nayrring

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[torchwood-99]

Eowyn wasn't embracing her "femininity" when she became a healer after a war.

Eowyn was embracing life and healing.

Eowyn didn't become a healer because she was a woman. Eowyn became a healer because the war had ended and the world needed healing.

[solrne]

jus wanted to draw her smiling

[rana-temporaria]

Cause like. Listen. Its an absolute tragedy and horrific that Celegorm's servants left Eluréd and Elurín in the woods. Objectively awful and im not saying its not but im thinking very much about how they (and Elwing, though she survives and makes it to the Havens) are the child victims most focused on in the kinslayings but its highly unlikely that they were the only child victims, at the absolute bare minimum children died due to both kinslayings, i mean fuck its the fall of cities. People die when cities fall. Lack of food, water, injuries left untreated, harsh conditions with no shelter and honestly I don't think Eluréd and Elurín were the only children who were murdered/abandoned/lost nor was Elwing the only child to live with the trauma and terror of what happened only to face it again at the Havens. But we hear their stories because (they're narratively important) they're royalty. I cant help but wonder about all the non-royal/noble children and what happened to them. Maedhros searched for Eluréd and Elurín but was there a search for non royal children?

[kisses-in-the-void]

One of the reasons why I can't stand the "kidnap family" and the idea that it somehow served as a "redemption" for the Feanorians.

You can't redeem yourself for mass murder by taking care of two children when dozens, if not hundreds, of other children were left orphaned as a result of your actions.

And you'd think that such a "super progressive leftist fandom" would remember that kids without royal blood are just as important, but nope!!!!

Zero. Literally zero attention is paid to them.

[kisses-in-the-void]

tags by @zumurruds, because this definitely shouldn't be left without the possibility of being reblogged.

#zero doubt in my mind every single feanorian has killed multiple children in their lives.#they were behind 4 kinslayings. 3 of which were major populations containing children who never recovered from it.#maglor feeling pity and later growing affection for his child hostages does not in any way redeem him or his brothers of their crimes#especially since the moral thing to do would have been 1) not to kinslay in the first place 2) not take child hostages away from their home#and the people they loved who could impart on them their history and culture unblemished 3) surrender them to gil’galad#or any other elven host immediately for their own wellbeing and safety.#forcing his child captives to trauma bond to him was an act of irreversible harm not love.#they lost out on a true childhood. they lost their history and culture and friends and people overnight. it rendered them incapable of#ruling any sindarin/iathrim faction afterwards or be truly accepted as leader as dior was because they were raised by the enemy.#furthermore adult elrond has entirely estranged himself from maglor in the series.#he does not dispatch a search party looking for him or host him in rivendell nor does he as a ruler of a significant realm beseech for#maglor in any way or try to repair his tainted reputation among elvenkind.#elrond canonically chooses to become immortal to preserve thingol’s line. which speaks of his true loyalties given who he was raised by.#he does not want to be associated with turgon even though he did not partake in any kinslaying at alqualonde. elrond simply does#not fuck with him because of the ban. which tells us elrond all but reviled the feanorians as an adult after processing his#childhood and trauma away from maglor’s influence.#when he introduces himself he calls earendil his sire not maglor and goes on at length to tie himself to his maternal sindarin heritage.#his sons carry on the el-naming tradition honoring elwe that began with dior eluchil. he wears a grey mantle and so do his kids.#he is named after thingols hall. he is a walking museum of his lost biological family and to me that’s more interesting than the ultra#sanitization of ~kidnap fam. elrond tells ppl he loved maglor once as a kid and not afterwards. there's a gaping vacuum there that#he fills with his biological heritage instead. he becomes a loremaster to preserve his family's history & all that is good wise & beautiful#he's not interested in aligning himself with a dispossessed house that was the cause of so much bloodshed and terror.#he opens a big house that functions like doriath and sirion - a refuge for the weary and the oppressed. the opposite of the feanorians.#that textual version of elrond is so interesting to me. because elrond cannot be as 'kind as summer' if he honors the murderers of children#he cannot be a wise kind and benevolent figure if he presumes to 'forgive' maglor on behalf of all his victims just because maglor did not#kill HIM as a child and did the bare minimum of treating a hostage kindly after violently ripping him from everything he loved.#elrond knows that maglor killed OTHER children which imo explains why adult elrond is written the way he is. he does not prioritize#maglor over his victims. instead he throws himself into healing and protecting THEM! and tries to undo the hurt and harm that maglor caused#fandom weaponizing elrond's kindness will never sit well with me bc kindness has boundaries & doesnt prioritize the comfort of oppressors#over the safety and dignity of the people they hurt. a kind elrond will always honor the children and innocents lost!

