#arwen ng

[emmanuellececchi]

Pasting here my take on the end : Arwen and Aragorn

(because comments were not available...) First of all thanks for this one OP, I loved it! (A strange thing happened... I wanted to link to the original post and couldn't because "Fantom blog" 😳😱😶)

*roll sleeve* bitching time (it's going to be a long one, brace yourself)

This is one of the aspect of the book that I NEVER understood or accepted. And bits of it had confused me. You are absolutely welcome to answer, add details, not agree and explain, argue. But with respect and kindly, please, that's all I am asking. (putting behind a cut)

Let's begin with Arwen:

For what I understood she choose the fate reserved to human. Which, to me, even after reading Luthien and Beren, means she is mortal. So... she is not stuck to roam endlessly in an abandonned Lorien. She will die of old age.

If this is the case: Why don't you stay with your children and grandchildren? Taking care of them, being like all grandparents and taking a bit of the weight of the kids while they do and have "gondorian" fun or spend some time in Rohan with their cousins or in The Shire? Why don't you go and visit all those people? Why don't you discover this world?

If this is not the case and Arwen is just stuck, an immortal elf in the mortal world: Why Lorien if everyone has left? Why not go with Thranduil (@sotwk : how long did he stay? I'm sorry I don't remember). Why not Ithilien? The Shire? One again, if you're immortal go and visit! and why not stay a bit and enjoy those kids and grandkids? I can udnerstand it might get weird being immortal and seeing your kids and grandkids becoming older but... You could at least have stayed a bit. Or become an archivist?A librarian? Go to Dol Amroth?

I mean, there are sooooooo many possibilities for this lady to finish/not finish her life rather than roaming endlessy in an empty Lorien, like WTF?

Aragorn:

First, yes, I love Aragorn (like really). But... Why did he do this? Oh yeah. Don't want to stay and be overbearing over your kid, uh? Ah yeah, because you don't want to become an old man, shaked by old age, and everyone seeing you becoming frail? Sorry but isn't that your (sorry for the word) F*****ng ego speaking?

I mean, it's the fate of all men to age and die. But you, you have this choice and then, you abandon everyone, including your wife, just because you don't want to show what old age could do to you?

Okay, Arwen knew what she had signed for... Although she said it, she understood at this moment what was the real meaning.

But one : Aragorn, why didn't you discuss this with your lady wife? Like "hey sweetheart? how do you feel if I would stay a few years more? Maybe I'm going to become frail and a bit shaky and maybe forgot people but... What d'ya think? Getting old together?" She could have decided herself, it would have been her choice. Not the first time she would make a hard choice (just so you remember).

Two: speak to your kids "Hey, by the way, mind if I stay a while?" Maybe they would have say no, or yes. But even if it has been a no... There a whole world to explore with your lady! Why not go to the Shire and have a few last years with them? Or Rohan and end under a barrow like the Rohan kings (hey, wouldn't be something rather than asking if they want Theoden to stay in Gondor ? - This one's for you @from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras)?

Rambling's almost finished. Essentially, there could have been a different ending for those two, if Aragorn has discussed it and not choose all alone what was best for everyone. And if Arwen had realized she was free to do whatever she wanted. I suppose I felt a bit insulted that, because Aragorn was dead, her own life must end. And maybe her love for him was that strong, maybe she was just so heartbroken that she couldn't stand being without him. But then, why didn't Aragorn stayed?

So, here it is, my rambling/ranting for Saturday morning. Once again, feel free to argue, discuss, exchange, bring more info, etc...

[emmanuellececchi]

First of all thanks for this one OP, I loved it!

Second... *roll sleeve* bitching time (it's going to be a long one, brace yourself)

This is one of the aspect of the book that I NEVER understood or accepted. And bits of it had confused me. You are absolutely welcome to answer, add details, not agree and explain, argue. But with respect and kindly, please, that's all I am asking.

Let's begin with Arwen:

For what I understood she choose the fate reserved to human. Which, to me, even after reading Luthien and Beren, means she is mortal. So... she is not stuck to roam endlessly in an abandonned Lorien. She will die of old age.

If this is the case: Why don't you stay with your children and grandchildren? Taking care of them, being like all grandparents and taking a bit of the weight of the kids while they do and have "gondorian" fun or spend some time in Rohan with their cousins or in The Shire? Why don't you go and visit all those people? Why don't you discover this world?

