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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
YOU ARE THE REASON
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard has GONE GOLD!
Thank you all for your support as we cross this important milestone. See you in Thedas on Oct. 31!
Pre-order here
This gif accurately portrays how I play any game ever.
Same here…
idk if this is a young fan thing or new fandom culture but some of yall think fics are abandoned way too quickly. a few months or a year or two is not unusual to go without a fic update. sometimes fics take longer to write, other times writers have rl events, or maybe there's multiple fics and one gets more priority. there are tons of reasons for fics not to be updated every week or every month. it also isn't uncommon for people to come back and update fics after a number of years—ive read updates that took five, or ten years. people's lives change, but they still want to tell their stories. personally, i never consider a fic abandoned unless the author has said so; though if it's been a few years i manage my expectations. but a last update being a year ago is... generally not a sign that a writer has abandoned their fic
Say it again for the people in the back.
And once again.
A love letter to the co-conspiritors
They have many names—beta reader, friend, Oh Fuck You—but you know who they are: they’re the person who is as rabid as you about a ship or a character, the one you DM with your most twisted headcanons, the one who agrees that YES, he SHOULD be tied to a chair and slapped in the face—that she SHOULD be allowed a little tragic backstory, as a treat—that they SHOULD be roommates who are secretly pining for one another…the one who hashes out with you, at past midnight, how soon is reasonable for people with superpowers to have sex after one of them has been shot in the leg.
They’re the person who reads your fic before you send it to anyone else, and raves with you about that plot point that you COULDN’T WAIT for them to reach, or points out where you’ve forgotten that they were at the bar, not the library, so you need to remove the reference to book stacks, or pokes you to finish the goddamn next chapter because they want to read it, okay?
Fandom would not exist without them. They enable and encourage. Some of them are also fic writers, and you get to enable them right back. Some of them create fan art, or meta, or text post edits, or run prompt fests, or edit wikis…some of them are simply just as in love with the same thing that you are and want to feed the squee.
If you’re lucky enough to have someone like this in your life, you’ll know how much impact they have. It’s different to getting comments and kudos (wonderful though those are!), because they come in before the fic is finished, sometimes even before it’s started, and say ‘yes, do it!’. The fact that I’ve written so much for Community and The Umbrella Academy is completely down to @bethanyactually and @wheresmytowel respectively, and I count myself incredibly lucky to have them both in my life (and not just for all this, but also because they’re both incredibly lovely and smart and fun).
It was Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day yesterday (Aug 21st), and it made me think that we should also give a shoutout to the co-conspiritors, because without them, an awful lot more fic writers would be stress-scrolling through tumblr instead of working on their WIP, and there’d be so much less fic in the world.
@pickingfightswithsprites and @randomly-generated-name 🍷🫠
@ruiniel thank you again, my dear —
I need to give this some very belated love ♥
@livingonmyown @revoevokukil @xuelingxu @waterjewelsspite @ysangre-fa @cirimanga @ahollowyear
This is very random but let me ramble about Tolkien and love. Under a cut because when I say ramble I do mean this is long and confusing and goes nowhere
This all started I was thinking about the age-old debate between "In the absence of obviously canonical same-gender romances in Tolkien, of course people will look at other types of close same-gender relationships in a romantic light" and "In an amatonormative society such as ours, of course people will feel strongly about keeping platonic relationships in Tolkien platonic as a reaction against 'true love = romantic love' trope"
And I was thinking about both these things strike me as true. By which I don't mean "This is how every fan should feel" but rather "I do indeed identify with both positions." Which, long story short, led me to thinking about love in Tolkien's works, like I said.
The thing is that Tolkien pretty much unfailingly portrays love as a good thing. When Melkor becomes evil beyond any redemption, Tolkien describes it as "all love had departed from him for ever."
Love (not to be confused with obsession, which is Always Bad) is, I would say, the virtue held up by Tolkien as the single most important. It might beat even other strong contenders such as wisdom or hope. (Could I defend this position in a paper? Probably not, but this is a tumblr post, go easy on me)
"Love conquers all" is hardly an unexplored theme in fiction, but what strikes me about Tolkien - and what made me write this post - is what an all-encompassing view of love he has.
It's not just that platonic, romantic or familial love seem to all be held up as being equally important - it's that other kinds of love aren't considered superficial next to these.
Love of one's lord, like Edrahil and Finrod. Love of one's subjects, like Aragorn and Faramir. Love of one's homeland, like Frodo and the Shire. Love of the land one chose to call home, like Tuor and Gondolin. Love of what one doesn't yet know, like Sam and the elves. Love of what one misses, like Bilbo and home. Love of improving the world around us, like Gimli and his Glittering Caves. Love of the world as it is, like Legolas and, uh, every part of Middle-earth he sees. Love of expressing oneself through subcreation, like Nerdanel. Love of learning about others through lore, like Elrond. Love of what's been lost, like Elendil. Love of what is at risk, like Boromir. Love of the unknown ahead, like Elros. I could go on forever.
And I don't know, it's just really super refreshing to see that. So very often the definition of love is not only extremely narrow, but also rigidly ranked, and it's so nice to think of how that's not really a thing in Tolkien's world. When Tolkien talks about fantasy he often points out how fantasy helps us see our world more clearly, and one thing I unironically think Arda makes me see more clearly is how much love enriches life.
The sheer scope of things that can be loved is something I don't think I would've realized without reading Tolkien. Tea and cake, or a Cool Rock on the sidewalk, or images from NASA, or having the Mom Friend Social Anxiety Override, are all things I don't think I would particularly love if not for hobbits, dwarves, elves, and men, if that makes sense.
It's just. I really love how stories impact me long before I've actually consciously noticed themes. It's amazing and makes me think of that one quote, "Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men."
can’t focus on work. can only think of that one lesbian poem about chivalry
oh god. oh fuck
Blending exercise somehow turned into creepy egg with ears (okay, one ear)
Does Bat form Detlaff and Regis like brushy brushy?
Hahaha so cute, yeah xD
Meeting you was fate…
…becoming your friend was a choice…
…but falling in love with you I had no control over…
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Inspirational art @hikaruyagi 💖
A Nerdanel
[ID: digital drawing of a modern!Nerdanel leaning against a sculpture. She's wearing a loose linen shirt tucked inside high-waisted suspender trousers. Her hair is cropped short and auburn. End ID]
Finduilas is my victim for trying brushes
The hair ♥_♥
Pretty much my facial expression too, I think
Sauron during the first age, ready to fight against Luthien and Huan.
Hiya, Can you draw Ciri and Avallac'h sending greetings from their summer holiday together? 😊 Thank you
Adrian (Alucard) Ţepeş showing off his scar
For my friend @ruiniel — Happy and very belated birthday, my dear XD (Sorry his hair looks kinda like a wig)
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I am crying :D This just made my day ♥
There is an old belief in Serbian villages and small towns that certain pumpkins (and watermelons), when left outside during a full moon, will turn in to a vampire.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
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*whisper chants* vampire pumpkin vampire pumpkins vampire pumpkins
This is the quality fall shit I’m here for
I think it’s great that Pumpkins (and other squash) were only introduced to Europe around 1600 and the Serbs wasted absolutely no time blaming them for their problems.