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With Love, König
tags: König x f!reader/f!oc, regency era au, manners, collaring, courting, king!König, reader is mildly insane, König is going to marry you and that's a threat
Summary: Your fiance runs off, your reputation is in ruins, and worst of all König has decided he's going to make you his queen. He doesn't even ask your father's permission to do it.
You receive word that your fiance has left you in the short hours of the morning. It comes in a carefully folded note, with his seal, and his signature. It's cruel, but not unexpected. You'd known for long enough that this was an engagement for nothing but your title. Still, you shed a few tears onto the parchment at the loss of your future, bleak as it might have been. You can rest assured that your parents, and the rest of the social world, have already received the news. You expect they'll start looking for another match for you soon.
The second letter is somehow more surprising. You don't recognize the black wax seal, or the handwriting. You don't know how it slipped past your family without being opened, but it's tucked on the same tray as your fiance's letter and you break the seal with cautious fingers.
"My Heart," it begins, and you frown at the familiarity, "You have bewitched me, body and soul. My every hour is spent with thoughts of you. The memory of your touch is only remedied by my own hand, and even that is not enough. I hope that you will accept this small token of thanks for the dance we shared, and look forward to our next meeting with the same fervor I do."
You look up from the letter to stare at the wall. You narrow your eyes at the wallpaper and do your best to try and think of who the fuck is sending you love letters. Certainly not your ex-fiance, he never did more than send you a note asking you to wear something "more appropriate" for the next party. You look back at the letter. It's a bit stuck at the bottom, likely to keep whatever token it contains in place. You slip your finger carefully under the edge of the fold to open it. A silk ribbon flutters onto your lap as you stare down at the king's signature. "With Love, König" in perfect royal handwriting.
You scramble to ring for your maid, you need to get dresses and you need to speak to your father immediately. Your maid seems to either not know or not care that you are received a letter from a king because she helps you get ready with her usual compliments and coos. Disinterested in the day ahead of you, you always assume. She ties the ribbon behind your ears when you ask her what to do with it. The black clashes, but you don't have time to argue.
König is already in the sitting room with your father when you finally make it downstairs. He stands almost as quickly as you drop into a low curtsy. Your father stands too and you're taken aback by how small he looks next to König. Your father has always been a proud man, a man to be feared as much as respected, but next to König he may as well be a child. You drop your eyes to the floor, proper and polite.
"Gott in himmel," König breathes, and your eyes dart to him. His brows are drawn together, like he's in pain. You can't tell if he's displeased when you can only see half of his face, his mouth obscured by a dark black cloth. You meet his eyes and are quick to avert your gaze, lest the heat in his burns you.
You rise from your curtsy and keep your eyes on the floor. "My lord," you greet, and hear him hum. He's pleased you think.
"My lady," The way he stresses "my" makes you shiver, his lady, "look at me when I speak to you." You're quick to follow his command, the tightness in his tone is intriguing, but you can't see a reason for it when you do look up at him.
Your father attempts to raise issue when König stalks towards you, his voice drowned out by the way the king fills your vision. You barely flinch when he grabs your chin, and turns your head. His skin against yours is unfamiliar and rough, it makes your skin prickle with heat as he sighs.
"You're wearing this wrong, Hummelchen," He tells you, his free hand going to tug at the end of the ribbon around your head. The black silk is tugged loose, falling delicately into König's grip. His thumb teases your lower lip, improper and entirely hidden from your father. "You want to wear this right for me, ja?"
You open your mouth to answer and he pushes his thumb between your lips, presses down against your tongue to hold you open. Your eyes dart in your father's direction, panic rising in your chest. König's eyes crease at the edges, he tips his head to watch your tongue try to work under his grip. You settle for swallowing, your lips closing around his finger as you nod your head. What else can you do in the face of a king?
"Braves Mädchen," He praises sending another prickle of heat over your skin. You feel like all your manners are just being thrown out the window, it's making your head spin. His grip loosens, his thumb sliding out from between your lips to smear the wetness against your hot cheek. Warmth pools between your legs, entirely too familiar, and entirely his fault.
König makes a twirling motion with his finger, and you don't hesitate to turn. You can hear his fingers pulling the length of ribbon between his hands, and you're glad to have your hair off your neck when he loops the ribbon around your throat. You have to tip your chin up, you have the sudden --and startlingly appealing-- thought that he could very easily choke you like this. König's fingers pull the ribbon tight, and you make a quiet noise of... protest? Approval? You make a noise, and it loosens just enough to be comfortable. He's quick to tie a neat bow, the tails of it hanging on either side of your spine. You touch your fingers to the silk. Like a collar.
König's fingers linger on your neck, and you tilt your head to afford him space to touch. Each brush of his skin makes your heart race, this monster of a man is so gentle with you. As if you were some treasure he could hardly afford. He curls over you, one of his hands sliding down your arm. He grips your wrist tight, and raises it to his lips. You turn your head to watch him, his eyes are dark when he catches you staring. His teeth flash dangerously in the light where they scrape against your pulse. Not so gentle then.
"You will accompany me to the next party," He leaves no room for argument in his command, states it like a fact predetermined by God, "We'll announce our engagement there."
"Your what?" You father asks behind König, aghast at the breach in conduct. You hardly notice it, entranced by the way he presses his cheek into your palm.
"Kay," You breathe for him. He's just like one of the heroes from your penny novels, better for being real. You wonder if he's ever killed anyone, he'd look good with a little blood on him.
#cod x reader#x reader#x oc#cod x oc#könig x reader#könig cod#könig mw2#könig call of duty#König x oc#könig x f!reader#f!reader#regency au#king!König#oc: Bee#Bee I'm begging you#just notice one red flag PLEASE#Girl he's going to fucking get you
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stranger things headcanons because i said so part 2 (the kids)
max mayfield
only eats green skittles
billy has told her multiple times that she needs to improve her taste in men
tried to get will to be treasurer of the mike wheeler hate club she founded. he said no
"are you ready to fucking rage?" "max we're only going to the dollar store."
she definitely takes those 6-hour, sweaty, bed-lined naps like everyday
makes those jokes like "why'd you turn the lamp on? to look at men? cause you're gay?" to mike
avid girl in red listener. "i thought you'd swing the other way since..." "WHAT THE FUCK BILLY"
"my bisexual bf and i in our straight passing relationship"
doesn't know how to spell courious,,,,, couiours,,,,, the thing george the monkey is
has zero school spirit. i don't blame her i would hate that school too
this girl LOVES hot wings and will murder everyone if they don't order wings when they get pizza
she got drugged REALLY BAD one year on halloween in cali. like girl was in third grade watching the wallpaper melt while being lectured for staying out late
would totally beat your ass if you went thrifting and found something cooler than her
she would totally get into metal/glam rock for approval from eddie and billy. eddie def took her to metallica's fort wayne concert in '86
i know this gal has a wagon full of ice and water balloons and she skates around hawkins and fucking hurls these water balloons at people she knows
dustin henderson
likes mint chocolate chip ice cream
he tried to learn a cool bike trick when he was in 4th grade and ended up breaking his arm and the bike. he never tried it again
his collection of hats is so dear to him you have no clue
takes care of a fake plant and doesn't know it. steve made robin and eddie vow to not tell him. dustin named it kevin
if he likes you enough absolutely NOTHING will get him to change his opinion on you. you killed a man? that's sick as hell. you beat steve's ass at some point? he needed sense knocked into him. you're cool as hell no matter what.
is a literal SLUT for gummi worms
call him 'casanova' or 'hot shot' and he'll be your best friend. his self-esteem would go through the roof
confuses people with facts and logic
total animal lover. he tried to be vegetarian once and gave up after like three days but its the thought that counts
him and eddie have an elaborate handshake (kind of like his and steve's in s3) and its so out of wack sometimes but always ends perfectly
he has a little photo album he hides in his closet and lucas found it one time and STILL gives him shit for it and blackmails him. "remember what i found in your closet dustin? it'd be a shame if someone were to know about it..." "okay FINE here's $20"
he cries wayyy more often than he wants to admit
he would have a crush on any steve-aged girl that ends up in the group. and when he met suzie he told the steve-aged girl that he was sorry he was off the market
he has so much gaydar its actually baffling.
will byers
he's just.... the sweetest kid on the planet
if you're apart of the lgbtq+ community, he'd be so understanding because he's gay (obvi) and he loves you! so much!
i know this mf would've made eddie postpone hellfire to go to lucas's game and watch him make the winning shot
he gets the most bitches in the party despite being gay. i do not make the rules.
he would be on the track team in high school
brings a camera with him EVERYWHERE and documents everything and makes a photo book for each person in the group
always always always worrying about your well-being especially after any upside down madness
him and max are BEST BUDS and it terrifies the party.
he would spend HOURS on a drawing for you and the meaning will make you cry. "it took a little while... but it's worth it because you mean a lot to me :)" tears ensue. "WILL BYERS YOU MEAN THE UNIVERSE TO ME"
talks to eddie for hours upon hours about lord of the rings/the hobbit. HOURS
always rides shotgun. he totally has the widest taste in music and it actually shocks people sometimes
THE. BEST. HUGGER. let me tell you. if you've been through it and he hugs you? the goddamn waterworks. no doubt about it.
makes mixtapes for everyone in the party. mixes in some prog rock for taste to 'widen their musical knowledge'
he's ticklish. but if you tickle him he's beating you to a pulp
sometimes he's SUCH a little shit and gets away with it so often
lucas sinclair
will made him a friendship bracelet and he hasn't removed it in three years.
he has really weird dreams. like when the party all stay at someone's house they always wake him up early and ask him what he dreamed about.
he likes apple juice and is very ashamed of it
if they ever go to a waterpark, lucas is FORCING mike to get on the biggest slides with him just to see him freak out
can't look at a waffle without thinking of el
threatened to sell mike to the commies once and mike didn't speak to him for a week
when max was in lucas's arms after vecna attacked her he remembered the "do you accept the risk" conversation and he broke.
