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98% of the time confused or oblivious the other 2% I'm a sarcastic little shit | french | melting-pot blog | my obsessions work on periods | (icon by me) https://ko-fi.com/ectocosme

[ectocosme]

Please dm me if you're interested or have any questions. (portraits/ just linearts/ chibis/ complexes background etc). More infos under the cut.

If you can’t/don’t want to commissions me sharing this post is very much appreciated! (*￣3￣)╭

Will draw:

original characters

MLM, WLW, MLW ships

OC x canon

I promise I can draw modern stuff I’m just obsessed by the fantasy chinese blorbo(s)

Can’t draw:

nswf

gore (blood is fine)

mecha

complex background/ props (ex: the bed in the 3rd example of the 2nd style. Takes too much time.)

Payment

Full payment upfront through paypal using EUR, though I can offer ko-fi as well

Process

References are useful! (pls don’t use AI)

I will show WIPs throughout the process

Reasonable/simple revisions are free during sketch time

Major revisions will incur additional fees

Terms of Services

I have the right to refuse a commission for any reason.

No refunds unless on my part.

The commission if for personal use, not commercial. (Aka I retain rights over the works.)

Don’t use the commissioned work in any technology related to NFT, cryptocurrencies or Ai

Credit is required when sharing the work

If you’d like to keep a commission private I am happy to oblige, just let me know. I am also open to who posts the finished piece, again, just let me know what your preference is.

I will keep you posted on the progress of the commission, rough draft, sketch and then colours.

Recap of prices:

Style 1: half = 15€ - full = 21€

style 2: half = 24€ - full = 36€

Those are my first time prices, the "wtf i'm doing" so it's low. It's a limited offer :3

[suffering-and-misery]

adhd paralysis sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

[sabrsiren-deactivated20250418]

just wanted to share these executive dysfunction comics i am so sorry to whoever drew them these have been saved on my phone for like 6 years

[ectocosme]

pro: I found a way to fall asleep in less than 30m

con: it's the playlist I've been using to write, which I do late in the evening... 😴

[zeldacw]

【UNWAVERING】

Liu Qingge | SVSSS

[ectocosme]

chapter 2

of SJ wandering into the Silmarillion.

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

They also filmed in illegally occupied territories in western sahara

'Cultural parasites': Calls for boycott of The Odyssey over filming in occupied Western Sahara

Sahrawi filmmakers criticise Christopher Nolan for complicity in Moroccan exploitation of Sahrawi land

[specialagentartemis]

I know I’m a super normie though because I still don’t… understand… how exactly you wield the One Ring as a weapon. Like what did Boromir and Denethor etc. expect to do with it besides turn invisible and get soul-corrupted by Sauron

[ramshacklefey]

Oh! I know this one!! (Lots of preamble exposition here, maybe not helpful if you already know it, but here for other people)

Ok so. The ability to do magic in LOTR is basically the ability to force your will onto the rest of the universe. You want a fire here? Tell the laws of physics to sit down and shut up there's a fire here now. People have different amounts of willpower in this regard based on how close they are in lineage to the Valar, who are the personal first children of the creator deity and helped build the world through song. Gandalf and the other wizards are Maiar, the personal servants of the Valar. The oldest of the elves once lived in Valinor and were created by the Valar as their children, they were close to the light of the Trees and that brought them great force of will. The only elves we ever meet who lived in Valinor are Galadriel and Celeborn.

But elves in general, descended as they are from these origins, have a deeper and closer relationship to the Valar than other species. Humans and dwarves never lived in Valinor. (Not all the elves did either, it was a whole thing, but the Mirkwood elves had never been to Valinor and so were less powerful than the others. This is why Legolas is a relatively low-power elf, though still more powerful than most humans.)

There was, however, a nation of humans, the Numenoreans, who lived on an island halfway between Middle Earth and Valinor. Because of this, they had as much power as humans are capable of. After Numenor sank into the sea, they founded Gondor, and that is why the line of kings of Gondor is so powerful. They are directly descended from the original Numenoreans. Each generation after that first, however, had slightly less of that power, and because human lifespans are short (and grew shorter as they decreased in power), there are many more generations of humans between Numenor and the third age than there are of elves. Though the elves have seen a diminishing of this as well, it's much slighter. This is why Elrond has much less power than Galadriel.

