#anaisonfire

[tanoraqui]

I was just rereading your kidnap family hcs post, and I was wondering, did anyone ever ask your thoughts about the last followers of the sons of feanor? Bc I'd love to know 👀

@feanorianethicsdepartment did, iirc, and I didn't answer...I also haven't given my full eloquent pitch for Maglor/Eärendil courtly romance...but I shall now! for the former. My thoughts are this:

"Of course," said Eonwë, with a susurrus of wings and a tone of benevolent surprise, as though the Herald of Manwë hadn't considered that they might need to ask.

The last three followers of the Sons of Fëanor bowed politely and gave him thanks, except for Baradiel who was nursing broken ribs and so only nodded. Together they turned away and walked to an outcropping of the stony shore. It wasn’t far—there was little left of Beleriand but sea-shore, here in the shadow of the northern Ered Luin at the end of the War of Wrath.

Once there had been thousands in the following of blinding-bright Fëanor and his sons. Then there had been flames, dragons, betrayal and tears, and there were hundreds. Then there had been blood under shadowed trees and on foggy cliffs, a steady winnowing as poison and monsters swallowed the land. and there were tens. Then there had been the final campaign, the war to end all wars, the very last hunt through the dark and twisting bowels of black Angband itself...and now there were three, and together they stood on a sandy stone jutting out over the white-capped sea. (There might have been even fewer, but for the very last fight of all, their lords had slipped away in the night with nary a word, which was probably meant as a mercy. The three of them certainly didn't know.)

"I'm going," Rador said abruptly.

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[swaps55]

hey uh this is kind of random but i've more or less gone through your whole mass effect fic on ao3 and i wanted to say how much i love your writing 💖 your characterization for everyone is On Point and i'm in love with your ocs, especially the 'yang crew 😍 tbh your kaidan might well be the best kaidan i've seen in fic (and i've seen a bunch hah) and is for sure my favorite depiction of him

also thanks to sam ruthless is now my favorite backstory (the FORESHADOWING of it all, of various choices but esp the alpha relay)

also also card shark alenko never fails to make me grin

Oh my gosh, thank you so much, what an AMAZING thing to wake up to!!!! I keep rereading this with the hugest grin on my face. I want you to know I have copied and pasted this to a document so I can read it on bad days. WOW. I am absolutely floored!!!!!

I love these characters so much. You can pry the Kaidan is a Card Shark headcanon out of my cold, dead, hands, hahahaha. Ruthless is such a favorite of mine because there can be so much nuance and context to it in fic, and Sam has just taken it out of my hands and done things with it I never saw coming. I'm delighted you enjoyed the Alpha relay foreshadowing. :D

And the 'Yang crew, aaaahhhhhh. Cantata is such a vital part of Sam and Kaidan's evolution, but that story doesn't work without the marine squad, and I had no idea if people were going to be open or interested in those OCs. As much as Cantata is the story of how Kaidan and Sam fall in love, it's also the story of how Sam becomes Commander Shepard. Without the 'Yang crew, he's still the closed-off island who doesn't know how to rely on anyone else. They teach him the value of working through others, and without that lesson, he can't go on to do what he does.

I cannot even begin to tell you how much it means that they resonate with you.

Thank you SO MUCH for this. I am going to reread it a few thousand times. I hope you have an AMAZING day.

[dragonpyre]

My 30 minute gift to @anaisonfire from Kat’s discord event. I’m so glad you like it!!

[blackkatmagic]

I'm gonna be honest, I really thought Sinker was going to kiss Savage as a distraction for a hot second there and I was ready to SCREAM. I love the horn petting though hfsshk but I don't think Sinker realizes how intimate a gesture that is XD Also, yikes Maul. That's a nasty trap. I love how Padme just Goes For It, most people would hesitate to save the guy's life, but nope not Padme Amidala. She's thinking about the greater war and I love that about her. Also the Anakin parallel killed me :D

xD Sinker’s not quite that reckless. Comet would have, but thankfully Comet is elsewhere. And yessss Padme is on it about wanting to end the war, and no one had best get in her way. Even Darth Maul himself.

