#and sometimes they aren't accurate

[mediumsizedpidegon]

when it comes to my Bleach/Silmarillion crossover where Maeglin dies, loses his memories and falls into Hueco Mundo (subsequently becoming a hollow)– one of the fun things to come up with is what the FUCK is going on in Arda while Maeglin is gone.

Of course, the second age and third age go as planned, the lord of the rings happens unchanged, because Middle Earth is divorced from the dead. Elves reembody into Aman, not Middle Earth and so no one in ME has any idea that Maeglin is lost to Arda (nor would this fact really change,,, any events).

But in Aman? Tolkien doesn't really talk about what's going on in Aman. In that way it's sort of a blank slate because– are the Feanorian followers allowed to leave the Halls and if they are, how are they settling into society? Who are they giving their loyalty to? Has the system of government changed over the years? What are Teleri-Noldo relations like, several Ages after the First Kinslaying? What is the balance of authority and power like with so many kings, queens and lords stuffed into one land? Who has reembodied and who refuses? How does the absence of well known figures (Finwë, Míriel, Fëanáro and his sons, Celebrimbor, Maeglin, entire generations preceding Finwë) shape politics and healing? Who forgives, who tries to forget, and who holds onto their grudges?

I imagine that at first, no one is looking for Maeglin. Why would they? He just betrayed Gondolin and caused the deaths of a good chunk of people. Those newly-dead aren't going to want to even look at him. Those that survived and sail to Valinor (like Idril) are glad to not see him among the reembodied. They aren't going to look a gift-horse in the mouth and ask questions.

The only ones who would want Maeglin back are his parents.

On the topic of Eöl, I personally find it more interesting if he wasn't evil and his and Aredhel's relationship was happy and healthy for a time. The progression of a paranoid, traumatized parent and husband trying his best to what Eöl ended up doing just. makes a bit more sense to me, especially because I keep the bit of canon where elves can't have kids accidentally. I imagine Eöl passes through the Halls in a matter of decades instead of centuries, not because he is fast to heal, but because being in the domain and under the mercy of a Vala is doing the opposite of helping him. And since he's out before Gondolin falls and lives in solitude, he even doesn't know that Maeglin has died until Aredhel reembodies and personally hunts him down to interrogate him on whether his curse (his prophecy) consigned their son to fading.

It didn't. (With where their son is now, it might have been kinder if it had.)

On Aredhel's end: she searched for her son for years within the Halls before Námo came to her, troubled, and told her that Maeglin is not in his Halls, nor reembodied in Aman, nor wandering Middle Earth– that by all accounts, Maeglin is not in Arda at all. So her son is gone, and her brother is too upset to see it, and Gondolin's people hate him enough that they would celebrate this, and when Aredhel reembodies, her niece tells her she is glad that Aredhel is freed from being bound to evil (her husband) and having borne evil (her son). Her mother embraces her but cannot forgive her for leaving her, her father sees the daughter she was and not the daughter she is, and her other brothers think she grieves having been controlled and misled. No one in her family knows her son and husband as anything but a traitor and her killer– no one in her family knows her as she is now, the Aredhel who left Gondolin and courted a elf who carried grief entangled in his every step in the dark, beautiful forest he claimed as a home. Who lived there of her own free will and had a son of her own free will, and loved them, for all that it ended horribly.

Aredhel has been mistranslated her entire life. She has borne it with what little forgiveness she has. She finds, now, she can bear it no longer.

As time goes on, some members of the family that never met him nearly forget Maeglin ever existed. Reembodied elves of Gondolin write histories of their city and Aredhel stops visiting Tirion entirely for all the stares she receives. There is still no understanding of Aredhel among the Nolofinwions for all their love and she tires of it quicker and quicker. She ends up repairing and renewing her marriage to Eöl (there is much Aredhel can forgive for understanding) and it is not the same as before everything fell apart, but it is theirs.

Maeglin will be gone six Ages before his parents succeed in calling him home. He'll be different too, older, sharper, traumatized, his body strange, but still their child.

