#so many thoughts about him

[thesummerestsolstice]

Underrated Eldritch Peredhel: Earendil. Specifically, I love Earendil because he kind of starts out "normal," just being the child of an elf and a man. But then he marries the part-Maiarin Elwing, who's great-grandmother Melian affected her husband so much that he's described as being like a Maia lord afterwards. He steps foot on Aman, which in some of Tolkien's texts also physically changes him. He murders a giant dragon and doesn't die afterwards. He's nearly constantly exposed to the Silmaril. Like you know how Aman's light is supposed to be too much for mortals. And the SIlmarils have the remnants of Aman's light. And Earendil has mortal blood.

This is more headcanon but I also believe that no incarnate would naturally be able to do what Earendil does, sailing through the sky and void, possibly fighting the unknowable creatures in it. Varda had to give Earendil some power for him to be able to be Gil-Estel. I've also seen something about him being gifted wings but I forget where.

Just, imagine Earendil, the young sailor just setting out from Sirion, a man with elvish grace, or an elf with mannish features. And then imagine Gil-Estel, the warrior clad in dragon-scale armor, who's lived with the Silmaril for so long that the light shines from within him now. Who burns with Varda's hallowed radiance, so much that the creatures of the void can't even bear to look upon him. Who trails stardust and smiles with teeth that are just a bit too sharp. Who looks more in place aside Tilion and Arien than he does among elves or men.

I also firmly believe that Elrond was able to visit Earendil on the Vingelot– visiting a flying ship is much easier when you can turn into a bird, after all– and that the magic there also affected him, but that's a different post...

[confusion-est]

he remembered something

[kelcair]

do we have a winner?

[twinksintrees]

So insane about Fabian Aramaris Seacaster. He puts on a cocky overconfident persona as a show of his strength. He will never live up to his father’s expectations. He loves his father so much. His mother has been drunk as far back as he can remember. She’s an expert swordswoman and took out his father’s eye. He lost his own eye. He has his father’s eyepatch, he stabbed his dad in the heart to give him a quick death. His mother is now dating Gilear Faeth. He despises Gilear Faeth.

[angeart]

THE WAY I AM POSITIVELY SCREAMING ABT SLEEP DEMON GRIAN!!!! He's such a vessel for trauma I adore him-

would you be ok with me drawing him sometime? :D

HE HAS SO MUCH TRAUMA!!! i love him so much.

here's a fun little fact i don't think i shared here yet: once he's in the real/waking world, grian gets to be scared of the dark! because in the dreamscape, he had control. he put the darkness there, he shaped what belonged to it. he was aware of everything.

but when he's in the waking world? the darkness is a thick veil, anything could lurk in it (and he's constructed plenty of nightmares to have his imagination in overdrive). for the first time, he's blind in the face of it, and it's unexpectedly, destabilisingly scary.

AND YES YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN DRAW HIM PLEASE !!!

(pls tag me if you do <3)

[beigetiger]

Been having thoughts about Jenan (from phase 2) relating to toxic masculinity and how boys are treated when taken advantage of.

Because like…he was written from the very start as one of those guys you knew in high school who was super macho and a bully and who was raised by his parents to be that way, to the point where he’d be considered a failure if he couldn’t act that certain way. This becomes even more apparent when we finally meet his father, who…isn’t great and somehow seems even more of a stereotype of toxic masculinity than his son. His dad kicked all necromancers out of his country for their religion and then bragged about it afterwards, that’s how great his dad is.

Now, everyone is welcome to their own thoughts on this, but in my eyes Jenan got legitimately groomed by Abyssinia, and was made to do some really awful things while he was with her because it would “make him strong” and “make him a REAL man”, such as pushing his friends off cliffs. Yeah.

And then everyone finds out about it, and his life falls apart. His dad rejects him and views him as weak. He’s sent to a fucking prison, where he’s brutalized and mistreated before being sent back to school. It sucks so badly for him. In fact, it sucks so badly that he keeps latching on to the idea of Abyssinia and refuses to acknowledge the fact that she took advantage of him and was going to kill him.

And he hates Omen. Because Omen is the image of positive masculinity, which Jenan was taught to view as weak. Because Omen actually cared that Jenan was being mistreated and went to the prison to see if he could help, even after Jenan bullied him and tried to kill him repeatedly, and Jenan was taught to view things like that as weak. But despite Omen being weak, he still won. He still ended up on top, and to Jenan, that’s against the rules. And he thought that Omen was visiting him in prison to taunt him for being the loser because he couldn’t imagine a world where you wouldn’t go to a prison to taunt the people inside.

And so when he gets back to school, his mental health is awful. He killed his friends, was betrayed by Abyssinia, and has no family to support him now. And he takes that rage out on Omen, who still refuses to mistreat him for all that Jenan did to him, which only causes Jenan to spiral more.

And it ends with Filament, Omen, and Jenan standing in a room together, Filament holding a weapon. Jenan tells him to kill Omen but Filament is too scared, and it becomes a sort of therapy session with the two of them angrily shouting their negative feelings and emotions at each other while Omen quietly watches.

Because I don’t think that Jenan of all people was taught to be in tune with his emotions. No way. So actually yelling at Filament and threatening to kill Omen finally gave him the space to realize that yes, his life sucks and Abyssinia took advantage of and betrayed him. And that’s not necessarily his fault. But it sure isn’t Omen’s fault either, and the best Jenan can hope to do now is leave. Leave and try and make a new life for himself without the support of his dad. Because he wants to kill Omen, yes. But killing Omen won’t actually fix his issues because Omen is not the source of all his problems. And so he leaves, and Omen gets to keep his life.

And for a background character, that’s a really impressive arc to have. I think it did a good job reflecting positive versus toxic masculinity and how much the place he was raised in impacted his actions and his eventual fate. Fellas, I do not like Jenan but he is a criminally underrated character. Thank you all for coming to my TedTalk, this is the best I can do in twenty crazed minutes with my phone.

[origami-butterfly]

Oscar Malevolent, for your consideration

I am never not considering that man...

[fandomtrash-16]

im being normal about my hyperfixation i swear-

[nyasogii]

valant’s twirling staff sprite makes my brain smooth i hope someone gets me on this

[rllymilerlly]

Consort!Bilbo will always be famous to me

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[jeanivere]

arthur morgan tiddies and tummy thats all im gonna say

[voltaical-art]

HE WAS SEVENTEEN. AGHHH ULDER WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[cappycodeart]

"The dead one! Yeah I haven't thought about her in a long time!"

A little theory I've had about Winter King's original motives based on his heartless comment about Betty and Ice King's original motives for kidnapping princesses in the first place...... clearly she gave off Bad Ex Vibes…

[hajimedics]

I'M NOT YOUR DOLL AND I'LL THINK FOR MYSELF AND I'LL LIVE FOR MYSELF