#we will make this place our home

[leucisticpuffin]

Elrond and his new friend, to go with this week's chapter :-)

This was an experiment in shading on the multiply layer to get a more realistic watercolour effect.

#we will make this place our home #elrond #silm art #silmarillion art #tolkien fanart #silm fanart #silmarillion fanart

[anna-dreamer]

I am late with this one, and it's a bit all over the place, but i did it!

We will make this place our home by @leucisticpuffin is pure love. I discovered it on Christmas, and since then it has become very dear to my heart. Besides the absolute enchanting quality of its graceful and melancholic narrative, it has one of the most sweet and heart-wrenching depictions of Maedhros&Maglor relationship i've ever seen. So when i thought of what to draw for Respite, this scene from chapter 37 A Cry in the Dark was basically my only option.

This was definitely the right room. It was in a state of comfortable disrepair – clothes flung haphazardly over the chair, bottles and trinkets cluttering up the dresser, a pile of old records on the floor beside an enormous old gramophone – and Maglor and Maedhros were both sprawled over the too-narrow bed, Maglor curled up near the edge, Maedhros lying beside him half-covered in blankets. Red and grey-black hair muddled together on the pillow.

@maedhrosmaglorweek

Day 6: Respite

#maedhrosmaglorweek #maedhros #maglor #we will make this place our home #silmarillion fanart #anna draws #i love them #Maglor probably was SO sore when he woke up and started searching for Elrond and Elros in a panic! #Maedhros too #They both had a rough night #I love their somber routine

[aroace-moron]

I started translating "we will make this place our home" by the amazing @leucisticpuffin into german! If any of you want to check it out, here's the first chapter.

#translation #we will make this place our home #silmarillion #maedhros #maglor #elrond #elros

[forestgreenlesbian]

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#feel like my relationship with my younger brother is changed completely forever not to be dramatic lol but i am sad #we used to b very close but he has kind of. found his faith again and gone full missionary christian which like. i knew meant the dynamic #was doomed lmao but actually acknowledging it makes me sad i feel like i'm grieving for the friendship we used to have even though #it is literally a me problem i think from his perspective he doesn't think anything has changed. but i feel weird about everything #also his new gf is nineteen and he is. almost 25 and i am the only one who feels weird about it like i know she's over 18 but! idk i can't #tell if i'm being overly cautious or if my gut instinct is right. my sister & her husband have a similar age gap but they met when they wer #both over 30 so like. it didn't feel weird. and i didn't feel comfortable actually seriously talking to him about it apart from the first #time he mentioned her over facetime (he went to another country to do mission stuff & met her there) so like an idiot i've just been #making jokes about the age gap becausee like. thats always been our thing lightly bullying each other lol but he blew up at me and said #i've had nothing positive to say about her since he's been back home and that he thinks i hate her and i'm out of line for constantly #implying he's creepy for dating someone younger. idk i felt like such a freak idiot horrible person about it. it completely blindsided me #bc yes the jokes were coming from a place of idk how i feel about this situation so i'm going to rely on the humour-based communication #we have always fallen back on as a safety thing but i guess i was wrong or the dynamic shifted or something anyway it's all fucked #& everyone is just telling me i feel weird out of some?? misplaced kind of jealousy thing?? because i'm 'losing' my brother to his gf lol #which does not feel right at all he has dated so many other girls and i have never had a problem it is literally the age gap like i haven't #even met this girl i'm sure she's very nice! i just worry about her being nineteen!! jesus. and yes maybe i do feel some resentment around #a brother younger than me who seems to be able to live his life with zero difficulty whilst i'm stuck being this unemployed loser who ruins #literally ever friendship & relationship ive ever had but i think thats ok right like i can't help feeling that. i don't fucking knowwww #am i just projecting all these sad feelings about our friendship dying onto his new relationship or like. am i right to be genuinely #concerned she's six years younger than him and still a fucking teenager!!!!!! i don't know

[lightasthesun]

just wanted to thank everyone that's been encouraging me or offering some kind of support the last few times I talked about getting a cane... because I went and got one today and I didn't think it would make that much of a difference. I underestimated how much it would change for me.

