#almost certainly not

[and-the-times-we-had]

Silm AU idea where Elwing, upon getting the letter from the Feanorians asking for the Silmaril does agree to give it to them....but only if they swear an Oath to her personally to defend Sirion from Morgoth (and not attack it themselves) that is as strong and binding as their original Oath.

[personnotfound]

I feel like maybe y'all are relying a little too much on what we already know from the previous series to solve the mystery of this one. I say y'all because I just vibe. My red string is for quietly stitching spooky little patches on my backpack while I listen to the rusty crew drip feed me scary stories. It's vibes for me.

But it ISNT a continuation or anything. Maybe it runs parallel. Maybe the fears were ALREADY in other dimensions before jarchavist archivist antichrist went full eyeball and got romantically stabbed. Maybe it's not even the same entities, or not QUITE the same, and later seasons will see some more familiar fears bleeding in.

These fears jest feel different to me. Perhaps I'm just sending a slight evolution in writing style or vision or something. But I am sending something.

I'm just saying it might be worth looking at it from a fully fresh perspective.

I have not listened to this week's episode for reasons beyond your business.

[charmwasjess]

I miss Him

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

one of the reasons why reformed Draco is so appealing to me is because like. His story has a lot of overlap with mine. I was raised in a high control group by parents who loved me but taught me a toxic, bigoted view of the world. And that worldview for me came crashing down around my ears when I got out in the world and I kept seeing how what I had been taught didn’t fit into reality.

And it took years to scrape away the gunk of what I had been taught to find who I really am and what I really believe with the love and support of my chosen family and. I guess there’s something healing about making that story into art. Kind of like a pensieve? Taking it out of my head and putting it somewhere I can look at it and think about it and learn from it and even share it with other people.

Also Draco himself is appealing for reasons that have nothing to do with Tom Felton! In the books, he is dramatic and flamboyant and loud. He likes to do impressions and make up songs. He can’t keep a secret to save his life (literally! He was given a secret assignment from Voldemort and IMMEDIATELY brags about it to everyone he knows, many of whom have parents who could easily have reported this back to Voldemort).

Getting wrekt by Harry and Ron repeatedly and Hermione once does not stop him from talking shit constantly. He’s fun! And the descriptions of his physical appearance are very striking and unusual as well. Naturally platinum blond hair, silver eyes, pointed features. Plus there are these tantalizing little hints that his family life is maybe not as happy as a gift of 7 Nimbus 2001s might suggest. The guy is fandom catnip! He sparks the imagination.

The idea of redeemed Draco for some of us is the idea of someone who maybe doesn’t deserve a second chance getting one anyway and managing to do something good with it. I know I’m grateful that I don’t have to stay who I was at eleven or even at seventeen.

[thatsprettylane]

Being a woman is kind of weird because in a lot of ways, gender feels less like a personal identity and more like a political identity. Because to me, it’s such a small part of who I am, but to many other people, it’s all I am (and they want to hurt me over it.)

[brywrites]

I've been on a Taylor Swift kick lately, and I couldn't help but try to decide which song best fit each of my series/long-fics:

Flight Risk: State of Grace "This is a state of grace, this is the worthwhile fight."

The title came from "Mine" but this relationship is clearly "State of Grace." They simply never saw this coming, and things were never the same - for them or for the relationship between the profilers and their mysterious pilots.

Lock and Key: Dress "My hands are shaking from holding back from you."

I had a hard time finding one that fit this pair and went back and forth with a few reputation and evermore songs before landing on "Dress." But it just works so well: they don't want each other like a best friend!! All of the silence and patience pining and desperately waiting!!

The Keeping of Words: This Love "These hands had to let it go free and this love came back to me."

They simply could not be any other song. It's just so them. All that they've been through, all that they've endured. Like sure, lyrics from "Mine" and "Lover" and "You Are In Love" fit, but at the end of the day their love left a permanent mark and these two are glowing in the dark.

[sibyl-of-space]

when life gives you lemons (feeling sad and emotional and nostalgic and pre-emptively grieving the loss of something you haven't even lost yet) make lemonade (work on your sad werewolf visual novel)

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Well, just had the very worst day ever at work, so it is time to watch 이동욱 get beaten up for roughly twelve hours over the course of the next few weeks.

[montied]

i should be lying in bed thinking about go2 NOT this goddamn english oral

[msvelawciraptor]

God I love being back in a real city. Not only did I get to see ZZ Top, but there were still places open where I could grab a bite afterwards!

You really have no idea how important that is until you've lived somewhere where the sidewalks roll up at 9:00.

[lapislantern]

I fucking love my course so much!! today I went to an open day for course electives and the lecturer was teaching people how to DJ. In one of my classes I worked on the score for a video game. For one of my classes I taught myself how to make generative visuals. Every single one of my classmates is doing the coolest shit imaginable for their projects. Vibroacoustics. Binaural beats. Psychological warfare (noise music). Large scale interactive video installations. I am programming lights for an official uni event. I am collaborating on a project involving designing different scents, music and projecting visuals onto people's eyelids. It's indescribably rad.

[triviallytrue]

[guesswhattimeitis]

Story idea:

Sith Lord and the admiral of her fleet have weird sexual tension going on. Clearly this is headed towards toxic yuri territory and it’s only a matter of time before they murder each other or make out sloppy style.

The twist?

The entire story is being told from the perspective of one of the bridge technicians on their ship.

One of these unfortunate souls that have to just pretend they’re not hearing their boss play psychosexual verbal chess with the scary warlock woman

It’s entirely ocs because no offense I know this could be Vader and like, Piet or one of the other imperial officers but I don’t want to write that tbh, but also if someone out there does want to write that more power to you

[decamarks]

Check out this dogshit picture of a uDraw tablet from Wikipedia

[cometchasr]

my sole ascientific belief (i will go to some magic illogical place where i can be with rax and azhar/all of them(tm)) flies entirely in the face of logic and i do not give a shit

[tomb-mold]

screenshots of despair