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have you ever considered just moving on?

hell no bitch!!!!!

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Nico the sorrowful

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DATA!! (and that guy called Brent Spiner ig)

I haven't drawn these guys in forever but I remembered it was data's birthday so I had to draw something up

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One of my friends suggested they go to Barbie’s dream house. Hope this is satisfactory.

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i am not immune to fallout fever

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late to the party but i wanted to do that meme

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“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

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gimma things to scribble shittily in mspaint

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youve heard of missionary position. now get ready for MERCENARY position

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FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

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messy maglor sketch. i feel like im getting closer to how i'd like his design.

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Eol’s fucking death man, it gets to me

It’s just… Maeglin spends his youth hearing two different stories about his mother’s people. On one hand, they’re the cleverest elves with the most beautiful cities and on the other they’re kinslayers and invaders

Emphasis on the kinslayers

And then Maeglin, Eol, and Aredhel converge on Gondolin, and it is a beautiful city, but they’re also given a choice: stay or die

And Eol chooses death.

He tries to choose so for his son, instead kills Aredhel (that notably being her choice), betrays part of what he so hated about the Noldor, and then they throw him off a fucking cliff

Christ. So here’s my question. Where did the Noldor get the idea for state-sanctioned murder?

For state-sanctioned kinslaying

Where/how/why does Turgon get the idea that this is okay based on previously established Elf morals on killing? Did he invent state-sanctioned executions?

Did Valinor have state-sanctioned murder, and this was considered acceptable because they become ‘jailcrows of Mandos’? Where do Elves get the concept for jails otherwise? I mean, I doubt this is the case, but otherwise this has some serious implications for Turgon’s character.

Because it means he saw the First Kinslaying (which his brother participated in) and decided: this is okay when I do it for a good cause.

Which is exactly what Feanor thought

He just adds bureaucracy and the veneer of civilization to it, decides this doesn’t /really/ count as ‘kinslaying’ and starts murdering anyone who stumbles on his city but doesn’t want to be imprisoned in it. That’s some fucking hypocrisy there, by Elf morals

And Maeglin, whose been told his whole life that his mothers people are murderers, upon entering Gondolin, has that immediately proven right

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Swordmaker of Gondolin

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came home drunk last night and got way too excited to see my cat