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like... she's literally Ungoliant's daugher. Her mother worked for Sauron's old boss, Melkor, so she's a power level vaguely equivalent to the balrog (defeated by a straight up minor deity). So those two fights are the closest anyone comes to taking Sauron on, in person, throughout LotR. (Yeah Aragorn fires up the Palantir, stares directly at the unblinking Eye and says "hey, you want me, I'm right here," but he's never actually in CQC.)

LotR *is* kinda subversive and, I bet this is Tolkein's spirituality and military service showing, in that you've got an exciting war against ultimate evil story, but what's equally heroic is a guy thruhiking really hostile territory while facing intense spiritual corruption.

I'd wonder if the narrative purpose of Frodo's encounter with Shelob is to show that he's still competent and brave in the face of an immediate physical threat; it's just he's not in the war story like his friends are.

at some point during lockdown "the secret of saving money by cooking at home is to buy food I really want to eat" and "75% of eating out is to leave my apartment and now I really can't do that" became "cooking is a relatively cheap, easy to clean up hobby and also it makes food."

So I made garlic potatoes and what's essentially sunomono salad, I'm looking at a tip for making fairly straightforward pasta and I'm eating this leftover tarragon chicken. Accomplishment, I didn't eat all the potatoes while checking they were seasoned to taste.

И сейчас можно сварить БОРЩ. Отлично!

working backwards, if the traditions of the prewar Royal Navy were rum, sodomy, and the lash, and we know grog was a British naval tradition prior to WWI, either a sodomy cake or a lash cake is lime-flavored.

the existence of rum cake implies sodomy and the lash cake as naval traditions

and, back in Seattle somehow.

Really want to try making these potatoes with dill and the cucumber cabbage salad right now. Not quite up for making pork meatballs yet but soon. Perhaps I should save looking through a cookbook for when my last meal wasn’t 7+ hours ago.

Made it out of Powell’s without Zweihander for $25. A steal for someone who’d get to run it and/or didn’t have to haul it through downtown PDX. Didn’t buy Scum and Villainy for $35. I *did* drop $22 on a Russian/Ukranian cookbook, apparently I’m now someone who likes them.

Dude. Dude! DUDE!

Look, I don’t like Rep. Omar because I think she’s an anti-semite, but so what? So’s the entire GOP, and that’s a separate topic from someone paid tons of money to theoretically work with her colleagues and act like an adult cutting loose with gross Islamophobia. Fuck that.

Uuuuuhhh. Managed to completely miss the actual convenient place(s) to park and hop on the Max. However, I’m currently on the Max. It is therefore time for The Max Song. https://youtu.be/BTr8mOlK8B0

Mifune Toshiro as the only human in The Muppets Rashomon

Benjamin Dewey panel from “The Autumnlands,” features Goodfoot the trader (Goodfoot the Trusted!), offering coffee to prospective customers/marks. CW has part of her riding beetle.

my incoherent tastes in music produce YouTube autogenerated playlists which are similarly incoherent. Going from Schostakovich's "October" to The Meat Puppets' "Roof with a Hole"or from "Wake Up" to this Krull soundtrack suite, for instance.

#drawing today - revision of something from early October. This incarnation, it's a gnome gunslinger with a tanegashima teppo versus a drow whip expert with really impractical armor!

and, I inked up werewolves I penciled last weekend at the con!

Cut and grad #coloring over analog #drawing. Three Shadowrunners are prepared to tackle anything they meet in Seattle's grim future.

oh yeah it's Danny Elfman soundtrack time again!

This is my gift. This is my curse. Who am I?
*bell*
*wordless chorus*

Trying to color stuff, and a little spike of anger's been followed up by this crushing sadness. Uh, I'm trying to do stuff, here... if I'm not feeling better in an hour I'll take off and do something else.