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noahhawthorneauthor · 10 months

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Queer Books I've loved since returning to reading. 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️❤️🎧

This is not a comprehensive list, and there are some authors that I've read their entire backlist but I'm only including one because SPACE.

I've been slacking on my #IndiePride2 posts, but hopefully this makes up for it. Honestly, I can't believe I kept up the consistent posts for as long as I did. Today's prompt is a queer podcast, which I'm no help with because I don't listen to podcasts. I have some saved in my 'to-listen' but I haven't gotten there yet.

Have you read any of these?

Books Listed:

A Strange And Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows.

How To Be A Movie Star by TJ Klune.

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell.

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe.

Perfectly Imperfect Pixie by MJ May.

Initiation by Alethea Faust

Angels Before Man by rafael nicolas.

Malium Discordae by Ashlyn Drewek

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree.

Cuffs and Carnations by Nikole Knight. (I love the entire series, but this is the newest.)

Find the Jinn by Maz Maddox

The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky.

Exhale by Joel Abernathy.

Prince of Sorrows by @skellygraves

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers.

Lore and Lust by Karla Nikole.

The Eidolon by KD Edwards. (I have read this series four times...)

All that's left in the World by Erik Brown.

Odder Still by DN Bryn.

A Dream of Flame and Shadow by L. Eveland.

The Witch King by H.E Edgmon

Shield and Sorrow by J.E Ridgemon.

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer.

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic.

Vicious by VE Schwab.

Coin Tricks by Willow Scarlett

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland.

Lor by Lily Mayne.

Heart Haunt Havoc by @freydismoon

Kinship and Kindness by Kara Jorgensen.

#queer books #indie books #writers on tumblr #indie author #lgbtqia+#books to read #trans books #gay books #indie pride 2 #pride month #pride books #dark fantasy books #fantasy books #cozy fantasy

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bookspotlight · 11 months

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IndiePride2 starts in a few days! Info post on Twitter.

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rubyjones · 11 months

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Indie Pride, Day 6 — share something from your WiP

A sample from the first chapter of my forthcoming story, Ruinous Attraction:

Ferdinand wouldn’t have been Arthur’s first choice for a companion. The fine, otherworldly beauty of his features soured under the monotony of his anti-magic bigotry. But Ferdinand was strong and capable, and Arthur had thought he was less likely than Hale to wander off and do something stupid. Unfortunately, it seemed Ferdinand was perfectly capable of doing something stupid close by. He stood with his hand hovering over a pillar. Said pillar rose from the ground at hip height about two meters from the door, with a large rune carved on top. A sensible person might have realised it had something to do with the door. “I barely touched it,” said Ferdinand. Arthur frowned. “Touch it again.” “Blast you, I hardly–” “Well, you clearly touched it enough,” Arthur said, crossing over. “So put your hand back over which ever rune you were caressing, and–” “I was caressing nothing,” Ferdinand said, but slammed his hand down over the rune anyway. It did nothing. He pressed against it again. “I’m sure it was this one.” Arthur rolled his eyes. “It was. This is clearly the rune for ‘door’. Can’t you read?” The look Ferdinand shot him was acid. “Not runic letters, no. I cannot.” “I — oh. Sorry,” Arthur sniffed. Having lived most of his life in the Enchanter’s College, Arthur was accustomed to people reading runic as well as cunic letters. He tended to forget that not everyone had that education. “But really,” he went on, “I think that’s all the more reason not to go around touching strange runes.”

Prompts for Indie Pride come from @bookspotlight Prompt list below:

#ruinous attraction #indie pride #fiction #indie fiction #fantasy #pride #pride month #indie pride 2 #lgbtq+#indie publishing

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cmrosens · 11 months

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June Newsletter!

Subscribe to my monthly newsletter, and get all the latest news. You also get interview transcripts from my podcast emailed to you!

In this issue, IMPORTANT PUBLISHING NEWS and discount codes for my books on sale!

#pride sale #queer books #queer horror #queer indie #indie pride #indie pride 2 #writers on tumblr #books books books #pagham on sea #writeblr #eldritch horror #cosmic horror #pagham-on-sea

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edhelwen1 · 11 months

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2. Free Friday

My newest book Crushing It is available to mark as "want to read" on Goodreads now. Go check it out!!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123264614-crushing-it

#pride #indie pride 2 #indie pride #indie author #indie book #literally me #queer pride #indiepride 2 #indiepride #indiebookspotlight #pride month #2SLGBTQ+#crushing it

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emshryke · 10 months

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9. FREE FRIDAY (yes, I know I've fallen behind)

Excerpt from Journey into the Mists of Zaerl (sequel to The Independent Magician): Feeling more than a little tired, the tiger took to his favourite chair, next to the empty, unlit fireplace. He yawned into his paw and leant his head against the ornate, high back of his seat. The next thing that he knew, Bill was back in the room, shaking his arm. ‘Wake up! Wake up!’ He snapped awake with a startled snort, which might have started life as a snore (only it couldn’t possibly have done, because Sherman knew that he never snored) and stared at the bird in confusion. ‘I had trouble sleeping, so I went out to stretch my wings,’ the bird explained in a rush. ‘It’s a good thing I did, believe me!’ ‘Calm down, Billy Bird. You’re going to wake Alfie.’ He shrugged his wings. ‘We might need him! Belle, too. We’re in trouble, Magician! Terrible trouble.’ ‘Billy, calm down. I’m going to make us some tea. Compose yourself.’ ‘No time! This is important. There’s extra police on the gates of Puenta. I saw them at one, so I flew around to see if they were on the others and they are!’ ‘Is it Mead Season already?’ ‘It’s not about crowd control! It’s definitely not about a sport, either. There were hooded creatures in the shadows by every gate and the police were checking the creatures leaving, not just the ones coming in. If they didn’t believe a creature’s reasons for wanting to leave or enter the city, they searched ‘em!’ Sherman shivered. ‘What are we to do?’ ‘Don’t know.’ ‘My shadow cloak will help me to blend in,’ the tiger said. ‘Only the very psychically inclined will see the magic in my energy signature and such. All the same, it should disguise my being a living spirit and make me appear as everybeast else.’ ‘That’s good. Is it warm? Cool? Waterproof?’ ‘It is rather like silk — warm when it is cold, cool when it is hot. Not very waterproof, but we seem to be entering into a heatwave, anyway. Besides, I have my waterproof fur.’ ‘Fair point. Where is it, then?’ The tiger snapped his claws and it appeared on the back of his chair. ‘Ha ha! Here it is.’ ‘Wish I could do that,’ the bird mumbled. ‘I’d love to be a great magician. Or even a passable one.’ ‘It doesn’t solve all of life’s problems, but it helps,’ Sherman chuckled and then frowned. ‘When it isn’t adding new ones, of course. Now…’ he groaned, ‘what am I to do?’ ‘Well, you can’t get caught with anything magical on you,’ the bird told him. ‘You’d be in real trouble — both of you. Back go the potions, spellbooks and all the other stuff, then. You’ll have to leave that staff, too.’ ‘Ha! Oh no, I won’t. I can turn it into a walking stick! Who would suspect?’ ‘Won’t somebeast be able to tell it’s magic?’ He shook his head. ‘The shadow cloak will stop magic from being sensed or spotted.'

#indie pride #indie pride 2 #fiction writer #sneak peek #Journey into the Mists of Zaerl #Independent Magician sequel #the World of Centrallis

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nicohverse · 5 months

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Little Lion, Baby Bea...

(Art by @kiwifie !)

