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grey-gazania · 1 year ago

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End of Year Fic Recs

Tagged by @sallysavestheday and @polutrope

I tag everyone tagged here and anyone else who hasn't done this yet!

Recommend up to 5 series or multi-chapter fics from 2023 that everyone should read (multi-year WIPs count, if the last update was in 2023).

Recommend up to 5 single chapter fics/one-shots (long or short) from 2023 that everyone should read.

Recommend up to 5 fics NOT from 2023 that everyone should read (oldies but goodies).

Recommend up to 5 of your own fics (completed or WIP) from 2023 that everyone should read.

This was difficult!

Multi-Chapter/Series

We Will Make This Place Our Home by @leucisticpuffin, which is my new comfort fic and has A+ kidnap fam characterization.

Gloom, Doom and Maedhros by @hhimring, which I've been dipping in and out of since approximately 2011 and which never ceases to impress me.

Elegy for Numenor by @elfscribe. Not the kind of story I generally get into, but Scribe's OCs are vividly drawn and have captured my heart.

Maglor is an Eldritch Horror by @thescrapwitch. Who doesn't love a touch of horror in their fanfiction? Part 11 (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) is a particular favorite.

The Importance of Peer Review by @sallysavestheday, a series of Finrod-centric comic stories that never fails to make me howl with laughter.

One-shots

Tender Morsels by @sallysavestheday, which depicts a delicious and unsettling yet tender moment between my OTP among OTPs, Fingon/Maedhros.

As the Hare Flees Before the Wolf by @emyn-arnens. The author's note says "Rest in pieces, Eöl," and that is a sentiment I will always endorse. This also includes some wonderfully perilous Celegorm characterization.

Ilimbë by @thelordofgifs. This is everything I ever wanted out of a Fëanor/Nerdanel courtship story, and the characterization is utter perfection.

A Damnable Spot by @imakemywings. Kidnap fam with an extra helping of creepy! I think Elwing deserves to haunt Maglor a little bit. As a treat.

And a bonus two-for-one, because they're by two different authors but they go together: Desperation and Defeat by @elentarial and Maiar Hate This Simple Trick by @zealouswerewolfcollector. I'm a big fan of both humor and Celebrimbor/Narvi, so these both absolutely delighted me.

Oldies

Home from the War by @hhimring. Himring wrote this as a gift for me back in 2020, and it remains my favorite Círdan character study of all time.

Ain Melir Den Urui by Thranduil Oropherion Redux/Randy_O (whom I don't believe is on Tumblr). This Last Alliance themed send-up of Some Like It Hot dates back to 2011, and it's one of my go-to fics for when I'm feeling blue and need a good belly laugh.

Touch of a Vanished Hand by @elfscribe, from 2010. I love Scribe's character study of a younger, more hot-headed Elrond meeting his brother's descendants in the aftermath of the sinking of Numenor.

Winter's Drums by @lucifers-cuvette, from 2014. I absolutely adore Pandë's take on Sauron and Celebrimbor's relationship, and this deeply unsettling but evocative ficlet is one I've returned to many times.

Trinity, also by @lucifers-cuvette, which is from 2007, pre-dating my entry into the Silmarillion fandom. It was the first of Pandë's stories that I read and was my introduction to her amazing Pandë-verse.

Mine

Ill News, a Second Age kidnap fam aftermath fic that I initially posted as a one-shot in 2022. But an enthusiastic commenter inspired me to expand on it, so I added a second chapter in 2023. There's at least one more chapter to come, assuming I ever overcome my current case of writer's block.

Loyalty: A Tale in Three Voices, which is the WIPmost likely to kill me one day. I have a deep and abiding affection for the House of Ulfang, and this is the result of that.

And They Looked Up and Saw a Star, my ongoing early-days kidnap fam WIP. I'm enjoying exploring the relationships between both sets of brothers.

Maps, my Thangordim rescue Fingon/Maedhros WIP with a heavy serving of Caranthir. I'll readily admit that this fic has been an exercise in pantsing all the way and that I have no idea where I'm going with it, but the journey has been fun!

