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this is like lingerie to me

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okay what did i miss

(yes some of these overlap and some are suppositions. for example if parchment is always used for ephemera, rough drafts, notes, and never re-used or re-purposed, we can also assume that the author is unaware of wax tablets as a concept)

#Silm epistolary oneshot where the characters complain about hairy parchment 🤔

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

#3 needs help

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J.M.W Turner

text: [x] [x] [x] [x] [x]

paintings: A Castle in an Alpine Valley, called ‘Heidelberg’, c. 1842; Ovid Banished From Rome, c. 1838; Falls of Schaffhausen / Val d’Aosta, c. 1845; Snow Storm – Steamboat off a Harbour’s Mouth, c. 1842

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if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

#My ironing board (and iron) sees HEAVY use #But only maybe 5% of that is ironing wrinkled laundry #And the other 95% is diverse sewing activities

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Throwback Thursday

Thank you @sallysavestheday for tagging me! This particular topic feels very interesting to me since, while I do not have THAT many stories in the Silm fandom, some of the stories I do have are old as balls.

I was thinking about sharing my favorites (from one decade ago) but it seems more honest to focus on the dumb humour fics I wrote over two decades ago. So here are two of them. Neither is very long.

Beleg's Doom; or, Definitely Not the Lay of Turin

The most LACE-compliant (and generally canon-compliant)( retelling of Beleg's story ever. Warning: Turin/Beleg (because: canon-compliant); first-person POV.

We were, however, slightly shocked when Beren took the King's suggestion so deeply to heart. But then, I suppose that he could not have known that sarcastic comments about the Silmarils were one of Thingol's little habits. I can still hear him. "Sure, Beleg, you can have a better sword. I'll give it to you just as soon as you bring me, in your hand, a Silmaril!" "Sure, Mablung, I'll pass you the salt -- if you pass me a Silmaril from Morgoth's crown!" When in a good mood, he'd even try to say it in a Noldorin accent, and call it his Feanor impersonation. And then Saeros would stand there cringing at all the esses for some incomprehensible scholarly reason.

The Scion of KIngs

My first take on Gil-Galad's parentage. (I later wrote a slightly cleverer take that is still my headcanon.) Warning: Mary Sue(thien), horribly described orgy.

Luthien and Suethien were not identical twins. No, for Suethien was by far the prettier. In fact, she was so beautiful that watching her and Luthien play together was like watching Varda Elentari play with Ungoliant the Spider Queen. This often made Luthien cry. Suethien, who was as kind as she was beautiful, thought that her sister's sobbing was the saddest sound anyone had ever heard: and so, pitying her sister, she hid herself away in the leafiest part of Doriath.

This is why you have not heard of her. Just in case you were wondering.

#Tolkien

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Either people need to learn how to tell the difference between an “I’m sorry” that takes direct responsibility and an “I’m sorry” that signifies sympathy, or I’m gonna start responding to unfortunate information with a solemn nod and a “Sympies,” because I am tired of receiving a “Why? It wasn’t your fault” every time I try to vocalize compassion.

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"I would never-"

You would if you were tired enough. You would if you were hungry enough. You would if your mind and body had been worn down enough, through pain or disease or toil or violent struggle. You might if you were put on the wrong medicine, or you got the wrong kind of head injury, or you were forced to choose between someone else and yourself. You might if your livelihood was staked on it, or all your hopes and dreams. You might if you didn't know what else to do, if it's what you were taught or if nobody taught you anything else.

I have not been worn down in most of these ways. I have lived a remarkably privileged life. But I have been worn down in some ways. And they were enough to teach me that in the wrong circumstances, any of us can become someone we don't want to be. It's worth keeping that in mind.

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codex machine

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I’m losing my fucking mind there’s a whole god damn online database full of illustrations for illuminated manuscripts, you don’t need a subscription or anything. And it has a search function so you can enter key words for whatever you want to see. Right now I’m looking for fucked up illustrations of the apocalypse in Revelations, like so;

If you click the images on the website they come out super high def too. They also have a couple bestiaries, as well as some illustrations of the Divine Comedy. This is my new best friend I’m so fucking excited

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Michael Malm

#art

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'The Blue Bird Dreamships' by Frederick Cayley Robinson, (1862 - 1927)

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I’ve made the deck for a slavic themed Mafia game — each character is from classic fairytales and epics. Part 1 of ? (Not really supposed to reveal the whole deck)

𖧷 Ivan Tsarevich 𖧷 Koshchei the Deathless 𖧷 Solovey (Nightingale) the bandit 𖧷 Rusalka

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We bought our new sweet kitten a harness for walks. We had her try it on to get her comfortable with it and I’m not sure she loved it. 

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Egypt. Deir El-Adra, Coptic village near Minya. 1997. A. Abbas