Many many generations of humans ago, but only a couple generations of elves, the elven princess Luthien fell in love with a human, Beren. Because Beren was part of the line of Gondorian kings, this gave a sort of power boost to their children and thus to the line of kings after them. This is why Aragorn is so much more powerful than other humans: he's a direct descendant of an elven princess.

Alright so. Magical objects. Magical objects come in two sorts: those made of a substance with special properties or inscribed with words of power (the Lothlorien cloaks, the Earendil glass that Frodo has, the Mithril coat) and those made by the creator placing some of their own will into the object (the palantir are one example. The Silmarils are another, although Fëanor also captured the light of the trees in them which added to their power).

All the Rings are the second type. Celebrimbor was the one who developed the method for making them. He was the grandson of Fëanor and so had a fuckton of power and will to use for that.

Sauron was a Maiar, like Gandalf and the other wizards. He had been Morgoth's second in command and apprentice, but after Morgoth fell (he was a Valar btw), Sauron claimed to be reformed and became an apprentice of Celebrimbor. He learned the secret of creating the Rings, and had a hand in shaping the Seven and Nine, and he put small pieces of himself into them. The Three elven rings were made after Celebrimbor realized that Sauron was up to shady shit, and so he never had anything to do with them.

Then Sauron made the One Ring, and he poured a TON of himself into it.

But the way these kinds of objects work, anyone can use them if they have sufficient willpower to channel what's already in the object. But there's a catch. Because the source of the object is literally someone else's willpower, the object is always primarily subject to the creator's will. It's literally a part of them, will act in ways that person would want, and responds to commands from them even if someone else is trying to use it.

This is why the people keeping the elven rings (Gandalf, Galadriel, and Cirdan) have to be so powerful themselves. Even though these rings aren't evil, they have a limited level of desire for certain things and would actually eventually take over the mind of someone less powerful. Also they were trying to keep Sauron from finding them. (Aside, this is why the One Ring has no effect on Tom Bombadil. Whatever he is, he natively has more will than what Sauron put into the ring.)

So. If you have the One Ring, whoever you are, you can channel a level of Sauron's will commensurate to your own. Gollum never could use it for anything but turning invisible. Frodo could do hardly anything deliberate with it. But if Gandalf or Galadriel had it, they could fuck shit up. If Aragorn had it he would be terrifying. Even Faramir could have gotten a big power boost from it. And because it's part of Sauron, who craved dominion over others, it wants you to use it to dominate others, and it will tell you that you can, and that it will help you shape the world into something you want.

But here's the catch: it's a fucking liar, just like Sauron. Sure you'll be powerful if you have it, but it's got his will in it, and the more you do what it wants, the more control it gets over your mind. In fact, it's so powerful in that way that just being around it can get to you. That's what happened to Boromir. That's why Gandalf, Galadriel, and Aragorn know they absolutely cannot touch it or even try to keep it safe. They know, or fear, that they would eventually give in and try to use it for good, but it would corrupt them too. Faramir knows what it is, and he rejects the whole idea of having that much power. Sam recognizes it for a liar, and rejects the power it offers him.

(Sauron was also massively weakened when he lost it because once you put that much of yourself into something, you can't get it back out.)

Tolkien, who lived through both world wars, saw a lot of what happens when people are given too much power and influence over others. He was also a devout Catholic, and there's a lot there and in the wider mythos about the dangers of seeking power because at some point you're setting yourself up as a false god, but the prime false god in the Catholic mythos is Satan. And Satan will offer worldly power to people in order to gain control of them.

....does that answer your question?

[onnastik]

It's worth noting that even Frodo is able to weaponize it, in a small and desperate way, as essentially the mind-control device it was designed to be: https://mikkeneko.tumblr.com/post/171469590499/frodo-laid-a-geas-and-other-invisible-magic

So yeah, someone with more will to power over others than a half-dead hobbit could seriously wreck shop.

[internerdionality]

Adding that the ring arguably doesn’t actually turn you invisible. Or rather, it does, but that’s a distant side effect of what it’s actually doing, which is far more powerful.

Putting on the Ring moves you from the realm of the flesh to the realm of the spirit. This is why, for example, the Ringwraiths could still see Frodo when he put on the Ring, and in fact, he could see them far more clearly—because he was halfway out of his world, and into theirs. This is because Sauron created it primarily to suborn peoples’ minds and spirits, which is easier to do from that realm.

