#vanjalism

[thewannabees]

89 - A Contained Fire (Job Posting - Single)

A small group of Algox needs help to free them from a dictatorship.

Kill Vanjal. Algox Archer, Algox Guard, Algox Icespeaker, Algox Priest

[absynthe--minded]

what would Finno and Mae's wedding have looked like at various points in their story (ex: pre-Darkening, post-Darkening pre-Alqualonde, in Beleriand, post-reembodiment)?

I’m going to presume you’re talking about the wedding ceremonies and not the marriage proper? That being said -

Pre-Darkening: there isn’t a wedding, not really. They wind up marrying either that time that Finno sneaks into Maitimo’s room while drunk and naked and soaking wet OR that time in the meadow after a mid-afternoon swim, and it’s a shock to their families. Maitimo moves in with Finno and stays there through the Formenos banishment of the rest of his family.

Post-Darkening Pre-Alqualondë: still not a proper Wedding, but this time they wind up marrying in Maitimo’s childhood home. Fëanáro moved into Finwë’s great house in Tirion, leaving the other place empty. Maitimo washes and rebraids Finno’s hair, and it’s these braids he keeps with him all across the Ice, and it’s the last time he can do it before his death. Yes, they fuck in a bed belonging to someone else in the family.

In Mithrim, after Thangorodrim: let’s be real, Nolofinwë walks in on them marrying, leaves without saying a word, and then offers to put together a proper wedding ceremony for them. Their rings that they exchange are made of braided grass with little flowers, and Maitimo wears Nolofinwë’s best tunic, and Finno has a flower crown. Turukáno is mad at first but Itarillë is really glad for her uncle. Írissë cries. It’s a simple, sweet ceremony, and they spend like six months in a tent getting food dropped off in the mornings and evenings.

In Himring: Maitimo’s servants arrange the wedding after they reveal to Finno that they know he’s married. It’s entirely a surprise for Maitimo, but Finno has a dress made that’s scandalously low-cut for the climate. (It has a fur shrug. It counts as mountain chic, apparently.) Maitimo wears plate armor and what little jewelry he has. He cries. It’s very moving. Later that night everybody crowds into Himring’s one pub and sings a bunch of really horny ballads about their lord paramount and his husband the crown prince. They don’t get a long honeymoon but their three days of vacation are treasured.

In Hithlum, after the Bragollach: Finno doesn’t want an ostentatious wedding. His council insists. It’s a show of Noldorin unity and establishes that Maitimo will act as regent until Artanáro, who’s only fifteen, reaches his majority. (He’s Lalwendë’s son; his mother caught a bad case of dragon.) Rániel, the chief councillor and professional contrarian, officiates the wedding. Maitimo wears blue and silver and causes a stir among his family’s loyalists.

Post-Reembodiment in Valinor: answered here!!

[arofili]

a rose for Currently Untitled Russingon Fake Dating AU?

“Nelyafinwë,” Fëanáro said with some difficulty, “I love you, and I am beyond proud of the nér you have become, but—the Nolofinwion? Are you sure this is not some act of, of...delayed adolescent rebellion?”

It was and it wasn’t, and frankly Maitimo thought his father saw their friendship in the same light. He set his jaw, suddenly determined to see this through. He would force his father to see reason.

“I love him,” he said firmly, and that was true, even if he meant it in a different way than what his parents thought, “and I plan to marry him, in time.”

At the word marry, Fëanáro paled, clearly thinking of—well, Maitimo hoped he was thinking of the political ramifications and not picturing Maitimo and Findekáno mid-coitus, something Maitimo had very much been trying to avoid himself.

me, writing lace-compliant fic? it’s more likely than you’d think!

also mae is incredibly oblivious to his own feelings lmao

[draculagetspegged]

crowns of thorns are a jesus reference

i'm... well aware. i'm just trying to figure out why specifically they would attach an item that almost exclusively invokes christ onto isaac (who is muslim).

was it just use of a cool-looking religious symbol? continuing the general condemnation of most christianity that appears throughout the series?

crowns of thorns usually symbolize sacrifice or suffering on behalf of others so maybe isaac breaking it was meant to invoke isaac freeing himself of working/sacrificing for others (and possibly tying back to the fact that it looks like his master when he was enslaved was a crusader or at least christian?)

some point about people trying to force christianity onto others and enslaving them that way?

idk

[pilferingapples]

#sometimes the FRev seems like it was designed by someone who was WAY too into Symbolism do we actually have any proof that victor hugo didn't invent the frev for les mis

Victor Hugo Worldbuilt France

[lesbiansforboromir]

(pats your shoulder) bark titties aren't real, they can't hurt you

This is just a BLATANT ploy to get me to show you bark titties and I will NOT play ball, suffer the game yourself!! And then tell me I’m not MORTALLY wounded by these crimes!!

[princess-faelivrin]

@vanjalism new brother? new cousin? could be anything 

[partialconstellations]

@vanjalism replied to your post “THE YOUNG WOLF II If Robb bad thought it strange thanks for this...”

was that 'bad' supposed to be 'had'?

It sure was!

[prokopetz]

what tabletop game would you recommend for les miserables?

It really depends on what aspect of the source material you want to focus on.

