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[ohthewhomanity]

Still can't believe this happened. I'm so glad it did. I'll be cherishing these moments for a long time - both in and out of character.

Image descriptions in the alt text, but by all means please do ask me for context - it's all I want to talk about right now XD

[croy-on-a-working-vacation]

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[lenka-mok]

Hahahaha remember when finishing this chapter was supposed to be my nanowrimo project...

This chapter majorly stumped me, and I’m really not sure why it did. But that doesn’t matter because it’s hereeeee and now you get to see what I imagine in my head when I picture a halcyon crew movie night :) 

[dailyfigures]

Stocking Anarchy ; Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt ☆ Good Smile Company

[silmalope]

Laughter and Mourning, the daughters of Húrin. (Originally posted on the SWG for the Orctober challenge prompt “eyes”.)

[figurecollection]

[silmarillionwritersguild]

Board by Elleth

Potluck Bingo challenge guidelines and prompts | SWG Challenge guidelines

[independence1776]

-whispers curiously- SWG?

The Silmarillion Writers' Guild! It's a Tolkien fandom archive, focused primarily on the Silmarillion but in recent years has a non-Silmarillion subarchive. It accepts all kinds of fanworks: fic, art, podfic, meta, etc. Fanworks do not have content or rating restrictions, save for no explicit art due to webhost requirements. There is a reference section and weekly newsletter. There is also an associated Discord server.

There are monthly challenges in a variety of formats and themes. They are always available for use, even after the challenge officially closes.

Beyond the Silmarillion is the subarchive for fanworks based on the rest of Tolkien’s works, including the non-Middle-earth stories like Roverandom and adaptations such as the movies or show. To post in this subarchive, you must first have on SWG either a minimum of five fanworks or 10,000 words of writing, whichever is reached first.

The SWG was started by @dawnfelagund in 2005 and the original version of the archive opened on eFiction in 2007. It is my Tolkien fandom home.

[qinecko]

Anarchy sisters o⁠(⁠(⁠*⁠^⁠▽⁠^⁠*⁠)⁠)⁠o

[utopikia]

"i want you.. to make believe it's the first time"

cr. panty & stocking with garterbelt: animation art works

[silence-caravan]

P&SwG x Artiswitch

Something I did for Cringetober2023, absolutely loved the result, I'm just obsessed with Lulu's dress.

[ohthewhomanity]

Every time in the past that I thought I was writing the most self-indulgent fanfiction ever, I was wrong. The fic I’m writing RIGHT NOW is the most self-indulgent fanfic ever. I will never top this 😂

[croy-on-a-working-vacation]

WELL WELL WELL, I get to reblog this because it’s once again one more sleep before Starcruiser 😌

(And I’m panicking because our bridge/saber training times got changed TODAY and we can’t get them to change back at this time… which has probably taken years off my life. Gawd I hope it all gets set to rights before we board tomorrow 🥲)

‘Twas the day before my voyage…

… and I’m feeling completely normal. Yeah.

But it’s probably a good time to share the OC/persona I crafted for the cruise! Here we go:

I’m going as a romance holonovelist originally from Naboo but living in Canto Bight where her publisher is. Her first two holonovels, “Jedi After Midnight” and “Bounty of Love,” did pretty well but not enough to give her bargaining power with her editor. Unfortunately, the First Order just purchased her publisher and she’s now under contract to write a romance holonovel about the First Order—which means she’s going to have to take advantage of the First Order’s investigation of the ship to do her research and find a way to fulfill her contract 😬.

Now I just have to survive another work day and do a VERY exciting SW thing tonight woooo.

[sammyinkedwitch]

[sallysavestheday]

Little Delights

I'm finally finding time to really dig into the SWG Potluck Bingo prompts. So many goodies to work from! Good thing the January amnesty is on so I can keep playing, lol!

Have 5 true drabbles featuring Finwë’s grandchildren, being themselves, but young. Drawn from the Material World board by @grundyscribbling. Thinking of you, particularly, @eilinelsghost, for the Finrod, and you, @polutrope, for the Turgon, lol.

Finrod’s tongue is caught between his teeth as he carefully, carefully levers the sharp edge of the stolen spade. The handle is too long for him and the angle is wrong. The blade drags where it should slice smoothly; it judders in his hands. But he has watched the builders in the palace grounds: he knows he must remove the turf before he digs. So he works away at the roots, carefully piling the grasses to the side. Until the passing gardener shrieks. Sent to bathe and regret his trespasses, Finrod rather daydreams, building his imagined palaces beneath the sod. ***** The taste of metal is maddeningly delicious. Curufin wants to lick it, to stuff it in his mouth until his cheeks puff like some mechanical squirrel, to swallow it dangerously down. His caretakers must keep watch for loose screws and bolts and the random scraps from the forge that are tracked across the property on everyone’s boots and hems. His favorite place in the world is Fëanor’s lap, where he can chew on his father's tunic buttons, tongue the bright gold of his necklaces, and suck the scorch and tang from the fingers of his lean, strong, clever, delicate hands. ***** Papercrafting comes easily to Maitimo. He grasps quickly the relationships between fibers and liquids, the adjustments to proportions and materials for producing this grain, that weight, this shade. He blends and refines in the corner of Nerdanel’s workshop, turning out plain, sturdy papers for her sketches; finer weaves for Fëanor’s treatises; and crisp, clean pages on which Maglor’s music gleams. But he best loves the making of paper lanterns: fine rice paper soaked to translucence, framed to hold a single candle. He lights them for his brothers in the silvery twilight, to rise and travel eastward, carried on the flames. ***** Turgon is first among his generation to discover the other properties of hemp. He apprentices in the ropeyards, learning the elegant twists and loops required for the making of hithlain, working the ropewalk amid the singing laborers, his body graceful in the twining dance. Around the supper-fire, there is more music and mulled wine, and the air fills with a pungent tang that dizzies him. Foreman’s special blend, they call it – grown in a hollow at the end of the hemp rows: a cousin with a stronger kick. Knowing something of kicking cousins, Turgon grins. And pockets buds to share. ***** Given the keys to the storeroom for his thirtieth birthday, Caranthir responds as if handed the crown. Flushed with excitement, he hurries to unlock the great doors, basking in the glory of the barrels and bins and shelves and racks stuffed full with supplies, in the fine dust that shifts in the redolent air and the ledgers for drawing order out of chaos. His fingers twitch, canvassing and counting, proud of the plenitude. Determined to keep it so. He makes his rounds daily, serious and careful as he inventories. He knows his calculating mind is worth his weight in gold.

Also on AO3. Enjoy!

[silmalope]

sisters vinyamar and gondolin, inspired by Elleth’s lovely “places as characters” prompts for the SWG potluck :)

Originally posted on the SWG here.