Reading Where Decay Sleeps Part 4

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Read my thoughts on previous parts of the book.

Warnings for this section:

  • Claudine: Manipulation.
  • Aftermath: Depression, loss of a loved one, mental illness (general).
  • Whispers of Autumn: Loss of a loved one.
  • Lost and Found: Loss of a loved one, medication use, mental illness (general).

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Lessons Learned from Mahal

Mahal made the Middle-Earth Dwarves. And a bunch of junk that doesn’t matter by the Third Age. He also taught Sauron, Sarumon, Mahtan, and that loveless loser Faenor.

Mahtan’s wife doesn’t have a name either by the way. Let’s name her Ruscundil (Quenya, gender-neutral, lover of foxes). The fox she loves most is him, even if he is faking it. But hey, you know what the Humans say! Fake it ’til ya make it; and when you get bored, shake it up.

Mahtan was such a great student to Mahal that one is his names is Aulendur (“Servant of AulĂ«”. That’s what the Elves call him). Here’s what I learned from Mahal.

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Reading Where Decay Sleeps Part 3

Backed on Kickstarter disclosure!

Read my thoughts on previous parts of the book.

Warnings for this section:

  • Shadow: metal illness, paranoia.
  • The Faceless Man: alcohol, medication use, mental illness, paranoia, schizophrenia, stalking.
  • Hikikomori: anxiety, mental illness (general).
  • Beatrice and Bluebeard: abuse, alcohol, blood, death, manipulation, misogyny, violence.
  • Decay, the Stalker: anxiety, bullying, depression, medication use, mental illness (general), self-harm, stalking, suicidal thoughts.
  • Covid-19: Delirium: none listed, but presumably the pandemic.
  • The Night Fisherman: abuse, animal abuse, death, gore, hanging, torture, violence.

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why trans people are frustrated at HP fan creators

part of the reason why people are frustrated at HP fan creators right now is:

  1. go block and unfollow JK Rowling.
  2. Rowling’s been violently vocal about her transphobia and other bigotries for ages now, yet you are still vocally positive about an IP that is currently benefiting her.
  3. we absolutely have bigger fish to fry in the war for trans rights, but frying those fish requires doing a lot of things that take time, money, etc. we’re not asking you to *do* anything this time around, yet you still won’t not do it.
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