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runawaymun · 2 months ago

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#and to reiterate: we have literally no descriptions of what Celebrimbor canonically looks like #there's nothing to say he looks like the ripped dark-haired twenty-something in your favourite fanart sorry

@verecunda you said what I wasn't brave enough to add to the post tbh thank you

I'm just going to say it. the attitude I'm seeing in the Silmarillion fandom from those who have never watched the ROP show, but are enjoying gifsets of the Annatar/Brimb scenes and expressing that it has them interested in those portrayals, while continuing to loudly assert that the Celebrimbor casting is atrocious because he's 'old and blond' fucking disgusts me.

#this is exactly how I feel and I'm not sorry about it #because jesus fucking christ #as a person who recently started playing the SoM games I can't believe people are saying they're more accurate like WHAT #in any case the hate for this show is starting to feel extremely performative #obviously it's up to you if you don't want to watch it for whatever reason #but I mean the loud-loud hate #the vitriolic 'lol this fucking sucks' hate #listen S1 wasn't awesome but I did enjoy it as good junk food fun #S2 though????#listen it had its flop moments but I need everyone to calm the fuck down about Annatar and Celebrimbor #they were everything anyone has been asking and wanting for #and yet people go 'ew gross old'#shut up #they were queercoded as fuck and their relationship was portrayed in a way that was more gripping and interesting than 90%#of the silvergifting fic I've seen #the framing of it as gaslighting and an abusive relationship was so fucking good #the constant manipulation -- the slow isolation of Celebrimbor from everyone he knows and loves #Celebrimbor's despair as he starts to realize what's happening but it's too late because he has burned all his bridges at #annatar's behest #like??? are you KIDDING ME???#grow the fuck up #trop #the rings of power #this also felt to me like people wanted silvergifting to fall into classic yaoi tropes #sorry sometimes gay men look over the age of 30 #not every gay relationship is manicured to a yaoi standard of beauty #i never liked the hunk/twink and twink/twink stereotype pressed onto silvergifting and that was part of what put me off it

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