if people reach perfection they vanish, you know?

Into whatever Maglor is putting out these days | she/her. terfs dni | ao3

[nycterisg]

Hi! Long overdue, but here are a few things to know about me:

My name is Serena. You can call me nycteris tho, or sere, or La Sere if you're from northern Italy.

I suffer from multiple breakdowns due to university. I figured doomed elves might help. Somehow.

If you love unhinged elves and depressed mortals, we can be friends. Please. Let’s be friends.

Shy but exuberant. Does that make sense.

I enjoy having fun and prefer not being sad.

My favorite words are "Arson" and "Whimsical". I must admit I don't know many words so I'm stuck with these.

Notable tags:

♠︎ #for when sad: collection of posts to cheer me (and you!) up.

♠︎ #winged things: birds. Birds and Eönwë.

♠︎ #sere rambles: ramblings; they can be silly headcanons or unserious metas about Tolkien or just me venting about stuff.

♠︎ #sere writes: my unserious attempts at fanfics.

♠︎ #tolkien meta: self explanatory.

That's it. Wish you all a doomless day!

[divider by saradika-graphics]

[twinkprison]

there’s just no way he fucks good I’m sorry. that’s the appeal. to me

[twinkprison]

need him apologizing and crying on it

[outofangband]

Flora, Fauna and Geography/Environment of Arda

I thought it would be easier to have a masterlist for this so I don’t have to throw so many links at you all each time!  It will be updated when new things are added so recheck the original post when you want! Entries without links are in the process of being written. 

I also have lots in the Beleriand tag as well as on my World Building Masterlist here

A lot of my smaller posts like my flowers of Beleriand series aren’t usually added

Disclaimer: I used both what we can extrapolate is likely indigenous to the region based on descriptions of the landscape and climate as well as my own headcanons and inspirations and reference books on similar habitats as well as books like The Atlas of Middle Earth and The Flora of Middle Earth

I really love working on and researching these! and as always feel free to ask more, even if I’ve already done a place I’d always enjoy going into more detail of tacking a more specific kind of life there

Note: requests do not have to be for only Beleriand! And you can request anything; geographical resources about certain features (forests, marshes, etc), information on flora and fauna or environment and climate, etc

Beleriand:

Flora of Ossiriand

Talath Dirnen  Doriath Neldoreth 

Region Himring and the March of Maedhros Hithlum Ard-galen  Dorthonion  Sirion Gondolin Maglor’s Gap  Brithombar (WIP) Himlad

Nan Tathren 

Nen Lalaith  Barad Eithel  Dor-Cúrathol

Nan Emloth

Fens of Serech

Flowers of Himring

Lake Helevorn

Estolad

Ferns of Doriath Ferns of the March

Mosses of Doriath

Butterflies and moths of Doriath

Flowering plants of Nargothrond

Crystals of Nargothrond

Orchids of Doriath

Reptiles and amphibians of Brethil

Mammals of the March

Mammals of Maglor’s Gap

Mammals of Himlad

Mammals of Hithlum

Mammals of Dorthonion

Fish of the March

Trees of Doriath part one

Taur Im Duinath

Flowers of Nargothrond

Birds!

Birds of Himlad

Birds of the March

Birds of Estolad

Songbirds of Doriath Other birds

Birds of Nan Elmoth

Birds of Dorthonion

Birds of Dor-lómin

Birds of Thargelion

Birds of Maglor’s Gap

Birds of Barad Eithel

Bids of Nargothrond

Birds of Gondolin

Nut trees in Beleriand

Western Beleriand Environment

Dimbar Environment and Geography

Dorthonion Environment and Geography

Lothlann

Flora and fauna specific to the legendarium

Ered Gorgoroth and Nan Dungortheb environment

Decay

Food in Brethil and by Amon Rûdh

Middle Earth Post First Age:

Desert ecology and world building 

Geographical resources: Rivers and streams of Beleriand

Updated springs post

Updated lake post Forests of Beleriand Marshes of Beleriand

Waterfalls of Beleriand

Realms of the Fëanorians

Bridges, fords and water travel in Beleriand

Rivers of Númenor and Aman

Tol Eressëa

Poisonous plants Medicinal plants

[trailertrashgrog]

i often wish my faves were more popular but then i see how people act about popular characters and i don't wish that anymore

[trailertrashgrog]

when i posted this i didn't realize people would think i mean that people are too mean or weird about popular characters in a negative way. i was thinking about the fact that popular characters get turned into boring homogeneous sexless avatars with no edge or depth who are only allowed to be a representation of fans' personal experiences and therefore cannot do wrong without it being explained away or somehow someone else's fault because otherwise it's a personal attack upon the fan

[soundoftheirwings]

A good fictional character needs to go through all of these sequentially in their narrative arc

[hypokeimena]

[image description: screenshot defining the word fey /fā/ (adjective)

Overrefined, exaggerated, or affected.

Effeminate.

Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality.

Having visionary power; clairvoyant.

Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell.

Fated to die soon. /end description]

[nycterisg]

is this thing misogynistic or do I just not like it and other amenities

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[thebellekeys]

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

[dailymanners]

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

[barishal]

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

[dailymanners]

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

[dailymanners]

This post made racists angry enough to harass me over it, which all that's going to do is make me bring this post back and reblog it more.

