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outofangband · 4 months
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Could you expand on what Morgoth said about the Valar having harems in Aman??? I’ve never heard that before and whether he’s lying or not that’s wild. Like, was it just something he causally dropped in a generally menacing speech or what, I’m trying to figure out in what context he would even bring that up!
Yeah no problem!
I was half joking about him saying there were harems in Valinor but well, he certainly talks about elves being used by the gods for similar purposes.
Warning: this passage contains sexual harassment and implicit threats of sexual violence. The language is flowery but it’s still in my opinion one of the more disturbing passages from Tolkien, in this regard at least.
From The Lay of Leithan
Of what avail here dost thou deem thy babbling song and foolish laughter? minstrels strong are at my call. Yet I will give it a respite brief, a while to live, alittle while though purchase dear, to Lúthien the fair and clear, a pretty toy for idle hour
In slothful gardens many a flower like thee the amorous gods are used, honey sweet to kiss, and cast then bruised, their fragrance loosing under feet, but here we seldom find such sweet amid our labours long and hard, from godlike idleness debarred
This goes on like this for another few lines before Lúthien interrupts
It’s worth noting that this is not the first time that he makes references to the idle lazy and indulgent atmosphere of Valinor, in Tolkien’s earlier texts. In the Book of Lost Tales part one Morgoth similarly speaks directly to the Valar through their herald, complaining of the brutal labor he must undergo which they are interrupting, accusing them similarly of laziness and decadence.
So yeah something he casually drops in a genuinely menacing speech more or less sums it up in my opinion.
I think he’s probably wrong but I’m actually undecided if he believes himself lying. I could see him truly believing the other Valar partake in this and that he has been cast out from this privilege, or that the other Valar truly treat the elves as he does but are better at papering it over in pretty settings.
On the other hand he could very easily be deliberately painting a cruel and wicked portrait of Valinor and the gods to Lúthien on purpose, he taunts her for being naive earlier in this scene, I can definitely see him spinning this story purely out of malice.
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eliotbaum · 1 month
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A class for The Hidden Isle's new adventure, The Scholar!
Kickstarter for the adventure is now live (until Feb 17th '24) 💧💫
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gunsatthaphan · 7 months
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👁️👄👁️.
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fuckmeyer · 7 months
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if smeyer wasn't a coward vamp!Bella would have immediately eaten her daughter Rensesmem whole-hog like Saturn Devouring His Son
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neocentral · 9 months
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rating: 18+. mdni.
content: noncon, jisung x reader
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Jisung loves the way your nails glide down his back, painting the expanse with red and pink marks, a stark difference from his pale skin. Your nails applying harsh pressure with intent to get a reaction out of him, to hurt him. And you do, only not in the way you expected or wanted.
He hisses at a harsh scratch, imagining a crimson stripe appearing between his pink risen flesh. Jisung’s hips stutter and his eyes shut as his cheeks puff up with air before it leaves his slightly parted lips with a steady blow. His scorching breath fans your face as moans bubble from his throat.
Jisung enjoys the sting, feeling the urge to rut into you harder to feel it again. The muscles of his back flex and he uses his thighs to spread yours further, wanting to reach a depth you had never experienced. The confined space of his car makes the task difficult but he knows he succeeded when your stomach and thighs tense under him and a strangled gasp fills the air that only held his uncontainable noises of pleasure and the wet plunging of his cock into your dripping heat.
You throw your head from side to side, likely trying to ignore the pressure building within you caused by the act of Jisung’s sinful, despicable urges. The curves of your nails dig into his shoulders as you attempt to move yourself upwards and away from him. You lift your head until it hits the foggy glass window with a small thud.
Jisung’s nipples stiffen as the crescents break the taut skin. His sensitive peaks meet the swells of your breasts covered in ribbed material. He wishes he had ripped it off of you so he could feel your own stiff nipples brushing his own, sliding up and down his chest as he pounded into you desperately.
He catches you trying to reach the lock, thankful he had taken the precautions to ensure that no matter how hard you tried, you wouldn’t escape his vehicle unless he permitted. You pulled the door handle once, twice, three times before giving up, letting black rivers stream down your face, an angrily banging on his back, using your nails once more to scratch at his smooth skin.
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dthmet · 3 months
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Holy fucking Nevada
Black and white version here!! :D
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trans-axolotl · 4 months
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help me eat for the next month 💜
hey friends. my boss just unexpectedly told us that he's decreasing my hours over the next month and that I can only work 7 hours per week in December. That is nowhere near enough to cover rent and groceries. I also currently am recovering from a broken rib and have to restock my first aid kit, pain meds, etc. I'm trying to see if my old second job will let me pick up some hours in January, but it doesn't look like I'll have any luck for December. I also currently don't have a legal ID or any paperwork, so I can't use the food banks in my neighborhood until I can get another ID. And my university's dining hall is closing because it's end of semester, so I don't have a ton of options right now.
I'm hoping to raise $150 to help with groceries + wound care supplies throughout December and January. anything extra I get will be donated to other friends who have urgent mutual aid posts going around. thank you all so much for your help--i really appreciate the tumblr community for all the support you've shown over the years.
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$30/150
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theorahsart · 4 months
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I've read several ancedotes in this book about Robspierre that make me convinced he was autistic, and then read about this hilarious incident the other day on Tumblr, and felt compelled to draw a silly comic about it.
