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eunoiaastralwings · 7 months
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Poor Grandpa Thingol
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@nailsinmywall thank you ever so much for this 🥺 – one of Lú’s (@luthriel-tinuviel) childhood troubles with her magic.
The family got the worst of it 🤣
Poor grandpa Thingol – with a sore face and head for a few days 😂😂
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danmeiljie · 1 year
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😍 Commissioned Artist Appreciation Post 🙏
I just wanted to take a moment and thank my friends who accepted my requests for them to share their talents and bring some beloved characters to life! ❤️
I love each of these and looking at them makes me smile 😊
...in no particular order...
Kidnap Fam Sees the Silmaril: @noldorinpainter
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Gwaeron and Curufin: @noldorinpainter
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Wangxian Being Unbound: @busymagpie
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Wenzhou Being Soft: evugh-draws
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The Sons Of Feanor Last Family Portrait: @nailsinmywall
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I have a couple more commissions in the works or being planned and I'm very excited about them!
Celebrating fandom art is what got me creating this tumblr in the first place and brave enough to write fic.
Thank you!
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toastedbuckwheat · 2 years
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hello buckwheat hopping into your asks to tell you how much i love your inktober art . i love your traditional coloring (the blue shadows, the lighting, the insane backgrounds) and the concepts (the birth of mairon art: i mf gasped) and the anatomy is sooooooo good ...... you are a huge inspo . also can i ask u what materials u use bcs i love the look and texture of the pieces 🤲
hope you are having a great day and thank u for sharing ur art with us 🫶
Hiiiiiiii aaaaa thank you so much 😭😭😭😭 it means a lot because as much as my background is in traditional art, I would rarely create full illustrations this way and tbh I didn't know how to make them look effective. this inktober is me forcing myself to really practise and create finished pieces in their own right within my sketchbook and like. Stop running away from anatomy and perspective lmao. I'm glad to know that ppl enjoy the results!!
I should take some photos of my materials, but essentially the whole turquoise theme begun almost by accident as i decided to finally use That Sample of a Sennelier Ink Brush Pen I've Had For Ages And Never Used Because It Was Green-ish. And it turned out to be the perfect shade for uhm.. constructing a piece in layers of plain colours as if i was doing screen printing or woodblock (I'm not sure if any of my rambling makes sense xhxhxh).
So for the turquoise palette pieces it's a processed of outlining the sketch + filling in all the dark areas with The Brush Pen, the rest being coloured in with alcohol based markers (red going on top of turquoise gives a nice shadow),,, i used gouache/white ink in some pieces for touch ups & Fuckup Coverage,, black lines go last where I think I need them.
I hope this makes any sense and can be helpful in any way, the whole thing is a bit of a string of happy accidents i feel i have zero control over gjcuffufufuf
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i just wanted to say that your maitimo/ingwion fic (A Poetry Lesson) is making me loose my mind and i can't stop thinking about them. IT'S SO GOOD. SO GOOD. YOUR MIND IS INCREDIBLE
The comment you left on the fic on Ao3 is making me lose my mind.
Thank you so much. As I said, I absolutely adore your art, and I'm happy I could give back some joy your art gives me.
(This is the fic if anyone is wondering.)
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nailsinmywall · 6 months
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“Red lightning shot into the sky, crackling with what seemed like gleeful laughter. On the other side of the mountains, Celegorm dropped a crystal glass on the floor, not even flinching as it shattered. “Honestly, Tyelkormo. Do try to be more careful.” Curufin pursed his lips as if he hadn’t felt it too, barely concealing a grim smile. Nargothrond was theirs.” — grieving for the living by ifearnocolors
commission for @rhogeminid <3
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zimune · 1 year
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AAAAAH I GOT MY MAGLOR ZINE AND ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! THANKS @nailsinmywall
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maka1aure · 2 years
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SO HERE’S THE SEPARATE POST
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And as I said on Twitter: He's a character that he can't separate himself from. there was an attempt, but there are still 0 degrees of separation here because he has been performing as himself on the stage of the world for the last Age
and the Noldolante is a final performance without an audience
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@celebregol​ :)
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general-illyrin · 3 months
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Artist ask 1, 3 & 6?
