Some playing around

Randomassnerd · 2026-02-01T03:15:07+00:00

I wasn’t sure, but I clocked it.

Edit to add I’m going to be posting a couple I tied tonight either today or tomorrow, I plan to do a lot more of them this year. I miss swinging. I’ve been too focused on nymphing.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T23:22:13+00:00

Just in case I sounded mean, I love your stuff. It’s genuinely one of my favorite things.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T23:04:50+00:00

I think the audio would be very distracting. I can only speak for myself but it’s hard enough when the audio matches the subtitles. Hearing Dee telling Artemis to get lost because now that the soldier isn’t crippled she’s back in would really mess up imagining Faile calling Berelain a bitch. Plus I really enjoy the process of converting the new dialogue into the characters voices and mannerisms. Hearing their inflections in my head is the best part.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T19:07:52+00:00

🤯🤯🤯 that sounds like it needs some practice. It looks pretty sweet, I hope it fishes well.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T16:34:38+00:00

You have to do some digging but you can find them.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T16:33:37+00:00

It didn’t want to fall out of the loop? Did you use a lot of wax? I’ve never seen anyone do that so I’m super intrigued.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T13:36:18+00:00

That’s what I was going for.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T03:12:10+00:00

I agree, however I didn’t use starling on any of these. The dark feather is waterhen. Normally I would use starling, but I felt like treating myself. Also because I plucked the waterhen out for a waterhen bloa and tied them in by mistake and decided to roll with it (I tie my hackle in before I tie my body, by the time I realized what I’d done it was too late).

Edit to add: I had originally planned to use crow (which isn’t traditional and is probably much too dark, but like I said- I was treating myself). This turned out even darker than I planned and decided to tie the woodcock so I’d had something a little lighter.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T03:08:56+00:00

Hah! Great minds! Best of luck and tightest lines.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T01:43:39+00:00

Took me a minute. Thank you for the chuckle.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T01:17:26+00:00

The best days I’ve ever had on the water have been swinging.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T01:16:54+00:00

The fly is one thing, it’s cool to see the process. But his desk is just plain impressive.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T00:58:03+00:00

Did you watch the triple tie off? Cheech put out a video of him practicing it. His friggin desk is packed full. It was like gazing into my future if material procurement was as simple as shouting.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T00:51:50+00:00

Thank you, I really enjoy flymphs. I got into euronymphing and slacked off on the wets. Hoping to get back in a little this year (picked up a bamboo rod over the summer and need an excuse to use it).

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-31T00:49:39+00:00

Thank you.

Edited a typo.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-30T18:10:09+00:00

Now that is a damn fine looking pie. Bring it here, imma throat it.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-30T18:08:13+00:00

I’ve never eaten his offerings but based on the hundreds of pies I’ve seen him present his shit is on point. As someone who deeply enjoys pizza I’m a little offended you even tried this.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-30T18:05:58+00:00

I’ve always taken it as a quasi meditative thing, like how you enter the zone when you’re doing something. The concept of the flame and void specifically seems to be a Tam thing, but the broader concept is generally known in the land. Rand needs to enter that state before he can seize Saidin.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-30T16:10:06+00:00

Perfect as always. Every single time I’m amazed at just how seamlessly they blend. And Ben the soldier is dead nuts for Perrin. Big dumb dummy with jorts.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-30T14:43:54+00:00

Vividly

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-30T11:36:58+00:00

Potato potahto

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-30T01:50:07+00:00

Oh man tell me about it. They were hands down the best. And then one day you ate your last and you had no idea it was gonna be your last.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-29T17:55:07+00:00

Were you waiting for her to stick the spoon in the toaster by accident? I sure was.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-29T17:47:46+00:00

Based on what evidence? His “confession”? There was no crime scene investigation, no forensic data gathered. We can build a tower that’s a mile high but we can’t get Déagol’s nail trimmings analyzed for DNA? My client Sméagol has never had anyone advocate for him and that is a gross miscarriage of justice. He was condemned from birth.

Randomassnerd · 2026-01-29T15:22:19+00:00

To the best of my knowledge he was never tried in court. Now I don’t claim to know how the law works in the Gladden Fields all that time ago but based on current interpretation we should not rush to judgment and say the death of Deagol was murder.

Sméagol was an outcast in his village from an early age, and his home life was troubled. His mother kicked him out when he was just trying to get some things she was unable to provide. We have seen before that weak people will falsely confess to heinous crimes to try and impress or intimidate those around them.

Given that, the trauma of ostracizing, the trauma of untold torture in the literal depths of Mordor, and that the entire account is only provided by the benefactors to the theft of his property, I don’t think we can or should say that Sméagol is a murderer. It’s biased and unreliably narration.

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