#Magical Elves

[romaine2424]

Daily Blog June 27, 2023

Arg! I'd hoped to spend sometime planting the pretty flowers I bought yesterday but to my dismay I discovered an invasive weed was mixed in with my Shasta Daisies, which are just about to bloom. The kind of weed that attaches to your clothes and skin. Gloves came out and two hours later, I made a huge dent. Flowers tomorrow.

I had mentioned there were would be additional categories I'd throw into the mix and today I have one I've been anxious to get to. I'm going to call it Magical Elves. They are the people who help make fandom run. I mentioned @phoenixacid in an earlier post, who has been hosting @hd-fan-fair for ten years. This category will cover folks like her and that do even more...yes, even more...

What I'm reading:

On the Discord Drarry Fans Writers and Artists there is a channel for recs. I stole this one from there but then discovered I'd already read it. However, it was long enough ago that I don't remember all of the details. I think I read it when it first came out and before I hopped back into fandom in spring of 2021. The Ordeal of Being Known (146k) by @lou-isfake. I'm only on chapter 3 right now but I just love this Draco and his Oscar the Grouch house-slippers and his house-elf Timsy. The writing is so fresh and clever, I find myself smiling most of the time. Here's the summary, which I think gives you a flavor of the writing style I'm talking about:

When Auror Potter is anonymously cursed with silence by being forced to hide his own voice inside his mind, there's unfortunately only one person in the country with the qualifications to fix it: Certified and Licensed Healer Legilimens, Draco Malfoy, specialist in Mind Curses and Afflictions. It's obviously a terrible idea, a disaster waiting to happen, but Draco's never been able to back down from a challenge... especially from Potter. Features fuzzy cartoon slippers, devious house elves, 90s music, and lots—LOTS—of memories. Ron is annoyingly hot, Hermione sees right through you, Harry is a powerful idiot, and Draco is a reclusive masochist that would buy an entire city if it would make a kid happy. (And Pansy is "5'2, I wanna dance with you, and I'm sophisticated fun.")

Go read The Ordeal of Being Known on AO3.

Hit the Keep Reading!!!!!

Magical Elves:

The first person I want to highlight in this category is actually someone I've met in person at HP Cons and we've stayed in touch over the years in real life. *hugs darlin* You've probably seen @sassy-cissa's name as an author or maybe an email asking you about a fic for a fest but I'm betting most of you have no idea how much she's done for fandom for more than a decade and half, especially for Drarry fandom.

Let me list the ways in how awesome she is:

Current modding responsibilities:

25 Days of Draco and Harry (started in 2009) What 2009 ? Oh my! And do you know she reads each and every story posted for the fest and comments, too! HD Mpreg Fest – (started in 2011 – I've been modding since 2018) HD Fan Fair/Career Fair – co-modding since 2019)

Previous modding responsibilities:

Co-mod for H/D Erised from 2014 to 2018 Moderated the H/D Prophet from about 2016 to 2021

See that last one H/D Prophet. Take a look at the link just for a moment. Every Drarry WIP that was updated that week was listed, fests' status, drabble prompts, etc...Every single week. The prophet soon closed down after a few more months due to lack of participation (fandom had moved away from LJ).

Communities owned and/or Maintain:

On LJ: Slythindor100 and HarryDraco Mpreg On Tumblr: H/D Mpreg and Slythindor100

In addition, why yes there is more, Sassy writes, too, and beautifully! Sassy-Cissa (on AO3). Over 109 stories, mostly Drarry, some Hermione/Severus and a few Harry/Ginny...but as she put it....(but they usually end up divorced or Ginny dies). *snicker*

And she's on FanLore! And she also betas for some of the best.

So I know this is long but I just want folks to be aware of those working in the background, making our experience here in fandom enjoyable and filled with lovely content. They truly are magical elves. Sassy doesn't post much on Tumblr or on Discord but she does pop-in now and then. Next time you see her name, you'll now know who she is.

Tumblr Tidbit:

Did you know that you can edit the text below the Keep Reading line on your post and it will make the changes to all reblogs of your post. Edit above and sorry the reblogs will show the original. This comes in handy if you're making a Masterlist of works or something else that has lots of links or needs to be updated frequently.

