Sivaroobini

@tamilhobbit.bsky.social

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She/they. Tamil. Teacher, SCAdian. Classics & Ancient History. Queer feminist disabled nerd. Social Justice Cleric. Living on Whadjuk-Noongar land. Free 🇵🇸. No GenAI. https://tamilhobbit.weebly.com/

A fancy, pretty Royal Albert Heirloom teacup and saucer, with an ornate shape and a dark blue rim decorated with flowers and shiny golden swirls. In front of it is a golden teaspoon. And in front and slightly to the side is a matching cake plate, bearing a small slice of chocolate cake with a thick layer of frosting.
Blouse on a hanger, draped over a swivel chair. It's fairly simple in cut, with a curved hem. The fabric is a warm cream colour, printed with thin black branches/leaves and berries and red flowers. The sleeves have ruffled hems.
Dr Doofenshmirtz meme. Top panel - 'If I had a nickel for every fanfic I wrote tackling fantasy racism for this specific annual Tolkien fandom event, I'd have two nickels.' Bottom panel - 'Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.'
Tweet by @malsaafin - 'For months, Israel has openly threatened Anas with murder. What did his peers and colleagues around the world do to protect him? What did the most prominent, best paid, most comfortable journalists around the world do to protect the best of them?'
Shocked Pikachu meme, captioned, 'Calder Cob is a traitor?!'
Breakfast on a wooden dining table, in mushroom dishes. There is a small round side plate containing slices of cut pear, with a raised curved rim that's red with white spots. The plate itself has ridges like the gills on the underside of a mushroom cap. Then there's a mug of tea, shaped to look like a large amanita mushroom - stubby white lined stem with a red white-spotted cap, looking like the top has been cut off so you can drink out of it. Around the base of the mug are two spotted mushrooms (one blue, one pink) with tufts of grass. On the top of the red mug handle is a tiny yellow mushroom. And finally there is a bowl of creamy oat porridge with blackberries. The bowl looks like an amanita mushroom cap. The outside is red with white spots, and the rim is slightly uneven like a real mushroom. The inside has the same ridged mushroom-gill pattern as the plate. There are other dishes and some fabric/sewing debris in the background.
Bilbo Baggins from the beginning of the first Hobbit movie, sitting at his dinner table and looking very annoyed.
Brown hand holding a largeish hand-sized Easter egg against a maroon blanket. It's wrapped in blue foil with large purple oval spots, with the Cadbury Dairy Milk logo in each purple oval.
Eddie Carr from Jurassic Park: The Lost World.
Pretty fabric is laid out on the floor, with a colourful realistic floral pattern against very, very pale yellow. Calico pattern pieces for a bodice and a sleeve are laid out on it. Faint labelling is visible on some of the pattern pieces.
A rather tubby black/brown/white tabby cat is on her side on the floor, lying on a McCall's sewing pattern paper laid on some calico fabric. Everything is rumpled around her because she is twisting and attacking it, front paws getting right in there and under the paper and into the fabric, back feet up with claws out.
Photo of LotR: The Two Towers being projected onto a wall painted white. Aragorn is opening the big double doors of Helm's Deep. The picture was taken at the exact moment of transition, so it looks like the zoomed in scene of Aragorn's face as he opens them is overlaid on the larger scene of the doors. Two Aragorns! Double the sexiness!
Image description - Shot from the first Hobbit movie, with Thorin standing at the head of a table full of Dwarves, hand raised in a fist as he shouts. Over that a Tweet from @EthanOpia is superimposed, reading, 'Okay guys, we can't ALL be depressed at once. We have to take turns.'
Tumblr post by @markfiend - 'It's not punching a Nazi, it's a Roman face massage'.