Thank you for the ask!
What is your favorite color to work with? Blue! I love all the shades, and it is my favorite color.
3. What song(s) do you listen to when you do art? It depends upon what I'm drawing; sometimes I listen to music that fits the mood of what I'm drawing, more often, I listen to a playlist of my favorite songs.
6. Tag your favorite artists/inspirations! Most of my art is fanfiction, and a lot is inspired by people on tumblr. Looking at what I've drawn in the last year, my biggest inspirations are Tolkien, @frodo-with-glasses and @that-angry-noldo, with favorite artists including but not limited to @rittare, @secretmellowart, @kai-janik-art, @ofmiceandwomen, @echo-bleu, @thelien-art, @catkin-morgs-kookaburralover, @frodo-with-glasses, @emilybeemartin, @mersilisk, @jennydolfen, @ylieke, @busymagpie, @naarisz, @eilinelsghost, @sweetmaggie, @violecov, @koyunsoncizeri, @ilaneya, @leavespics, @yidany, @arlenianchronicles, @wanderer-clarisse, @gianfare, @windrelyn, @hirazuki, @nailsinmywall, @anattmar, @sesamenom, @forestials, @sakasakiii, @airendis, @lorica-art, @elena-kukanova, @tarvabaggins, @redbootsindoriath, @fonmuller
...I did not realize I followed so many artists. Well over 1/4 of those I follow are artists XD
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skyeventide · 1 year
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When I, jittery with fury, came to her, she sat me down by the far expanse of the sea. She took my hair, unmade my plaits, she took my hands, unmade their fists. She took my face, unmade my spirit entire. She did not say, my wife-to-be, set aside this jaw-clenching anger, rather word by word she took it, shed light on it, and like the retiring tide it retreated, newly insignificant. We kindled a fire on the shore, warmed our fingers, roasted the crabs. We built castles in the sand for the water to take. We built castles in the air for the ages to ruin. But when I came to her and, gazing in her bright eyes, forgot my fury, I knew that Eru makes many, yet when He made her, my wife-to-be, there would not be another. When He made her, He broke the mould.
— Feanor/Nerdanel for @aipilosse
I sang the winds, and I sang your breath. The sparrow and the hunting hawks, the morning trills and the shriek of the eagles. And you who marvelled at the stars, I sang your lungs to call, your eyes to see, your throats for words. And light air to feed the flames, and the lightness of the ashes, which I carried on a breeze. Scattered as your children in a cold lightless night, I carried you on a breeze past the veil of the world, as I never could carry my own brother, and you were the mirror of his ruin, most cruel of his crimes. To spoil what he could have been, and spoil it twice.
— Manwe on Feanor (and Melkor) for @nyarnamaitar
Kneeling next to Nelyo, I held my father burning. I must confess, while the night came apart, with my nose full of the stinging smell of overheated metal and melted flesh, that I knew despair. I must confess, as I was left with smoke and scorched fingers, that I knew defeat long before it came. I must confess that I knew our approaching failure intimately, even during the years when we held true that we could cheat doom. I must confess that spite, love, and duty kept me living more than breath. Tonight, Nelyo kneels next to me and holds me dying. I do not burn, but that comes as no surprise.
— Curufin and Maedhros for @bleuarte
No such thing, I say, as taming the hawks. I call them, my fist sky-raised, and they perch on my hand, their talons puncturing me through my glove, the ghost of a caress. We enter in a bloody covenant, the hawks and I: they the hunters, I the hunter-lord, and we share in the meat of the trophy. Would I have the heart to hood their heads, shield their eyes, clasp their ankles, and call them mine? Would it that I could. But I lack the heart, the will, the strength. Irisse, thou art the hawks.
— Celegorm/Aredhel for @nailsinmywall
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samarqqand · 8 months
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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤
I'm so grateful for the tag, @melestasflight-! Two shipfic & three gen.
