#it just feels like I’m being shoved back into the good little Mormon role

[whynotfangirl]

I expected a lot of things this Christmas with my fam but I did not expect to be so full of rage.

I love my family and I want to help out but I get here and I’m just expected to do the cooking for Christmas dinner. I tidy the table, and my dad gets annoyed at me both for asking him where things go (because I don’t live here) and also for not having put the tablecloth on yet (I still don’t live here!!!!).

And he sits there watching videos on Facebook while I clean and cook around him and I am so, so angry. Like I knew it was going to happen. The second I found out my mum was working Christmas day, I expected this. I just didn’t expect to feel so angry about it.

[morwensteelsheen]

Faramir

OTP for them: Éowyn, obviously. swoon.

BROTP for them: I realised thinking about this that I sort of have it in my head that he’s a something of a loner, which is making me kinda sad now. So: Aragorn, I reckon, but not in a super emotionally open way. Big Just Guys Being Dudes energy lmao

Other ships: Faramir/Aragorn is fun but only when people don’t get weird about the Boromir shit; Faramir/a fucking xanax

What kind of fic I’d write about them: if it was a gen fic I’d love to do something where he finally gets to travel and see Arnor. If it’s a ship fic then… literally anything and everything.

A favorite canon moment: Somewhat underrated of all his moments but this is deeply fucking funny to me:

‘Faramir!’ [Pippin] cried aloud with the others. ‘Faramir!’ And Faramir, catching his strange voice among the clamour of the men of the City, turned and looked down at him and was amazed.

‘Whence come you?’ he said. ‘A halfling, and in the livery of the Tower! Whence…?’

Easily the funniest moment of what the fuck is going on in my life of any of the characters in LOTR. The dude who won’t ever shut the fuck up literally rendered speechless by the absurdity of it all. God tier comedy.

Color that reminds me of them: I realise it’s cliche and a cop out to say green so I won’t, and instead I’ll say like those good oxbloods that were super popular with mormons and evangelicals like a decade ago

Song that reminds me of them: All My Days by Alexi Murdoch or Tired Hands by the Last Bison

A headcanon about them: He has a moment about three hours into taking up his duties as Steward after the Pelennor where he realises he doesn’t know/remember the answer to something that he knows his father told him before, and that’s the first and only time he ever really has a serious emotional breakdown over his father. He’s alone, because bar Éowyn (and then only briefly), nobody gets to see him lose control emotionally like that, and it’s just this overwhelming feeling of, jesus fucking christ what just happened to me it wasn’t meant to be like this, he cries it out for all of two minutes, and that’s basically that put into a box and shoved into the back of a psychological closet for a nice long while. The box gets dragged back out inadvertently by the kids close to twenty or so years later, but by that point he and Éowyn have got enough of their own personal language going that they navigate the conversation without him needing to reopen the emotions as viscerally. So, yeah. Two minutes total, that’s about all he spends actively feeling horrible about his dad. Also he basically never, ever cries. The next time he cries is when Elboron is born and even then that’s a very much blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sort of thing

A random AU I think up on the spot for them: lol I would love to see an AU where Faramir goes to Rivendell but because he’s Gandalf’s little simp he thinks it’s smart to show up at Isengard to ask for advice, because I think it would loosely coincide with Saruman and Gandalf have their little tiff. Could go full fucking wicker man with it too, that’d be very funny. Would be cool to puzzle out how/if that changes anything.

Anything else: lmao so I keep wondering how much he knew about what sort of role he’d have in Aragorn’s kingdom when he proposed to Éowyn. Part of me assume he knew he’d have a big role, but part of me think it’d be dead funny if he didn’t, because Éowyn would absolutely be doing a “fuck it we’ll do it live” kinda thing for saying yes to him when he apparently had no real assets to his name. which also leads me onto… I’m convinced he and Éowyn only have one canonical kid because of some weird LaCE Tolkien catholic shit, which is why I ignore that nonsense and give them like two or three kids because my man’s pull out game gotta be weak.