Tumblr post by @lilies-of-thevalley - 'Gandalf's Totally Foolproof I Swear This Is Gonna Work Guys strategy for protecting Middle-Earth: - apply hobbit of choice to problem - introduce big groups in smaller groups as not to spook potential host - when all goes haywire, eagles'
Tumblr post by marsharmonicorchestra - 'no, no. you’ve got it all wrong. girls don’t want flowers. all girls want is to look for his coming from the white tower and see him return. all girls want is for the tower guard to take up the call and tell them the lord(s) of Gondor have returned.'
Wall painting from the tomb of Queen Nefertari, showing her seated and playing senet,wearing a white robe, gold collar necklace and vulture headdress. I have Photoshopped myself in, seated across from her - I am also in side profile, with brown skin, long wavy black hair held back with a gold headband, wearing a sleeveless Egyptian sheath dress of white linen with a red strip of silk at the top and a broad Egyptian collar necklace, one hand hovering over the board. There is a caption under the picture, reading 'This mural from the tomb of Queen Nefertari depicts her playing senet with her known friend, the GISHWHES ambassador Sivaroobini.'
Soft, fluffy yellow scrambled eggs in a small cast iron skillet.
Screenshot of a news article. The headline reads, 'Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders'. Subheading reads, 'The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don’t have birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, so neither should children of noncitizens born in the US'. By Shondiin Silversmith, January 24 2025. Image of a professionally-dressed female Navajo National Council Speaker seated at a table with a mic and a laptop, making a public address.
Screenshot of news article headline reading, 'French-Swiss archaeology team discovers stunning tomb of renowned wizard-doctor in Egypt', over an image of a square tomb entrance cut into rock, with a border of hieroglyphs.
Top image is the film title card for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. Superimposed over that are my text captions reading, '*the OG title card and opening music*', '*the swelling notes of the Rohan theme*' and '*lush, detailed, lovingly painted vistas of Rohan*'. Bottom image is a captioned still from Brooklyn 99 showing Detective Jake Peralta standing next to an upset woman. He looks excited and is flapping both hands as he sighs and says, "Chills, literal chills."
Orange stripey tabby cat loafing on a wooden floor, next to a floor-to-ceiling white-framed window with white vertical blinds. Grass is visible outside. He is sunlit and is looking up at something out of frame (my hand), and looks very content. He has a very pink, very boopable little nose.
A henna-ed hand rests against a brown front door with three decorative signs on it. At the top is an elaborate one with decorative Indian elements and Tamil text (தீபாவளி வாழ்த்துக்கள்) on it, over two large peacocks. Below them is the text Happy Deepavali, over floral confetti and a traditional Tamil prayer item of a gold vessel with leaves and a coconut, on a lotus held by jewelled hands. Below that and to either side are identical mirrored signs. Each one shows a woman with long braided hair, dressed in a traditional sari and lots of jewellery, holding a lotus on which sits an oil lamp with a large flame.
A calm, lovely photo of Bag End, Bilbo and Frodo's hobbit house. In the foreground a curving, weather-worn flight of stone steps leads up to it, and flowering bushes grow thickly next to it. Then there's the warm facade and round green door of Bag End itself, surrounded by more greenery, and at the top the large tree arches over the house. The whole palette is a little muted, adding to its calm feel.
Tumblr post by feline-ranger - 'In light of the sad news about Bernard Hill, I feel like we should take a moment to really appreciate the acting performances in the LOTR trilogy. The fact that none of the cast got Academy Awards is well-known and I think even now the sheer visual spectacle of the trilogy can overshadow everything else, but the performances were SO crucial to what made the films great. It’s easy to take the success of the movies for granted now, but that was never a guarantee. Aside from the practical aspects of portraying such an epic fantasy onscreen, the series is peppered with dialogue that is fine on the page but unbelievably difficult to deliver. As Harrison Ford famously remarked to George Lucas re Star Wars, “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it.”
Smantha Burns' first post is a reply to something that has been blocked. It just says 'Blocked Post'.
Background is a picture of a lovely rustic-looking load of bread, with some stalks of wheat on a wooden table. Text reads: 'Happy Bread Anniversary! "On April 19th, I made bread." - (CIL IV. 8792) - Latin graffiti from Pompeii's gladiator barracks.'