I made several updates to Woman King this year, which is my fem!Gil-galad WIP (sometimes affectionately referred to as the Girl-galad WIP, because I love stupid puns). This is by far my least popular series but it is also my favorite to write, because like all writers I have tropes that I love, and Rule 63 is one of them. Tolkien's works are an undeniable sausage fest and we need more ladies.

#dash games #fic recs

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marimosalad · 8 months ago

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Art Masterlist & WIPs 🎨

Here you'll find my art organized by various ships! WIP list at the bottom.

New & exclusive NSFW art will be posted on my Patreon

🔥 = NSFW, full image link included or direct link to X 👀 = semi-NSFW

Links: Twitter | Twitter NSFW | Commissions | Ko-Fi Gallery

Prints can be ordered here.

𝕭𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖚𝖗'𝖘 𝕲𝖆𝖙𝖊 3

Astarion x Tav/Durge: A x F!Tiefling (boob grab, feeding) 🔥 A x F!Dragonborn (intimate feeding) 👀 AA x F!Human (pegging, fic) 🔥 AA x F!Human (midnight confessions, fic) 👀 A x GN!Tiefling (ballgag, bondage, fic) 🔥 AA x GN!Tiefling (throne sex, subby Astarion) 🔥 Astarion x Cordehlia (f!Tav, each art paired with fic): Our Blood is Thicker (fic & cover art) | Blowjob at Last Light Inn 🔥 | Rough sex 🔥 | Bitter Ascension | Throne sex 🔥 Astarion x Halsin: Kiss 👀🔥 | Doggy style 🔥 | Forehead smooch | Oral (Halsin & AFAB viewer) 🔥 Halsin x f!OC: Moonlit Grove 🔥 Ascended Astarion x Spawn Astarion: Self-Worship 🔥 Raphael x Astarion: I'll see you soon, Little Mouse | Possession 🔥 Raphael x Haarlep: Archduchess 🔥 | Teacher’s Pet 🔥 Astarion x Shadowheart: Sex dungeon 🔥 | Ass licking 🔥 Poly: Halsin x Astarion x Shadowheart 🔥 | Halsin x Astarion x f!Tav 🔥 Solo: Astarbation 🔥 | Ascended Astarion’s First Night | Ascended & Speak With the Dead | Devil Astarion 👀 | Werewolf Astarion (fic 🔥) | Archdevil Raphael (NEW) Batstarion: Vampiric Edgelord | Batstarion doing Astarion things | Zoomies ft. Scratch | Baatlep | Drunk | Hanging with Bat Tav

Miscellaneous: BG3 Dick Comparison Chart 🔥

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕻𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗, 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖎𝖑𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖓

Fëanor: Portrait | Fëanor x Nerdanel (pregnancy) 🔥 | Fëanor x Artanis (incest) 🔥

Others: Annatar x Celebrimbor x Galadriel 🔥 | Melkor x Varda 🔥

✨ WIPs ✨

Baldur’s Gate 3

Astarion x Shadowheart snuggling

Astarion x Raphael snuggling

Raphael x Tiefling Cordehlia (AU)

Raphael x Astarion x Cordehlia in Avernus

The Rings of Power

Updated Sauron portrait (cleaned up & improved)

Secret Saurondriel art for S2 premiere week

Future ideas

Halsin x Shadowheart

Ascended Fiend Raphael

OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS!

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tolkien-feels · 2 years ago

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Given an earlier reblog, I'd like to share that due to Parallels I have a very specific Fingon Rescuing Maedhros headcanon I consistently forget is not canon in some obscure draft

You know the part where it says "Thorondor bore them back to Mithrim"? I like to then immediately cut to a non-existent sequence that parallels this one:

The most important aspect is that Fingon has to be very, very unsure whether Maedhros is going to ever wake up, simply because both Frodo and Beren get moments where they faint, but Maedhros does not, which of course must be Fixed™️

Also, as a bonus, I like taking the idea of "the fire of life was hot within him" a bit too far and have Maedhros essentially refuse the call of Mandos. Everybody around him is like "Is he gonna die?" and Mandos is like "I WISH I KNEW, ACTUALLY" - a reversal of Miriel, where Maedhros stubbornly refuses the rest that is offered to him because he very much wants to live. (Which makes his eventual death all the more tragic)

This is all pretty much the standard post rescue fanon, I know, but the thing is that I'm utterly unconcerned about things like recovery or relationships in this scenario: it's my headcanon very specifically to tick a parallel box.