If this is not the case and Arwen is just stuck, an immortal elf in the mortal world: Why Lorien if everyone has left? Why not go with Thranduil (@sotwk : how long did he stay? I'm sorry I don't remember). Why not Ithilien? The Shire? One again, if you're immortal go and visit! and why not stay a bit and enjoy those kids and grandkids? I can udnerstand it might get weird being immortal and seeing your kids and grandkids becoming older but... You could at least have stayed a bit. Or become an archivist?A librarian? Go to Dol Amroth?

I mean, there are sooooooo many possibilities for this lady to finish/not finish her life rather than roaming endlessy in an empty Lorien, like WTF?

Aragorn:

First, yes, I love Aragorn (like really). But... Why did he do this? Oh yeah. Don't want to stay and be overbearing over your kid, uh? Ah yeah, because you don't want to become an old man, shaked by old age, and everyone seeing you becoming frail? Sorry but isn't that your (sorry for the word) F*****ng ego speaking?

I mean, it's the fate of all men to age and die. But you, you have this choice and then, you abandon everyone, including your wife, just because you don't want to show what old age could do to you?

Okay, Arwen knew what she had signed for... Although she said it, she understood at this moment what was the real meaning.

But one : Aragorn, why didn't you discuss this with your lady wife? Like "hey sweetheart? how do you feel if I would stay a few years more? Maybe I'm going to become frail and a bit shaky and maybe forgot people but... What d'ya think? Getting old together?" She could have decided herself, it would have been her choice. Not the first time she would make a hard choice (just so you remember).

Two: speak to your kids "Hey, by the way, mind if I stay a while?" Maybe they would have say no, or yes. But even if it has been a no... There a whole world to explore with your lady! Why not go to the Shire and have a few last years with them? Or Rohan and end under a barrow like the Rohan kings (hey, wouldn't be something rather than asking if they want Theoden to stay in Gondor ? - This one's for you @from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras)?

Rambling's almost finished. Essentially, there could have been a different ending for those two, if Aragorn has discussed it and not choose all alone what was best for everyone. And if Arwen had realized she was free to do whatever she wanted. I suppose I felt a bit insulted that, because Aragorn was dead, her own life must end. And maybe her love for him was that strong, maybe she was just so heartbroken that she couldn't stand being without him. But then, why didn't Aragorn stayed?

So, here it is, my rambling/ranting for Saturday morning. Once again, feel free to argue, discuss, exchange, bring more info, etc...

if I were an elf and bitches were like "the age of elves is ending...we must go into the West..." ok??? I can live being a minority??? I don't really need magic I'm chill with like. being here? "the age of men is beginning" great. fantastic. I'm friends with quite a few men actually. they have really good cuisine. Maybe they'll do a better job handling things than our lot who consistently have apocalyptic wars. I could live in a city if I really had to. Damn head off into the west if it's all that to you. have fun on your weird boats.

[toadeyes-miqote]

You had me at Blood Pearl Charms

I'm aware that Final Fantasy has flavour text. But due to not really paying attention I didn't actively screenshot FFXIV stuff till late Heavensward or mid Stormblood. A number of quests were culled by the time I reached end ARR.

Extracted and kinda expanded from 5.1 ShB relationship thing. Might have to update it for G'raha. Took a long time to get used his male Miqo'te energy.

Anyway I wasn't expecting Tataru to notice much less ask after Hylnyan. I can't remember the Waking Sands Post ARR flavour text since its The Rising stones ones that caught my attention. This was around Good Intentions. This just hit me and made me pay attention to Tataru. A simple little thing.

Didn't really gave much thought and then this.

Here on it just built on their relationship between the two of them where I'm concern. Especially when certain Scions were just friendlier than others.

And all things considered. Tataru would technically be like the princess who's left behind by the rest of team as they go to the really huge battle in typical stories(the Belgarid even though Ce Nedra travels with the team for a good chunk). And the one who gives the heroes a token. Or somehow the Galadriel / Arwen who can't join the frontline team.

So the one left behind is waiting for WoL to come home. Someone/reason to come back to.

So I hate to ask Tataru if the rest of the team receive a blood pearl charm before Bloody Banquet? Did Moenbryda get one? Was this before or after? I have memory lost.

