By God, I'll not lose Hardy!

I love writing and moaning about writing, history, reading, pretty things, cute things, and silly things. This tumblr is a mixed bag of them all! Perpetually stuck in rarepair hell. My fic on AO3. Dreamwidth.

[jakegyllenhaalsteeth]

whole lipstick on a pig is bogus to me because we put lipstick on a pig and this is what happened

[tsumugiology]

random question:

what was your first exposure to prev and what made you decide to follow them?

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

Figurines of mice greet the visitors on the steps of the temple of Apollo in Turkey.

The temple was built during the 2nd century B.C., in the Troas region. It is dedicated to Apollo Smintheus (Lord of mice). The friezes of the temple depicted the war, which Homer recounted in his epic Iliad. In the epic itself, Apollo invoked as Smintheus is a terrific plague bringer.

Miniature statues of mice are now being placed to the stairs of 2,000 years old temple. "They are real-size figurines of mice. We have 73 figurines in the first stage, but 100 more will be made", says Professor Coşkun Özgünel, the head of the excavations in the field. "Visitors of the temple are very surprised by the mice. They show great interest in the figurines. They take photos and share them on social media. This interest made us very pleased.”

[verecunda]

Dad's listening to the Aubreyad on audio (again), and I keep hearing snatches while I'm having my own Tolkien thoughts, and now all I can think about is wee!Elrond and Elros at the Havens of Sirion, speaking foremast hand-speak like Fanny and Charlotte Aubrey. Círdan has definitely been greeted - more than once, and with all affection - as a "god-damn swab". :')

And they're still doing it, even when they're at Amon Ereb. "Come on, Maglor, you grass-combing bugger, bear a hand, there!"

[linesonwhite]

BEHOLD, THE MIGHTY ADELBERT STEINER, CAPTAIN OF THE KNIGHTS OF PLUTO, THE GALLANT HERO OF FINAL FANTASY IX--

...

Something just possessed me to draw Steiner looking, like, considerably more buff than he appears in the game proper.

He's a funny man.

Got him over on twitter alsooooooooo OwO

[ryuuza-art]

IXtober day 31:

"How did you survive...?"

"I didn't have a choice.

I had to live.

I wanted to come home to you."

[friendly-tanuki-girl]

Zidane takes a fall regardless

Art by me

[ryuuza-art]

IXtober Day 1: The plan

[bd-bandkanon]

i kinda started wanting to see if I could draw queen brahne, but not quite in the negative/goofy/villainous light that she’s known for. I wanted to see if I could present her in a positive light, as a mother rather than a batshit crazy queen, without making her look like a completely different person.

Princess Garnet never let go of that memory of her, did she? There must have been a good reason for it.

[thebirdroads]

the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

[birdnerd18]

[dr-algernop-deactivated20220313]

[atlas-prime]

Also great is the similar yet distinct “character opens door, sees monster, closes door”

[fractusmagus]

I love how both examples are Dark Souls games, and yes; I have done that.

[chephalopods]

i went to the circus and the person doing silks had such finrod energy that i had to draw finrod on silks

[pressure-machine]

EVERY ENDEAVOUR EPISODE season two, episode three: Sway

[kittydealer]

fell asleep mid convo (unmute)

[verecunda]

Truly astounded at the myriad ways in which the Tolkien fandom manages to plumb depths of sexism unthought of even by the male author born in 1892. [insert Ben Affleck smoking gif here]

[oreliel-from-valinor]

[connorwyndham]

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013) Directed by Francis Lawrence.

-Finnick Odair, right? -Yes. He won his Games at 14. Youngest ever. Extremely humble. -You're kidding. -Yes, I'm kidding. He's a peacock. A total preener. But he's The Capitol darling. They love him here. Charming, smart, and very skilled at combat. Especially in water. -What about weaknesses? -One. Mags.

[letoghanima]

Yes. Yes, Frodo is alive. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING 2003 | dir. Peter Jackson