@[email protected] The very sort of place that would induce Samwise Gamgee to sit down, munch lembas, and think of Rosie Cotton.
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A liking for old wisdom, older knowledge, lost arts, occult crafts, missing philosophies, shadowed lands.
Roger WardThe Tolkiens were helpfully transparent about likely outcomes at their parties.
@rafaelmaxlove Lovely!
The art of letter writing - by which oldsters like me mean a hand-written letter - has perhaps left our world now.
Writing by hand, we were told as youngsters, was the expression of the organisation of your thoughts. One composed a paragraph to the person one was writing to, and wrote out the sentences carefully, for mistakes meant ink ugliness on expensive paper.
Stamps, to post the missive, were often chosen to suit the temper and character of the recipient of the letter
The art of letter writing - by which oldsters like me mean a hand-written letter - has perhaps left our world now.
Writing by hand, we were told as youngsters, was the expression of the organisation of your thoughts. One composed a paragraph to the person one was writing to, and wrote out the sentences carefully, for mistakes meant ink ugliness on expensive paper.
Stamps, to post the missive, were often chosen to suit the temper and character of the recipient of the letter
@rogward What a super find!
I shan't be surprised if that thoughtful touch was Mrs T.
Midnight carriages for the stately elves, ambulances for the roistering dwarves, wheelbarrows for Saruman and his scurvy lot, hearses for the orcs.
I shan't be surprised if that thoughtful touch was Mrs T.
Midnight carriages for the stately elves, ambulances for the roistering dwarves, wheelbarrows for Saruman and his scurvy lot, hearses for the orcs.
A paragraph from 'The History of Many Memorable Things Lost', by Guido Pancirollus (originally in Latin), 1715.
"Athenaeus writes that there were taverns at Rome, wherein they kept snow all the year ..."
"Athenaeus writes that there were taverns at Rome, wherein they kept snow all the year ..."
This is good advice
https://mas.to/@godlessmom/110645630539119533
https://mas.to/@godlessmom/110645630539119533
Courtney Heard 🇨🇦 (@[email protected])
If there was one piece of advice I could give to new Mastodon users who are finding their feeds quiet or boring, it is to follow as many people and hashtags as you can. This is not Twitter; there is no algorithm, it is not going to fill your feed with stuff it thinks you like. You have to curate it yourself. Once you do, though, it's so much more vibrant and rewarding than Twitter has been for a year. #TwitterMigration #Twitter
@Gargron Welcome to them all.
Most of them, I suppose, have chosen to flee from that fata morgana called twitter.
Most of them, I suppose, have chosen to flee from that fata morgana called twitter.
@accentedcinema Bad fights. As the Americans say, who'da thunk it?
But the video is laid back hilarity, well worth a watch.
But the video is laid back hilarity, well worth a watch.
@jsvilliers Truly extraordinary. The photo on the right completely confounds my sense of three dimensional landscape.
But it's the one on the left that has such atmosphere, the kind which inspired the Eddas, or the Saga of Burnt Njal
But it's the one on the left that has such atmosphere, the kind which inspired the Eddas, or the Saga of Burnt Njal
@moderation Good for you. I've come to see in recent years that what's called "social media" are bauables that Big Tech offers to us ordinary folk. It is meant to keep us engaged with trivialities and distracted from the galloping hegemony of the digital-surveillance state.