Mandy Benanav

A closeup of Bilbo’s face as the Bag End doorbell rings loudly.

View from the front door of Bag End, two dwarves are standing on the stoop announcing themselves “Bifur and Bofur, at your service master hobbit”.

Medium closeup of a perplexed Bilbo, his thoughts so scattered all he can stammer out is “Bofur??” Bofur responds “Yes, Mr Baggins…”

Bofur doing a crotch chop yelling “BOFUR DEEZ NUTS”

I put more work into this than anyone in their right mind would, and I blame/credit the good folks at @rangedtouch.bsky.social for putting the thought into my head.

#comioc #hobbit #bofur #traditionalart

Oh no

WILD! Well enjoy! Twin Peaks is one of my very favorite things. Two years ago I did a complete rewatch (incl. FWWM & S3) with one of my discord servers with a book club format - set episodes per week w/ discussion after. One of my favorite experiences I’ve ever had!

Wait, what?? Who says that about season ONE??? S2 is the famously “uneven” one because after [REDACTED] Frost & Lynch left the series until the finale (which is incredible)

"One in ten respondents were laid off last year, with roles in game narrative being the most affected at 19%"

I've known anecdotally that writers were hit hardest, but it's wild to see the hard numbers. Over 3x the layoffs of business & finance

if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again

I would for sure support it!

Flowers for Lynch at Bobs Big Boy.

Artwork for DAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE at the Music Box

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work. If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

Issue 51: David Lynch Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2017

A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them.

We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.

R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.

Hell yes!! Extremely good shit. The DLC is excellent btw

Rise is good, maybe even great, but I personally didn’t like it as much. Highly still recommend though

“Conditions at your job suck? Look for another job” actually what if we didn’t all have to play a horrible little game of musical chairs for our entire lives

That sweaty moment when you go to send a message with an image but you can’t remember whether *this* platform puts the image BEFORE or AFTER your text….

There’s a rare bookseller who loves Tolkien and a retired artsy lady who lives in an old church and a guy who built a sun-powered “death ray” he uses to destroy hot dogs (“weiners”)…

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

My deepest condolences 😭 praying it dies soon 4u

they should give the nobel prize to the guy that invented the 3rd dishwasher rack

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What is the ruling on “wowie zowie”?

Wish I could log onto the metaverse to see what the Brian Thompson murder discourse was like there

The TEENIEST peets!!!

Greetings from my chinchilla

feels like we never hear anything about the metaverse anymore

But suppose I would *like* to...?

I have the same memory!! Only for me it was middle school and electric keyboards, until the first computer lab opened

How many hamsters have been named Skibidi by this point?

And yet she will never leave you

Is Mavis Beacon still teaching or is she retired at this point?

Thank youuuuu 💖