#yes I *know* he's an elf

[edennill-archived]

I swear my family behaves as if I've lost my mind when I say that, but doesn't anyone here think there's ✨something✨ between Lord Aegnor and our own Andreth of Bëor's House?

[dunmeshistash]

Do you know where the “mithrun is the most grizzed masculine elf take” comes from. All I think about is the changeling thing but no one calls Marcille the most masculine elf for being ripped as an orc compared to Tade. Or that he trains a lot, which is also not an inherent masculine thing. To me Mithrun doesn’t really look different to any other (male) elf we see. Is it from the extra’s or something?

Yes that take comes from the changeling transformations of both Mithrun and Senshi. The joke is the Senshi is the "most femme dwarf" and Mithrun the "most masc elf" in contrast with how they look in their original forms

I do think the joke kinda got out of control in the game of telephone that fandom is, instead of a fun observation of how we might perceive Mithrun more feminine than he is and Senshi more masculine than he is due to our own biases based on their races it got taken way too seriously as "the only true and correct interpretation"

I don't think Mithrun is especially masculine or feminine when it comes to his personality, I understand some people have been peeved by others making him maybe too meek/girly compared to canon but I feel like the response of making him way more aggressive/manly than canon is just as inaccurate and it's kinda upsetting when I see "fandom vs (my interpretation of canon) canon" as if they're any more right for going to the extreme opposite

We don't really know if Mithrun is specially "masculine" for an elf either, the only elf that we know is especially "masc" is Otta, and we only know cause her bio says even elves mistake her for a man (I think for most of us she looks as androgynous as the others)

Here's a post discussing elf gender presentation more in depth if you're interested in the subject but all we know is that Mithrun works out a lot and is very muscular (which signals 'manlyness' for us but might not for elves) there isn't much that point out to him being especially manly or especially feminine compared to other male elves. He also has lost most of his desires and doesn't express his preferences much so I think it's safe to assume he doesn't really pick how he presents himself (clothing and such).

Other than that and being stoic (is that a super manly trait?) Mithrun is pretty average I think. He's also still super cute even as a tallman (as if looking manly would stop you from being cute)

But another trait of him that seem to make people read him as "super manly" it's that sometimes Mithrun is scary and aggressive, I'm not even going into why that's bad (correlating aggressiveness with manliness is uh…. not great….) not even to mention he only acts that way when he's triggered by wanting to take revenge on the demon, otherwise he seems to avoid hurting others.

Related to the "Mithrun is a super manly elf" take I've even seen people argue that drawing him looking too "cute" and small is incorrect (probably just because of his tallman self) but that's how Kui draws him herself.

I don't understand why correct others for drawing him the same way his creator does, he's designed to look this way, there's nothing to "fix" about his original design either (nothing wrong with drawing him in a way that appeals to you more tho, fanart is fanart just don't harass other people)

Anyway just to stress the point that he is very average let's compare him to Lycion and Pattadol

The average height for elves is 155 for males and 150 for females Mithrun is 155cm, Lycion is 170cm and Pattadol is 160cm, they're both taller and have a sturdier looking builds than Mithrun

Kui often draws Pattadol specially with a sturdier build than Mithrun actually

So no he's not the most buff biggest elf ever in any sense (although he IS a muscular elf), and I don't think the changeling transformations are too objective since they're magic. For example Pattadol as a human is pretty average even tho she's big compared to other elves (not to mention Senshi half-foot who has a huge beard that half-foots don't seem to be able to grow)

[yangjeongin]

SKZ as DND CLASSES: RANGER MINHO

far from the bustle of cities and towns, past the hedges that shelter the most distant farms from the terrors of the wild, amid the dense-packed trees of trackless forests and across wide and empty plains, rangers keep their unending watch.

[elias-the-corvid]

Oh my fucking god I love the inheritance cycle saga so fucking much I love Eragon I love Roran I'm so glad I decided to reread this I'd forgotten how GOOD IT WAS

[cyancees]

long time no dnd dump

[isolabellz]

move over angel devil there’s a new apathetic femboy in town

[aethismantis]

My guys playing backgammon

[yeehaww-sims]

Hi I love them your honour. Picks them up and runs away.

