#and so i love her too

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

Did You Ask Me About Théodred’s Mom???

To the lovely anon who sent me an ask about Théodred’s mother—Tumblr randomly won’t let me post the incoming, but here is your answer regardless! All the below is my personal HC about Elfhild. (And it’s in my plans to write something about her soon-ish!)

Elfhild came from one of the most prominent families of the Westfold and was close kin to both Elfhelm and Grimbold. She was a great lover of lore and knew more of Rohan’s old songs and poems (those that documented their history and culture) than nearly anyone else. Because of the inherent link between history and music in Rohan, she was also an accomplished musician and a crafter of instruments. As an artisan, she was considered top tier, and she earned a fair amount of money in the instrument trade even though she didn’t really need to work because of her family’s wealth and prestige.

Thengel handpicked Elfhild to be Théoden’s wife, and it was really awkward for them at first because they hardly knew each other. As they spent time together, though, they built a great friendship and did come to love each other romantically. Théoden’s beloved youngest sister, Théodwyn, lived with them and, still being a child at the time, she looked up to Elfhild as a mother figure. Théodwyn particularly loved to sit on the terrace of Meduseld with Elfhild at night, where Elfhild would point out formations in the stars and make up little tales about the people and animals she saw there.

It took several years for Théodred to be conceived, and Elfhild was both ecstatic and relieved to find out she was pregnant. She spent happy months preparing for his arrival, and she composed him a bunch of songs and lullabies, including many based on the little constellation stories she had invented for Théodwyn. Late in her pregnancy, though, she began to have premonitions that it wouldn’t end well for her. She didn’t say anything about it to anyone, but she took some quiet steps to prepare, just in case. For example, she asked Elfhelm to move to Edoras so that her son would still be raised around someone from her family, and she taught Théodwyn all the songs and lullabies she had written so that Théodred could still hear them even if Elfhild herself couldn’t be the one to sing them.

She did, in fact, die in childbirth, and her death created a real crisis in Meduseld because Théoden did not handle it well. He retreated fully into grief, and because he couldn’t separate the birth of his son from the death of his wife, he had difficulty bonding with baby Théodred. As a result, Elfhelm and Théodwyn provided a lot of Théodred’s early love and care. Thengel died two years after Elfhild and had always urged Théoden to marry again so that Rohan would have a queen and Théodred a mother, but (as we know) he never did because he never fully got over Elfhild. Fortunately, though, Théoden did learn to put his grief in perspective and came to embrace Théodred and take over a more active role in his life. In gratitude to Elfhelm, Théoden put him in charge of Edoras’ forces (where we see him still at the start of LOTR—the functional First Marshal of the Mark whenever Théoden himself wasn’t around), and in gratitude to Théodwyn, he told her she could live with him for as long as she wanted (she stayed, keeping watch of Théodred, for another 10 years before she met Éomund and left to get married).

Théodred grew up with his mother very present in his life through the stories and memories shared by Théoden, Théodwyn and Elfhelm. When he was old enough, he got a tattoo on his chest of his favorite of the constellations from Elfhild’s songs/stories, and he frequently visited her grave just to talk to her and give her updates on his life. He remained extremely close to Théodwyn until her death and got his love of plants and gardening from her, and he learned riding and fighting at the knee of Elfhelm. When he came of age and was made a Marshal of the Mark, he made his base in the West-mark to be close to his mother’s people, including Grimbold, who became a top lieutenant. Grimbold and Elfhelm were both there when Théodred died and fought the forces of Isengard for possession of his body, which was then buried in the West-mark. They thought he would be happy to rest forever in his mother’s ancestral home.

Éomer is married to Elfhelm’s daughter (one of the very few canon non-compliant aspects of my HC), through which means the heir of Rohan still has some of Elfhild’s ancestry despite Elfhild and Théodred’s untimely deaths. All musical ability in the family was always attributed to her/Elfhelm’s genes.

