#more of an auburn

[luanna801]

Celegorm being blond is interesting since Tolkien later made such a big deal about how blond hair only shows up among the Noldor as a result of intermarriage with the Vanyar (as in Finarfin's family). Yet Celegorm's known ancestry is 100% Noldor. I wonder if Tolkien would have revised Celegorm's coloring to fit with his later ideas about hair color in the different Elven branches (Christopher Tolkien seems to have assumed so, as he cites that as his reason for removing the reference), or if he would have kept Celegorm as a rare exception to the rule, or if he just wasn't thinking about it enough to be consistent (very possible).

Does Nerdanel have red hair?

Nerdanel and Celegorm's Hair Colour

Hi Anon! Dawn Felagund has already done an excellent job discussing and assembling all the evidence on this in her Character Biography of Nerdanel (in the section "And the Requisite Discussion of Hair Color").

For the Anon who asked about Celegorm's hair colour, Dawn also covers that at length in the Celegorm Bio (section "A Digression on Hair"). I'll get to the other characters you requested later.

I highly recommend giving both bios a read, but here's the tl;dr:

The published Silmarillion says nothing about either character's hair colours.

A quotation from Tolkien published in the linguistic journal Vinyar Tengwar (Issue 41, pg. 9) reveals that Nerdanel "had brown hair"*.

In the Quenta Silmarillion published in The History of Middle-earth Vol. 5: The Lost Road, in the section "Of Beren and Tinúviel", Christopher reveals that he removed from the published Silmarillion a clause applying to Celegorm: "golden was his long hair"*.

*These citations are from Dawn's bios but I double-checked both.

There are your quotes! Brunette Nerdanel, blond Celegorm. But as always -- happy imagining and transforming.

[ixorahh]

taking a break from posting those old men to post eponine peace n luv

[cloudcountry]

"Getting matching accessories" or "Calling the other person into their room to spend time together because they're never truly at peace/content without them" with idia ! I hope this is what you meant by prompts ww

Yk the drill with me, I'm not a Yuu so the reader can't be the Ramshackle perfect and all the same stuff like my last request (which I re-read all the time <3)

"come over here."

you stare, a single eyebrow raised at idia's floating tablet. it's stationary, bobbing up and down as it whirs, almost as though its staring back.

"you are literally in the next room over." you deadpan, the smile that blooms across your face erasing any form of faux annoyance you might have been portraying.

"don't care. lazy day. come hold me."

"you know, i think when we got married i spoiled you too much." you tease, turning back to the half prepared dinner, "if anything, you should come help me with this."

"we could just order takeout or eat ramen. you should take a lazy day too, you've been working so hard."

you laugh at that.

"so have you!" you roll your eyes, relenting, "fine. i'll come hold you."

"rofl i knew you'd break."

affection blooms in your chest like the blossoms of a pomegranate tree - its been nurtured far too long for it to be a simple flower.

[ingravinoveritas]

David looking utterly gorgeous (and ginger!) at curtain call for Macbeth.

[tiny-planet-13]

headcanon that Neil didn't even dye his hair to fit in he just really fucking hated his natural colour so when he returns from the raven's nest and everyone is like where tf has this kid been thinking they're gonna actually find out the real Neil and he's there like FUCK, who cares if I'm the butchers son now they're all gonna know I'm ginger

[jakeperalta]

if it's grown out but the dyed part is still noticeable then vote yes. if it's partly dyed/highlighted etc vote yes. if you've previously dyed it but it's now faded to natural colour vote no.

[boytransmission]

rbs off i am feeling really meek today so i cleaned and polished my “collar” (it’s an old strap from a welder’s mask) and i’m wearing a shirt that’s probably my most recent piece of comfort clothing. i’m gonna go for a walk in the rain

[once-delight]

A boy and his fascinating blender

(Don’t worry about the red stuff)

✨BONUS✨

Gremlin Mode!

[lyculuscaelus]

Day 6941 of pondering over Odysseus’s hair color again. Dark will forever live rent free in my head but red is gorgeous and brown is so commonly accepted and auburn as a mixture is beloved but then dark is still living rent free in my head…

Basically, depending on how you interpret the color of ξανθός (xanthos, for his hair) and κυάνεος (kyaneos, for his beard) to be

[charlietheepicwriter7]

"I'm telling you, she's the best bloody runes expert this side of the Mississippi," John Constantine told the other members of the Justice League as he raised his hand to knock on the old screen door. He hadn't expected his ex-wife to stay here, in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere, but Spittoon, Arkansas, was the hill-billy hole it was when he last left. "If anyone can decipher the ritual to summon the ghost king, it's her--"

The door disappeared before he could knock, and a shotgun was shoved in his face. John smiled the best he could. "Hey, sweetheart."