Dangit Tataru, this one act alone, made Hylnyan position herself as your champion. Totally at work in full force for the hearsy trial

Their friendship went like that from then on. Hylnyan made sure not to disappoint or make Tataru cry. She became the second most important person after Thancred(stop being so smug Thancred).

This two I can't remember the exact order but one was probably Niddhog (Final Steps of Faith). The other is Hour of Departure (Going to Azys La to chase down Thordan (Hour of Departure)?

That Tataru is aware of human limitations of the WoL is what interested me. She understands the responsibilities and see the person. Yeah the whole holding onto humanity thing was important to me.

There was a rhythm to it. Clap your hands if you believe. There's more than enough dynamis.

So yeah, if Thancred is Hylnyan's front line supporter, then Tataru is Hylnyan's back line supporter. One does not make the popoto cry.

. An interesting thing for me was that Hylnyan and Tataru were only 1 year apart in age.

That and the popoto runs Hylnyan's PR team

Apparently NG+ refresher that Tataru started her PR manager stunt as early as Ifrit.

I still need Blood Pearl charms as earrings or bracelets for Hylnyan to wear though. Rings belong to Fortemps and Gridania while necklace is wayfarer crystal. And I would like to keep a Bogatyr something as her mate's gift.

[ziggyevenstar]

i found a preloved book set of lotr and i ordered it naaaaa mygod im so fucking happy!!! i feel so much closer to arwen myloves na hahaha. wala, wala naman talagang relation yung pictures sa post, i just realized i almost never take selfies w/o makeup or filter anymore so nagpicture ako kanina. also sorry na kung sa bilibili ako nanunuod, nakalimutan ko pw ng hbo sa bahay di nakalog sa pc. yun lang bye

[mod2amaryllis]

...ok. i really didn't wanna admit this but it's driving me nuts and i have to go public.

........i did watch the r*ngs of p*wer NOW,,.

HANG ON. gimme a chance. so,

jose and i love lord of the rings. it was the first thing that brought us together. watching it with our highschool friends was our meetcute of "omggg u also have appendices memorized??😳!" i was convinced trop was gonna suck also fuck amazon but jose's the most give it a chance man on earth like this dude loves everything but he especially loves lotr. he will take whatever he gets. so i was like sigh.... ok. you're gonna watch it anyway, I'll sit in, I'll give it a chance. to support my husband who i adore.

it's important to me that you understand this. that i was, definitively, NOT hate watching. i was going in with as open a mind as i could muster. and guys?

that shit sucked so so fucking hard.

ita bad! it was really really so bad. and i had to acknowledge that, ok, we will never get another good lotr trilogy. the formula that enabled the lotr to be such a gorgeous passion project will never come together that perfectly ever ever again, so i don't really wanna compare it to that standard. but this was like.... just bad television. just deeply unlikable stuff.

as i slowly started to pick up hints that even my loves-everything husband was, thankfully, not enjoying himself, i prodded with a, "i think the actors are doing their best with very very little to go off of" and he considered this, nodding and admitting, "yeah it's just okay." this, from jose, is about as scathing as it gets.

right away, the writing. it's bad. at times unbearably so, ranging from bursting out in laughter at the middle school level moments of triumph to looking away with literal nausea at the emotional beats. it's like a group of 19 year old male business majors minoring in anthropology got together and competed to see who could write the most moving speech, and there's your script. every word, delivery, expression is like they're saying the most dire thing that's ever been said. sometimes you get attempts at friendly banter trying too hard for charm, or commonfolk wisdoms, but mostly it's so so so serious guysss this is SERIOUS definitely the stakes are soooo high can't you tell by the way the actors' jaws are always clenched? nothing in middle earth has ever been so serious.

there's a boy and his mother (who's embroiled in a human/elf romance that lacks any of the tender, captivating distance between aragorn and arwen, but based on the music, we're definitely supposed to think it's on level). at one point when things are, again, Getting Serious, and she's like remember when you used to have nightmares as a kid? remember what I'd say? I'd say: In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing. There is light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. Find the light, and the shadow will not find you. ok, 1) did you? did you say that whole thing to your kid? yeah i bet you did sure bronwyn, and 2) this illustrates the most annoying pattern in every filmed lotr property beyond the original trilogy, which is the attempt to top the original trilogy. oh did you like that thing gandalf said? then you're gonna LOVE A THIS.

