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Reminders for the Anxious/Depressed Creatives

You’re more than what you make.

Your productivity does not determine your value.

It’s okay to do nothing sometimes.

Not everything you do has to result in a product.

Not everything you make has to be important, significant, or even good.

You can make things just for yourself.

You can keep secrets for yourself, whether it’s not posting some of your projects or not sharing your techniques.

You’re allowed to say no.

You’re allowed to rest.

#creativity #important #current mood

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Я Лотта. Верните безличность.

#youtube #current mood

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me after reanimating the corpse of tolkien: so later on in the show, galadriel’s new bestie, halbrand, is revealed to be sauron, which kind of erases celebrimbor as a character and his contribution to the main conflict

tolkien: that’s what you’re worried about when two of the beatles are still living? go finish the job

#well #may be correct

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cf. Latin formosus ‘having form’ = beautiful (sighty))

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

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It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE

#tumblr

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This user supports AO3

This user is anti-censorship

This user believes in “don’t like, don’t read”

This user believes in “ship and let ship”

This user believes that fiction tastes and preferences do not dictate moral character

#agree #especially the last point

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pats for Anxiety fox

#about me

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A young Matthew Shardlake from  C. J. Sansom ‘s novels

Matthew is a hunchback and this portrait is based on a study of a hunchbacked young man by Ilya Repin; he did a lot of such sketches for his painting  Religious Procession in Kursk Governorate. 

#Matthew Shardlake #c.j. sansom #tudors #my art

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a very rough sketch basing on the reference

Somebody please photoshop this creature into Feanor 😩😫

#feanor

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one more crack Silm hc

Sometimes I imagine Nerdanel as a blind person, and that’s why she became a sculptor.

In particular, I am thinking about Lina Po (Poline Gorenstein, 1899-1948). She was a ballerina and lost her sight in 1934 after an illness. She loved drawing and became a sculptor. Lina made statues of dancers, women and portraits of famous people. 

“A blind sculptor’s works are more real than her living sisters. I mean, both her sisters are amazing people, but anyway, her relatives for me feel less real than her works, created by the joy of overcoming the illness and death. That’s why an artist’s work may seem more real than our own lives, because here, inside the artist’s atelier, we know the cost of her work. She never wanted to even hear people calling her “blind”: she was able to see the things the wanted to see inside herself, and she was living and breathing to make her vision visible for all” -- 

Mikhail Prishvin (1952), on visiting Lina’s sisters after her death: she did not have time to finish his portrait (c)

A prisoner of a Nazi camp (1944)

#Nerdanel #silm crack #headcanons #lina po

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too much red

#sweet! #hetalia #Lithuania #Russia

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a Chinese communist Finwë AU

actually I request an AU where:

Finwë = Mao Tse-tung

The Great March of Elves to Valinor is the communists’ Long March

Where Finwë and Míriel are losing all their children on the way except Fëanor

and where Indis is Madame Mao (Jiang Qing) with her love for singing and acting 

Thingol was Chiang Kai-shek and eventually had to escape to Taipei (Menegroth)

(btw if Thingol had the only daughter who was married to a Man, Chiang had the only son who was married to a Russian:)))

#Finwe #Silmarillion crack #crack AU #Mao #China #Indis #Miriel

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I really love your portrait of Turgon, it’s so beautiful and the colors fit him so well

-@outofangband

Thank you so much! 

I did not have inspiration for drawing for a long time and this is very kind of you :) 

#my art #ask #thanks for the ask!

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after a twitter discussion I realised that Thuringwethil was a Rita Skeeter of the Tolkien world

she was hanging on the windows and than writing about “Finrod Felagund’s broken heart”, stories about “devious miss Andreth” and her taste for famous Noldor and of course The Life and Lies of Fëanor Curufinwë and Maedhros: Master or Moron? and Luthien stopped her before she could finish Sauron: Scoundrel or Saint? 

#thuringwethil #fandom chat

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what if Turgon wasn’t actually trying to die falling from the Tower and Ulmo promised him he will fly away and he was not able to fulfill his promise because the sea was too far away and the fountains were destroyed - and Ulmo did it later for Elwing? 

#Turgon #fandom theories #Silmarillion #my art

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“- I’ve never met anyone who could indeed be described as a “breathtaking beauty”, - said Fëanor coldly, - except...

He stood still, frozen, clenching his cold fingers over the balcony railing. 

He answered the question the manager did not dare to ask - no one would feel free to ask such question to a heir of the former royal dynasty - “is he the one you have in mind?”

- Yes, -  Fëanor muttered. And again: Yes”.

#Fingolfin #unwritten fic #Feanor #unwritable fics #modern au

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#this meme is too good I had to translate it #tomb of nebamun #hares #desert hares #translated from Russian