literally screaming and crying because i asked my mum what babies would be ‘traditionally’ fed in 1970s Kerala aside from breast milk, for Prayers reasons because i’ll be damned if Maglor is going to be feeding Elladan and Elrohir unrealistically. anyway she sent me a full itemised list and then a lecture re: the only reason i didn’t know this is because i was a terribly picky baby who ‘considered eating optional’ and the entire list of nutrition was in fact a moot point in my case because i was a baby that did not appreciate the value of being fed when many other babies in the world are not, and topped it all off with this voice note, translation provided:
in case you didn’t know, the sleepless efforts involved in feeding and raising a child is in fact somewhat difficult. please remember that i, unlike your aunty susan or your other aunty, did not have a nanny at my beck and call running around draped in diaper bags and bottles of milk. i only had your father (derogatory). obviously, there is no use telling you things like this because like hell are you going to understand the struggle
and i thought my Prayers maglor characterisation was original and entirely fanon/canon based. it isn’t original. it isn’t original at all. if you have read the fic you know full well that the above paragraph is something maglor would one billion percent tell the adult elrond. hell he probably has already said this somewhere in the fic already. right down to the kozhikodan accent.
i wrote my mother. i wrote my mother into my magnum opus and called her maglor 😭
