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me @ my mutuals

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yennefer doodle from anya's gorgeous bts pics <3

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becomes so horny that i transform into a swarm of eels living in a beautiful and picturesque lake

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3 components of worldbuilding:

1. The author’s kinks

2. The author’s power fantasy

3. The author’s political agenda

Plot and logic optional

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Isfahan, Iran (1975) Ph. Roland & Sabrina Michaud

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wine drunkkk. lords and ladies I don’t think it counts against my vow of chastity if I fuck my squire like it’s not even a big deal

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me, eating a pile of nuts, cheese, and apple: mmmm tasty

the medieval peasant in my head watching me eat: thou knowst what would MAKETH this meal? dried fruits.

me, getting out the raisins: god damn, etheldred, you are SO right

the medieval peasant in my head: yet thou art still not heeding mine words regarding the blasphemy

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normalize having ships where they aren’t attracted to each other and both think about somebody else during sex 🙏🙏

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… I feel like I might be in the minority in this but I don’t take book Legolas’s cheerfulness at 100% face value. I think that guy has experienced loss (whether it’s friends and fellow fighters or his mother etc.,) I think he’s seen so much darkness and violence it would a blow a mortal’s mind. It’s not that I think he’s NOT happy or cheeky. It’s just that I think it’s at least partly a coping mechanism, which is largely cultural.

We know from the Hobbit that the Silvan elves party around a bonfire in the middle of a forest infested with giant, eldritch spiders; a forest that is suffering from a blight that is, in fact, the embodied evil of a wounded, bitter, hateful Sauron holed up in Dol Guldur. I imagine them dancing in spite of this - they’re dancing in its face.

‘No matter how many of us you kill, we will never succumb to this hopelessness and hate! We will survive you! Our beloved forest will survive you!’

I see that spirit of defiance against hopelessness in Legolas. He’s that soldier on the team who comes up with a joke to keep everyone’s spirits up. His company, on the most critical quest taken in millennia, is dying on the side of freezing mountain and he’s off walking on snow, teasing his silly mortal buddies for being stuck in a drift. And, it’s written as kind of lighthearted but - isn’t the body counting game with Gimli macabre? Isn’t that dark af? How desensitized to killing and death do you have to be to be able to kill creatures, no matter how foul, and go ‘LOLZ my buddy how many lives you end tonight?’

That doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel any of it. I think he very much feels it. Why, in Lothlorien is he unwilling to sing the end of the song of Nimrodel? Because it’s too sad. A person who is purely joyful, who has never known sorrow, probably would just sing the whole song. But Legolas doesn’t want to sing the sad part, because he knows sadness and he’s determined to keep the mood from falling. He knows how important that is for himself and his friends.

Despite being young for an elf, we know from his comments in Fangorn that he is very much aware of his age relative to his companions. He’s happy to let Aragorn take the more obvious leadership, but I think Legolas is doing some leading by example. He repeatedly stops to observe things, trying to understand the truth of them. When he’s provided with new information he changes his mind - crossing a famously bitter divide between his people and the dwarves. That’s a mature thing to be able to do.

Plus, I think his extreme sense of loyalty speaks to some loss as well. Legolas is the definition of ride or die. He resists the call of the sea until Aragorn dies, then takes Gimli with him to Valinor. (I’m pretty sure if Gimli had been unwilling to go, Legolas would have stayed until he died as well.)

The books say nothing about his mother, but I know it’s been accepted by a lot of people. I’m including it in my story myself. I see it: Legolas knows you keep your people close while you have them. You stay with them until the bitter end - and then you find way to keep moving forward. He could get to that place by other means, but I think ‘his mother died’ is at least plausible.

Finally, the end of his story is imbued with some of the melancholy of the end of the elves' time in Middle-earth. He and Gimli famously discuss the ways of humans, who will outlast both their people and inherit the world. It’s a changing of the guard on an epic scale and an enormous personal transition for him as well. After thousands of years, he’s finally leaving his beloved forest behind to go into the West and face what the rest of the days of Arda have in store for him and his people.

So… yeah, I think I write Legolas a bit darker and a bit sadder than many people do, but it makes sense to me.

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Updated Facebook reactions to the UnitedHealth Group post

by MasterMahanJr/reddit

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Trial of the Grasses

"How it washed away what little trace your mother had left in you."

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she jack off my trades till im master of none

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I never knew a part of you You didn't set in ink, in ink The letters that you left behind No longer shall I read Your blood's between the pages And I can't stand to see you bleed And I'll soon forget what was never there Your words are ash and dust All that's left is the song I've sung The breath I've taken and the one I must If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ People of letters, your warning stands clear: Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear

okay flawed metaphor in the over all song but this part is so Jaskier coded to me

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ao3 wrapped [writers edition]

How many words have you written this year?

How many works did you publish this year?

What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

What work of yours has the most hits?

What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

Favorite title you used

If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?

Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

What work was the quickest to write?

What work took you the longest to write?

How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

What’s your longest work of the year?

What’s your shortest work of the year?

What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

Your favorite character to write this year?

The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

Which work of yours have you reread the most?

How many kudos in total did you get this year?

Which work has the most comments?

Did you do any collaborative works this year?

Did you write any gifts this year?

Did you receive any gifts this year?

What’s your most common category?

What do you listen to while writing?

Favorite work you wrote this year?

Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Biggest surprise while writing this year?