“pseudepigrapha” ; explicit ; Melkor/Maglor, 7k words.
While I continue poking at a novel-length Melkor/Maglor fic! This one wriggled out as a placeholder (also: inaugural ao3 Melkor/Maglor fic). Y.T. Makalaurë, Valinor's bard exemplar, accepts an invitation to perform in Melkor’s halls. It gets strange.
“litany” ; explicit ; 12,345 words ; Maedhros/Maglor
Was feeling through my feeling that The Maedhros and Maglor Ouroboros don't begin kissing until after things go very wrong, and so here is a fic where they don't begin kissing until after things go very wrong (War of Wrath).
"anabasis" ; gen ; 1.5k words ; Maglor & Maedhros
"Grief is a legged thing." Exploratory foray into Maevenant (revenant Maedhros) because anything is possible when you're a cryptid narrator trapped between mountain & sea, pacing the margin of a beach searching for any other ending.
"low water" ; gen ; 1,000 words ; kidnap fam
"Elrond is gifted with foresight. Elrond has seen how this chapter ends." This fic means a ton to me because of the stunner of a comic that @navyinks created and the absolutely gorgeous Phi @nailsinmywall pieces, both based on this fic. Treasuring! Now and always!
"saying, come and see" ; gen ; 3.8k words ; Maedhros, Fingon & the Valar
Non-euclidean Valar because I can't get enough of the idea -- written as a Secret Santa gift. The peace of Valinor is poisoned & three wise Valar arrive bearing gifts.
I'm tagging @i-am-a-lonely-visitor ; @thescrapwitch ; @skyeventide ; @batshape ; @ermingarden ; @rosedaughter ; @crownlessliestheking -- and anyone else who wants to go for it, consider yourself tagged. by ME.
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maglors-anion-gap · 10 months
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Fingolfin for the character asks!
I'm not beating the "never answers asks" allegations, am I?
[ask game] edited for "not a tv show"
Why I like them
DILF. I want to do indecent things to him. Um ok, serious answers only. I kind of just realized this, but there's maybe a parallel between him and feanor and manwe and morgoth. (mandatory disclaimer that I like feanor, I'm not comparing him to morgoth, and I dislike attempts to flatten him). In that fingolfin is willing to give feanor a second chance after, lets be honest, feanor screws the pooch. There's obviously some smart politicking going on with that forgiveness speech, but still. Compare it to manwe who believes strongly enough in mercy that he will give morgoth a second chance as well. I know some folks are kind of adamant that there's zero goodwill between feanor and fingolfin, but speaking from experience, shitty sibling relationships often contain that "we're not speaking but I'd still kill for you" (and he does, without a second thought). Just kind of obsessed with the loving your brother so much you dream up a better version of him in your head to forgive. There's more that I like about him, probably even more than this, but this is what's on my mind right now.
Why I don’t
I can't think of anything to put here, love of fingolfin is clouding my judgement. Opening invitations for you or anyone reading this to drop their quibbles with fingolfin. (I'm not holding a mallet behind my back, I promise)
Favorite scene
I have a hard time picking a favorite, but the one I'm rotating in my head right now is one he and fingon share: coming down into alqualonde, seeing the fighting, and joining in without asking questions. Do they think the teleri are trying to prevent the noldor from leaving? Do they correctly know feanor started the fight? Do they join anyway in desperation to leave valinor? Or is fingolfin simply willing to kill for the older brother who can barely stand him just because he doesn't want to lose another family member?
Favorite line
Come, open wide, dark king, your gastly brazen doors! Come forth, whom earth and heaven abhors! Come forth, o monstrous craven lord, and fight with thine own hand and sword, thou wielder of hosts of banded thralls, thou tyrant leaguered with strong walls, thou foe of gods and elvish race! I wait thee here. Come! Show thy face! (lays of beleriand)
Favorite outfit
Brain go brrr so I don't remember any canon clothing but nailsinmywall drew this picture of him in a massive fur trimmed cloak a while back that it's kind of printed on the backs of my eyelids. That's my fingolfin. He killed that bear himself ( <- to be read in the Ratatouille "with this thumb!!" accent).
