#evil viziers and tempting devils aren't exactly not queer or sexually coded - definitely seducers with all that entails!

[undercat-overdog]

Seducer is a very broad category. The femme fatale is a type of seducer but a sub-category only. Other sub-categories include "evil vizier/priest" and "devil who tempts with forbidden but desired knowledge," a la Mephistopheles in Faust (sorry, gotta be a shorter way to describe that). Sauron fits in the latter two, not the former. He was the evil vizier and priest in Numenor and Mephistopheles in Eregion and to Saruman.

What Sauron does with Denethor is less seduction and more disinformation, biased news, twitter algorithms: doomscrolling.

#sauron #meta #evil viziers and tempting devils aren't exactly not queer or sexually coded - definitely seducers with all that entails! #i'd love to see sauron as a wise middle-aged and very handsome man with a beard in numenor #think delgado!master in doctor who #or jafar #he would enjoy a villain goatee