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w1lmuttart · 7 months
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(WIP)
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Wind waker scenery that just hits different :’)
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airenyah · 7 months
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Bad Buddy (2021) | Hidden Agenda (2023)
when your gay crush is right outside your door and something lgbt just happened between the two of you
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outofangband · 10 months
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in response to an ask from @justpostsyeet about what Laws and Customs of the Eldar say about sexual assault
under a cut for non graphic discussion of this!
also thank you to @undercat-overdog for helping me find the relevant passage that I literally had memorized but could not find (seriously I spent like an hour reading through Morgoth's Ring and could not find the part I needed, my fault for researching when half asleep but anyways, Undercat saved this post!)
The ask: Hi, hope your having a good day/night (maybe this request doesn't worsen your day). I honestly love your posts and I've a thing that I want to ask to you.
Maybe you has done this before but what do you think the elves view on sexaul assault must be?
And even if it's true what must be the reaction of elves when the a) hear about such news, b) witness such cruelty, c) experiences such awful things themselves .
I know it's a very sensitive topic and I don't want you to feel uncomfortable so, ignore it if you want. I've my own headcanons but I just wanted to know your opinions.
My response: this does not worsen my day! I'm sure you know this from my posts but I write a lot of darker topics and I'm fine discussing this! Indeed, I enjoy discussing darker topics, I can find it very cathartic to write about
Thank you so much for the ask and for thinking of me!
The concept that elves cannot survive sexual assault comes from Laws and Customs of the Eldar, an essay style section of Morgoth's Ring, in the Histories of Middle Earth. In LaCE, as it's often known, Ælfwine, or Elfwine, a pre canon character in The legendarium is credited with the editing of this text as well as other parts of the histories of Middle Earth adding another aspect of meta to it.  
LaCE is a controversial essay. Many consider it to be precanon or non canon. Others consider it an in universe philosophical or religious work rather than biological facts or universal standards for the elves. I think this interpretation is probably accurate
The relevant part you're talking about is a footnote in response to this line of LaCE Even when  in after days as the history is reveal many of the Eldar in Middle Earth became corrupted and their hearts darkened by the Shadow that lies upon Arda seldom is any tale told of Deeds of lust among them.
The footnote reads ...But among all those evils there is no record of any among the elves that took another spouse by force for this was wholly against their nature and one so forth would have rejected bodily life and passed to Mandos. Guile or trickery in this matter was scarcely possible even if it could be thought that any elf would purpose to use for it; for the Eldar can read in the eyes of another whether they be wed or unwed 
I agree with you that it's probably not the case that sexual violence instantly leads to death.
I think it's fun to play around with whether or not LaCE is a, canon or b, strict biological law! Generally I go with it not being so but there is a lot of fascinating ideas that can be explored, if often horrifying ones, treating it like that! (the idea that elves can tell in the eyes of another if they're married or not is FASCINATING even if the idea that such a phenomena would prevent sexual violence is...troublesome...)
On the basis of LaCE not being biological law though, there are a few possibilities for this inclusion (note: these are in universe possibilities, not a complete list of reasons why Tolkien might have included it)
a, an in universe narrator trying to mitigate or cover up the fact that this did indeed occur
b, as in most versions he appears in, Ælfwine is not an elf but a human, this could simply be an idealistic notion or misconception or even misunderstanding or mistranslation
c, sexual violence is a taboo subject in many human cultures, it's certainly not implausible that it was treated similarly the elves. Even if it's not an attempt to cover up actions by well known figures in the history of the Eldar, it could be a denial of cultural traumas or a refusal to reckon with a certain kind of pain
The fact that it specifically reads 'no record of any taking the spouse of another by force' is somewhat strange. Obviously, non married people can be the victims of assault (and people can be victimized by those they're married to; it's worth noting here that Tolkien did seem to realize both, some of the primary, and only, instances of rape in the legendarium are instances of marital rape)
A...generous reading is that it is worded like this because the footnote appears in relevance to the section about marriage and this is meant to discuss specifically how certain trauma affects the marital bond, something that LaCE defines as a spiritual and physical matter.
(Plenty of horror you could potentially explore there; spouses actually feeling the pain and trauma of their partners due to this bond, whether trauma from this kind of violence or other)
What I do think is true is that elves have a stronger connection between body and mind and soul and that severe trauma of any kind can lead to physical consequences up to, including and beyond death of the body. This is of course not unheard of in humans, stress takes a physical toll. But for elves I think this connection is perhaps more profound.
This is not limited to sexual assault and indeed most of the instances we see of this in canon are not related to sexual assault.
It's worth noting that there are some troublesome aspects of Tolkien's wording. Obviously the linking of sexual assault and lust is not entirely accurate. Desire and lust often do not play a role in sexual violence; power and control perhaps being more pertinent. Then of course the fact that it says 'no record of one taking the spouse of another by force' is also questionable as I talked about above.
In conclusion, I think like the rest of LaCE, it makes more sense as the philosophy of one group or individual rather than biological reality.
Finally, I'll note that the two primary examples I can think of in the works of victims of sexual violence who "choose" death or at least leaving body or life in some form or another are not elves but are Aerin, a human, and Arien, a Maia (Arien's example also not being strictly canon), both of whom choose fire. (also I think that whether or not Aerin died is actually ambiguous and is certainly not definite, that being said the idea that she did is a perfectly plausible reading) Also why are their names so similar...
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munchboxart · 11 months
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Ganondorf
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leefyberrybread · 1 year
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Hehe ,,,,,first completed TF art piece?!?!??!
Starscream?????????
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eye-spy-an-eye · 3 months
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I caved and worked more on this after saying I wouldn’t! So here’s a piece based on secret life!
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asairayn · 1 month
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once again, Panic by @thedemonsurfer / @thedemonscrawler has infected my brain. i'm losing my mind. i had to do this. i had to draw him panicking in a corner. because of course. i'm screaming. i'm screaming always.
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