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COLOURS in DESCRIPTION

colour is the lifeblood of a scene. here are ways not to over-use it.

Red: cardinal, coral, crimson, flaming, maroon, rose, wine, brick red, burgundy, carmine, cerise, cherry, chestnut, claret, copper, dahlia, fuschia, garnet, geranium, infrared, magenta, puce, ruby, russet, rust, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, tition, vermilion, roseate, rubicund, ruddy, rubescent, florid

Orange: apricot, tangerine, merigold, cider, ginger, bronze, cantaloupe orange, clay, honey, marmalade orange, amber

Yellow: blond, chrome, cream, gold, ivory, lemon, saffron, tawny, xanthous, sandy

Green: grassy, leafy, verdant, emerald, aquamarine, chartreuse, fir, forest green, jade, lime, malachite, mossy, pea green, pine, sage, sea green, verdigris, willow, spinach green, viridian

Blue: azure, beryl, cerulean, cobalt, indigo, navy, royal blue, sapphire, teal, turquoise, ultramarine

Purple: violet, indigo, lavender, lilac, mauve, periwinkle, plum, violet, amethyst, heliotrope, mulberry, orchid, pomegranate purple, wine, amaranthine, perse, violaceous, reddish-blue

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Just realizing that Sauron has never struck or attacked Galadriel as Halbrand. Even when off guard, with her sword down. As if he wants her to always remember him this way, as a friend.

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Hello! I picked up “Manacled” for the first time after a friend from book club frantically downloaded it onto my phone. You’re fic has had a profound emotional impact on me, and I am in awe of how you are able to construct such emotionally compelling stories. “All You Want” was also absolutely amazing, and made me laugh and cry with all the feels.

I was wondering if you had any advice or info on how to construct such emotionally charged and compelling stories? Do you outline the emotional arcs of your character or play it by ear as you’re writing?

Also I’ve been going through your FAQs and learned you wrote most of “Manacled” on your phone. First of all, that is insane (in the best way possible) and super cool, but it also made me wonder how you make time for writing in general and how you fit it around your work schedule and other responsibilities? Has the field of your profession ever influenced your writing?

I absolutely love your work, and reading it has been a tremendous gift, thank you. 💕

Hmmm. Well for me a lot of my motivation in story writing is either thematic, like I have concept or large idea that I want the story to fulfill for me, or it's that I really love codependency but I really need to understand why it exists. I am very aro/ace in many respects, so for me, horniness/lust does not exist as a compelling reason for a romance, I need MOAR than that.

I love heart-stopping love, but I find myself often dissatisfied because the degree of obsession doesn't correlate with the character's backstory and internal motivations, so a lot of the time when I craft characters, a big question is "I want them to be [this intense], what kind of formative events would be necessary to make them that way?" And then I go construct a foundation that can get me there.

Tbh, my historic profession has been mostly logistical secretarial work because my mother did not believe in women's education. I did study the liberal arts at college but that wasn't until after she died, but I never went into any professional fields with it. I was a full-time stay at home mother when I started writing during nap-times, which was why I wrote on my phone because it was basically just whenever I had a couple minutes to spare, I'd add a few more lines.

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the way in season one halbrand just ... sits next to galadriel after the battle. the dark lord. just. sitting. and next to galadriel. his enemy. the person he knows is hunting him down in a grief-stricken rage after the death of her brother. the person he is hoping to build a strong enough bond with so that when his true identity is revealed she will accept him and his past so they may build together a future. accept that their souls are both lightning in a world full of moonbeams. their souls are fire in a world full of frost. in a moment of contemplative stillness he just goes and ... sits next to her. and some people think he doesn't love her. couldn't be me. i have eyes.

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words cannot describe how ready i am for their toxic reunion tomorrow 🧝🏻‍♀️⚔️🧝🏻‍♂️

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Take me back to the lie -

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Forgive me.

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Bringing my thoughts over from Twitter again for my Haladriel's here who are despairing a bit:

Having an epiphany over him using Morgoth's crown specifically to pierce her heart right after the episode where he basically tells Celebrimbor that brutality and violence are the only forms of intimacy he ever knew at Morgoth's side for thousands of years. The doves are dead and this is his love language.

He also....

twists the crown when her eyes flicker away from his cause he wants her to look at him. I just find it so beautiful and twisted and so very sauronesque....

The power and Morgoth's crown are what stands between them always throughout this fight, so deeply ingrained this shared desire that they have. And he wants, above all else, to lay claim to her by leaving this mark as a reminder, one that will hopefully last for a very long time and have some sort of effect on her mental state and how she perceives things.

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"Sauron was become now a sorcerer of dreadful power, master of shadows and of phantoms, foul in wisdom, cruel in strength, misshaping what he touched, twisting what he ruled, lord of werewolves; his dominion was torment."

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“Oh, it all makes sense now brother. Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?”

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Happy Friday before Galadriel finds out from Adar that Halbrand was tortured for days trying to liberate the Southlanders for all those who celebrate!! 🎉 🎊🎉🎊🎉

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ok, since the rings of power s2 is out, i need to make some important things very clear:

i don't care about the books canon, i don't care about the movies canon, i don't care about keeping it pure or accurate, i don't care about how it makes the lore purists or the incels or the puritans feel, i don't care if you think it's blasphemous or inappropriate, i don't care about any of this, i don't give a single fuck, i don't care. all i want is

SAURON TO FUCK GALADRIEL RAW D*GGY STYLE.

hope this helps.

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Forgive me.

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The Dark Lord and the Lady of Light

“I will meet you where the shadow ends”

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“You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.”

— Richard Brostoff, from “Grief,” A Few Forms of Love (Finishing LIne Press, 2012)(via soracities)

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the fanfiction in my head is soooo good wish you guys could see this