[arofili]

Great analysis all around. But being the pedant I am, I have to make a few minor lore corrections - none of which take away from the main points made, and in fact strengthen them, IMO!

The Elves are not the children of the Valar, they are the Children of Eru. The Valar themselves are "creations" of Eru but not his children, per se; there's a distinct difference between the more ambiguous relationship of Eru to the Valar and the firmly paternal relationship of Eru to the Elves (and Men). However, it is true that the Valar act like somewhat overprotective parents to the Elves that live in their domain.

The only Elves we meet in LOTR who lived in Valinor are Galadriel and Glorfindel, not Celeborn. It is true that Tolkien had some drafts where Celeborn also lived in Valinor, but those were retcons written after LOTR had already been published, and do not make sense with the text of LOTR. In the published LOTR, Celeborn is a Sinda elf who never went to Valinor, but he was a relative of Elu Thingol, an Elf king who was married to Melian the Maia, who lived with her husband in Middle-earth and definitely influenced their kingdom.

(Also, Glorfindel is doubly unique in that he came to Middle-earth from Valinor, died in Middle-earth, was reborn in Valinor, and then came back to Middle-earth. Galadriel just went the one time and stayed.)

The power of the Elves and of the Numenoreans has less to do with "proximity to Valinor/the Valar" and more to do with...well, for the Elves, it's connection to and mastery over the Soul, an for the Numenorean Men it's literal direct ancestry from both Elves and Maiar that gives them the foundation to build on that same kind of mastery. This is a complicated subject, and while geography plays a role in power, it's not as important as other aspects IMO.

Elrond having less power than Galadriel is...debateable. Personally I would rank them about equal. He is certainly less flashy with his power than she is, though.

Technically Beren was the ancestor of the Numenorean kings, so yes "part of the line," but again it's more complicated than that... Luthien (daughter of Melian and Thingol, half-Maia and half-Elf) is the ancestress of Aragorn, but it's also important to note that her granddaughter Elwing married another half-elf, Earendil, whose mother Idril was a Valinorean elf living in Middle-earth. Their children are Elrond, who chose to be an Elf (and has a lot of magical power!) and Elros, who chose to be a Man and became the first King of Numenor. Eventually Elros' Numenorean descendants founded Gondor and Arnor, etc etc etc, and Aragorn is the product of all that impressive ancestry - with a lot of human generations in-between to water it down. Arwen, as Elrond's daughter, is much more closely related to the original Elf-mortal couples (and her mother, Elrond's wife, is the daughter of Galadriel and Celeborn, mixing in even more impressive ancestors!).

Aragorn's power is not just to do with his ancestry, though; like with the Elves of old, it's a lot to do with his own internal mastery of his spirit. Faramir, also of Numenorean ancestry, has similar capabilities - but notably, his brother Boromir did not. This is because insight/foresight/"magic" was something he both had talent in and worked to master, like Aragorn. (Aragorn had the benefit of being raised by elves.)

The analysis of magic objects is spot-on, and the most relevant part of this discussion, so great job there. I would just like to emphasize the discussion of willpower, because that's really what it boils down to: yes, proximity to the Valar helps; yes, elven ancestry helps, but when you come down to it, the most important thing is strength of will. Elves, Maiar, Valar, Numenoreans, even regular humans and hobbits (and dwarves) - some might have a leg up when it comes to their innate willpower and connection to their own souls, but any one of them, given the strength of will and the practice of making it stronger, has magical potential.

At the time of LOTR, Cirdan has long since given his Ring of Power (Narya) to Gandalf. The third ringbearer is actually Elrond. (Again, not less powerful than Galadriel, just not as obvious!)

Another example of the Ring's (Sauron's) will dominating its bearer is when Sam briefly carries it, he has a vision of ruling over an amazing garden. Being Sam, he has the practicality to not fall for that temptation, but it goes to show that the Ring will manipulate its bearers with whatever would work best against them.

Again, overall a fantastic bit of analysis! I hope my clarifications added to the discussion; I truly don't just mean to correct things but also continue the discussion. This is a really complex topic and I very well could have missed something or mis-stated something myself!