Who's curious about this sweetheart? This cute lion has been the topic of lots of discussion lately- For somebody with so little going on in her head, she sure is mysterious! And what little she does have going on in her head is wonderful- It's not a pejorative, the girl's genuinely been lobotomized. Luckily, it's not quite as bad as it sounds- She was pretty airheaded to begin with. The part of her brain she lost made it so she can't do magic to hide her animal features, and gave her a lot of cognitive difficulties.

"It's like... There's these things I know I knew how to do. And I don't know it at all anymore. I can't get it back. Even if I try to learn it again. It's scary... Like being trapped in a box, but the box has windows."

A girl who's new to adulthood and trying hard to assert her ability to be one in the face of her struggles, Bea might be cute and small, but she certainly won't tolerate being infantilized. She's living with a great caretaker who never underestimates or overestimates her ability- She's accommodated without being condescended to, and wants to reclaim sweetness and enthusiasm for herself while asserting her autonomy!

Some of Bea's struggles are pretty personal to me- About a year ago, I was still recovering from a lot. I'd only left an unsafe-for-me work environment a few months prior, hadn't yet hit a full year since 'recovering' from a covid infection that added to the workplace's exacerbation of my health conditions... I spent quite a while in an incredibly difficult cognitive space, actively fighting against brainfog...

Some stuff I haven't really talked about to anybody before- I could hardly make my brain remember anything I'd learned in college that hadn't been applied on the job since then. It was frightening and embarrassing to be without the information I spent so much time and money on. A lot of things I 'knew how to do' became muscle memory only- I could do them when I was doing them, but couldn't conceptualize how to do them if I sat down and thought about it. I'd find thoughts about things like solving a math problem would get stuck in my brain on loop without either progressing to the next step or going away. It was so difficult to deal with that I just about gave up on ever getting another job that utilized my mental skills without associating gross-motor movements.

But now, I'm better enough that I'm looking into getting more applicable credentials in my field, applying to data entry and medical record jobs again after recently losing my position as an art studio assistant. (Though worry not- All funds given to EF2 will be used for EF2) And better enough to be processing those feelings through Bea- A character who's incredibly precious to me. She's never going to 'get better' the same way I have- Instead, she's going to be a conduit for the idea that even if I hadn't recovered, I still would have found some kind of success. One of the many things Entropic Float is and always will be about is autonomy for the disabled community, to every possible degree that I have time in my life to portray.

If you want to help me portray that, and avoid reaching into my own recently-unemployed pockets to make Entropic Float 2 the best game it can be, the best property for Bea to find her joy in, consider supporting our stretch goals.

#cripplepunk #disability rights #disability pride #cognitive disability #visual novel #visual novel gamedev #gamedev #indie games #official content #indie gamedev #vndev #entropic float #entropic float 2: land of the witch #bea gumie

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c0smiccom3t · 11 months

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"Pride Mode, Activate!"

pride month art because yes!!!!! also because pride month is an amazing month and i hope you're all being your unique selves!!!! you all matter in this community!!

(Oh yeah also 2 notes. 1. Knockout's gender reveal, and 2., you might be asking: "wait... what's this "__ Mode, activate!" thing?" well, you'll find out later as Pocket Adventures comes out, we got so much on the table in store for you all!!

Happy Pride Month!!!

(Ps. not showcased here, but reveal time, Dr. Malice is xenogender and demisexual!! ur welcome!!)

Dimension Dyfenders Pocket Adventures coming out on Tumblr and Comicfury this June 17th!!

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stuck-in-the-ghost-zone · 11 months

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haul <3

+sonic at pride

#SO excited abt the mantis pin def my favorite thing there #can never wear that hat or belt while im at home but like. eventually #they were just.. cute #ALSO LOOK AT THE SCOOBY DOO EARRINGS #CAPTAIN CUTLER AND BEDSHEET GHOST MY BELOVEDS #also continuing my trend of getting a pride sticker from every city ive lived in #ive got. pittsburgh and indy down. would love to get one from columbus cause i lived there in college. would be nice to have one from there #blahblahblah #oh the little crochet keychains r so cute too... stopped 2 talk to the person who ran that stand for a lil bit they were so nice #<333334 #good time ! good time #im glad i went <3

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renthony · 4 months

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OFMD has officially been cancelled, and I am once again thinking about all the people in the world who nitpick diverse media to hell and back when it isn't 100% perfect, as if having nothing at all would be preferable.

I'm so fucking tired of good, earnest, diverse media getting held to ridiculous standards by both networks AND fans, and then getting cancelled.

It was supposed to be three seasons. David Jenkins fucking said it was supposed to be three seasons. And then the network dragged its ass on renewing for season 2, and now...no season 3.

FUCK this shit. I'm so tired of media by and for marginalized artists getting fucked over. I'm tired of marginalized people fighting for scraps and then getting the rug whipped out from under us.

Yeah, OFMD isn't the only thing out there. There are other things to go enjoy, for the moment. But the fact that it's the shows that are queer and multicultural that keep getting cancelled is pretty fucking transparent, and I've seen quite a lot of concern from people in the industry about the direction we're headed. The outlook is concerning. It's more important now than ever to support marginalized artists, whether they're making indie art or trying to get something made by a mainstream studio.

Our Flag Means Death. Warrior Nun. One Day At A Time. Willow. Dead End: Paranormal Park. First Kill. Q-Force. The Owl House. Steven Universe. A League of Their Own. Vampire Academy. I could go on, but I don't need to, because there are entire lists that have been curated by news sites: Gay Times, Out, Autostraddle, Pride, Movieweb, Collider.

There's a reason I spend so much time and energy studying things like the Hays Code and the history of censorship. This shit comes in waves, and the only way marginalized artists survive it is through community support, mutual aid, and being really goddamn loud.

So be loud. Make art. Support your fellow artists and the artists you love. We need each other if we're going to weather the storm.

#original

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yawn-emoji · 2 years

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spotify playlists i made that i love:

for instantly inducing sadness and depression

for losing sight of what love means to you

for feeling present in the current moment

for deep-rooted loneliness

for the pure excitement of having a crush

for sleeping

for the person who left and would ruin you if they ever came back

for a love that rages like a fire

for your pride & prejudice hand flex moment

for feeling dreamy

for your radiohead fix

for crying while still bopping along

for drinking warm spiced milk on a rainy day

for feeling like you're an indie coming of age film

for the nostalgic emo phase

for feeling wretched

for when you're walking the streets of a new city by yourself

for daydreaming about moving to new york city with your best friends

for bangerz only

for wearing bold lipstick

for your bollywood fix

for allowing yourself to change

for feeling like you're floating on your back in a swimming pool at night in an indie movie

for your gracie abrams fix

for when you don't recognize yourself

for my desi diaspora kids

for my desi diaspora kids pt 2

for traveling and being present

for feeling like a smashed vase, or for smashing vases

for the jungle

for your james blake fix

for managing the aux cord

for feeling like the color orange, or perhaps the fruit. either one

for late night car rides surrounded by the open sky

for seeing the end of the world but smiling ridiculously

for your ridiculous bestie

for dying of love

for gradually falling into sleep

for your joji fix

for watching bright orange sunsets while hating yourself

for feeling the first warmth of summer hit you

for feeling like the weird kid in class again

for learning to live without the heartache it gives you

for playing breath of the wild

for realizing that romantic love will not be the thing that heals you

for whispering secrets to your best friend

for the kids who grew up on the internet

for love, or the lack thereof

for when you want to move to a new city but something is keeping you where you are

for your morning walk

for sitting in a field of marigolds

for beat drops that make you go feral

for traveling to see your best friends

for not allowing yourself to feel ridiculous anymore

for feeling like a perpetually open wound

for risk-taking

for your coke studio pakistan fix

for waiting for better days

for haunting

for being afraid that this is all there is

for texting them to get home safe

for falling in love in the summertime

for your hallmark movie main character moment

for your slowcore fix

for studying

for eating heartshaped jam cookies

for an espresso shot of joy

for feeling like an empty well that has nothing left to give

for love-filled days

for your ariana grande fix

for web-weaving

for your commute

for losing grip of your dreams

for setting this whole year on fire

for feeling like a pakistani uncle drinking chai on the porch

for isolation

for kicking anxiety in the face

#havent made one of these in a while hi #sound #journal #playlists #masterlist #spotify #music #self care #concept playlist #love #romance #mental health #positivity #playlist #spotify playlist #spotify playlists #resources

