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Ok the racism bit. Between the 'inspired by Norse mythology' and *only* Norse mythology dogwhistle and the very white Shire... yeah. Yeah. I have my doubts as to whether his film will be acknowledging that.

Serkis nods his head before answering and it is clear this is a subject he has given a lot of thought: "Tolkien himself was influenced a lot by Norse mythology, there's a lot of that feeling.

"The Shire feels very, very much like a very, a very white, you know…"

He tails off and pauses before continuing, with greater certainty: "They're not very concerned about what goes on beyond the borders of The Shire, but they know they don't want people coming in.

"Yes, there have been criticisms," he says, acknowledging arguments that are now almost a quarter of a century old.

"This particular film is somewhat acknowledging that. But we don't think we will be doing a politically correct just-casting-for-the sake-of-casting-and-ticking-boxes version of the film. So, it's only where relevant basically."

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· 29d

Okok re Andy Serkis' interview writing-wise not content, wtf is this? Either you know for a fact or you think, it can't be both...

"We worked very closely with the Orwell estate, and I know for a fact that he would, I think, approve of this version of the story, because it connects with the audience in the way that they are having the, excuse the phrase, wool being pulled over their eyes."

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Jun 27

Finally, fox tax: my dad's toe being chomped for the second time! No skin was broken but as you can see the fox did sniff his leg pretty intently and look him in the eye! They have forgotten they're wild animals. They aren't wary of us at all. 6/6

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Jun 21

Looking at handheld fan reviews (wouldn't normally bother buying one bc at work we do have fans, we bought extra in last year's heat, but well. I'd like to survive the mass lobby in 37°c heat) and an optimistic buyer here. 'If' there's another heatwave! 😂😭

Five star review on Argos from 2 weeks ago
Love it!
I should've bought this before the heatwave was over, but it will be well used if/when there's another one! I really love the space-saving aspect, and will be buying two more! (Nice colour too!)
Noise: 1/5
Performance: 5/5
Design: 5/5

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Jun 13

So, the EHRC in the UK published a draft new code of practice. It is, as is to be expected from the UK govt at this point, supremely transphobic. There are things you can do about it though! (Please do them!) writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2026

Square graphic on a pale blue background with a slanted trans flag in the top left corner. In the bottom left is a halftone image of a hand holding a megaphone.
The title overlaps with the flag and reads 'oppose the EHRC Code of Practice'
In a black text box with a blue and pink border beneath it white text reads:
'→ what the code means
→ why you should care
→ how you can oppose it'
To the right are two QR codes with pink and blue borders.
White text boxes with pink and blue borders below read the respective links:
'writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev/'
'transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2026'

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· May 30

Ah yes. Great. Replace your nice, helpful question-mark-in-a-circle icon for help with a tiny robot. Excellent UX design there, Canva, really great

Canva toolbar. The help button is represented by a tiny robot

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· May 21

@jamiesmart.bsky.social you have been renamed Chris by Library Patron 😆

Library purchase slip
Title: Bunny vs Monkey & Looshkin
Author: Chris
Library card no.:

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· May 8

It is... unsettling that I'm looking at this election results map and going 'oh good' at there being so much dark blue bc at least they're not Reform. Unsettling and wrong

Map of London boroughs with their council winners coloured. There is one Reform borough, one no overall control, two Lib Dem, three Green, four Labour, and five Tory

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· May 8

I assume so. We've just got the final results and they lost to the Greens by about 5000 votes so I think desperation was high...

Screenshot of the Mayor of Lewisham elections. The Green candidate, Liam Shrivastava, has 35,265 votes (40.4%), while Amanda De Ryk for Labour has 30,374 votes (34.8%). The other two visible on the page are Reform UK (Pete Newman, 7,288/8.4%) and Liberal Democrats (Josh Matthews, 6,323)

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· May 7

British people, don't forget to vote in your local council/mayor/Senedd elections today! And also bring your ID!

Chalkboard outside a church. 'wedding' is written at the top with an arrow pointing right, and 'voting' underneath points left

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· May 6

Found a giant worm!

Book: Revenge of the Killer Worm by Kathryn Foxfield, illustrated by Robin Boyden. This book is being held in someone's hand in a library

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Jan 3

Aaron's low self-esteem and rejection issues are showing again (just because they've shown time and time again that they all care about him doesn't mean he's invited to the celebration! Maybe they just put up with him because he was useful)... #WritingCommunity

There’s a knock at the half-open door, and Aaron looks up to see Chausiku leaning against the frame, arms folded.

“What’re you doing up here? You’re supposed to be at the feast. I mean, not that you have to come but I– that is, you–”

Aaron shrugs. “I wasn’t invited.”

Chausiku rolls her eyes. “Sometimes you remind me of a vampire. You heard of them? Lilivati’s been telling me about them.”

“Of… course I have...?”

