#OSS and friends

[jupitershadows]

[enden-k]

i once again declare this update as best compared to the past 2-3 ones

[the-quackeroos]

a little belated comic for James Day as well as May Day. Percy claimed he saw a dragon the other night, but Duck was busy celebrating May Day with a Hobby Horse.

[thelien-art]

Earendil meeting The Oarni

Mind you this was done some time ago and I think I have improved at drawing. I just now got around to coloring it and when I asked people wanted to see it, nonetheless I still like it and will probably make a redraw once in the future.

[sesamenom]

Manwe & Melkor reverse au

Thoughts & alternate versions under the cut!

so i was thinking abt what if manwe was the evil brother and anyways this happened. he doesnt seem like he would go for the black and grey iron theme so the evil colors in this universe are probably more along the lines of pale desaturated blues and greys. the helcaraxe would be full of lightning instead of ice (like the thunder battles in the hobbit) manwe!utumno/angband would be really tall towers/fortresses surrounded by storm clouds and he would definitely have his lightning sword from the earlier texts.

i couldnt decide between osse or eonwe being the Dark (or Pale Grey i guess) Lieutenant so I did a few diff versions. also i did arien as lord of arda!melkors herald bc of the whole fire theme.

fancier crowns no vala markings

osse & arien

[travellllling]

Hei alle sammen!

Jeg er Chiara og studerer norsk, men jeg kan ikke snakke det og jeg vil å bedre!

Jeg ser etter norske folk å snakke med!

I am rumored to be nice and even funny at times so please, please help me back on my Norwegian!

Tusen takk♥️

[cycas]

Since Tumblr embraces the Mari Lwyd, I thought you might enjoy some photos of some of her Cornish relatives the 'Obby Osses at the revival Montol festival.

[lunar-years]

Not to sound batshit crazy but I graduated college in December 2018 at age 21 which immediately led into a year and a half of the deepest darkest depression I’ve ever experienced as I was separated from ALL of my closest friends (who were still finishing school across wildly different states) and moved back home as I was still struggling to figure out what to do with my life and eventually working a terrible but demanding retail, used bookstore job for $13/hr (worst experience of my life tbh) WHILST holding a double bachelors degree to Covid hitting in 2020 and being furloughed from said job and living off unemployment checks while still miserable and not seeing my extended family, to my Grandma (the most amazing woman ever ever rip) dying of cancer in Nov 2021 to my mom being diagnosed with rare stage 4 bile duct cancer in March 2022 to being one of her main caretakers for the last two years to now all of a sudden being 27 going on 28 still living at home caring for my dying mom in hospice and fearing I’ve wasted my youth and I just…. First of all I’m very proud of myself, in all honesty, for making it this far, because a couple times I didn’t think I was going to…and at the same time I feel like I’ve lost the entirety of my 20s to quarantine and shitty jobs and not making a living wage and grieving all the people I’m closest to which is. Really fucking shit!! Idk. I don’t know where I’m going with this. Life sucks and it’s also beautiful. I’m grateful to be able to log on to this stupid site and find a community of people who care about all the goofy things I care about. Love 2 u all.

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

i think its fucking particularly sick and cruel to finally fucking give us a kitty cat we can pet and let us gradually become friends and have him accept our affection and then fucking KILL HIM and leave behind his empty shell

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

Thank you to whoever on the genshin team brought up the idea of being able to pet Osse during and post quest I owe you my life

[adoseoftrees]

There were many Valarin songs about Uinen and Osse.

No. Aule did not plead her to save Osse. He would ask no one to do that. It was just an ordinary day, when he walked to the seashore and looked east, still grieving the ones left with Melkor. A Maia of water approached him, and they talked.

There were whispers, about the conversation between Uinen and Aule, how she left her friends and family in secret, her long journey into Utumno with every wave trying to push her back, how she offered her service to Morgoth, the dreadful acts she committed as the unwavering deadly sea, and the time when everyone believed she was lost like many others were.

Melkor remade her the same way he remade Osse and other Maiar that submitted themselves to his will. She let him to reshape her into the chains that kept Osse in line. 

Uinen was gentle, quiet, and she kept secrets. She was a good actor, or she wasn’t acting at all. Melkor did have trouble differentiate anger and fear. And Melkor never fully understood to what extent one can do for the other; he expected Uinen to serve him for Osse, but he did not expect Osse to betray him for Uinen. After all, Osse sang with him in the Song.

Uinen eventually stirred up a small-scale rebel. She did not come to Utumno for Osse only. She gathered a small group of Maiar that did not want to serve Melkor any longer, and ran for the ocean when Melkor was away. Osse followed her.

It turned into a bloody, desperate fight. They very likely melted some ice and left a small part of Utumno temporally flooded. They knew no one would come for them; Osse created that mass extinction, and Uinen had her share of atrocities when she was undercover as well. Melkor made sure that everyone served him became traitors unredeemable.

Eventually they were cornered and Melkor came to get them himself. They were not prepared for the fate they would suffer; no Ainu could possibly prepare themselves for the horror Melkor would do. Both of them considered shredding the other to spare them from being made into some mindless beast. 

Then the land split open beneath them, and the sea flood into the crack and swept them away.

They were expected to be jailed or exiled, but both Aule and Ulmo pleaded for them. Yavanna did too; she was not entirely happy with the mass extinctions, but she was happy to have a few of her former Maiar leaving Melkor and contacting her again. (They refused to come back, but they were now doing fine and making things on some remote islands.)

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Uinen was swiftly accepted back into Ainur community. She was always loved by everyone before she left, and her friends were too happy to find out she was on the good side all the time. 

However, nobody knew what to do with Osse. The fucker really only came back for love; people remembered him happily singing with Melkor & committing atrocities.

Only an Ainu could fully understand what Uinen sacrificed for Osse. The things Melkor did to a Maia was permanent; she was never the same again. Not all her friends and family considered her sacrifice to worth the outcome, and they definitely blame it on her horrible awful boyfriend that made evil life choice. 

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So yeah, the tale of Osse and Uinen was considered a great love epic among Ainur. But the story was very controversial and there were different versions written by multiple parties.

Ainur sang about them the same way Noldor sang about Fingon & Maedhros and Sindar sang about Beren & Luthien in later ages.

The universally accepted idea was “What Uinen did was crazily heroic but the mess was all preventable if someone (pointedly looking at Osse) could make wiser decision about who to follow in the Song.”

[jupitershadows]

[m0e-ru]

me making gsaslau squeezing out a five minute stageplay clip into a pot like the main ingredient  it's all about bestieship. and love. and learning to be human and accepting oneself in every aspect and being there for others because they'll be there for you even if you won't be there for yourself vs me treating it like an established piece of media to be consumed and thought deeply about .evil voice they can make each other WORSE

[blackandwhiteangels-blog]

[thelien-art]

If you’re still taking requests, could I ask for Earendil/Elwing? Thank you so much, your art is lovely!

Thank you! And of course!!

I��m actually quite a lover of this ship.

[just-absolutely-super]

How did you find a physical copy of MMBN 4.5? Is it in English?

It’s a fan translation (like what you’d find on the emulators) that someone put onto a game cartridge. They did it for MMBN 4.5, Operation Shooting Star, and even Ace Attorney Investigations 2 among other Japan exclusive games

Here’s the store: