i enjoy fictional incest but as with any other ship i like to be sold on why that would be compelling with these specific characters which sometimes hilariously leaves me appraising brotherhole fic/art going “hmmm….lovely work but i just don’t feel like there’s anything there narratively”

500 miles by peter paul and mary becoming a popular short form video audio has been a landmine for me because, due to me being the way that i am, that song makes me so upset about lord of the rings

it continually surprises me how few people seem to put together that the asoiaf universe is incredibly preoccupied with castration. everyone understandably discusses the incest and the way everyone is underage but the castration thing is roughly as prevalent and yet seems to fly under the radar

actually kind of distressing how beautifully shot empire strikes back is. why does a fuckin star wars movie look like this

i have said this before but it remains true that a lot of different maedhros characterizations can work for me but the key thing is i need to feel like that man has the mental and physical wherewithal to amputate his own leg on an 18th century battlefield if need be

it’s always the nolofinwion “must i surrender all my own wishes to what would best serve my father?” vs. the fëanorian “yes, obviously. what kind of question is that”

bastardy is the sexiest thing any feudal setting can explore but it’s best when it’s ambiguous. a bastard who is declared as such is also interesting, but so much of the anxiety has gone out of it. much better to have everyone, the character included, very nervous about who really fathered them

do you ever remember that despite the ubiquity of peter jackson’s concept of them, gimli and legolas are like 400% more homoerotic in the book. peter was actually toning that shit down

[trying to communicate how hot it is in my office] i’m sweating like a whor—[remembering my principles] like a. like a vanya in church right now

on a practical level the challenge of tolkien adaptations is the fact that making anything on that scale is going to involve a studio that will want mcu style blockbuster schlock for their money but artistically the challenge is that the tone is just unlike almost anything else

we all got that one old friend of our mom’s who we really sense feels kind of weird about not being our father. it’s fine, it’s all good, just thank him for being so nice to you and keep it pushing

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men’s sports frequently being homophobic and women’s sports frequently being openly gay has nothing to do with whether women are broadly more progressive or something, it’s that most sports are culturally considered masculine pursuits which makes them conforming for men but kind of queer for women

you know how there is a midrash where after simeon and levi slaughter the men of shechem to avenge the rape of their sister dinah, simeon then marries dinah himself? that is the spiritual ancestor to shipping aredhel/celegorm

it was sort of entertaining to me to see people get into a popular hockey yaoi and then be seemingly taken aback to find out that in real life hockey is actually really macho and homophobic because the fact that hockey is macho and homophobic is the entire reason hockey yaoi would appeal

the actual eroticism of hurt/comfort is that the comfort is an element of the hurt. it is painful for those wounds to be tended to, it is humiliating to be vulnerable in that way, and they are forced to bear it. THAT is what’s horny about it

almost immediately after elfposting yesterday my body decided the move was 102 degree fever and i feel like a regency lady who fell ill after too much excitement upon her poor nerves

do you ever think about ñolofinwë and arakáno and feel deeply unwell

i swear the city of toronto is in some sort of athletic sodom and gomorrah situation where g!d is cursing all their sports teams to constant humiliation because his messengers observed the lecher drake amongst their ranks and they failed to expel him

i love when one character forgives the other and that is worse. being hated would be cathartic for the transgressor, it would feel like punishment that by enduring they could atone for what they’ve done to them, and forgiveness denies them that. especially when it is not a repairing forgiveness

in historical romances when the woman is of a much lower social class than the man she almost always has extremely strong principles about not becoming a mistress which is sort of funny because realistically being the mistress is in many ways a much better deal for you in that situation

do you think guys who bet on horse races like it’s 1837 look down on the concerning number of people who have gotten into sports betting apps now because they were into squandering the family fortune in unscrupulous pursuits before it was cool

real housewives of himring

there is something so beautiful to me about really any permutation of the brothers fëanorian c having a bad argument. love to think about some of the meanest bitches in east beleriand who know each other well enough to know exactly where the jugular is saying shit that leaves no survivors

