#tinkaan

[random-fandom-ramble]

Oh, remember the good-ol’ times~

Hot take:

After I have seen this fanart by @candyfoxdraws today:

Modern AU with Runaan being a lowkey biker and Tink being a Tattoo artist? Any takers?

[enkeliseepra]

Näin edellisenä yönä unta jossa tapasin marsuni kuolemanjälkeisessä elämässä.

Heräsin siihen tunteeseen että olin vähällä purskahtaa itkuun.

Nousin ja olin valmiiksi huonolla tuulella sillä kahvi oli loppu.

Äiti tuli käymään ja mäkätti tiskeistä, pölystä, ja roskista. Onneksi hän toi kahvia.

Vietin suurimman osan päivästä sisällä, sitten lähdin Moniäänisten ryhmään.

Siellä oli mukavaa, sain kerrottua paljon asioista jotka painoivat mieltäni.

Ryhmän jälkeen palasin kotiini.

Kunpa en aina jättäisi kaikkea viime tinkaan; minun pitäisi tiskata astiat ja käydä suihkussa, mutta kumpikaan ei huvita.

[klashta-neali]

So. Ethari and Runaan. 😘

[moonshadow-memes]

what if Rayla grew up seeing Ethari give Runaan his scarf as a gesture of love and now she accepts scarf-sharing as valid intimacy

[beautifulterriblequeen]

You get it, you see it.

Ruthari - and Tinkaan before it - had my whole heart from the start because they were an established queer couple. I'm queer, and I've been married for a really long time. How often have I seen this part of myself in media?

Almost never. And never like this. Never with the pure, casual acceptance of queerness and the sheer depth of emotion and family feels, where all the angst in their orbit spawns from other stresses - work, culture, history, personality - and it isn't allowed to even breathe on the dedication and affection they have for each other.

Runaan and Ethari love each other no matter what. They've clearly been through some Interesting Times together, and they're soft and patient and wholly devoted after everything so far. When your relationship is forged (and reforged) in fire and stress and trauma, it will either break, or it will be refined to something even purer. These steps are not swift nor easy to take. It kinda sucks tbh, getting through rough stuff. No matter where it came from. But it's easier with someone you trust at your side. And they have that.

They still have that.

After everything. They still have that.

That's when we meet them, when things are about to fall apart again. But they're calm and strong and determined. They've woken up every day together and chosen love.

And that's what we get to see. Choosing love, no matter what, and what that can do to a person, after years and years of it. How it makes them so strong, and so soft. How it makes them a team.

I do wonder sometimes what made me fall in love with ruthari as much as I did, instead of rayllum. I mean, they're pretty much background characters (at least at this stage) who had a grand total of 1 minute-long scene together in the show.

And yet I love them so much that I started drawing fanart, and not just my own stuff. Hell, I even started writing a few fanfics, which even a few months ago I had a very strong aversion to.

And I think, on top of loving them both as characters, with Ethari being second only to Amaya as my favourite, the main reason is that I find it very, very comforting.

Never before in a show aimed at kids have I seen a queer couple with so little screentime have such a beautiful, tender moment together. To be handled with so much care and love. Despite having only seen Ethari for like, a minute at that point, that episode absolutely broke me.

And reading bloodmoon huntress only solidified that. We got to see so much more of their dynamic, and the amount of softness and trust and understanding between them made me feel... so many emotions.

We've seen a lot of beginnings in the show. We saw the first meetings and initial difficulties that rayllum and janaya faced. And so, in stark contrast to that, we have ruthari. A firmly established couple, who've built a beautiful life together. Not without its flaws, admittedly - especially given where they are in canon right now - but there's something about seeing an adult queer couple living out that calm, loving existence that makes me melt every time I see it. Being queer myself, both janaya and ruthari are very special to me, but ruthari more so for that reason. The dragon prince really gave us that, and I'll treasure it forever.

So yeah, just a queer ramble from a queer soul. But who doesn't love a good ramble on this chaotic mess of a site? xD

[blueskittlesart]

“my love will be with you, even when the moon is not.”

[araavos]

They really went and made EVERYTHING canon huh? 

TDP S3:

[heiskadraws]

Do you wanna build a snowelf?

[dragonprinceknight]

Sometimes it gets a little hot at the forge. 😉

Bonus Runaan, after walking in to find his husband like this:

[medu-nefer]

horn guards

He loves to inlay “swirlies” into all of his metalwork. No piece, whether it’s jewelry or a weapon, is complete without a good pattern of swirlies.

Okay, so. Let’s look at this:

We can see that both of Runaan’s horn guards very clearly have the swirlies, meaning Ethari made them. The hair clasps also have swirlies on them. So obviously, they’re also Ethari-made.

But Ethari’s horn guards don’t have any, which is kind of weird, since he’s the one inlaying them into everything he possibly can.

So, what if those weren’t made by him? What if Runaan had gone out of his way to make them but he had no skill to do the swirlies, so just left them plain (except the gem(s)), to gift them to Ethari?

On the very first pic of him we ever got, he already has those, but he’s also portrayed making Runaan’s necklace at that time.

When I gave its match to Runaan, I told him, “My love will be with you even when the moon is not”.

Doesn’t strike me as something said casually. So they had been very clearly in love by that point.

Perhaps the guards were Runaan’s idea for a courting gift - to show Ethari that he was so important to him he was willing to learn his craftsmanship, even though it’s far from what he does.

Don’t mind me, I’m just obsessing over those two.

[rumowrites]

Yin and Yan

Runaan and Etahri are portrayed as two opposites that make a whole and I love it.

For example, Runaan's design is lighter with blue marks that contrast against his skin while Ethari has darker skin and softer marks.

And the of course, there are the Shadowhawks!

Both are crafted by Ethari, and the first one is send by Runaan: a message of death, the arrrow is black and red, shot from someone who is injured and just killed.

The second one is shot by Ethari: a message of life, the arrow is white, pristine and gleaming and shot by someone who just lost the love of their life but also got reunited with his adoptive daughter.

There is no physical injury but it's clear that Ethari is mourning and not in a good place. He talks to Runaan as he crafts the second arrow as if to grasp onto that bit of connection he has left to his husband.

Tl;dr: Runaan and Ethari resemble yin and yan and complete each other as a whole and I think that's beautiful.

[beautifulterriblequeen]

Concerning the Danger Soup ask, it takes me back to one of your earlier fics where Runaan was feeding Ethari in the healers place and... danger soup. It still gets me.

It took me waaaay too long to find that ficlet again, anon, because I forgot it wasn’t on Ao3 and also it predates S3 so I had it tagged with “tinker” instead of “Ethari”. Ha. But I think it’s fair to say that any food prepared by a Moonshadow assassin is danger food.

[dylan-tp7]

I wanted to draw them for so long. yesterday was this day. for the inktober. Runaan and Tinker.

[klashta-neali]

SO. ETHARI AND RUNAAN

[feral-anarchy]

Yep! So true!

Hey guys! Please go check out this image, here

https://babblingbranches.tumblr.com/post/189467318287/after-seeing-this-post-the-other-day-i-couldntmml

This is the original artist. Please give them due credit.

[the-orphan-star]

Y’all did they really...just go and make all my ships canon or at least hint at it? DYING! Someone!