Alicia Walker glared back at him. "Constantine."

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This is the "John Constantine used to be married to Danny Fenton's Aunt Alicia" AU. Some idea's I've had:

Maddie introduced them. Maddie had dragged Alicia into studying ghosts, but Alicia ended up fascinated by the occultism of ghosts, more metaphysical than scientific. Maddie, wanting to support the sister that was supporting her, found Constantine, introduced the two, and they got along enough to bang.

it was a shotgun wedding. Alicia got pregnant and damn if she was going to let her baby be born without a father, so John ends up marrying her. He doesn't really mind since Alicia's nice enough and the sex is good, but he isn't exactly an attentive husband.

The baby is actually twins! a boy and a girl.

The babies are born without complications, but the baby boy, the first born... goes missing.

In addition to selling his soul to multiple parties, John had also sold the soul of his first born... probably to multiple parties. And he'd forgotten all about it until Alicia calls him, sobbing, saying their son has gone missing.

Needless to say, once she knows, John is divorced within the week.

the newborn daughter is given to Maddie to take care of; Alicia can even look at her without remembering her dead son, she knows she wouldn't be able to take care of a baby the way it needs. she can barely take care of herself.

(Jazz finds out that her aunt is her biomom when Danny is born. She never hates her aunt for giving her up; in fact, it's Alicia's depression and grief that makes Jazz want to study psychology in the first place)

Alicia moves to Spittoon to isolate herself, but the close knit community won't let her self-destruct. They help her rebuild herself in the middle of nowhere and she discovers a love for farming rhubarb.

John only shows up once before for Alicia's help, but the town chases away that nasty ex-husband of hers before she sees him, with his yuppie-accent and dirty clothes. They don't want him around her.

Alicia grows content with her life. She keeps all her occult books locked in the attic, out of sight and out of mind, and while she might regret not having been able to raise her daughter, she loves her niece and nephew and spoils them when they come to visit.

All's right in the world.

Until one day, Jazz and Danny come to her door in the middle of the night, desperate and injured.

Not too long after that, her yuppie ex-husband come around, asking her to look over some nonsense summoning circle. What's Constantine trying to summon anyway, the demon of astrology!?

[more-than-ideas]

just now

[oatberrytea]

🧹Auburn's kitchen witch outfit + details 🧹

[kindred-spirit-93]

apparently 'there are other fish in the sea' was not the right answer

@maruyaaya come get ur man pls. he wont stop telling me about his grey eyed potato (?) and looking dramatically off into the distance

look i love potatoes just as much as the next mediterranean, but i need to study my guy, im extremely overdue *glares at reflection*

@please-be-nice-im-sensitive forgive me for being so late on my promised au art :') pls accept this offering till i get to it <3

[cloudcountry]

congratulations on 3k, auburn you deserve it! I'd like to order lychee bubble tea with the cup mostro lounge™ sponsored collaboration and bowl of blackberry crisp with vanilla ice cream, please! thank you so much take care!

an order of romantic fluff with vil schoenheit!

You watch, enraptured as Vil applies lipstick in his vanity’s mirror. He’s always been so pretty, with soft purple tipped hair falling over his shoulders and sparkling eyes, a commanding voice and strong hands. You take a delicate sip of your smoothie, personally made for you by Vil, your mind wandering back to his lipstick.

You pull away and stare at the straw.

How transferable is the lipstick he’s wearing right now?

You know he prefers the ones that don't transfer, just so they don’t wear off immediately after a meal or get smudged after taking a drink, but maybe this one is different.

“Come here, love.” Vil calls, snapping you out of your trance.

Like a devoted follower, you’re moving your feet before you even realize it, coming to a stop at his side.

“What? What is it?” you ask, meeting his eyes in the mirror’s reflection.

“I think your outfit would look beautiful with this color.” Vil muses, picking up the lipstick he applied to himself between his pointer finger and thumb and holding it in front of the mirror, “Care  to try it out?”

You nod (as if you’d ever say no to him) and Vil turns around in his chair, stands up, and swoops in.

It must be transferable you think as his mouth covers your own, but then again Vil doesn’t need an excuse such as lipstick application to kiss you.

Soon enough, you’re not thinking much of anything at all.

He pulls away and stares at your face, contemplating. You search his eyes, refusing to blink until he pulls back with a satisfied hum.

“Lovely.” he coos, thumb brushing over your cheekbone, “As always.”

[kindaeccentric]

'Blood and Gold' Anne Rice + 'Lolita' Vladimir Nabokov (fragments)

Marius talking about Armand // Humbert Humbert talking about Dolores parallels

[chongoblog]

Me: “And then after she left me, I broke both of my legs and was robbed at gunpoint. My life is ruined.”

My friend who attended the University of Michigan: “Could be worse. Coulda went to An Ohio State University”