So thank you <33

#got a prescription from my GP last week and gathered my nerves together to get one today #thankfully we have a health care supply store only ten minutes away on foot #I'd planend on getting an anatomical one as prescribed by my GP and it was comfortable and id probably have chosen it too but #then the lady there told me to try the derby handle instead and honestly that was even better plus i can use it on both sides #its sleek and black for now because i can barely bear the thought of anyone seeing me using a cane in our small town in the first place #but once im comfortable.. #anyway we went to a shop across the street afterwards because my besties mum needed to get some things and I didn't wanna go home by myself #and tbh i preferred the thought of going into our small city centre with somebody i trusted and felt comfortable around the first time aroun #long story short im super suprised by the difference it's making 😬 i mean ofc i didn't just get the cane on a fluke #but it was like 'well let's try it out it may help and people keep saying it's for stability and chronic pain too so why not' #yeah so apparently i did need it #i felt so much better #there were several instances where i noticed the cane kept me from stumbling or swaying or missing a step #it felt good #so thank you all

[cinna-bunnie]

hey younger ppl who grew up with strict parents, i want to share something really lovely with you that i didn't really learn myself until this year.

you do NOT have to clean ur house when u have guests over. like yeah pickup anything particularly embarrassing but have you not felt more welcomed, happy and cozy when you visited a friend's home and saw Stuff everywhere? is it not more inviting to enter a home that looks and feels very Lived In? do you not feel self-conscious about contributing to any sort of mess in a home so clean and organized it feels sterile?

Don't feel the need to keep this weird facade ingrained into us that your place needs to look perfect in order for you to hang out - just invite people over! Let them see what you're about, let the Environmental Storytelling™ do some work! i promise you it's very charming being able To See what you do and enjoy.

it took way longer than it should've for me to accept this and it's been GREAT. i don't dread the deep cleaning that having a guest used to entail because nowhere near that amount of work is necessary to hang out anymore - and I think everyone deserves to know that they don't have to work so dang hard for something that's really so so simple.

#like. lol the ppl I've enjoyed visiting the most are those friends whose place is so messy it's basically like “pick a pile to sit on😼” #i sure as fuck will!! thank u (⁠✿ ‚‚⌒‿⌒‚‚) i don't b having piles but i do leave some stuff out n around n whatnot. #i was in a 6yr relationship n my ex was very WE NEED TO CLEAN when we'd have ppl over once in a blue moon and like (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠) #she was raised that way ‚ i was raised that way. I'm assuming we both sorta internalized that from our parents but i made #a friend this yr whose home is SUPER cozy and lived in and cluttered w stuff and i absolutely love it. it's like a visual stim. #but idk also kinda feels like laying urself bare yk? i won't go on a whole (... other) rant about it but yeah i was so happy after my visit #that i just felt like I Too can have a cozy very lived in home - and not stress about perfection and appearances n just hang! #and yeah I've been this way long enough that I'm starting to realize a perfectly cleaned home feels very sterile. #there's an air about it that feels like u can't rly move around or makes u afraid to make any sort of mess and idk?? #NO MORE STERILE HOUSES BE URSELF!! LAY IT BARE FOR YOUR GUESTS TO SEE!!