[essenceofarda]

Ive finally done it--i've been wanting to do this forever and I've finally created an oc to be Fingon's wife 🤩🤔

[dark-elf-writes]

Mha/Khr crossover where the Tenth Gen kind of trip their way into becoming a teen vigilante group (something that Reborn finds infinitely amusing) and through a series of near misses find themselves cornered by a group of Concerned Adults who offer them a chance at “rehabilitation” and to become true heroes by going to UA on a probationary basis.

Reborn thinking it’s funny/good training so he lets it happen and even gets himself named as their homeroom teacher despite the fact he looks maybe seventeen at this point.

Including Tsuna and Izuku bonding over having generational trauma, Mukuro and Chrome breaking any and all laws of quirk science intentionally or not, Reborn and Nezu being terrifyingly good friends, and poor Aizawa Shouta who will never know peace again.

[prankprincess123]

The guy that I've been going out with (haven't DTRed and only 8ish official dates over like 5mo so I don't think he's officially my boyfriend, and I'm bad with feelings and love-lives, but neither of us have gone out with anyone else in that time - I've barely had time in my schedule for that much socializing - and we've hung out around uni & church enough that it feels a bit weird to refer to him as just a friend or 'date-mate') and I have been recommending books and movies to eachother, and I was really surprised to like Frieren as I am very particular about which anime I actually like. And then I got to the mirrored lotus semi-proposal bit before realizing that Himmel & Frieren's relationship is supposed to be romantic, and given that it seems that the end of that episode is when Frieren starts to clue into the nature of their dynamic too, I'm starting to clue into why he recommended this series to me...

[midnightwind]

I did the Well of Sorrows and then went to bed, but I am Still thinking about it and getting mad lmao

why the Fuck does Solas disapprove of a Dalish Inquisitor telling Morrigan no, that it's their heritage and history and if anyone is going to drink from it then it should be an elf

why did I only get one option that pointed that out and why did I pick it on accident (thank god I picked it at all) instead of it being a very clear and consistent shut down

why couldn't I properly discuss sending the Ancient elves out to the many Dalish clans desperately clinging to Elvehn history who would benefit so much from what they could share instead of stripping them of their only purpose to either enter the forever sleep or wander purposeless? if I hadn't taken Solas with me, would there have even been a chance to encourage them that there was still a place for them in the world?

why did I have to spend that entire section having Morrigan explain and translate every piece of Elvehn history and myth to me before going "not my clan tho!" like the one time my Inquisitor could have her properly defend and use her origin and I still had to have everything explained to me like a child lmao

Morrigan very justified for being annoyed at me for taking the magic I had no way to understand tho, she did have a valid point there, However

I am elf, elf magic is mine

[eri-pl]

Thought 1: Charlie Vickers has the right kind of smile for Finrod.

Thought 2: I remember a post where someone suggested Annatar being similar in looks to Finrod, to mess with Celebrimbor's head.

[deer-with-a-stick]

The more time I spend explaining Tolkien lore to my brother the more I realize that Tolkien was just batshit insane

[littlegalerion]

As a homesteader, I can say 100% Halsin needs some serious help. He is all about "nature has a balance, where all are cared for", meanwhile here I am, having to pull two drakes off one lady duck because, by nature, both will attempt to breed her as roughly as possible, even if it ends up injuring/killing her.

Also, by nature, my chickens have a strict pecking order. A good few get bullied as they are the lowest in the order. I attempted to introduce some young ladies to my less than a foot tall Sebright Rooster, and he was brutal with the bullying. I had to pull them out, he was so bad.

Nature is not a beautiful, idealistic lifestyle. It is survival of the fittest.

Perhaps Halsin needs to seriously rethink civilizations' role in nature. That we, as people of all races, differ from animals in that we can choose to rise above our basic desires and urges if we so choose. Chaotic change is normal among the wilds, but we can actually bring good change, despite however much evil is in the world.

That is our role.

[luosaugury]

I love that the devs took notes of DAI and allow us to change character appearance mid-game. Aside from meta reasons like my Shadow Dragon Rook inadvertently looking exactly like Solas in cutscene, which of course I had to fix (was a good laugh though), for story reasons my Rook chose to save Treviso and upon returning to see the damage to his city and his faction, he decided to plaster even more Shadow Dragon tattoos on his face as an act of defiance and remembrance.