#asks #answered asks #lotr #lord of the rings #theodred #théodred #elfhild #her son is one of my all time favorites #and so i love her too

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

#dungeon meshi #kabru #laios touden #falin touden #Happy Thistle Thursday once again. Have I been holding on to this comic for several weeks? Sure have! #I forgot how long it takes for Chimera Falin to come into play. #I still really love my 'better drawn' art of her - unfortunately it was several weeks too early for the anime only folks. #Slowly getting the hang of drawing Laios. I don't know why I struggle so much but I am getting...somewhere. #Meta time: God damn I love how the chimera shows off the expertise and gap between Kabru and Laios. #The truth is: they are both *right* and they are both *wrong*. #This creature is a combination of monster and human and they only have the skillset to deal with one of those. #Kabru goes for all the human vitals - but she isn't human. #Laios tries to approach her as a monster and is struck down by the humanity he sees in her. #She is something new that defies what they *both* understand about the world. And that makes her such a perfect antagonist. #The damsel was the dragon all along! #...She is really so cute though. Terrifying! But adorable. I am so excited to see the boom of fanart for her.

[laur-rants]

I love when my borzoi does the thing

#borzoi #echo the borzoi #sighthound #puppy #art #my art #comics #my comics #illustration #my illustration #shes so ridiculous because her nose is too long to like #see things #so she has to #throw her head back to look at something #and see with her big stupid eyes (affectionate) #i love her shes so wild and pretty and such a ridiculouus creature #im love her

[taakiitoo]

#fanart #i love him so much #and her too #atla #zuko #toph #taakiitoo

[maria-ruta]

"what if chilchuck was a butch?" we thought

and Ryoko said - "say no more!" - and made Meijack, can you believe it???

anyway I'm surprised nobody's done it before, you can have it!

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p.s. - she just doodled chilchuck genderbend once and couldnt let go of the design and BAM Meijack was born lol its so funnt tbh. but fucking valid

#i love you lesbians! this is for you lesbians! and me #chilchuck #dungeon meshi #meijack #meijack chils #chilchuck tims #Meijaclk you look so butch your swag is too strong your boots are too sluty your gaze is too tired gay #they gonna kill you you. have to stop #we have like what?... full 5 or 6 pannels with her but its enough for me to love her thanks #chilchuk darling i loe you so much but could you step aside a little because THIS GIRL #my art #kinda???? #not my art #my edit

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Vanessa meets Glamrock Chica

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #fnaf vanny #vanessa afton #vanessa shelly #fnaf vanessa #glamrock chica #security breach #glamrock animatronics #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Glamrock Chica moment!!! #Vanessa doesn’t care that Chica is eating trash that’s part of her charm #Tbh same I wouldn’t care I too would hug Chica #Vanessa just loving the animatronics is like one of my favourite quirks about her #Only Vanny knows the horrors Chica has done #I drew Glamrock Freddy so it was only right to draw Chica next 🩷 #hopefully I’ll draw all the glamrocks sometime!

[nikoco11]

that datamined karlach design…..

#i also want to draw a mod i saw #where her hair was buzz cut!!! really cute #i love all karlach designs… my heart so full of karlach love #i wanna try that one EA karlach too wahhh #my art #digital art #illustration #drawing #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanart #karlach

[artharakka]

“Äiti itki. Isä lähti huoneesta. Vivian istui nurkassa ja kuunteli vaiti. Kissamme Minni hyppäsi vuoteelle ja käpertyi jalkojeni päälle ja kehräsi, sillä kehräämällä parannetaan sairaita.” — Emmi Itäranta. Kuunpäivän kirjeet

“Mom cried. Dad left the room. Vivian sat in the corner and listened quietly. Our cat Minni jumped on the bed and curled up on my legs and purred, for through purring the sick are healed.” — Emmi Itäranta. The Moonday Letters. Quote tranlated by me (unofficial)

#my beloved baby Minni passed last weekend and it has been rough #I loved her so much #I've grown so much since I first held her when I was eleven years old #she was with me so long and still it came too soon #I still love her so much #it's a silly little pillow but she liked to sleep next to it #@artist-rat 's grandma bought it specifically for her #tiny cat pillow for tiny cat baby #animal death

