#led astray by love

[douqi7s]

About

I translate and subtitle things from Chinese to English (mainly baihe/GL), write original fiction, and make the occasional fanvid (do people still say fanvid).

This post will be regularly updated with things I've perpetrated done.

Where Else You Can Find Me

Twitter: douqi7s

Wordpress (translations, original fiction, random bits and pieces): douqi.blog

YouTube (subtitles for webdramas, short films and audio dramas): douqi7s

Translations

Purely by Accident, a baihe novel by Leng Qian Shan (ongoing)

Couple of Mirrors, a (mostly) text translation of the manhua based on the drama of the same name (complete)

Couple of Mirrors Novel Extra, a translation of the extra written for the Couple of Mirrors novelisation (complete)

For smaller translation projects, see this page.

Subtitling Projects

Purely by Accident, a baihe audio drama based on the novel of the same name (ongoing)

Legend of Yunqian, a GL xianxia mini webdrama (complete)

Legend of Yunze (Season 1, Season 2 and Special), a GL xianxia mini webdrama (complete)

Led Astray by Love, a GL historical/transmigration mini webdrama (complete)

The Vampires, a GL vampire-themed mini webdrama (complete)

A Practical Guide to Being a Superstar's Assistant, a GL entertainment industry mini webdrama (complete)

Ye-Mu (aka Wicked Wealthy Women), a soap opera-style mini webdrama (complete)

Ye-Mu 2, a soap opera-style mini webdrama (complete)

A Flower for Three Lifetimes, a xianxia mini webdrama (complete)

Nü Er Hong, a wuxia mini webdrama (complete)

The Calabash Siblings, a mini webdrama based on the animated series of the same title (complete)

Various GL MVs

Various GL short films

Original Fiction

What If They Had a War, and Nobody Came?, a GL wuxia/historical short story

Editorial Work

I have provided or am currently providing editorial support for the following projects:

Reading the Remnants, a translation of the baihe novel Wen Guan by Qi Xiao Huang Shu (ongoing)

Exploring an Empty Tomb, a translation of the baihe novel Tan Xu Ling by Jun Sola (ongoing)

Burn, a translation of the baihe novel Shao by Chu Dao (ongoing)

Mosquito Bite, a translation of the baihe short story Wenzi Bao by Agent3144 (complete)

Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire, a translation of the danmei manhua Lie Huo Jiao Chou, based on the novel of the same title by priest (ongoing)

第九宫的吉迪恩, a translation of the science fiction novel Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (complete)

第九宫的哈罗, a translation of the science fiction novel Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (complete)

第九宫的诺娜, a translation of the science fiction novel Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (complete)

赛克斯博士的神秘研究, a translation of the science fiction short story The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex by Tamsyn Muir (complete)

尚未发送, a translation of the science fiction short story As Yet Unsent by Tamsyn Muir (complete)

Curation and Recommendations

List of recommended baihe novels

List of Chinese GL short films

last updated: 23 July 2023

#about me #blog meta #baihe #chinese gl #gl series #baihe: purely by accident #legend of yunqian #legend of yunze #led astray by love #ye-mu #wicked wealthy women

[sapphonoticeme]

KISS ALREADY

#led astray by love #xiang si wu #chinese gl #mine #c drama

[bflfism]

HELLO HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS SHOW IT RELEASES TODAY!!!

#led astray by love #相思误

[aetersyls]

bro, i’m suffering (subtitles by douqi7s, of course)

#led astray by love

[raceweek]

impatiently waiting for quali so i can finally understand what the fuck is going on and start to process just how badly i have been catfished

#im trying not to be hoodwinked bamboozled led astray etc….. #but i love fantasy #bahrain 2024

[roychewtoy]

#finished manifold garden tonight ouuuuugghghgghh it was so Very good. yes👍YES👍yeahyeahyeahyeah #i luv u exploring endlessly stretching impossible spaces. i luv u mandelbulbs and twisty fractals. i luv u thrumming synthy music #man it was so tasty. end of the game was giving me fearful..cosmic dread? i havent felt since outer wilds. just THROWIN urself off #like. these are colours these are twisting colours. why are u slumping down the couch ever so slightly with a chill down ur arms #fucking wonka boat tunnel dmt trip nightmare of a colour sure. sure yeah. and it was AWESOME awesome ending. TOTAL collapse #fun puzzles. throwin urself and free falling through a level never got old. loved snappin the gravity round. nada motion sickness✅️Score✅️ #playing manifold garden: this is just like jacob gellers shape of infinity video....... #couldnt stop thinkin abt him describing the airborne funerals given in the library of babel #the body falling eternally never hitting the ground thats CRAZY THAAAAAAAAAAAAATS. i would like to read it. im gonna read it #jacob geller u have not led me astray yet on video game recs. manifold garden! MANIFOLD GARDEN!!!!!!!!!! #great ost yeaaaassirr. just really liked it so i did oohheeeeooo :] :D yeahboshdone #manifold garden #structure tag #chewtoy

[bethanydelleman]

Now that I think about it you are the perfect person to explain Mariah to me from Mansfield Park and I'm not looking to like her per se but I never understood why she insisted on getting married ridiculously fast. Like I know women needed to get married but why such a horrible choice? Was she getting too old?

Hello! Thank you for calling me perfect. Here are the relevant quotes:

Being now in her twenty-first year, Maria Bertram was beginning to think matrimony a duty; and as a marriage with Mr. Rushworth would give her the enjoyment of a larger income than her father’s, as well as ensure her the house in town, which was now a prime object, it became, by the same rule of moral obligation, her evident duty to marry Mr. Rushworth if she could. (Ch 4)

Henry Crawford had destroyed her happiness, but he should not know that he had done it; he should not destroy her credit, her appearance, her prosperity, too. He should not have to think of her as pining in the retirement of Mansfield for him, rejecting Sotherton and London, independence and splendour, for his sake. Independence was more needful than ever; the want of it at Mansfield more sensibly felt. She was less and less able to endure the restraint which her father imposed. The liberty which his absence had given was now become absolutely necessary. She must escape from him and Mansfield as soon as possible, and find consolation in fortune and consequence, bustle and the world, for a wounded spirit. Her mind was quite determined, and varied not..... In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. (Ch 21)

Maria is not too old, she's only 21 and the average age of first marriage in her era was 23.4 for women (Women's History of Britian, 2005). She has several reasons to want to marry, none of them particularly good: wealth, freedom, and hatred of home (also sticking it to Henry Crawford). Her motivations can be understood is we look at the two major influences in her life, Sir Thomas and Mrs. Norris.

Sir Thomas is a strict father who has allowed the indolence of his wife to deprive his daughters of an opportunity to mix much in society. Maria and Julia both really want to spend time in London and have fun. Maria sees marriage as the only way out, especially after having tasted freedom while her father was away. When Henry is no longer a prospect, she clings to Rushworth as her escape route.

Mrs. Norris is obsessed with money and married below the income she wanted. Her principles have been taught to her favourite niece, so Maria accepts that marrying for money is a duty. Maria has been taught, just like Mary Crawford, to disregard feelings in favour of wealth (a good income is the best recipe for happiness). Unfortunately (for her), Maria was never Mrs. Norris and her passions overcome her mercenary education in the end. The "moral obligation" is sarcastic, it reveals how messed up Maria's sense of morality has become.

Lastly, disappointed in Henry Crawford, Maria marries to prove that he hasn't ruined her life. What Maria should have learned from the Henry flirtation is that she is a passionate woman who yearns for love, but she never took that lesson.

