Amor Aderat

she/her. fan blog. mostly asoiaf, tlt, loz. feral for zelink, haladriel, campal.

[aeskoro]

do you think she dreamt?

[runasulienadanika]

GRIDDLEHARK AND CAMPAL ARE OPPOSITES BUT ALSO PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER AND IT MAKES ME SO INSANE

6th House is on mercury and 9th House is on pluto so they're on the opposite ends of the dominicus system

9 is 6 uspide down and 6 is 9 upside down

the Ninth House and the Sixth House are religion vs science

Gideon and Harrow are (were) childhood enemies, Camilla and Palamedes are (were) childhood friends. Gideon and Harrow had a hard time trusting each other, Camilla and Palamedes trusted each other with everything.

Gideon and Harrow are all about forgetting ("But I don’t even remember about you most of the time", the whole lobotomy situation), Camilla and Palamedes are all about remembering ("I’ve carried you, Warden. And I’ve carried your memory … I’d rather carry you", "Palamedes remembers everything: That was his problem. I always remember him. That’s mine")

Gideon and Harrow are water (the Pool Scene, Gideon being in the "well" in Harrow's mind, Harrow deciding to stay in the River and Gideon "dying" in the River), Camilla and Palamedes are fire (Palamedes's first death, Palamedes and Camilla's lyctoral ascention)

in griddlehark's case the necromancer carried their cavalier's soul, in campal's case the cavalier carried their necromancer's soul

Gideon and Palamedes sacrificed themselves, Harrow then carried Gideon's sword even though it was killing her and Camilla carried Palamedes's bones even though boe electrocuted her for it

Gideon and Camilla are both "devotion's casualties"

Harrow and Camilla risked permanent brain damage to save the souls they carried

Gideon barely had any training for her position and Camilla trained her whole life, but they both didn't normally use their rapiers and were both set on fighting rather than on traditional duelling

the 6th and the 9th are both poor, underestimated, dying houses. Harrow and Palamedes have been leading them since they were very young and they do anything to try to improve the situation

Harrow fell in love with the Body when she was 10, Palamedes began writing to Dulcinea when he was 8. both into old dead chicks (as Gideon phrased it) while also loving their cavaliers

Camilla watched Gideon impale herself to force Harrow's ascention, Gideon watched Camilla light herself on fire during her and Palamedes's ascention

"This was your shell but it was all filled up with me" & "It's not you. It's me wearing you"

"I keep turning around to find you, and there’s nobody there." "I know the feeling." & "You’d touched that letter, and I—you know it was killing me twice that you weren’t there, right? You must know it was destroying me to be there in your body, trying to keep your thumbs on, and I couldn’t even hear your damn voice?"

"Kiriona Gaia was staring politely at the side of the truck, as though there were something really interesting on the paintwork" & "Even Camilla, who had turned away to politely investigate something on the opposite wall, wasn’t there"

"It was just her and Harrow and Harrow’s bitter, high-boned, stupid little face" & "Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn’t speaking to anyone else in the universe"

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there's probably more, that's just from the top of my head. but yeah, they make me insane and i'm foaming at the mouth.

[threebeandinner]

COMIC #100!!!!

100. Feel

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Masterpost

Can't believe we've made it this far!!

This was actually the idea that first sold me on this ship. The way each had what the other needed...mmph. Hard to beat that.

[ellewhile]

the locked tomb is simply a story about everyone fighting over who gets to be the dead wife

[jsong0-0]

oh yesyesyes💪👴🧓✊

[finderheart]

I can't believe it took me this long to post these I finished this like nine months ago

An idea I had for Blood of Eden propaganda/recruitment posters featuring some of our favorite guys - combo of digital-print cyberpunk graphic design style with oldschool Saturday Morning Post covers like you'd see Leyendecker paintings on

I was gonna post these ahead of tabling at a small con and selling prints of them but ended up not tabling because turns out grad school is hard

maybe next year... figured tumblr would like though

[arkimessa]

✨My version of the “Abduction of Helen”, which is my contribution to @singomusezine, last volume coming out in July, as you know, full of great fellow artists drawing Greek Mythology awesomeness.

I chose this episode from The Iliad, Book III as the theme of the zine this year is about The Trojan War and all related.

🍏🦢 Paris and Helen of Sparta/Troy.

I was going to write about the meaning of the illustration and what I’ve expressed here, based on that episode, but I prefer to leave it to your understanding and imagination. And I’m sure you can also spot the little symbols I’ve included. I hope you like it ❤️

[fageleh]

hobbies should not take up this much space. there ought to be a hobby pocket dimension, where I am able to store everything I need in a breadbox that weighs no more than my cat.

[d-llahanspade]

sometimes, ignorance is bliss

(I am very proud of this please like it)

[zishiyao]

The Light That Was Not Dawn

Mandos had spoken of treason among kin. At Losgar, Fingolfin saw the prophecy take fire.

[analogousstructureamrod]

Celegorm being forced to repent by leading people out of woods/snow storms/desserts/extreme environments as a ghost.

He gets no credit, no tale to tell than a tall, pale man who speaks no known language but always leads those astray back on their paths.

He never finds you nor hunts you; you run into him. Some say he’s searching for a lost pair of twins, others say his search is find his lost treasure. No one knows the true reason behind his hunt.

To see him twice is considered an ill omen.

As the forest grows darker he leads you deeper into the woods, around twisted paths and fallen trees and then those trees standing tall. You always end up where you needed to be. He disappears as soon as you cross the threshold out of the woods.