[crafty-butch]

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

[worst-roommates-ever]

i think americans should have to put a banner above their post that says U.S. CENTRIC ADVICE/INFORMATION. i think political posts should clarify that they are giving protest/societal/class information relevant only to the USA i think i would like to stop getting halfway through a post with really good information and then realising it is not widespread advice and is only applicable in the united states of america

[worst-roommates-ever]

for the love of GOD can we PLEASE stop treating us-centric advice as applicable to the whole entire world. Please. beyond anything else, i do not think you guys understand how difficult it makes it for young people to interact with and learn information relevant to them.

at a certain point, treating us-american advice as universally applicable borders on misinformation. i am not saying that it is done maliciously, but it is dangerous at worst. i do not want younger people going around assuming that certain laws do/do not apply to them and getting in trouble because of it. i worry about what 'fundamental/constitutional/labour rights' are only legally defensible in the USA. i worry about kids who do not know yet to wonder where the advice is for, and take it as fact because a post that reads "EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS" begins with "EVERYONE".

[worst-roommates-ever]

okay yes all the tags are very very good points but i would like to point out the main reason i made this post, which is that

if you are non-american then it can be dangerous to hold beliefs about your rights that are only applicable in the US.

i am australian and i have seen young australians have completely us-american perceptions on the rights they hold (or do not hold) in regards to protest, police officers, self-defense, medical care, higher education, debt, and legal proceedings. i am not talking about "boooo americans" i am talking about the genuine danger it might present to have us-centric assumptions in high-stakes situations

(please do not chalk this up to 'if you don't do research then you are stupid'. i made this post with young people in mind. that being said i am willing to bet it also applies to others, ie those who are newer to non-local internet, older folks, or those escaping high-control environments.)

[hagesunniva]

the fact that people prefer to read and write in english rather than their native language should actually be seen as a crisis im not joking this is not a good thing

[i-too-translate-into-polish]

Fakt, że ludzie wolą czytać i pisać po angielsku, zamiast w swoim języku ojczystym powinien być postrzegany jako kryzys, nie żartuję, to nie jest dobra sprawa

[translatingpostsintoafrikaans]

die feit dat mense dit verkies om in engels te lees en skryf, eerder as hul moedertaal, behoort eintlik as 'n krisis beskou te word, ek maak nie 'n grap nie hierdie is nie 'n goeie ding nie

[textpostscymraeg]

dylai'r ffaith bod well gan bobl ddarllen ac ysgrifennu yn saesneg yn hytrach na'u mamiaith gael ei weld fel argyfwng dwi ddim yn jocian dydy hyn ddim yn beth da

[suomennoksia]

se tosiasia että ihmiset lukee ja kirjottaa mieluummin englanniks kuin omalla äidinkielellään pitäis oikeesti nähdä kriisinä mä en vitsaile tää ei oo hyvä asia

[unpredictable-probabilities]

ang katotohanan na mas gusto ng mga tao na magbasa at magsulat sa Ingles kaysa sa kanilang sariling wika ay dapat talagang ituring na isang krisis hindi ako nagbibiro hindi ito magandang bagay

[ectocosme]

you know what's evil about summer beside for the temperature from hell? it's not a Soup kind of weather

[satorugojowidow]

Which of the three remaining european countries in the World Cup colonized your country?

Spain

France

England

Remaining time: 1 day 10 hours

[mystikelh]

If France colonized my province first, but then England took it, which do I vote? 🤔

I guess England colonized the rest of the country.

[igniedelfuego]

France even colonized some part withing France itself, autocolonialism

[bracketjiu]

Shen Jiu having a fandom is really important to me because literally his entire reason to exist in the novel is to not exist at all. Yet he is kept alive by the fans. Ohh shen Jiu why was the most detailed part of your life either your death or slavery

[ectocosme]

currently seething at Tolkien rn bc what do you mean this dandy professor made the perfect character tailored for me who has a difficult background, leave all he knew behind, ends up in a place with ppl of a different "group", is traumatised by the death of his parents and finally get a place of power that might have very well be just in name while at a very young age...

...and then it's one of two only naturally evil elves.

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Final Round

Senshi (Dungeon Meshi)

Ryland Grace (Project Hail Mary)

Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune)

Remaining time: 1 day 18 hours

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

[ectocosme]

j'ai découvert la version fr de the project gutenberg qui est "gallica.bnf.fr" mais la mise en page est tellement fouillis visuel ça me donne mal aux yeux.

[ectocosme]

had the misfortune of being sucked into yt shorts for a moment and got to a woman dressing as a hobbit with one batshit comment wondering why christians likes LOTR so much... because... it has witchcraft