OTP
I don't really have OTPs for fingolfin, per se? There are a lot of pairings I like for different reasons, and at different stages of his life. Silly plug for "over the unclear eyes of memory" which I wrote a while ago for trsb but still really like. Reembodied fingolfin/anaire. In my head, anaire is great, I love my anaire. And obvs you know "the room where they do what they don't confess" but I'll drop it here for any followers who missed it. Fingolfin/maglor inadvisable coping.
Brotp
I feel like brotp is such a weird way to phrase it, especially considering they're at each other's throats constantly, but feanor. Low hanging fruit, I know. I'm obsessed with how messy they are though. Otherwise maedhros - which is like, a political union for the ages, and kind of a screwed up thing where they both try to re-do the whole feanor&fingolfin thing but do it right this time (but they can't make it better because feanor's dead, and maedhros isn't feanor because he's the one kneeling for fingolfin, and fingolfin isn't feanor because he's himself but he's not himself because he's king and - haunts the narrative haunts the narrative haunts the-)
Head Canon
I don't care what jirt says. His eyes are BROWN. They are dark BROWN. Also: loves filing paperwork. Devastated when turgon leaves because fingon does not love filing paperwork.
Unpopular opinion
I think the fandom has drifted from "wow the charge against morgoth is so courageous, fingolfin is awesome" to "wow that is super depression-core and kind of a metonym for the future prospects of the noldor" to "... and this makes him less of a good person." which. I have issues with. Yes, ditching your responsibilities as king to commit suicide is not ideal. But, I don't think jirt lauds this as great leadership anywhere in the text (no one sings about it because it's so awful - if it was good, there'd be a song). It's like. Orpheus turns around because he's narratively bound by the audience's human urges of love. Fingolfin does what he does because he's not a person: he's the noldor's narrative rage and suffering and useless perseverance and spite and revenge. The only thing that chaps my ass more is saying it makes him a bad dad. At baseline I kind of hate the circular bad dad discussions but I don't think the solution is to cram more dads onto the list. And I have issues with "losing the fight with despair invalidates you as a parent." Like we already hashed this out with denethor and elwing, let's not do this with every other tolkien parent. And I think it super flattens the complexity of "you need to be a solid figure for your children" vs "you live in unabated misery and you have more interiority than just being a parent."
A wish
Reembodied, gets to see all his family again (and I do mean ALL), repair relationships, have a fancy beverage as a treat, etc etc
5 words to best describe them
charismatic, intelligent, steadfast, beefy, DILF (sorry, I'll see myself out)
My nickname for them
I shan't say - unless ? - no...
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kathrins-sketchbook · 2 years
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In a little tribute to @nailsinmywall's baby Moryo (so round) and little punk Tyelko too (i love them so much), have the older 4 brothers ^^
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tilions · 1 year
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Could you recommend some creators your admire please? Thank you <33
Hello! Thank you so much for your ask <3
I've always wanted to do a list like this! So here are some of my favorite creators (art, edits, fanfic, analysis, gifs, etc.) from most of the fandoms I have gotten into over the last few years:
@aredhels @arofili @cycas @emyn-arnens @fangrui @forestials @frodo-baggins @gffa @haleths @lidoshka @lightasthesun @liridi @lycheesodas @mandhos @miriel-therindes @mithrandirn @mrmalcolmslist @nailsinmywall @outofangband @sauroff @southfarthing @tarninausta @theelfmaiden @user-kestis @windrelyn @yellow-faerie
This list is definitely not complete and there are so many more people out there who create wonderful things <3
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shrikeseams · 2 years
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Welp, @nailsinmywall and @skyeventide were chatting on twitter and woobiefied!Celegorm came up. And I’ve realized that I have two semi-elaborate Celegorm headcanon/interpretations spawned from attempts to make Celegorm less fucking tedious to me. I don’t think they quite make the cut for woobiefication, but they ARE marching in that direction. I think this at least qualified for meow-meowification.