HOUTHIS: The U.S. has redeclared the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen as a specially designated global terrorist group, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Wednesday. The decision will not have any impact, a Houthi spokesperson said, adding that attacks on Israel-bound ships will continue. India is engaged in diplomatic negotiations with Iran on the Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, an Indian government source said on Wednesday.
Image description: a Google search, with 'hague judgement israel' in the search bar. The top result, with 'Sponsored' over it, is from an Israeli government website, titled, 'Israel response to Hague ICJ - Israel operates with world law'. The preview of the website text reads, 'The malicious blood libel advanced by South Africa seeks to slander the State of Israel. South Africa's claim lacks any factual or legal basis and renders meaningless...' Below that are subheading previews: 'October 7th: The Invasion: How, What and When: Details Explained. Revealing the Stories of Those Lost.' 'The North Border: The Unfolding Situation History of the Conflict.'
Image description: a Google search, with 'hague judgement israel' in the search bar. The top result, with 'Sponsored' over it, is from an Israeli government website, titled, 'Israel response to Hague ICJ - Israel operates with world law'. The preview of the website text reads, 'Israel works to minimise civilian casualties and enable humanitarian assistance to Gaza. South Africa's claim lacks any factual or legal basis and renders...' Below that are subheading previews: 'October 7th: The Invasion: How, What and When: Details Explained. Revealing the Stories of Those Lost.' 'The North Border: The Unfolding Situation History of the Conflict.'
A half-size Christmas tree made of silver tinsel is on a tablecloth-covered coffee table; the table is covered in brightly wrapped Christmas gifts, in assorted festive wrapping papers and pretty ribbons. There are Nutcrackers and Christmas cards here and there. There are ornaments on the tree: baubles, mushrooms, a round Christmas pudding, a stripper Mrs Claus with a candy cane pole, a T-Rex holding presents, fairy bread etc as well as a string of fairy lights. On the top of the tree is a star made of glittery golden craft foam. The star is the eight-pointed Star of Fëanor from Tolkien's Silmarillion, with additional tiny 'rays'. In the background are a couch with cushions and vertical blinds with fairy lights.
Ink drawing of Thorin from the Hobbit films, head tilted forward slightly, long hair falling forwards. He appears to be contemplating a falling oak leaf.
Painting of a sprig of holly, with three brightly coloured berries and three mottled dark green leaves.
A tabby ginger cat is sitting on a rust-coloured couch, having been in the middle of licking himself. He is contorted weirdly. His front half, with his front paws and head, appears to be emerging from his own butt; his right back leg sticks out in front between his front paws, and his left back leg is sticking out from behind his head. He is looking up at the camera with shocked wide eyes and a slightly open mouth. There is no evidence of brain cells in this photo.
A little watercolour painting of Bag End, a hobbit-hole with a round green door, round windows, pale ochre walls and a grassy roof with little brick chimneys, set into the top of a green hill. It's surrounded by grass and shrubs, encircled by a path, with a little fence on one side and wide stairs on the other. On the top of the hill is a large tree. At the bottom of the drawing, in hobbit-font, is the text, 'The Hill, Hobbiton'.
Ink drawing made to look like a Greek black-figure vase, against a red-orange background. In ancient Greek style, it shows a bearded man hooded and cloaked in black, holding a long staff that could be a ferry pole. He is standing in a little boat. Next to him, ancient Greek letters spell out KHARON.
Detailed ink drawing of an amanita muscaria or fly agaric mushroom.
A sort of autumn wreath, of autumn related things in a circle. Everything is done in thick black outlines and bright colours, quite cartoon-y in style. At the top, in the noon position, is an orange pumpkin. Clockwise from the pumpkin is a green oak leaf, an acorn, a red white-spotted mushroom, an apple, a hedgehog (roughly at the bottom), an acorn, a little brown mushroom, an orange oak leaf, and another red white-spotted mushroom.
