Writing Blog

for herenortherenearnorfar on AO3

[stemmmm]

fanart for lentic by @herenortherenearnorfar !!!!!

fic of all time of all time. in fact one of my favorite pieces of writing i've ever read in general! this axolotl can do it big and small style

[herenortherenearnorfar]

Amazing!!!!! I am printing this out and pasting it to my wall, I love it so much. His spots and his yellow eye! I promise, the answer to why he can do it big and small style is forthcoming. No stone unturned, no axolotl inexplicable.

[herenortherenearnorfar]

... at 99 fics on AO3 now so I must decide if I want no. 100 to be some sort of grand event or if I'll just post more of the same. Choices, choices!

[cycas]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aulë | Mahal/Yavanna Kementári Characters: Aulë | Mahal (Tolkien), Yavanna Kementári, Durin the Deathless (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Crack, invention of dwarves, Years of the Lamps, Almaren Summary:

Aulë invents a Dwarf : Yavanna has suggestions.

[herenortherenearnorfar]

fairest by HerenorThereNearnorFar

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium & Related Fandoms  

Tags: Explicit, No Archive Warnings Apply, F/F, Complete Work, No Archive Warnings Apply, Arwen Undómiel/Dís, Arwen Undómiel, Dís (Tolkien), Casual Sex, Stone Top Dís, Canon Compliant, Lots of Indulgent Art Talk

Summary: Hookups in the Last Homely House? It's more likely than you think.

Language: English Words: 6,123 Chapters: 1/1

Happy Pride, please enjoy canon compliant (?) Arwen/Dís.

[itscolossal]

Vibrant Miniature Dioramas by Shannon Taylor Burst from Vintage Compacts

[swellbythewind]

Elwing took one last look back, but Eärendil didn’t.

My favorite artist painted this for me like a stained glass window. not my art but my commission.

Artist：我死了你们就满意了

[paintedcrows]

Ever think about how Bill Cipher has canonically threatened every member of the Pines family, except Stanley, with suicide? I think about that a lot... Kid's show villain everyone!

Individual Panels below the cut!

[yellbug]

one really really really funny thing you realize when you are studying history is that people pretty much always desperately wanted to post online and would have been soooooo fucking crazy on here. i wish hildegard of bingen was oomf

[foggyarts]

scrapped stuff

I made this after art fight :^ it was gonna have like all the forms of bill but it was actually so much more work than I thought. I would continue it, but I don’t remember how I did the backgrounds or the textures

the sketches

maybe I’ll come back to one day

[theoppositeofprofound]

We really forget the fact that Pippin’s older sister committed the Hobbit version of a compensated political assassination sometimes. 

[edgar-allan-possum]

Wait, what?

[theoppositeofprofound]

you heard me

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

The naturalists' outing

(for and inspired by the wonderful @ulmondil, beloved resident tuorologist, who brings such grace and thoughtfulness to the dash and the fandom at large. hope life's treating you kindly, dear friend 💕 and if not that this can bring you a little joy in the meantime)

[ulmondil]

I'm struggling to find the words for how much I love this and how kind this is and how much it means to me that you drew this...because like. "immensely" and "incredibly" and "the world" seem kind of weak considering I just maybe possibly wept a tiny bit upon clicking on it. maybe. lol.

so I suppose I will just say thank you so so much for your extraordinary kindness and for the gorgeous, precious drawing of three of my absolute favourite characters of all time appreciating some of the world's littlest creatures. I am cradling this in my hands forever and ever and ever 🩵🩵🩵

[dalals]

Byzantine mosaics found on the ceiling of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy.

[firesidepress]

Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower

Prints

[bigskycastle]

kingfisher

[bigskycastle]

print

[biteitwhenitssoft]

How'd it go Bill? How'd the show go? Did it go well? Did your show go well?

[julijbee]

how does it look? is it almost done?

i learned from this post that tumblr has a limit for the number of tags. whoops.

my abridged rant about tattooing and finrod. abandon all expectation of punctuation and proper grammar all ye that enter here:

im currently enjoying the conflict between the permanence (“permanence”) of the elves and their bodies and the preciousness of a body. and the aversion to its marring (“marring”) and suffering. not the aversion to hardship as i see this as different but more the grief of the marks said hardship may leave and the weight of that hardship wrought upon the body “permanently” and the weight being that of grief.

so the idea of intentionally “marring” the body as something to be troubled by. i think also much can be said about the ease at which something troubling that comes from mortal people could be attributed to the darkness from which they flee. and maybe theyre right about the source being from that darkness or maybe that is entirely baseless and hurtful but regardless of its source its current purpose is clearly not evil. its a medium of creation to be bent in whatever direction it will by its wielders.

anyways, findaráto. he is hungry in his wanderings for secret places but also for new things and most of all for learning. and though he might have misgivings in his heart at the start he cant hold onto these things for long. not when it is clear they are untrue or different from what was supposed. and how could he wander far and be friend to all if he held his heart closed so? his heart is left open and he bars the doors from shutting.

it is a detached way of thinking to wish to be unmarred, detached in that is involves being apart from the world and what of it can touch you. finrod may be afraid of attachments to some degree but not to the extent that it stops him from constantly seeking them. To be burdened by the "weights" of attachments or by griefs is to have loved. for what is found in living within the world and loving it and loving it well and remembering it and carrying it within himself is everything good about living. (grief accompanies it but the grief and pain would likely be there anyways with the dark days at hand. no matter how far apart he held himself from life)

so of course it doesnt frighten him to "mar" himself. does pain alone lay claim to marking the body or can joy or other things mark it too? or his own want? is it not his own with which to live in and should it not suit him? should he not be allowed to welcome such a "weight" upon his skin and delight in it?

he likes how they look and wants one for himself is there really any more that need be said??

footnote: i have an overcomplicated set of thoughts about tattoos and tattooing that spawned this drawing idea; i spent most of my time in a contentious back and forth on the opinions of various elfin groups on tattoos or other related things. what does it mean to be marked/tattooed/scarred/etc. from artistic to ritual to medical to injury/cruelty. i love tattoos and i think they show something i love most about people in general. that everything is a avenue for creation, that we cover everything in our art including ourselves (ESPECIALLY ourselves) but fantasy as the mirror held up to our reality likes to reflect the notions carried over from colonialism and repression and opinions on a tattoo and what it is of and on what body it is and where on that body. part of me wants to be free from the realities of our current world when i engage with fantasy but another part of me does not want to be rid of them. it feels wrong to pretend that the viewer (of our normal world) will not look at something with eyes and thoughts from that world, because it is still just us engaging with the fantasy. i cant pretend it doesnt exist in the fantasy world when the baggage of reality gets brought along with those that engage with it. yes yes im thinking too seriously about a silly drawing, its what i do and i like to be this way. peace and love.

[julijbee]

ungoliant number one fan