Also, I wrote an imaginary conversation between Maria and Mrs. Norris, expanding on these points. I posted it to AO3 for you:

#question response #maria bertram #sir thomas #mrs. norris #henry crawford #mansfield park #why maria wanted to marry so badly #maria is not a good person but it was tragic that she was led astray by people who claimed to love her

[romance-rambles]

caleb: *exists*

me: i love xavier i love xavier i love xavier i love xavier i love xavier i love xavier i loVE XAVIER DAMMIT STAY AWAY FROM ME

#rambles by aya #love and deepspace #love and deepspace caleb #lads caleb #it's not just because caleb's gonna take a while #but also i thought i'd finally found an otome gacha where i only obsess over one (1) person #in tot it was (is) luke and marius and in lbc it rotates between lars clarence and alkaid but cael's hot too... #and i thought it was luke pearce to xavier pipeline but no!! it was a luke pearce to caleb pipeline!! #wait lmao is xavier equivalent to vyn then. was i a vyn girlie led astray by the power of “jiejie”? #but xavier's your competent coworker who is definitely in love with you #zayne is more artem-like in personality tho and raf is pretty clear cut as marius lol

[fluffypotatey]

S5 Dark Merlin is very "mark me down as sad and horny" bc Merls bby no, but also yisssss.

I can very much see him as being mostly beyond all that moral agonising he used to do and now just goes straight for the most efficient solution, and if that happens to be murder, oh well. But at the same time he's still has a sense of morality.

Like, if he found out a lord or whatever was abusing his wife, Merlin, basically an assassin and a physician in his own right, would just poison the mf

s5 dark merlin is something that can be so personal

#he is the shadow puppet in the sense that he is the one who holds a knife to your throat the moment you lay in your bed after conspiring #a coup against his king. he's the shadow nobles talk about in hushed murmurs to each other fearing that it will hear them #(merlin always hears them) #merlin stood by while he watched arthur be led astray by agravaine and watched as it broke his king to pieces #merlin says never again #never again will he watch as his king and best friend be manipulated or tricked by high ranking nobles who seek nothing but power #never again will he let another person use gwen (his first friend and queen) as a way to get to arthur because how DARE they undermine her #never again will people walk over and harm the people he loves #he has stood by long enough and watched as lancelot died twice as freya died too young as will died lying for merlin #never again says merlin as he turns his back to the rest of the cruel world and clutches his loves ones like they're his lifeline #(they are of course they are) #bamf merlin #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #s5 dark merlin will not hesitate #dark!merlin

[gilligould]

this IS our fly episode. surprisingly somber piece of character-driven storytelling, nestled within what initially seems to be a very comedic premise in an episode that is, narratively and structurally, very different from the remainder of the series. and that many will write off as being unnecessary or even poorly-written simply because it breaks tonal continuity. that will (hopefully) be regarded much more favorably in retrospect, with the realization that it has provided the narrative and emotional capital necessary for a satisfying conclusion to gene’s arc.

#i’ll say it again: i loved it #but even if i didn’t… #i have enough faith in these writers to trust that it’ll pay off in the end #have gilligould and co. ever led you astray… #bcs #bcs spoilers #k.txt #100

[pinkwhalepjs]

Rage and Ruidus

More than any other campaign, Bell’s Hells is creating a story deeply rooted in their characters emotional impulses, flaws, and failings. As Orym implores them to understand in the episode’s climax, they are all powder kegs ready to explode and they need each other desperately in order to survive and in order to save their world, which, like them, in on the verge of imminent destruction caused by problems left too long unaddressed and festering in secrecy. After all, the red storms of Ruidus are themselves described as “angry” and “raging”.

The group boils over early in the episode as Fearne’s repressed anger at her parents for abandoning her basically due to their own carelessness (and their lack of reaction leaving her rage impotent) burns into the rest of the party as they see their own pasts mirrored. Imogen whose parents abandoned her for nearly identical reasons, their own obsession with or hatred of Ruidus, obviously brims with her own mirrored rage but it also spreads to FCG who was left by his only known family and even Ashton who too has a history of being left behind.

The rest of the episode can practically all be encapsulated by the wild and sudden rage of Ashton. The party is caught by surprise at his irrationally destructive behavior, destroying an important item the party needed on a whim. FCG senses Ashton’s own fury with no direction in an echo of Fearne’s, tells him not every problem can be solved with a hammer which only served to upset him more and inspires him to destroy Ira’s room. The last thing they want is to be reminded of their own powerlessness.

Before we even get to the end of the episode, a moment of extreme rage bubbles out from Imogen, Fearne, and Ashton as they escalate to the point of screaming “Let’s kill our parents!”. This is laughed off as a ridiculous moment but in truth is one of the only real glimpses of these characters depth of anger on this day. FCG is also a member of this patricidal exchange which creates quite the case of situational irony as it becomes increasingly clear that FCG did in fact attempt to kill his creator/family when his anger boiled over years ago.

The final scene can be understood as the culminating expression of the rage FCG, Fearne, and Laudna have all been continuously suppressing. Fearne finally gets the chance to scream and burn as someone finally says what she fears, that her parents simply didn’t care enough to keep her, to know who they gave her to, or even come looking (and worse that this implies some flaw within herself to make her not worth keeping). Laudna explodes as Delilah pushes fear and dread onto her and she hears her own worst fears, that she was “never alive” to begin with. She and FCG feel a echoed fear, that they are something less than the others around them, an empty shell that can never be filled. Laudna and FCG both come out of this fight seeing themselves as monsters, something others in the group might be better off without.

Ashton’s rage turns to a kind of fear as FCG turns on the group and the group turns on him. Ashton earlier than day showed that in a fit of rage he would destroy what others cherished and act with violent impulse and he keeps coming back to them same idea. Will he be abandoned if he steps too far one day? He too will strike out when pushed to the edge and hurt others on a bad impulse. Ashton begs Fearne to heal FCG to give him another chance. He doesn’t know her rage is more about her own family than FCG himself and is steeped in terror that family and friendship is conditional, something that can be lost based on ones actions.

Like the moon, terrible red storms of rage, fear, and self hatred are brewing in the majority of party members and they must not only uncover what terrible secrets are being held by Ruidus but they must face themselves and learn to truly rely on each other in order to survive what is coming.

#its actually literally been years since i felt this way but i was so possessed by CR i could not do anything except write an essay about it #i anticipate this will be my favorite campaign #it is so emotionally driven which is exactly what i love #i LOVE irrational self destructive character choices #i was obsessed with whatever the fuck ashton was on this episode #this episode was brimming with fury and no place for people to express it which is simply my favorite #with this and fey and flowers i am living my best life #i hope they do a really bad job trying to save the world and they are led astray by their own personal conflicts #i hope cr chat hates it and screams that they are not following the plot hooks #anyway im about to rewatch this episode endlessly for the next week #critical role #cr3 #critical role spoilers #imogen temult #laudna #ashton #fresh cut grass #fcg #fearne calloway

[ravennazane]

Lovers led astray To an early grave Is it inhuman to believe That God might bleed the same as me? We're lovers led to an early... Grave!

#creeper #lovers led astray #sanguivore #rock #goth #gothic #alternative #music video #youtube #i love this so much #ravennazane

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: West Coast Avengers #38: REDEMPTION

November, 1988

The West Coast Avengers

In their greatest battle ever --

-- against THE DEFILER!

Really? Their greatest battle ever?

Is that what we’re going with?

Also, hi, Mockingbird. Hi, Iron Man.

You back on the team? Is the Redemption you two making up with the Avengers?

No.

This is a fill-in issue, set nebulously Sometime. Sometime before Iron Man quit because of Armor Wars. Sometime after Hank rejoined the team as Dr Pym. But also Sometime when Moon Knight wasn’t on the team. Which is an impossible time but maybe Moony had an errand to tend to.

The issue was written by Dan Chichester and Margaret Clark instead of Englehart.

When Englehart is forced from the book, the official reason is that he was getting behind on deadlines. Having a fill-in issue does sort of support that. Although Englehart himself claims that new EIC DeFalco didn’t like him and gave the book to John Byrne as a favoritism thing.

But this is not the time to get into that. Not when we have the West Coast Avengers’ Greatest Battle Ever.

This issue isn’t totally without context. It opens with the West Coast Avengers (Hawkeye, Wonder Man, the Vision, Scarlet Witch, and Mantis) grimly flying in a Quinjet. Maybe on a quest to help Mantis get her memory back. Maybe on their way back from their part in Evolutionary War.

And Wonder Man, looking exceptionally mulleted today muses about the downbeat mood the team is under since they split up.

Wonder Man: “Boy, things are sure different than they used to be. It doesn’t seem that long ago when we were a real team. Teamwork was the only way we could have beaten the Defiler... the only way that boy Mike could have gained -- REDEMPTION.”

FILL-IN ISSUE!

Mike (that guy in the black vest is Mike) THWAMs that ABSOLUTELY GIANT ARM with a trash can lid and tries to run to safety with Susan (red shirt girl). They need to tell someone what “he’s up to!” Maybe some Avengers. Some Avengers have been flying around the area.

But Mike trips on a pipe and smashes his head on a dumpster. And he’s so woozy that the ABSOLUTELY GIANT MAN catches up.

Defiler: “Now, little ones -- you both owe me -- and it’s about time I collect!”

He grabs and hoists both of them by their necks.

But luckily there really were some random (West Coast) Avengers in the area, just as rumored.

Tigra and Wonder man show up in the random alley and say “ordinary creeps like you we eat for breakfast!” so tell him to let the guy and girl go.

So the Defiler throws the kids aside and beats one motherfucker with another motherfucker.

But after smashing the two Avengers, the Defiler feels drained. While the Avengers are still stunned, he grabs Mike and Susan and drags them off toward a Corruption of Innocence feat. the Defiler billboard.

The billboard becomes a swirling green portal and the Defiler yeets Susan and then Mike into it.

While Susan flies in clean, Mike gets snagged on one of the billboard lights. When Tigra and Wonder Man recover and rejoin with Dr Pym, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Mockingbird, they spot a chain poking out of the billboard.

Iron Man and Wonder Man yank Mike out of the billboard.

Although, we get a little return to Wonder Man being a dick to Iron Man specifically when Iron Man can’t pull Mike free by himself.

Wonder Man: “Fancy suit not up to the job, Iron Man? Let me give you a real man’s hand!”

Mike is covered in yellow-orange chunky goo but he seems okay aside from that. He insists that they need to save Susan because he got her into this.

And what’s this?

Hard core music. 

HEAVY METAL -scare chord-

That’s what the redemption in the title is about. Mike needs redemption. For getting Susan into hard core music.

Lol. Roflmao.

In fairness, his favorite band happened to be hiding a dark secret. And Mike introduced Susan to the Defiler and got them both jobs as roadies for him.

Their friends started going missing and they didn’t realize why until they caught the Defiler yeeting someone into a portal. And that’s what happened today and why they were fleeing.

Hawkeye asks Dr Pym his science opinion and based on nothing, Hank spells out a theory where the Defiler is yeeting people into another dimension in exchange for energy but that the people are probably still alive. FOR NOW.

He’s right but its based on zero backing evidence.

Mike says there’s another concert this very night so they gotta save his thousands of fans.

The (West Coast) Avengers agree to go fight the guy. It’s what they do. But they tell Mike that obviously they’re not going to bring a civilian into it just because he feels bad about getting his girlfriend into the wrong genre of music.

They leave him but he determines to follow anyway.

The West Coast Avengers hit the concert and find that the Defiler is ready for them. An energy barrier stops them from getting too close. And that wily hard core rocker starts sucking the audience into dimensional portals.

Blue grass would never do this.

Since they can’t get through the energy dome, the West Coast Avengers do something I do honestly wish people would try more often when big domes come up in stories.

They just go under it.

They dig into the ground and pop up behind the stage.

Iron Man even gets back at Wonder Man because the Silver Centurion armor is better at tunneling than Wonder Man is.

I have no idea why they’re on this dick waving contest.

Anyway, dig a tunnel. Sneak into the concert. Yeah, and then Wonder Man decks the Defiler. Just fucking punches him across the entire venue.

Meanwhile, the West Coast Avengers take out the screens turned dimensional portals.

Iron Man, rescuing some audience members: “Let me help steer you kids straight -- you can’t let yourselves get sucked into just anything, you know!”

You’re such a nerd, Tony.

But not as big a nerd as Hank Pym.

Scraggin’ flies?

Y’know what? I’m not going to criticize. I adore too much Hank keeping a tiny baseball glove in his pocket in case he needs to make it big to catch something.

I love his magical pockets containing literally whatever.

Since Mockingbird can’t effectively fight the Defiler or knock down dimensional portals, she’s directing people to the exit. So she’s the one that spots Mike trying to sneak into the concert to be part of things.

She tells him to fuck off so he doesn’t get in the way but Iron Man shows up and tells Mike to fuck right back in because he’s essential to saving the day.

Up in the stadium seating, Tigra mocks the Defiler as a slow, clumsy, easy target and yeah she does manage to agile her way out of taking follow up hits. But when Wonder Man flies in to trade blows, the Defiler socks him and boasts that he’s visited other dimensions and drained the energy of their innocents. Its made him strong, donchaknow.

Over at Dr Pym, Iron Man, Mike, and Mockingbird, Dr Pym has a plan. BASED ON SCIENCE.

Since Mike went through one of these dimensional thingers, he might have energy clinging to him. And if that’s the case, he can be used as a key to open up the way for the West Coast Avengers.

And since Mike needs REDEMPTION for listening to heavy metal, he agrees to help.

Dr Pym gets a small piece of rope from his pocket which he embiggens into a bigger piece of rope so Iron Man can anchor the group. And then Mike, Mockingbird, and Dr Pym jump on in.

You’d think they’d take some of their bigger guns to go into an unknown dimension that eats people. But Wonder Man and Tigra are fighting the Defiler, Iron Man is anchoring the others so they don’t get stuck. And Hawkeye is contributing nothing.

Team Pym, Mockingbird and Mike find themselves drawn to an unearthly glow in the distance. Hank speculates that its the Defiler’s main battery and that its drawing energy out of them even at this distance AND drawing them closer.

Dr Pym, Mockingbird, and Mike find that all the captured fans and also hi Susan were trapped in some kind of goo. Which Hank calls an energy parasite. Because he’s just jumping to correct conclusions today.

Mockingbird starts slapping goo to free the folks and Hank PULLS OUT A GIANT-SIZED CHAINSAW!

I know that he can grow things as big as he likes but, like, isn’t that too big to handle? If you slip, you’re gonna cut an innocent person in half, Hank.

But apparently everything goes great.

Since everyone is too drained to walk back to the portal before it closes, Hank grows A GIANT SKATEBOARD FOR THEM ALL TO RIDE ON.

Sometimes comics, even fill-in comics, are great, actually.

Iron Man almost hears Hank’s call on the other side of the portal and yanks the giant rope to pull everyone to safety.

With all his batteries loose, the Defiler starts feeling weak.

He tries to stop Iron Man from hauling people free but Wonder Man and Tigra start kicking the shit out of him.

When the skateboard full of people is pulled loose, the portal starts going nuts. Trying to suck in anyone it can.

And the Defiler decides ‘Welp, time to mosey onto a new dimension’ but Mike gets his REDEMPTION for his evil, sinful decision to bring heavy metal into his sweet innocent girlfriend’s life by tackling the Defiler so he gets sucked into his own portal.

The Defiler: “I can’t go back... dead world... nothing to feed... to drain...”

I’m sure we’ll neverrrrrr see him again.

No, seriously. Villains from fill-ins don’t reappear as often. And this is the Defiler’s first and onliest appearance.

I won’t say he couldn’t be used again in an interesting way but there’s not a lot to him.

After everything settles down, Wonder Man muses that the people rescued from the Defiler were lucky.

Mockingbird: “Luck had nothing to do with it... that kid risked a lot to help us.”

Hawkeye: “Good for all of us there are some things you just can’t corrupt.”

I mean. Yeah, I guess?? He did risk a lot, going into the billboard dimension. And also he tackled a guy.

But playing this up as a big REDEMPTION for Mike? I dunno. His big failing was getting invested in a band that was secretly eating its fans. And his big redemption was tackling a dude.

It’s not landing for me. The redemption angle.

Mike isn’t much of a character and I don’t feel like his offense was offensive enough to warrant big, bold all-caps REDEMPTION as a title.

And him helping the Avengers out by having been half in a portal means his redemption is kinda passive. Sure, he wouldn’t take no for an answer and follow them to the concert when they told him to buzz off. But the help he gave the West Coast Avengers is that they used him to open a portal. Also, he tackled the guy.

Story was fine. Pretty goofy and pretty inoffensive for a fill-in. I like seeing Hank Pym and his deus ex pockets again. Weird that Moon Knight got dropped entirely out of the story and the story didn’t have a lot for Mockingbird to do.

But apparently it was a moment when the West Coast Avengers worked well as a team and Wonder Man thought they would last forever.

Its a tragic note that in the here and now the team has had a divorce because Hawkeye and Mockingbird can’t have a civil conversation about cowboy manslaughter.

Although, I want to note here. If Hank Pym is on the team as Dr Pym, that means that Mockingbird already did the manslaughter and is hiding it from everyone at this point where the team was working well together.

So it kind of undermines Wonder Man sighing about how those were the days.

Anyway, the plot finally catches up to the West Coast Avengers and the Quinjet starts crashing into the next issue.

It happens.

Follow @essential-avengers​ because soon the Englehart era will end. Will we miss him? Maybe. What’s to come has its own problems. But either way: like, reblog, comment? I like feedback. It makes me happy.

#avengers #west coast avengers #essential avengers #the Defiler #doesn't defile even once #Hawkeye #Mockingbird #Wonder Man #Tigra #Iron Man #Dr Pym #Hank Pym #Scarlet Witch #the Vision #Mantis #Mike the boy who did a wrong but then redeemed himself #Susan a love interest who was led astray into an evil music genre

[chartreuxcatz]

Delicious in Dungeon spoilers in tags (for those who havent read the manga or seen the new episode)

#Meow. #oh thank GOD #THANK you Farcille artists #Thank you for not leading me astray <3 #I havent read the manga so i am very relieved that These Girls are as gay as i have been led to believe #Also I love Falin <3 what a sweetie #I sure hope nothing strange or horrific happens to her :)

[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

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I’ve been looking for material on Gilles’ Lionel Conacher Award (top Canadian male athlete of the year award, basically) for a while and found this Montreal Gazette article!

#i thought he won it in 1978 which led me astray for a while lol #anyway it was 79 #my comfort year #i love the part where he's like 'the whole of canada? not just québec?' #yes! even teenagers in hope bc canada who never cared much about motorsport to begin with #and young guys in a traveling band in northern alberta more worried about their guitars and gear than race results #they all knew about you gilles #f1 #classic f1 #retro f1 #lionel conacher award #70s #1979 #clipping #montreal gazette #meins