Yes to all of this. One hundred times yes.

I take great comfort in knowing that canon Elrond has nothing to do with the fandomized version of him that people flatten into a "Feanorian heir" who has no respect or love for the heritage of his actual parents, who hates his mother, and who refers to the murderers of his people as "his fathers."

This is the part of the fanon that I hate the most, and it once again proves that people on this site are even less progressive and self-aware than the conservative Catholic monarchist Tolkien himself, no matter how many "good" labels they want to put on themselves. I hate their obsession with focusing on the "wholesome kidnap family" while completely ignoring the deeply ugly layers of the situation. Because letting the twins live wasn't some heroic act, it was a choice not to spill even more blood, WHICH IS THE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM.

[seeliecielo]

The idea of Toph learning that calm and quiet love doesn't mean Zuko's ashamed of loving her out loud.

Toph is an observant person, listening is literally part of her character. For the first 12 years of her life she's only ever observed love that hid her away, love that told her to supress parts of herself. So I like to think that maybe as she matures a part of her grows to be scared (though she'll never admit it) of this so called "quiet love".

Growing up around Kataang and Sukka didn't really help her either since the two couples were prone to loud displays of love. So while she is aware that affection doesn't always need to be a lot, she still forms the idea that love is only worth it's salt when declared.

But Zuko is an awkward man. Toph has known him since their youth, before the crown and before the feelings. She knows that despite favoring the pda and shouted out "I love you" as an adolescent the love that he grew into was the quiet type. The one that existed within the stretches of comfortable silence that resembled tea time with Uncle Iroh. The one that does things for you without you having to ask. Toph knows that for all of Zuko's fiery passion his love burns more during gentle touches and whispers of affection.

So Toph learns from him, lets go of the fear and trusts that Zuko's quiet love isn't rooted in shame like her parents'. And along the way she figures out that love has space for the side of her that observes in silence and the side that unabashedly declares her feelings.

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Some Elwing propaganda:

*Is repeatedly called the worst parent of all time for daring to not be glued to her kids 24/7

*Smeared and slandered as loving a jewel more than her own kids (in contrast, a male character who actively led to the death of his own kids over the same exact jewel/s including one of his sons being burned to death as a direct result of said male character's COMPLETELY unnecessary act of spite is very VERY seldom called out for preferring the jewels over his children by the same fandom).

*Is called worse than two mass murderers because the two mass murderers are men who are depicted as hot and traumatized.

*Keeps facing claims that she only thinks about herself and no one else, despite her choice being a deciding factor in saving the world from a tyrant demigod who would have destroyed it all if no one would've managed to get other demigods to intervene.

*Keeps facing claims that she's a bad mom for "abandoning her kids" while her husband who was on the exact same mission she went on has "abandoned his kids" first and never faces any backlash for it whatsoever. At all. Genuinely never.

*Keeps facing claims that her actions, which result in the survival of every mortal in the entire world, aren't important enough to be away from her kids for any length of time, despite her actions being directly canonically supported by a benevolent demigod who shared in the knowledge of what THE (Also benevolent) CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE has planned for the future.

elwing propaganda!

[solrne]

out of her element (a lil comic based on an old drawing :p)

[nayrring]

The new ppl joining Tumblr are so annoying

[asinoeiv]

Firstly I love your art and you are one of my all time favourite Tolkien artists. Secondly, a crumb of Elros if you’re still doing requests? 🥹🙏🏽

Your Elros is finally finished ✨✨✨ young king Elros was probably a hot mess, he had to be with descendants like his. The design is half though out and pretty much just the first idea I went with. I like royal purples for him using a lot of influence from Byzantine/ancient Egypt and Rome.