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rubyjones · 11 months

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Another prompt from Indie Pride that got me reflecting pretty deep.

#indie pride #indie pride 2 #indie fiction #indie publishing #pride #pride month #lgbtq+

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rott1ngbra1n · 13 days

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First off! I wanna go ahead and drop some fun art stuff I’ve been doing as I’ve been watching Dragons Rising season 2, which I’ve been loving!

I did a version of Arin before but it wasn’t my favorite so a redo! More AlleyCat stuff and obligatory Cole, because I love him.

I do have more Ninjago Art I want to do (Still need to finish that Cole and Morro friend piece-) and I have some other fandom art I also want to do, but I’ll explain more under the cut as well as why I’ve been gone or a bit less active everywhere. This is optional you do not have to read under the cut!

TW// Transphobia

For those unaware I am a trans man, I go by a different name: both online and IRL (online for privacy’s sake), I also work as a barista due to being a college student and needing to save money for moving away from my own transphobic parents. That’s a whole other story. But at work there was a coworker of mine who was consistently transphobic towards me whenever we worked together. It had been going on since June of last year (The irony of it starting during pride month made me and my friends laugh) but it escalated after I returned from New York, so much so I had to go to management.

Myself. Management had been informed by my best friend (who also works with me) about it and was told it was “gossip”. Ok. Sure- So I informed management of the new incidents and was told I had options, the first being to have a meeting with me, the transphobe, and my manager to discuss the issues. I said no so my manager went to the DM to find another solution. To give even more context, the transphobe couldn’t even be transphobic to my face most times it was always told behind my back to my best friend.

That’s how I knew my manager talked to the transphobe one on one, cause the transphobe right after the meeting went to said best friend. Telling her “not to tell me as she didn’t want to start drama” Cool, I feel so cool. I was very mad, went back to my manager with it, had that meeting with myself, the transphobe, and manager. Where my emotions were downplayed and the transphobe said she had “never interacted with a trans person before and didn’t know what she said was wrong.” OK.

SURE.

After that we assumed it was over, my manager made an incident report, but it didn’t stop the transphobe still kept talking behind my back to others. Despite me talking respectfully of her. More context all the talking behind my back happened at work while on the clock. After a while I just went about my day, then Ethics and Compliance called. They spoke to everyone involved, including me and I relayed more about my testimony. They said they would be investigating and I assumed it would take a while, then finally. I was informed that the transphobe was in fact fired.

This whole situation, along with other personal stuff going on with me, caused so much stress. To the point I tended to fallback into habits I had thought I fixed, mainly regarding my physical health. Even at points hating myself for just existing and having been born wrong.

I’m thankfully doing so much better now and have recently gotten diagnosed with Autism, something I knew I had but didn’t fully understand for a while. I’ve been getting better existing in a world knowing the people that are my blood hate me, knowing that eventually, I will never be able to be loved by my parents or sister. I have friends and coworkers who support me and I want to support other people in this community.

With that said I’m back to making more art! I’m building a portfolio for animation and to intern next year, I also will be trying to post more animations to here when I finish them! I also will still be active in the Ninjago fandom, I’ve loved this show since it came out in 2011 y’all can pry it from my cold dead hands-

But I do want to make more original work, I want to do more Star Wars work, QSMP art and animations, and more Musical Theater art whether it be Broadway or Indie productions. I hope people enjoy what I make, especially some of my original characters as I’ve gotten to work on Cybernetic more thanks to my animation class. You’ll see more of it as we go!