one time during d&d he missed an attack against a dragon and punched the table so hard he fractured his wrist
when he shot billy in the face with the slingshot he was actually so proud of himself that he looked to see if anyone was watching and then he remembered the situation they were in
would listen the SHIT out of frank ocean.
is the opposite of "no homo" this fucker says "full homo bro" and leans in to kiss dustin lmfaooo
just so confused 24/7
him and will are absolute menaces. like they'll be getting yelled at by steve and they make eye contact with each other and fucking lose it
eleven
lesbian el ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
she loooves watching will do anything art-related
just so curious (i know how to spell curious i was joking earlier) about everything! wants to know everything about everything and will spend hours reading library books about a subject
had will braid her hair when it was long
has girls nights with max, nancy, and robin
learned about the concept of death later than normal and she sometimes says "i'm gonna miss you when you die" to someone in the party and it freaks them out
the party taught her how to ride a bike and now she BEGS them to go on bike rides even when its snowing
collects LOADS of funky socks cause she's a funky little lesbian
love love loves writing letters!! when she lived in lenora she sent soooo many letters to everyone, even steve
after the first time max painted her nails, it became her favorite color over time
keeps candy in her pockets ALL THE TIME just in case someone needs cheering up
remembers specific times and dates like when she got to california, when she met robin officially, and when joyce told her to trust her and that she's safe
gets everyone out of trouble at school because all the teachers love her
loves perfume so much. she's always asking max which ones she likes best so she can try them
mike wheeler
him and nancy fought over who got to name holly
i just KNOW this mf uses axe body spray like deodorant and its probably the reason el breaks up with him (besides the fact he's totally in love with will)
prefers coke over pepsi
eddie always compares mike to a spider and calls him skinny and gross and lanky and it sometimes makes mike sad but eddie truly doesn't mean it
scared of ladybugs
fucker hates pickles
he cried when xxxtentacion died when he really never listened to him before he died. mike even made him his lockscreen he was that devoted to being a fake fan
an asshole towards anyone he isn't friends with. even if someone in the party really likes this person he is NOT giving in
this little fucker needs his mommy to cut the crust off his sandwiches cause he's a BABY. he needs his mommy to tuck him into bed cause he's a BABY.
i know this dude's middle name is anthony or some shit
i know s2 mike would beat the FUCK out of s4 mike
his favorite animals are frogs and lizards cause he reminds me of a lizard
#stranger things volume 2#stranger things#stranger things imagine#stranger things hc#max mayfield#dustin henderson#lucas sinclair#mike wheeler#el hopper#eleven#will byers#max mayfield headcanons#dustin henderson headcanons#lucas sinclair headcanons#will byers headcanons#eleven headcanons#mike wheeler headcanons#stranger things x reader
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AO3 First Lines Tag Game
tagged by @pollyna (thank you so much for tagging me love!!)
Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.
Here we go----
Hangman's Good Plan (complete, Top Gun, icemav, hangster)
Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin never feels nervous. No, negative, not in a million years. So when he stands out of the office of Admiral Kazansky - the COMPACFLT - in his best suit, his forehead sweaty, he regards his crazy heartbeat as…positively wound up, yeah.
2. Icarus (complete, Top Gun, icemav)
Ice has known the story of Icarus since he was eight. He still remembers the day when his father told him the myth in his stern way.
3. The Black cat (complete, Top Gun, icemav)
After they moved in together, Maverick found a little stray black cat in their backyard and immediately decided to adopt it. Ice just rolled his eyes and said he had no interest in fluffy animals, refusing to pet its head when the cat rubbed against his leg.
4. Plans (complete, Top Gun, icemav)
Maverick never makes plans. He bases his judgment entirely on intuition. He didn't plan anything, excited at the randomness and freedom. He is flying both in the sky and on the ground.
5. Where Past and Future are Gathered (WIP, Top Gun, icemav, goosecarole, hangster)
Rooster leans forward on his chair and keeps his eyes firmly ahead.
Cyclone is going on and on about tomorrow’s mission, some shit like patriotism or sacred duty, maybe. He lost concentration a long time ago but still fixes his gaze on the sturdy admiral, even when his mind is blurred by the tedious speech and meaningless lip movement.
6. Then I Open my eyes and see you (WIP, Top Gun, icemav, goosecarole)
“Wallpaper?”Pete Mitchell, endearingly called by his close friends (or friend, honestly, who is walking beside him right now) as “Maverick”, takes the cup of iced black coffee from Nick Bradshow, or “Goose”, co-founder of M+G Design Ltd.
7. 轮廓 (complete, Top Gun, icemav, Chinese)
Iceman非常讨厌派对和聚会，特别是那些需要他和上级们社交的活动——他很不情愿。虽然，他是个年轻的雄心勃勃、前途无量的海军中校，但他还是憎恨这些互动。
8. Moonlight, Sunshine, and Baby you are Mine (WIP, Top Gun, Brooklyn-Nine-Nine, icemav, peraltiago, background goosecarole)
“Room 99, 99…” Pete Mitchell - or, as he prefers, Maverick - walks down the hallway, murmuring to himself, his blue rucksack hanging off one shoulder. He peeks at the door beside him and shakes his head. “Come on, Goose. We are not there yet.”
9. Be my Love in the Rain (complete, Top Gun, icemav, goosecarole)
It was raining outside.
Or, more accurately, it was raining buckets, and the said buckets had the same capacity as the Amazon. Ice glanced at his watch again, surprised that it had only been five minutes since he last checked the time - feeling like a century already. The world was blurred and hazy out of the windshield, all the objects blending together like watercolours.
10. Season of joy, Season of Love (WIP, Lord of the Ring, Faramir/Eowyn)
My dearest Faramir,
Winter is approaching - I can feel it from the chill in the air and the water. This morning I woke up and found my feet freezing. I have to ask Holdwyn to add logs in the fireplace - can you believe it, my dear? I never feared coldness before.
No pressure tag: @abliafina-18782 @derpinathebrave (and anyone who is interested!!! Sorry my brain has abandoned me and I can't even think properly right now...)
#❤️#icemav#iceman x maverick#tom iceman kazansky#pete maverick mitchell#hangster#jake hangman seresin#bradley rooster bradshaw#top gun#top gun 1986#top gun: maverick#tagging game#first lines tagging game
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The Dark Elven
A/N: This fic was started way back in April, I wanted to take part in this year’s CSSNS event on Tumblr. This is my contribution, it had always been my intent to write something inspired by The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit elves. I even made a moodboard/collage when I first started writing, I shared it on my Tumblr back in April.
I was so friggin happy when I learned that I was paired with the talented @piinfeathers, she has made the amazing cover art for me. (In two versions, one dawn/day and one night… the dawn one is going to be my “official” cover as it fits with a scene that comes later on. I have both versions set up side by side on my computer wallpaper, I love them so much.)
This will be multichapter and I have yet to find the ending in this, currently, I have 8 chapters written and we have yet to reach the final “battle”. I will try and spread out my updates so I’ll post one each week, I will do my best to remember to do it each Wednesday. In the next two weeks, you will have to excuse me if I forget as I’m on vacation.
I need to make one more shoutout and that is for my very helpful beta reader @ultraluckycatndltraluckycatnd. Without her, it would be filled with cringy typos and grammar errors.
I hope you will enjoy this as much as I’ve enjoyed the process of writing this, and continue to enjoy it. Let me know in a review what you think of this. Read here or on AO3
Prologue
“Come now, little brother,” Liam urged, pushing away another low-hanging branch.
“It’s younger brother,” Killian grumbled as his foot got tangled in another gnarled root. “Do we even know if the bloody crystal is in the temple; that it is perhaps nothing but a myth? It could be anywhere in this godforsaken place.” He looked at the dense forest around them; they had trekked through this place for hours.
Liam inspected his compass and compared his notes on a small tattered parchment. “We’re almost there.” He pointed ahead of the tiny trail that could hardly be called anything else but thick woodland. Liam chopped off the twisted vines that blocked their passage with his cutlass. Liam was an expert at wielding the weapon and had taught Killian as they worked their way up the ranks on Captain Nemo’s pirate ship. When the old captain had died, Liam had taken up the mantle of Captain on the Jolly Roger.
“I bloody well hope so.” Killian swatted at a mosquito that buzzed around his ears.
“Look.” Liam stopped in his tracks and pointed with his cutlass. “It’s right there brother.”
“So the crystal is in there?” Killian managed to push forward so he stood next to his brother. “This place looks haunted.” The tall, almost pyramid-shaped structure rose above them, intricate symbols lined the walls and around what looked to be the entrance.
“Come now, Killian.” Liam took a step forward, eyes scanning the large open area in front of the lost temple.
Killian followed his brother and they reached the entrance, and Liam checked his map and notes again. Finally, he nodded. “I know how to get in.” He reached out and pressed the Greek letters in the correct order.
Moments later, the large entryway opened up and they could see a dark hallway. Liam found his torch in his backpack and, using a firesteel, the flame caught the oil in the torch.
“Are you sure about this?” Killian looked into the darkness, his skin prickled in fear.
“Come now, brother.” Liam pushed through a layer of cobwebs and lifted the torch as he stepped inside. “Be careful where you step,” he warned as he walked further inside.
Killian glanced over his shoulder, making sure that no one had picked up on their trail. But the forest around them was still, perhaps a bit too quiet. Taking a deep breath, he hurried after his brother. “That bloody crystal better be here.”
“It will be, the charts have yet to fail us,” Liam said as he led them deeper into the ancient Greek temple. The temple that they had spent days locating was in the middle of some deep forest area in Camelot, close to the borders of Misthaven. Misthaven was the land of elves, and who knew if they in fact hadn’t already crossed the borders between the two realms.
Finally, the hallway seemed to open up in front of them, and they stepped out into a cavernous room, the light from the torch never reaching the ceiling.
