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stiffyck · 6 months

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I dub them the eleven duo!

I’ve been thinking about them so much I think they should be besties. I am desperate for m/f platonic or qpp relationships

#my art #elven duo #tagging that now :3 #gtws #hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #gemini tay #geminitay #silly elves

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tigerlii · 7 months

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“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”

#arwen undomiel #aragorn #aragorn x arwen #arwen evenstar #arwen #lotr #lotr elves #lotredit #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #middle earth #tolkien #tolkien tag #jrr tolkien #tolkein #tolkienverse #tolkien elves

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firinaira · 5 months

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Maedhros sought for Elured and Elurin in the woods of Doriath.

Do not use without my permission, please!

#firinaira #maedhros #maitimo #feanorians #feanorians art #elured #elurin #kidnap fam #elves #the silm #tolkien #art #digital art #the silm fandom #tolkien art #tolkien tag

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cy-lindric · 2 years

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House of Finwë family tree, based on the later version from HoME. I chose to stop at Elrond & Elros' generation, but later added Arwen as a side note, which is why her brothers are not included.

#the silmarillion #silm #tolkien #rings of power #house of finwe #hmmm not going to tag all of them intrust you guys to find this organically or whatever #elves #if I had infinite time and the required skills I’d make a smash or pass app #and then pull out the Elf Fuckability Statistics #[EDIT] I removed all the captionning because that post was WAY too long lmao

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deconstructthesoup · 15 days

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Every single Bad Kids parent polycue combination is so fucking priceless to me. Like---

Sklonda and Gorthalax? They probably dated for a bit, jury's out on whether or not they're still together, but yeah, it sorta makes sense. Jawbone and Sandralynn? Hell yeah, makes perfect sense, two people who are both messy in their own ways but manage to balance each other out. Hallariel and Gilear? Makes zero sense at first glance but the more you think about it the more you realize that, yeah, they do kinda work.

And then we throw Garthy into the mix, who almost certainly had a fling with Bill before Bill met Hallariel, and we find out that they've not only hooked up with Sandralynn but also Jawbone. And then we get confirmation from Brennan that Sklonda and Sandralynn have hooked up (that's where Sandralynn got the Kalina virus from)! And then we get canon confirmation that the Thistlesprings, who are pretty much a package deal, are swingers, opening up the possibility to the fact that they may or may not have swung with Jawbone! Maybe even Sandralynn! And maybe even Roz and Gorbag (depending on whether or not they actually met those two when they first had Gorgug, but it's a possibility)!

And it doesn't even stop there! Because guess what, Bill and Pok are in contact across afterlives! They have monthly check-ins! Who knows what those check-ins entail! They could very well be in a long-distance relationship!

Literally the only Bad Parents who aren't involved in the parental polycue are the Applebees and the Abernants and that's because the Applebees are a Conservative Helioic Suburban Couple and the Abernants are a Stuffy Elitist Elven Couple. They're different flavors of awful but I'm willing to bet that their views on sexuality are both pretty outdated.

#and even then you can't say that they have zero affection for each other #see mac and donna having four kids and angwyn and arianwen having two kids in three years AS IMMORTAL ELVES #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #i'm not tagging all of the parents that's too much work

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anistarrose · 2 months

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The thing about the Heart Attack segment in Wonderland is that they put so much aromantic subtext in it. They accidentally put SO much aromantic subtext in it, on behalf of multiple characters, and I'm thinking about it constantly. Let me tell you all about it.

Magnus is dropped into a dating game and literally leads with "I cannot stress enough how uninterested I am in this." Now, it's perfectly valid to read this as due to him waiting for Julia, or just him being plain old uncomfortable with having his love life put in the spotlight. However! I cannot stress enough the exchange that happens just a minute or two after that line:

Magnus (describing his ideal date): ... and we don't see each other again, ‘cause I'm really not interested in dating. Audience: [exaggerated] Oooooh! (cheers) Griffin: The silhouette is like, fanning itself. Lydia: Playing hard to get, huh? It seems like our contestant is into that.

And I just have to say: unfortunately, this is one of the most aromantic fucking experiences I've seen represented in fiction in my life. I mean — saying you're not interested in romance, then having those words twisted on you, like they're some secret coded way of saying that you are interested in romance? Not having a single way to express your disinterest that'll actually be believed? That's some aro shit right there. God. Fuck.

As an aside, it's enough to really tell that Heart Attack is not designed to be a reprieve from the pain, even though it's the "good outcome" of Trust or Forsake. It's designed to be uncomfortable. To funnel suffering to Edward and Lydia, just like all the other games do. (More on that later, in fact.) But in summary:

Magnus is a character who can be read as uncomfortable with romance for either aro-spec reasons or unrelated reasons. But in either case, his discomfort attracts reactions that reek of amatonormativity — and therefore, resonate with aromantic experiences. (Psst, I did recently write a gray-aro Magnus fic!)

