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I am here to have a good time (ie: cry scream have a meltdown over the silly little fictional people I'm emotionally attached to) - I'm mainly active on Tumblr but have decided to check it out over here as well - at the moment I'm moving over all of my web weaves/gif sets etc... so that they're archived!

I mostly just talk about the Silmarillion these days and plan on doing a third re-read of it relatively soon in which I take notes, so I'll probably make that everybody else's problem as well.

Important: I'm 100% pro-shipper / don't like; don't read / ship and let ship / your kink is not my kink and that's okay

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Recurring Posts

Poetry Appreciation Series: A poem from a various poet I like to be posted Monday, Wednesday, & Saturday.

fannish 50: will be posted sporadically!

This post is just gonna keep getting updated here and there as I figure this website out

Current Mood: accomplished

Reading:

Unfinished Tales of Númenor & Middle-Earth

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

The Tradition by Jericho Brown (poetry)

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Current Podcast:

Rebuttal by Rebmasel also on youtube if you like videos

Reb's an attorney & the podcast is a mix of comedy & case law where she talks about wild cases - some more serious than others

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Songs of the Week:

✨they are the moment✨ playlist of my current hyperfocus songs

song of the day: Lip Service by Xana

Current Mood: Tuesday (behated)

letstalksilmarillion

I noticed there wasn't a community really dedicated just to chatting about the Silmarillion! Apart from the Silmarillion Writer's Guild but that's a very specific vibe and not quite what I was looking for. So, here we are!

Some things to post about: fic recs, meta, memes, rambles about a character inviting other people to comment and talk with you about it!

More details + a friending meme in the stickies!

Current Mood: excited

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

I’ve been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite,
can stop the bleeding — most people forgot this
when the war ended. The war ended
depending on which war you mean: those we started,
before those, millenia ago and onward,
those which started me, which I lost and won —
these ever-blooming wounds.
I was built by wage. So I wage love and worse—
always another campaign to march across
a desert night for the cannon flash of your pale skin
settling in a silver lagoon of smoke at your breast.
I dismount my dark horse, bend to you there, deliver you
the hard pull of all my thirsts—
I learned Drink in a country of drought.( Read more... )

From Postcolonial Love Poem - pg 1

This is for Day 2 of the Fannish 50! I'm genuinely obsessed with anything time loop/travel related so I figured I'd gather up a bunch of my favorites!

Most of them are under cuts but I left one for each fandom out to lure you in. I apparently only have one rec for BBC Merlin which seems wrong but I cannot for the life of me find any others I've saved so.

The Silmarallion (Tolkien)

Come back from the future (before we didn’t fall) by MYuzuki
35,246 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
Fëanor & Fingolfin
time travel | angst | hurt comfort | sibling bonding | angst with a happy ending
He expects to open his eyes, metaphorically speaking, in the Halls of Mandos. That is where the dead go, after all, and after being killed by Morgoth he is indisputably dead. And after the unbearable weight and pain of the last few centuries, he finds himself almost looking forward to the supposed peace of it.

He is therefore moderately bewildered when he finds himself awakening in Barad Eithel.
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The Hobbit (Tolkien)

Epic by bubbysbub
107,849 | Explicit | creator chose to not use archive warnings | incomplete
Bilbo/Thorin Oakenshield
time travel | fix-it | crack treated seriously
The up-side of being unceremoniously shoved seventy-nine (approximately) years into his past, Bilbo mused, was that at least he got the chance to murder his stupid adorable husband before, and also because, he went and got himself killed. Or... something.

In which Bilbo is pretty sure this is all Elrond's fault but is determined to see the hallucination through, and Thorin is just confused.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Subtle As Cognitive Recalibration by petroltogo
8,949 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
time travel | humor | POV outsider
“Your sole job as Director of SHIELD is to keep track of global threats and you’ve narrowed down the whereabouts of the mad god with mind-control Jedi tricks to the planet Earth,” Tony summarizes flatly. “What’s the plan? We wait till he blows up another super secret facility whose mysteriously undocumented existence doesn’t make me suspicious at all?”

“Germany!” Rogers blurts out, interrupting Tony’s epic stare-down with Fury.

In which the surviving Post-Endgame Avengers find themselves back in 2012, trying to stop Loki from invading the Earth. Without tipping their not-in-the-know team members off. Things go— sideways.
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Stranger Things

the lathe by palmviolet
82,547 | Mature | Graphic Depictions of Violence
Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
time-loop | PSTD | survivor's guilt | implied/reference self-harm | hurt/comfort | implied/referenced child abuse
"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."

— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
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BBC Merlin

In which if Merlin has to see the cracked gray of his bedroom ceiling one more time, he’s gonna scream. Or punch someone. Maybe the wall. Definitely Arthur, who can’t seem to find the words to say what he wants to, but after the morning Merlin’s had, whatever it was can’t possible help.

Sonnet 7 by Terrance Hayes

I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison,
Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame.
I lock you in a form that is part music box, part meat
Grinder to separate the song of the bird from the bone.
I lock your persona in a dream-inducing sleeper hold
While your better selves watch from the bleachers.
I make you both gym & crow here. As the crow
You undergo a beautiful catharsis trapped one night
In the shadows of the gym. As the gym, the feel of crow-
Shit dropping to your floors is not unlike the stars
Falling from the pep rally posters on your walls.
I make you a box of darkness with a bird in its heart.
Voltas of acoustics, instinct & metaphor. It is not enough
To love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.

From American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin page 11

Saw

cyare do this and it looked fun! This is for Day 1 of the Fannish 50!

1: Are there any fics that you wanted to leave multiple kudos for, and were disappointed when you could only leave one?

Oh, so many haha. I have a handful right now that I have re-read an almost embarassing number of times and wish I could leave kudos on every time. But I gotta sit down and do my analyzing paragraph sometime instead to like properly show my love for the fic!

2: Coffeeshop AU or soulmate AU?

Soulmate AU everytime hands down <3 there's so many fun ways to do it and I happily eat every single one up

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The most infuriating thing lately is how my brain is still going 5000 miles an hour thinking about the Silmarillion and it will just hand me this perfectly scripted, scene blocked fic idea - like just a perfect scroll unrolling in my mind - i know half the characters line their motivations etc and I sit down and go to write and we get about three-quarters of the way through and then [radio static noises] like oh how does it end you ask? yes i’d love to fucking know that too…..so then I gotta grit my teeth and fight for my life to finish the damn thing 😭

Also the way I have this series with two parts and I’m trying to write either the prequel or part 3 and my brain is like hey have you considered like part 7 though? And yes I have actually but we're not there yet.

Current Mood: betrayed by my own brain
Current Music: Happy Ever After All by Knox

A Series of Gentle Reminders by Rudy Francisco

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from Excuse Me as I Kiss the Sky pg. 119-121

Woke up this morning and quite literally the first thing I did, half-asleep, before even getting out of my bed, was google “can you combine two languages linguistics” because I woke up thinking about Fëanor and what kind of nonsense he might get up to in 4th Age Aman and was like damn I wonder if he would improve Sindarin just to annoy Thingol or combine it with Quenya or - anyway apparently that’s not a thing and I read an interesting article on what happens when two communities with different native languages combine but still - what a way to start the day.

Current Mood: brainrotted

Unfinished Duet by Richard Siken

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from Crush by Richard Siken - pg. 26-27

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Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. • The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Rating: T+
Relationship: Celegorm/Dior/Nimloth
Word Count: 6,229
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Summary:

In which Celegorm tries to do some reconnaissance on Doriath, finds some children in the woods, does his good deed for the century, and promptly gets taken prisoner for it.

Dior's bitter he can't just murder Celegorm. After all, he's not one of the eldar, it doesn't count as kinslaying if he does it.

Nimloth's impressed no one is dead yet and plans on keeping it that way for as long as possible.
( Beginning Notes: )( one time salt / the next honey / each disguised to cover poison )( End Notes: )

Originally posted on AO3

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Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. • The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Rating: T+
Relationship: Celegorm/Dior/Nimloth
Word Count: 5,238
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Summary:

“Dior, son of Luthien,” Námo intones, “you do not belong in these halls. I will show you the way to where your path is meant to lead.”

Celegorm looks to Dior and tilts his head in curiosity at the defiant look being directed at Námo. “No,” Dior says, voice hard. “I feel no call to follow the path of men. I will stay in the halls with my kin.”

“I was not presenting it as a choice,” Námo says severely and Celegorm frowns. Sees Curufin across the room shaking his head and gesturing for Celegorm to join him. He thinks to but then looks at Dior again and gets distracted by the look on his face.

An animal backed into a corner, his mind supplies, glancing down at the way Dior’s fingers are beginning to press into Celegorm’s fëa from how hard he is gripping Celegorm’s wrist.