As they scanned the area ahead of them, they saw a faint flickering of blue light further into the room.
“So this is an old temple of Zeus?” Killian asked, surprised that his voice didn’t echo through the vastness of the room.
“It is.” Liam pointed to the blue light. “I think that is the crystal.”
The two brothers walked carefully over the floor, stepping over several shallow grooves that had been cut out into the floor; it looked like it was filled with something. Killian crouched down. “Hold on brother.” When Liam turned to him he said, “What do you suppose this substance is?” He pointed to the not quite liquid but still not solid mass in the grooves.
“Careful,” Liam warned. He pulled out a small knife and dipped the tip of it into the substance, then he carefully lifted it to his face and sniffed. “Smells like burning oil, and some other things I can’t place.”
Killian grabbed for the torch. “So, indoor lighting.” He moved the flame to the ground and seconds later, the substance caught the flames, and with a fizzling sound, a low burning flame ran through the groove, spreading throughout the room. The brothers watched as the room became more and more alight with the now low burning flames. The grooves all formed an intricate pattern over the floor and moved up towards where they’d seen the blue light. Now they could clearly see a raised platform on top of a wide staircase.
They carefully moved up towards the platform and as they approached the blue light, they could see a long blue crystal resting on top of the platform.
“The Olympian Crystal,” Killian whispered in awe. When they had first heard the tales of the crystal, they had both thought it was nothing but a myth. But then they came across old maps and logbooks that pointed towards a lost Olympian temple.
Liam reached out and let his finger slide over the ridges of the crystal; the pale blue light that emanated from it seemed to shift and change as he touched it.
“Careful brother,” Killian warned, but Liam grabbed the crystal and when nothing happened, they both sighed in relief.
“We did it,” Liam said in wonder, his eyes catching Killian’s, and they both let out a victorious cry. Killian clasped his brother’s shoulder as they looked at the crystal in Liam’s hand.
“That we did,” Killian exclaimed and was amazed that they had managed to find the mythical Olympian Crystal.
“We’ll get the darkness out now,” Liam said and waved the crystal between them, then frowned.
“First we will have to find someone who holds strong light magic,” Killian said in resignation. While it had been a struggle in itself to even locate the crystal, the next path seemed utterly impossible. “Bloody hell.” He tugged at his long hair, which usually fell over his pointed ears, hiding the fact that he and his brother were both part elven.
“Didn’t the seer also mention something of True Love?” Liam asked and gave Killian the crystal so he could store it safely in his satchel.
“Aye.” Killian secured their newly acquired treasure and sighed. “How the bloody hell do we find someone with True Love?”
“The elves are said to be firm believers in True Love.” Liam shrugged, then he rubbed over his own pointed ear hidden under his long dark brown hair. “Even if we do have some elven parts, I’m not trusting that True Love will ever find us.”
“We’re bloody pirates to boot, and our souls are tainted with our father’s darkness, and it’s only getting stronger.” Killian shook his head, not really believing they would ever find True Love. “But we should be able to find someone with light magic, perhaps that will be enough. We’ll run out of time eventually and the darkness will have consumed our souls.” His skin prickled as the simmering darkness shifted inside him; to this day, it was still manageable, and they survived despite the curse they had inherited from their father.
“Let’s start by getting out of this place,” Liam suggested and pointed to the exit. Killian nodded in agreement as the two brothers quickly found their way out and made good headway through the dense undergrowth of the forest.
Suddenly, a crackle was heard behind them and a blast of something dark red whizzed past their heads. When they both turned to look, they saw a menacing green-scaled man chortling while his fingers wiggled in front of him.
“Now Dearies, be some fine gents and give the crystal to me.” The man’s long wavy hair shifted over his face as he tilted his head back and forth. He reached out his hand and wiggled his fingers again.
“Who the bloody hell are you?” Killian asked, trying not to grab for his satchel, thus giving away where they had the crystal. “And how the hell do you know we have a crystal?”
“Ah you see, I couldn’t go into that temple meself, so when I saw you two,” he waved his finger between them, “walk inside, I just waited for you to come out.”
“Who are you?” Liam demanded, stepping forward.
“How delightful, you don’t know me.” The man tapped his chin then chortled again. “Now let me introduce meself then.” He did an overly dramatic bow. “I’m Rumplestiltskin the one and only, and you will do as I say or I’ll have you both skinned like snakes,” he smirked, “and I quite literally am capable of doing just that.” The menacing glint in the man’s beady eyes sent a chill down Killian’s spine; he was sure the man spoke the truth about how he could end their lives. But he wasn’t keen on testing out the theory.
“You’re the Dark One?” Liam gasped and stepped closer to Killian. “You—”
“Never mind what they call me.” He waved his hand dismissively in the air.
“Why would you need a crystal?” Killian asked.
“Killian,” Liam warned. “This is the Dark One—” At this, the green man’s eyes sparkled with delight. “ — He will most likely use the crystal for some devious plan of his.”
“Ah, so you do have a crystal,” the Dark One laughed. “Now give it here.”
Both Killian and Liam stepped back and glanced at each other. Killian saw the same resolution in his brother’s eyes, they would never allow the Dark One near their crystal. With a small nod from Liam, they both dove head first into the thick undergrowth to their left. Killian only hoped that their path would lead them to safety. But right now he focused on dodging low-hanging branches and avoiding getting struck by the magic that the Dark One was currently blasting at them. A howl of anger echoed between the trees, and seconds later they could hear him moving closer to them.
Killian had no idea for how long they stumbled and weaved in between the trees, but suddenly their path was blocked by a deep gorge, and a thundering waterfall to the left had the whole scene covered in a light spray of water.
“Bloody hell, now what?” But before Killian could make a choice, they had another blast of magic wizz by them, barely missing Liam.
They turned and saw the Dark One looming at the edge of the trees, his hands lifted, a sneer over his lips, anger in his eyes. “Now give the crystal to me.”
“We don’t have a crystal,” Killian tried, but he could see his words didn’t mean much.
“Now which one of you carries it?” Rumple tapped his chin, while still holding the other hand ready to blast his magic. His gaze shifted between Killian and Liam, and suddenly his eyes landed on Killian. “The younger perhaps?”
“No,” Liam shifted his own satchel, grabbing it tighter. Killian glanced at his brother, wondering what his game plan was.
The Dark One’s eyes narrowed, then lifted his hand towards Killian and flicked his wrist, and suddenly Killian felt as if he couldn’t breathe. Trying to grab at his own throat, he found Liam’s horrified gaze transfixed on what happened. Liam tried to reach out to Killian but the Dark One sneered. “Give me the crystal and I’ll leave your dear brother alone.”
“I have it here.” Liam took off his satchel and placed it in front of him, his hands raised in the air. “Now let him go.”
Killian could hardly breathe anymore, black spots began to swim before his eyes, the air slowly seeping from his body. Suddenly he could breathe again, and he took large gulps of air. Before he could even comprehend what happened, the Dark One flicked his other hand and blasted a ball of dark red magic aiming straight for Liam. With his heart pounding in his ears, he watched as his brother was hit by the magic and stumbled back several steps. When Liam began slipping on the muddy edge of the cliffside, Killian bellowed, “Nooooo, Liam!” It all happened so fast that he barely managed to take a step forward before his brother slipped over the edge. Killian saw the fear etched in his brother's eyes, and his lips moving in a silent scream. Killian slumped to his knees, watching his brother tumble to his death, engulfed in the whirling vortex beneath the roaring waterfall.
“Ah, one down,” the Dark One chortled and when Killian looked behind him, he could see the man getting ready to blast his magic again.
In one fluent motion, Killian rose to his feet and bellowed, “I will avenge my brother’s death, you bloody wanker.”
“Now just give me the crystal and I’ll be on my merry way.” The Dark One waved his fingers at him, pointing at Killian’s satchel. “I bet it’s right in there.”
Killian was frantically searching for a way out of there, but he also had to keep an eye out for any movement the mad man did.
Before the Dark One said another word they heard the flapping of wings; it sounded like a large bird approaching. When both men turned to look towards the sound, Killian could see a large creature emerge from the mists hanging over the waterfall. As it got closer it looked more and more like, “A flying monkey?”
“What the hell is she doing here?” The anger in the man’s voice made it clear that whoever was flying on the beast, it wasn’t someone the Dark One had invited.
Killian didn’t really care; he took a chance and slipped down a narrow path he’d spotted that would take him downriver, leading away from the waterfall. He only hoped that the Dark One had been distracted enough for him to be able to slide down the path without being chased. Just as he made a sharp turn, he picked up broken pieces of the conversation happening above him.
“What? You don’t have the crystal…” It was a female voice that spoke at a high-pitched tone, sounding exasperated.
“You were not supposed to be here…”
“Oh but I’m here, and I guess I’ll have to find it myself…”
“That crystal is mine to find… mark me I’ll find it.”
“Whatever…”
Killian slipped down the path, his pants most likely in ruins, but he had to get the hell out of here and hopefully reach the Jolly Roger before the Dark One picked up his trail. When he finally reached the more level parts of the path that followed the brink of the river, he began searching for any signs of his brother. But his search was fruitless, and he knew he had at least another day's travel before he reached the sea. So he pushed forward and barely stopped to eat, only to fill up his waterskin whenever he crossed a smaller stream of water.
Early morning, he reached the shore and signaled for the crew to sail in with the longboat to pick him up. Minutes later he watched as the crew rowed the longboat to shore. Once they realized that only one Jones brother had returned, the group of men grew solemn, and with no words shared they returned to the Jolly Roger. It wasn’t a difficult decision to make; when Killian climbed on board the ship, he took over his brother’s role as captain of the enchanted ship the Jolly Roger. For the next many years, he would travel the realms and to his crew’s surprise, he never seemed to age. He often excused it with their many travels to Neverland, a hellhole in all the realms, but he did make a few lucrative deals with the devil ruling the island. Deals often included him spending more time than his crew on the island.
