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Gail Griffin, "War Stories"

...a Maedhros poem

#Poetry #Gail Griffin

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Fun fact is I’m a big fan of Dostoevsky’s novel that I believe this film is based upon!

Akira Kurosawa

- The Idiot

(1951)

#so your intuition is on point! #admin mythopoeia #akira kurosawa #also this sentiment/dialogue is very au yes

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A slowly collapsing prairie home.

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What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t

by Anne Boyer

Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying “ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying “this is not your grave, get out of the hole”; sometimes being pushed, saying “you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave,” and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying “this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole,” all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there’s just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying “look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn’t!”

#maedhros

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Girl you cannot “reclaim phrenology”

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those moments in au fics when you finally figure out how the author is reinterpreting a specific canon event and you basically go ‘oh snap that’s brilliant’ for five minutes straight

#☺️ #if u want to tell us which parts specifically would love to know #it’s fun to find out what hits! #gold rush au

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I Have Outlasted All Desire

by Alexander Pushkin tr. Babette Deutsch

I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleanings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb- I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter’s whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

#poetry #maglor

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Good afternoon! Back at it again with the next multi-chap installment to take over your life, if you so choose... this one is FIRST PERSON POV for Maedhros, which is completely new to all of us... don't you want to know how he's coping after Doriath?

Spoiler alert: not well

#fic update #fic: to the young who want to die #gold rush au #the silmarillion

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oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

#maedhros and all the important ppl in his life like

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Helen of Troy (detail) c. 1867. by Frederick Sandys

#art

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Irish poetry is awesome it's either like "God bless the beautiful and proud nation of Ireland and all of her natural beauty and culture", "God bless the beautiful and proud woman I am in love with who is a metaphor for the beautiful and proud nation of Ireland" or "Fucking English bastards ruining everything"

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IT'S FINISHED

(A soft epilogue, etc.)

#gold rush au #the silmarillion #pharmakos fic #pharmakós #pharmakos update

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— BERTOLT BRECHT, trans. John Willett.

#poetry

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have begun to write the final chapter/epilogue for Pharmakos... can it really be that time ;_;

#just took us 2.5 years! in fairness it is the length of three decent-sized novels #the silmarillion #pharmakós

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Happy Birthday, Hendrik J Valk (1897-1986)

Eenden (opus:1389): Ducks, 1973

#Baby Fingon saying 'there are such ducks' in the room with us now #Art

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I have no excuses, he's just my fave elf! The babiest! The cutest! Today with scars and pain and sadness (◡‿◡✿)

Painted while listening to this song

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Threadless

#maedhros #There he is #Fanart