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Janaina Medeiros

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Origami Around

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if i look back, i am lost
Not today Justin
todays bird
YOU ARE THE REASON
cherry valley forever
Monterey Bay Aquarium
occasionally subtle

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
trying on a metaphor

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Keni

ellievsbear
noise dept.
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@ridiculoussquid
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Maglor, inspired by art I saw last time I was in Uzbekistan and featuring a pattern created by @peasant-player. Details under the cut
locked the fuck in get my money up
I saw someone (I’ve forgotten who!) post a couple months ago, asking if it’s ever established in canon whether Mairon ever found out it was Finrod in Tol-in-Gaurhoth. Short answer, after perusing the relevant text: no.
My personal interpretation, for my own amusement: I think he’d figure out Beren, since his run-in with Luthien and Huan happened shortly afterwards, but had a complete Kronk moment with Finrod, years down the line. Like, you know when you’re an expert in a subject and some things totally fly under your radar, because it doesn’t occur to you that anyone would do anything that dumb? I think that, being a master of deception, he wouldn’t realize what Nereb and Dungalef stood for, not for literal ages, because who uses their real names just backwards/anagrammed when infiltrating an enemy stronghold (and arguably the most dangerous stronghold, second only to Angband), that’s just so stupid so stupid it actually worked XD
(In his defense, there was a lot going on in the First Age. A Lot.)
But.
I like to think it plagued him for years :)
Can't believe we're here, but especially important for fandom accounts: DO NOT link your IRL, government ID to your fandom accounts! Not ever. Not for anything.
You will feel tempted by FOMO, you will feel bullied by Discord. You will be peer pressured to the ends of the earth. Do not do it. Do not allow them full access to you, and do not let them normalize this utter horseshit. We deserve anon spaces. We deserve the internet, it's ours.
Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and
Like this shit is TERRIFYING.
Cancel Nitro and tell them this is why. Shit talk these assholes in public. Ridicule them. And do not budge an inch, do not let them have you.
ELROS TAR-MINYATUR & ELROND PEREDHEL
You can probably tell how much fun I had with this commission, ie Elrond and Elros as described and commissioned by the wonderful @mnimeresponding, who back in December requested them depicted as identical twins at different ages, some point early in the Second Age, where Elros has aged quite far ahead. And I was incredibly compelled by that idea and wanted to do a bright, smiling ‘courtly’ portrait representing a circumstance, ie identical twins where one has aged and one is frozen in time, that is a tragic concept both in real life and in this context. Endurance! The long defeat! Ever onwards at all cost! Ever onwards, but at what cost!?
It was such an interesting challenge to work on and tested my portraiture skills, as showing ‘identicality’ represented across the aesthetics of two diverging ‘races’ and societies, not to mention ages… More design notes re jewelry styles under the cut if you’re keen, or you can just enjoy the art (and thank @mnimeresponding for the excellent concept)!
GALLERY AND COMMISSIONS | KOFI
WIKIPEDIA IS 25 TODAY MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!! [Their celebration article here]
there is not NEARLY enough noise on this post !!! CELEBRATE ITS BIRTHDAYYYYYY
A hug for bombur
Enjoy year of the horse 🐎💗
Tolkien Women's Week Day 7: And the World Will Be Your Oyster
Summary: Lalia wants to get her fortune told, but isn't sure if she can afford it.
Rating: G
Characters: Lalia Clayhanger Took, OFCs
Themes: Prophecy, Fortune Telling
https://archiveofourown.org/works/77647211
Written for @tolkienwomensweek Day 7 for the prompts "prophecy" and "vision".
Tolkien Women's Week Day 5: Between the Mountains and the Sea
Summary: Mithrellas gets lost in the mountains and has to make a pact in order to continue on her way.
Rating: T
Characters: Mithrellas, Original Female Character, Imrazôr
Pairings: Mithrellas/OFC, Mithrellas/Imrazôr
Themes: Witches, Mind Manipulation, Creepy, Pregnancy, Childbirth
https://archiveofourown.org/works/77563611
Written for @tolkienwomensweek Day 5 for the prompt "sacrifice".
Tolkien Women's Week Day 4: All's well as ends Better
Summary: Widow Rumble decides she needs a change and remembers an old tradition.
Rating: G, can be read as gen or shippy
Characters: Widow Rumble, Hamfast Gamgee
Themes: Traditions, Food, Grief
https://archiveofourown.org/works/77469381
Written for @tolkienwomensweek Day 4 for the prompt "tradition".
Tolkien Women's Week Day 2: Crushing
Summary: Dís has her own preparations for her coronation to take care of.
Rating: T, just to be safe
Characters: Dís, with a side of Thranduil and Balin
Themes: Grief, Revenge, Curses
https://archiveofourown.org/works/77468931
Written for @tolkienwomensweek Day 2 for the prompt "curses".
Longing @silmarillionstockings for @ridiculoussquid that ended up matching rather well with this drabble by @unendingwanderlust
Costume. Chitons.
Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).
Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?
that genuinely is it
yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body
lets bring back sheetwares
also chlamys:
and exomis:
trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins
Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day
Wear blanket. Conquer world.
That last one looks dope
Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.
And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!
ancient Egyptian robes
This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:
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Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.
https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/
The lungi is a traditional garment worn in many southern states of India. It's different from the dhoti, in that it is a tubular shape (like
Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi
https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi
https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1
It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.
I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.
could you draw elwing being happy? girl deserves it
Huh what a nice legally attained and not-at-all kidnapped family sure would be a shame if something were to separate them
damn I should've posted this on Mother's Day
A Bit of Mirkwood World Building:
The amethyst deceiver mushroom, Middle-earth style.
Commonly called Violet Despair, Violet Deceiver, False Delight, Purple Liar, and Shadow Deceiver in Westron.
*elvish name pending someone better at Sindarin than me devising one.
They grow in the southern part of Mirkwood, near Dol Guldur, and in the poisoned lands around Minas Morgul, where instead of arsenic they absorb the Shadows of the place, becoming darker and richer in color, and capable of swamping you with despair and paranoia if you eat them.
They predate the Shadow, but without a source of evil and corruption to feed upon they were nearly harmless: used often for dyes and decorations, although rarely for eating, for even then the Violet Deceiver was known for feeding on the rot and echo of darker feelings, and thus their flesh often became tainted with these sensations and capable of inducing fear, sorrow, and dismay in those who ate them.
Those fungi which found Evil on which to feed were, of course, much worse.
They are not quite bioluminescent, but their coloring is vibrant enough that in the black shadows of Mirkwood's trees and Mordor's gloom, they can trick the eye into thinking that they glow; but it is a glow that sheds no light to drive back the surrounding dark.
The Rangers of Ithilien encounter them much more rarely than do the elves of Mirkwood, for the Rangers do not brave the lands close to Minas Morgul; but they have come across them often enough to know to be wary of them also. (Among the Rangers, the mushrooms are sometimes referred to as "Violet Joys," as a form of bitter irony.)
Their spores exude a mild compulsory effect, tempting those who smell them to eat them, even when they know better.
The initial taste of the mushroom is sweet, almost too sweet, thick and cloying; this is followed quickly by a sharp sensation of peppery heat, and then a heavy nauseating muskiness (although few people are paying much attention to the taste at that point; mostly the latter is noted as a foul, rotten aftertaste lingering for a while in the mouths of the survivors).
Their scent is distinctive: alluring and floral, like lilies or lilacs, but with a hint of the sickly-sweet stench of rotting flesh lurking beneath that floral fragrance. By the time you notice the latter, you are already close enough to be imperiled.
Consuming even a single mushroom is enough to trigger the effects, engendering overwhelming sensations of despair and paranoia. Most victims report simultaneous symptoms of both, but some experience primarily hopelessness, while some suffer predominantly from the fear, and others vacillate between the two extremes.
Eating more than three or four will leave one in a fraught emotional and even hallucinatory state for several hours, or even days.
There have been no known cases of fatal poisonings from consuming the mushrooms, but many folk—elves and mortals—have died while under the effects, whether as a result of blundering into some peril they could not properly comprehend, being too absorbed or apathetic to defend themselves against another threat, or from breaking under the despair and terror and taking their own lives before their senses clear.
The Unhoused Shades that haunt Southern Mirkwood are prone to lingering near the mushrooms as well—or perhaps it is the other way around, and it is the rot of those trapped souls upon which the mushrooms feed.
Either way, the sight of them is a sign of peril.
These mushrooms were devised for @tathrin's fic And In The Darkness to Unmake Them and @babybat98's fic The Last War of the North, but are offered free for use of anyone writing in the Tolkien fandom who wishes to add them to their stories.
Ideally we ask you to link back to this post so that other readers can likewise make use of this bit of shared world building, but that's not a hard requirement for inclusion in your works.
All you have to do it not claim the idea for your own, and continue to freely share it with anyone else who wants to play too. Thank you!