[nayrring]

ZUTOPH ao3 fanfics recommendation!! (With my own commentary)

Toph and Zuko: Spun - By Anniered (super wholesome one shot of toph & zuko participating in a spin the bottle game the ending got me super giggly)

Hands - By en_vente (another one shot, just zutoph being vulnerable with eachother, toph feeling up his scar and it gets quite emotional i love it short n sweet n well written)

Jade - By WritingJustBecause (one shot- Zuko describes toph's beauty like the stupidly in love man he is)

Preference - By musicalinny ( this one follows up the movie, toph admitting zuko is her type and something grows between them, adorable!!)

Conductive - By musicalinny (4 chapters- zuko spending some time with toph at the metal academy, they're both overprotective of eachother in here which leads their relationship to bloom into something more <3)

Unrefined - By musicalinny (a jealous zuko AND jealous toph fic, genuinely love this one a lot)

Firecracker - By babydollbyers ( genuinely one of my FAV zutoph fics, the build up, the tension, the romance, the angst, it has EVERYTHING i had ever wanted to read about this ship 100% recommend)

Pretty Bird - By dottiedotcom (toph struggling with her insecurities about her looks and identity in the group and zuko is there to reassure & comfort her, It's so so adorable and emotional)

20/20 - By dottiedotcom (the gaang trying to figure out zuko's & toph's relationship, with a sprinkle of angst)

Catch and Release - By dottiedotcom ( "5 times Zuko is there to catch Toph, and 1 time the others find out why." the ending of this one is always stuck on my mind, absolutely recommend)

With Eyes to See - By dottiedotcom (god bless this author they have one of the best zutoph characterisation, i love the strong bond zutoph has in here)

Warm Ashes - By DarkHeartAttack (old zutoph fic going on a life field changing trip short n wholesome !)

Better Late Than Never - By MeGrimlockKing (another old zutoph fic it's super cute as well !)

Zero Progress - By PBandbeans (i think this one is inspired by that one fan art of toph laying down on top of zuko while he is doing pushups lol toph is veryyy into him in here iykyk)

sunspot - By miumius ("zuko helps toph get out from between a rock and a hard place." This was short n heartbreaking once you realise the implication behind it)

endless summer vacation - By miumius (kind of friends with benefits zutoph. Super hot)

Manners - By WritingJustBecause (Firelord zuko and his immense crush on the metal bender, cute realisation of feelings fic)

Pass - By en_vente ( "Zuko and Toph are lovers, but for how long? It's a pillowtalk that has to go somewhere." Love love love this one)

Sure - en_vente ( pregnant toph and super smitten zuko having a soft conversation about the future <3 )

Letters - en_vente ( 3 chapters of HEAVY ANGST, deadbeat father zuko alert. it's so sad but it's soooo worth a read if you wanna feel some anguish)

Regrets - en_vente ( Another heavy angst fic this time lin makes an appearance. Amazing read one of the best )

Earth Of The Fire Nation - By AVK9 (secret relationship zutoph that's quite steamy )

[nayrring]

The silmarillion deserve to be an 8 seasons anime and that's it

[nayrring]

I have like 15 or more zutoph fanfic links saved on my notes app rn i think i will make a proper post later to share all of them

[nayrring]

Streets saying toph and zuko were caught kissing aggressively

[thereisnowind]

If I was a relative/acquaintance of Caranthir and he was on my nerves I would simply refer to him as “Moronfinwë” instead of Morifinwë and it would probably piss him off so much my health and safety would be jeopardized

[permanent-detention]

mai is a subscriber to every fire nation tabloid

[liquidstar]

"only 90s kids remember-" wrong, if you're poor and/or rural enough, old tech and fashion doesn't just disappear when it stops being trendy. We had dial-up until 2012

[rrrrunk]

just furniture haters things

[nayrring]

Yooo they're taking down atla movie gifs on here for copyright laws everybody hiiiideeee