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I'm over twice as old as when even RotK came out...
Today in Fellowship of the Ring scenes that are much funnier when you are around the age of book Merry than it was when you were the barely-15-year-old kid that you were when the movie came out...
After all, as someone that's been old enough to drink legally as long as the age I was when the movie came out (I am now mostly not carded)... I know ( Read more... ) -
How has it been 20 years?!?!
It's been 20 years since Fellowship of the Ring, 5 years longer than I'd even been alive when it was first released in theaters. And yet? There is a part of me that feels like I was only JUST a 15-year-old kid watching it in the movie theater for the first time. I was less enthused than I was for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, having been a ( Read more... ) -
How to Permanently Have Your Birthday Ruined
So. In addition to waking to the news that the dad of twins I've been friends with since I was 9 had passed away on my birthday, I just found out a former close friend from college died ( Read more... ) -
Reading LotR as a 30-something Adult versus Reading LotR as a Teenager
Now that I've reread the Return of the Shadow History of Middle-Earth book, I'm rereading this, and it's certainly a different but equally enjoyable experience as a 30-something adult than it is as a high-school/college student when I reread them all about a couple of dozen of times. For instance, it's a lot more relatable to not see most of your ( Read more... ) -
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I never understand why people always have to tell survivors of poverty, homelessness, bullying, emotional abuse and other complex traumas that it’s “character-building” as though it makes what happened to them okay.
It’s like, sure, maybe I do have more empathy and whatnot but I would likely be a much more emotionally stable and confident person ( Read more... ) -
Log-in Struggle Rambles
I'm attempting to sign into my Stories of Arda account. It seems it's not attached to any of my three current emails. Oh no ( Read more... ) -
When your LARP character accidentally gets in trouble
Ways to avoid procrastinating on writing between-games LARP stuff and pltowriting via between-digital-games roleplay on Discord: have one character out of town and the other one END UP IN JAIL. Oops ( Read more... ) -
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I've not even been allowed to run for a month and here I am doing a 5k as speedwork!
You see, my good friend Trish and I have a tradition of doing the Riverhead Run To Remember every year since its inception in 2015. She couldn't go this year due to having to take care of her son, who was born in January despite not being due until April, and ( Read more... )
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