#fandom-chameleon23

[ingravinoveritas]

fandom-chameleon23 replied to your post “"He should be used to this by now." Maybe, just…”

If it was a joke he’d smile or laugh after the glare, but he just looks so angry. It made my heart sink just watching.

@fandom-chameleon23 Likewise. He looks angry, and almost...disappointed. Like he was giving her a chance to just be normal around him, and she couldn't do it. And as you said, had there been that smile or laugh after the glare, that would change the tone of the video drastically...but he stormed off instead. The immediacy with which his expression and body language changed and how he couldn't move away quickly enough as soon as he realized she was recording him said it all...

[queenmeriadoc]

5/10/15 for the wrapped game :)

Number 5 is The Tortured Poest Department by Taylor Swift.

Number 10 is Om hundre år by Ulrikke.

Number 15 is Austin (Boots Stop Workin’) by Dasha

💚💚💚💚

[morganas-pendragons]

Rings of Power Fic Rec List

Disclaimer: I don't read Adar or Sauron fics. I'm sorry! These are all Gil-Galad, Elrond, Celebrimbor, or Arondir (which there haven't been too many of)

None of these are mine, but I will link my master list. Please read the works of these wonderfully talented people! Rings of Power fic is a hard commodity to come by and I've wanted to do this for a bit so everyone can see the works that Tumblr doesn't circulate well.

I'm going to add to this as I go. Please enjoy!

Gil-Galad

Threads (Ft Linnea, @wild-typo-turtle OC!) - Part One (All parts are linked within the greater fic!)

Upcoming (not yet posted, but will be soon): Gil-Galad fic by @tootoomanycats. Check out their blog to get on the tag list!

Blanket by @strawwritesfic

Lovely Thorn - Part I and Part II - by @criticallyinneedofadar

A Lifetime by @emmyspov

By The River's Edge by @mirkwdmstrss

The Sun Had Already Risen by @mirkwdmstrss

Healing Hands by @elronds-meleth-nin

All The Kings Horses by @youlikefanficdontyousquidward

An Unexpected Joy by @criticallyinneedofadar

Elrond

Tower Scrolls by @queers-gambit

Sparring Sessions by @feyhunter78

Hands Up, Palms Out, I'm At Your Mercy Now (smut) by @sanisse

Breathe by @bella-rose29

Tell Me What You Want by @gil-galadhwen

Under the Stars by @temporarily-your-saint

Celebrimbor

Crafted Love by @celebrimbormylove

In This Lifetime by @celebrimbormylove

Sounds Beyond The Night by @celebrimbormylove

Accident at the Anvil by @erebusbabylon

Lemon Cakes by @elronds-meleth-nin

The Craft by @thatlittlered

What's In A Name by @thatlittlered

Finding A New Purpose (OC) by @celebrimborsapron

An Artists Gaze by @criticallyinneedofadar

Lemon Cakes and a Melody by @criticallyinneedofadar

Please, Change The Prophecy (PART ONE AND TWO) by @simone8210

the princess of lindon by @criticallyinneedofadar

AO3 fic recs

healing doesn't happen alone by @fandom-chameleon23

star and stone, or the fall of king gil-galad (oc) by @marshmellin

I could break beneath the weight by @fandom-chameleon23

pain is cold water by @paperxcrowns

star and stone by @marshmellin (this is also on ao3 under the same name!)

Tribute Videos

celebrimbor - @cilyra

[damnyoubishop]

Seven Sentence Sunday

this is an excerpt from the next chapter of ‘a surprise in Eregion’, my pregnant Sauron fic.

He cannot deny he is not sorely tempted. Sauron is….stunning like this. All his hard edges gone. Long hair falling around his shoulders. A perfect mother to his father. Soft, round, small plump breasts that he just knows would fit perfectly into the palm of his hand. He wonders how they would taste.

