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dadr0ckmusic · 2 years

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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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nohtora · 1 year

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NOELS ✷ SHE/THEY ✷ VIET-AUS ✷ 21+

hello hello welcome to my silly little blog where i draw on a highly irregular basis. you can call me noels ( see post ) ! i'm an interior architect most of the time but i like to do art as a hobby. expect mainly witcher books, black sails & other fantasy fanart ! find my other socials & shop links on my carrd linked below.

art tag / wip tag / carrd / ko-fi / more info under the cut

✷ FANDOMS ✷

▸ main fandoms : the witcher ( books + games ) & black sails. ▸ other fandoms : disco elysium, critical roles' mighty nein, rdr2, lord of the rings, la casa de papel, pushing daisies. note : i am not a fan of and am highly critical of n*tflix's witcher series, relevant posts will be tagged #twn critical. do not tag any of my witcher art as ships unless i have labelled it as such.

✷ PROJECTS ✷

▸ freedom in the dark : a black sails fanzine ( page artist ) ▸ as a crew : an ofmd charity fanzine ( page artist )

✷ FAQ ✷

▸ what programs / tools do you use ? i mainly work in adobe photoshop cc, using a huion kamvas 16 (2021) pen display. ( current brush ) ▸ can i use your work for my ___ ? – icon / banner : yes, as long as it is not someone else’s commission. ask if unsure. you must credit me in your bio / desc / pinned post. – phone / pc wallpaper : yes ofc, no need to ask ! – rp faceclaims / graphics : character-dependent, please check with me first. ▸ are you taking commissions ? no, my commissions are closed indefinitely for now. this is mainly due to my fulltime job taking up most of my time so i'd like to focus on personal art in the little spare time i have. for friends & mutuals, i am willing to take on limited commissions if i have some downtime – just ask ! ▸ do you take requests ? not at the moment, but i may from time to time ask for some. i don’t mind the occasional suggestion though ! ▸ do you do art trades ? mutuals preferred, but dm me ! it will ultimately depend on my current workload ▸ do you mind if i like/reblog a lot of your posts at once ? like / reblog spam to your heart’s content !! it doesn’t bother me at all :)

LAST UPDATED : 20 MAR 2024

#new pinned !#✷ MOBILE TAG NAVI ✷#nohtora art #nohtora wip #nohtora updates #answered #art asks #nt speaks #others' art #✷ ART BY FANDOMS ✷#the witcher #black sails #rdr2 #lcdp #disco elysium

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irisopranta · 1 year

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Share your wallpaper: default on my computer but my mobile is art I had done for L'hanzu

The last song you listened to: Spellbound in 8-bit by Philter

Currently reading: I just got done listening to the audio book for Lord of the Rings. Mostly wanted to remember the things that happened in it.

Last Movie: Kaguya-sama: Love is War - The First Kiss That Never Ends. It was quite good. Definitely worth watching if you watched the anime.

Craving: I'm currently content.

What are you wearing right now? Jeans and a blue tunic blouse.

How tall are you: 6'0"/ 183cm

Piercings: Had some ear piercings but the holes had closed up a long time ago. I want to re open them again.

Tattoos: None.

Glasses? Contacts? Glasses.

Last drink: Dr.Pepper

Last show: The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady. This anime season is wrapping up so me and my husband are trying to catch up on our shows before the new season comes out. This one is pretty great.

Last thing you ate: Leftover pizza for lunch

Favorite color: Purple also Teal

Current obsession: FFXIV

Unrelated obsession: Getting back into Higurashi. Also Horimiya and The World God Only Knows

Any pets: Two cats, Yuki and Lily

Do you have a crush on anyone? My husband. He's a nerd and I love him.

Favorite fictional character: Estinien, Francel, Stephanivien (Elves are great).

The last place you traveled: Atalanta, Georgia Tagged By: @ainyan

Tagging: @airis-ray, @mimble-sparklepudding, @pangolinheart

#munday

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collarbonekissesandasylumwitches · 1 year

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hello hi, hope y'all are doing ok :)

this is just my take on this aesthetic, my personal brand if you will, so please don't come at me if it isn't completely accurate

(i do not know where a few quotes are from so if you do, please lemme know so that i can list them)

poetcore // chaotic academia // downtown girl

vibes: grocery stores, existential poetry, psychology/english major, iced caramel lattes, old bookstores, anatomical heart emoji, thunderstorms, wired earphones, art museums, dyed hair and a nose ring, vintage posters stuck on bedroom walls, blue hour, ink stained hands, latin curses, 3 am showers, voice notes, smudged eyeliner, cocoa lotion, choco chip cookies, silver rings that clink against ceramic cups, native language nicknames, annotated books, commentary videos on youtube, forehead kisses, candles, love letters, lullabies, sunlight through curtains, libraries at night, homoeroticism, angry girl music, pressed flowers, coffee cake and coffee eclairs, glitter pens, lipbalm, dog cuddles, super specific playlists, daily outfit pictures

fashion: small shirt big pants black nailpaint mismatched earrings signature perfume hair sticks black turtlenecks cardigans fingerless gloves nose rings high waisted jeans linen shorts lipgloss cotton dresses waist jewelry heart shaped locket moss coloured bralettes bandanas tank tops crystal necklaces white eyeliner oversized earth toned sweaters cargo pants vintage band tshirts charm bracelets and anklets crop tops smudged eyeliner harem pants claw clips fairy earrings tote bags doc martens with everything lots of antique rings

songs:

ribs - lorde

coffee breath - sofia mills

movies - conan gray

how long - hadestown

sunflower - post malone, swae lee

i want you to want me - letters to cleo

bookstore girl - charlie burg

sappho - frankie cosmos

achilles come down - gang of youths

girl from the bookstore - jack jones

poet - bastille

all too well 10 minute version taylor's version - taylor swift

artists: mother mother, bon iver, girl in red, arctic monkeys, daughter, florence + the machine, hozier, the neighborhood, taylor swift [folklore and evermore in particular]

movies: shutter island, dead poets society, lady bird, 10 things i hate about you, five feet apart, potrait of a lady on fire, kill your darlings, fleabag, perks of being a wallflower, all the bright places, loving vincent, call me by your name, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

books:

crush - richard siken

a little life - hanya yanagihara

the song of achilles - madeline miller

ode to aphrodite - sappho

the bell jar - sylvia plath

and then there were none - agatha christie

envelope poems - emily dickinson

the secret history - donna tartt

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

a room of one's own - virginia woolf

the robber wife - margaret atwood

the yellow wallpaper - sam vaseghi gilman

quotes:

what we love, we mention. - Marie-Helene Bertino

you said i killed you. haunt me then. - Emily Bronte

loneliness is still time spent with the world.- Ocean Vuong

let me stay tender hearted, despite despite despite.

that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. - Walt Whitman

i love you. i can't tell you. the sun on your face will do it for me. - tumblr user tturing

i will love you if i never see you again, and i will love you if i see you every tuesday. - Lemony Snicket

someone has to leave first. this is a very old story. there is no other version of this story. - Richard Siken

nothing ends poetically. it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was always just red. - Kait Rokowski

love is real. i saw it once outside my window and it stopped to look at me but kept on walking and i thought it'd come back but in the end maybe it was just passing through.

in ten years' time, i want to live in a house with big windows, i want the house to be large enough to have a kitchen table with four chairs but not too roomy to ever feel the depth of my aloneness. because i'll probably be alone. but i think aloneness won't feel so all-consuming with windows that protect me from the world but still let me watch it. - Maeve Wiley, Sex Education

male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of vour own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. you are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. you are your own voyeur. - Margaret Atwood

take care, love love >3

#poetcore #chaotic academia #downtown girl #please add other tags i am exhausted after writing this whole thing 😭

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winterpinetrees · 4 months

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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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upsidedaisyy · 1 year

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introducing myself i guess!

hey i’m daisy + i thought i would just make a post with my interests, so people will know what sort of things i will post about! :))

favourite movies:

- princess bride (1987)

- scream (1996)

- blair witch project (1999)

- bridget jones diary (2001)

- lord of the rings (2001-2003)

- pride and prejudice (2005)

- pans labyrinth (2006)

- marie antoinette (2006)

- twilight (2008)

- little women (2019)

- emma (2020)

favourite books:

- bunny, mona awad

- wuthering heights, emily bronte

- persuasion, jane austen

- the crucible, arthur miller

- hamnet, maggie o’farrell

- little women, louisa may alcott

- northanger abbey, jane austen

- their eyes were watching god, zora neale hurston

- haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

- the secret history, donna tartt

- the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins gilman

- cruel prince series, holly black

favourite authors:

- jane austen

- daphne du maurier

- emily brontë

- william wordsworth

- rick riordan

- margaret atwood

- dolly alderton

- virginia woolf (essays)

favourite tv shows:

- game of thrones!

- haunting of hill house

- that 70s show

- chilling adventures of sabrina

- criminal minds

- friends

- gilmore girls

- interview with the vampire

- greys anatomy

other favourite activities:

- drawing + colouring books

- museum/bookshop visits

- second hand shopping (clothes + books)

- going to the cinema!

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bbredit · 1 year

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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

#introduction #about myself #about my blog

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rowan-blood · 5 months

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Prince of the Sorrows BOOK 1: Recap

1. The Ring

The day of the beantighe's Imbolc celebration

-Saffron and Cylvan meet.

2. The Wish

The night of the beantighe's Imbolc celebration

-Saffron stands in as Brìghde.

3. The Sprites

The day of the fey's Imbolc celebration

-Saffron is assigned to work at Danann House to get rid of the flower sprites. -Saffron discovers that Cylvan, the original owner of his book, is a prince.

4. The Prince

The night of the fey's Imbolc celebration

-Saffron works at the welcoming party/Imbolc celebration at Danann House. -Saffron and Cylvan meet for the second time. -Arrow asks Saffron for help.

5. The Geis

The night of the fey's Imbolc celebration

-Saffron spills wine on Taran while trying to prevent Cylvan from getting poisoned by the apples in the wine. -Saffron and Cylvan make a deal: if Saffron finds a spell to forget Cylvan's true name or make his ring work before Ostara Cylvan would offer Saffron an academic endorsement. -Saffron finds Arrow just before he dies.

6. The Wallpaper

Early morning hours, next day after the fey's Imbolc celebration

-Kaelar snatches Saffron's patron ring, compels him, and takes him to Elluin's office. -Elluin and Taran torture Saffron carving "Impertinence", "Selfishness" and the first two letters of "Arrogance" on his back. -Kaelar throws Saffron into lake Elatha. -Cylvan saves Saffron from drowning with Nimue's help.

7. The Party

The morning after the fey's Imbolc celebration

-The Beantighes returning from the night shift find Saffron passed out at the front gate of Beantighe Village. -Saffron wakes up in his bed and asks Silk about Arrow. -Silk tells Saffron that Arrow was buried that morning next to their sister in Verdant Cemetery.

Two days after the fey's Imbolc celebration

-The students return from their Imbolc holyday. All they talk about is Cylvan, how beautiful he is and what a good match he makes with Taran. -Saffron returns to work at Morrígan Academy with the wounds on his back still fresh. The students harass him when they notice he is wounded. -A student makes Saffron fall from a ladder on his injured back. -Cylvan leaves the room, making everyone stop paying attention to Saffron's fall.

That same day, evening

-Saffron waits for Cylvan next to the library, but he never appears.

Days after

-Saffron has been waiting for Cylvan every evening for him to give him access to the library, but Cylvan never shows up. -Saffron begins to show symptoms of pneumonia and his wounds, despite starting to heal, appear to be infected. -Saffron follows some students to Danan House where a party is being held. -Cylvan is bored at the party until he sees Saffron, he makes him approach him and kneel between his legs. -Cylvan whispers to Saffron that he has been too busy to go to the library but promises to go in the future if Saffron keeps him company during the party. -Saffron accepts his proposal but only if he can keep his veil down. -Cylvan gives Saffron wine to drink.

8. The Deal

9. The Library

10. The Preoccupation

11. The Fever

12. The Medicine

13. The Wolf

14. The Apple

15. The Queen

16. The Silence

17. The Raven

18. The Lord

19. The Circles

20. The Night

21. The Memories

22. The Berries

23. The Ridge

24. The Undine

25. The Spirit

26. The Fruits

Epilogue

#POTS #prince of the sorrows #book 1 #recap #chronology #WIP #rowan blood

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averyauthorship · 11 months

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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)

Phone: They never upgraded to a smartphone, so they have the same flip phone they had in middle school. The wallpaper is a very unflattering picture of Link that they took after he fell asleep on the couch during a sleepover. They also have an iPhone for work, but it only supports the internet so that they can post about their tabletop store “The Do’s and Don’ts of Dice” on Instagram.

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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!

#asks #favorite books

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fukutomichi · 2 years

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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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