I Read The New York Times Headline For This ("Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order To Destroy Fan’s ‘Lord

first dawn of a new year ✨

Hello! I'm Katia. I've been in online fandom for 15+ years and enjoy too many things to list out here.

I don't reblog stuff, but if I followed you randomly and you're confused as to why, it might be because I run @lotrart, a blog dedicated to digging up long-lost Tolkien fanart here on Tumblr! Feel free to have a look-through over there if that's something you'd like. I also have @secondarymutation, an X-Men blog from way back when Days of Future Past came out - it's a lot more fast and loose but it's one of the places I'm more active, and I reblog a lot of art, memes, and (much like on lotrart) old stuff from the golden days of Tumblr fandom. Come follow me on either of those blogs if you're interested in that sort of thing! I'll likely follow you back (with this one). :)

if you like suits, yes suits that goddamn legal drama from 2010s tv, follow me at @harvardspecter fml

If you're worried that I'm a child following your adults-only blog, never fear - my birth year starts with 19. ;)

Reading a star trek book that promises garak will show up and I’m like, man, I’m a long way in, where is he, and then Geordi and data suddenly run into a guy getting the absolute shit kicked out of him by bajorans and it’s just like

Theeeeere’s my boy~~~

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

Seeing this post about a month ago made me order a giant atlas and a miniature address book! I spent an evening writing down all my important contacts and put the atlas in my car - and I've honestly never felt more secure. To be honest, I'd missed this! I have a lot of nostalgia around reading maps from an atlas and printing off directions from MapQuest, and flipping through my parents' address books when I was younger. I'm glad I did this. Thanks OP!

i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it's common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i'm starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that's what it's built for. but nowadays we don't think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don't keep address books anymore because it's all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it's all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you're still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.

You’re a human married to an elf. It’s a known fact that humans and elves go to different afterlives, and you’re determined to find a way to go to the Elven afterlife after you die.

Thank you for the crabs!!!!! 🦀 Pretty sure we've been mutuals for nearly ten years. An utter delight as always!

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

…i may have put way too much time into this

Update:

April Fool's Day in my household has always traditionally been observed in silly, largely harmless ways (as a child I put my clothes on backwards for school, tied the sink nozzle down, and put stickers on my parents' backs), but the Tapening™ began a few years back when my father lovingly, attentively wrapped a long strip of blue painter's tape around my phone.

Couldn't find the blue tape this year, so for lack of my usual agent of chaos, I whipped out my roll of novelty Rosie the Riveter packing tape (!) and Rosie'd the house.

Happy Tape-ril Fool's