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My Fallout side-blog, where I indulge my hyperfixation and share links to my in-progess fanfic.

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Deathclaw-For-Cutie
My Fallout side-blog, where I indulge my hyperfixation and share links to my in-progess fanfic.
Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.
Aquas and corals are my happiest colors. I just want to curl up in them and swim around. This cover for Bella Blair’s Monster, Suits, and Taming the Wolf was such fun to work on, especially because I get to draw guys being jerks and ladies being fed up. Tryna channel that Vittorio Reggianini energy.
Check out this excellent new release from the Monster Brides series! @bellablairbooks
https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Suits-Taming-Wolf-Romance-ebook/dp/B0H2SJSFTN/ref=books_amazonstores_mobile_mfs_aufs_ap_sc_dsk_1
Mischief pals! Photo from my collection, 1943.
It’s fine. I know what I’m doing. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
“The Family Pet” Postcard from my collection, mailed 1910.
Am I the mom friend? Absolutely not. But what I AM is the "prepared for any situation" friend, and THAT bears wisdom I can pass on
Step 1: Cargo pants, or purse, fanny pack, cool jacket, backpack, etc.
Step 2:
Folded-up plastic bag
Tweezers
Chapstick
Small knife
Lighter
Band-aids
Hand sanitizer
Hard candy
Travel-size Tylenol
Needle and thread
Safety pin
Bus fare
Charger
Pen/flashlight combo
Sticky notes
Granola bar
Tampon
Pad
Mini multi-head screwdriver
Zipock of tissue
Bottle opener
Hockey tape
This can be a lot to unload and re-load if you're a cargo pants person, but if you like me are not really a purse person I highly recommend either a cool jacket you can sew secret pockets into or a spare water bottle you can grab 'n' go whenever
I share this because being the guy who always has The Thing You Need is the best feeling in the world and I think more people should experience it
My favorite headcannon I have going for LOTR right now is that the elves that are still around by the time Frodo gets on the scene are the elvish equivalent of doomsday preppers.
I forget where I read it, but I'm pretty sure that at some point there were millions of elves on Middle-earth, and by the end of the third age, it's down to a few thousand, aka a very small portion. These are the elves that got told way back in the first age, "Hey, just so you guys know, you're totally welcome to come back and live in heaven now without any worries" and responded, "No thanks, we're good!" and then proceeded to not only hold to that but survived the next 7.000 years of bullshit including but not limited to:
Multiple continents sinking into the sea
orcs
dragons
balrogs
multiple wars with Sauron, a literal divine being
The rise and fall of several human empires
more orcs
wargs
a bunch of their territory being overtaken and burned to the ground
And all of their loved ones either dying or sailing, even though we know that grief can and will kill an elf
Like, you can't tell me that third age elves start showing up in the undying lands, where everyone has spent the last few thousand years basking in the magical equivilant of free therapy and probably have as many defence measures as a suburban coldesac, and aren't viewed as the most feral, twitchy, paranoid mother fuckers; held together by suspicion, stubornness, and at least 25 contingencies for every situation they've collectively encountered during their time in Middle-earth.
My favorite examples of feral, hyper-vigilant behavior include:
Elrond: Security clearance; sure, Turgon may have threatened to kill anyone who tried to leave his hidden city, but he also took an entire army out of and back to the city at once, and then also didn't realize that his own nephew snitched on where the city was. His security protocols sucked. Meanwhile, Elrond had hundreds of strangers coming in and out of Rivendell for over 3,000 years, at one point completely surrounded by enemies and full of nothing but a bunch of refugees, and Sauron still never found it. You can't tell me that he didn't have at least 25 security checkpoints on the way into his city(sorry, house-that means it's private property, right?), even if you didn't know they were there.
Galadriel: Paranoia; This woman was magically keeping track of everyone she knew and even did it often enought that she knew what to look for of those she couldn't directly track (gandalf) and looking into their minds and testing them. All while having Sauron constantly clawing at the walls of her mind, at least for a few years
Thranduil: Spite; it was basically only his sheer audacity holding his nuclear bunker- cough cough- sorry, I meant vast underground halls together, while his next-door neighbor was some cursed ruins, a dragon-infested dwarf kingdom, and evil, man-eating, car-sized spiders on his front lawn.
Haldir: he blindfolded the fellowship when they tried to enter his city (super secret hideout), need I say more?
Multiple examples of groups of elves jumping out of trees fully armed and ambushing anyone who wanders into their territory. And while the characters seem surprised to be ambushed, they don't seem surprised that elves ambush people in general, leading me to believe this is normal behavior.
In summary, while the elves in the LOTR and the Hobbit seem all chill and fun, I like to imagine them as the crazy raccoons of the elvish family trees that wandered in 5 hours late.
If I might add, concerning Rivendell, in The Hobbit, Gandalf struggled to find a path there. He would have gotten there soon enough even without the aid of tra la la lally elves, but nonetheless, according to the elves, Gandalf and the company were a bit out of the way of the path.
Gandalf. Who has been to Rivendell a shitton of times, probably. Gandalf struggled to fimd his way in.
And in LotR, Elrond clearly controls Bruinen in a way to deter intruders
The siege of Rivendell by Witch-King's armies during wars with Angmar lasted 50 years. Rivendell is a house, not a fortress, and it lasted half a century.
Elrond has very successfuly barricaded Rivendell against enemies. He, cannonically, had the above mentioned 25 security checkpoints
#lotr#hobbit#silm#->#when you're singing tra la la lally no one pays attention to the fact that you've id'ed every single member of the group trying to get in#and have them covered by archers who can hit a mouse in the dark (@jaz-the-bard get peer reviewed!)
Making mischief plans for the day. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
No thank you. Photo from my collection, no date and the only info is that the child was Russell and he was eight months and two weeks old.
Must contain the scramblers. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Baby tummy. Photo from my collection no date/info.
Normally I crop photos to zoom in on the cat, but I like this one the way it is because I keep expecting a second kitty to pop up in the window. Photo from my collection no date/info.
Lil meowboy. Photo from my collection ca. 1950s.
Dang rip America
Photo from my collection. Writing on the back says, “Careless and Stubtail - on kitchen table.”