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poppy daze; antelope valley poppy reserve, california

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

two colorful dinos! 🌈

I used to be a huge fan of Tolkien in my teens. Nowadays feel lost and disorientated so I decided to go back to the roots of my joy. Trying to sketch some of the characters.

My yellow and pale-pink roses 🥰 So lovely together!

Half-brother in blood, full brother in heart will I be. Thou shalt lead and I will follow. May no new grief divide us.

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When Glaurung takes Niënor’s memories, he takes away any memory she has of her mother’s first language, perhaps even one of her own primary languages, in addition to destroying the Hadorian cultural knowledge she has from Aerin, Sador and others. I have a longer post about this but it’s especially disturbing because Glaurung was such a destructive force in what caused the Bëorian displacement in the first place

I think it’s possible that those who were close to Bëorian refugees in Hithlum might have learned some of the language and some remembered songs and phrases for years to come. Even after the Nírnaeth when their own language and customs are under attack. @ulmondil and I talked about Tuor potentially hearing some of Rían’s songs during his imprisonment, including from Aerin who likely learned some during her adolescence.

I like to think some of these survived, even if there aren’t necessarily translations. Bëorian loan words might survive into later Adanic languages but for many, their origins are mostly lost. It’s such a devastating loss.

It's Clio's Birthday! 🥳

She just turned 3! Please wish her a happy birthday