So for instance, it's important to me that, like Beren, Maedhros wakes up to the image of leaves against the sky in early spring, exclusively because then it will also parallel this:

Or, as another example, Fingon must be asleep (or unconscious, but that would be difficult to explain) when Maedhros first wakes up - because Luthien faints when she rescues Beren from Sauron, and Frodo wakes up first after Mt Doom but Sam is still asleep

It's a very... impressionistic headcanon. The specifics don't really matter, I just need scenes that fulfill the same dramatic function while including as many imagery and thematic parallels as possible, so whenever I find a new parallel I just quietly update my headcanon

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canary3d-obsessed · 5 years ago

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Restless Rewatch: The Untamed Episode 07 part one

(Masterpost)

Warning: Spoilers for All 50 Episodes!

Clan Sanren

Lanny Granny gets a second wind and continues her Yin Iron Webinar.

Wei Wuxian explains that although he was adopted by the Jiang Clan, Baoshan Sanren is his grandmaster, via his mom. Lan Yi claims to think that this is pretty great.

Lan Yi: Wow, amazing, my ex girlfriend who I dumped has settled down and started her own family Clan now, that’s so great. I’m so happy for her. So happy. So great. I mean, when I left I didn’t really picture her finding happiness first, you know? I kind of expected to have settled down myself by now but it’s hard to date when you’re trapped in an ice cave putting headbands on rabbits for 100 years. But it’s fine! I love my life and I’m sure eventually I’ll find that special rabbit person. Anyway I’m just...SUPER happy for Baoshan. Really. Really happy. For Baoshan.

Lan Wangji also appears to have thoughts about it, because he reacts pretty intently.

Lan+Sanren 4EvR.

Wang Yibo is looking extra fine in this cave sequence, with no headband to distract from his fierce eyebrows.

Lan Wangji asks Lan Yi if she’s the one who pulled them into the cave, and she says nope, and then nobody ever explains how they ended up in the cave. “Perhaps it’s destiny” does not count as an explanation.

Lan Gran explains that her battery is running down. The Lan bunnies are not energizer bunnies, apparently. She also tells them that it’s impossible to destroy the Yin Iron and that the only solution is to put it back in the cave and try to suppress it again.

(more after the cut)

However by Episode 23 it inexplicably becomes super easy to destroy the Yin Iron...

...meaning Lan Yi spent 100 years in a cave for nothing, other than writing the Definitive Guide to Rabbit Headbands.

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji get back into Hardy Boys cultivator mode, but this time with an extremely long held gaze, which I think is their first time doing this.

I mean...even if these boys are 100% neurotypical (and hello, they are not), this is a LOT of eye contact. I can't gaze that long at anything except my phone screen.

We Will Achieve The Thing Together

Narrator: they will not achieve the thing

The reason I got into c-drama in the first place is, after decades of western storytelling tropes, it’s so refreshing to watch a story and have literally no idea what’s going to happen. Even when the story sets things up to happen a certain way according to my learned experience of stories, it just doesn’t play out that way. For example, if you’re watching The Lost Tomb Reboot and you expected the jade-mining sequence to end with a slave uprising, you were as surprised as I was.

Here Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian promise to do their best to find and suppress the Yin iron. Lan Wangji is going to fail at this, allowing this here piece to fall into the hands of the Wens, because unlike his uncle he's not willing to let his clan die to protect it.

Wei Wuxian is going to take his not-doing-the-thing several steps further, finding and refining his very own piece of extra-badass Yin iron. Yes, he has reasons for this and a lot of stuff happens along the way, but in terms of your typical quest storyline, it would be as if Frodo figured out how to use the one ring to kick Sauron’s ass, rather than (with help) destroying it. Again: this is why I LIKE c-drama.

Lan Wangji tries to shut Wei Wuxian out of his quest and Wei Wuxian makes a short but utterly character-defining speech.

You can’t stop me

I know what’s right.

And then he says that his Grandmaster Baoshan Sanren was isolated because of the Yin Iron, and he has a responsibility to her. Lan Yi agrees. So...he just kinda quit the Jiang Clan right there, didn’t he? In favor of eventually becoming a wandering cultivator like his Grandmaster and clan uncle (Xiao Xichen), and like his mother.

He is also going to follow in his father’s footsteps by upsetting his Clan Leader when he falls in love. Gosh, he also, like his parents, will die and leave an orphan to fend for himself. So -- the apple doesn't fall far from the tree I guess.

He doesn't realize the pickle he’s getting himself into, of course. Being Wei Wuxian, he thinks he can balance all of his increasing obligations, but being human, he won’t be able to.

Pardon Our Entwinement

Lan Yi leaves to catch the spiritual plane, the Yin iron drops, the ward breaks, and Wen Ning appears to download a new software update. The kind that breaks your video driver and photoshops your eyeballs.

Wen Qing comes nosing around the cave wall, and Jiang Cheng stops by to ask what she’s up to.

He hopes she’s trying to find his brother, just like he will fail to do for her & her brother one day.

The boys fall out of the wall together, in a nice example of the “oops I’m accidentally humping you” c-drama romance trope. To keep it censor-friendly, Wei Wuxian is actually on the ground next to Lan Wangji’s right knee but the shot is framed so that at a glance he appears to be in a much cozier position.

Lan Wangji goes on an expression journey don’t say facial through several “oh shit we’re caught” faces, while Wei Wuxian shows Lan Wangji a few iterations of his oh-face.

Jiang Cheng wants to know what the fuck they have been getting up to for a day and a night.

The movie wasn't so hot, it didn't have much of a plot, we fell asleep our goose is cooked our reputation is shot

Wen Qing detects that they were somewhere cold and decides it’s her turn to ask nosy questions. Lan Wangji does the guilty startle thing.

Fortunately Wei Wuxian doesn’t have that problem.

He turns his answer into a prolonged whine about how cold it was, how lost they were, etc. This annoys Jiang Cheng into dropping it and saying they should head back.

I’m awesome right? so awesome right?

Wei Wuxian gives Lan Wangji a significant look to show that he’s deploying a rhetorical strategy on purpose to distract his questioner. Lan Wangji super does not know how to do that.

Flute + Yin Iron = Profit

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji get to watch as Lan Qiren and Lan Xichen tame the hunk of iron and stick it in the bag of holding. Wei Wuxian pays verrrryyy careful attention to this whole “use a flute to control the Yin iron” lesson.

Lan Xichen really should reconsider his music-lessons side hustle. Arguably this one doesn’t turn out as badly for him personally as teaching guqin to Jin Guangyao does, but it doesn’t turn out great, either.

知己啊 - zhi-ji-ah

This mostly-tedious Yin Iron conversation with the elders includes a super-important WangXian moment.

Wei Wuxian calls Lan Wangji his zhiji. This is the same word he will use later in the “what am I to you?” conversation during the Jin night hunt, and the word Lan Xichen will use when saying why Lan Wangji wouldn’t repudiate him during his forced isolation. As always, for the full meaning of this word, @hunxi-guilai is brills.

A Wen spy bird shows up, and Lan Wangji really wants to chase it, but Lan Xichen says no.

This happens a lot, actually. Lan Wangji is not a cool-headed person, despite appearances. Likewise the boys want to go searching for the Yin Iron and the adults want them to slow their roll.

Being a teenager is frustrating, particularly with a classic “I didn’t actually listen to you before making a decision” adult like Lan Qiren in charge.

Lying is my First Class Spiritual Tool

Nie Huasang shows up and has his usual hilariously varied reaction to Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji - an enthusiastic “Wei-Xiong!” followed by a nervous & meek “Lan Er Gongzi” and a bow to Lan Wangji.

He wants to know what happened and Wei Wuxian once again shows his powers of rhetoric.

I like to call it my “devil snake.”

He puts off all of Nie Huaisang’s potential questions by really knowing his questioner well and completely distracting him.

This time Lan Wangji seems impressed.

Jelly Jiang Cheng

Young Master Cockblock shows up and lets loose with a display of total naked jealousy. That carving on Wei Wuxian’s bed back in Lotus Pier...is that him and Jiang Cheng? Because damn, this boi is jealous.