The years passed and each time anything regarding magic happened around him, he would flee and make haste to set sails. He knew the Dark One would be looking for him, and searched the realms for the crystal that he still had in his possession. None of his crew knew of the crystal, all they had been told was that the brothers had searched for something. When he returned he’d claimed the mission to be a failure, only gaining an enemy in the Dark One.
Killian searched the realms they sailed through for anyone with light magic; it had only been an endless string of failures every time he came across someone wielding magic, though. As such, he spent years struggling with the looming darkness shifting around in his soul. It messed with his mind, making him do and speak things that he would never have done on his own accord. The darkness ruled his life and knowing none with light magic, he ended up not believing him to ever be free of the darkness. At his darkest moments, he cursed his father’s elven magic that had caused the darkness to seep into him and his brother. But this was his life, he was a pirate and a bloody good one too; perhaps the darkness did help in this regard, yet he never felt as if this was the life he wanted to live. What more was there to find in life?
The Dark Elven
A/N: This fic was started way back in April, I wanted to take part in this year’s CSSNS event on Tumblr. This is my contribution, it had always been my intent to write something inspired by The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit elves. I even made a moodboard/collage when I first started writing, I shared it on my Tumblr back in April.
I was so friggin happy when I learned that I was paired with the talented piinfeathers, she has made the amazing cover art for me. (In two versions, one dawn/day and one night… the dawn one is going to be my “official” cover as it fits with a scene that comes later on. I have both versions set up side by side on my computer wallpaper, I love them so much.)
This will be multichapter and I have yet to find the ending in this, currently, I have 8 chapters written and we have yet to reach the final “battle”. I will try and spread out my updates so I’ll post one each week, I will do my best to remember to do it each Wednesday. In the next two weeks, you will have to excuse me if I forget as I’m on vacation.
I need to make one more shoutout and that is for my very helpful beta reader Ultraluckycatnd. Without her, it would be filled with cringy typos and grammar errors.
I hope you will enjoy this as much as I’ve enjoyed the process of writing this, and continue to enjoy it. Let me know in a review what you think of this.
Prologue
“Come now, little brother,” Liam urged, pushing away another low-hanging branch.
“It’s younger brother,” Killian grumbled as his foot got tangled in another gnarled root. “Do we even know if the bloody crystal is in the temple; that it is perhaps nothing but a myth? It could be anywhere in this godforsaken place.” He looked at the dense forest around them; they had trekked through this place for hours.
Liam inspected his compass and compared his notes on a small tattered parchment. “We’re almost there.” He pointed ahead of the tiny trail that could hardly be called anything else but thick woodland. Liam chopped off the twisted vines that blocked their passage with his cutlass. Liam was an expert at wielding the weapon and had taught Killian as they worked their way up the ranks on Captain Nemo’s pirate ship. When the old captain had died, Liam had taken up the mantle of Captain on the Jolly Roger.
“I bloody well hope so.” Killian swatted at a mosquito that buzzed around his ears.
“Look.” Liam stopped in his tracks and pointed with his cutlass. “It’s right there brother.”
“So the crystal is in there?” Killian managed to push forward so he stood next to his brother. “This place looks haunted.” The tall, almost pyramid-shaped structure rose above them, intricate symbols lined the walls and around what looked to be the entrance.
“Come now, Killian.” Liam took a step forward, eyes scanning the large open area in front of the lost temple.
Killian followed his brother and they reached the entrance, and Liam checked his map and notes again. Finally, he nodded. “I know how to get in.” He reached out and pressed the Greek letters in the correct order.
Moments later, the large entryway opened up and they could see a dark hallway. Liam found his torch in his backpack and, using a firesteel, the flame caught the oil in the torch.
“Are you sure about this?” Killian looked into the darkness, his skin prickled in fear.
“Come now, brother.” Liam pushed through a layer of cobwebs and lifted the torch as he stepped inside. “Be careful where you step,” he warned as he walked further inside.
Killian glanced over his shoulder, making sure that no one had picked up on their trail. But the forest around them was still, perhaps a bit too quiet. Taking a deep breath, he hurried after his brother. “That bloody crystal better be here.”
“It will be, the charts have yet to fail us,” Liam said as he led them deeper into the ancient Greek temple. The temple that they had spent days locating was in the middle of some deep forest area in Camelot, close to the borders of Misthaven. Misthaven was the land of elves, and who knew if they in fact hadn’t already crossed the borders between the two realms.
Finally, the hallway seemed to open up in front of them, and they stepped out into a cavernous room, the light from the torch never reaching the ceiling.
As they scanned the area ahead of them, they saw a faint flickering of blue light further into the room.
“So this is an old temple of Zeus?” Killian asked, surprised that his voice didn’t echo through the vastness of the room.
“It is.” Liam pointed to the blue light. “I think that is the crystal.”
The two brothers walked carefully over the floor, stepping over several shallow grooves that had been cut out into the floor; it looked like it was filled with something. Killian crouched down. “Hold on brother.” When Liam turned to him he said, “What do you suppose this substance is?” He pointed to the not quite liquid but still not solid mass in the grooves.
“Careful,” Liam warned. He pulled out a small knife and dipped the tip of it into the substance, then he carefully lifted it to his face and sniffed. “Smells like burning oil, and some other things I can’t place.”
Killian grabbed for the torch. “So, indoor lighting.” He moved the flame to the ground and seconds later, the substance caught the flames, and with a fizzling sound, a low burning flame ran through the groove, spreading throughout the room. The brothers watched as the room became more and more alight with the now low burning flames. The grooves all formed an intricate pattern over the floor and moved up towards where they’d seen the blue light. Now they could clearly see a raised platform on top of a wide staircase.
They carefully moved up towards the platform and as they approached the blue light, they could see a long blue crystal resting on top of the platform.
“The Olympian Crystal,” Killian whispered in awe. When they had first heard the tales of the crystal, they had both thought it was nothing but a myth. But then they came across old maps and logbooks that pointed towards a lost Olympian temple.
Liam reached out and let his finger slide over the ridges of the crystal; the pale blue light that emanated from it seemed to shift and change as he touched it.
“Careful brother,” Killian warned, but Liam grabbed the crystal and when nothing happened, they both sighed in relief.
“We did it,” Liam said in wonder, his eyes catching Killian’s, and they both let out a victorious cry. Killian clasped his brother’s shoulder as they looked at the crystal in Liam’s hand.
“That we did,” Killian exclaimed and was amazed that they had managed to find the mythical Olympian Crystal.
“We’ll get the darkness out now,” Liam said and waved the crystal between them, then frowned.
“First we will have to find someone who holds strong light magic,” Killian said in resignation. While it had been a struggle in itself to even locate the crystal, the next path seemed utterly impossible. “Bloody hell.” He tugged at his long hair, which usually fell over his pointed ears, hiding the fact that he and his brother were both part elven.
“Didn’t the seer also mention something of True Love?” Liam asked and gave Killian the crystal so he could store it safely in his satchel.
“Aye.” Killian secured their newly acquired treasure and sighed. “How the bloody hell do we find someone with True Love?”
“The elves are said to be firm believers in True Love.” Liam shrugged, then he rubbed over his own pointed ear hidden under his long dark brown hair. “Even if we do have some elven parts, I’m not trusting that True Love will ever find us.”
“We’re bloody pirates to boot, and our souls are tainted with our father’s darkness, and it’s only getting stronger.” Killian shook his head, not really believing they would ever find True Love. “But we should be able to find someone with light magic, perhaps that will be enough. We’ll run out of time eventually and the darkness will have consumed our souls.” His skin prickled as the simmering darkness shifted inside him; to this day, it was still manageable, and they survived despite the curse they had inherited from their father.
“Let’s start by getting out of this place,” Liam suggested and pointed to the exit. Killian nodded in agreement as the two brothers quickly found their way out and made good headway through the dense undergrowth of the forest.
Suddenly, a crackle was heard behind them and a blast of something dark red whizzed past their heads. When they both turned to look, they saw a menacing green-scaled man chortling while his fingers wiggled in front of him.
“Now Dearies, be some fine gents and give the crystal to me.” The man’s long wavy hair shifted over his face as he tilted his head back and forth. He reached out his hand and wiggled his fingers again.
“Who the bloody hell are you?” Killian asked, trying not to grab for his satchel, thus giving away where they had the crystal. “And how the hell do you know we have a crystal?”
“Ah you see, I couldn’t go into that temple meself, so when I saw you two,” he waved his finger between them, “walk inside, I just waited for you to come out.”
“Who are you?” Liam demanded, stepping forward.
“How delightful, you don’t know me.” The man tapped his chin then chortled again. “Now let me introduce meself then.” He did an overly dramatic bow. “I’m Rumplestiltskin the one and only, and you will do as I say or I’ll have you both skinned like snakes,” he smirked, “and I quite literally am capable of doing just that.” The menacing glint in the man’s beady eyes sent a chill down Killian’s spine; he was sure the man spoke the truth about how he could end their lives. But he wasn’t keen on testing out the theory.
“You’re the Dark One?” Liam gasped and stepped closer to Killian. “You—”
“Never mind what they call me.” He waved his hand dismissively in the air.
“Why would you need a crystal?” Killian asked.
“Killian,” Liam warned. “This is the Dark One—” At this, the green man’s eyes sparkled with delight. “ — He will most likely use the crystal for some devious plan of his.”
“Ah, so you do have a crystal,” the Dark One laughed. “Now give it here.”
Both Killian and Liam stepped back and glanced at each other. Killian saw the same resolution in his brother’s eyes, they would never allow the Dark One near their crystal. With a small nod from Liam, they both dove head first into the thick undergrowth to their left. Killian only hoped that their path would lead them to safety. But right now he focused on dodging low-hanging branches and avoiding getting struck by the magic that the Dark One was currently blasting at them. A howl of anger echoed between the trees, and seconds later they could hear him moving closer to them.
