mitchie ✮

call me mitch ❂ she/they ❂ local menace and resident idiot ❂ 23??? ❂ a lotta tolkien, MXTX, and bleach

[cokalee]

Sherlock and her Watson

[exhausted-undead]

tried out apothecary diaries the other day, got inspired to do a study, redrew jinmao as Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss", died

ive been sick for a while so excuse the messiness

now available as a print under the cut! (AAAAAH thank you guys so much for the lovely words!)

Jinmao Kiss - Gustav Klimt Redraw, an art print by Boxes

This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

[pruhledna]

My fave recent art of JinMao by @/lacampanule on twitter

[evildala]

Codywan slowburn fic where their biggest obstacle is NOT the Jedi Code. Their biggest obstacle is NOT the power dynamic and that they work together.

Their biggest obstacle is that Cody gives mixed signals because on one hand, he is really into Obi-Wan. On the other, he does NOT want to be Anakin’s pseudo step-father.

[catsandcatci]

straight obi-wan played by keifer sutherland

[diosapate]

looking at your phone is always one of these two experiences

[asinoeiv]

Listen, listen, there are many weird and puritanical things about the way Tolkien writes about elf sexuality. But this is just absolutely hilarious and gives the opportunity for sooo much funny shit.

I really wished I knew who originally made the post, but I just had the screenshot on my phone to snicker with my sister about.

[catsandcatci]

the silm is like dog years for pages, every page is like ten in a normal book 😭

[thetiredprometheus]

Glorfindel: what if we throw the ring into the ocean?

Lindir (Maglor in disguise): wow

Elrond: no actually we'll throw it into a volcano

Lindir (Maglor in disguise): WOW

[armenelols]

Elrond as viewed by Númenoreans is hilarious. Aristocracy is one thing, and their long kept histories and direct descent from the elves.

But someone lowborn - still educated, still familiar with the stories. Faithful or not. Lifespan lower than the upper class, but longer than other humans - but that doesn't matter - thousands of years is a long time. The Roman Empire was more recent than this guy.

Because imagine the founder of your nation and its first king, who was told to have been born as the son of a bird and a star, lived to be 500, and who died 2000 years ago. Just. Has a sibling. Who is still running around. You can go visit him. You can! He's very friendly. He wrote the medical book your healers study from. He updates it religiously every other decade. You don't hear from him often because he lives fairly secluded from society and seems to prefer a quiet life but every few hundred years something batshit insane happens and he's right there. At the center of things. Pretending to be a background character, as if Sauron didn't look warily at him expecting him to turn into another Lúthien incident. Maybe he's shy?

You are a sailor. You meet him on one of your journeys to Middle Earth.

He's not shy. He's just crown-phobic. He looks like every single painting of Tar-Minyatur you've seen. He glitters under starlight. Literally. His parents are a bird and a star and you keep forgetting that's not a metaphor. Everyone is in love with him. He sings to the birds. He has had a slowburn one-sided romance going on for the past 1000 years. His crush has yet to find out but the king is running a betting pool.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

the fact that the tra la la lally elves don’t show up when frodo et al. arrive in rivendell implies a few options to me:

they are only there some of the time or at certain entrances (possible but prosaic, includes the potential for tra la la lallying as shift work)

elrond’s magic has some kind of built-in warning system and they cleared out to avoid potential danger (plausible and realistic considering that i don’t think team tra la la lally is either interested in fighting or skilled in emergency response)

the changing political climate and increased danger around rivendell resulted in all tra la la lallying activities being moved inside the valley (which begs the question of where, and if they just manifest barbershop quartet style beneath guests’ windows)

elrond didn’t know about it until bilbo unwittingly mentioned the experience over dinner, and all roadside tra la la lallying was brought to an end (either petering out without the allure of secrecy or simply by the power of elrond’s consternation)

the whole thing was contrived solely to troll the dwarves (elucidates the standout conformity of only these elves to historic ‘tree-dwelling hippies’ stereotypes)

bilbo fully made it up (this was revealed when merry and pippin cheerfully asked elrond when the tra la la lallying would start, and elrond said ‘gesundheit’)

assuming the tra la la lally elves are real, though, i’m so certain that it was a celebrían-manufactured conceit made permanent by her shameless use of a parting wish to a weeping and dock-bound elrond right before they were sundered for centuries. she was leaning over the rail of the boat to valinor shaking her fist and yelling that they had to sing the song she wrote and not some sad sappy poem meant to attract maglor. yes, with all the tra la la lallies. or else.

[tanoraqui]

“I asked chatgpt” well I journeyed to Rivendell to seek council of Elrond Half-Elven, wise among men and wizards alike, and he invited me to a meeting with representatives of all the free peoples of Middle Earth. It turns out that my trouble is but part of the trouble of all the world, the origins of which lie in earlier, grander ages—but none of us stand alone!

[passivelylevolent]

Something I feel like is very underrated about Tolkien’s writing is the way he always writes his aristocracy as having jobs.

Like most fantasy stories I read/see have a privileged ruling class whose day job is to either do politics or be idly wealthy. And then you have LOTR and the Silmarillion, where the kings and princes and queens are constantly identified by very traditionally lower-class job. Fëanor and Celebrimbor’s defining trait is their smith work. Elrond and Aragorn are constantly referred to as capital H Healers. Bards like Maglor or Daeron or Luthíen seemed to be a point of pride for their families/cities.

Idk it’s just a really cool take, esp from a British author considering the historical British “noble class” is where most of these fantasy stories draw their worldbuilding from.

[catsandcatci]

kidnap fam enthusiasts whenever an artist accidentally depicts the star of ëarendil with 8 rays instead of 6

[littlestpersimmon]

deity who watches over house cats

[oneheadtoanother]

[yellow-cat]

gay cat