and galadriel. ohh galadriel. they girlbossified galadriel so hard I'd call it character assassination. it's egregious. personally insulting. galadriel is an interesting and powerful character who's simultaneously ethereal, feminine, calm and soft with moments of fury. well the trop writers saw that they were like hang on... she can't be powerful AND gently feminine that doesn't make sense. no. she has to be PISSED the HELL off!!! she's not like other elves. she's tough, she's gonna show these BOYS how to sword fight. also there's a hot MAN she's gonna have DYNAMICS with because, can't stress this enough, she is not like other elves.

they keep trying to make another "into the West" or "edge of night" like SHUT UP. SHUT UP. SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU WILL NEVER BE BILLY BOYD. YOU WANNA BE BILLY BOYD SO FUCKING BAD IT MAKES YOU LOOK STUPID. ENOUGH. the credits song on the final episode is just someone singing the one ring poem. literally. like it's the one ring to rule them all poem word for word set to a painfully obvious into the west copy.

there's so much more. and i swear on GOD i was trying to give it a chance. my mistake. i shouldn't have done that i was wrong i messed up by watching the r*ngs of p*wer i wish i could take it back.

but nobody else waste your search analytics. nobody investigate. just look at this tumblr post and know: it was as bad as you thought it'd be like don't even sweat it.

[bluegrace]

People be thinking I ship gwancelot to get Gwen out of merthur’s way. But that’s not the case at all. If anything, I ship merthur to get Arthur out of gwancelot’s way

Most Arwen shippers attack Merthur because they accuse them of being racist, misogynistic, etc. I love Gwen, and I’m fond of Arthur. I admit there is love there. Arthur’s just too much of an arse. Gwen deserves someone sweet (Lance), someone who’s there for her (Leon), or someone who tries to win her affection (Gwaine). Not a clotpole who runs off into battle all the time and makes stupid decisions in general.

[olympustalk]

Olá meus deuses favoritos. (Apesar de Nyx ser minha ultimate hehe). Estou aqui para pedir uma divulgação, se não for pedir demais. Acabamos de nós lançar oficialmente.

Para quem não sabe, a New Garden Society é uma sociedade secreta formada pelas 4 famílias dos crime (máfias) mais influentes do mundo. Porém com um toque um tanto pós-apocalíptico causado por uma droga que tornou alguns humanos, manifestações da cultura popular sobrenatural.

Tem vampiros, bestas e bruxos, assim como gangues, máfias e clãs. Mas juro que não está bagunçado!!

Se puderem dar essa força, serei imensamente grata.

Beijos by Arwen

Olá, Arwen!! Não tem ideia do quanto a notícia do lançamento oficial da NGS me deixou feliz, sério. Eu tava praticamente ali acampando ansiosíssima pra quando o projeto fosse finalmente divulgado (e já adianto aqui que está tudo incrível e impecável).

Enfim, agradecemos demais por contar com a nossa ajuda e com certeza vamos dar essa forcinha pra ti e pros outros moderadores da NGS. Pessoal que tá com interesse num plot bem dark fantasy com aquele toquezinho pós-apocalíptico com máfias e seres sobrenaturais, tá aí uma opção ótima a ser considerada. A jogabilidade é bem diferente da que nós costumamos ver na tag e eu com certeza considero isso um dos pontos mais fortes e interessantes da proposta além do próprio plot que está incrível, muito bem montado e escrito.

Beijos da Lua pra todos vocês da moderação, porque vocês merecem, e boa sorte!

[callmeyce]

061921 // failed grooming + date w arwen

agenda talaga for today is ipagroom si PB but then fully booked both grooming salons na pimuntahan namin as im tumawid pa kami ng malls pero wala pala so ending pina daycare muna namin si PB para makakain kami ni Arwen. i treated her to Ramen Nagi since di pa niya raw nattry dun and.... syempre di ko nanaman naubos ramen ko eh may policy na pala na bawal na takeout lels.

after namin balikan si PB sa daycare ng shopping pa kami and may times pa na tamad na magwalk si PB HAHAHA kaya parang buong mall time namin nagworkout ako as in pawis na pawis ako kasi karga ko lang si PB most of the time.

may nag approach pa samin and kinuha number ko kasi ipapa-stud daw nila pom nila kais female yung sakanila so waiting for their text nalang. i want babies na din hehe.

tiring but really fun day!!