Killian had no idea for how long they stumbled and weaved in between the trees, but suddenly their path was blocked by a deep gorge, and a thundering waterfall to the left had the whole scene covered in a light spray of water.
“Bloody hell, now what?” But before Killian could make a choice, they had another blast of magic wizz by them, barely missing Liam.
They turned and saw the Dark One looming at the edge of the trees, his hands lifted, a sneer over his lips, anger in his eyes. “Now give the crystal to me.”
“We don’t have a crystal,” Killian tried, but he could see his words didn’t mean much.
“Now which one of you carries it?” Rumple tapped his chin, while still holding the other hand ready to blast his magic. His gaze shifted between Killian and Liam, and suddenly his eyes landed on Killian. “The younger perhaps?”
“No,” Liam shifted his own satchel, grabbing it tighter. Killian glanced at his brother, wondering what his game plan was.
The Dark One’s eyes narrowed, then lifted his hand towards Killian and flicked his wrist, and suddenly Killian felt as if he couldn’t breathe. Trying to grab at his own throat, he found Liam’s horrified gaze transfixed on what happened. Liam tried to reach out to Killian but the Dark One sneered. “Give me the crystal and I’ll leave your dear brother alone.”
“I have it here.” Liam took off his satchel and placed it in front of him, his hands raised in the air. “Now let him go.”
Killian could hardly breathe anymore, black spots began to swim before his eyes, the air slowly seeping from his body. Suddenly he could breathe again, and he took large gulps of air. Before he could even comprehend what happened, the Dark One flicked his other hand and blasted a ball of dark red magic aiming straight for Liam. With his heart pounding in his ears, he watched as his brother was hit by the magic and stumbled back several steps. When Liam began slipping on the muddy edge of the cliffside, Killian bellowed, “Nooooo, Liam!” It all happened so fast that he barely managed to take a step forward before his brother slipped over the edge. Killian saw the fear etched in his brother's eyes, and his lips moving in a silent scream. Killian slumped to his knees, watching his brother tumble to his death, engulfed in the whirling vortex beneath the roaring waterfall.
“Ah, one down,” the Dark One chortled and when Killian looked behind him, he could see the man getting ready to blast his magic again.
In one fluent motion, Killian rose to his feet and bellowed, “I will avenge my brother’s death, you bloody wanker.”
“Now just give me the crystal and I’ll be on my merry way.” The Dark One waved his fingers at him, pointing at Killian’s satchel. “I bet it’s right in there.”
Killian was frantically searching for a way out of there, but he also had to keep an eye out for any movement the mad man did.
Before the Dark One said another word they heard the flapping of wings; it sounded like a large bird approaching. When both men turned to look towards the sound, Killian could see a large creature emerge from the mists hanging over the waterfall. As it got closer it looked more and more like, “A flying monkey?”
“What the hell is she doing here?” The anger in the man’s voice made it clear that whoever was flying on the beast, it wasn’t someone the Dark One had invited.
Killian didn’t really care; he took a chance and slipped down a narrow path he’d spotted that would take him downriver, leading away from the waterfall. He only hoped that the Dark One had been distracted enough for him to be able to slide down the path without being chased. Just as he made a sharp turn, he picked up broken pieces of the conversation happening above him.
“What? You don’t have the crystal…” It was a female voice that spoke at a high-pitched tone, sounding exasperated.
“You were not supposed to be here…”
“Oh but I’m here, and I guess I’ll have to find it myself…”
“That crystal is mine to find… mark me I’ll find it.”
“Whatever…”
Killian slipped down the path, his pants most likely in ruins, but he had to get the hell out of here and hopefully reach the Jolly Roger before the Dark One picked up his trail. When he finally reached the more level parts of the path that followed the brink of the river, he began searching for any signs of his brother. But his search was fruitless, and he knew he had at least another day's travel before he reached the sea. So he pushed forward and barely stopped to eat, only to fill up his waterskin whenever he crossed a smaller stream of water.
Early morning, he reached the shore and signaled for the crew to sail in with the longboat to pick him up. Minutes later he watched as the crew rowed the longboat to shore. Once they realized that only one Jones brother had returned, the group of men grew solemn, and with no words shared they returned to the Jolly Roger. It wasn’t a difficult decision to make; when Killian climbed on board the ship, he took over his brother’s role as captain of the enchanted ship the Jolly Roger. For the next many years, he would travel the realms and to his crew’s surprise, he never seemed to age. He often excused it with their many travels to Neverland, a hellhole in all the realms, but he did make a few lucrative deals with the devil ruling the island. Deals often included him spending more time than his crew on the island.
The years passed and each time anything regarding magic happened around him, he would flee and make haste to set sails. He knew the Dark One would be looking for him, and searched the realms for the crystal that he still had in his possession. None of his crew knew of the crystal, all they had been told was that the brothers had searched for something. When he returned he’d claimed the mission to be a failure, only gaining an enemy in the Dark One.
Killian searched the realms they sailed through for anyone with light magic; it had only been an endless string of failures every time he came across someone wielding magic, though. As such, he spent years struggling with the looming darkness shifting around in his soul. It messed with his mind, making him do and speak things that he would never have done on his own accord. The darkness ruled his life and knowing none with light magic, he ended up not believing him to ever be free of the darkness. At his darkest moments, he cursed his father’s elven magic that had caused the darkness to seep into him and his brother. But this was his life, he was a pirate and a bloody good one too; perhaps the darkness did help in this regard, yet he never felt as if this was the life he wanted to live. What more was there to find in life?
#cssns 2022#ouat#fanfiction#once upon a time#captain swan#killian jones#emma swan#my writing#writers#writers on tumblr#elves#inspired by tolkien#cssns22
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I’m curious how everyone’s year was so please tell me what you favourite ----- from this year was! Answer as many or as few as you want! (Feel free to send this to other people and change it if you want)
Favourite Movie/Show you watched:
Favourite Album you listened to:
Favourite thing you learned:
Favourite book/comic:
Favourite project you completed:
Best impulse purchase?
Funniest joke you heard?
Strangest building you went in?
New food you discovered?
Most memorable conversation?
Prettiest sunset?
Favourite new outfit?
What are you proud of this year?
Favourite Memory from this year:
Anything you would change?
Anything you’re looking forwards to in the new year?
~Gumi
Thank you for the ask! I have been perceived and it’s crazy.
Favorite Movie/Show (from 2023): Nimona.
Favorite Album: Unreal Unearth I suppose. I don’t listen to that much music.
Favorite thing I learned: Jack Kirby was an unbelievably cool person.
Favorite book/comic: Lord of the Rings & the silmarillion. Also Tales of Suspense #81 from 1950 something. It’s just so silly and I think about it every day.
Favorite project: either the EXU Calamity embroidery or a school project that I will not explain here for anonymity’s sake.
Best impulse purchase: A physical copy of the 2022 Spiderpunk comic.
Funniest Joke: uhhhh. Hbomberguy’s “You know all of my tricks, the student becomes the master” right before pulling down a physical thing of wallpaper and screaming.
Strangest building: planetarium dome.
Most memorable conversation: many conversations about the silmarillion with many interesting people! Honorable mention to every time that I talked with someone about my ocs.
Prettiest sunset: at field hockey practice at the end of a long afternoon
New outfit: Too Fancy Denim Jacket
Favorite memory: Laughing about Spy Kids between shows at the planetarium
What I’m looking forward to: I will be traveling several hours north into the literal woods in the hopes of seeing a total solar eclipse. That region has an 80% chance of cloud cover on that date of the year. It’s a fool’s endeavor and you cannot stop me.
#asks#by me#thank you to the like twenty people that follow me#you are all appreciated#happy new year!
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Tagged by @pumpking64, thanks!
Share your wallpaper: I’ve never bothered swapping out the generic “abstract blue-green paint smear” image that came with my phone, but if I did it would probably be to one of my best kitten photos, aka The Scrungly Little Beast
(also the icon for my @triscribeaucollection sideblog)
The last song you listened to: Rooftop, by Nick Santos
Currently reading: Working my way through every Sea Beast fan fic on AO3 that catches my eye
Last Movie: The Sea Beast, on Netflix
Craving: Chocolate cake, but I shouldn’t have that for breakfast
What are you wearing right now: Soft green nightshirt, green lounge shorts I pulled on when I first got up
How tall are you: Five feet, three and three quarters inches, or ~162 centimeters for my metric system friends. Why do I specify the three quarters? Because my mom is five foot four inches, and I have been stuck at a smidge shorter than her for years. But my day will come. Maybe not this decade, maybe not the next, but sooner or later she WILL begin to shrink, and then *I* will be the one who is a quarter inch taller! Muahahaha!
...ahem. Moving on...
Piercings: None
Tattoos: Nope
Glasses? Contacts?: Negative on both
Last drink: Sweetened Peach Sparkling Water. My local grocery store sells their own brand in various flavors, eighty cents for a liter bottle. Healthier than soda, at the very least
Last show: Hogan’s Heroes - we have all six seasons on DVD, and they’re good comfort content when there isn’t anything good to watch on television
(”Colonel Hogan, I must know what is going on here!”
“Schultz, if I tell you, you could become a tremendous hero-”
“Or?”
“-shot.”
“...I hear nothing, I see nothing, I Know NO-THING!”)
Lasting thing you ate: Piece of fried chicken for dinner
Favorite color: Turquoise! Because I was the doofus as a kid who couldn’t ever pick between blue and green, so I compromised and went with both at once x’D
Current obsession: Father & son feels between Captain Crow and Jacob Holland from the Sea Beast movie
Unrelated obsession: Master & padawan feels between Tajin Crosser and Dan G’vash from the Elder episode of Star Wars Visions. Totally unrelated. Right.