Dior bares his teeth. “I was not either."
( our souls real enough to burn )( End Notes: )

Originally posted on AO3

Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. • The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Rating: Gen
Relationship: Fëanor & Findis & Fingolfin & Lalwen & Finarfin
Word Count: 1,866
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Summary:

The whispers that circulate through Tirion afterwards, throughout all of Aman, will be cruel. She had gotten overconfident, they say, she should have known that Finwë’s line was cursed. She should have been content with three children! The whispers never stop circulating but everyone learns very quickly that no matter how Prince Fëanáro had felt about Queen Indis to say such a thing within earshot of him was to earn his everlasting ire.

It goes like this —
( hold onto me / i'm a little unsteady )( End Notes: )

Originally posted on AO3

Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. • The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Rating: T+
Relationship: Fëanor & Fingolfin
Word Count: 1,538
No Content Warnings
Summary:

But Fëanor was not held guiltless, for he it was that had broken the peace of Valinor and drawn his sword upon his kinsman; and Mandos said to him: “Thou speakest of thraldom. If thraldom it be, thou canst not escape it; for Manwë is King of Arda, and not of Aman only. And this deed was unlawful, whether in Aman or not in Aman. Therefore this doom is now made: for twelve years thou shalt leave Tirion where this threat was uttered. In that time take counsel with thyself, and remember who and what thou art. But after that time this matter shall be set in peace and held redressed, if others will release thee.”

“Well that’s rather stupid,” Fingolfin says.

( Beginning Notes: )( let's jump ahead to the moment of epiphany )( End Notes: )

Originally posted on AO3

Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. • The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Rating: T+
Relationship: Fëanor & Fingolfin
Word Count: 6,691
( Content Warnings )( Chapters: )
Summary:

"Do you enjoy dying then," Fëanor snaps, twisting to glare at him. "Because that is all you are accomplishing by yourself."

"It is all I accomplished with your help as well," he bites back, sneering at the way Fëanor's nostrils flare in offense. "Do not delude yourself into believing that you could have done better—" the words spill out of him, quick and viscous and covered in venom "—don't forget you died first and left me the mess to clean up. You—" he cuts himself off sharply. This Fëanor has done nothing yet he viciously reminds himself. You, he had been about to say, burned the boats and left us and if we had not been so foolhardy as to brave the Helcaraxë then Maedhros would have died or hung there another century and Maglor would have been High King which would have led to no victories at all.
( Beginning Notes: )( tonight you're thinking of cities under crowns of snow )( End Notes )

Also on AO3

Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. • The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Rating: T+
Relationship: Fëanor & Fingolfin
Word Count: 5,718
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Summary:

The moment they are in Fëanor's workshop with the door closed Fëanor turns on him and demands, "Explain. Why have you decided to do something so monumentally difficult so suddenly?"

He does not, Fingolfin notes, say monumentally stupid, or even, you cannot kill a Vala. Only why something so difficult as if it is a given he could kill a Vala given enough thought. He would not be Fëanor without that arrogance but Fingolfin had nearly forgotten how incredibly charming and abrasive it was all at once.
( Beginning Notes: )( i swear i'm gonna die on my feet )( End Notes: )

Also on AO3

Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. • The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Rating: T+
Relationship: Fëanor & Fingolfin
Word Count: 5,279
( Content Warnings )( Chapters: )
Summary:

Fëanor’s eyebrows shoot up as he surveys the design. “This is a weapon,” he says slowly, pinning Fingolfin with a piercing gaze. “What on Arda could you need a weapon for? And with such urgency.”

“I really do not see how that’s any of your concern,” he says tightly, feeling his plans for the day slipping out of his grasp. “Give it back.”

Fëanor studies him for a moment. Looks back to the design, brow furrowing as he examines it. “No,” he says finally, folding the paper up and tucking it inside of his pocket. “Tell me why you need it and I’ll make it.”
( Beginning Notes: )( maybe you're a goner / maybe I survived )( End Notes: )

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Poetry Appreciation #4

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Day 2: Time Loop/Travel Multi-Fandom Rec List

The Silmarallion (Tolkien)

The Hobbit (Tolkien)

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Stranger Things

BBC Merlin

Poetry Appreciation #3

Sonnet 7 by Terrance Hayes

Day 1: Fanfic Reading Meme

The Woes of Writing

Poetry Appreciation #2

A Series of Gentle Reminders by Rudy Francisco

Fëanor & Linguistics

Poetry Appreciation #1

Unfinished Duet by Richard Siken

Part 2: evidence of a love that transcends hunger

one time salt / the next honey / each disguised to cover poison

Part 1: this is the last dream i ever want to have

our souls real enough to burn

hold onto me / i'm a little unsteady

let's jump ahead to the moment of epiphany

Chapter 4: you're in the wind, i'm in the water

Chapter 3: you're in the wind, i'm in the water

Chapter 2: you're in the wind, i'm in the water