i am of two minds about GRRM saying the hotd showrunners stopped taking any input from him for s2 because on the one hand yeah that checks out but on the other hand i don’t think s2 is worse than s1 because it’s less true to martin, it’s worse because it’s just not as well written as it’s own thing

microdosing celegorm and curufin by knowing that two men i was introduced to were brothers before anyone told me that because they display their lack of respect for me in exactly the same tone of voice

maedhros 🤴

🌿 elrond peredhel 🌿 for a lovely mutual who supported me on kofi, tried my take on elrond! with some new lighting and actual hands lol #silm #silmarillion #silmart #lotr #lordoftherings #elrond #tolkien #tolkienart #art #GoldenAtreidesArt

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the fate of finduilas 🌿 parallel to ophelia by millais #finduilas #silmarillion #silm #lotr #tolkien #art #ophelia

“sports yaoi is fun but in reality they would be sweaty and smell bad after these games”. amateur moment. you are not a real boy sniffer and you have no place in the world to come

i understand that the point of it is to be euphemistic but it’s just hard to imagine a word more flaccid and unlubricating than “spicy”

what’s the funniest picture of me that exists? glad you asked. it’s a sort of artful candid picture of me in which i am looking down studiously as though deep in thought where i know for a fact that what i was doing at the time was writing silmarillion elf rape on my phone that is out of the frame

cryptic pregnancy as a concept would probably alarm an elf so deeply because their whole cultural concept of childbearing is this extremely intentional, careful thing and we’re just like yeah sometimes in rare cases people don’t know at all and then just randomly give birth one day

my controversial opinion on rpf is that rpf is the part of celebrity fandoms i actually have less ethical qualms about because it’s framed as fictional. the posting in the belief that instead of fantasies these are truths about these people that you are just correctly perceiving is more worrisome

inappropriate maglor’s gap relationship

for the record, i personally think the story would have been better suited as a whole to have celebrían in galadriel’s place, but for marketing reasons felt the need to anchor itself in characters that would be familiar to a standard viewer of the lord of the rings movies

the way my pharmacist has this phrased is so funny to me

i remember saying years ago that because of how they’d written elrond and galadriel relative to each other, nearly any way celebrían could be introduced would now probably feel like elrond was robbing the cradle to some extent but i could not have foreseen the degree to which they would go for that

i don’t have anything against coming out scenes but i think it’s much sexier when a character’s homosexuality is something everyone knows or suspects but no one is willing to acknowledge. ideally it should be an unmentionable open secret that the elf fucks ass

the idea that the iron throne wounds and poisons weak kings is interesting because it’s every legend of mystical relics knowing the hand of the true king but inverted as a horror, however, it’s both funny and confusing to me that hotd appears to set that up perfectly but never does much with it

ironically i always think you can tell there are very few labor unions in the united states from the way that lots of americans in favor of unions (and i am in favor of unions, to be clear) are really unaware of the legitimate problems and bad behavior within them because they’ve never seen one

If you see this, quote with your winter art ❄️ #digitalart #draw #drawing #illustration #украрт #ukrart #arttrain

certainly not the most serious thing wrong with the world but it did honestly surprise me to find out in adulthood that a lot of animal rescues are really not good organizations and are basically one or two people with an unsanitary number of dubiously kept animals in their house

personally i think the silmarillion has its exaggerated reputation for difficulty because the structure is understandably unfamiliar to people but when they say they struggled to get through it other people erroneously think that means it has really difficult prose or something

cooldown sketch

i think the funniest manifestation of how needlessly extreme people are online is the way everyone gives terrible advice. someone’s having a relatively mundane interpersonal drama asking for input and the replies recommend they go absolutely nuclear in a deranged way that will clearly backfire

the best way i can explain the difference between baseball and american football to you is that baseball is the ballmarillion whereas football is more of a song of ball and fire. baseball is poetic, it has deep lore, tragedy. football is exciting and it’s about killing a guy on national television