[doctormage]

every now and then im like “maybe i SHOULD actually read the entirety of the l*rd of the r*ngs trilogy.....” and then i spend 0.2 seconds on eowyn’s or arwen’s wiki page and im like nope no thank you goodbye

[girlbookwrm]

i can’t believe i’m doing this

@jhscdood​ listen i got No Time to write the fics for this right now, but have some Fellowship of the Pod People (but not like that) Headcanons.

@ all of the rest of you, please for Eru’s sake help yourselves: literally nothing would make me happier than to have someone else write this shit so i could read it like the lazy asshole i am.

None of this will make a DAMN LICK OF SENSE if you aren’t familiar with the Not Your Mama’s ABO Clownfish AU that @silentwalrus1​ created with @skellerbvvt​ and @galwednesday​ in the Magnificently Weird MCU Stucky Gem Scents & Sensibility 

shit this got hella long don’t look at me but please all feel free to correct/expand/modify because I just whipped these off to decompress after a long day

The Númenóreans are responsible for all that “reef” “pod” and assorted “fishy” terminology, so while “pod” “reef” etc may be the accepted academic names, they’re often replaced with local variants and colloquialisms. The Númenóreans picked this linguistic quirk up from the sea-obsessed Noldor elves, so it’s sometimes used in Rivendell and Lothlorien too.

(The Sindar elves fucking hate that)

(Sindar use bee euphemisms instead. It’s all “hives” and “skeps” etc etc etc. Try to tell me Thranduil isn’t a Queen Bee. I FUCKIN DARE U. The wine is all honey mead. Hex honeycomb aesthetic for the win. Even the dungeons.)

(FYI Dwarves ALSO have a Hexagonal Aesthetic and that just Really Gets Thranduil’s Goat.)

everyone’s got their own local names for alphas and omegas too because seriously who fucking came up with that, i bet there’s a whole appendix at the end of the red book about terminology and shit

(Now I’m having meta thoughts about linguistics and there being a clownfish!Tolkien to go with the clownfish!Middle Earth. And now I’m thinking about the Inklings being a pod and if i follow THAT rabbit hole any further I’ll fu cki ng  AS C E N DHJKfghjk.)

Anyway

Men smell gross. Everyone else is agreed upon this. Unflattering comparisons to badgers and weasels have been made.

This makes “MANFLESH” 12000% more hilarious ur welcome

it’s funny cuz Men are big into perfumes. Incense! Herb Sachets! Oils and tinctures! Have you ever seen a olde tyme perfumers’ box? That kinda shit. Everyone has their Signature Smell.

but elves especially are like you still smell like man stop trying to hide it.

The Dúnedain embrace The Musk. (some have fully weaponized it)

this is very important: Aragorn Smells Amazing. (to be clear, still very Man Smelling, but awesome. first time he goes all I AM UR KING everyone in the throne room goes a little glassy eyed.)

Minas Tirith, being old, is very Old Numenorean Oceanic Aesthetic. Give me all that white stone carved to look like coral and driftwood holy shit YES. 

WHITE! TREE!! GARDEN!!! 

ATHELAS!!!! SCENTED!!!!! EVERYTHING!!!!!! (pairs well with lemon and other citrus smells.)

veering away from Gondor now

The Rohirrim stick with horse metaphors because of course they fucking do. Also, since they’re more nomadic, the entire concept of a “reef” as in a physical structure is kind of ??????? to them. So. “Reefs” = “herds” and “pods” = “bands.” 

Fresh Hay is considered to be Peak Homely Smell in Edoras. Tapestries! Only The Softest and Nicest and Most Beautifully Tooled leather! leather smells!

OH SHIT GIVE ME ALPHA-FOR-LIFE-EOWYN MEETING FOREVER!OMEGA FARAMIR *HEAVY BREATHING*

(oh shit while we’re in the neighborhood, Dúnedain Rangers tend to be solitary As, which spooks the natives like whoa, but the Ithilien Rangers are generally O, and their waterfall hideout is totes a big ole reef.)

hang on i forgot about elves

Listen, I’m not super into elves myself but I’m imagining that they are perpetually switching back and forth between A and O depending on the day — nay, the HOUR — and the extremes between A and O are much less extreme for them than other races.

