Walking Through Fantasy To Save Reality
May. 1st, 2022 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_green_dreamI've only had a journal for a few days now, but I'm already having an easier time weaning myself off of social media. I appreciate the slower pace of this site, even if I don't have many friends here at the moment. Here's hoping that others may come here in time.
One fun aspect of Dreamwidth is that it has resisted the urge to adopt the streamlined, big budget look that Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites use to keep you scrolling. I also appreciate that journal sites encourage longer form communication, rather than demanding short soundbites so you can be heard above the din. Writing here feels a bit like stretching out your legs after sitting in a confined place for too long. While it may seem strange - it's only been a few days, after all - I think I feel calmer now that I'm blogging again. At the very least, I'm no longer obsessively looking at my phone.
In saying that, I definitely feel out of practice. I think it's going to take me a while to get used to blogging again. I need to find my voice.
While there's no need to detail the minutiae of my weekend, I do want to share that my husbandaseanchai and I are embarking on a multi-month charity fundraiser based on Lord of the Rings. We're hoping to raise $1,000 for nine charities, with the first one being for the Akron Canton Regional Foodbank. We've named ourselves Team Westmarch, and we already have a fundraising page up. I'll make short mentions of it from time to time, but most of the details can be found over at our joint blog ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
longwalks. Do check it out if you have a moment, and feel free to share.
One fun aspect of Dreamwidth is that it has resisted the urge to adopt the streamlined, big budget look that Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites use to keep you scrolling. I also appreciate that journal sites encourage longer form communication, rather than demanding short soundbites so you can be heard above the din. Writing here feels a bit like stretching out your legs after sitting in a confined place for too long. While it may seem strange - it's only been a few days, after all - I think I feel calmer now that I'm blogging again. At the very least, I'm no longer obsessively looking at my phone.
In saying that, I definitely feel out of practice. I think it's going to take me a while to get used to blogging again. I need to find my voice.
While there's no need to detail the minutiae of my weekend, I do want to share that my husband
aseanchai and I are embarking on a multi-month charity fundraiser based on Lord of the Rings. We're hoping to raise $1,000 for nine charities, with the first one being for the Akron Canton Regional Foodbank. We've named ourselves Team Westmarch, and we already have a fundraising page up. I'll make short mentions of it from time to time, but most of the details can be found over at our joint blog longwalks. Do check it out if you have a moment, and feel free to share. 
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Date: 2022-05-12 04:57 am (UTC)I play Lord of the Rings Online, in fact I run a 15-player band. Had a gig just tonight, as a matter of fact. My wife is a massive lore geek when it comes to LOTR. Me, I'm just a minor lore geek, I'm working my way through Silmarillion for the first time.
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Date: 2022-06-14 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-14 04:45 am (UTC)Bombadil is complicated. He's one of the original Valar, he was able to take Frodo's ring, hold it, say "Nice trinket!" and be completely unaffected by it and hand it back. No one else in Middle Earth at all could do that and not be tempted. It is discussed that he might have the power - single-handedly - to destroy Sauron by himself, but won't do it for reasons of his own. He does his own thing and doesn't let other things bother him and they cannot bother him because of his power level. He is quite a strange character, and he doesn't seem to fit the narrative flow, or at least doesn't fit smoothly - he requires some discussion and thought before he makes more sense.