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There is a petition to try and call another referendum about the EU, with a rule asking for a 60% majority before a decision is made. Yes this is a shitty time, but hopefully there’s still a chance to fix things. The Leave campaign have already gone back on some of their promises before the referendum, so please, if you can, can you sign this? If we get 100 000 signatures parliament have to debate it, so please. Even if you’re not in the UK if you can share this to try and get it out there, that would be fantastic. Here’s the link:

Moria by Alan Lee

Feanor & Celebrimbor

Gimli’s Gift.

This was created as a free print for an officially licensed Lord of the Rings convention event. The original is in watercolor. I wanted to capture a moment referred to in the books. Legolas could not imagine the dwarves could have beauty in their world under the ground, so Gimli shares with him the gift of his people’s vision.

I didn’t even know about Sleepy Hollow until about a month ago, when it was recommended to me, so I thought, “Sure, why not?” I’m only halfway through Season 1 now … and having seen some spoilers from last night, I am no longer going to be watching.

Abbie Mills is the protagonist of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod is the deuteragonist. That much is obvious even to a proto-fan like me.

I have no horse in this race. I haven’t gotten far enough into the series to be a shipper or anti-shipper of any kind. But it is plain for anyone to see that Abbie Mills is the protagonist from a writing perspective. It is her struggles and character development that are the most central. It is her world that Ichabod inhabits, not the other way around, and it is she who is calling the shots in their investigations, on and off the record. 

The writers’ decision to kill her off—and how they chose to do it—is bad not just from a fan perspective. Not just from a shipper perspective. It is bad from a narrative perspective. It will hurt them not only now, not only for future seasons, but in terms of fans they could have gained after the fact. I would have a hard time believing they actually did such a foolhardy thing as destroy the main character and main relationship of the show (whether romantic or not), except that I’ve seen it happen before. No way am I putting myself through that again.