[arundolyn]

today i bring you aba stimming. tomorrow? who knows

#aba #paracelsus #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #crow.gif #guilty gif #i love her so bad. fucked up silly little girlthing #huge fan of her and her illness #just hanging around. being sillay #took way too long to notice her shirt is pants it made me giggle. just chopped up some shorts and went Yeah thats a shirt #50 notes in under 20 minutes. i see were all not okay here JFJSJJFX

[mydairpercabeth]

#did i do the meme right #its giving TONY STARK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS #that bot really shifted her entire life around #changed her perspective #this is so funny actually #percy loving her so loudly and unconditionally to prove it too #theyre soulmates your honor #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percy and annabeth #percabeth #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo tv #percy series #pjo tv show #walker scobell #leah sava jeffries #travis kelce #coach andie #how about that superbowl btw #percy x annabeth #smartwater

[kennythetrampvamp]

[moonjellybeans]

"Be careful venturing too deep, darling, things aren't always what they seem in the dark..." I remember reading a note in one of the art books that the eels' body is luminescent since they live in the deep sea and I just...went a little out of control again and my victim is Jade.

This was so HARD, I don't draw underwater things, but I think this turned out really nice <3 I especially had fun adding the speckles to Jade's body.

#artwork #twisted wonderland #disney twst #twst #jade leech #merman #twst jade #I love the eel boys so much #fun fact : I got my 6 year old kiddo into twst #the eels are her favourites too #especially Floyd because she likes his laugh

[prentissology]

more ppl need to talk about gwen’s prom look

#LOOK AT HER #LOOK AT HER!!!!! #the jacket w the pins… #and the BELT #shes so silly i love her #we as a society moved far too fast from this outfit #literally life changing #gwen stacy #across the spiderverse #atsv #spider gwen #spiderverse #wait lmao is this even prom

[lylahammar]

Zorella, the centaur pop queen ✨

Thank you to everyone who helped me by voting on her final design in the poll from last week! I'm so so so happy with how she turned out 🥰

#I imagine her music sounds something like a happy medium between Sza and Ashnikko :3 #but maybe more EDM #her style is very raver girl so it fits #it was pretty funny designing basically a lingerie harness for a horse body LMAO #that was actually what inspired her design #I was thinkin about how it would be cool to try to combine strappy harness-y raver girl fashion with horse tack #I'm deffo gonna draw her more bc I already have so many fashion ideas for her #also I've realized that I rly love doing graffiti designs lol I got carried away with her name #it probs distracts the eye too much in the composition but w/e it was fun 😂 #my art #character design #original character #OC #centaur #OCs #eye strain

[pyuart]

THEY ARE GOING ON AN ADVEN-TOUR YOU GUYS!!!!!

#i adore penny and everything related to her #i was a fan of the theory since the first moment i saw it and im so glad its canon they're such a cute familyyyyy #the eevee/pikachu theme with penny and peonia is so cute too aurghhhhhh and i loved peony in the crown tundra #pokemon #pokemon sv #pokemon scarlet and violet #my art #pokemon swsh #pokemon sword and shield #penny #peony #peonia

[nightthinker-08]

I couldn't sleep so I drew some Pomnies shes surprisingly fun to draw lol Oh and some doomed yuri too I guess xD buttonblossom is cute n all but calling them doomed yuri or digital yuri is a lot funnier to me

#my art #the amazing digital circus #tadc #pomni #ragatha #tadc pomni #tadc ragatha #ragatha x pomni #pomni x ragatha #buttonblossom #jesterdoll #digital yuri #jesterdoll is cute too I wonder why this isnt the main ship name really- #Also headcanon that ragatha is goin to be oblivious af to pom's feelings even tho shes so hopelessly gay lol #Girl has massive low self esteem vibes and would prolly never think anyone would like her that way #like all the soft fics and art of them are cute I love it but lets be real these two would miscommunicate a fuck ton xD #like come on- #Constantly an inch away from a metal break down Pomni #and “how do you manage to stay positive- delusion” Ragatha #its a match made in miscommunication hell baby ;0c