The ghost carries only an old bow, arrows, and a hunting horn. If you get lost from his path, an even worse omen, follow the calls of his horn to safety. But do not try to stay for too long; He is not human.

There is a greed, or hunger as some say, in his eyes that tells you that if you lingered any longer, he would eat you. Legends say this cannibalism is because he is a wolf turned human, for his crimes of killing many men. Do you not see those sharp eyes? Do you not agree? Others say it was because of his vile greed in life that he has been cursed with a hunger that can only be satiated by eating his fellow kin. Do you not see the blood stains on his clothes? Do you not fear him?

Never once has he hurt one of the many people he has led, but do not think it’s because he can’t. His arrows are sharp and his aim impeccable. It’s continued punishment; to be a hunter who cannot hunt his own prey. But yet he still has fangs, so fear him still.

He has had many names throughout the years and many hypothesis for his origins. However, one thing every legend has in common is that this is not out of his own free will. It is punishment, punishment for a crime so great that it has lasted centuries. What has he done to suffer so greatly? To live his life forever hungry and without rest?

Who knows. The ghost can scream and shout but no one ever understands what he says. He must continue his hunt.

[orions-mistletoe-arrow]

My favorite headcannon I have going for LOTR right now is that the elves that are still around by the time Frodo gets on the scene are the elvish equivalent of doomsday preppers.

I forget where I read it, but I'm pretty sure that at some point there were millions of elves on Middle-earth, and by the end of the third age, it's down to a few thousand, aka a very small portion. These are the elves that got told way back in the first age, "Hey, just so you guys know, you're totally welcome to come back and live in heaven now without any worries" and responded, "No thanks, we're good!" and then proceeded to not only hold to that but survived the next 7.000 years of bullshit including but not limited to:

Multiple continents sinking into the sea

orcs

dragons

balrogs

multiple wars with Sauron, a literal divine being

The rise and fall of several human empires

more orcs

wargs

a bunch of their territory being overtaken and burned to the ground

And all of their loved ones either dying or sailing, even though we know that grief can and will kill an elf

Like, you can't tell me that third age elves start showing up in the undying lands, where everyone has spent the last few thousand years basking in the magical equivilant of free therapy and probably have as many defence measures as a suburban coldesac, and aren't viewed as the most feral, twitchy, paranoid mother fuckers; held together by suspicion, stubornness, and at least 25 contingencies for every situation they've collectively encountered during their time in Middle-earth.

My favorite examples of feral, hyper-vigilant behavior include:

Elrond: Security clearance; sure, Turgon may have threatened to kill anyone who tried to leave his hidden city, but he also took an entire army out of and back to the city at once, and then also didn't realize that his own nephew snitched on where the city was. His security protocols sucked. Meanwhile, Elrond had hundreds of strangers coming in and out of Rivendell for over 3,000 years, at one point completely surrounded by enemies and full of nothing but a bunch of refugees, and Sauron still never found it. You can't tell me that he didn't have at least 25 security checkpoints on the way into his city(sorry, house-that means it's private property, right?), even if you didn't know they were there.

Galadriel: Paranoia; This woman was magically keeping track of everyone she knew and even did it often enought that she knew what to look for of those she couldn't directly track (gandalf) and looking into their minds and testing them. All while having Sauron constantly clawing at the walls of her mind, at least for a few years

Thranduil: Spite; it was basically only his sheer audacity holding his nuclear bunker- cough cough- sorry, I meant vast underground halls together, while his next-door neighbor was some cursed ruins, a dragon-infested dwarf kingdom, and evil, man-eating, car-sized spiders on his front lawn.

Haldir: he blindfolded the fellowship when they tried to enter his city (super secret hideout), need I say more?

Multiple examples of groups of elves jumping out of trees fully armed and ambushing anyone who wanders into their territory. And while the characters seem surprised to be ambushed, they don't seem surprised that elves ambush people in general, leading me to believe this is normal behavior.

In summary, while the elves in the LOTR and the Hobbit seem all chill and fun, I like to imagine them as the crazy raccoons of the elvish family trees that wandered in 5 hours late.

[tamilhobbit]

😂

[roycohn]

it's so funny when cats get all huffy when you pick em up and give em lots of kisses. like bud that's literally your job in this household. you don't contribute financially so you gotta let me smother you with affection several times a day. feel free to pack a bindle and make your own way out in the cold harsh world if you don't like it

[thesadpuffin]

Zelda Reacts Part 14

ugh another set of armour that I just LOVE and I'm so happy I thought of an idea for it. this is all I wanted in the canon ending!! *screams at sky* okay I am calm...

Part 13: Ancient Armour <<<

[g0ddamnb0x]

Thinking of how John never describes G- and P-'s relationship in any way in NtN, even if he does that to every other pair. And in HtN he has these kinda weird lines about how G1deon is "legendarily unamorous" and how the "closest thing" to interest he showed in anyone was in Pyrrha.

I have many feelings about that, but the funniest idea is that John just geniunely has no idea what was going on there. Like G- just one day brough a cop that was at least decade older than any of them to the movie night or whatever and refused to elabrorate.

Then after the resurrection, G1deon and Pyrrha continued to be insane about each others, but John (or anyone else) still couldn't tell in which way exactly.

[curiouswisp]

Palamedes eats breakfast for Camilla every morning in Nona the Ninth.

No, it's fine. I'm totally ok about it, really.

[grynwood]

"I don't let go. It's my one thing"