Like all good headcanons, one revolves around Orome and one around Aredhel LOL. Honestly it’s all about motivation. Because bitches love to coddle a blorbo who does shitty things for “good” reasons.
Hokay, so. Celegorm and Orome. I realize that this is an unpopular opinion, but Celegorm/Orome is Not For Me, and I prefer to skew the relationship to focus on what Orome’s job represents to Celegorm, rather than a romantic relationship.
Because Orome’s role isn’t just hunting for funsies. His calling is to guard. “He is a hunter of monsters and fell beasts[.]” It’s not the same thing as hunting for food or trophies. It’s about being a first line of defense. It’s a very sincere and solemn duty, and one that would have been obviously important to someone who a) spent stretches of time in the more dangerous parts of Araman and b) intended to leave the safety of Aman with the rest of his family, like Celegorm. Depending on when you think Feanor started talking about leaving Aman, it’s very reasonable for Celegorm to pursue an apprenticeship etc in Orome’s hunt specifically to support the end goal of leaving Aman.  
So Celegorm has accepted this intense, important duty and obligation to Orome and the community at large, in a time and place where there is relatively little need for it. And then suddenly, Morgoth tips his hand and reveals himself to be unreformed! There is more need for Orome than ever!!! And Orome…
Stays home.
Celegorm arrives in Beleriand and fights orcs and wolves and ect etc and sees that Orome’s dedication to everything he taught Celegorm is conditional. Celegorm is in Beleriand, doing the work, whether for selfish or altruistic reasons, and Orome just… isn’t.
Now, there are different ways to interpret the emotional fallout here. But I’m included to say that Celegorm was… if no longer devoted to Orome once the family withdraws to Formenos, then at least still sympathetic and drawn to Orome’s ethos. If nothing else, Huan’s ongoing presence suggests that Celegorm still shares Orome’s calling, even if he’s no longer a member of Orome’s cult.
But I think once he arrived in Beleriand and seen the effects of Orome’s abandonment… he becomes increasingly bitter about his former god. Bitter in a way that I think is unique among the Feanorians, because Orome specifically has abandoned his professed calling in favor of obedience to Manwe. It’s not just the Exiles who have been abandoned, it’s everyone East of the Sea! It doesn’t matter if they aren’t Doomed and never thought of kinslaying, because they have been summarily judged and punished for actions they’re literally separated from by multiple generations and thousands of years. Celegorm has made this protective/defensive role his life’s calling, under Orome’s tutelage, and Orome has made it clear through his actions that the work he made central to Celegorm’s life was something Orome could just walk away from.
But throughout this all Celegorm is still doing the work. Orome walked away, but Celegorm didn’t, and I can’t imagine he’d be anything but bitterly proud about that. I don’t think it took long for him to be doing the work in spite of Orome, rather than in Orome’s honor or even far-distant partnership.
It's a bitter disillusionment and stripping of faith that I tend to think of as a hallmark of the religious lives of the Exiles. But Celegorm’s explicit textual relationship with Orome, and Huan, and (presumed) defensive work in Himlad makes it a good case study. The Valar’s collective failure to live up to their own PR would have made the Eastern forces at least feel justified in their actions.
 So now I have hopefully established that Celegorm’s (bloody, dangerous, violent) work on the front lines of Eastern Beleriand is part of the borderline religious cultural role that Celegorm has chosen for himself. He is perhaps glad to be applying his chosen craft, but scornful that he’s doing it with no greater help from Orome than Huan. He is very probably angry that Thingol doesn’t give two shits about these defensive obligations. Hypocritical, since Celegorm’s mostly there because of the Oath, but it’s mostly a constant low-grate irritation. Nothing too serious.
And then everything falls out with Aredhel!
Because the thing is: years before Celegorm ever laid eyes on Luthien, one of Elu Thingol’s kinsmen seduced and eloped with the daughter of the high king of the Noldor, AT BEST. The most charitable version of that relationship is an illicit seduction, an elopement without so much as notifying Aredhel’s father, and then pursuing her like an animal when she decided she was done with the relationship. And even if that’s the reality and not just the most charitable explanation, I cannot buy that Celegorm felt remotely charitable about the situation.
