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Hear me out. hear me out. So. When the Sons of Feanor arrive in Beleriand, there is already a battle on. It's hard fought until the Noldor show up with a lot of issues to take out on the forces of Angband and the Dagor-nuin-Giliath quickly goes against Angband.

Orcs HAD been beseiging the Havens at Falas, but pull back to reinforce the northern forces of Angband agains the Noldor. Or attempt to, anyway. They run into a problem in the form of Celegorm son of Feanor and his forces, who ambush the reinforcements near Ethel Sirion and drive them into the Fen of Serach. Being stuck in a swamp with a hunter of Orome hunting YOU is not a good situation, and it shows; Celegorm destroys that force of orcs to a one. No orcs or servants of the enemy survived him.

It is canon that Celegorm knew all the tounges of birds and beasts, at least those in Valinor. This no doubt aids him greatly in hunting the forces of Angband; in the fens the very toads and frogs could give him intel.

HOWEVER. I posit that it is quite probable that the toads and frogs of Beleriand speak a rather different dialect than those in Valinor, much as the elves of Valinor speak Quenya and those in the East Sindarin and Silvan and other tounges.

"Get in, loser. We're falling to the Dark Side."

I love how the first map's cutscene is just Alek having every concern about what they're about to do and Revan 100% ignoring it.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.

But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)

Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".

She posted this on her Facebook Saturday evening, April 25, 2026:

"Dear readers and friends. The unhappy fact is---the numerous bouts of anaesthetic I've had have made it pretty well impossible for me to write. I drop stitches. Not many. No problems with daily life or doing creative stuff or enjoying life in general. But the ability to control narrative is just not what it was, and it's just not going to be there. I've accepted that, painful as it is. I thank all of you who've stood by me patiently. The body of work is what it is, and I am lastingly grateful to my publisher, Betsy Wollheim, who has given me every extension of time and resource. And of course to Jane, who is all things."

[Jane Fancher has been her companion and co-author for many years, and more recently her wife as well.]

Her stories have occupied my mind for decades now, ever since a university classmate introduced me to The Faded Sun series. Large parts of my heart are owned by Pyanfar Chanur and her clan and associates as well as by the Hellburner Four and their long-suffering program officer Jurgen Graff.

Blast. I was just reading a Bluesky thread last night about how anesthetic can mess with the brain for weeks, months, and one person said, "I didn't feel right again for a year."

I wish that hadn't been foreshadowing, for seeing this today.

Ok, so @soursoppi already did a beautiful one (and I can’t believe I wasn’t already following you!), but I already drew this, so no backsies. Here’s some more fanart for @astolat‘s Grappling.

Megs admires his handiwork.

Glad to be here hur hur hur ;)

a guy with a literal degree in oats

A screenshot of a Tiktok. The text reads "i LIED. my gfs actual beige flag is that every once in a while she'll get a banana for lunch. and after I've let my guard down, she'll frantically search for her phone. freak out. ask me to call it because she can't find it. and when i do, she'll pick up the banana instead and be like "yellow??". AND I FALL FOR IT EVERY TIME. I HATE BANANA PHONE.

Where Winds Meet has Co-op enabled all the time. Even if you disable Co-op, once you hit a certain level, people will inevitably wander in your game. So, for a mobile phone player, its kind of difficult because once people get in your game, your phone starts overheating.

So he disabled co-op effects, he can't see anyone else in his game so he can just ignore everybody and play normally.

Next, you can play as a girl or a boy. For boys, this is mostly annoying, because you're constantly challenged into fights by bounty hunters, or chased around by guilds in order to get you to join their guild.

If you play as a girl, the girls are more respectful and the only problem you'd get would be boys giving you marriage proposals (there's in-game marriage). Girls leave girls alone. My brother and I share a Genshin account and what we both like is exploration. Leave us alone in a game and we just like to wander around. He brought this mindset with him in the game and it kind of shows in his playstyle.

Next, playstyle. This is the one game I don't share with him so as he explains it, he likes to paralyze people and then poke them. Once the paralysis of one attack wears off, he has like six more to hit you with that causes paralysis again. And then you get poked to death while paralyzed. This looks supremely awkward and funny when you watch it because a cute girl is literally stabbing to death a person who can't fight back.

Lastly, there's guilds. I have no idea the name of the guild, but they literally need to get married and divorced once a day and social extroverted people like it. He got invited because they saw a strong cute girl stabbing a guy to death and they liked him. He got at least fifty marriage proposals on that day.

Along with the marriage proposals, he got a ton of offers for free stuff. Naturally, as a morally good person, he refused the free stuff. As a Chaotically Good Person, he also told them he was a sixteen year old girl when they asked. He is a thirty five year old man. He pretended to be a shy sixteen year old girl so well that people believed him!!! (apparently, he just pretended to be me at sixteen!!!!!)

This guy literally seduced a whole guild of men into liking him so much that when the game updated and his phone couldn't handle the recent update anymore, he said to them, "Ah, my parents found out I'm playing and took my phone, this is the last time I'm logging in."

Someone literally asked, "do you have a bank account, I'll send you enough money to buy an iPhone right now."

Because it's a massive East Coast city but the property values are probably like $200 a month for a three bedroom apartment, and most Gothamites are like, "Hey, Bane never swore to break my back."

And here's the thing: you're not just moving out of Gotham City. You're moving into the rest of the DC universe. And it has hero-based power scaling.

Oh, Metropolis looks fucking great. But it gets invaded by aliens and robots and demigods, because Superman is there.

Wonder Woman's tangling with gods.

You go to Central City, and some Reverse-Flash motherfucker runs backwards from an alternate future and kicks your balls off at the speed of light.

You could move to the West Coast, and oh, an entire city just gets exploded by Cyborg Superman or some shit.

How about you move to Indianapolis, or Cleveland? Haha, no. They have no protector during the alien invasions, and you're in Cleveland

So stay in Gotham. Sure, you have lunatics, but you know that if you had a gun, you at least have a chance against the Joker or Riddler. Mongo of War-World would crush you. But Gotham just has creeps, and you know you have a chance. Even Bane, R'as Al-Ghul, Killer Croc, and Mr. Freeze are just slightly altered dudes. Oh no, Poison Ivy is going to kiss me to death! Who gives a shit, you kinda wanted to go out that way anyway.

I think it's all about perception. Gotham City has crime. But when Ares sends his undying legions to march upon the mortal realm and Wonder Woman has to punch all of them, people don't internalize that as "crime." That's "a crisis" or "a religious event" or at best, terrorism. Same thing when Superman has to stop Brainiac from shrinking Metropolis or whatever. That stuff is objectively more dangerous but it's on such a huge scale that "crime" is not the word for it. The cops don't involve themselves in this at any point. But the stuff Batman deals with is like, robberies, assaults, gang wars, serial killings. All his villains commit actual crimes, so they go into police reports, which end up as statistics. So when someone compiles all this data, oh look, Gotham City has the highest crime rate in the country, yet again. Forget the fact that 10% of Keystone City's population had their skulls crushed by invading superintelligent gorillas. Who cares that a random guy in Opal City accidentally teleported the entire state to Hell after he found out the hard way that he was born a wizard. Those are not crimes. There's nothing in the police recordkeeping app's drop-down menu for a Gorilla invasion. Closest thing we've got is Random Chimp Event.