and love is too long

emma • she/her • millennial books + adaptations

[hurricanenoelle]

[ayellowbirds]

On the one hand, i’m amused at the joke. On the other hand, I’m a librarian and this shelving is horrifying.

[tharook]

Well, no shelving system is without fault.

[existentiallyqueers-deactivated]

understatement of the fuckin’ century

[hamrikaa]

LOTR yuri 💍

[kiss-land-deactivated20161104]

Please feel free to take this personally.

[sobblefan]

This was a cold open to a youtube video and I am crying LOL

(video here)

[cowboylegolas]

aragorn, practicing his elvish: hey what’s up?

legolas: ??????

aragorn, adjusting his dialect: oh sorry.. howdy how yall doin today

legolas: OH howdy!! :) what’s truckin partner

[ouevreofmaite]

♱ Carmilla & Laura ♱ illustrated by me

[nevertheless-moving]

Much has been made of Ryland Grace's name being Grace, and that's extremely valid, but I think y'all might be sleeping on the Ryland part.

Because rye wasn't domesticated like other cereals. It was a weed with enough of a passing resemblance to wheat and barley that there was accidental gradual selection for similarity to crops, which meant larger seeds. At which point rye still mostly stayed as a weed, but a arable (useful/edible) one. And then (after thousands of years of arable weediness) it was intentionally cultivated, likely due to its frost resistance and ability to grow in poorer soil than it its ostensibly higher nutrition domesticated competition, becoming a regionally vital crop. The cultivated strain continued to hybridize with its weedier/"earlier" rye relatives in the wild in a way that was hard to control, leading to a high level of genetic diversity (until relatively recently) compared with other grains.

I'm just saying that at some point, maybe a couple years into the road trip, maybe not until linguists dig in post-nutrient crisis, Rocky, who on day two (2) of their collaboration/friendship, was informed the bipedal leaky space blob's name was "Elegant movement" and duly provided the eridian tranlation with the same sense of amusement that new Merry Men got upon meeting Little John, who called him that name in literally every possible emotional register from sarcastic glee (watching sleep-deprived 'elegant motion' trip on its own feet for the 4th time that day) to great and terrible fear (rocky was not actually thinking about dramatic irony while watching Elegant-Motion be thrown to the wall and lay there unmoving while its body weight crushed its lungs, but he did maybe think about it with dark humor later) to unfathomable love, gratitude, shock, relief, thankfulness (at a certain point a funny nickname ceases to mean anything but that person. Grace is here, Grace came back, Grace is here!), Rocky is going to find out that was not in fact the only translation for his name.

Apparently Grace's name could ALSO have been translated as first name: "Expanse of living things which survive terrible cold and lack of nutrients and are good in hidden ways and unintentionally shaped themselves to be chosen for consumption by humanity", last name: "Help/ Mercy/ Kindness from a higher power". At which point Rocky will clarify that 1)Grace didn't make all that up just now to fuck with him 2) that's been his name since birth. And then Rocky will speedrun all 7 Eridian stages of Grief and chase Grace around with a wrench.

[autumnflame]

Flame of the Lioness

Priscilla Kim

www.priscilla-kim.com

My entry for the first week of Month of Love, “Heroes.” Of course I had to do a piece for the first hero I remember loving, Alanna of Trebond, Olau and Pirate’s Swoop from Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness quartet, who almost certainly (alongside Aerin from the Hero & the Crown) instigated my lifelong love of kick-ass warrior women. 

I’d been meaning to do some pieces for the series once I had some free time anyway, so this was a good excuse! Also, check out the majestic piece Elizabeth Alba also did of Alanna! :D Great minds.

[tamorapierce]

Stunning. Absolutely stunning.

[mithrandirl]

And Frodo when he saw her come glimmering in the evening, with stars on her brow and a sweet fragrance about her, was moved with great wonder, and he said to Gandalf: 'At last I understand why we have waited! This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away!'

[freedvictors]

It’s the things we love most that destroy us

[statictay]

rereading dracula after reading carmilla for the first time really makes me appreciate carmilla's efficiency in securing a place. dracula had to deal with all the logistics of the housing market meanwhile carmilla just crashed her car on someone's lawn and she got a cushy guest room and a girlfriend out of it. carmilla the woman you are

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Quick portrait of Daine to regain some energy. Honestly, that fairytale au snowbaz from this weekend drained me.

[overthinkinglotr]

I love that thing in Lord of the Rings where the villains spend so much time obsessing over the character they believe is their Destined Archenemy that they overlook the character who actually defeats them

The Witch-King of Angmar, the Black Rider, seems to be Destined to fight the wizard Gandalf, the White Rider.  He doesn’t consider Eowyn a threat right up until she stabs him in the face 

Saruman is fixated on defeating Theoden, Aragorn and Gandalf in an Epic Light vs Dark Fantasy Battle at Helm’s Deep. So he completely overlooks the two hobbits and bunch of trees sitting right next door, who proceed to destroy Isengard

Sauron is fixated on defeating Aragorn, the Destined King of the Heroes and descendant of the man who defeated him last time. So he completely overlooks Frodo and Sam, who proceed to actually defeat him

[miss-m-winks]

One reason the high fantasy genre has produced so many stories that are adventurous and fun but ultimately not quite satisfying and often feel too similar to each other, despite the genre being so heavily influence by LotR, is that people try to write the epic hero journey and forget that JRR Tolkien subverted that trope in his own writing. The heroes of his books are those who play background characters in more typical contemporary fantasy novels.

[decaysings]

redraw of last year's carmilla piece

[ID: black and white digital fanart of carmilla from the novel by sheridan le fanu. she's wearing an 1860s style nightgown with her wavy hair loose about her. she stares steadily at the viewer, her face, gown, and hands stained with blood. end ID]

[kttniss]

This trip, girl wake up! This trip doesn’t end when you get back home. You never get off this train. You two are mentors now. That means that every year they’re gonna drag you out and broadcast the details of your romance. Every year your private life becomes theirs. From now on your job is to be a distraction so people forget what the real problems are.

[balinsbeard]

lotr meme: 7 quotes ⇢ (1/7)

war will make corpses of us all