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#its sort of funny. i think my medication is working pretty well. i feel stable in a way i never really have before #is it the dopamine stablizer or is it my ion channels? whos to say. it doesn't matter. but it also doesnt change some things #the ways i think and react negativly to change. but it makes it easier to deal with. i still experience this strange dispaire on the #weekends or anytime im not working. i think the oddest thing is thst i dont think ive ever been this consistenly sad #not in a depressed sort of way. just a passing thoughts make me tear up sort of way. it doesnt feel out of control. it just feels like a #prelude to grief i guess. bc my mum is still in the hospital and its so hard to kno what that means from halfway across the country #my sisters are both home right now. they both live within 3hrs of where we grew up. one sister lives in the city my mom goes to for #treatment. so they have the opportunity to see her more than me. i dunno if they do tho. we dont really talk. i dont kno if they're as sad #as i am. if im overreacting bc i cant physically see what's happening. what the feeling is in the room. not that she would probably complain #shes the suffer in silence type. my dad keeps texting us pics of our shitty lil sunroom that hes redoing #to make my mum a lil sanctuary. he must be sad too. its his wife. hes staying with her in the hospital rn. i dunno its so weird #when i talk to my counselor she assumes i find out info thru calls or talk to my sisters abt it and i gotta b like nah we dont really talk #i get my info thru text. i havent talked to my parents on the phone in like a month. i dunno we just dont talk. so i dont kno how to reach #out and be like yo so whats up? shoulf i plan on coming home this summer for a bit?? like??? #this is the disadvantage of leaving thr place where you grew up. probably when i finish my phd i should move closer to home #somewhere in the Appalachian mountains maybe. somewere in the eastern deciduous forrest. somewhere with thunderstorms. #but thats years from now. who knows what ill b doing. for now im just sad and tired and i dont quite kno what to do in the short or long #term bc im feeling the weight of my mental limitations rather intensely. but maybe im just being self limiting #whatever. i dont have a dead mum yet. shes not even on hospice care. things are just uncertain and dont look so hot #i just dont see how it can get better from here when chemo gave her secondary blood cancer and shes still full of tumors #i dont think im being that dramatic. it just objectively seems not great for survival #unrelated

[bumblingbabooshka]

Amanda Grayson with her Hubby and Stepson

#I wanted to redesign Amanda Grayson bc I like her flamboyant old woman look but when she's young they always style her look very bland #and proper...and I want her to look like kind of a hippie teacher mess #Amanda & Sarek - annoying girl x killjoy guy #we are each insufferable in our own unique ways #Amanda has a way of getting to people - whether it's good or bad depends on the person but she's someone you remember and who it's easy to #end up talking to for hours and Sarek realizes this too late...before he even knows whats happening he's grocery shopping with this woman as #they both complain about how BRIGHT the store lights are #Sarek: (on date number five) ..........I have a son by the way / Amanda: Aw shit. Let's go to chuck E Cheese. #Amanda goes into Sarek's quarters for the first time and is like this place is AWFUL!! and by the end of the week she's redecorated. #She built him a bedside table. He bought her a pair of gaudy earrings which she loved but didn't get herself during one of their shopping #trips bc she exclaimed 'Ugh! Who do I think I am!?' and speed walked away #Also last bit of personal lore but Amanda told Sarek (as a joke) that before they got married he should ask her father first #(she said this bc Sarek asked her to marry him on like the second date since Vulcans don't date - she said no) #so when Sarek meets Amanda's father he asks the man to marry him - misinterpreting her words (Amanda DIES laughing) #Sarek seems straight but tradition is tradition - if he has to marry Amanda's dad before he can marry her he'll deal with it #Stepmom Amanda swag...she's gonna give this grumpy lil boy a piggyback ride and giggle about his dad with him #anyway...I like this version of Amanda - she makes her own kombucha and insists you take a jar home with you #Sarek/Amanda #star trek #star trek art #Sarek #Amanda Grayson #sarek art #amanda grayson art #bea art tag #Sarek calls Amanda : dear darling beloved blossom my heart etc #Amanda calls Sarek: elbows knees bigntall sharpie etc #the times she calls him stuff like 'honeycake' and other such stupid-sweet things are times he pretends to find baffling but cherishes 4ever #couple that has a list of things to ask before they eat at a new place #Is it vegetarian? Is it kosher? Is it organic? Is it spicy?