#turgon idril and the other finwions aren't wrong or evil for having the point of view they do #maeglin betrayed gondolin– under torture sure– but he still did and boy did it have consequences #and the history that was then written and told in Aman was influenced by this. were the writers there in Angbang with maeglin? #no. they don't actually know what morgoth offered or what maeglin suffered or whether maeglin broke or gleefully handed gondolin over #the people in gondolin werent all knowing. i bet they werent like 'oh maeglin is definitely his fathers son and going to betray us' #but the history is written retrospectively. people add people embellish people try to make sense of nonsensical things #and fill in the blanks #and sometimes they aren't accurate #but still what a gut punch to Aredhel to meet your niece again and have her tell you that you're safe now and you don't need to pretend to #love them anymore. the implication that you were wrong to. the implication that you were just playing pretend #as if you aren't aredhel master of concealment finest hunter of the Noldor and instead a poor weeping girl enchanted and led astray #the way your family can love you so much and still rip your heart out without meaning to #god. god #the simarillion #the silm fandom #tolkien #aredhel #eöl #maeglin #my posts #our long heritage of heresy

[waystarresourceco]

Kieran Culkin on Roman's playboy image and the way the actors/writers understanding of backstory fits together. (x)

#thought it might be interesting to throw this out there #I think “playboy” is sometimes used in connection with Roman by Jesse/Mark in a way that can be read as a split from Kieran's view #and that's totally fair #or it can be read as consistent in that that's the image Roman works to project #which i tentatively think may be the implication for what his life looked a little like pre-series but still thinking through that #I think that's what makes Roman so interesting to watch when he's in those party environments #he's clearly good at people in a way his siblings aren't #and he knows how to be in those spaces (even if there's a discomfort with drugs and sex) #see for example how he is with Lawrence in S1 and that he knew about Rhomboid #but at the same time that's clearly not all of Roman or even an accurate reflection of his internal life #and it's unclear how frequently he actually goes out #anyway I think the point is just that Roman is interesting haha #and I think both reads support the fake playboy thing and not like...a real one lol #roman roy #succession #cast interviews #hbo succession #kieran culkin

[the-dragongirl]

Impulsive Sewing Project of the Week

Because I lack self control, I decided to make this bag on Thursday, and finish it Friday night. It is all hand sewn, including the embroidery, with a wool crepe exterior and silk twill lining (because that is what I had in my scrap bag in large enough pieces). Sides and draw string are finger looped braid made from a linen/cotton blend yarn. I may replace the draw string with a lucet cord instead, since I finally got a lucet yesterday, but I am pretty happy with how it turned out on the whole.

#Fiber arts #Sewing #Embroidery #Historical costuming #I know there are some aspects that aren't accurate here #But it is pretty close to a medievel pouch #I also impulse sewed a St. Birgitta cap this week #Because that is how life goes sometimes

[ronanlynchbf]

#less sun and skeletal trees and mostly gray drabby weather is getting 2 me guys.........SAD! #anyway i looked at my reading stats for trc (which aren't the most accurate bc there's a lot of rereads that i didn't track bc i forgot to) #and late autumn/early winter is one of the spans of time that occurs the most where i reread trc as in i usually reread trc around that tim #every year i think it's actually so funny. the seasonal depression rlly elevates the urge to reread i guess 😎👍 #r.txt #trc #also this does not include the dreamer trilogy bc those are different vibes than trc although it does include opal short story my beloved #and sometimes also includes call down the hawk #<- call down the hawk is actually my most reread trc-and-extended book after the dream thieves which is kinda surprising i don't remember #reading it that many times but it is my fave book after the dream thieves and bllb so maybe not that surprising after all nvm. #anyways. SAVE ME THE RAVEN CYCLE 🙏🙏🙏

[leatherbookmark]

a friendly reminder that jgy doesn’t “tell nmj that he’s more important than all those people he’s killed”.

nie mingjue asks two questions.

one, “are you saying your life is more valuable than theirs?” (高贵),

and second, “are you saying you’re different from them?” (不同)

to which jin guangyao says, “yes. of course we’re different!”

he doesn’t say, “of course my life is more valuable!”, note.

these are two separate questions, and he only answers the last one that, in my opinion, is the most mindboggling one.

nmj asks a son of a sex worker, reviled, harassed and bullied just for existing, if he’s any different than other people. nie mingjue, who’s SEEN the way he was treated and stepped forward himself to confront those people.

the same nie mingjue who thinks he’s a l w a y s killed people for a reason, and that it’s fair for him to kill, but when jgy kills it’s always cruel, needless spilling of blood. yknow, despite the saber.

this nmj gets so furious at jgy stating that he’s not like other people that he kicks him down the stairs.