Any pets: YES. So Many Pets. We’re actually at a low point right now, with only two dogs, two rabbits, seven chickens in the bathroom, and twenty eight cats of various ages (which will go down as soon as we start adopting out the eleven most recent kittens)
Do you have a crush on anyone: ...maybe.
Favorite fictional character: My own? Crant the Wolfen. Somebody else’s? Hmm... Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars), Peter Parker (Marvel), Cassandra Cain (DC), Will Treaty (Ranger’s Apprentice), Tiffany Aching (Discworld), Aizawa Shouta (bnha), Eowyn (Lord of the Rings), Bumblebee (Transformers), Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones), etc etc...
The last place you traveled: Florida, visiting my dad for my birthday a couple months ago
Thanks again! Tagging: @153-centimeters-of-sass @blackbeltkitten2 @catboy-pentheus @kaiseaya and as always anybody else who’d like to snag a spot ;)
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Introduction:
Hi everybody!
I'm gonna give you a short introduction of myself before I start.
I started designing wallpapers for my phone and then I made some bookmarks for my favorite books. My best friend encouraged me to post them on Pinterest and that's how BBRR came to life.
I decided to make a page on Tumblr and post my designs on both platforms.
One thing you might want to know: you can always tell me in the notes if you had a specific quote or anything in your mind and I will try to make a wallpaper or a bookmark (whatever you choose) for it.
Other things you might want to know about me (without any particular order):
I'm a swiftie
I'm a book lover
My favorite genre is fantasy with a bit of romance
I'm a Grishaverse fan (including The Grisha Trilogy, the Six of crows doulogy and King Of Scars)
A Blood and Ash fan
A Flesh And Fire fan
A Shatter Me fan
A Narnia fan
A The Selection fan
A Howl's Moving Castle fan
A Star Wars fan
And a Marvel fan
Kind of a DC fan
A The Witcher fan
A The Folk Of The Air fan
An ACOTAR fan
A Caraval fan
A Fourth Wing fan
A Lord of the Rings fan
A Potterhead
I'm a Poppy freak (like a REAL freak cause I LOVE this flower!)
I hope we have a wonderful time together ;)
Have a nice day <333
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Highly recommend this writing exercise for anyone with original characters: Come up with the contents of their bag. An author visited my workplace recently and this was her tip, so I gave it a shot. It really helps with writer's block, and it helps you get to know your lil' guys a little bit. (I also added phones because that is another great glimpse into the person.)
Sam
The bag: A square, black backpack with a Lord of the Rings keychain and a space needle pin on it. The straps are a little frayed because she has been using it since high school. It’s very practical and spacious.
Inside the bag
Emotional support water bottle
Laptop (covered in various stickers)
A pile of discarded/forgotten elastic headbands
Notebook filled with DM scrawlings
At least one book at all times
Wallet with keys attached
Phone: iPhone (a couple generations old) from high school, cracked screen, yellowed clear phone case with a couple stickers stuck inside. Both the home screen and lock screen wallpaper are the Eye of Sauron.
Link
The bag: A generic gray backpack with an Adventure Zone lanyard with keys and his wallet clipped onto the outside in a little card holder.
Inside the bag
Work laptop (it’s sort of a brick, old and thick, but it runs numbers well)
Switch (in case he gets bored at work)
Personal laptop
Creased up old comic book
Glasses case w/ wipe
A bottle of coke that he’s been working on for a week
Phone: An older iPhone in an opaque red phone case with black D20 phone grip. His home screen wallpaper is a picture of him and his dad at his sister’s quinceañera, and the lock screen is a picture of his dad’s EMS dog Mariposa.
Aria
The bag: A very big tote bag (pink).
Inside the bag
Collapsible wireless headphones (pink)
Nail kit for emergencies (including file, clippers, clear polish, etc.) (pink)
Hairbrush (pink)
Tinted sunscreen (pink, somehow)
Cat shaped wallet (pink)
An unacceptably heavy chemistry textbook (not pink)
Phone: The newest iPhone (she saved up for it) in a (pink) sparkly case. Her lock screen is a picture of the best smoothie she ever had in her life and her home screen is a selfie of her and Sam on a hike.
Chris
The bag: An army green satchel bag absolutely covered in pins and buttons (including, but not limited to, a Green Day button, a pan flag button, a trans flag button, one that says, “Screw you I’m hilarious,” and various other ones with cheeky little phrases).
Inside the bag
A journal stuffed full of receipts and scribbles that they use to keep track of store inventory and purchases. (They log everything into a computer too, but they like having a physical copy on them in case their internet or computer poops out.)
Folgers instant coffee (travel sized packets)
Pocket knife
An absolutely fat ring of keys on a Dark Crystal lanyard
Big sunglasses (stolen from their mom when they moved out halfway through high school)
A leather pouch with a clasp instead of a wallet (filled with loose cash, change, and one card)
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Favorite books?
Hmmm… that’s tough, I love a lot of books. I’m an old lady, I prefer classic literature, or historical fiction… horror fiction…. I guess if I had to narrow it down I would say:
--“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. Probably my all time favorite. I really resonated with the “savage” in this novel. Now more than ever…
--“Interview with the Vampire” by Anne Rice, actually pretty much all the vampire chronicles. The vampire Lestat, queen of the damned, blood and gold, the vampire Armand, pandora… tale of the body thief…
—“Frankenstein: the modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley, I just think it’s a powerful piece of literature. Beautifully written.
—“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë, the darkest love story of all time.
—“A Spy in the house of love” by Anais Nin, I love most of Anais’ work, her diaries… delta Venus…
—“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, i know it seems pretentious and cliché—but I love virtually everything he writes. Always wished my birthday was the 24th instead of the 23rd so I could share it with him and Jim Henson😭. “The beautiful and the damned” “flappers and philosophers”… “this side of paradise”… all good.
—“Save me the Waltz” by Zelda Fitzgerald. I always thought her life was very tragic, and since she inspired so much of Scott’s work—naturally I found her a source of fascination as well.
—“the turn of the screw” by Henry James
— “the stranger” by Albert Camus
—“the bell jar” by Sylvia Plath with always hold a special place in my teenage heart.
—“the catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger. I love most of his stuff as well, I really feel Holden Caulfield. He knows what’s up.
—“Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert
—“the Venus in Furs” by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
—“I Capture The Castle” by Dodie Smith (1948)
—“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
—“Dracula” by Bram Stoker (1897) classic! Read it so many times.
Harry Potter and lord of the rings I’ve read countless times.
-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860), I gotta admit… I love me some Charles Dickens. This one is particularly special.
—Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
I always loved treasure island, and the Swiss family Robinson when I was a kid.
Lord of the flies has always stuck with me.
—“Slaughterhouse 5” by Kurt Vonnegut
I liked the lovely bones… flowers in the attic… I enjoyed chuck palahniuk back in the day.
Oh! I love “The Giver” by Lois Lowry.
A clockwork orange…
I love Stephen King. Pet Semetary is my favorite though.
I love “tuck everlasting” and “bridge to teribithia”.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) is an all time fav. Love the Alfred Hitchcock movie as well.
Silence of the lambs…American psycho…. Hell House by Richard Matheson (1971),
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002), can I just say—Neil Gaiman must be the most prolific writer of modern times. I love so much of his stuff. I met him once in person, he’s a sweet man.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde—one of the best pieces of fiction ever written. I also love how cheeky Oscar Wilde was in general. Also a libra (my team!).
“The Yellow Wallpaper”, Short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Brilliant feminist piece of literature/social commentary on feminine “hysteria”.
“Go Ask Alice” by Beatrice Sparks.
“I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” by Joanne Greenberg
“Girl interrupted” Susanna Kaysen
“Fear and loathing in Las Vegas”, Hunter S. Thompson. I love reading his stuff, he cracks me up.
Too many to name, but there ya go!
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The last song you listened to: Bury the Light - Casey Edwards & Victor Borba
Currently reading: The Lord of the Rings. I'm also rereading one of my favourite fanfics, The Last Days of Melanie's Life, a Devil May Cry 5 fic set after the end of the game, where Vergil & Nero decide to discover what happened to Nero's mother.
Last Movie: Treasure Planet
Craving: Sleep
What are you wearing right now? Leggins + T-shirt + sweatshirt
How tall are you: 173 cm
Piercings: None
Tattoos: one ( a gift for my 18th birthday)
Glasses? Contacts? Neither
Last drink: white wine
Last show: Murdoch Mysteries
Last thing you ate: olive bread
Favorite color: Green
Current obsession: Pathfinder Kingmaker
Unrelated obsession: Now? I'm learning to sew!
Any pets: Three cats 😸😸😸
Do you have a crush on anyone? No.
Favorite fictional character:Kreia from Knights of the Old Republic 2. I adore her, she's the best fictional character ever written in a videogame, imo
The last place you traveled: Trieste. I hope to visit it again this summer
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So, I was tagged by @mxkelsifer for a fun little tag game! Y'all know the rules. If you see it and you want to play, go wild!
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I actually alternate between these two, depending on the vibe. Both sad places with sad stories behind them, but very pretty to look at and vibe to.
The last song you listened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMQeYF_xOxE Looked it up to send to someone, forgot how much it slaps and had to listen to the whole thing.
Currently reading: Re-reading "The Body Keeps the Score" because March is a, let's say less than pleasant month for me and remembering that trauma does leave a mark and how to handle it is helpful to remember.
Last Movie: I honestly can't remember. Probably Lord of the Rings or something?
Craving: A $5 Hot & Ready pizza and I don't know why.
What are you wearing right now? Pajamas. Floral pj pants paired with a random shirt I grabbed out of the laundry instead of the shirt that came with the pants.
How tall are you: Too tall to wear heels and not look awkward in them.
Piercings: Hard to have piercings when your body is allergic to most metals.
Tattoos: One. A phoenix on my back.
Glasses? Contacts? Glasses all the way.
