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Sivaroobini
@tamilhobbit.bsky.social
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She/they. Tamil. Teacher, SCAdian. Classics & Ancient History. Queer feminist disabled nerd. Social Justice Cleric. Living on Whadjuk-Noongar land.

Free 🇵🇸.

https://tamilhobbit.weebly.com/
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If I had a nickel for every time I wrote a Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang fanfic tackling fantasy racism in Middle-Earth, I'd have two nickels.

Which probably doesn't surprise anyone who knows me, tbh.

Anyway, I now have a basic Hurrian vocabulary and many thoughts on Orc society.
Dr Doofenshmirtz meme. Top panel - 'If I had a nickel for every fanfic I wrote tackling fantasy racism for this specific annual Tolkien fandom event, I'd have two nickels.' Bottom panel - 'Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.'
September 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Tweet by @malsaafin - 'For months, Israel has openly threatened Anas with murder. What did his peers and colleagues around the world do to protect him? What did the most prominent, best paid, most comfortable journalists around the world do to protect the best of them?'
August 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Aragorn: 😮

(Why yes, I made a new character on #LotRO. 😆)
Shocked Pikachu meme, captioned, 'Calder Cob is a traitor?!'
July 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I might be slightly obsessed with this gorgeous, adorable set of mushroom tableware a friend gave me as an early birthday gift. 😆 🍄 ❤️
Breakfast on a wooden dining table, in mushroom dishes. There is a small round side plate containing slices of cut pear, with a raised curved rim that's red with white spots. The plate itself has ridges like the gills on the underside of a mushroom cap. Then there's a mug of tea, shaped to look like a large amanita mushroom - stubby white lined stem with a red white-spotted cap, looking like the top has been cut off so you can drink out of it. Around the base of the mug are two spotted mushrooms (one blue, one pink) with tufts of grass. On the top of the red mug handle is a tiny yellow mushroom. And finally there is a bowl of creamy oat porridge with blackberries. The bowl looks like an amanita mushroom cap. The outside is red with white spots, and the rim is slightly uneven like a real mushroom. The inside has the same ridged mushroom-gill pattern as the plate. There are other dishes and some fabric/sewing debris in the background.
June 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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On the weekly video call with my family, my dad kept asking if I wanted to hear a story about hobbits.

I knew it'd be some dad joke fuckery so I was like, nope, not interested.

And he was like, "But why? It's a SHORT story!" and then started giggling.
Bilbo Baggins from the beginning of the first Hobbit movie, sitting at his dinner table and looking very annoyed.
May 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Feels weird smashing and eating this purple-speckled blue egg while watching them freak out over Bumpy's similar-looking egg, in the new season of Chaos Theory. 😆
Brown hand holding a largeish hand-sized Easter egg against a maroon blanket. It's wrapped in blue foil with large purple oval spots, with the Cadbury Dairy Milk logo in each purple oval.
April 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Saddest death in the whole damn franchise. 😭
Eddie Carr from Jurassic Park: The Lost World.
April 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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I'm about to cut into the good fabric and my grandma very seriously said in Tamil, "Be careful. Pray to the gods before you cut into it."

She's not wrong tbh, this fabric was not cheap. 😆
Pretty fabric is laid out on the floor, with a colourful realistic floral pattern against very, very pale yellow. Calico pattern pieces for a bodice and a sleeve are laid out on it. Faint labelling is visible on some of the pattern pieces.
March 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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How is it that cats don't give a shit about rugs and mats, but the moment you lay your fabric on the floor for measuring/cutting/sewing, it's the best toy ever?

She's even attacking the pattern paper and has already ripped a hole in it. 😭
A rather tubby black/brown/white tabby cat is on her side on the floor, lying on a McCall's sewing pattern paper laid on some calico fabric. Everything is rumpled around her because she is twisting and attacking it, front paws getting right in there and under the paper and into the fabric, back feet up with claws out.
March 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Dad has a great home theatre setup & Atmos surround sound system.

Aragorn opening the doors of Helm's Deep in 4K on the big screen is exactly what I needed today.
Photo of LotR: The Two Towers being projected onto a wall painted white. Aragorn is opening the big double doors of Helm's Deep. The picture was taken at the exact moment of transition, so it looks like the zoomed in scene of Aragorn's face as he opens them is overlaid on the larger scene of the doors. Two Aragorns! Double the sexiness!
March 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I feel very attacked. 😆
Image description - Shot from the first Hobbit movie, with Thorin standing at the head of a table full of Dwarves, hand raised in a fist as he shouts. Over that a Tweet from @EthanOpia is superimposed, reading, 'Okay guys, we can't ALL be depressed at once. We have to take turns.'
February 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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😇
Tumblr post by @markfiend - 'It's not punching a Nazi, it's a Roman face massage'.
February 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Honestly, accurate. 😆
Tumblr post by @lilies-of-thevalley - 'Gandalf's Totally Foolproof I Swear This Is Gonna Work Guys strategy for protecting Middle-Earth: - apply hobbit of choice to problem - introduce big groups in smaller groups as not to spook potential host - when all goes haywire, eagles'
February 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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😭
Tumblr post by marsharmonicorchestra - 'no, no. you’ve got it all wrong. girls don’t want flowers. all girls want is to look for his coming from the white tower and see him return. all girls want is for the tower guard to take up the call and tell them the lord(s) of Gondor have returned.'
January 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Looking back at my old GISHWHES tasks.

The task for this one was to dress in garb compatible with the other characters (or setting) in a painting from the 1800s or earlier, and photoshop myself into the composition.

1255BCE counts as pre-1800s, right? 😜
Wall painting from the tomb of Queen Nefertari, showing her seated and playing senet,wearing a white robe, gold collar necklace and vulture headdress. I have Photoshopped myself in, seated across from her - I am also in side profile, with brown skin, long wavy black hair held back with a gold headband, wearing a sleeveless Egyptian sheath dress of white linen with a red strip of silk at the top and a broad Egyptian collar necklace, one hand hovering over the board. There is a caption under the picture, reading 'This mural from the tomb of Queen Nefertari depicts her playing senet with her known friend, the GISHWHES ambassador Sivaroobini.'
January 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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All good! Feel free to ask questions. 🙂

Eg. people will say you can't cook eggs or tomatoes in cast iron. I say that's nonsense. My best eggs come from cast iron, and I use cast iron for curries containing tomato too.

Use plenty of oil/butter the first few times to help build up seasoning.
Soft, fluffy yellow scrambled eggs in a small cast iron skillet. A cast-iron satti or kadai (traditional Indian U-shaped pot, small but deep with a flat base), half full of freshly cooked chickpea curry. Potatoes, tomatoes, spices and coriander leaves are visible.
January 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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He really wasn't kidding around when he declared Manifest Destiny in his inauguration speech, huh.

azmirror.com/2025/01/24/r...
Screenshot of a news article. The headline reads, 'Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders'. Subheading reads, 'The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don’t have birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, so neither should children of noncitizens born in the US'. By Shondiin Silversmith, January 24 2025. Image of a professionally-dressed female Navajo National Council Speaker seated at a table with a mic and a laptop, making a public address.
January 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Insert Imhotep joke here?

In all seriousness, this is a very cool discovery!

www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
Screenshot of news article headline reading, 'French-Swiss archaeology team discovers stunning tomb of renowned wizard-doctor in Egypt', over an image of a square tomb entrance cut into rock, with a border of hieroglyphs.
January 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim was AMAZING.

The very beginning sent chills down my spine. It was such a beautiful return to Middle-Earth.

It was very faithful to source material, with Héra simply stepping into the gaps in the original narrative.

I cried a few times.

Go watch it.
Top image is the film title card for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. Superimposed over that are my text captions reading, '*the OG title card and opening music*', '*the swelling notes of the Rohan theme*' and '*lush, detailed, lovingly painted vistas of Rohan*'. Bottom image is a captioned still from Brooklyn 99 showing Detective Jake Peralta standing next to an upset woman. He looks excited and is flapping both hands as he sighs and says, "Chills, literal chills."
December 17, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Is there anything better than patting and squishing a sun-warmed, purring cat? ❤️
Orange stripey tabby cat loafing on a wooden floor, next to a floor-to-ceiling white-framed window with white vertical blinds. Grass is visible outside. He is sunlit and is looking up at something out of frame (my hand), and looks very content. He has a very pink, very boopable little nose.
November 30, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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Probably time to take down the Deepavali decorations? It's been over three weeks now. 😅

The house can be bare for like a week before we put Christmas stuff up. Although those fairy lights are permanent. 😅
A henna-ed hand rests against a brown front door with three decorative signs on it. At the top is an elaborate one with decorative Indian elements and Tamil text (தீபாவளி வாழ்த்துக்கள்) on it, over two large peacocks. Below them is the text Happy Deepavali, over floral confetti and a traditional Tamil prayer item of a gold vessel with leaves and a coconut, on a lotus held by jewelled hands. Below that and to either side are identical mirrored signs. Each one shows a woman with long braided hair, dressed in a traditional sari and lots of jewellery, holding a lotus on which sits an oil lamp with a large flame. A window with closed white blinds. Over those blinds, warm white fairy lights are strung up in large loops. At the top of the windowsill are glittery green thoranams, traditional Tamil garlands made by folding coconut leaves, although these ones are made of card. They have deepams or oil lamps on them.
November 23, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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Trying this again.

The first one is my lockscreen. It just feels so peaceful and comforting and homey. ❤️

The second pic is my wallpaper. 😊
A calm, lovely photo of Bag End, Bilbo and Frodo's hobbit house. In the foreground a curving, weather-worn flight of stone steps leads up to it, and flowering bushes grow thickly next to it. Then there's the warm facade and round green door of Bag End itself, surrounded by more greenery, and at the top the large tree arches over the house. The whole palette is a little muted, adding to its calm feel. A photo of a hobbit hole, possibly Sam Gamgee's. Stone paving with greenery poking through the gaps winds through flowering bushes to the yellow front of a hobbit smial, with dark wooden lintels and a cheerful round yellow door. Grass grows over the roof. There is a little wooden table by the door, bearing a little wooden caddy, a mug and a flower-pot. On the other side of the door is a little wooden stool and a flowering lavender bush. The colours are bright and cheerful.
November 19, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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Second test.

I've been adding alt text to every image I try to upload. I always get the same error message.

Does it work without alt text? 😕
November 19, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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Tumblr post by feline-ranger - 'In light of the sad news about Bernard Hill, I feel like we should take a moment to really appreciate the acting performances in the LOTR trilogy. The fact that none of the cast got Academy Awards is well-known and I think even now the sheer visual spectacle of the trilogy can overshadow everything else, but the performances were SO crucial to what made the films great. It’s easy to take the success of the movies for granted now, but that was never a guarantee. Aside from the practical aspects of portraying such an epic fantasy onscreen, the series is peppered with dialogue that is fine on the page but unbelievably difficult to deliver. As Harrison Ford famously remarked to George Lucas re Star Wars, “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it.” From Gandalf’s, “To the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm!” to Elrond's, “It must be cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came!” it would be so easy for the whole thing to collapse into farce. The only reason it doesn’t, is because of the talent and conviction of the actors. Bernard Hill was tasked with one of the most objectively ridiculous lines in the entire trilogy. “The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the Deep one last time!” And he delivered. BOY, did he deliver. He gave it all the gravitas and emotional weight of Shakespeare, he made it truly rousing instead of ridiculous, he took the audience with him to that moment, that place, right into Middle Earth with its people and its history, and made it REAL. And for that, I thank and salute him. RIP, sir. Go now to the halls of your fathers. You earned it.' Still of Bernard Hill in full costume/armour as Théoden, atop his horse.
May 11, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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Literally can't scroll up. This is all I saw of the conversation.
Smantha Burns' first post is a reply to something that has been blocked. It just says 'Blocked Post'.
May 3, 2024 at 3:51 AM