So from Celegorm’s perspective, what happened is that one of the people he was pouring blood, sweat, and tears into defending had abducted, seduced, definitely abused, and very possibly sexually assaulted one of his favorite cousins. And then they both disappeared into the ether with no justice done that Celegorm would have heard of, and certainly no apology from Eol, let alone Thingol.
Who wouldn’t be in a blind rage at Doriath, in his shoes?
And then the Silmaril quest is Thingol very literally adding insult to injury. The silmaril quest is a very neat and tidy insult to both Beren (who Thingol obviously wants dead) and the Feanorian East. After all, the Feanorian East was just recently devastated in the Bragollach, and Himlad not the least. The silmaril quest is Thingol’s way of saying “You’re not a player on the field anymore. I’m top dog again, and I’ll treat you however I want.” Which is, even with the kinslaying, a pretty shitty move! And it’s one that, quite frankly, the Feanorians have to answer in some way, or they’re basically acknowledging that Thingol is correct. Letting it pass wouldn’t just make it more difficult for them to claim one silmaril, it would make it harder to get people to help them deal with Morgoth and the last two silmarils! It’s kinda dumb, but that’s politics bay-bee.
So when Luthien wanders on by… Hey! A hostage! Luthien offers a great opportunity to pay Thingol back tit-for-tat for both Eol’s treatment of Aredhel and Thingol’s deliberate insult to his former allies. His attraction to her is just gravy.
Essentially, I’ve decided to interpret Celegorm as someone who chose to devote himself, body, heart, and soul, to a god/personal calling to defend his family/community/species, and then had to find a way forward in life when the very same god abandoned that calling, and then some of the people he was defending stabbed his family in the back. Like, damn. I don’t think I would react any better. If I had spent centuries of my life dedicated to the bloody, violent defense of a frontier (a defense that had been abandoned by the powers-that-be that I had been raised to expect to help), only to find out that someone from another cultural group that I was defending had trapped one of my best friends in an abusive relationship? And then like, a century later the leader of the same political group (who never apologized for what happened to my BFF!) very explicitly made a major political challenge to me and my family? And then I get the chance to reprise the crime that he never apologized for on his daughter? I would be fucking tempted. And the threat alone, without intent to follow through, would be enough to pry apologies out of Thingol and stabilize the Feanorian power base.
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just-an-ace-elf · 1 year
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On this last day of 2022, I wanted to thank some people. I don't know you personally and you don't know me, but you're very important to me. Because this year has been shit to me. And your art has been a beacon of light for me. To see my beloved elves take shape with your talent was a balm to my heart and it helped me go through some hardships. So thanks everyone, because if I made it all the way through 2022, it's in part thanks to you. I hope you realize how important your art is to some people ! I know I'm forgetting some of you, but know that you made a frenchie girl as happy as she could be this year ❤️❤️
@busymagpie @silmaspens @nailsinmywall @neldeathstar @forestials @debbiedart @anattmar @misswhalie @eldamaranquendi @windrelyn @lorica-art @drxconicsart @beolh @gratuacuunart @sauroff @sempermoi @mandhos @alef-art @navyinks
And special thanks to @the-doom-of-mandos , @incorrecttolkienquotes and all the others who post incorrect quotes, because you made me laugh every time I saw one of your posts ❤️
Thanks everyone for bringing Middle Earth to life along with its joy and sorrow! Can't wait to see what you have in store for 2023 ❤️
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nailsinmywall · 1 year
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the nailsinmywall MAGLOR zine (digital version) is releasing this friday, November 4th 💜
70+ pages. remastered artworks, 2 exclusive new pieces. with a STELLAR line up of 9 phenomenal writers: @amethysttribble, @skyeventide, elwinfortuna, @crownlessliestheking​, @samarqqand​, @athenaiskarthagonensis​, @maedhrus​, @feanorianswelcome​, @vviths​ telling his story.
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