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Ghosties for my favourite ghost @alackofghosts
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3, 9, 13, 22 for the book ask meme? :D
3 is done!
9. Did you get into any new genres?
Once again I feel as though the genre of the year was film noir, rather than anything "literary." I did take a course on medieval romances that gave me an appreciation for that genre - I'd always felt that I could appreciate medieval literature more if I moved beyond Chaucer, and this proved that feeling correct.
Danmei I didn't discover this year, per se - that was technically last year - but it was the year I branched out beyond Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's works and got more of a sense of the diversity of options/authorial approaches out there, and appreciated the genre more as a result.
13. What were your least favourite books of the year?
I'm struggling to think of any off the top of my head. I don't think this was a year in which I really memorably hated any books. Ali Smith's Autumn was very disappointing for me, in that I'd enjoyed the other two books by her I'd read before (The Accidental and Hotel World) and I'd seen her season quartet hyped up. It really just fell flat. Mr Norris Changes Trains I had to read for a class, and while I'd read it before, it reminded me that I don't really like Isherwood's prose much and find it a bit of a slog.
Oh, and there's also 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami), which had so much promise and hooked me for quite some time, but was sunk by its quite frankly bizarre gender and sexual politics.
But overall, there weren't really any books I hated. It was a bit of a middle-of-the-road year.
22. What's the longest book you read?
Oh geez. I'm having so much trouble remembering the lengths of stuff I've read, and I don't think I read anything egregiously long.
...Oh wait, it's definitely ERHA. (I don't know how long that book is going to be in actual printed book pages, but I'd wager longer than any of the decent length nonfiction I read this year.)
2, 3, 7 & 17 for khisit and/or rivka? :3
Uhhhhh HI sorry this took so long!! I blame (lack of) keyboards and my general attention span :'D
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3 and 7 for Rivka and 2 for Khisit have been answered here!
Khisit:
3. What’s something pointless/petty/unimportant that IRRATIONALLY ANNOYS THE HELL out of your OC?
People trying to make small talk while they’re working. Which is… probably not actually all that unimportant considering some of the reasons why it pisses them off; but the level of irritation and the way they end up making largely unwarranted and vitriolic negative judgements about people for it, probably qualifies as petty.
...this question is hard for me all around I think bc I'm both easygoing enough about pointless things, and interrogative enough about peeves that on inspection aren't pointless, that it's hard for me to come up with good answers? Aaahhh.
7. Realistically, could your OC (in their normal circumstances- i.e. at their own house/battlecamp/spaceship etc.) keep a small child alive for a week if they had to? A dog? A houseplant? A rock with a smiley face painted on?
Uhhhhhhh, probably… There would most likely be incidents, because Khisit obviously doesn’t child-proof their stuff and has no interest in actively babysitting a kid - so y’know, whatever dangerous nonsense a kid gets up to when they’re trying to entertain themself and don’t have an adult around telling them not to climb up tall things, something of that nature would probably happen once or twice. There would probably be a lot of takeout eaten.
A dog would probably be okay, particularly if it was a relatively chill dog? It’d certainly remain alive… Khisit would be a bit weirded out by how person-centered a dog’s attention was, but I think they’d (be surprised to) enjoy taking it for walks. However, as much as it pains me to say it, a houseplant would probably be on its way to death by underwatering at the end of a week, because they’d just forget about it unless they had some particular reason to make reminders to check up on it, like if it were a friend’s plant or something. It’s just incapable of coming up and making noise and demanding attention when its needs aren’t being met! D:
17. How does your OC sabotage themselves?
HO BOY WELL. So many ways. Being a bratty assbiscuit to 9 authority figures (or people of generally higher status) out of 10. Refusing to acknowledge having any sort of strong emotions or mental weaknesses, until one of them completely blows up in their face. Antagonising people in general, because they can’t reject you if you piss them off first! :D and otherwise it provides information on how far they can push someone and how they react to prodding. Being too proud to compromise or try to make nice with or even remotely appease people they dislike. Shrugging off other people's attempts to comfort them or see if they're okay, because a) that would be showing weakness/emotion and b) it's not like they actually care anyway so why bother. ….. yeah that's about the general gist :D
Rivka:
2. What are your OC’s food preferences (flavors/textures/spiciness/calories/when and how they eat) and how did they get that way?
Rivka's preferred foods would probably be along the lines of north & east African cuisines, as a best analogy? (Injera…..!!) It's the sort of thing she remembers growing up with, and has the most intuitive sense of how to cook well/easily. She probably doesn't tend to eat much dairy… Do I feel like importing kashrut directly into SW? Who knows tbh. But assuming there are some kind of relevant dietary rules, she probably follows the bigger general ideas but doesn't like, fuss about getting only hechshered products at the grocery store. Another person offering her something she's unfamiliar with will probably be accepted, unless it's Really Blatantly Not Allowed from what she can immediately see; it feels rude to do otherwise, with how often her work puts her as a guest of someone else's community.
In general she prefers to eat with others, even if it's just as passive socialising? Eating by herself too often feels lonely, and wasteful when you could be making and sharing food for multiple people at one time. Plus the daily ritual with other people helps ground her and make sure she's not just getting lost in her own head.