[jedi-order-apologist]

I think the reason so many people get on the 'jedi KIDNAP children & INDOCTRINATE them' thing is that Being A Jedi gets viewed as a Job? A Thing That You Do. Where it's actually a Culture on it's own, A Thing That You Are. I tend to assume it's partly bc of Anakin (tugged between Padme & his obligations, etc) & partly bc there's not Really an example of ANYTHING like the Jedi IRL (that western audiences would know)? The closest we've got is Christianity which doesn't Actually work as an example

Yeah, the Jedi are not a 1:1 match-up of anything, they’re an amalgamation of different influences and trying to box them into only one of them just doesn’t work.

I think another part of the disconnect is not just that fandom sees being a Jedi as a job, but that they see it like being a superhero. So when the Jedi don’t live like superheroes, and fandom thinks that they should, the difference between those expectations and what the Jedi actually are is jarring, and that’s translated into “wrong”, and sometimes that ends up with people shoving them into a different box (”evil cult”), because that’s how they can reconcile the differences (even if it’s no more accurate than the initial preconceptions).

[fivie]

hhh i just realized i wasn't following you on here even though umw is actually one of my all time favorite fics so passing by to tell you that i Absolutely Love it and the latest enjolras pov positively killed me. like i love Everyone in umw, you write them all So Well but rn i am going through the enjolras emotions haha. i reread all of his POV chapters and the last two of umw but uhh i'm having Feels so guess i'm rereading Everything lol. Thank you so much for writing it!! 💘💖

yes Grantaire has had the limelight for a while now, it’s definitely time for Enjolras Emotions >:) thank you so much, I’m so glad you’re enjoying it, and good luck on the extremely long re-read :’)

[arofili]

WIP sampler basket

ok i’m VERY excited for this one :D thanks @anaisonfire for the tag!!!

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

stars, hide your fires

Moonlight

maeglin silm wars

Cause and Consequence

In the Grey

Roads Go On

kings and things to take by storm

glorfinrod

Say It In Your Mind

silm taz au

the baby talk

PLEASE send me an ask about these, I love talking about my WIPs! :D

i tag @buffintruder @jaz-the-bard @thishour @fingons-rad-harp and @thatfeanorian :)

[saintofvoid]

hey if you're still looking for asks (idk how time/timezones work!!) i'd love to hear more about rango 👀👀👀

Rango! My poor boy, not a thought in his pretty head.

Rango is a 2000s baby and a born Nomad, originally from Australia. Hes trans, ftm, but it's not something he really openly talks about unless he trust you. However being from Australia, like the rest of the country his family didn't fair well during the collapse. Things got savage real quick and they eventually broke apart, splintering into smaller groups. Rango followed some of the others out of the country and into the NUSA where things only got worse. He wasn't about the lifestyle they were picking up, with these other gangs and so he fled. Eventually he ended up in Vegas and while he never would make it into the high life there, it was a place he could call some sort of home. Sleep in his car, and playing street music for scrap eddies was nothing new for him, so it felt just like the home before.

Valor always pointed out Rango looked like he crawled out of the 2020s, which the younger would explain it was a happier time. Doesnt care he stands out a bit, he's happy with how he looks and loves the clothes he's got. He's always had to work for everything he's gotten, he takes things he owns very personally and he gets upset if he spills something on his jacket or pants a bit more than the normal person. He never accepts handouts, if you're giving him money he's doing something in exchange for it.

He's a free spirit though, and a lot of people have tried to break it. Some even succeeding for awhile. He worries about his friends, and will follow them to the ends of the earth. His closest friends are Valor and an ex-maelstrom member who goes by Spyder. Rango plays the drums, and has played as a backup drummer for a few different bands during concerts. He's got a set of metal drumsticks that he carries around at all times and is completely lethal with them. His car is known as the 4th horseman, built for ramming with dual front mounted machine guns and drone launch in the back. Has a couple of different augments, most noticeable is the blacked out gorilla arms. He's got a mullet skunkhawk that he loves and will probably die with, handful of different piercings but he changes them out occasionally, and blackwork tattoos.

All in all, Rango is a goof, he's a serious fighter and you can trust him on a job. But he's still very much a kid at heart, he doesn't care about the money, wealth or frame, he's just in it for a good time.