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Do you want to read a very specific fic from me – one I haven’t actually written? Maybe you want to see my take on a particular trope or pairing, or you really want a sequel or missing scene from one of my works?

Starting this month, I’m offering one slot per month to prompt a fic in return for proof of donating at least $10 USD (or equivalent) to a pro-choice organization. (List below; includes both US and international options).

Status: Closed, check back July first!

whirlception

Let’s set aside the Statute of Miriel & Finwë for now, and stick with just what’s in the Silmarillion. Upon seeing Miriel’s intense weariness after Fëanor’s birth & hearing her say that she would bear no more children because of it, Finwë isn’t concerned for her health. Rather,

[…] Finwë was grieved, for the Noldor were in the youth of their days, and he desired to bring forth many children into the bliss of Aman […]

Emphasis mine. It’s only after “Miriel languished still” for an unspecified period of time, failing to heal, that Finwë goes to Manwë for council (not Irmo or Estë!!) and it’s Manwë who “delivered her to the care of Irmo in Lorien.”

Considering that “many” of the Eldar seemingly saw his remarriage to Indis as a selfish action,

judging that if Finwë had endured his loss and been content with the fathering of his mighty son, the courses of Fëanor would have been otherwise, and great evil might have been prevented […]

(emphasis mine), I don’t think it’s a stretch to apply the same lens of selfishness to Finwë’s earlier decisions regarding Miriel. And then there’s a very obvious reason why Finwë’s first appeal was to Manwë rather than to Estë and Irmo directly: because Finwë’s primary concern was having more children, not having a healthy wife. And while Estë and Irmo might have been able to deliver him the latter— a wife who could bear more children— Miriel has free will, and they can’t give him back a wife who’ll agree to do so.

But Manwë, as the highest authority of Valinor, might be able to do something about the fact that Miriel’s obstinance is preventing him from having the children that he wants— and considering that Finwë’s eventual petition to remarry probably needed Manwë’s assent to go before the Valar, it seems likely that he was correct!

Now, it’s likely that Manwë’s initial judgement — within a context that seems to consider Miriel’s refusal of further childbearing an infringement upon Finwë’s rights as husband and King— was something like “If your wife is healed in body and soul, she might also be healed of her refusal to bear more children. Let’s try that first.”

And the consequences were that Miriel was separated from her son and delivered to Lorien for healing, which was probably counterproductive, considering that she died very soon after arrival. And although there’s a great deal more information about the Statute in other texts, the ultimate result of this horrible episode of Valinorean history is communicated in the Silmarillion itself. In death, Miriel’s exercising of reproductive autonomy stops inconveniencing Finwë, who gets exactly what he wants: remarriage to Indis, and four more children.

#there is no canon variant where finwe is a decent person sorry!#fandom #tolkien

prep on TRSB fic; 600 words on evil overlord midlife crisis. Snippet:

The book he was looking for wasn’t a Malfoy family heirloom. But it was kept in the library all the same, to make use of the heaviest enchantments of containment in the house. Up the narrow stair he went, passing by a sequence of mezzanine floors, to the library’s attic, separate carefully from the rest of the house. You had to be specifically added by blood to the enchantments on the door to get in here, which Tom was. He pushed the door open carefully and went across the interior chamber to a curious piece of furniture, like an enormous chest of drawers or a wall of muggle safety deposit boxes, all in metal. Every inch of surface was engraved: you did not want these magical scripts to smear. Delicately he gloved himself from a box left on top. This was not a usual book reading precaution, as gloves generally increased the risk of tearing pages, but the question in this room was not protecting the books. It was protecting one’s hands. Carefully then, Tom found drawer 46 and unlocked it. He drew out his childhood diary.

#daily check in #writing snippet #harry potter #fandom

whirlception

broke: Fëanor & Fingolfin were competing for Most Number of Kids (questionable necessity for SoF beyond Caranthir or, re: Argon, Curufin).

woke: Fëanor was competing for Most Number of Kids against Finwë’s record. The Ambarussa were meant to put Fëanor solidly at 6-5 and ended up giving him a 2-point lead instead.

bespoke: Fëanor & Nerdanel just really, really, REALLY wanted a girl—

#lmao as you all know i am SOLIDLY on team “they REALLY wanted a girl”#fandom #tolkien

What is with the spam bots today, I've had three out of four total comments on the fic I posted earlier.

#realistically the answer is some brief workaround to ao3's spam protections probably #but aaaaaaah

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Fic for Pro-Choice Donations

Do you want to read a very specific fic from me – one I haven’t actually written? Maybe you want to see my take on a particular trope or pairing, or you really want a sequel or missing scene from one of my works?

Starting this month, I’m offering one slot per month to prompt a fic in return for proof of donating at least $10 USD (or equivalent) to a pro-choice organization. (List below; includes both US and international options).

Status: June slot open!

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June slot is now open! Closed now!

win the game, love

T, Hermione & Harry, Sirius & Bellatrix, 2k Hermione isn't about to let Harry take help from a dubious source without double-checking it. Meanwhile, she ruminates on the situation. This fic was sponsored for charity by @lynnainu. Thank you for the donation, and I hope you enjoy the fic!

