that’s where I am: Everybody has a truth, everybody has an experience as it happened to them. And if there is — this is going way too far — but I’m not involved in it, in any of it. I respect everybody involved, and the worst thing I could do is make it about me in any way, if that makes sense.
July 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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8 years ago we brought home this little girl, and our lives have not been the same since. She's equal parts sweetness and attitude (maybe a little more attitude). Happy Gotcha Day to the captain, J.L. Pipes.
a small brindle dog with a pink bone
July 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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You see this shit from Murkowski? This is all freaking bonkers shit to say. If you don't think the bill is "not there yet," how about you fucking vote no on it?!
A screenshot from a BBC article that reads: "Murkowski still appeared discontented with the bill, even after voting to support it, describing the process as "rushed" and under an "artificial timeline". "I struggled mightily with the impact on the most vulnerable in this country", Murkowski said, adding the process was "probably the most difficult and agonising legislative 24-hour period" of her career. "My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognise that we're not there yet," she told reporters just outside the Senate floor, moments after the vote."
July 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Seriously, Khanna's take on this is so bad. First of all, it's just absurd on its face. Astore choosing what it will and won't stock isn't censorship. But the specific example is also bonkers. Is Plato using the proceeds of The Republic to fund legislation for slavery? No, because he's fucking dead.
Ro Khanna making an absolutely bananas argument that a bookstore refusing to sell Harry Potter is censorship
June 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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She just sat on the ottoman in front of me and cried until I moved over and made room for her on the blanket.
A small brindle dog sleeping on a blanket with neon skulls on it
June 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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For this week's Tolkien Tuesday: Cosplay theme, my Halloween costume last year, a Ranger.

#tolkientuesday #tolkientrewsday
a person in a cosplay of a Tolkien style Ranger
June 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Started working on painting minis again. This dude has been sitting on my desk for a very long time, with only the skin done. Finally starting to work on him again.
A game miniature of an orc-like monster, partially painted
June 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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This leapt immediately to mind.
A scene from Fury Road with the quote "Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence"
May 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Let's fucking go
A U-haul truck,.open on the back
May 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I've officially hit the "fuck it" stage of packing. At least I labeled it?
a taped shut cardboard box with the following written on it: Bags, Random bullshit, Actual important documents
May 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Holy shit, we bought a condo! We're homeowners!
Two people holding glasses of champagne in a kitchen
May 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Just got done with signing. Now we are just waiting to hear everything is good to go, and then all that's left is getting keys!
Two people holding a giant plastic key
May 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This wall lamp is in the condo we're buying. It's CLEARLY a Romulan lamp, right? Anyway, we're definitely keeping this thing.
A triangular made from metal and green glass
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Athrabeth Podcast Live with Knewbettadobetta!!

Super excited for this one!!

#westmoot #westmoot25 #intothewest
three people sitting on a stage behind a table with a slide deck projected behind them that reads Athrabeth Podcast Live!
May 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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My somewhat mediocre Hobbit costume for tonight!

#westmoot #westmoot25 #intothewest
a long haired Asian man wearing medicore Hobbit cosplay Green pants, a grey shirt, and an orange vest.
May 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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One of the biggest inspirations for my deep dive into Tolkien these last few years is the work of Dr. Corey Olsen, "The Tolkien Professor." It was worth the price of admission for this conference just to get to tell him how much his work means to me.

#westmoot #westmoot25 #intothewest
two men standing next to each other smiling
May 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Here's my shelfie ❤️
Two bookshelves with Tolkien books
April 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM