#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...

[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

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

[chthonion]

Seven sentences Saturday

@aran-morinorea Thanks for the tag! Heck yeah I want to, let me inflict my side project on everyone

From the not-yet-titled sequel to Lost and Found:

Celebrimbor fell asleep because he could breathe a sigh of relief, at long last: a thing that Mairon has not been able to accomplish no matter what he did, because his skills are shaped for command and not for healing. Even Celebrimbor’s heartbeat—the soft pulse of electricity in his chest—feels settled and content. Mairon almost believes, although he will not be testing the theory, that he could leave Celebrimbor alone without fear of disaster. For this, Finrod can be as unsettling as he pleases. For this, Finrod can invade their sanctuary, and sing songs that make Mairon’s chest hurt, and demand a place in Celebrimbor’s healing that Mairon had hoped would be occupied only by himself. Mairon will resent it, but his resentment is a minor detail. The change in Celebrimbor is not.

No-pressure tagging: @thescrapwitch, @tathrin, @fandom-chameleon23, @dragonridersofficer-fiammag and anyone else who wants to!

[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).

[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]

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.

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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