Meshurat introduces her to the wonderful world of sweet filled breads at some point; Rivka finds this enjoyable but less relevatory than Meshurat was hoping for and gets offendedly written off as a lost cause XD
17. How does your OC sabotage themselves?
Getting into anxiety spirals about how she's never doing enough to help fix the world's problems, especially as someone who has both more power and responsibility than most. Running herself into the ground trying to do things for other people as a result of those anxiety spirals. Thinking she can/should/has to be the only one who deals with everything because she's the most/only competent one in the room - potentially making more work for herself and/or alienating others, depending on how arrogant/elitist she comes across in doing so. Avoiding opening up to others about rough shit she's going through because she believes any admission of not being perfect or not believing wholeheartedly in the party line will just end up with her being brushed off at best, punished at worst.
Late again, but here’s day 7! Hanukkah Sameach ❤️ @outofangband
This is an excerpt from a longer fic that I’m writing that’s based on an idea that Monica and I talked about where all the Finwëans keep Eöl away from Aredhel after they’ve all been reembodied - and eventually Aredhel and Rôg fall in love. Feel free to come talk to me about it because I’m super excited to write the whole thing when I have time.
This is also completely 100% the fault of @alackofghosts because they drew an amazing piece of Aredhel and Rôg and that’s what inspired the second half of the fic.
very Eöl-negative if that bothers anyone
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Yet another knock came from the closed door.
Before anyone could react, Ecthelion rose and opened the door. “Come in love.”
Glorfindel walked in with Rôg. “Is Maeglin alright?”
After getting confirmation, he continued, “Irissë, you know Rôg from Gondolin; he’s agreed to stay with you the next few days to make sure you are safe.”
Aredhel’s mouth dropped in horror. “A BODYGUARD? You think I need a BODYGUARD? I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, thank you very much!”
Everyone turned to look at her.
“What are you all looking at me for?”
Someone coughed.
After a moment of awkward silence, Fëanor spoke up. “Dearest niece, we all know that you are capable, but I agree that in this case it would be more... prudent... to have someone who is physically imposing.”
She huffed and crossed her arms. “Just because he looks tough doesn’t mean that he knows how to fight.”
It was a moot point. By now, everyone knew the tale of Gondolin’s fall and of Rôg’s prowess in battle.
Finally, Rôg spoke. “I won’t get in your way. It’ll be like I’m not even there. But surely you can appreciate the merits of having two against one as a tactical advantage in a fight.”
She huffed again and threw her hands in the air. “Fine. But I will not live like this forever. Something needs to be done about the whole situation because I will not go back to Eöl again.”
“We’ll work on it,” her father said gravely.
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Day: one • two • three • four • five • six • seven • eight
alackofghosts replied to your post “I haaaate the Manaan Research Facility Flashpoint DX i’ve never...”
it's /such/ a pain, i hear you, i've got a toon who has just been stuck right before the flashpoint for months because i don't wanna do iiiiit :'D
Welp, if it can be done with assistance and if you’re on Darth Malgus or Star Forge - let me know and I should be able to help X) I feel that pain, I made it with only a few seconds to spare everytime DX
A very belated happy birthday to the incredibly lovely @alackofghosts <3 As requested, here’s a little piece about Rog processing Aredhel’s death. Hope you enjoy it when you get around to reading it!
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Rog had seen death many times before. It had followed him from the blood-slicked shores of Alqualondë to the dungeons of Angband where the very air reeked of decay. But then, for a short while, he had been free of it. In Gondolin he had found some semblance of peace.
He was no stranger to grief; to this emptiness in his chest, the feeling that his ribs would cave in. Had it always felt like this? Time had dulled the sharper parts of memory, and now he found himself remembering what it felt like to truly hurt.
He didn’t look away as Aredhel’s body was lowered into the shallow grave they’d dug for her. It wasn’t a good day for a funeral – wind was howling through the steeps and crags of the Echoriath, and rain was drizzling down like a grey curtain, making everyone look washed-up and alone. But it had to be done sooner and not later.
alackofghosts replied to your post: [[MOR] constantly bemused by my sideways...
SAME. i occasionally look up les mis fic on ao3, and it’s such a ??? experience every time tbh. fanon enjolras seems a lot friendlier than book enjolras in general, so i’d say that writing him ic getting in the way of how people want to write the ship is a pretty accurate guess tbh. + most people being into the musical/2012 movie, which makes his disinterest in relationships less obvious?
ye, notactuallyahat suggested ppl being into the musical/movie more as a thing as well, and it makes sense since... nobody seems to want to cast/write Enroljas accurately? like please, just ONCE cast a girlishly-pretty-as-fuck young dude who can play having 0 interest in anything but his country
(in the book I’m pretty sure a girl did the equivalent of throwing her underwear at him once and Enroljas was like ‘cool, don’t know why you did that but i’m turning this into a flag’. he was called a ‘fine statue’. earthly passions did not move him. please somebody remember he was an aroace icon)
alackofghosts replied to your post “Apparently Morrowind has been a blessing to our poor souls for exactly...”
oh my god that gif cracked me up :'D it's such a perfectly accurate representation of morrowind haha
i think it’s a mod (the scariest mod of all time!!!) that multiplies cliff racers. BUT it’s still not far from the actual gameplay xD