Anghraine

Shout-out to all the profs who encouraged and supported me when I was in my late teens/early twenties even though I was insufferably obnoxious.

Tagged: #some of them really didn't—but some were great #at a point where i really needed encouragement

[ETA 4/23/2024: obviously I can still be obnoxious, lol, but the concentrated rage of a repressed undiagnosed autistic & bipolar 20-year-old closeted baby lesbian raised Mormon was a very distinct experience that got less intense as I altered my social world. It will always affect me, but a lot of my writing from that period is just kind of consumed in my towering frustration with almost every aspect of my life in a way that became less true over time. I do really appreciate the professors who saw past the abrasiveness of my writing to some deeper potential.]

Quora sent me a response about Aragorn’s claim to the throne that heavily downplayed the Stewards while completely overlooking some very salient elements of the original claim (like, Arvedui claiming to be the rightful king of Gondor under a misrepresentation of Númenórean law while his father was alive)

And then the first annoying response came from

Orson Scott Card

Tagged: #i mean. i already despised him but apparently he's on lotr threads on quora now #he wrote my favorite writing book as a young closeted lds writer so i'm very ADJKFKJADFK;ADFJKAGHHHH about him generally #WILL I NEVER BE FREE