#golweneth

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listen to me. no listen. nothing humbles you like learning a new calendar system. especially one that works on a completely different and arbitrary system to the one you are used to. does it make sense? sure, if you're fucking good at visualising calendars that work by counting by either 6 or 12. tolkien please i am gonna haunt your ass so hard why did you make so many different calender systems.

also my poor blorbo is having a very bad time :( she went from "omg diary i think i have a crush??" to "mother why is there fire over the mountains?"

also i don't think i like how i've formatted the dates??? i mean it as in "the 2nd valaday of winter" but I've written it as "winter, valaday 2nd" so maybe i'll redo that idk

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y'all i commissioned portraits of Golweneth and Merion from a lovely artist last month because they were emergency comms and you know by now i love having art of my blorbos so i went for it, and i got them back and i think they look so so lovely 🥺

ahh bright young things, so full of hope and warmth... they don't know what's coming for them and i'm so sorry 😭 i've never felt hugely for previous oc's dead parents etc, but these guys just make me feel so many things because they deserved more time!!! they all deserved more time together!!! breaking my own heart all the time... anyway, huge thanks to @crysalineart (i commed them from Instagram, same handle) for my beautiful blorbos, thinking i'll come back for more family portraits in this style later when i have money again!

here's the unshaded versions too because they're just as cute as the full shaded ones!! again so much love to Cry for these, they were so sweet over email, definitely check her out :)

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currently in bed hoping my food stays down, but all this rest has me thinking more about my writing and i'm thinking about Elrond and Golweneth. if you've read a bit about her diaries you'll know she's a loremaster in training during her youth in Gondolin, and i think she'll stick with that throughout the rest of her life, so now a very obvious connection is formed, especially since she's friends with Idril - is she going to be better acquaintances with the house of Elrond? she meets Merion after the sacking of Eregion but does not stay in Rivendell (or what will become the homely house), but i've already established that Elrond does know Golweneth and Merion. why not make the connection a bit deeper? just because Erin's parents have friends doesn't necessarily mean she has to know much about them or even be familiar with them after all, so i'm highly considering (for many reasons) establishing a better connection between Mélamar Ilyavan and Imladris. this might cause some issues but idk i think it makes sense?? world building in a built world is hard y'all, and i don't just want characters to be friends for th sake of it, but the more i think about it the more it actually makes sense for them to know each other, especially considering Golweneth's journey in life and her particular interests. lots to consider all of a sudden (and ooh that's exciting actually)