among the spires shrouded in mist

🪼 hey i'm zure :) | she/they | video games, mostly pokemon and hzd/hfw + a little multifandom stuff and zelda | also sometimes I draw things 🪼

[lapras-lazure]

Horizon and pokemon enjoyer; also loz, silm and etc | i can be a little shy sometimes but im pretty active on here :)

Art tag: my art

[maiya5t]

Wizards dance💃🏻

[toskarin]

I love when an artist does something as a joke but then obviously thinks about it until they trick themselves into being into it. like haha I drew them in the green alien au where they're both green aliens who say gleepblorp [three days later] I drew another green alien picture

[essektheylyss]

I'm truly still losing it over Deirta. Overheard her son admitting to high treason and made him kill her himself. Called him a child to the queen and told him not to cry over death. Used her last moments to give him a directive as a dying wish then helped him push the knife deeper into her chest. She is everything she is an icon she is the moment who is doing it like her etc

[wolfythewitch]

Three’s a crowd!

[stamway]

It was hard to find a good "secret" to add into this meme, but oh well. It was fun to draw at least.

[zkitty8]

anyway,

[yeah-i-speak-that]

My For You dash did a thing...

[temenigrus]

I love how when GAIA first experiences an emotion, her first thought is, “ Am I malfunctioning?”

[ferithtolkienesque]

The Silmarillion fandom is genuinely insane. Like, you hang out on tumblr, read fic on AO3 and you think, yeah. Lots of people have read the Silmarillion. It’s Tolkien. Everyone’s read Tolkien. Barnes and Noble has a whole bunch of the HoME and also a bunch of books by people writing about the legendarium. This is mainstream, surely.

But then you actually touch grass and talk to normal people. Not even that, you talk to people who self diagnose as hard core Tolkien fans. And. None of them have read the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is famously a book that nobody reads.

And yet. On AO3 The Silmarillion and Other Histories of Middle Earth has more works than The Lord of the Rings. Think about that. That’s baffling. It’s ridiculous. Like I realize that LotR fandom is split a bit by the movie, but still. The Silmarillion has almost four times as many fics as the LotR movies. Everybody has watched the movies!

I need to know what percentage of people who actually read the Silmarillion went on to write fic or draw fanart about it. Because it must be insane, surely. Like, I’m pretty sure the Silmarillion wins some kind of record in this department.

Thinking about the fanfic bell curve where on one end you have “Perfect, needs no improvement or elaboration” (LotR sits here) and on the other you have “So bad it’s no fun to even think about” with the middle being the fanfic zone. But I think there may be a secret fourth Silmarillion option. Which is a book that is perfect* but simultaneously non existent. It’s not even a real story! The language is super pretty and deeply incomprehensible (especially to people who, unlike me, were not raised from early childhood on both the Bible and classic literature). And it’s more of an outline and an abstract painting of cultural and world building vibes (not cultural and world building facts and information) than an actual narrative. There are story hooks galore. There are vivid and fascinating characters, but their lives are glossed over and you only get one or two paragraphs of prose that will reorder your brain chemistry and haunt you forever. There are countless more characters who only exist as names, the implication of whose existence is fascinating. All of this is deeply frustrating, both to casual readers who just want a Normal Enjoyable Book, and super fans who want All the Lore. But it is catnip to anyone who engages in transformative work.

*I am aware that not anyone who is a fan of the silm thinks it’s perfect

[fandomestuff]

I find it SO interesting that Owelia messaged ASTRID and not TRENT

I mean we've seen her relationship with Trent more that with Astrid and Wulf, but it seemed like Trent would be the person to contact, both to make Caleb's life harder and to please Trent as she dies (no matter how wrong it sounds). So her contacting Astrid? Makes me veeeery curious

[neria-rt]

guy who is more concerned about not using the scientific method than the actual killing people part (aka fanart of this post that made me laugh earlier)

[essektheylyss]

Also, super importantly, if you consider Essek's work with Trent as canon, you get to consider how funny he is from Astrid and Eadwulf's perspective (ended up in your boss's lab having fully committed treason to help you pull off the heist of the century, did a bunch of fucked up experiments, bailed to the ass crack end of the continent after a crisis over his life choices, showed up with your ex-boyfriend during your attempt to apprehend said ex-boyfriend, ran off to play house with him despite being wanted for the treason). Truly everyday the Volstruckers continue to wake up.

[essektheylyss]

ngl obsessed with Trent's line from the trailer (that I suspect comes from the start of the next episode) of "the Luxon beacon is no religious relic. this is a weapon" because it's got such extreme "only a Sith deals in absolutes" energy. bruh, why are you creating this dichotomy that is so purely and demonstrably false. the most powerful weapons on the face of Exandria are religious relics. have you, an incredibly old wizard, never heard of Vestiges of Divergence. you worked with Delilah Briarwood. 'no religious relic' do you hear yourself. do you realize how much of a clown you sound like. 'no religious relic' Vecna would like a fucking word.

[conceiteddemon]

Essek betrayed his country for his family and Caleb betrayed his family for his country and both were nearly destroyed by the weight of their actions name a better narrative foil duo

[veliseraptor]

#wait this is frying me now because. #essek chose not to reveal the one motivation that caleb would have sympathized with the most. #because to him it's more selfish and shameful than lofty intellectual concerns. #and caleb kept trying to appeal to essek's patriotism because to CALEB that's the most powerful motivation lever to push #but essek fucking hates his country for what it did to him.#tearing my hair out (via @venndaai)

[slimereveler]

being a female knight fucking sucks. every squire boy i get turns out to be an adult woman with short hair who's just in it to sensually strap my armor to me. CHOP CHOP bitch the French are trying to sack our castle!

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

obsessed with marion and jester having their big emotional moment and fjord just standing there like🧍‍♂️