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Tuor and Voronwё watching Turin having one of his many DramaTM moments and being sensible enough to do this from behind a tree

As I read the Unfinished Tales - a gift from my beloved friends - I cannot resist drawing these two

#silmarillion #tuor #voronwe #pahahahahahah #it's like a trainwreck you can't look away from

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The Morning Star and the Evening Star (2024)

Lúthien Tinúviel and her descendant Arwen Undomiel.

#luthien #arwen #silmarillion #lord of the rings #wow that's really pretty

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was so caught up by the beauty of another fat tav mod that i went into the comments and got ambushed by the fatphobia...

#video games #game mods

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i never feel more queertrans than when i read an article by a straight woman who keeps saying "like all woman, I..." before offering up the least relatable sentence i've ever read

#ikr #what must it be like?

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“Trans men can be misogynistic because they’re MEN”

No, everyone can be misogynistic because misogyny is not stored in the gender.

#transmisandry #yeah i said it #and yeah 'feminism is not math' #that is literally what intersectionality MEANS #the whole is often radically different from the sum of its parts

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Would you like to find out what you would be the god of? Take my new uqiz to find out

#quizzes #you know that's fair #i am a fan of people getting together to talk about shit they think is cool or important

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I respect everyone’s interpretations of canon and headcanons and stuff but like.  If you don’t hc elves ears as very mobile and cat-like in reacting to their environment and emotions then. then you ought to consider re-thinking your canon

#tolkien #lmao #that's right be proud

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I saw recently someone accuse nonbinary people of "riding the coattails" of binary trans people, and I cannot emphasize this enough: take my coattails, hold them in your hands, pull yourself up by my bootstraps. Together is how we thrive, together is how we fight, together is how we win.

There are queer people out there who when they see another branch of the queer community either succeeding or receiving support, their reaction is to try and pull them back down. The logic is often: if I had to suffer, so do you.

If I could give a piece of advice to anyone just entering the queer community, it would be: be wary of people who want suffering more than solidarity.

Remember, in this community, we are not here to fight for scraps, we are here to rise together.

#positivity

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y'all i am BEGGING you to really read things before you reblog them. maybe even more than once. do a smidge of critical thinking and ask yourself if you really agree with the op's underlying assumptions or if they just said one thing that made you go !!yeah!! amid all the garbage.

i promise you that if there's a little nugget of truth that called out to your soul in there, somebody else on this website already posted it in a way that isn't covered in racist or ableist or transphobic horseshit. reblog from them instead.

you're better than this.

#discourse meta

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#cut my teeth on a dos prompt #was so mad that the macs at school would only let me see the gui and not the 'real' computer

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HELP US GET RID OF HUGE 20 YEARS OLD MANGA COLLECTION 📚✨

My sister used to collect a whole bunch of manga in the mid 2000s to mid 2010s, but nowadays she's lost her attachments to them and wants to open up a lot of space (for more manga, incidentally 🤭) so I'm helping her sell off all of the bulk! 📚✨

I've set up a temporary eBay account where I'll be listing all of the series she would like to sell off which you can find here: https://www.ebay.com/usr/littlebookghost

Her collection mainly consisted of shoujo romance, light fantasy/supernatural, and boys love titles- with many out of print titles by Tokyopop and Del Ray Manga, and she had over 100 different series/oneshots in her collection! Due to the large amount of books to list I will be adding them gradually every weekend until I have all of them up!

We'd really like to have the whole collection gone by the end of the year, so please share with anyone you think would be interested in buying them off us, we'd be super grateful! 💖

#manga #for sale #signal boost

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Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

#exactly #it's not always about trying to defend fanfic's status as a 'real art form' #sometimes your argument is just annoyingly bad #anyway go read op's other tags they're good

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this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

#transgender #trans healthcare

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"bilbo's poetry must be so embarrassing for elrond" is out

"elrond weaponises bilbo's embarrassing poetry" is in

elrond is old! he's heard it all before! there is not a single topic bilbo could write on that he has not been forced to listen to someone recite on before. at least bilbo doesn't expect him to be particularly grateful or honoured by it.

however! that does not mean other people have reached the same level of "sure bilbo you can write a limerick about maglor" that elrond is on.

so bilbo gets elrond's full permission to write whatever he wants IF he promises to wheel out the really, really sensitive stuff on request (when there are visitors Elrond doesn't like or a diplomat is being annoying)

#bilbo baggins #elrond #lord of the rings #i have done this it's so fun #elwing absolutely wants to hear this funny little guy tell her all about her husband

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#somehow in 15 seasons they never went to my entire STATE #which is bad enough #but somehow the 'what galaxy brain shit can we append to the christian mythos next' show #never went to fuckin utah??? #supernatural

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If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

#dragons #probably star trek

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Nimloth (of Doriath)

#silmarillion #nimloth #her!!!