Utúlie'n aurë/Auta i lómë @who-needs-words - Tumblr Blog

A rough approximation of tumblr relevant information about me:

Call me Eli or Jay — I honestly don’t care what name you use.

Gender neutral pronouns, most folks use they/them but again I don’t care that much

I use the fandom etiquette of 1) Don’t like: don’t read, 2) ship and let ship, 3) my kink is not your kink and so on.

My fics can be found at my ao3 who_needs_words and my writing tag here on tumblr is Eli writes. I occasionally edit gifs (the tag is Eli edits), bind fics and do art.

I’m some flavor of fan (passive, former, current etc) of the following (not an exclusive list): the Magnus Archives, Tolkien, Epic the musical, Severance, balder’s gate three, Rusty Quill Gaming, The Silt Verses, BBC Merlin, The Mechanisms, Blue Eye Samurai, Unseen, Dune, project Hail Mary, Arcane, welcome to nightvale, Star Wars, Yuri on ice, my hero academia, Penumbra, Wicked, legend of Zelda, The Witcher.

Number 1 Lalwen fan.

In general I’m an unforgiving nerd about worldbuilding.

Yes you can send asks and yes can send DMs! I’m kinda a terrible conversationalist so maybe know what you want to talk about (any of the above fandoms and any of my fics are good places to start)

I’ve run or helped run several fandom events in the past but none currently.

I’m rabidly anti- generative AI and will block on sight.

#pinned post #intro post #eli rambles

silmalope

Ooo since your requests are open I would love to see your take on Maeglin! Or Celebrimbor!

“In this you shall obey me, or I shall set you in bonds.” …. And Maeglin did not answer, but was cold and silent. | “Come, Maeglin son of Eöl! Your father commands you. Leave the house of his enemies and the slayers of his kin, or be accursed!” But Maeglin answered nothing. | “This second choice I take and for my son also! You shall not hold what is mine!” … But Maeglin looking upon his father was silent. | “So you forsake your father and his kin, ill-gotten son! Here shall you fail of all your hopes, and here may you yet die the same death as I.” … And Maeglin stood by and said nothing.

Maeglin + silence 🤫 Thank you for the request!

nordreys

james ortiz provided some of his own personal rocky backstory on the sag aftra podcast, transcribed by me because we all have to be miserable about it together.

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right?

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].

i also decided, this is just a small nerdy thing, that there was actually some of his family, was on that ship too.”

placeholddog

they created the technology to make a 1:1 recreation of grace's cardigan

kldien

“Damage irreversible” - Post-Angband Maedhros

Survived Morgoth's torment he did- but grim and pain remained in his heart.

piwonplaylist

should probably also post my hollanova art here too

anneemay

autistichalsin

The test for allyship isn't how you treat an oppressed person who is your friend, family, spouse. It's how you treat an oppressed person you absolutely can't stand who is vile and loathsome in every way.

Do you gender trans people correctly even when they're being absolutely terrible people? Do you refuse to use the r-slur against someone who suicide baited you but is neurodivergent? Do you refuse to snark at a mentally ill person who is being genuinely unpleasant, "go take your meds!"

Do you allow members of marginalized groups to be terrible people without judging their entire demographic for it? One of the most invisible yet vital forms of privilege is the right to be terrible people as an individual rather than as a group. Do you acknowledge that there are bad people in every group, that it doesn't make their group less worth fighting for? Or do you shake your head if you happen to get mistreated by some who belong to a group and insist the entire group is awful and not worth your allyship?

Oppressed people can see how you treat those of us you like, but do you still treat the worst of us with the basic dignity you treat the worst of other groups with?

hnnny

Surprise @stellorc !! It's your absolute menaces for the @kotorgiftexchange !! I really enjoyed making this for you, and it was such a pleasant surprise to get paired with you for the exchange because you deserve all of my efforts. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my dear friend :)))