[moredhel]

My mind is now set, lord, to leave the shadow of the mountains, and go west, whither others of our kin have gone

[redreyenotarget]

The king he would have been…

[kibutsulove]

sort of unfinished weird and evil fucked up manwe design. if I dare

[infizero]

ive talked about "childhood friends gone wrong" on here before right

[infizero]

there's probably already a name for this but it's a trope i coined for a very specific type of dynamic that im consistently obsessed with. give me two people who grew up together and played together and were each other's best friend and then Something Happened and now everything's fucked up but they're still friends. or they want to be at least. you look so different now and everything is so much more complicated now than when we played in your backyard but literally who else knows me better than you. who else could i ever call my best friend

[str-ngeloop]

the trouble is with intellectual self-minimization is that there's an incentive for it -- never make any claims that anyone could take issue with and you'll never need to defend them and you'll never need to face-off against power-knowledge. Then again, I am seeing now how self-minimization could also be a more selfish way to protect beliefs that you worry deep down could be refuted by others in a way that you may find convincing. If you're attached to these positions and you're also attached to the identity of being someone with epistemic rigor, then you might avoid bringing these beliefs up in front of other people you trust and who you see as a justified epistemic authority for fear of having them confronted. For fear of either -- being forced to defend them -- even if you have a defense ready there's a social cost there, there's an emotional cost there -- but there's also an epistemic risk of being convinced that certain beliefs aren't justified. and being forced to abandon a position you're attached to, or forced to feel the ego-dystonic awareness that you're not as rigorous and ironclad as you saw yourself to be. and that others can see it too. I think, partly, I hold on to the notion of being a person who cares deeply about epistemic rigor because I hold positions that if seen at low resolution in bad faith could mark me as being part of a camp I don't actually want to associate with.

I also think that chains of logic built to defend positions from attacks (which are themselves motivated in various ways) are markedly different than the chains of logic one actually takes to arrive at a position, which is different again than the chains of logic you might present to teach people in an intelligent way. the pedagogic justification is different from the defensive justification is different than the immanent justification.

[balrogballs]

ok i drew this elrond sketch in my image mostly as a joke but now i’m really fucking obsessed with him and he’s giving me intense gender envy because yes he’s modelled on me but eye would not look like this if i had long hair and did not, and unfortunately i still probably would not and now i can’t decide if i want to kill him out of jealousy or paint this fully and make him My New Elrond™️ and ascend to greater heights of aspirational autofiction (autoart???)

ref pics below, featuring the one and only pose i ever stand in, but sadly they are all pre-twink era because my hair is too short now to serve as elrond ref. which is exactly what my problem is w him.

[kldien]

Oromë

The Great Huntsman

Nahar

The steed of Oromë

I could not ignore the idea, where Oromë would wear a crown of antlers and a hide cape, a perpetuation from one of the greater hunts. It just clicked. I wondered if this concept would make sense- since wearing an entire stag's head and horns must be a cumbersome weight, but he is basically a god, and he'd definitely adorn himself with nature's gifts. Oromë's reverance to trophies.

It's a first time I drew a horse, a little practice before continuation of my planned projects.

[el-shab-hussein]

My mother didn't have a choice in being a refugee, she was the daughter of a genocide survivor, and frankly she was a genocide survivor herself. She moved her entire family to the imperial core. I can both be a genocide survivor, a victim of the Western empire, and also be a beneficiary of it by becoming a citizen of the Western empire, with a Western passport, a Western citizenship, access to the resources only available through Western plunder of the Third World which includes both of my home countries. My income is funding the bombing of my friend's little brother's school. My income is funding the genocides of Palestine and Lebanon that is killing many of my friends and their loved ones in Ghazzah. And on my own I can't fucking stop this slaughter. This isn't a privilege I would ever fucking deny but the fact that I see this stupid fucking discourse on the daily is driving me fucking insane. You can claim to be 'anti-imperialist' all you want but denying these basic fucking facts makes you an imperialist. Stop making your cognitive dissonance the problem of the Third World and be better than this. There is no free Palestine if this continues, if you all continue to deny the part everyone in the imperial core plays in benefitting from genocide and plunders the world over.

I am both a victim of imperialism and one of its beneficiaries by virtue of being embedded in the imperial core, REGARDLESS of the fact my rights are far lower than the most privileged subclass of the imperial core. It is clear however that a lot of you have yet to understand this is possible and to understand your own position as an individual within global material relations.

[el-shab-hussein]

The reality is my friends are being bombed with the full force of the Western imperial arsenal EVERY SINGLE DAY and I'm not. That is a privilege I wouldn't have if I wasn't in the imperial core.

If being in the imperial core wasn't such a massive improvement in living conditions we wouldn't be dying by the millions every year in our countries and we certainly wouldn't be dying by the millions just to work under the table for less than minimum wage to serve you when we make it to the imperial core.

[fatalframme]

The idealized version of you I have in my head wouldn't have done that

[ao3commentoftheday]

Did you know that AO3 allows fics with homicide in them? There’s a whole tag for Major Character Death and even more tags so you can find exactly what kind of character death you want to read. 

Don’t they know that murder is illegal? You just know there are a bunch of homicidal maniacs out there who love to read those stories. They write them, too, in between killing people. 

Anyone can read the stories on AO3! Kids can read them! They’re getting exposed to stabbing, poisoning, even guns! And they’re writing the heroes doing the killing, too! That’s basically telling kids it’s okay to go out and murder their families. It’s promoting violence and encouraging homicide and if we don’t do something about it soon, you’ll be murdered next!

[zoanzon]

[ao3commentoftheday]

The devil came to my house and tried to burn it down, which is why this post exists in the first place.