Last drink: Water
Last show: I sat and watched a little Recess on Disney Plus with my younger brother for a bit, if that counts. I don't really watch tv or movies. Not out of any pretentious reasoning or anything. I'm just very tired all the time.
Last thing you ate: Chicken and rice with some leftover carrot cake for dessert.
Favorite color: The dark dramatic ones, preferably in jewel tones.
Current obsession: Right this moment? Sleep. Otherwise just writing for giggles.
Unrelated obsession: My monster slippers for being super plush, nonslip, and whimsical. Everyone should have good monster slippers.
Any pets: 1 cat, Miss Daisy. And she's the best cat.
Do you have a crush on anyone? Not really? It takes a *lot* for me to find someone attractive to the point where I'd crush on them, which probably puts me firmly in the aromantic category.
Favorite fictional character: Sotha Sil, Lahabrea, and I really do have a type of silver haired, possibly ancient, people who are depressed/emotionally constipated and are the inventive type.
The last place you traveled: For fun? Buddy, I don't remember that far back, since it was definitely in the pre-pandemic times. Otherwise, work. Which is depressing.
Like Kels, I threw a blank copy under the cut for those who feel like playing along.
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Aaiiight! Time for my Rings of Power gigantic post. It’s been IONS since I’ve written one so here we go. Warning: IT’S LONG!
Okay, where do I begin.
It’s somewhere around October 2001, I’m this tiny 10 year old middle school kid and I see a giant poster of a movie coming up in front of our local cinema. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. I don’t even know what it’s about. But something about this poster just PULLED me in and made me FEEL something. It’s the giant promo poster with the Argonath and above them with giant letters “The legend comes to life”.
December comes in and I’m BEGGING my parents to let me see this movie, I don’t even care about x-mas presents, just let me have some ticket money and let me see it with my friends. My first “solo” cinema trip without my parents. And they did.
It’s one of those cinema experiences where it changes your life forever. I still remember it like it happened yesterday.
Fast forward the beginning of 2002, my dad finally caves in and gets me and my big brother access to the internet for the first time. Dial up of course. Good old early 2000′s. And where do I and my big bro first go web searching? The official movie site to download some wallpapers, screensavers and icons. You can’t imagine the excitement!
And then we find the forums. Whoa, now I wanna to read what other people from around the world say about it.
At that time, my english was basically at “self taught” level from movies, games and music. Luckily my big brother was there to fill in the gaps that I was missing.
You can’t imagine the whiplash shock that I had when we found comments about people not liking Fellowship of the Rings at all. I ask my brother “Why are they not liking it?? “Wow Frodo is a misscast” ‘Nothing like the books at all” “No Tom Bombadil??”, “Why is Arwen the one saving Frodo that’s not in the book”
“This is not LIKE THE BOOKS” “THIS IS NOT TOLKIEN”
The books. Do we need to read the books for this? Are we missing something? Everyone we knew had a perfect time with the moves and this was something completely new that we were reading about which was confusing.
My brother decides to look for the books to read them. I choose not to. I wanna experience the rest of the trilogy now just I started out. Completely unaware of the books.
And what an experience it was. THE MUSIC! The entire cast of actors!! GASPED when Gandalf shows up in Fangorn forest, cried like a baby with Haldir died, cheered as hell when Gandalf saves the day at Helm’s Deep, cried AGAIN at Sam’s speech...and was gross sobbing at “You bow to no one”...the entire cinema was sobbing.
Were all the people in the cinema books readers? Doubt it. Did it even matter? Not even a little. Were they the best movies you can experience on the big screen? Most certainly. I mean, sweeping the Oscars tells you something.
After all the hype had passed from the movies, I thought it was time to give the books a shot. Start from the beginning. The Silmarillion. Big mistake. This is more like a history book than an adventure book? But I did read it. The Hobbit. Okay this is much better. And then the trilogy. So now I see which parts they missed, skipped. changed. but how COULD they even cram everything in?? They would need 5 movies for all of this. Needless to say. even after reading the books, my feelings for the movies never changed. No, they were not like the books, but they FELT like Tolkien.
I was hopping they would manage to make the Hobbit too. Which they did eventually.
Then years after comes the article were Christopher Tolkien absolutely trashes the trilogy. WHY? People are literally becoming fans of the books BECAUSE of the movies!! Me included. I figured maybe it was money, maybe some deal that wasn’t honored? At that point I was much more mature on that subject and my feelings were made up, I both loved the books and the movies. Book adaptations to movies are just that. They can vary from each other, take out or leave out parts, change names or places. As long as they FEEL like they’ve come from the same source.
Years pass and rumors start flying around that T.V studios are fighting for the Tolkien rights, I thought huh, maybe some opinions have changed towards adaptations at Tolkien’s house? Or just money lol.
This is after the Hobbit movies were done and left some people “eh” about them. Me? When you take a look at the book and imagine making 3 movies out of it, I knew they were gonna try to cash in with them as much as they could. I was fine with them. Some of the original cast is gonna be back, probably for the last time and P.J was doing them! What could go wrong right? Probably too much CGI? (¬_¬ )
Anyways, Game of Thrones set a HUGE bar for fantasy shows now. Even after that dumpster fire of a Season 8. I still haven’t watched the last two episodes of it. OF COURSE studios are gonna fight for the biggest fantasy I.P there is! With TONS of lore still not adapted.
The first rumor is the Adventures of Young Gandalf and Aragorn, Cinematic Universe Marvel Style. Who pitched thiiiis?? I WAS CRYING LAUGHING! Who was pitching sexy Gandalf?? And just a couple of weeks ago, we finally found out it was Netflix!! OF COURSE IT WAS THEM!! Talk about dodging a bullet!
Next, was a rumor of a complete reboot of the trilogy. Now that a bold move. Dangerous. Batman you can reboot all you want. But the trilogy? THE TRILOGY? Turns out it was HBO, and if you looked at what’s happening at their house right now, I wouldn’t trust them for a bit. It was smart of the Tolkiens to not let them touch the triolgy while it’s still a giant part of today’s pop culture. Not yet.
And then comes this weird rumor of some guys pitching a prequel. Uhhh, for Aragorn and sexy Gandalf, again? Nope. Waaaaay back prequel. The Second Age. Huh, okay. Not a lot to go in from there? Then they go “with filling in the gaps”. Now, wait right there. Please don’t go the “unfinished text” route, don’t pull a D&D “Danny kinda forgot about the ships” please god no. USE THE BOOKS!! And then they say they don’t even have the entire rights for the lore. They have only 6 pages worth of material to work with.
Game of Thrones still fresh SALTINESS rushes in me and my mind is made.
That’s not Tolkien then. And my skepticism was turned on.
In the end, it was Amazon with Big Boy Jeff who got the rights and their 2nd Age pitch. Of course it was him with all the fuck you money in the world. The savior of The Expanse, The Boys and Invincible with their big F U to Marvel, Reacher and Jack Ryan for all the manly men, Good Omens for Gaiman fans.
In the meantime, HBO goes, wait a minute, we have a prequel too! Here’s House of the Dragon. ASOIAF fans can just groan and keep trashing the last season all they wait, HBO is still doing it, even after that disaster.
So now we have TWO giant fantasy shows coming up and I have little to no feelings towards both. And for the most part everyone else as well.
Soon promos start rolling out, casts get introduced.
And THAT’S were things start to shift.
I remember my first reaction “THAT’S gonna be Elrond?? HIM? Baby Ned Stark?? Excuse you, but my Hugo Weaving COULD NEVER!”
There are times when I forget what the internet is filled with, and the period we live in. It’s not the innocent times of dial up. And I should have known, I SHOULD have known, where the hate is gonna go towards first.
The people of color.
There were no other complaints other than that, when the official story and the cast with their roles were introduced. BLACK ELVES? BLACK DWARVES?? THAT’S NOT TOLKIEN!! WAAAAA!!
I was not surprised, coming out of what was happening with the Star Wars fandom and the dude bro fans, but I WAS SURPRISED that THIS was happening within the Tolkien fandom. Since when did it became like this? The fuck? (←_←)
I suddenly became aware that I haven’t been in contact with that fandom IN YEARS and that the same dude bros have infested even that part.
House of the Dragon also starts facing the same problem with their cast and promos. BLACK VELARYONS!! WAAAAAA!!
Nobody had any strong thoughts about these shows at first. It only started AFTER their casts were announced.
And now both shows don’t have a good footing because of dude bros crying with just a few months before their premiers.
July 2022 rolls in and the trailers for both shows drop. Rings of Power IMMEDIATELY catches me with the music, BUT STILL I’m being held back by those “fill in the gaps within the text” quotes.
During a meet up with friends we talk about Comic Con finally happening live after the pandemic. We’re discussing about what big panels are gonna be up. House of the Dragon and Rings of Power come in discussion. This silence falls around us and we start going around. “That last GoT season sucked ass, how are they gonna pull this off” “Uhh those Hobbit movies were kinda meh” “These are just cash grabs” “Streaming Fantasy Wars”
Nobody that I’ve known in my life has a problem with people’s skin. That’s not how I’ve been brought up in my life. Not my circle of friends. The core problem with us now falls in “What if they’re just shit stories”...But how can we know if we don’t check them out first, right?
After the pandemic kinda mellowed down, there was this giant hole of misery in my group of friends for something NEW to experience and maybe to watch something not so dystopian but, something that gets people excited and a little hopeful.
Tolkien fills the spot just right.
So I made some free time for one Saturday and decided to watch the Rings of Power SDCC panel. I needed more info for it.
15 minutes in and suddenly I felt that feeling when I saw that first promo Fellowship of the Ring poster. I FELT THAT FEELING.
And that’s the start of my shift.
Here’s a little post I made immediately after I watched the panel and my mind was FINALLY made up!