🆗🆒👍

#i'm all for discussion and 'agreeing to disagree' but sometimes i see people discuss with those who aren't... really worth it imo #like there are signs that just show they're not gonna budge from their 'jgy Evil Bad da-ge Good Tragic' standpoint. why would you debate #someone like that lol #and again i don't remember a good chunk of the novel as well as i do the jgy parts (because i don't care) but i'm firmly of the opinion that #if you're gonna bring sth up to justify your dislike for a character it would be NICE if that sth was at least ACCURATE. without #backtracking like 'well maybe i'm remembering wrong and something totally different happens but it still proves my point' #it Lichrally Does Not. #also re: the sentence about jgy 'giving up on something'. if he was playing turmoil all along why would he be giving up on nmj now? #he is sentimental and loses his head (but not as well as nmj :>) in moments of panic but he's not as Stupid as to deliberately walk into #a starved lion's cage; wave chunks of meat in front of its face and then act surprised when it lunges. #shrimp thoughts #leaving the full names in because i'm Tired.

[crumbleclub]

Another doodle for the Family Business AU.

Version with dead Will below the cut; ye asked and ye shall receive. (yo ho ho)

I can sense my past art teachers telling me to fill the space above William but consider: I don't feel like it. Pretend it's a stage play lmao

#the heights aren't that accurate but shh #william's crumpled pose was actually the easiest to draw #i had a lot of trouble with mike's #i like how it turned out tho #now if only i could do this in digital so i could color it #maybe i'll try importing it and seeing what i can do sometime. idk #cw gore #well. barely #dead body tw #corpse tw #fnaf #michael afton #cc afton #evan afton #elizabeth afton #william afton #mike's actual art

[altruistic-meme]

oph, hey anxiety ✌️

#wonderful #lovely #hate that #*heavy breathing* #yep yep cool totally #sorry #just sorta venting a bit #yeah ofc naturally #youre allowed this behavior but im not <3 got itttttt thanks #like obviously sure whatever i get it #but also #you do you realize the absolute hypocrisy right? like? you see it right? #you understand how often you do this to me?? and now you're mad that it happened to you?? once?? #in a situation where a lot was happening?? #like yeah babe it happens <3 sometimes you get ignored or (more accurately) you speak and people dont hear you #or people speak at the same time and only one gets a response #im sorry honey i grew up youngest of 6 kids. as an introvert with severe social anxiety. like. #you will get ignored sometimes. life moves on. you aren't going to die from it. #*DEEP BREATHS* #sorry sorry. like i said i just kinda need to get this out of my system. #so that i don't blow up at her or either of my sisters. #bc babe. honey. really? #shh ac

[soulsxng]

#addition to Lierik and Fei's is that it would be a small harem situation most likely #so you’d have to join/be okay with that (obviously not if something is plotted to say otherwise on the harem thing) #finishing Ezra's: the addictive personality can sometimes cause problems (it also makes him bait for the 'I can make him worse' thing... #though admittedly not as much as in the regular verse) #Aifaen aren't on here because technically they don't have royals-- they have a bunch of different leader figures #so they'll honestly probably get their own poll #And then there will be one for (main #otherwise it'll be too long) nobility! #Dunno if I'll do one for others or not since they're not exactly /obligated/ to get married eventually #or maybe more accurately won't have people sending marriage proposals to them for political reasons alskfn

[heirbane]

WHAT YOU NEED TO HEAR.

YOU ARE HOLY, YOU ARE DIVINE. - you've eaten yourself alive long enough. it's time to pull yourself down from your cross. i promise you are good, you are pure. you do not have to be a martyr.

tagged by @creatrix-mea / tagging @wisdomscion

#sometimes i think abt how we make angels out to be these flaxen haired pure things when there's also the concept of 'biblically accurate' - #- angels. maybe angels look like g.aius. maybe they aren't fair and beautiful but bloodied and wretched #ⅩⅣ tertius oculus ( hcs. ) #ⅩⅣ speculo ( aes. ) #thank u for tagging me!!

