More Violets, Less Violence

30s | Bi | Perpetually Grumpy I'm also adonneniel on Ao3 I occassionally have interests beyond Dragon Age 🩷✡️💙

[adonneniel]

If anyone has a hankering for a Crack Crossover Treated Seriously, may I suggest my beloved Dragon Age x Naruto WIP:

Komorebi (Ao3 link)

Rating: Currently M, might change to E

Status: WIP (currently 31k)

Tags/Warnings: Post-Trespasser, strangers to friends to lovers, drama, hurt/comfort, eventual smut, major illness, mental health issues (including vague suicidal thoughts), and canon typical violence

Pairing: Female Lavellan x Uchiha Itachi

Summary:

Inera Lavellan hadn’t meant for this to happen—just as she hadn’t meant to become her clan’s First, or the Herald, or the Inquisitor—but it had, and now she was further from home than she’d ever thought possible. At least they didn’t want to kill her. Yet. Uchiha Itachi knew that to question was to doubt and to falter was to fail. It didn’t matter that each step grew heavier. It didn’t matter how little of himself existed by the end. He was nothing, and he hadn’t been anything else for a long, long time. A business arrangement spirals into something more complicated.

[r0zeclawz]

its important to have a game on your wishlist that keeps going on sale every couple of months and you still never buy it

[samwwise]

lord of the rings really was lightning in a bottle. it shouldn’t have worked but by god it did. peter jackson, who had no filmmaking education and was mostly known for making low budget splatter movies, had no business going out and changing the movie industry like that but he did. return of the king showed up at the oscars and became one of the most awarded movies of all time. to this day it holds the record for the highest clean sweep. hollywood will keep trying to recreate that magic with bigger budgets and high profile actors and they will keep failing. i look at the state of these blockbusters where everything is smoothed over by soulless cgi and actors are acting opposite tennis balls and they will never hold a candle to the pure heart and soul and craft of the lord of the rings. every single person involved in that project loved being part of it and it fucking shows. i’m so thankful the stars aligned the way they did for these movies to happen like that.

[iron-dogwood]

Progress on my stained glass Narsil.

[alonelystargazer]

writing goals for 2026 ✨

to write

[seventyeight-moose]

[rlyehtaxidermist]

the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence

[estera-shirin]

Amulet box, Iran, 1875 CE

The museum writes: "An elaborate amulet in the form of a Koran box, but with repoussé inscribed medallions, fish and birds boldly rendered on the cover. On the back are further inscriptions chased into the metal. The style of the box, the decoration, and the script would seem to place this amulet among the early surviving examples from Iran. While the birds are fairly regularly used as decorations and symbols on Iranian amulets, the presence of fish is unusual."

[ohmovie]

'Then I must leave my own people, man of Gondor?' she said. 'And would you have your proud folk say of you: "There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North! Was there no woman of the race of Numenor to choose?" 'I would,' said Faramir. And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

Éowyn & Faramir THE LORD OF THE RINGS │2001–2003

[babehog]

The thing is sometimes you really do have to chuckle darkly

[687687675765-deactivated2023011]

new years eve!!! wooo!!! go crazy go wild! 🥳🥳🥳

[adonneniel]

Been four months and I still can’t believe I grew a whole ass human that didn’t exist before now

Also even this young, it’s crazy watching a new person discover the world. Today he was amazed when I helped him take a ring off a stacker toy, and yesterday he laughed with pure joy when he tasted peanut butter mixed with applesauce.

He’s so innocent it hurts. (And he’s so chunky it’s hurting me to carry him around all day 🥲 no one told me putting a baby to sleep would be such an intense workout)

[adonneniel]

Popping in to say happy new year & that being a mom is exhausting but rewarding 🥳

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[apicturewithasmile]

“I’m much happier at 53 than I was at 23.” (x)

[t-aash]

i love you guillermo del totoro

[night-dark-woods]

[ID: Four gifs of Guillermo del Toro in an interview. He says, “I think the sublime confusion is from 19 to 29. You think you are late for everything, you’re a has-been, nothing is happening, there’s no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you’re 30.” /end ID]

[freedom-and-books]

He once gave a class in Guadalajara and said “Ustedes los jóvenes están en la edad exacta de la desesperación. Yo nunca me sentí más acabado y viejo que a los veintitantos. Decía ‘ya me pasó la vida y no hice nada’. Pero estoy aquí para decirles que no: tienen un chingo de tiempo”

Which translates to “You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I’d say ‘life has passed me by and i did nothing’. But i’m here to tell you that’s not true: you have a lot of fucking time”

[ferocioustrout]

i love being attracted to women i think its fun and awesome for me

[saturniinne]

mossy

[kittyoperas]

must be the season of the witch.

for @ioncrescent