“Yeah, well, they can’t come in unless they’re invited. The invitation was for everyone who helped save Sam. Y’know. All of us.”

“Oh.”

Oh. Something loosens in his chest, something he hadn’t realised was so tight, still so vulnerable, so lost. They do all still remember him.

She rolls her eyes again. “Yeah. Oh. Just because she didn’t say your name specifically, I swear. So are you coming?”

“I guess. Just… just let me get ready.”

She grins. “Great! Idiot.”

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Dec 29

A bandit in historical China. Not my forte but I can use a sword so I'm sure I'll be fine...

A green square with white text reading: You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job?

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Aug 21

Cat tax of the moggy in question - he is very much neutered but sometimes I wonder if he knows it. 12yrs of this and I still put a book on the bottom shelf 🤦 (at least it was a plastic-covered hardback - given I work at the library it's from it would've been very embarrassing otherwise)

Black and white cat looking at the camera with slightly narrowed eyes

Same cat sitting in the middle of a cluedo board. Game was obviously previously in progress

Cat curled up on a bike shed, tall orange sunflowers behind him

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Aug 15

@wiswell.bsky.social idk if you've seen this post yet but every time I see it I think of you and, well. Here. (Link to the post: www.tumblr.com/catscraftsan...)

Tumblr post thread

wyrmoftheweb, Jul 27
well yeah i have a pet hydra and it only has one head. i'm not going to cut its head off just to make it look cooler, you asshole. that's seriously unethical. and i'm not letting you cut its head off either. if you really want a hydra with multiple heads, you should go for a rescue- but if you want your pet to look cooler at the cost of its physical health, maybe you shouldn't get any kind of pet at all. no, the hydra's not for guarding my evil tower, it's my pet. have you ever heard of a pet? like a puppy or a kitty? you think i can't defend my evil tower by my self?

catscraftsandcommentary, 6d ago
"'What if it gets aggressive?' Why would he get aggressive, I'm planning to spoil him rotten and teach him tricks so he doesn't get bored and socialize him properly so he won't be scared by new things. Why is this so hard for you. Stop being weird about my pet."
*two days later, setting a new skull in their crypt wall* "Well, HE was certainly an asshole, wasn't he, baby? Yes he was! But he'll never bother anyone else again. And I'll keep you safe from horrid people like him, darling. Now, who wants snackies?"

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Jun 8

Gay Crime Goose duo from @gaybreakfast.bsky.social arrived on Monday! They are ready to commit gay crimes and stab anyone who tries any queerphobia (is that a word? It is now) during Pride month (and any other time of year)

Two plushie white geese. The larger one has a rainbow bow tie and a knife in its beak, and the smaller one has an asexual flag bow tie and a bisexual flag bow tie

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Apr 6

As it's International Asexual Day, I'm promoting my resource guide to ace sci-fi again! Contents and resource key are below, come take a look at this link! And Happy Ace Day! works.hcommons.org/records/xyap...

Contents
Introduction (about this guide, audience, glossary, resource key)
About asexuality (resources regarding asexuality itself)
Asexual creators (a selection of asexual creators)
Non-fiction (non-fiction texts and other media about asexuality in sci-fi)
Fiction databases (compilations of sci-fi media containing asexuality)
Fiction (fictional sci-fi media containing asexual characters)
Writing asexuality (for creating and writing your own asexual characters)
Writing sci-fi (for creating and writing your own science fiction media)

[There is an asexual flag border, and an asexual flag at the bottom of the page with a black silhouette of a futuristic city overlaying it)

Resource key:

Academic article
Book / book chapter
Comic / webcomic
Course
Flyer
Podcast
Spreadsheet
Social media
TV show
Video
Video game
Webpage / single blog post
Website / blog
Zine

[Each resource name is accompanied by a corresponding icon in purple]

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Feb 16

(incidentally, according to the NHS themself it doesn't actually cost them any more to refer people to private services than within the NHS, so I find it hard to see how this could even be a cost-saving measure? But anyway) www.nhs.uk/using-the-nh...

Two paragraphs from the linked source with a section of text highlighted. Highlighted text reads: "it does not cost the NHS any more than a referral to a standard NHS hospital."

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Feb 15

You've been murdered, who do you want on the case?

Sister Boniface, Sam Gillespie, and Felix Livingstone from Sister Boniface Mysteries

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Feb 14

@aimeecozza.com the robot butt is now up on my wall! (Colours a bit dodgy due to a large bisexual flag acting as removable stained glass in the window) (the fish postcard is from the Crab Museum in Margate and the robot from the Science Museum)

Illustration of a yellow robot's bum with the text 'the warm machine' written on it. Next to it is a postcard of an old robot advertisement, and below is a blue postcard with a white square in the middle. On the blue reads 'only facts', and on the white is a diagram of a fish, entitled 'fish diagram' and with an arrow pointing to it labelled 'fish'.