[crisscross-inksauce]

Inky Mystery Inktober 2021: Day 29 - Fall

#they're holding hands under the frame #haha jk jk #unless? #RuneStraw #cuphead #holly may #their heights aren't accurate in the slightest here #but sometimes one must make sacrifices for the sake of art #including accuracy :D #babitim #The Inky Mystery #bendy and boris in the inky mystery #im #my art #fanart #traditional art #Inktober 2021 #2 left 🤠 #haha #Inky Mystery

[ijustwantedtoresetmypassword]

There's nothing so rural German as Schützenfest

5km marschieren bei greller Sonne und mit mittelmäßig gespielten Märschen, der erste zwischenstop beim König kommt in sicht und du realisierst: das Tiefe Blech hat den Roten bereits auf :')

Endlich auf dem Schießplatz angekommen. Eine Tuba musste das letzte Stück getragen werden. Ein bisschen Schwund ist immer.

Einzug ins Zelt, das Preußens Gloria klingt als würde es eine ägyptische Militärband spielen, die ersten Trompeten kommen ins schwanken.

Die Erste Klarinette verpasst ihren Einsatz, der Präsentiermarsch klingt als möchte der König lieber nicht auftreten.

Das Schlagwerk hat den Kasten Bier der der Kapelle gestellt wurde leer.

Nach den Reden. Der Dirigent gibt auf und lässt das Tenorhorn Takt geben. Macht sich ein Bier aus dem neuen Kastrn auf.

Die Querflöten trillern mutig weiter. Auch beim Walzer.

Endlich ist der Tag geschafft, du seufzt in Erleichterung. Nur um wieder hoch zu schrecken. Morgen ist um 10:00 Uhr Antritt!

Die Kapelle schaut sich an, zuckt mit den Schultern und verabredet sich auf Sonntagmorgen zum Frühschoppen.

Sonntagmorgen: Königsschießen.

Nach und nach versammelt man sich langsam im Zelt. Der Schlagzeuger hat nicht geschlafen, der Aufbautrupp verzweifelt am Schlagwerk.

Um 10:30 kann dann endlich angefangen werden, die schützen sind schon seit 1000 dabei. Um 10:45 kommt noch ein Saxophon angerannt, es hätte nach gestern Abend sein Instrument nicht mehr finden können.

Jetzt wo alle da sind kann ja richtig losgelegt werden. Dirigent hebt drn Taktstock, will zu einer Polka ansetzen.

Da tönt der Lautsprecher. Der König wurde ermittelt!

Der Dirigent ändert die order. Tusch!

Hinten hat das tiefe blech nichts mitbekommen und spielt die Polka. Die Klarinetten drehen sich verärgert nach hinten.

Der Kasten Bier ist schon wieder leer.

Wann war endlich Mittagspause?

Kurz vorm Festzug kommt panisch eine Querflöte angelaufen. Ihr Instrument tut nicht mehr! Sie hält das Instrument hoch, aus den Löchern tropft Grüner.

Der Dirigent schüttelt den Kopf und macht sich noch ein Bier auf.

"Legs in die Sonne zum trocknen" , rät eine Querflöte der andern.

Bei den Klarinetten wird gekichert.

Einreihen gleicht eher der Reise nach Jerusalem. Irgendwann ist eine Posaune verloren gegangen.

Die Locke kann jeder auch im vollsuff spielen, bei den nächsten Märschen werden die Töne nach bestem ermessen geraten.

"Die klingen sowieso alle gleich!" beschwert sich ein Horn.

"Kannste einen, kannste alle", nickt das Altsaxophon.

"Ich kann gar keinen!" meint eine dritte Klarinette, und spielt mit Eifer den falschen Ton.

Im Zelt angekommen werden mit Vorfreude die Schlager ausgepackt. Das Marschbuch wird gerne bis zum nächsten Schützenfest in der Westentasche vergessen.