Two more analyses below the cut (and only one of them is for another Horny Boy):

Obviously the next character I need to talk about is Merle. I've found aroallo readings of his character to be compelling for a long time (having sex with plants so you don't have to worry about romantic commitment, am I right?), but the way he describes his "ideal date" is another factor:

Merle: I volunteer to drive her vehicle, and tell her it's filthy, and so we go through the uh- drive through vehicle wash and she pays for that too. Um, and then I take her to have dinner with my family, and- Magnus: Wait, like your wife and stuff? Merle: She meets my ex-wife.

Merle's probably exaggerating as a joke, continuing on about both him and his partner being miserable, but I think the fact that Merle's mind goes here is genuinely drawing from a lot of poor romantic experiences in the past. He didn't get a choice about being on Heart Attack, and his marriage with Hecuba was similarly "arranged".

It's also worth noting that at this point in time, Merle is putting in the work to be part of Mavis and Mookie's lives again, but is not interested in doing the same for Hecuba — he instead just asks Mavis how Hecuba's doing. That said, given that Magnus is the one to put the focus on Merle's ex-wife, I think it's fair to read the "family" comment as Merle actually expressing that he'd rather spend time with his kids than give any special romantic attention to his date. Moving on to the rest of the "joke":

Merle: She's having a miserable time and she's really mad, she can't wait to get outta there. I take her back to her house, and so I lean up against the door jam and say, 'Sure you don't want me to come in for a few minutes?' and she slams the door in my face.

It's possible Merle just has a more roundabout, self-deprecating way of expressing a similar thing to what Magnus did: Merle just isn't interested in dating. To me, the last line implies he might not say no to sex, if offered — but overall, it reads as if Merle is putting minimal effort in because he's looking for an excuse to get out of this relationship anyway.

It's also possible that Merle's "rejection" of a suitor being so disguised as humor could point to him still coming to terms with his disinterest in dating. Particularly, in comparison to Magnus, who is so vocal and unashamed about it, while Merle might still be figuring this all out.

(Honestly, the self-deprecation Merle turns to here is actually kind of sad, when viewed in that light — he already lets himself be the butt of jokes so often, and now he feels like the way romance doesn't click for him has to be a joke, too? Oof. Someone give him a hug and tell him he's not broken this instant!) But regardless:

Merle views dates, and perhaps romance in general, as things that will inevitably turn disastrous for him and any party involved with him, and he would rather spend time with his children than repairing a relationship with an ex, or cultivating a relationship with a new partner. This is not an experience exclusive to the aro-spec umbrella, but you can't say that an aromantic reading of his character doesn't fit him like a gardening glove...

...which he wears while fucking his plants. Because plants don't demand emotional intimacy, nor take too much time away from the platonic relationships that matter more to him. And you know what? He's fucking valid for that! Fly your flag, nasty grandpa!

But moving on: I promised you aromantic analysis of characters outside of our protagonists, and henceforth, that analysis I will provide. And not just because I admittedly see Taako as the token alloromantic (though clearly an aro ally; if he hadn't chosen Forsake we wouldn't have gotten all this incredible characterization!)

I digress. So let's go on to addressing the lich twins in the room: Edward and Lydia.

Remember my argument earlier that Heart Attack serves the purpose of collecting suffering just like the rest of Wonderland does? How it's just a subtler way of making Wonderland's victims fundamentally uncomfortable?

...Using, of all things, romance?

How the vogue twins, for whatever reason, felt inspired to make people uncomfortable with matchmaking and adoration? How, some way or another, they noticed how much potential romance had to induce suffering? Being pressured into a relationship, being told that no matter how firmly you say you're uninterested, you're not really uninterested?

...Relatedly, I have always gotten the sense that Edward and Lydia projected relentlessly onto their victims.

Edward: This resolve, this desire to do whatever it takes no matter the cost to save yourselves — do you know who you three remind me of? Magnus: No? Merle: Who? Edward: Us!

I'm even going to go a step further and say that on top of projection, they want their victims to go through things they went through. Swallowing the guilt of having fucked someone else over to survive, of course — that's basically self-admitted. But possibly also... the feeling of not being able to get back what you lost (Keats). The feeling of being able to heal (Keats).

So, where does that leave Heart Attack?

Lydia: It was the three of us, surviving against all odds. The world against us.

Their family of three was (is) indescribably important to them. I'm not necessarily saying that societal expectations of romance, especially of romance as a priority above that of family, left a bad taste in their mouths — if not downright contributing to their trauma — but, okay, I wrote the rest of this post and now that I'm back, I can no longer deny it. I'm definitely, absolutely saying that.

At the time of the podcast, we know Edward and Lydia's own relationship is heavily strained. Until the end, they are lying to themselves and to each other about the fact that they continue to be emotionally and magically reliant on each other. After all, Lydia wouldn't say "I guess we really needed each other after all" in her dying moments with such surprise otherwise.

This is the second reason that I... well, I wouldn't quite call it a "theory," but I find it most impactful to read Edward and Lydia as characters for whom the concept of Love has baggage. And always has, from their origins as youth in a tough spot in an already amatonormative world.