Every other race finds this super weird and disturbing.

Legolas is like “hm this forest is making me feel very O.” And Aragorn and Gimli are just like ‘what’ and then suddenly Leggy smells very O too and Aragorn and Gimli are like ‘WHAT’

Feänor is the exception. He turned the dial all the way to A and broke the goddamn knob off.

Galadriel can go from Maximum Softe O to Roid Rage A in .0004 seconds. “iiiinstead of a dark lord yyYYOU WOULD HAVE A QUEEEEEEN!!!1!” and the Hobbits are literally bowled over.

Elves in general smell woody but also very ocean-y i think? Have you ever stood in a pine forest by the ocean, where you get those light, clean wood and cedar and pine smells all shot through with sea breeze? Like That.

But elves are more into visual/audio. Soft singing. Leaves moving in the breeze. The whisper of pages in a library. 

and the light. Elves are lighting wizards, they are all about that gentle starglow.

(I’m also having thoughts about the Lothlorien Elves embracing that A-ish urge to be Up High. A holdover from Galadriel’s time with the feanoreans? I'm not as up on silm lore as I should be)

but let’s get back to my happy place: 

THE MUTHAFUCKIN SHIIIIIIIIRE

Hobbits really embrace dat sweet sweet O lifestyle. good food and warm hearths. throw blankets and pillows. hugging and cuddle puddles and playing footsie. gardens. Gardens. G A R D E N S. 

“Going A” is done as rarely as possible. the transition takes about a month and Hobbits who are “going A” tend to call in sick like it’s some unsightly thing. 

Tooks have an unusually high rate of going A. Of course they do.

Bilbo has never gone A. Not! Once!

Neither has Frodo.

Sam did, after the breaking of the Fellowship. Merry and Pippin did, in Fangorn, when they grew six inches. The three of them all stayed A after that, for the most part. YES EVEN SAMWISE. it was v scandalous.

Hobbit “reefs” are called “warrens” (unless ur rich, then they’re Smials and they’re Only For Family) and their “pods” are “nests.” “Nesting” is a whole Thing.

Hobbits! Smell! Like! Baked! Goods! Not sweet but like… warm. Humans sometimes turn their noses up and call it a “yeasty” or “beery” smell but it’s usually much more a rising-bread smell. Pipeweed smoke and sweet florals make a nice contrast to the perpetual bakery window smell.

Hobbits are very mouth/taste/chew oriented. Mouthfeel is a Big Deal. Recipe Books are Heirlooms. Courting is frequently Food/Drink Oriented.

Rosie Cotton brews the finest ale in all the land and she did that for the express purpose of seducing Samwise Gamgee

He Did Not Realize.

Courting that is not food/drink oriented is Flower/Plant oriented.

Sam Gamgee became the finest gardener in all the land in the desperate hope of wooing Mr. Frodo.

He Did Not Realize.

Everyone Else Realized. Merry and Pippin especially considered it Peak Comedy.

(they eventually worked it out.)

last but not least:

there’s just no way around it. Dwarves smell like dirt. nice dirt tho! Petrichor and stone with hints of copper and metals. Smoke smells. Rich spice smells. Eau de forge is considered a particularly desirable perfume. Dwarves don’t particularly notice smell though (for reasons that will become apparent) when it comes to Softe Things they’re much more about dem sweet sweet sparklies, and fur, and being super fucking tactile.

Dwarves are SUPER into haircare, like, every night the Company of Thorin makes a braid circle and exchanges hair beads. 

(elves are also super into hair care. this too really Gets Tharanduil’s Goat)

Dwarf social structure is like… hobbits in reverse. They tend to default to A status, hence their general rowdiness but with strict codes of conduct to help manage conflict. They’re just these huge roving groups of A’s just rough-and-tumbling around their one O. dogpiles are peak pod bonding. aaaaand the alpha reek kind of tends to make them all a little noseblind.

Poor Bilbo.

Lucky, Lucky Bilbo.

But also poor, poor Bilbo.

Most dwarf Royals go O, but Thorin hadn’t been O since he was 24 and got chased out of Erebor by that pesky dragon.