[graysongraysoff]

not to be a soft bitch but i truly did almost tear up at the all-staff meeting today when they told us there will be a sensory room at our big big show this year for anyone who needs a place to step away from the hustle and bustle for a bit, courtesy of our dei committee

i know i don't talk about having an autistic brother a lot but sensory accommodations always make me a little emo bc i had to watch my brother grow up with basically no sensory accommodations at all, especially not at big events like this, and it made a lot of experiences that should have been really fun for him needlessly stressful and upsetting, and it makes me so happy to see more awareness of and willingness to accommodate less like "obvious" disabilities and needs

#and this is at a big show/convention for home builders too so like #a very largely conservative old white cis male group #but this year our association gave the option to have your pronouns on your event badge #and they're going to have a sensory room that's not just like a Room like it has like low blue lighting #and seats where you can rock or bounce #and idk!!! it made me emo!!!!! knowing that we're making this show a place where folks with sensory issues can feel welcome!!!! #now for the number of attendees there should probably be MORE sensory rooms (like one per building at the convention center perhaps) #but if this is successful this year that will be huge and then maybe we can have more next year #wah #work tag

[leucisticpuffin]

Since I can't work on digital art atm I've broken out my old sketchbook. Elrond and Elros at the approach to Formenos Manor.

@nolofinweanweek

#sorry for the terrible photo quality - my phone camera is rubbish #we will make this place our home #elrond #silm art #Elros #silmarillion art #tolkien art

[nolongerexistingsadcatface]

Me whispering in Hetalians’ ears: Hey…. 👄 What if we…. 👄 acknowledged and talked about the existence and influence of non-English people in Colonial America 🫦

#this post was brought to you by what may be the funniest town name ever: wales #not new south wales #not wales island #just wales #like ok guys…..! i think we’re a liiiiittle far away but whatever makes you feel more at home ❤️ #and then theres one named scotland in texas??? #13 places in the world called ‘wales’ and NINE OF THEM are in america #american town names are hilarious cus we make the weirdest choices in naming #regular honor naming: eh it’s a city name. not like its a COUNTRY. not the end of the world if we just reuse it here and there #american honor naming: we ARE the country. this is the only name that can properly showcase our people. this name belongs to us now. #ok back to the post #just….. #THE WELSH INFLUENCE IN AMERICA GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!!! #THE WELSH INFLUENCE IN AMERICA!!!

[lorephobic]

idk how to even like. put this pain into words and i would normally vent about this shit on twitter, but the person its about follows me on there so like. anybody have skills for coping with the crushing realization that the person u love most in this world and have built ur life around sees ur current situation together as a temporary hurdle that's preventing them from their truest and happiest self which. is separate from u entirely? anyone know how to deal with this?

#live with my best friend in the whole entire world who. honest to god makes me the happiest person alive. #like im always waxing poetic about her in the tags on posts about platonic love #and i talk about her like she put the stars in the skies because for real it feels like she did for me #she is. the most important person in my life #and every day i feel grateful just to come home and sit with her #like honest to god i cannot imagine a future that is better than this #if i have a bad day i get to come home and my best friend in the world will make me laugh #what more could i ever ask for #but tonight we talked and she made it abundantly clear that. even if i do everything right #even if i'm the perfect roommate and the best friend i can be #in just over a year #when she's making enough money for it #she plans on moving into a place of her own #which like. makes sense for her. of course we were going to get to this point. #but i just. don't know what i'm going to do. #and it kills me that we're on different pages because for some reason i thought this was a long term thing #i thought we were going to move into a house together #i was just telling my coworker this week that we need to move into our forever home soon which was partially a joke #but also. even if i was making a million dollars a year. #i would still want to be here. with her. #or somewhere else. with her. #like it's so hard to imagine a future without her. it breaks my heart and scares the shit out of me. #and i know i can't afford it here. and i can't move in with strangers. and i'm working my dream job but i'm scared that i'm going to have t #give it all up and move back east because. i can't do this alone. and she's all i have. and all i ever wanted. #and she's leaving. #she doesn't want to be with me. #sry this is so fucking. ugh. idk. i just don't know what to do. #for real might just drop everything and move to chicago if it comes down to it ksdkfljdfs #its what sufjan would have wanted #fucked up terrible no good week

[solarisgod]