Fic is here-

Thanks @loki-is-my-kink-awakening! Tagging forward for sketch Sunday or seven sentence Sunday if you want to do it :) @malkaleh @flameunquenched @saubrimbor @mai-komagata @fandom-chameleon23 @admirableprecious @skarletsstuff

[sailon-ishmael]

For WIP Wednesday!

ty @fandom-chameleon23 for the tag!

Here's a little bit from the next chapter of my Celebrimbor-in-Mandos-fic Shores of the Morning:

Celebrimbor opens his eyes and realizes with a start that he is not the only inhabitant of this room. There is a figure with their back to him several feet away, examining a stone fountain carved in the very center of the atrium. They are clothed in similar garb to his own. They have long blonde hair that reaches down to the center of their back. He must make some noise because the figure turns around and he sees their face. Her face. Mirdania. He sees Mirdania and suddenly there is something warm and wet on the left side of his forehead. Her smile falters and why is she smiling in the first place, she shouldn’t be smiling at him. She rushes towards him. Celebrimbor lifts his hand to his head and it comes away bloody. When had he hit his head? Oh, when he fell, blasted off the steps of the tower the first time he broke free. But why is it bleeding again it wasn’t bleeding before— “My lord Celebrimbor,” his apprentice reaches him and gently takes his hand, the hand now covered in his own blood, in her own. “It’s okay, this happens quite often when you first get here.” He stares at her stupidly, unable to speak though he knows this is wrong wrong wrong get away it’s not safe.

No pressure at all but if anyone sees this and has something they'd like to share, consider yourself tagged!

[fandom-chameleon23]

to expand a bit on my post here: https://www.tumblr.com/fandom-chameleon23/766441823521669120/galadriel-loved-halbrand-and-hates-sauron-and

i’m starting with the premise that sauron fully commits to the parts he plays. in other words, he genuinely believes what he is saying as halbrand and annatar. that’s why he’s so good at deceiving, because he believes it himself. (Charlie V said this in an interview).

i’m also defining love not as unconditional regard and affection for another person, but more as a posture/action toward that person.

so- we know from the beginning of 1x01 that galadriel hates sauron. he killed her brother and she swore revenge. but she loved halbrand. she felt like he understood her, she related to him, ans they had a connection. we see this in her conversation with halbrand in 1x06 when she tells him “i felt it too”. after the reveal, she separates halbrand and sauron in her mind. gil-galad has to correct her when she refers to him as “halbrand” and he reminds her it’s sauron she’s talking about. it’s a way to cope because she can’t comprehend being in love with sauron. she rationalizes by telling herself halbrand was a lie and completely fictional, but we know that’s not true. halbrand did not tell the whole truth but he was not a fictional man pulled out of thin air by sauron. in 2x08 sauron says ��not all of it [was a lie]” during his fight with galadriel.

season two for galadriel seems to be her coming to terms with the fact that she was in love with sauron, and figuring out how to move forward in light of the feelings that brings (guilt, anger, etc.) by the end of the season, i don’t see any evidence that she still holds that love for him. she hesitates when she sees halbrand’s face again because of the memories and emotions she has for him, but she ultimately defies sauron with the infamous “heal yourself” line. to me, that line is spoken out of anger, not love. and she’s totally justified in doing so.

celebrimbor. i said he loved annatar- there’s a lot of complex feelings wrapped up here. celebrimbor was intrigued and excited by halbrand, and i read it as attraction as well. then when sauron presents as annatar, celebrimbor initially responds more in worship and adoration. but i think it settles into a quiet, steady love during their work together. celebrimbor sees annatar as an intellectual partner, and there is an emotional connection there as well (one example is when celebrimbor checks on annatar after the doors of durin).

their dynamic is classic emotional abuse/manipulation. annatar is open about whatever emotions will earn a response from celebrimbor. he is successful at drawing celebrimbor into a deep emotional connection. but celebrimbor never gives up his agency, he is willing to stand up to annatar and hold his boundaries. he chooses to love annatar, even when annatar is not easy to love.

but as time progresses and annatar descends into sauron, celebrimbor has to pull back to protect himself. he cannot remain entangled with a being that is so destructive. throughout the end of 2x07 and beginning of 2x08, as sauron is fully revealed, celebrimbor listens, and sees, and understands. he sees sauron, not annatar, and he so clearly still *wants* to love sauron. he feels empathy, and his heart hurts for sauron, but i don’t see anger or hatred. and perhaps the most loving thing he could have done, in those circumstances, was to confront sauron with the truths that he did. but he could not maintain a relationship of love, not when sauron is so self-deluded that he is willing to kill and torture in the name of healing and peace.

sauron, at this point in time, is so fallen that he cannot accept love for the gift that it is. he seems to take love and twist it into something that is self-serving, an opportunity to advance his own goals. i don’t think he’s even doing it intentionally, at least not all of the time.

[malkaleh]

On AO3

It is a dream but not a dream - a nightmare wrapped in peace and beautiful things. Doriath at peace, in a carpet of bluebells and soft jasmine overhead - lotus blossoms in a pond.

The Dark Lord has Galadriel lying across his legs, one wrapped around her - his hand in Celebrimbors hair on the other, Elrond wrapped in one arm, Celeborn in the other. And he cannot move, somehow.

I compiled all the tumblr fic into a new chapter of Gold Cages! I want to shout out @fandom-chameleon23 and @conundrumoftime and @self-destructinganimal for giving me so much inspiration and always @nocompromise-noregrets for being a gorgeous friend and writing partner and enabler.

I have described this AU as ‘what happens when the villain loves you sincerely, does not want to harm you and would burn the world for you and in this case…you don’t want that. You don’t want to be chained, to be a possession for him to claim, to own and you know what will happen to people you love. You know what he’s done to you as well’ (and there is absolutely zero wrong with the other side of this trope I just uh, some personal experiences of being a “treasure” among other things) and also ‘listen Sauron can be creepily possessive/obsessive/in love with Galadriel, Celebrimbor, Celeborn, Elrond and it turns out Finrod at the same time (and the way abusers do not care about your freedom or choice).

[celebrimborsapron]

WIP Wednesday

Tagged by @fandom-chameleon23 thanks for the tag!!

Here is a tiny excerpt from my newest WIP I started last night! It will be Adar X Estrid, multichapter, rated explicit :)

Estrid dropped the shirt she had been scrubbing. There were tears on her face- she didn’t know where they had come from. She dashed them away and stood up. A break, she needed a break. Maybe the tavern at the end of the dusty street had a jug of beer she could buy for Hagan. He would love that after a hard day in the field’s- love it and drink it and be too tired to come to her. 

She tied on a dry apron and went out the door. 

Tagging: @geezhigoquae @@of-stars-and-seas @gingeragenda @balrogballs I have no idea who is working on what, its all a blur lol.

[mai-komagata]

My 2024 Fic I’m Most Proud Of

As we're finishing out 2024, what is one thing from your writing this year that you're particularly proud of? And what is one fic you wrote that you would recommend for others to read?

Thanks for the tag @fandom-chameleon23

I only just started again about a month ago. The last time i published a story was in 2003. I've written snippets here and there but never enough to put something online. And I'm so happy i have! it's the most rewarding thing i've done to feel connected to a fandom and I hope to do it for more shows i love in the future. It's great to feel creative again. And not only did i write the two stories i had "in the bank" in my head, but I wrote a story which i plotted from conversations with new fandom friends! Gonna recommend others read my newest story. Not because it is the best but because I think based on the numbers everyone who was gonna read them already read the other two, lol. (Pain must be something you enjoy is the one readers like the most and the reason i started writing. But it doesn't need boosting its doing great.) Its a silvergifting fic like all my others. I like that I wrote from Celebrimbor's POV, which is not my usual inclination since he is not the character I relate to/think about the most. I like that there is a little section with Narvi and some dumb dwarf lore i made up. It also has a lot of sex scenes so if you are looking for some longer porn to read over winter break this will fit the bill! (a bit of self-critique, i hate the title.)

I don't know who to tag, since most of the writers i follow aren't even in the tolkien fandom, dunno if it is okay to break containment for this sort of thing, lol. But If you follow me and want to do this, tag me, I'd love to hear what what fic you are proud of! In the meantime, i'll tag @damnyoubishop <3 if you want to do this meme.

[partfae]

this is so cute, thanks for the tag!! 🤍 i looove warm purples and earthy tones like this

some no-pressure tags + a free pass for anyone who wants to join in :) @elladanns @jctko @haladriel @sauronpilled @jelliegirl @threeofswords @crazyaboutto @fandom-chameleon23 @breathlesswordsbloodyknees @papavesemir @ghostinthetumbchine @queenmeriadoc

Which oddly specific colour palette are you?

Thank you for the tag, @citrus-moonlight!!! This is... quite literally my wardrobe color on top of the eyeshadows/lipsticks I wear on the daily so this is actually quite spooky skfjsdkf

Link to quiz.

No pressure tags (and you if you see this!): @sixpennydame @nube55 @littlerequiem @pinkberryfox @thechaoticarchivist

[damnyoubishop]

WIP WEDNESDAY

Excerpt from a new fic one shot that should be uploaded soon :)

(Still beavering away on pregnant Sauron fic!)

‘Annatar? I just wanted to know if there was anything I could bring you?’

Sauron cannot speak. If he does he will moan and scream and cry for Celebrimbor to come in and FUCK HIM RAW.

Tagging and passing on the WIP to some delightful people @loki-is-my-kink-awakening @malkaleh @saubrimbor @flameunquenched @journen @mai-komagata @fandom-chameleon23

[malkaleh]

@fandom-chameleon23 as a biracial Elrond person I have written this so much and I agree with it so much

Elrond is Not Noldo, a colourised guide

Maia, Sinda, Noldo, Vanya, Beor, Hador

Melian - Thingol Nolofinwë - Anairë Lúthien - Beren Turgon - Elenwe Dior - Nimloth Tuor - Idril Elwing - Eärendil Elrond

Elrond: 31.25% Sinda 25% Hador 15.625% Vanya 12.5% Beor 9.375% Noldo 6.25% Maia

56.25% elf, 37.5% man, 6.25% maia.

Arwen’s genetics under cut (for fun)

Teler

Galadriel - Celeborn Celebrian - Elrond Arwen

Arwen: 40.625% Sinda 14.0625% Vanya 12.5% Teler 12.5% Hador 10.9375% Noldo 6.25% Beor 3.125% Maia

78.125% elf, 18.75% man, 3.125% maia.

[malkaleh]

Anyway I was browsing @fandom-chameleon23 blog and more Gold Cages happened (basically Sauron is obsessed/possessive/‘loves’ over Celebrimbor, Elrond, Galadriel and Celeborn (also Finrod but))

He has never thought he deserved to heal, to be in such peace that Elrond has built. Not when he had let Sauron in, not when it was because they had almost saved him that Galadriel and Elrond had ended in captivity too.

It takes an age and more before he feels he could craft again.

It is in making toys for the newborn twins that Celebrimbor begins, slowly to find joy in creation - he makes small birds and stars strung with pearls bought by seabirds from no shore on Middle Earth to hang above their cradles, little figures carved from wood and stone in ways he remembers his grandmother teaching him in long ago days of peace.

And there is joy in it, when the nightmares and the whispers in his mind drive him awake at night to sit and work upon a new beautiful thing for these two new lives.

His hands, they ache. They will always ache - sometimes it is too heavy to bear, how much they ache - Sauron had carved into them gently, almost reverently - shallow cuts, but ones meant to scar - a reminder of possession. And yet, yet I am not, Celebrimbor repeats to himself - I am not a jewel for you to grasp and keep.

They all have things that still shake them. Elrond, who has to leave for a moment when someone unknowing sings of caged birds, of a nightingale with a pretty chain. Galadriel, who cannot wear a crown. Celeborn, who does not speak of any of it. And he himself, who sometimes must remember what is real - that he is here, not there. There are times he does not know, that he is back there, in the ruins of his city, in those rooms in Mordor. With hands of one he had thought he loved around him, so gently, so sincerely and yet, yet Sauron had chained, had caged him as he ripped out the souls of those he loved. Of all he loved and called it healing.

-

Celeborn dreams he is in Doriath, by one of the forest pools in high summer. It is green and flowering and perfectly cool and he can scrub the filth from himself. Can let it fall away through the water plants, into the keeping of the earth.

“My sweet silver prince, be still.”

And then he is back again, in those rooms. That place, as Sauron gently washes him, kissing the scars that he had made.

@nocompromise-noregrets

[celebrimborsapron]

My 2024 fic i'm most proud of

As we're finishing out 2024, what is one thing from your writing this year that you're particularly proud of? And what is one fic you wrote that you would recommend for others to read?

@daughterofthesunlands tagged me in this- thank you!!

I struggled to pick from the 4 I worked on in 2024 but I think I have the same one for both. Part of me wanted to pick my current WIP, "Our Lady of Perpetual Strength" but I decided to go with my Gil-galad x Elrond fic, "A King is Not a Man" because it is finished, and I really like how it turned out. There ended up being a bunch of scenes I left on the cutting room floor when writing it, so I have some regrets, but I love this pairing so much.

I am tagging @fandom-chameleon23 @sailon-ishmael and @gingeragenda if you haven't been tagged yet.

[wowstrawberrycow]

Hey there @fandom-chameleon23 !!

Just letting you know i can start reading on that helms deep chapter tomorrow!! I'm supper psyched for it!

I absolutely will be rewriting that lil bit as a Gigolas drabble too!❤️❤️❤️

It's been taking me a while for requests and I'm sorry it's taken so long. But now that I'm done on my college winter break I have free time again!! Yayyyy!

hi there 👋

I saw your asks post AND that you ship gigolas so here’s a TTT re-read thought for you

Legolas and Gimli get separated during the battle of Helm’s Deep for an extended period of time and their reunion is cute in the book but I imagine their first kiss happened right after bc they were both so afraid of losing one another 🥺

Oh 😱 you're not wrong I remember!!!! It's extremely sweet tbh❤️❤️❤️

Yes! I may just have to re-read that this winter and give my take on what happens 😏😉🤔

I do like writing drabbles! I have fallen off the drabble train because of dumb life stuff ughhh... but maybe this will help! I'm going to be writing a couple of Thranduil X Elrond drabble tonight but then I'll get started on that re-read!!! I've decided this is my fandom homework!!!!! I need a Gigolas spin on this now!

MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!

😤😤😤

Moo~Moo~🍓🐄

[verecunda]

@malkaleh omg yes, bring in Mrs. Glûg! The heroine we never knew we needed. <3

@fandom-chameleon23 PARALLEL SEDUCTION PLANS, YESSS. 🤩 Maybe this whole thing will end with Celebrimbor losing the plot and going "KISS ME, YOU FOOL." (*sound of Annatar screaming in the distance*)

#human halbrand has stopped working and needs to rebooted #(tbh so has annatar but annatar is not waking up on that chest)

@malkaleh (copying your tags on a new post so save op's notifications XD)

Halbrand was planning, as part of his Seduce Celebrimbor Plan (much hardship! very stress!) to find an opportunity to get shirtless in the forge.

He was not remotely prepared for Celebrimbor getting shirtless in the forge.

(Mirdania has to gently lift his jaw back into place.)