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.

[ship-to-starboard]

[frequentderealizationcore]

I am very normal about Celebrimbor! In fact I'm the most normal person ever you can talk about Celebrimbor with!!

[halbrannatar]

Favorite moves of Sauron.

[exhuastedpigeon]

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

[talyris]

[hollypolllyy]

Final Fantasy IX Zidane and Garnet Stained Glass

[verecunda]

Started a new game of FFIX. Promptly got assailed by a lot of old FFX plotbunnies.

Because that makes complete sense.

[artanaros]

one year since the círdan reveal made my regular círdan obsession skyrocket

[eowyn7023]

I especially love Círdan's seahorse nightgown and Círdan as a L'Oréal model.

[verecunda]

@malkaleh

I was just falling asleep last night, when I was hit with the idea of Eönwë realising that Mairon is starting to recover when he asks him if he wants to go to Curumo's new smithcraft lecture, and Mairon fixes him with a withering look and says, "...don't you think one interminable age of torture?"

[malkaleh]

YES. To quote from one of my favourite books somewhat ‘oh the sweet birds of spring, I hear their glorious song’ says Eönwë as Mairon snarks his way through whatever Curumo is talking about.

[verecunda]

Mairon: 🙄🙄🙄 Eönwë: 🥹🥹🥹

(obviously, that should've said "don't you think one interminable age of torture was enough for me?" I managed to miss out about half a sentence there. X'D)

[pansyfemme]

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Isopod

British Library, Harley MS 3244, c. 1236-1250, folio 64r

[verecunda]

@malkaleh

I was just falling asleep last night, when I was hit with the idea of Eönwë realising that Mairon is starting to recover when he asks him if he wants to go to Curumo's new smithcraft lecture, and Mairon fixes him with a withering look and says, "...don't you think one interminable age of torture was enough for me?"

[seali]

[morphmaker]

the silmarillion bride

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[dduane]

It's just impossible to describe how delicious that realization is. Especially when you know your editor will approve.

(Though some of us would riposte with "It's even better when you know your editor will NOT approve." ...And this too is true.) 😄

...Writing is such a difficult (and sometimes painful) business that we have to get our small pleasures where we can. 😏

[system-coded-skirmish]

some people are taking "doomed" to mean "dead". this is actually a misconception! you can be doomed even if you don't die! it's sometimes worse if you don't die!

[invader-reggie]

Normalize answering "why do u ship them" questions with "because i felt like it" instead of writing out 200 pages of reasons why you ship it like u r begging for approval. Or give a nonsense answer.

"Why do you ship this??"

On the night of the full moon I dreamt of a talking rabbit who hopped onto my shoulder and whispered in my ear that I should ship these specific characters and I obeyed without question.