ARCHIVED

Now at @SortaSp00ky

[housedzemael-archived]

Alright! New Blog is Made! She’s over at @sortasp00ky ! Feel free to follow if you’d like, I’m gonna reblog this a few times over the next week!

[housedzemael-archived]

Alright! New Blog is Made! She’s over at @sortasp00ky ! Feel free to follow if you’d like, I’m gonna reblog this a few times over the next week!

[housedzemael-archived]

I’m probably gonna work on archiving this particular blog and remaking in the next couple of days for my own organization brain! Look forward to those links! <3

[autisticmight]

catholicism’s only true purpose is to serve as a backdrop for sexy vampire aesthetics

[aldrovanda]

@housedzemael

[gffa]

I am not even a little bit sorry for the person I become when there’s new content about my favorite fictional character.  You live by the fictional character hyperfixation, you die by the twenty plus posts I’m forcing you all to see about my Blorbo.

[quasi-normalcy]

I’m not trying to turn your kids trans; that’s stupid. I’m trying to turn them into socialists.

[quasi-normalcy]

#for real tho! their gender is their business but class struggle is everyone’s business

[housedzemael-archived]

This! Is my homebrew setting Worldanvil. There are only two finished pages at the moment, Bat-Folk and Merfolk, but I hope to get it more fleshed out soon. I’ve got some repayment writing to finish for my friend (as thanks for the art on those two pages) but soon I’ll be writing about the mushroom people

[geirskogull]

Hey yes i haven’t forgotten this exists.

I’ve been working really hard on my homebrew world anvil! I’ll link up a few pages here when they’re done!

[strynoirs]

i wont stop drawing aranaras

[ariminiria]

remember to do your part by giving Amazon’s Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

[stealingmyplaceinthesun]

[ariminiria]

this is one post i actually wouldn’t be mad about it blowing up. i want as many people in on this Morb as possible. i’ll suffer the notes.

[ariminiria]

in response to your tags, basically, a while back, Amazon the soulless megacorp acquired the rights to some portion of Tolkien’s Middle Earth lore. As someone more heavily in the LotR online fan circles, we all immediately knew it would be terrible and hold no respect for the source material, by dint of it being Amazon.

And true tof form, they decided to do the worst possible low effort job of making a show out of it. Grave mistakes include adding sexual content (very not-Tolkien), rewriting characters just cause they feel like it (turning an elegant, powerful sorceress into a warrior and a wise leader into an “ambitious” go getter), none of the male elves have long hair (and hair is a HUGE part of Elvish culture), party city looking costumes, general low effort all around, and egregious inaccuracies a la Amazon the Soulless Corporation essentially just trying to make Tolkien’s work more palatable for Game of Thrones fans rather than putting effort into just letting it be what LotR fans actually like about it.

Each new promo material makes it worse and worse, and more obvious that no one making it cares at all, hence why we want the Morb treatment to make it flop and show Amazon the fans won’t stand for them trying to just GoT-ify other beloved properties and stray so far from the source material when they could make something original instead

[coffeexafterxmidnight]

Holy crap, that sounds awful! Also just like something Amazon would do. I’m so sorry. I will happily spread your message to my followers. 

[sepdet]

There’s also the part about how they started filming it in New Zealand because, you know, Middle Earth is kinda a cottage industry there thanks to the films? A major driver of jobs, tourism, and popular culture which New Zealanders have proudly embraced as a little piece of their national identity?

But then extremely seasoned stunt actors kept complaining about unsafe work practices during the filming of Rings, which they considered particularly egregious on that kind of budget. Their complaints were ignored. There were multiple serious injuries, some requiring surgery. Amazon failed to report these incidents to New Zealand’s WorkSafe program as required by law.

Finally, it pulled out of filming in New Zealand altogether, a costly move for both Amazon and New Zealand, and relocated the production to the UK where worker safety rules are far more lax.

$500,000 payment: Stunt workers' fury over LOTR injuries

Lord of the Rings TV series stuntwoman paid $500,000 after injury.

[amuseoffyre]

If you ever thought they were taking it seriously as Tolkien work, the fact they punted their Tolkien consultant and specialist says a great deal. They want to have a new GoT. They don’t care what that means.

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

Holy shit I hope the Tolkien esate goes for their throat

[ariminiria]

unfortunately since we lost Christopher, I don’t think there’s anyone left who cares. Amazon had to get the rights from someone after all…. and they announced RoP almost immediately after he died

[escaping-thoughts-reviews]

Never forget Tolkien’s own words regarding poor adaptations/bastardizations of his work:

“But I would ask them to make an effort of imagination sufficient to understand the irritation (and on occasion the resentment) of an author, who finds, increasingly as he proceeds, his work treated as it would seem carelessly in general, in places recklessly, and with no evident signs of any appreciation of what it is all about.”

“The canons of narrative art in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 210

And never forget they fired Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey because he told them they were “polluting the lore” and it didn’t set well with them.

Keep reading

[ariminiria]

Thank you for this, it’s a very good breakdown of other things I hadn’t covered.

[inthemidstofbuddie]

also remember that there was that leak of how the future of amazon prime hinges entirely on how well rop does.

[appalachianapologies]

There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!

Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isn't a social media site, it's an archive.

Posting fics on Tumblr isn't the same as posting fics on Ao3

Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.

Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads don't push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.

Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.

Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.

Happy reading, and if you'd like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!

[housedzemael-archived]

ThotOfDarkness - Twitch

Hi I'm Alex, I'm a 24 year old nonbinary friend with a love of gaming and storytelling! Stop by for a while!

Doing some ARR on an Alt For Streaming Time Today!

[bonivers]

.... i have never felt so seen

[androidsandblossoms]

The Howling Eye Garuda.

[housedzemael-archived]

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[lich-loved]

so bachelor dankovsky… are you ready to die?

[sadclowncentral]

yesterday my date made me promise to "not talk to any random russians this time" only for me to immediately become best friends with a kosovan gang member. saved on a technicality

[sadclowncentral]

after i successfully taught him how to play uno via google translate i explained to him that my date's phone got stolen, prompting both the most threatening AND the most hilarious sentence ever typed into a translator:

[sadclowncentral]

"why did you have to promise that you won't talk to russian people in in first place" because after a certain amount of alcohol i enter a stage of inebriation my friends have dubbed "russian hour" in which the duolingo trained part of my brain takes over and i sniff out russian speaking people like a bloodhound and exitedly talk to them until i am physically dragged away.