Maybe the constant societal devaluing of platonic, familial bonds left them with serious emotional scars. Maybe the constant conflation of Love and morality just weighed on them and weighed on them and weighed on them until they decided: well, we don't love the way people expect us to, so we might as well give up on being the good people they expect us to be. We might as well embrace this new fuel of suffering.

...And you know, I hope this gets across what I mean when I always say I headcanon villains as aromantic to make them more sympathetic.

Edward and Lydia, textually, are already tragic villains. As twins and liches, they're also textually foil characters to several of the Seven Birds. But I also like to think that they have a lot in common with Magnus and Merle, and the possibility that tugs at my heartstrings the most is the possibility of them all falling under the aromantic umbrella.

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #magnus burnsides #merle highchurch #vogue elves #wonderland twins #(i always forget which tag i use for them lol)#aspec taz #taz meta #happy aro week this essay is my gift to myself <2

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literallyaflame · 9 months

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i don’t know what it is about sign language that makes ppl say the most buckwild most uninformed shit you’ve ever seen in your life. like. i’m hoh and only conversationally fluent. i have access needs, sure, but i’m not qualified to educate anyone about sign language. so i generally stay out of it.

the thing is, there’s only so many times you can see someone confidently say some shit like “why didn’t they just make ONE sign language???” or “actually every country has their own asl” or “wait, i can answer this! i don’t know anything about sign language, but i read a wattpad fic about a Deaf girl in 2015—” before you start chewing on walls

#and then every other post tagged for d/Deaf and hoh ppl is just a writing resource for hearing ppl #which like #listen #idk what the allure is #u’d think we r elves or something #here i’ll give you this one for free #90% of it is that i don’t turn around when people expect me to turn around #and then they think i’m rude #and if u use asl in public for any reason ppl look at u like they’ve never seen hands before #me when i make a post

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silvantransthranduiltrash · 5 months

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I know that elves only marrying once is a thing in lotr,

But i would have really liked to see them, as a result of being immortal, grapple with the idea that “just because a marriage ends, doesn’t mean it’s a failed marriage”.

Like, ok, yeah, a couple that was together for hundreds or thousands of years divorced, but that doesn’t mean they don’t care for each other, or regret their marriage. It just means they got what they wanted out of their marriage, and now it’s time to take separate paths and move on.

Like them still being grateful for their shared experience as partners for years upon years, and also acknowledging that over the course of centuries, people change and sometimes you just grow apart as a result.

#lord of the rings #lotr #silmarillion #the hobbit #lotr elves #silvans #noldor #elven marriages #thranduil #feanor #miriel #finwe #idk what to tag this as

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ride-a-dromedary · 6 months

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Why, yes, I am thinking about Halsin and Astarion slipping into speaking patterns that fell out of fashion 200+ years ago, and when speaking to each other, it becomes an eclectic mix of centuries old slang they pull out of nowhere, standard fantasy speak, pieces they picked up along the way, and "shit's wild, bro".

Bonus points, for more fun, if they have different threads of different old speaking patterns because they come from two different places.

#And everyone in camp - save for Gale whose verbal gymnastics put everyone to shame who just nods matches and outdoes -#is just like *eggman* what the FUCK are you two talking about #BG3 Musing #jaheria too tbh she's just like oh fucking FINALLY #larian missed out on having so many old elves and immortals in the party do you know what kind of verbal debauchery #they could have gotten up to?#i keep thinking about baby wyll commenting that 'agog' signifies that astarion is over 2 centuries old and astarion being like #i am in the company of fetuses #dare i tag this as #halstarion

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attractthecrows · 16 days

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let it also be said that I love the Mahariel + Lavellan worldstate. It's so haunted. You are Dalish, you are not a part of human culture, but by happenstance you're dragged into it and to the forefront of hell to save a world that hates and fears your people. You have no choice. You can never return to your home, to the familiar, to anything you've ever known. You will be an echo; Mahariel echoing Garahel, Lavellan echoing Mahariel. You're so proud of your Dalish heritage, but your identity doesn't matter at all. Doomed to be a martyr for a people that do not respect you and cannot understand you, while your clan mourns, lamenting that they cannot bury you, no life-tree to stand as your memory. You're a hero. You're already dead. You died the moment you left your clan.

#dragon age #mahariel #lavellan #dalish origin #its so fucking. UGH #its SPICY its TANTALIZING its GIVING MY CHARACTERS MARTYR COMPLEXES #And you. child of the dales. who will remember YOU? not your symbol; YOU #who will remember the meaning of your vallaslin? who will remember the elvish prayers you mutter to yourself?#Who will remember? Not the humans. It's a wonder they remember Garahel was elven. nevermind the wild elves that are so feared #okay editing the tags #GUYS I FORGOT ABOUT AMERIDAN #but also ive never finished the jaws of hakkon dlc so #limited relevance #and tbh given how little is known about ameridan before You Find Him i dont think it's as applicable #like in the greater thedosian memory it's not 'lavellan is just like ameridan!' its going to be 'Whoa! two Dalish heroes in 10 years!'

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