after a battle in beleriand would be so difficult just psychologically because like what if an elf was injured and you had to tend to his wounds and he trembled and whimpered a little from the pain and it hurt so much his big wet eyes went dazed and sweat gathered on his brow and

going a little crazy off the easter candy they bring into my workplace and posting heterosexual elf yaoi on my lunch break to keep the rent down

aromantic aredhel/celegorm is like….he is in love with her and she loves him. together they are intense and singular beyond the bounds of the word friendship, but there is nothing else to call it. she is not in love with him. that both matters to him and does not

there was no world where i was ever not going to be a freak who likes disturbing fiction because i was about knee high to a cricket being told the passover story and thinking “oh i love this part” when they’re smearing blood on the door posts so the angel of death will spare their sons

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it’s interesting that gimli says “my folk have never had dealings with any of the servants of the enemy. neither have we done any harm to elves.” in indignation to haldir because i think you get this sense of him seeing himself and his history as being of durin’s folk specifically

possibly the mother of all popular posts that makes you, the poster, go “really? that one?”

i love feudal settings and i have a half brother in real life which is so funny because every fictional feudal guy with a half brother is like “he was created on earth to be my nemesis, my first and oldest foe” and then in real life it’s like that’s my big dude who i forget our mom did not birth

i am generally tolerant of silmarillion opinions i consider to be stupid except about dwarves. i magnanimously grant clemency to those who engage in bad elf opinions, but stupidity about dwarves turns me into the joker

one of the many trials one faces in life is that hashem gives the greatest wealth of modern au fanfiction to the stories most inextricable from the original settings

honestly the most 20th century author thing imaginable is all of them having crazy beef with t.s. eliot that most of the time had nothing to do with the fact that t.s. eliot hated black people and jews so bad it made him physically ill. they could excuse that, but not his poetry

tolkien casuals and asoiaf people fighting to the death about what tolkien would think about martin’s work is always funny because somehow neither of them have considered a basic fact all self respecting tolkien fans know which is that it does not matter that much what john tolkien thought

i will say i think the true challenge of trying to make a wuthering heights film is that so much of that novel operates on the anxiety of the unknown and that which is undefined in a 19th century culture obsessed with classification and to some extent a film will have to answer those things for you

so much fandom misery can be avoided by just not being into whatever the hot new thing is. there are lots of people whose deal is flocking to whatever popular thing just came out, mauling each other over it, and then moving on in 6 months to repeat the process and they are where the nonsense is

Loyalty trope kink should have something foul to it. If someone is acting like a guard/attack dog there should be a sinking feeling of alienation or dread. It's your duty to make it hot but making it cute is a crime.

we keep trying to separate the artist from the art but he’s fucking it so vigorously that pulling them apart is proving challenging. this is one of the key dangers of irresponsible artist husbandry

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people get bent out of shape about the idea that someone who follows them hates their fictional preferences but personally i find it very funny to imagine somebody who thinks my taste is absolutely fucking awful but likes other things i have to say enough to suffer it. godspeed, soldier

every day is tolkien reading day if you’re an invert of a certain caliber

morfydd clark galadriel doesn’t work but it’s interesting that it doesn’t work because there’s nothing measurable that’s wrong there like she’s a perfectly fine actress and it’s not anything physical, she just lacks the right aura for that character which is really the whole problem of casting elves

asexuality could never protect a character from me because i think it’s kind of hot when one of them is so horny they need to be taken out back and shot and the other is enjoying matters in a normal way that does not disrupt the balance of their humors

i’m so happy people are finally talking about how evil cozy d&d style fantasy is where every character is a milquetoast liberal who is fine enough with queers and women and people of color to never be #problematic but there’s a monarchy, essentialist race, and subhuman invaders that need killing

not only does the elf not know therapy words but if he did know what therapy was he would talk about it like this

i like when porny art has the sound effects written on there like this is an old timey superhero comic because it immediately renders the whole affair a little bit whimsical