Hinter dem Zelt hat man auch endlich die fehlende Posaune wieder gefunden. Nach seinem "kurzen Mittagsschlaf" ist er auch der einzige der beim abspielen im Zelt alle Töne trifft.

Die Schützen schunkeln begeistert mit.

Ältere Dame kommt zum Dirigenten und meint was hätten wir schön gespielt. Betretenes Schweigen. Die Klarinetten kichern schon wieder.

Älterer Herr folgt der älteren Dame und fragt ob wir auch Wünsche annehmen. Ded Dirigent nickt und der Herr wünscht sich Radetzky Marsch.

Auf einen Schalg sind alle wieder nüchtern.

Der Dirigent nickt der Kapelle zu. Es wird verzweifelt nach Noten gekramt. Als jeder soweit ist, hebt der Dirigent den Taktstock und...

"Pergament-Pergament-PergamentPAPIER!"

Das Schlagwerk hat den dritten Kasten Bier auf.

Der Dirigent senkt den Taktstock und seufzt. Die Kapelle lacht.

#long post #Schützenfest #tw alcoholism #We aren't that bad #But sometimes it feels like this is very accurate #Märsche sind halt nur betrunken zu ertragen #Gott sei Dank ist Abends im Zelt immer n DJ zuständig

[aubreyaubretia]

#it's emotional vibrations for me #i often struggle to translate them into english #it's why i talk so slow sometimes #i find spoken language is altogether insufficient to really 1:1 accurately describe how i feel without typing 80 paragraphs #it's like looking at a cut diamond and then drawing a diamond with four lines on a piece of paper and being like ah yes these are the same #when they clearly aren't

[chaoticgremlinbrainspace]

was going insane at a friend last night now I need to research transness in the 70s and all that fun stuff so I can be fully unhinged and maybe actually write smth for once instead of being haunted by visions

#grem screams #I love history #I love reading and learning about the past and the people #I love seeing the way things have changed the way things reflect and parallel and diverge #I also just really like queer history #I love learning about the ways people existed and shit #idk theres just smth so cool about people in spaces that aren't really talked about in regular history classes and like learning about them #I might be a lil cringe boy art student who cant help but romanticize shit because hes full of feelings but idk it got me feeling #sometime of way #idk lately ive been feeling like I cant quite find the words to describe what I am I just know I am what I am #and that often people just get it or they dont lol #ngl this all started off as me vague posting about wanting to write a trans genda scout from tf2 fic and getting wya too invested in how #that would work logically bc it needs to be accurate #it needs to be a journey!!! #and I want it to be in charater #but im also a lil bitch for angst lmao #im also a nerd lmaooo that and its hard for me to write things dow n with out it sounding wrong or just not right you know? #it feels wholly too earnest and cheesy to my own ears and it makes me shrivel up like a popcorn left in the oven #uh anyway I think trans scout is neat actually and I would love to see more explorations into it guess im gonna attempt to be the change I #wanna see in the world lmao #idk hes just so easy to grab and dunk into the #world is fuck being different is hard give 200 dollars sauce you know? #veeerrrry easy to project onto the trans angst is he is like sponge and I am a vicious liquid #and he has daddy issues lmao apparently arcording to my very small sampling size that tends to happen side by side #and idk I think it would make sense for scout to just straight up not know a lot of shit he gives #me when I was in middle school and I thought it was funny to trick people into thinking I was a guy even tho I was totally a girl /sarcasm #he gives deep in the denial sauce but also totally extremely uncomfy when people find out and getting unreasonably happy when hes called si #but ahahaha nooo im totally a girl haha and just feeling more awkward now #lmao #sorry for the rambling lmao idk if this is accurate for his charater I do think him being trans could be a fun thing to just explore and sh

[bronzewool]

I wonder if we would have gotten more standalone episodes of the kids interacting in odd pairs if TOH got a proper season three. Maybe an episode where Amity and Gus go into town to do research at the museum, Willow and Vee fix the old house and have a heart-to-heart, or some sort of continuation of Amity and Hunter’s earlier conflict back in Eclipse Lake where he threatened her girlfriend.

