And it's worth fighting for

This blog is my secret garden! I'm a white, queer, neurodiverse, cis woman in my 20's and I like Tolkien, intersectional feminism and lots of random fandom stuff. I'm also the author jessieb on ao3. Come say hi!

[foodffs]

THE BEST MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE

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Is this how you roll?

[szlez]

Sunday Morning

Still detoxing from last month’s gore, so have some domestiel

[balrogballs]

TURGON OF GONDOLIN

An illustration style rendition of Turgon for @ignotr, as commissioned in February by @the-other-side-of-mirkwood 🥰 I really enjoyed hyperfixating on this one, especially with the embroidery and general white roses theme, his relative… er, turgidity, and everyone knows I love a good grey streak. Prosthetic fingers from the Helcaraxë years as well! Also @peasant-player pattern making a reappearance on his sash 🥰

commissioning details

[outofangband]

I think that Doriath generally and Menengroth in particular, as the only realms of Beleriand beyond Angband with an Ainur presence, should have more strange phenomena. Indeed, the descriptions of Melian’s ability with song in Morgoth’s Ring hint at a power both lovely and uncanny.

Melian served under Vána and spent time in the gardens of Irmo, master of dreams and visions

Some is intentional like the Girdle. Melian enacts a significant amount of power over her domain, just as she did in Valinor. Though the walls and pillars of Menengroth are engraved with intricate leaves, ivy, and flowers, some of the flora is real, and is the result of Melian’s power. Melian herself is imbued in the architecture and land.

Some is inadvertent. The Ainur are not necessarily meant to be contained to physical forms and where they live and change becomes imbued with their presence and power.

Forest glades forever suspended in twilight, paintings of birds fluttering into life (or an approximation of it), a strange presence in the waters that fall through Menengroth.

Those around Melian change too, find themselves brushing flowers from their hair and find their skin stained with chlorophyll and prints of ivy, find themselves drawn to twilight, wandering deeper and deeper into the forests at times.

Nightingale song invades their dreams

[justhurtingalot]

Isn’t it weird how you can actually feel the pain in your chest and stomach when something really hurts your feelings

[christichris]

This is actually because it activates your vagus nerve! Basically your body goes “we are so upset! We must be injured! Where???? On the inside guts! Those are confusing and hard to differentiate!!! Confusing guts are hurt!”

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[winchester-reload]

Happy May, everyone!

Flip those calendars, go grab a coffee with the love of your life, and do some flower peeping, will ya? I'll be walking arm and arm with a fanfic, probably.

Want a wallpaper?

Or a print copy of this calendar? Oh, yeah— you bet your butt I've still got some!

Or hell, wanna drop a couple beans in my alms cup?

[rvllybllply2014]

He’s celebrating the fact that he’s made 150 chocolate pieces

[griseldajane]

Thranduil and little Legolas.

The news that Lee Pace will be back as Thranduil has re-ignited something in me.

Funnily enough I had drawn him and Legolas separately a few weeks ago before they announced it!

[aphrostiel]

spock and i-chaya taking a nap

[tos-mcspirk]

AWWW AWW AWWW AWWW

[mf-dude]

[trr3rr]

He's a journalist

[depsidase]

[griseldajane]

Thranduil, the Elvenking, it’s been a minute.

Don’t have much time lately, but here’s a rough sketch of one of my favorite Tolkien characters.

[officer-lahit]

...get caught!

[liberalsarecool]

Hegseth is an unhinged radical menace.

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[monamoni]