[rosalinddevlin]

“I’ve realized that I write a lot less about romance and parent/child relationships than I do about friendships. I think I keep coming back to this idea because in some ways, friendships are even more essential to a human being. You can be a perfectly healthy person without having kids or having a romantic relationship — you can live a full, happy, healthy life. I’m not sure you can do that without friends.”

— Tana French (via thebeautifulsentences)

[writers-solace]

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

[yidany]

Dawn

[sarchiba]

The defense of Osgiliath

About the picture:

⟡ The 12th and 13th March of 3019 Third Age are the days in the book when Faramir and his company meet Sauron's forces in Osgiliath. They are pushed back to the Causeway Forts, which they also lose on the second day. Here, Faramir is gravely wounded.

(In the movie this plays out differently obviously, and I admit I was mostly thinking about the charge to Osgiliath in the movie while drawing this, the part after Denethor freaks out at Faramir and then yk...🍅 because that is my FAVORITE horrible depressing scene in the trilogy)

⟡ The armor was inspired by a combination of Byzantine, Ancient Roman, and vaguely Gothic armor. I read that these civilizations might have inspired Gondor.

⟡ The flowers are meant to be Seregon, which are a Middle-Earth plant, but I believe only appear in a story set in the First Age and not associated with Gondor, but...they are red like blood canonically and I thought it would be cool

+ Plus...check this out: apparently the word "seregon" comes from the Sindarin words for blood (sereg) and stone (gond), and the same root is also what gives Gondor its meaning of "stone-land"

⟡ I listened to some dungeon synth while I was drawing this and started ascending lol

Timelapse:

⟡ I'm sorry for making Faramir cry :( hee hee

[sophsun1]

Stand By Me (1986) dir. Rob Reiner

[jacksaton]

i never had any friends later on like the ones i had when i was twelve. jesus, does anyone?

[adglotr]

Turin by Erenias

[koheletgirl]

guys not to alarm anyone but i feel like lamarque is ill and fading fast

[koheletgirl]

fuck

[a-fantastic-fox]

foxes! at the library

fun fact, Busytown is based on Gstaad, Switzerland, where Richard Scarry moved in the 1970s from the US

[okthatsgreat]

i <3 when women characters feel they aren't able to express sadness in "normal" ways because they don't feel safe enough to cry in their environment so instead they opt for the more acceptable strong emotion of rage and they get recklessly angry at the people around them in fits of misplaced sadness and terror and make irreversible decisions and hurt others. i dont care as much when this happens to a man

[em-niwa]

I missed @perplexingly appreciation day!!!  Happy birthday Marta, lots of kisses.

dat luthien. 

[vimeralinda]

[egberts]

*keeps my cards close to my chest but they're all facing the wrong way so everyone can see them anyway*

[stinkylittlegnome]

[angel-demiel]

[punkrorschach]

the legally blonde mentality isnt just for law students. u can bring that attitude with you into every field of work. be the whimsical force of positive change. wear that neon outfit. snaps for us all.

[punkrorschach]

this post was inspired by my boss telling me she couldnt "take me seriously" in a pair of dinosaur print overalls. sorry i have two degrees and a dope wardrobe. you dont need to take me seriously but You Will Take Me.

[mossbawn]

people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue

[mossbawn]

“i hate poetry its so pretentious” but then you reblog a quote or a throwaway line and say “why does this go so hard” you are desperate for poetry you are starved for it and u dont even realise you’re hungry

[t00thpasteface]

literally so embarrassing to have someone go "i don't go here" or "what's this from?" on my art and it's a rarepair/crackship that is in no way representative of the source material... and i have to be like. well you see, the rest of the restaurant's menu is not like this. i'm doing my own thing eating black olives right out of the can in the back-of-house. whether or not you want me to throw you a can, you have to understand that's not what they serve out front

[marlinspirkhall]

Sometimes you notice someone eating good olives out of a can and that's what gets you interested in the rest of the auraunt