The only acknowledgement we get of this snippet of continuity is in the second to last episode of season two with the balcony scene where you can see Hunter giving Amity the side eye in the background, but after that, the show doesn’t have time to acknowledge that these two have personal beef that never got resolved. There’s no Katara and Zuko moment, "I was the first one to trust you!” when they escape to the human realm and finally have time to stop and breathe and figure out what their feelings are about the other.

Which I think sucks for Amity because before Hunter showed up she was the most developed kid character outside of Luz. She has an entire character arc, the one who changes the most (emotionally and physically), her entire family contributes to the plot and is given way more screen time than Gus and Willow’s dads combined.

Yet, her relationship with the friendship group is the most underdeveloped. Hunter should be the odd man out, as he is still relatively new and was working for the big bad a couple of episodes ago, but he’s more integrated into the group than Amity who has been here since the beginning and also started as Luz’s initial rival. Hunter has been given the time to develop a personal connection with almost every one of the kids, whereas Amity still feels like “The girlfriend who hangs out with them sometimes”

Her main connection to everyone else is through Luz and the implication seems to be if she’s not around then Amity has no reason to be around. It’s only because they’re trapped in the human realm Amity is now forced to be in scenes where Luz isn’t around. It took nearly all of season 2 before the writers finally addressed the elephant in the room that Luz is dating her best friend’s former bully, which was a legit concern for some people who loved the ship but were worried about the implications if that conflict never got resolved and Willow just had to grin and bare it. 

Heck, I don’t think Amity and Gus exchanged a single line of dialogue in all three seasons!

Thanks To Them was definately a Luz and Hunter centric episode, but I think Amity would have benefitted the most if we had a proper season three, considering the show can no longer shove Willow and Gus out of the narrative for more Blight Family insanity. Even if her family is way more interesting than Willow and Gus at this point.

#fandom: the owl house #for the stans accusing fans of sexism because Hunter become fan favourite #its not because he's male its because Amity's issues were getting resolved #so she was no longer the feral baby we remember back in season 1 #whereas Hunter is currently in the middle of even more trauma #thereby being more engaging as a character #as we watch him struggle #although that might have something to do with her weird characterisation in fanfics #where she's sometimes written as the mean lesbian trope #even though that's not really accurate #she doesn't hate men #she just never has any scenes with them #who aren't her relatives

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

i discovered yesterday that it seems at one point in time the wiki did have redirects for the fan names for tengoku games that aren't in megamix and just. removed them for some reason. no idea why-

#puppy rambles #rhythm hell #tengoku #i get the pages not being named the fan names. but why don't they redirect??? #furthermore also why do i have to type the star in bon odori's name to get to its page- oh nevermind #the wiki's baffling sometimes. it is a good resource overall but some of the choices are just baffling to me #why is there a page for tengoku's fan translation. it's the only page that has template saying it's non-canon to the series- #most of its categories aren't used elsewhere on the wiki. and also it doesn't even have fully accurate information lksdfjklfdsjlkfdsfd-

[rurpleplayssims]

Lady Althea Campbell was a woman who, when she had things to do which she deemed important, worked her fingers to the bone to get it done. It had to be done as safely, efficiently and with as much care as she could give anything.

For the couple of years she had laid a lot of groundwork in trying to establish a town on the acres she owned out in the beautiful countryside. 

So far, her lifelong dream was coming to life. Her hard work was paying off and for the most part, it had been a massive success.

They were approaching the year’s anniversary of her and the first founders moving in and it almost made her emotional if she thought too much about it. It had been so hard at times but her residents were like an extended family.

Despite a recent let-down which had stressed Althea out to no end, she was starting to put that behind her and focus on what was the most important date in her life.

Her wedding to the love of her life.

Thomas Norman.

#CampbellQuayBaCC #Campbell Quay #CampbellQuay #The Sims 2 #TS2 #BaCC #Build a City Challenge #The Sims 2 BaCC #Founder:Campbell #Campbell Round 5 #Summer: Second Year #Althea Campbell #Hard to believe it's now the start of Round FIVE #I hate trying to establish a timeline sometimes #Maddie is seven months old but that should mean we're over the year anniversary? #Just don't pay too much attention to the ages/timeline and focus on the story one XD #The ages aren't accurate as I'm itching to age Maddie to a toddler