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in the return of the king film when gandalf comforts pippin about the prospect of dying by describing the white shores and far green country under the swift sunrise i always half expect him to be like “i mean that’s where i’m going. i have no idea about your ass” because pippin is mortal

i’m not saying weaponized incompetence never happens but a lot of the time when women describe these situations to you it feels like they’re avoiding the truth that this man is actually just useless. like it’s easier to believe he’s a master manipulator than accept that they’re married to an idiot

my parents want to buy me a watch band for the holidays and so my mother sent me some sites where you can buy watch bands which is very nice of her, however, i cannot begin to explain to you the homosexual aneurysm i experienced receiving a link from my mom to a website advertising “pretty straps”

samuel and paul calling david a man after g-d’s own heart is the funniest thing to me because it’s such a read of the almighty. looking at a ruthless schemer who thinks with his dick and isn’t really a great father and going “wow, he’s just like hashem”

it’s not that midwestern people aren’t nice but as a southerner i always feel sort of gaslit by the whole midwest nice thing because they’re not effusive with any emotion so like you leave an interaction with a midwesterner with no idea if they like or hate you. it’s more like midwest kind reserve

i don’t trust any commentary on the gothic that can’t admit that ann radcliffe is not very good. i think sometimes people wheel her out just to sound knowledgeable and i think hm….and are we going to acknowledge that….to put it charitably….mysteries of udolpho is surely one of the books ever written

one of my deeply held beliefs is that all cats are somewhere between a rat and a bunny but just how rat or how bunny varies from cat to cat

the linchpin of forbidden love with a feudal royal character is that it’s not about them. it’s not about whether they would die for love, it’s about whether they’ll let other people die for it. it’s about whether they would choose the ensuing civil war with their barons and all its carnage for love

disabled people aren’t children but often when someone really hates kids their rage is specifically about having to be inconvenienced or annoyed by someone who is vulnerable in such a way that they can’t help it and require our collective care and that almost inherently implicates disabled people

once someone points out to you that the reason a number of the wigs from the rings of power look really strange is because the actors have their sideburns shaved off unnaturally high like at times well above their ears you cannot unsee it

i’m not saying yiddish speaking or accented dwarves would be bad it’s just when people suggest that for an adaptation i want to know if they are prepared for yiddish speaking dwarves to just read as german to 99% of audiences. i want to know if you’ve heard yiddish spoken

covid shows up in the weirdest ways sometimes like you’ll be watching sports highlight reels and they’ll pull off an absolutely insane play and it’s dead silent in there and you’re like ??????? until it clicks that this was in 2020 and no one could be there. like aw fuck forgot about the plague

huge fan of the email i received from the local animal hospital vaguely implying that my cat was in the armed forces at some point by saying they were honoring our heroes this veterans day with a 5% off sale for hawthorn the cat

love when tolkien says things like “wolves there were, or creatures that walked in wolf-shapes”. love to be told there are wolves or at least Something that is choosing to look like a wolf

me: oh i just don’t really like modern aus personally the setting is just too important to me and too critical to the characters also me: on all levels except physical fëanor is a very old jewish man who scandalized everybody when he was young by marrying a catholic girl

we can talk about attitudes to genre romance all day but the greater weirdness is always the desperation with which people don’t want classic literary love stories to be love stories. they will reach as far as possible into total absurdity to read a romance as secretly being about something else

it has been said and joked about to death but truly any time you watch someone do interior redecorating online it’s always a millenial who will take spaces and furniture with unique and interesting finishes and make it all the ugliest most sterile gray and white situation you can possibly imagine

feanor and son conversation

bilbo baggins is a man who kind of has a woman’s narrative. like the whole thing about the tension between domestic life and adventure and the social consequences of leaving your place in society, having in wit what you lack in strength, and so on. he’s a man with a plucky heroine’s story

sometimes the most fascinating tolkien opinions come from people who don’t know that much tolkien. recently i was staying with an aunt and she smelled a middle earth candle she had lit and said “it’s nice but a little too sweet…middle earth should smell like turned soil and ash”

Sons of Fëanor

you don’t need to see yoshinobu yamamoto’s stats to know how good he is you can just infer it from the way people pulling for the blue jays started going NOOOO NO NO NO PLEASE G-D NO in every chat last night when the broadcast showed him warming up to come in like someone had called in a bomb threat

at the time it was upsetting but in hindsight it’s a hilarious part of my personal lore that i was once suspended from twitter for 6 months for saying that, as possibly the most famous jewish actor, mel brooks should be allowed to hunt the most famously antisemitic actor, mel gibson, for sport