Watercolour painting of a Royal Albert Old Country Roses teacup filled with dark brown tea. It is an ornate white teacup with scalloped gold edging and an elaborately curved handle with gold on top. It has a little motif of roses on the inner rim: a little pink rosebud, a fully bloomed dark red rose with a pink bud underneath, and an orange rose, surrounded by leaves. On the outside is a big motif of three roses: half-open pink bud, fully blooming red rose, blooming orange rose, surrounded by leaves and buds. It is on a saucer, also with a scalloped gold rim. Around the edge of the plate, the same rose motif is repeated.
Ink drawing of Morpheus, the Sandman. He is basically a white head with black hair, star eyes and a black robe, outlined in white, against a black background. His right arm is extended, sand blowing out from his cupped palm. Matthew the raven is perched on his right shoulder.
Watercolour painting of an Eye of Ra. The Eye itself, eyebrow, and teardrop features are a deep rich blue with some shading and shadows. The eyebrow, the top of the eye, and the circle at the end of the extended teardrop are outlined in shimmering gold. The space between the eye and eyebrow looks like cracked, aged ivory.
Blurred watercolour painting of a scene from Good Omens. Aziraphale, Adam Young and Crowley are in the sand dunes Somewhere Else, preparing to face Satan. None of them have facial features due to the painting style. Aziraphale has his wings out and his flaming sword in his right hand, Crowley has his wings out and the tyre iron in his left hand, and Adam stands between them, holding their hands. The black and white feathers merge over Adam's head.
Watercolour painting of an anthropomorphic hedgehog, standing upright at a wooden table and wearing a sweet cream-coloured apron with red flowers, lace edging on top, and frilly red polkadot straps/borders. She is rolling out dough with a rolling pin. On her left is a baking tray with bread rolls rising. In the foreground is a round loaf of bread.
Watercolour painting of a breakfast on a round light-brown wooden plate with woodgrain lines. Clockwise from about 10 o'clock - two fried sunny-side-up eggs, some small, round fried brown mushrooms with tiny bits of parsley on them, some golden-brown potato wedges with tiny bits of parsley, two brown sausages, and three overlapping slices of oblong, pink-brown back bacon. In the centre is a grilled red tomato half.
Scruffy ginger cat with his head in a tub of butter on the floor, licking it.
A woodcut-style drawing of a woman in early 1700s clothing, with a hood over her hair and a striped kirtle. She is gazing into a crystal ball held up in her right hand, and has a plant of some sort in her left hand. She wears a apron covered in miscellaneous alchemical/mystical symbols. A striped cat sits by her feet.
An ink drawing painted with watercolours, of a woman from the thighs up. She has warm brown skin, straight black shoulder-length hair, green eyes, and a calm, faintly stern expression as she looks off to the left. A blue vine design curls over the right side of her face. She is wearing armour made of large overlapping leaves, in a few shades of green, and vambraces of the same leaves in a different shade. The leaves fan out over her thighs. In her right hand she carries a hand axe. In her cupped left palm sits a blazing fireball.
Randomtober art prompt table with a floral border. Prompts: Lotus, Swan, Stars, Leaf, Muse, Mystical, Card, Egg, Stitch, Hedge, Wings, Loaf, Nocturne, Eye, Tea, Flower, Autumn, Nest, Three, Mushroom, Styx, Scroll, Hill, Sisyphus, Holly, Oak, Deepam, Learn, Law, Siren, Harvest.
A highly stylised swan with many Tamil design elements, like a kolam border along its wing, paisley tail feathers, and various little Indian motifs. Its head and neck are white with a hint of pink, and the rest is a riot of gold, red, orange, yellow, pink and green, with geometric and stylised motifs. It appears to be wearing gold chokers and necklaces. Its breast and tail are painted in shimmery metallic gold paint, and various parts are painted to look like they've been studded with pearls, rubies and/or emeralds.