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Oct 23

Since it's Asexual Awareness Week, I'm re-upping my Asexuality in Sci-Fi resource guide! I've just updated all the links and information, including replacing a couple of resources that no longer exist. This link contains both standard and high quality versions: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Resource guide cover. Asexual flag background overlaid by a semi-transparent white square. Reads in futuristic font:
Asexuality in science fiction
A resource guide
paintedpigeon

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Oct 23

Hi! I'm updating a resource guide (some of the links are way out of date). So quick q if you don't mind, I have this book written down as ace rep. Are there characters in it who're on the ace spectrum (as opposed to aro) and if so who? Here's the page atm if you're curious what the entry looks like

Screenshot of a booklet page with three books listed

Title: Fiction

Heart of the Covenant
by S.L. Dove Cooper
ISBN: 9798869548764

Asexual rep: Hedriar, aspec

An anthology of five stories about Hedriar, who moves to Cerulean Station to become an ambassador to the Galactic Covenant. Slice-of-life, cosy science fiction.

-

The Circus Infinite
by Khan Wong
ISBN: 9780857669681

Asexual rep: Jes, panromantic asexual

Jes, an escapee from an institution that experimented on and tortured him to explore his powers, joins a circus on a pleasure moon, finds a family, and has to take down the crime boss who’s blackmailing him over the bounty on his head to save them.

-

The Cybernetic Tea Shop
by Meredith Katz
ISBN: 9781989646151

Asexual rep: Clara and Sal, both homoromantic asexual

Set in a retro-future society that dislikes androids, this is a romance featuring an AI repair technician and a tea shop-owning robot. Although earlier resources mention robotic asexuals as being a frustrating trope, this is an exception as there is also a human asexual character involved. Well worth a read for that alone.

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Sep 22

Eyyyy I get purple sprayed edges! My copy of 'I Want That Twink Obliterated!' from @bonabooks.bsky.social is here!!!

Front cover of I Want That Twink Obliterated paperback

Side view of 'I Want That Twink Obliterated!', showing purple sprayed edges

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Sep 19

Also, "committed to giving artists... the best and most powerful tools" best and most powerful tools to do what? Lose their jobs with?

Runway co-founder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela said that the company is “committed to giving artists, creators and studios the best and most powerful tools to augment their workflows and enable new ways of bringing their stories to life,” adding that “the history of art is the history of technology and these new models are part of our continuous efforts to build transformative mediums for artistic and creative expression. The best stories are yet to be told.”

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Sep 17

Thought I was later than this honestly. Though apparently it took nearly a year for me to actually start using it so I guess it would feel that way

Bluesky screenshot:
Celebrating 10M users
#590,504
Certified Bluesky elder first 10%
Joined Aug 16, 2023

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Sep 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon Meet Ellynor (picrew.me/image_maker/...)! The queen's most loyal guard & in a relationship with her. Her sword is her most treasured possession & she loves it dearly. Doesn't understand Molle's interest in politics & is only interested in solving the murder to keep loved ones alive

Picrew of a young black woman with black braids down her back. She's wearing silver armour with a gold gorget and blue gambeson, and has a sword with a black and brown hilt on her back

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Sep 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon This is Samantha (picrew.me/image_maker/...). The 2nd eldest princess (out of 4), she's is in Trimór to marry Molle when plot happens. She loves music, plays the citole well but will try any stringed instrument she can get her hands on. Also loves spiders. Will infodump on both

Picrew of a young Black woman with dark eyes and freckles. Has long dark braids with gold decorations near the top, and wears flame earrings and a gold necklace. She has on a yellow sleeved top with a red sleeveless item of clothing on top

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Sep 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon I'll give u Molle, who opens the story (picrew.me/image_maker/...). Recently-crowned queen of Timór, reeling from her uncle's short brutal coup & her own sudden ascent to the throne. Gay, fat, abt to marry the princess she's been betrothed to for yrs & in a relationship w her knight

Picrew of a young woman with blond hair and brown eyes, with two braids around the front and flowing freely in waves down her back. She wears a white dress with a blue cloak and a gold necklace

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Sep 11

#LGBTQWriteAThon This is Jaya (picrew.me/image_maker/...)! She's the queen's maid. Very bubbly & chatty, took years to learn discretion. Helped take down a brutal coup. Enthusiastic abt so much, inc murder investigations & the upcoming arranged marriage (she's never been to a wedding). Arachnophobic

Picrew of a young woman with light brown freckled skin and two dark brown plaits that go down to her elbows. She has a dark blue top that ends at her wrists and a red pinafore over the top, the top edged with light pink flowers. She's waving, a slight smile on her face.

Ruth 🏳️‍🌈@paintedpigeon· Jul 13

I've finished and finally remembered to post my resource guide to asexuality in sci-fi that I made as part of my degree! Here's a link to the drive folder (with the file in both lower and high res): drive.google.com/drive/folder... #asexuality #asexual #sciencefiction #scifi #recs