The cast was visibly giddy and excited, nerding out with their tales about their first encounter with anything Tolkien related. Some were movie fans, some HEAVY book fans, GAMING FANS?? WHAT?? Maxim Baldry telling his story about playing War of the Rings IMMEDIATELY transported me back to me and my big brother playing the shit out it it as well. The cast? These guys are fans. Certified fans. The show runners on the other hand, knew exactly what they wanted and they even said “We’re gonna take this slow this first season” so slow pace it is then. Don’t mind that at all! Love a slow burn! Question after question you could VISIBLY tell this was something that was gonna be made with love and appreciation towards the source material.
This made me realise that I have almost become the person that I was reading on the forums all those years ago.“Not like the books”. Did it matter to me that they didn’t follow the books accurately all those years ago? Hell no. Does it matter now? HELL NO! It’s an adaptation! ADAPTATION! And I wanna see if its good! Game of Thrones REALLY did a lot of damage to me with that last season, not letting me take a chance at all.
House of the Dragon rolls out first, and what do you know! People like it! I mean where else are people gonna get their soft porn and gore galore in a fantasy setting on TV. And so the dude bro’s go quiet on that one.
The Rings of Power finally roll out their first two episodes.
For me, the excitement that night is through the ROOF, but there’s STILL that little “they are gonna just rush things and cash in the money” thought going on.
Meanwhile, dude bros are LIVID! Amazon just cashing in, RUINED the lore! Absolute crap! Suddenly it’s only about cause it’s on Amazon. These same people were singing high praises when Jeffy boy took the rights for the Expanse so they can finish up the story cause apparently he was a huge fan. This is the best sci-fi show that has ever graced the TV. Their words. But now this LOTR series that has people of color in it, Amazon automatically bad. Good Omens season 2 coming up soon and people are beyond excited. It’s on Amazon. You see my point. They needed to mask the racism somehow so they picked “jeff rich bad”. Jeff is still a piece of shit, but he certainly didn’t write, direct, act, produce this entire series from his ass alone. He just threw money on it.
So I’m not gonna lie. Those first 20 minutes had me worried.
LOOKS BEAUTIFUL!! But holy shit they were just POWER BLASTING with the prologue!!! They said they were gonna go slow!?!
Then the 20 minute mark passes.
And the show begins.
Settings are being introduced, characters are entering the scenes, lines are being spoken. This is it.
THIS IS IT!
MOMENTARILY my hobbit biased ass goes for the harfoot storyline. But the moment Khazad-Dum enters the scene, DISA AND DURIN enter the scene, I’m just over the moon. FINALLY!!! WE GET DWARVES LIKE WE SHOULD!
I’ve never been more glad to be proven wrong when it comes to Elrond. The showrunners said “Give me kind as summer” AND BOY DID HE OUTSUMMER THE SHIT OUT OF THAT ROLE!! Robert Aramayo, I’m so sorry for ever doubting you. You ARE Elrond Half-Elven. (ಥ﹏ಥ)
Galadriel having a long arc till she gets to be the Lady of Lothlórien?! I wanna know what happened! Morfydd Clark! *chef’s kiss*
We’re not discussing Halbrand. Charlie Vickers you little shit.You did great!
NUMENOOOOOR!! HOLY SHIIIIIT!!! Who would have thought that a certified LOTR meme like Isildur would become such a soft character in the show. Titanium plot armour, but you still wanna see him make it. I wanna see MORE of MIRIEL!! Pharazon was such a good cast too!
Make Lloyd Owen the official voice of all the Tolkien material. Audiable versions. Everything. A++ casting for Elendil.
Talk about Audible, who would have thought that the Sandman’s Richard Madoc in that version is gonna be also be here playing the Stranger?? And with my harfoot bias comes the Stranger bias, visibly on my blog lol. God, what a performance by Daniel Weyman, we were always on the brink of “It’s gotta be HIM right? IT’S HIM RIGHT?”...well, ISTARI BAYBEEEEEH!! Grey, Blue, doesn’t matter!!! (ง ื▿ ื)ว i’m kinda leaning on olorin tho but i’m also conflicted cause i wanna go to the far east ugh
What can I even say about Arondir and Bronwyn. The softness, the angst. And then Theo enters the picture. I did a whole 180 on his character which took me off guard!! LET THEM BE HAPPY!!
UNCLE BENJEN AS ADAR!! The orc storyline.The one were you get a moral dilemma and it WORKS! In his own twisted way, he’s right? ლ(ಠ_ಠ ლ)
THE MUSIC! Now this was the final deal breaker for me. I’ve always loved Bear McCreary ever since I’ve gotten my hands on the BattleStar Galactica OST when the series was still running. I was sure Lucasfilms was gonna scoop him up for one of their next big Star Wars movies cause he has a certain flavour with themes and motifs. And I was sure he was gonna end up there. But no. I’ve never been more glad to see this man compose for Tolkien’s world. I LOVE THIS SOUNDTRACK! And my favorite track? Is the one that he talks in an interview that he was most scared of releasing. The Numenor theme. God I love it so much. It almost starts like a distant memory of a forgotten place. And then it builds, it builds to JUST MAJESTICALLY BLAST YOU INTO THE SOUL! Do I have to mention how Plea to the Rocks made me cry the first time I heard it? I was holding it, holding it, Sophia Nomvete lets out those crushing vocals AND I WAS A PUDDLE OF MESS!! The Stranger’s theme is my number 3 fav theme cause it’s just pure magical waltz bliss until it GOES OFF!! ISTARI BAYBEEEEEH!! The rest of the cast also sings?? This Wandering Day?? Certified gross sob bop!
I can go on FOREEEEVER nitpicking the goodies this show has to offer. But it’s time for some of the baddies too.
They NEED to get help with writing. The foundation is there, but they gotta up the game especially when the actors have such good chemistry with each other! GET HELP!!
I get there’s gotta be some plot holes left cause duh, but some are just gaping so large, I’m thinking that’s gotta be intentional. I do realise that with limited rights given to them, they gotta work around somehow. HOPEFULLY that changes for S2.
Obviously we got very little time with Gil-Galad and Celebrimbor, but I know that’s gonna change as the story progresses. The same also goes for the Numenor storyline, with Kemen and Earien, which as we know, it’s not gonna be a happy one.
But in all honesty, I can’t WAIT for season 2. I can’t wait to see some new cast news. I wanna see some Celeborn casting soon!! We need to know where’s that silver clam at!!
So looking back now, this show really suffered from all the early crying of “THIS IS NOT TOLKIEN WAAAAA” AKA just straight up racism.
This show is a love letter to Tolkien. THEY UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT.
The got the music right, the characters right, the settings right, the themes right. IT’S ALL THERE!
This feels like Tolkien to me. And that’s all that matters. ♡
And hey, if along the way it turns out into another GoT S8 dumpster fire, I would have no trouble dropping it like it’s nothing. That show took 10 years from me. Don’t need to know how it ended. It was just plain bad at the end.
But for now, The Rings of Power is good. House of the Dragon is good. There should not be rivalry at all cause in the end, fantasy fans are eating good, regardless.
Now I can officially start the hiatus period till Season 2 drops. Expect lots of gif sets coming up. I got my templates ready, my extended versions ready, broken PS version that crashes all the time, ready.
I love this show. ♡( ◡‿◡ )
#this is probably the longest post i've ever written and probably the last of this kind#huge spoilers too#and typos probably xD#but it's lotr my first ever fandom so it's a special case of needing to vent my impressions while still hot#shut it fuku#and if anyone reads this post this was my journey from nah to i love this show completely <3
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Lords playing the Sims
Alcina: plays as a vampire sim. Spent 5 hours in CAS and another 10 in build mode.Motherlode motherlode. Lets daughters have a turn in decorating their room and sim. (Dani made her bedroom wallpaper one wall tile of every option) Has a Nectar business but the sims in-game consistently dislike it (cue flipping her table 'THEY DONT KNOW REAL TASTE'). Keeps many female sims in the basement as servants to hypnotise and get free drinks/chores out of. Tries to expand her servant collection but her daughters keep on releasing/killing them by accident. Daughters accidentally burnt half the castle from setting off fireworks indoors and Alcina promptly banned them from playing until they know what a firework does. Possibly made a female lover but too shy to add into game. Does mean interaction to every male sim and cackles gleefully
Donna: Made her simself ugly. Castle is littered with dolls and toys she each individually has a name for. Brings them all in her inventory. Finds as many seeds to garden. Highly amused at the weird things she can plant. (Trash plant?? Cow plant???). Whole lot is flooded with plants. Always does full needs cheat as simself keeps passing out from watering the 97 planters on her lot for 2 sim days. Also makes the other Lords in a household tgt and befriends them all by hosting parties and interacting w them in ways irl Donna is too shy to but always wanted to. Loves pranking everyone and is obsessed w the streaking option. Has a secret folder full of sims music videos. Angie ocasionally butts in ('oooh ooh! Splash a drink on him!' Donna eventually gives in & laughs, however guilt haunts her for the whole day)
Salvatore : Totally has the Grilled Cheese aspiration. Modest house by the lake. Loves terraforming the area. Secretly a prodigious architect. Loves fishing. Has goldfish bowls littered every where as he doesnt want to release them. Creates a beautiful lover to his liking and they have lots of kids. Regular movie nights. Ensures they have the best life. Absolutely devastated when mean/evil sims treat him badly or household catches fire (by Karl's simself). Creates the Lords + Miranda and maxs friendship. Relentlessly pestered the lords to play the Sims until they tried it on Sal's grimey laptop and actually liked it (without showing it of course). Sal probably befriended the whole neighborhood too
Karl: Makes simself as funny looking as possible for the lols (long nose, flappy ears 'its just a stupid game anyway'). Big family of servos. Absolutely prefers building lots over playing the game and experiments with endless objects. Could be a talented builder but would rather have a giant toilet bowl clipping the entire workshop and laugh at it for over 5 minutes. Hacks into Alcina's game file and wrecks her castle and simself, giving her the eyeball ring on each finger and turning her skin green. Definitely created a peepee castle once. Is a talented modder.
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