Dwarf “reefs” and “pods” have their own terms in Khuzdul that do not translate well but have to do with crystal growth. Rough translations are “lattices” and “cells” (Hence the hexagon aesthetic)

Wizards Have No Designation. They Smell Like Gunpowder and Lightning. It Is Very Disturbing For Everyone Around Them.

A

N

Y

W

A

Y

Give me EveryoneLives!au Hobbit stuff. Bilbo trying to homely up the lonely mountain! Thorin going O and chilling the fuck out as a result! 

Give me fellowship!pod!! Aragorn is the diplomat! Pippin is the wild child! Gimli is the Adventurer! Frodo is the peacekeeper! Boromir is the den mother!

How Much More Heartrending is the Breaking of the Fellowship if the fellowship was a pod????

and then you’ve got the fractured podlings: Merry and Pippin bonding hard with their new Rohan and Gondor stress-pods. Sam going A to protect Frodo from Gollum while Frodo tries to adopt this weird frog into their pod. The Three Hunters as Nick, Nora and Nelson (Gimli is Nick, Leggy is Nora, Aragorn is Nelson.)

Give me post-war Legolas and Aragorn and Gimli (and Arwen too) breaking cultural boundaries and proving that yes! Interracial Pods Can Work! these differences are cultural, and cultures can be melded! nothing wrong with this! if half-elves exist and can have kids of their own, then elves and men are not separate species, and I’d bet a significant limb that the same is true of all the other races so

GIVE IT TO ME

ok i gotta stop now.

...

yeah there’s probably a star trek one of these coming too

kill me

(And hey jhscdood I’m not saying you have to come back at me with more lotr clownfish or ocean’s 11/Star Wars/M*A*S*H/Leverage/West Wing/whatever clownfish But I would certainly consider it a Fair Exchange if you did. MORE INSTITUTIONALIZED SOFTISM. MAXIMUM SOFT FISH FRIENDS.)

[heartsmourne]

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[katvaldezwriter77]

In Part 1, five best-selling Young Adult authors talked about their latest novels during an Old Town Library event co-sponsored by Old Firehouse Books on Oct. 27.

In Part 2 below, they discussed authors who influenced them, how they make time for writing in their busy lives, and the importance of taking care of your health while obsessed with finishing your first draft.

Illuminae  co-author  Jay Kristoff  started reading Stephen King when he was 10 years old. He’s read all of King’s books and stories.

“He’s the one author who, if I met, I’d lose my shit,” he said in a sheepish tone, his voice trailing off. He’s currently re-reading Salem’s Lot.

“I enjoy working on multiple books and in multiple voices,” Jay said. When he gets tired of one project, he can work on another. He advocates challenging yourself by experiencing different types of storytelling: films, books, graphic novels, etc.

 Amie Kaufman,  Illuminae co-author, said she’s enjoying an advanced reader copy of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virture by Mackenzi Lee, which will be published in February.

Amie, Kiersten, Jess, Arwen

A SHADOW BRIGHT AND BURNING by Jessica Cluess

As a young writer,  Seeker author  Arwen Elys Dayton, enjoyed the stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut because they were about “our world, but something is different.”

“Those are the books I’ll go back to,” she said.

These days, she’s re-reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which she finds “comforting,” and the third book in the Cormoran Strike mystery series by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling), “which was like eating cake,” she said.

Although  Jessica Cluess, author of A Shadow Bright and Burning, meticulously researches whatever era she writes about, she talked about historical fiction versus historical fantasy and using the excuse, “It’s an alternate timeline!” if a reader points out something they believe is inaccurate.

Jess also mentioned learning a lesson about killing your darlings (well-known advice in the writing world). She used the name of a specific dance in her novel but her editor changed it to “a lively dance.” When Jess protested, her editor said, “No one cares about the mazurka!” (Wikipedia defines mazurka as “a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo….”)

She laughs about it now, and said she’ll give her editor a pillow bearing those words when she finishes writing the last book in the series.

When it comes to making time for writing, Jess showed commitment to her craft even when working two full-time jobs. She wrote for 30 minutes every day.

In contrast,  And I Darken  author  Kiersten White didn’t write for a year after she gave birth.

“Never sacrifice your relationships with your family. I have no social life,” Kiersten said with a smile. “I’m OK with that. You need to take care of your own health and relationships, and other than that, cut out things viciously.”

