#belegsghost

[sansarya]

“You had Aunt Lysa send a letter to our parents telling them it was the Lannisters who murdered Jon Arryn when, really, it was you. The conflict between the Starks and the Lannisters, it was you who started it. Do you deny it?”

[brazenbells]

for the writer asks: 5, 9, 16?

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

Tie between Gustav of O truant muse and Tarîr of Bitter Heart. Gustav was a joke that grew a personality and ran off with my heart; Tarîr marched into what was supposed to be a Galathil/Aredhel story and took it over (and then stole my heart from Gustav). They were both totally unexpected and ended up stealing the limelight in their respective stories.

(9 already answered)

16) are there any characters who haunt you?

Galathil, probably, though not the one from Bitter Heart. I have a male Galathil back from my RP days who turns up over and over again in different guises, and may sneakily be the underpinnings for the title character in Tiger Prince.

[ultraviolet-eucatastrophe]

Just going to reply to all these at once because <3 <3 there is so much birthday love in my inbox but I’m lowkey running out of gifs that express my feelings :’)

But !!! THANK YOU ALL, *takes all the birthday wishes and rolls around in them joyously like a goddamn chinchilla taking a dust bath in the desert*

I’m so glad to have you all around <3

[feanory]

what's your favorite lotr scene, and who is your favorite character on b99? <3

Lots of fave lotr scenes but one that always gets me is the charge of the Rohirrim

Aaand my favourite character on b99 is definitely Holt :D

[brazenbells]

belegsghost said: i mean if you wanted to do anything with Thel and Idril in the museum universe i wouldn’t OBJECT :P

They met in the Cloisters at precisely 7 p.m., Idril carrying a large bag of supplies over her shoulder, Ecthelion tying back his locs and rolling up his sleeves.

“The pigeon has flown the coop,” he said, then they grinned at one another and, as one, started towards Turgon’s office.

There was mischief to be done.

[brazenbells]

@belegsghost requested G/E, “it’s a bad idea”

“Do you,” Glorfindel’s voice cut through the dimness, the faint gleam of his eyes seeming far too amused for Ecthelion’s taste, “have a better idea of how we should pass the time?”

“But if someone should come while we're—” Ecthelion rattled the door handle one more time, just in case it was jammed instead of locked, but only managed to knock a broom over onto his head, “—distracted, it’s going to seem damn suspicious if we have to take the time to put ourselves back in order before calling for help—”

“Fontaine,” Glorfindel said, both fond and exasperated, pressing into the small amount of personal space this closet afforded him, “if you think there’s a single person in this establishment who’s going to be surprised we’re in here, or who doesn’t know what we’re up to, you’re even more adorably obtuse than I gave you credit for.”

[brazenbells]

1) Glorfindel loses a bet to Ecthelion 2) Celegorm (with Aredhel if you choose) takes young Celebrimbor hunting OR 3) E&E take young Arwen hunting or 4) if you wanna go the devastating route, something from the immediately after Elenwe's death :D :D :D

Tyelpe was good at the part where they kept very quiet, where they stepped carefully so that their footfalls were silent even among the crackly brush. He was good at watching and listening, catching sight of tracks or spoor that pointed the way to their quarry. But—

“Hold up, pup,” his uncle Tyelko barked, trying and failing to catch him by the collar, “it was only a rabbit, it’s not going to hurt you—”

—Celebrimbor kept running until he was at the wood’s edge, because standing still in the face of mysterious creatures skittering over his feet, he was not so good at.

[brazenbells]

if you're still doing the writing meme: A, G, V?

A. If you could rec a piece of music to accompany one of your fics, what would you pick? Why?"Barton Hollow" is what I was listening to while working on Force My Hand (obviously, it's where the title came from) and I feel like it's a good mood setter.

Did that full moon force my hand?/Or that unmarked hundred grand?

G. Where do you think you grew the most this year?I actually dipped my toe into another fandom, gasp! I've written one-offs outside of Tolkien fandom before, but this is the first time I've considered myself part of another fandom (Thor) and written multiple fics for it (only two, but still.)

V. Which story was the most viscerally pleasing to write? Tell us your narrative kinks.Of the five things I posted this year, three of them were firmly in different parts of my "narrative kink" territory so I can't pick just one.

I don't do it that often, but I actually really love writing things with a high level of "something is subtly but extremely WRONG here, all my alarm bells are going off even though I'm not completely sure what's going down." Force My Hand was a whole lot of that, from Ambarussa playing with the Silmaril even as it burned, to Caranthir's ignored warnings, to...well,  you know, everything leading up to That Thing That Happened.

A Key With No Lock indulged the fuck out of my love of treasure hunts and, weirdly, fairy tale quests? I can't explain exactly why but it lives in the same part of my brain as traditional "pick the wood cup/plain leather bridle/walk only this path and don't step off of it" fairy tale tasks.

And Infinite Possible Ways was, of course, all about people who love each other validating and uplifting one another, which I will eat with a spoon all damn day.