...and so is Lan Wangji, apparently, or at least he’s disappointed to have Wei Wuxian taken away from him like that.

Yearn Mode Enabled

Club Ruohan’s Foyer

Wen Chao and Xue Yang stand awkwardly in Wen Ruohan’s vestibule talking to the boss through a giant door, because sure, why not.

This doesn’t bother Xue Yang, who as usual has no fucks to give. Except that today, Wen Ruohan tells him that the budget for his project finally got approved, which lifts his spirits quite a bit.

His project to single-handedly slaughter an entire clan, and he is super excited about the kickoff meeting.

Wen Chao is mopey because his brother gets all the good murder assignments and his dad doesn’t appreciate him. Boo fucking hoo.

Periodic reminder that He Peng looks like this when he’s not playing Wen Chao.

Part 2 coming soon!

Soundtrack: Wake Up, Little Susie by the Everly Brothers

Bonus

#fytheuntamed #the untamed #the untamed meta #wangxian #the untamed gifs #restless rewatch the untamed #canary3d-original #wei wuxian #lan wangji #the untamed spoilers

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frodothefair · 1 year ago

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To keep things organized, I am also updating the post that started it all with the fic product. Chapter 2 is nearly done -- but Mr. Nisile's been editing it for the better part of the last week. I suppose when this fic was called a stew or a kimchi, it was in fact an extremely accurate description.

✼ Erelas ✼

Chapter 1 - Forlong

Read on AO3

SUMMARY : About halfway between the capitals of Gondor and Rohan, Birandor and Yvion keep the beacon at Erelas ever-ready for a great war. But how does life go for this pair of Gondorian beacon guards, living amid the high wind and the mountain-snow? Isolated though they are, a friend or foe might appear at any moment!

CHARACTERS : numerous OC's: Birandor & Yvion, two Gondorean Beacon-guards; Tingli son of Dingli, a nomadic dwarf; Forlong, the beacon guards' road quartermaster; others will be added as time goes on. There are also references to and appearances by some canon characters including Gandalf, Legolas, Ecthelion, Sauron, the Eagles, and a Dol Amrothean prince named Angelimir.

CONTENT : humor, parody, slice of life

RATING : Teen┃WORD COUNT : 4.2k┃CHAPTERS : 1/10?

A/N : Posted on behalf of my husband, Mr. Nisile, with his permission. He says: “I lost a dare, so I had to write my first fic ever! Bring your smiles and read a while. Hot cocoa and cookies will be provided by the invisible friend. This is a work in progress, and updates will happen but I’m a bit of a slowpoke. There are more notes on AO3.” Feel free to leave any feedback - I will pass it all on to Mr. Nisile!

TAGS : @whats-she-gonna-post-next, @ladiesandgentlehobbits, @rollingmeaway @faraige (I added a few people I found in the notes who seemed particularly enthused) konartiste and hippodameia - already tagged before

PREVIEW:

The old man was like a species in and of himself. And as a species, Forlong seemed entirely homeless—itinerating from mountainy fireplace to mountainy fireplace, growing his beard long, and smelling violently of pony-piss and tobacco. The sort of character to trundle about the world, ever on the brink of death, but outlive us all. Ever on and on. As the indolent hoof-sounds grew quieter, Birandor watched for a long minute as the cone-shaped hat vanished down the mountain path toward Min-Rimmon. When the tip of the hat had fully disappeared, habit kicked in and Birandor’s eyes swiveled left, then right, going first to the beacon of Nardol, then to the beacon of Min-Rimmon. The beacons weren’t lit. Birandor looked at the small heap of supplies. He hadn’t checked that its contents matched with the list they’d handed Forlong two weeks prior, but there wasn’t a need. Regardless of how ageworn, pungent or bizarre Forlong may be as a road quartermaster, he had a mania for details both small and large; the supplies would never fall short; all materials they requested one visit would be delivered with tyrannous precision upon the next.

Husband: I kind of want to write a short story about a person tends one of the more… rural beacons of Gondor.

Me: You should do it! Because it’s remote, you can make your protagonist as unhinged as you like.

Him: Okay. I’ll think about it.

Me: If I get 100 notes on a post on tumblr about this will you do it?

Him: …………..

…………

Ok, fine.

#lotr fanfiction

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