Arwen – who said she’s pitching a new novel she describes as “The Breakfast Club goes to Starfleet Academy” – was able to write more when her three children got older. Before that, she’d feel guilty about not writing as much as she wanted to.

“You’ll figure out what you can live without,” she said, “and you’ll have this thing you created. If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way to do it.”

Jay said he’d write for an hour during his lunch break when he worked in advertising, which usually meant 1,000 words per day and a complete draft in three months. “Playing video games wasn’t as important as this,” he said.

Writing for 20 minutes produces half a page, Amie said. Even if you write only 15 minutes per day, “it keeps you in the brain space” of your story.

Be careful to meet your body’s basic needs if you binge-write all day, all night, and all weekend. Amie said she ended up in the hospital with a kidney infection because she didn’t take care of her health while writing. She laughs about it now:

“You can daydream during those times.”

Katherine Valdez loves food too much to forget to eat while binge-writing. She recently completed reading Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt (and still does not have a crush on the author, really), is almost finished with Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (which made her cry, especially after reading the last paragraph of Chapter 10), and looks forward to diving into her #Owlcrate gift Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst, which the author calls “a traditional fantasy book in which the princess falls in love with another girl.”

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[merlinconfessions]

I never saw any real love between Gwen and Arthur. It's just not there. To me, it really almost seems like a.. rebound relationship? I'm not the only one who sees that, right?

[callmeyce]

073120 / rainy day

ngayon nalang ulit ako mag popost ng pic namin ni arwen HAHAHA sister ko yan.

[callmeyce]

birthday surprise for mama

so birthday bukas ni mama and sabi niya uuwi raw siya today. so nagplan kami magkakapatid na isurprise si mama so nag ambagan kami. then kanina 10AM pumunta kami ni arwen sa landmark trinoma para mag grocery. super haba ng pila pero shookt kami kasi di pala need pumila if frontliner kaya tyG :((((

ayun bumili kami ingredients na kulang pa kasi balak namin shakeys style food kasi fave ni mama yun lol kaya dati nagpa surprise bday party din kami for her sa shakey's

kakauwi lang namin. pahinga konti then luto na. kinakabahan nga kami kasi baka bigla di siya umuwi today kaya yung mga assistant niya sa work kinukunchaba namin na pilitin pauwiin si mama HAHAHA

hope this goes well ❤️

[callmeyce]

MIDNIGHT IMPROMPTU HOTEL CHILL (?)

yesterday was May 21, our so-called rest day. so pumunta kami sa mall para bumili ng hard drive at i-meet yung sister ko kasi gusto na niya makuha photos niya nung prom. after kasi nung kasal na event namin nung May 18, dumerecho kami sa hotel na pinag ganapan ng prom nila para maging photographers niya. bongga diba. dun na rin kami nagsleep sa hotel kasi nagbook si mommy ng room. basta ayun back to May 21... after namin kumain, umuwi na si Arwen (my sister) since dun siya umuuwi sa dad ko. eh ako rin dapat uuwi na pero nagdecide kaming manood nanaman ng cine IMPULSIVELY. 2nd time na in a week na biglaan kami nanuod ng cine na last full show dahil lang ayaw pa namin umuwi. HAHAHAHAHA we watched Deadpool 2. all i can say is okay naman siya mas nahigitan niya yung unang part. since last full show nga, natapos yun mga 1AM na tapos tulog na kapatid ni Earl kaya wala na magbubukas sa amin sa bahay nila. alam niyo ano ginawa namin? HAHAAHHAHA!!!!! NAGHANAP KAMI NG HOTEL @ 1 FREAKIN AM AT INABOT KAMI NG 2:30AM BAGO MAKAHANAP NG HOTEL KASI RAW FULLYBOOKED. NAGLAKAD LANG KAMI AS IN. IKOT IKOT. HELLO SOBRANG DELIKADO NA NUN HAHAHAHA HUHU naka-3 hotel muna kami bago nakahanap ng hotel na may rooms oa na available. kaya ayun. bam. impulsive nanaman. napa-book ng hotel nang wala sa oras dahil wala kami mauwian :(((( hahaahahahha pag naiisip ko sa mga kabaliwan namin ni earl natatawa nalang ako eh. SPONTANEOUS AND IMPULSIVE = US