Hermione wrote down the incantation supplied by Bellatrix Lestrange for the Second Task, and made Harry repeat the pronunciation for her three times, then show her the motions again. After, she said, “Okay, I’ve just got to read over this Charms essay and look up a few things in the library—” and watched Harry’s eyes glaze over as he fought to say something reasonable without volunteering to join her.

It was sweet, really. Four years, and he was still trying really hard to be polite when Hermione deflected everyone into her schoolwork. Sometimes she wished he’d stop.

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#writing by slashmarks #fandom #harry potter #exoneration au

huariqueje

Meadow Bliss - Sarah Gillard

British , b. 1962 -

Gouache , 51 x 57 cm.

#art

1.3k on the weirdest fucking year; 500 words on evil overlord midlife crisis; 600 words on all your brutal news. snippet:

“To be truthful I am not entirely sure where to begin,” said Umie, and then was briefly occupied with the sort of questions necessary for medical exams: does this hurt, does this, how has it been since yesterday, and so on. Maedhros wondered for a while if Umie had in fact decided it was better not to ask questions, until Umie bid him turn onto his stomach so that she could rub salve into the still-healing whip marks, and then, slowly, began her questions: “No one seems really sure how you came here, you know.” “There isn’t much to say,” said Maedhros, face pillowed on his folded arms, doing his best to lie still and docile while Umie handled the marks. He didn’t particularly want them to scar. “There was no real fanfare to it. I walked into Mordor by myself, and was recognized and taken up to the Lord General.” Umie was quiet a time. Maedhros wondered what he would say if Umie asked how he’d been recognized. He was not certain how secret or not his First Age identity was meant to be. Certainly a reasonable number of the orc commanders would know him, and Fingon had had the option of publicly calling him something less obvious than Maitime and hadn’t taken it.

#daily check in #writing snippet #fandom #tolkien #orc reunion au #orc general fingon

jerreeeeeee

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

jerreeeeeee

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 20 hours

#hello love of my life! <3 #you are everyone else's evil advisor and my lady wife muse to me #this is bc my taste is impeccable

drysqu1d

i tend to avoid discourse because most of it is trite and pointless but just this once i feel like i need to state my opinion: i think everyone should bend to my dark and evil will

atrusovaartist

acrylic, canvas 50*70 cm «moon or sun» 2023

#art

prep and 600 words on the weirdest fucking year. Snippet:

Hermione almost, almost wished Sirius had let her live with her first impression on the basis of her reading about Voldemort’s war, or rather, about the first war with Voldemort. Bellatrix Black, then Bellatrix Lestrange, showed up in the history books and the newspapers, but the ones written during the war described her as a sort of socialite, or, especially if published outside the country and Britain’s censorship, as Voldemort’s mistress.

#daily check in #fandom #harry potter #writing snippet

neverwonderneverremember

we need to be doing everything in our power to acquire and consume tiramisu

#you're so right for this

For your fic of choice: 🔮📖 please!

thank you! end of this burning world:

🔮Have you imagined what happens to [character(s)] in the future? Or does the story only exist to you as a moment in time?

Oh yeah, in the immediate aftermath Celebrimbor probably stalls until Sauron actually makes the One Ring a century later, creating the Three, quietly getting more involved in Ost-in-Edhil politics again to try to make the city defensible without admitting anything (as though everyone can't SEE that he married Annatar just as Annatar fucking vanished). He is pretty miserable during this time.

Then the One Ring happens, he calls an emergency meeting of the Mirdain and city government to confess and I think is elected something like emergency dictator in the Roman sense where it's a temporary crisis position, calls the Feanorian following in the city up and starts making evacuation plans for the civilian population. He also gets to go to Gil-galad, Elrond and Galadriel to confess and pass off the Three along with explaining his plan is "sacrifice myself as bait," something no one likes. Everything does play out as in canon here! Roughly an age and a half later, Sauron is defeated by Frodo and makes a fun discovery: marrying an elf, if you are a maia, ties your soul to Arda the same way elves are tied, which means he is stuck in Mandos now.

📖 Could the story have been a different length? What would you have included/removed?

LOL so I did expect the fic consisting of a) a marriage proposal b) an argument and c) a sex scene would take less than eleven thousand words, but I was wrong about this.

#fandom #memes #tolkien

🏴‍☠️ and/or 📖 for into our first world?

also, 🧭 for Orion?

🏴‍☠️ Were there any points in which your characters tried (or succeeded) to commit mutiny against your planned plot? Where did they most want to rebel?

📖 Could the story have been a different length? What would you have included/removed?

So, the first work of into our first world was originally supposed to be a short porn fic for kink bingo in a vaguely sketched out Voldemort wins AU, with the first Bellatrix/Sirius scene the only one planned. /facepalms forever You see how that went.

Was there a particular fic you had in mind for Orion?

#fandom #memes #harry potter #uuuh did i have a tag for this #apparently not #into our first world au

for promises wide as the ocean: 🙏 Was there anything your character(s) really really really wanted to do? Did you let them?

TBH I think they actually mostly stuck to the plot outline in that one? I'm looking at my notes trying to remember and nothing's coming to mind. The main thing was how much more detail everything took than expected, so it ended up being a much longer fic... Oh right, Nerdanel showing up to go "let's rebuild your cottage!" I think was a surprise, it was Maedhros and Elwing who mostly stuck to the script I'd envisioned, lol.

#memes #fandom #tolkien

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