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[elwinged]

ranking the main 3 finn wolfhard-verse ships (byler, reddie, boreo) as per their Happiness factor:

NUMBER ONE: boreo

i feel like this one's self explanatory guys. they ACTUALLY KISS (not a thing applicable to every ship here, cough byler cough), and in the book they're like 100% definitely in love and implied to get together in the future. gay rights!

NUMBER TWO: byler

"but tumblr user elwinged," you may say, "byler was queerbaiting! we never got a fulfilling ending for will and mike!" to which i wholeheartedly agree, so this may be a kinda hot take. regardless of queerbaiting! stranger things as a whole DID have byler buildup and beautifully cinematographic scenes of them together, plus i think you can actually take the whole of ST incl. s5 as canon and there is still space for byler, because they leave for college and THAT is the perfect place for mike queerler to go on a journey of self discovery. the floor is still OPEN guys i'm TELLING YOU THEY HAVE A CHANCE!! i love second chance romances and there is abso the fuck lutely space for that in the canon byler narrative. can you tell i'm passionate about byler.

and coming in hot at NUMBER THREE: reddie

who woulda thunk! also a controversial take lmao because just like byler, there's definitely space for reddie in the 27 years between part 1 and part 2 of IT where something COULD'VE happened and they forgot about it because, you know, the clown. so why is reddie third? because IT is a tragedy. as beautiful as reddie is and as canon as they are in terms of gestures of love, to me i can't categorise them as happy because eddie dies. he dies and there is no way for me to separate them being happy and laughing in their teenage years from the knowledge that twenty seven years later eddie will be dead and richie will be mourning a love that was never realised, and will likely be mourning him forever. they could be so beautiful but you can't separate them from the tragedy and that's the real kicker of it all. i'm normal about them.

[elwinged]

i find it hard to explain what kanan's death makes me feel, but:

it's just. imagine loving someone so much that you hold back death for them. imagine loving someone so much that you push them away in your final moments. imagine loving someone so much that a supernatural power recognises it and gives you back your sight so you can see your love one last time. imagine loving someone so much that your own death is inevitable and it is because of this inevitability that you can look upon your love once again, because the universe knows that there's no other choice you'd make and so it can grant you this final mercy.

i guess what i'm trying to say is:

imagine loving someone so much that the universe itself recognises your love.

[elwinged]

guys i just finished legendborn and started bloodmarked and. guys i am on my hands and knees begging for a throuple. bree/sel/nick PLEASE🙏🙏🙏

[elwinged]

realising i have types of favourite characters:

person who has suffered immensely and still chooses kindness and light, still believes in the triumph of good over evil: elrond peredhel, obi-wan kenobi, to a certain extent padmé amidala naberrie 

textual ghost whose innocence and childhood bled out: finduilas faelivrin, sabé tsabin, shmi skywalker, to a certain extent findis

dnd player who invested all their points into charisma, be that the flirty or endearing kind: quinlan vos, maedhros one-handed, briar moss, beidou

am i really invested in them as a character or do i just find their vibes immensely tasty?: boba fett, merrin, caranthir, captain rex, commander fox, clone medic kix

i can't lie i just need them to take over my life for me: marshal commander cody, shaak ti, keladry of mindelan, jean gunnhildr

[elwinged]

none of my followers care i think but if you're getting spammed by the magnus archives/fantasy high fanart via me: go check out @izzbeingchaotic and her art!! her art is gorgeous hence my reblogs even though i'm not in either of those fandoms (to the people who followed me for silm content: apologies, i will start queueing other stuff again soon) <3

[elwinged]

you do not understand how much absolute brainrot i have over elenwë right now. like. she’s the lynchpin she’s a martyr she’s a tragic figure she’s a ghost she’s a mother she’s haunted and haunting all at once!! like. the amount that could have CHANGED had she simply survived the helcaraxë --- or the amount that could have been changed if turgon had saved her in idril’s place.

i am having So Many Thoughts about elenwë and the fall of gondolin rn genuinely help me.

[elwinged]

@ silm fandom WHERE is that one elrond elros fic where both twins have a dream about an oncoming wave and elrond sees the devastating emptiness left behind but elros' dream ends as soon as the wave hits?

because i'm having FEELINGS.

[elwinged]

thinking again about these two quotes:

‘The Lord of Rivendell appeared torn between total joy and terrible sorrow, and his smile trembled as his daughter fell into the arms of the man she loved.

...“If I told the tale of all that Lord Elrond has lost, then the very air would weep. He is unused to joy without sorrow. But he will reach for joy nevertheless.”’

-from sansûkh by @determamfidd​

‘... All Melian’s joy was touched with sorrow, and all her sorrow with joy, and it had been that way from the moment she drew on flesh like a gown and took Elu Thingol’s hand under the wheeling stars. For her Thingol had always been falling in marvelling love with her, all their long years together in the Thousand Caves, and he had always been at the same time being torn apart by dwarvish swords on his own treasury floor. She had always known.’

-from into the old abyss by @arrivisting​

and i just— scream.

because these lines only make sense within the context of an immortal life where death and loss is only a very faint thought, but humanity has dealt with love and loss intertwined since the day we were born. it’s always been this way. it will always be this way.