Happy Tuesday and Sorry this was so late. My ancient computer decided to crash multiple times. Rom

[digitalfriend08]

XXX

[crustaceousfaggot]

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

[mistress-light]

Ghost of Tsushima PC • (dev. Sucker Punch Productions)

[wasyago]

elven warriors 🗡️🏹🐿️

[zevampirex]

Animal of the rings 💍

[savaralyn2]

Dungeon Meshi - Teleportation Sickness

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Gandalf said ‘do not offer me that’, Galadriel said ‘I would be a queen, great and terrible,’ but Elrond said ‘get that the fuck away from me’ and this is nonsensical.

The other keepers of the elven rings were most challenged by the One, why not Elrond? Is his struggle merely hidden? Is it his Maia blood? Is it simply his mixed blood? Is that why Aragorn withstood, too?

Canonically the race of men are most easily corrupted, yet Elrond half-elven, who is almost 40% man, doesn’t notably bat an eyelash. Why?

[dunmeshistash]

Hi!! ive been trying to find a source of some info and failing, hope you could help? i swear i remember there being a tidbit in a short doodle or something about how half-foots with high mana/magic capabilities were often kidnapped/imprisoned by elves, but have seen nothing after scanning both the magic system and halfling tags. thanks for doing this blog btw!! been a huge help and is one of my favs on this hellsite

Hello!

I don't remember anything similar... perhaps someone else does?

Wait actually as I was gonna post I remembered Chilchuck talking about how half-foots that get involved with ancient magic get kidnapped, chapter 34 cockatrice

I think he mentions something similar in another occasion too.

[littjara-mirrorlake]

Ever think about how elves went extinct on Innistrad (according to the OG Innistrad style guide and the PAX 2011 worldbuilding panel)?

I also got shown this recent video by The Red Bobcat talking about how there's no obvious creature type in Simic in Innistrad, despite every other color having a fairly clear unifying theme. Their conclusion was that Innistrad's Simic creatures are wizards, which makes a lot of sense.

However these two things came together to form a new theory that is mostly baseless but interesting to think about, which is that maybe elves had filled the Simic creature niche on Innistrad, before they died out. I know that elves are usually in Golgari, but on Innistrad that overlaps with the forest horrors of the Ulvenwald. And Simic elves aren't unheard of either, as Ravnican elves are spread over Sultai colors.

I wish we knew more about the extinct elves of Innistrad, and the legacy (if any) they left behind. Do the humans remember them? What had their relationship to humans been? What happened to their cities, monuments, libraries? Could some of the zombies necromancers raise, drawn from places like bogs where decay simply stops, be elves?

If the elves were blue-aligned, I also can't help but connect them to the small glimpse of classic sea monster/pseudo-Lovecraftian horror that we see native to Innistrad (as opposed to external, as Emrakul was). Like the elves, the oceanic gods of Innistrad are ancient, long-forgotten by most, and very underexplored in canon.

What if we can't see the remnants of the elves because their cities were drowned?

[momentov1vere]

Concept for an arc 3 version of Rayla!

I really hope we get to actually see her older (netflix please greenlight arc 3) but for now I’m having fun imagining what the characters could look like when they’re older :)

[magical-girl-mayday]

The different colors of magical girls

[oracle-fae]

I'm currently in the process of collecting all of Rebecca Guay's MTG cards. Her art is identifiable without having to see the artist name on the card. I was lucky to find autographed cards at a card shop in another city, and I have several coming in the mail within the next couple of weeks.

[bastart13]

How do you imagine hybrids work in love and legends? We've seen elf/humans.

So there are 6 different species and aside from the mermaids, they're all compatable to have children.

I headcanon life expectancy, colouration, and the shape of facial or body features to be gradient traits, so they pretty much randomly combine between the two parents like any other child

Magical traits are probably more binary. So a fairy hybrid child could inherit the eyes, wings, and/or sparkles, or none, with no middle ground. A demon hybrid will usually inherit a faded form of the markings, but they won't always be able to transform or earn horns. Dwarf hybrids might inherit the ability to echolocate vs just having larger ears.

If two species with strong magic have a child, they're more likely to inherit magical traits (e.g. elves and fairies with strong magic vs humans and dwarves with low magic)

Considering the domains are all friendly with each other, I imagine it's fairly common to have mixed ancestry and there's no real taboo aside from the grief of lifespan differences

[dewardin]

[oldschoolfrp]

The Silvanesti elves isolate themselves from the world and dismiss most outsiders as inferior (George Barr, AD&D supplement Dragonlance Adventures, TSR, 1987)