For example, if you’re keen on the game of cat-and-mouse between quasi-heroic criminal protagonists and the Law, you might be able to do something with Avery Alder’s Perfect Unrevised. It’d be a total setting reskin, but the underlying system has much to recommend it for that sort of play. In brief, it has a rotating-GM setup where each player is assigned the role of the Law with respect to another player’s criminal; when your character takes centre stage, your assigned Law player steps into the GM role to try and bring you down. In this way, everybody gets a chance to be someone else’s personal Javert. Heck, in a slightly tongue-in-cheek game, the Law players could literally pass around the role of Javert!

On the other hand, if you’d prefer to zoom out and engage with the political big picture and the sweep of history - rambling asides about the Battle of Waterloo included! - you might have a look at Kingdom. It’s a narrative game about power dynamics within communities, with the traditional GM position subdivided among multiple roles; for example, a player in the Power role gets to decide what the community does, but a Perspective player decides what the material consequences of those actions are, and a Touchstone player decides what the people want and how they respond. And yes, there are rules for usurping other players’ roles if you don’t like how things are going down.

On the mutant third hand, if you want to keep things personal, but you could do without the mechanically enforced interrogation of power hierarchies - maybe you just want a breezy game about people getting entangled in inadvisable relationships, singing about their feelings, then dying horribly - I’d be inclined to knock together a suitable Fiasco playset. I’m actually kind of surprised there isn’t one already, but I couldn’t seem to find anything in the official repository; perhaps you’ll have better luck than I did!

Finally, in terms of upcoming games to keep an eye on, there’s Gears of Defiance, which successfully Kickstarted back in April and will in theory be out before the end of the year. This one has some fun conceits, including an honest-to-goodness alignment grid whose axes are Traditionalism/Radicalism and Liberty/Authority rather than Law/Chaos and Good/Evil. A 50-page ashcan preview is available here, if you willing to pay three bucks for a teaser.

[aporeticelenchus]

fmk: socrates, plato, aristotle

Fuck Socrates, and by “fuck” of course I mean have a naked sleepover party with absolutely no sex (as Alcibiades explained to us in the Symposium).

Marry Plato, he’d be less annoying as a spouse than Socrates or Aristotle, also the most likely to respect me as a philosopher. Putting up with random math lectures would be worth it.

That means I have to kill Aristotle, and while I’m cringing at the wrench that throws in the history of philosophy it’s not like killing off any of the others wouldn’t have messed up Aristotle’s career anyway.

[silentstep]

vanjalism replied to your post “ok but as a writer 90% of the time, when I’m trying to research x or...”

for some of those questions (hunting, tanning, etc) i would recommend the foxfire books: collections of instructions, lessons, and stories put together through interviews with people living in Appalachia, which is where i learned different tanning methods. it won’t help you with “which method was used in x place at y time” but it could give you a start on the mechanics of it

thank you!  on your recommendation I went straight to the local public library & this definitely looks like it’s going to be SUPER USEFUL.  the university library might even have the others...

[absynthe--minded]

very serious character question: who tastes cilantro as soap

hmmmmm

probably Turukáno, which would explain a Lot. Or else it’s Itarillë and she’s too polite to say so, and she goes through life not knowing that other people can taste cilantro differently until Tuor.

[arofili]

tagged by @vanjalism thank you!

zodiac sign: virgo height: 5′8″ last movie I saw: ....Onward, i think? last thing I googled: “it’s free real estate” favourite musician: uhhhhhhhhhh regina spektor?? song stuck in my head: some mormon hymn i can’t remember the name of other blogs: don’t talk to me or my sideblogs ever again following: 1162. i need to unfollow some inactive ones huh followers: 2812. i should do something to celebrate 3k when i get there... do I get asks: yes??! this is a sort of recent development but i do get asks and honestly it’s great i would die for every nice anon who wants to talk about my posts or my fics or whatever amount of sleep I get: (cries in insomnia) lucky number(s): i dont really have any. 7? what i’m wearing: baseball tee i got from work back when i had a job and sweatpants dream job: author! dream trip: i left the house for the first time in probably 2 months yesterday so. literally anywhere. favourite food: pasta!! instruments: my mom is a piano teacher and i’ve been playing since i was like 5 and yet i still suck. also i sing languages: just English favorite songs: fuck if i know. i’m literally always thinking about “Ulysses” by Adele McAllister so that’s a good pick i guess

i tag @buffintruder @potatoobsessed999 @captainadwen @cosmicgong @prismatic-starstuff @omeradyn and @toastandmilktea :)

[draculagetspegged]

ah! I misread your tag, then, sorry ^^

you're fine!! sorry if i came off rude!

[pilferingapples]

@vanjalism replied to your post: wait did one of the Gavle goats burn

there was a miniature goat someone brought and torched, just now the science club goat was burned but not destroyed

MULTIPLE BURNINATIONS thank you for this vital update, my googlecraft was failing me utterly!

[lesbiansforboromir]

non-elf elfsplaining contest: aragorn to boromir, about how he's obvi the rightful king of gondor despite having been there, like, once, because he's got the magic sword—vs—gandalf to gimli about how the dwarves delved too greedily and too deep while they are surrounded by the decaying bodies of gimli's kith&kin

Listen... Aragorn is an honourary elf at this point, raised by elves, elf blood, marries an elf, has an elf fetish like he’s an elf in all but ears really and I’m pretty sure Gandalf literally means like... ‘old elf’ or ‘weird elf’ or something. My point is, they’re still both elfsplaining but as for this intriguing fight you’ve put to me...

Gandalf to Gimli for sure, sorry Gandalf you can’t just say there’s nothing down here and then tell Gimli it’s all his fault you’re being chased by a balrog like good Lord you were happy about his support to go to Moria not WEEKS ago!