Thank you if you’ve read this and thank you for supporting me!

#art #my art #digital art #fanart #lego ninjago #lego ninjago fanart #lego ninjago lloyd #lego ninjago morro #ninjago #lego ninjago cole #ninjago fanart #ninjago cole #ninjago lloyd #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising fanart #dragons rising #ninjago arin #life update

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edhelwen1 · 11 months

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1. Introduce yourself and tell us what Pride means to you

I'm Jen (she/her) and I've published one book, Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers, with my second book coming out September 2023, Crushing It.

Pride means to be seen. We're here, we're normal (as normal as I can be lol), we're your children, parents, siblings, neighbours, friends.

#pride #indie pride 2 #indie pride #indie author #indie book #literally me #queer pride #indiepride 2 #indiepride #indiebookspotlight #pride month #2SLGBTQ+

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emshryke · 10 months

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2. FREE FRIDAY: reblog this post with #Free Friday, #Indie Pride and #Indie Pride 2 tags for your chance to win a free download of The Independent Magician.

Do the same on Twitter (@EMShryke) to double your chances.

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#free friday #FreeFriday #indie pride #IndiePride #indie pride 2 #IndiePride2 #book spotlight #BookSpotlight

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meadowlarkx · 11 months

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grief and pride - embroidery for @tolkienekphrasisweek day 4, Gardening & Landscape Architecture! I was thinking about memory and how Elves might tell of particular places in adornments on clothing (imagining both of these designs on sleeves.)

First: Years of the Trees Fëanorian ornamentation, reminders of the Gardens of Lórien where Míriel lay, with Finwë's crest.

Second: Late First Age or Second Age Iathrim ornamentation, reminders of Menegroth and the First Kinslaying.

welcome to 'more photos and rambles at length'!!

Working on these little guys for a while I had time to think a fair amount about them. The concept of being literally clothed in one's sorrows feels very Elven and Tolkien to me. It's something about the long years and accumulating griefs, laying claim to and embodying them (powerful!), and the accompanying actions and grudges, and it's a thread that runs through both these groups. Fëanor is one of the first in the narrative to have this sort of memory/shadow on his heart, that of Míriel's passing. I love the similarities and connections between him and Míriel and the way she haunts the story, so I really enjoy the idea of Fëanor (and his sons!) reminding everyone of her absence subtly or unsubtly at every chance, including with their clothing--a mark of family loyalty which is also a nice fuck you to Indis and her children. Lórien is lush and verdant with golden flowers and mountain immortelle, don't @ me silvery tolkiengateway descriptions. I wanted this one to feel bright and vivid to echo the noontide of Valinor and the family's pride and brilliance. Finwë's crest got included in the design partly because it's less complicated than Fëanor's crest (shh), but also because I can completely see Fëanor making a(nother) claim to heirdom by wearing it.

Then of course he sets in motion greater horrors to remember. I am always thinking (@swanmaids has a great post about this) of the support Elwing canonically has in Sirion for her decision not to relinquish the Silmaril. And after seeing the 2nd kinslaying, it had to be a difficult, brave, potentially very controversial decision to hold on to it, but people are with her on this--I imagine motivated partly by real anger and grief over all they had lost and insistence upon memory, pride, dignity, identity etc. which probably remain with the few who survive the Sirion kinslaying too. And remembering Menegroth's beauty goes hand-in-hand with the grief--so I went for a bleaker look here, not the deep forest I usually picture (the 2 green vines, though, symbolizing in my head the surviving royal family/Peredhel!). This design being more of a picture of the place and less "abstract" was an attempt to gesture towards some cultural and stylistic differences in art, etc. I know this one isn't exactly a garden, but if we squint all of Doriath is an enclosed garden, so...!

Also here are the other pics. I'm imagining them bigger, but they are pretty little in real life!

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