So, I wish to gently put this reminder out here, because we find that we've been in this position once more where there's a high activity of stalking by our perpetrator who we knew from the rpc since February 4--- last time we read her being tracked on November 12 - 14 last year--- I am highly uncomfortable to interact with a muse who have a history of manipulation and / or especially stalking. I do believe muse =/= mun and I am okay to talk and read about manipulation and stalking, but while providing trigger tag + warning of them would be most appreciated to give me the chance of building mental preparation to read them, we prefer not to plot and write with that kind of character for our comfort and wellbeing. At the very least, I'd still like to be in touch with the mun out of character and / or interact with their different muse, if they have any, instead. Thank you so much. ♡

#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ PSA . › #[ I want place this out because we are mutuals with some who writes horror centric muses ] #[ and while I'd still like to seek friendships and we are okay to be mutuals with those who writes that kind of character ] #[ with our past ( + unfortunately current ) experiences and my usual erratic mental state ] #[ I think putting ourselves in an active writing / plotting based interactions with the knowledge of what that muse does ] #[ will prompt unwanted memories and hitting home sense of familiarity ] #[ I hope this makes sense... ] #[ so basically : ] #[ we're okay being mutuals ( as doing so ext. selectively ) with who writes stalkers + manipulators and following /back/ those blogs ] #[ but we wish not to put ourselves and our muse in a position of directly interacting with those muses for our sake ] #[ so we'll likely at least watch that muse in the background while engaging in ooc interactions with the muns in some ways. ] #[ okay gonna take a nap while our wolf week cramps are killing us but ] #[ I don't want this psa to discourage anyone in being mutuals with us still ] #[ or feel bad about who they're writing ] #[ people can still be mutuals even if no ic interactions get done much or at all ] #[ and I've written the Corinthian and Mephistopheles who are known to be manipulative stalkers ] #[ I still would be okay to write and talk about them if given a chance despite everything ] #[ but we at least kindly ask to please tag manipulation and especially stalking to give us that heads-up and mentally prepare if possible ] #[ thank you again so much ♡ ]

[ahaura]

stealing library books because the connection between native americans and palestinians makes people "uncomfortable"...

#'uncomfortable' damn it's almost like the u.s. empire and its military base treat the people who were their first the exact same way! #the way palestinians talk about the land and olive trees and their homes is the exact same way natives talk about it here #i hear manifest destiny speak coming from the mouths of settlers #'we were meant to be here nobody was here when we got here but if there was #anyone here WE make the land livable and fertile and civilized' #i hear those words coming from settlers and im transported back to the time where my mother had that said to her face #and for fear of being misrepresented and seen as the bad guy my mother could do NOTHING. say NOTHING. #the same 'justification' used to steal land to kill our language to nearly wipe out the religion people already had to KILL & erase natives #the legacy of colonization haunts my mother's family it robbed her of so much to the point where speaking about it physically hurts her #so when parallels are drawn between native americans and palestinians i say YES i say it's the same thing just different place and time

[daydreamycrustacean]

#watching a stream of someone play peacewalker #because its been more than a year since i first watched it and I didn't remember a lot of things #oh pw kaz we are really in it now #hearing him sound so excited and hopeful whe he talks to big boss about expanding mother base #and making it a home for soldiers that dont have any place to belong to made me have a physical reaction #kaz voice we could make this place our heaven.

[you-will-return]

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#sorry for being so afk recently #it probably won't change #i haven't had a calm moment since mid-December and it's starting to gnaw at my brain #and now the only irl place where I felt somewhat happy is falling apart bc of in-group-politics #it's so annoying #can't we just all breathe for a second? #can't everyone stop being passive aggressive assholes to each other for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES? #i don't want to pick sides #i don't want this stupid group to break apart #something has been feeling off since October and last week my friend and I finally put our finger on it #and BOY figuring it out has.not.helped. #meanwhile all I've been doing has been watching old races from the 90s #bc the only thing that makes my brain shut up at the moment is cars going vroom in a circle for 1.5hrs apparently #every irl interaction atm feels like walking on egg shells #and the only thing that's stopping me from crying every time i get home is just keeping myself busy and not thinking abt my life ever #anyway my insurance has blocked me from therapy for the next 3 years so that's great #.....i don't want to come on here and just complain but nothing has been going right recently. #maybe i'll be back to normal eventually but not at the moment #not for a while