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TO BE LOVED ENTIRELY 🩸

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“hes a woman to me” IS HE? or are you equating women with submissive character traits you've arbitrarily put on a random man

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God I love looking at the evolution of concepts, but specifically character concepts and characters, from the early to late to "final" drafts in the Tolkien mythos. Like watching Tevildo -> Sauron, and Trotter -> Strider, and ofc Gonzo -> Bilbo. Although admittedly I am a little more partial to the idea that Gonzo Grimbins was actually both proto-Bilbo *and* proto-Gollum rolled all into one; I think it lends a lot of heft to the way that Gollum and Bilbo parallel each other (even if the Gollum & Frodo mirror relationship ends up being way more thematically important). Like, the birthday gift preoccupation starts so early; the kindness is there deep down; there is even something compellingly Loki-like (unsurprising what with jirt's love of mythology and the requirement for a benevolent trickster figure that is like, more clear cut and not Tom Bombadil) about Grimbins, particularly in the riddle scene where he's ostensibly alone BUT clearly still putting on a performance – and a misleading one at that.

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You can now get my tevene font [Here] <- Updated 25/07/25

They were all hand written so they wont be 100% 1:1 but I hope this will help the community in their tevinter adventures :-)

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(sits up ramrod straight after remembering twitter drama) IT IS NOT WOKE TO MAKE ELVES MORALLY RIGHTEOUS. YOU RECIEVE NO WOKE POINTS FOR MAKING ELVES A PERFECT SOCIETY FREE FROM BIGOTRY CLASSISM OR SOCIAL STRIFE. THE SUPERIOR RACE DOES NOT BECOME AN ACCEPTABLE CONCEPT WHEN IT'S A LEFTIST UTOPIA, THAT'S WORSE ACTUALLY.

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Jorge Luis Borges, "Nightmare"

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we are all sinners

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Couthon for an art trade with @daaarkentries !!

Pov ur napoleon

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homesick Odysseus hours

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Since The Old Guard 2 is coming out soon and I've been on a medieval history brainrot for a while now, I've naturally been thinking about a historical version of Joe and Nicky. Specifically them from the time of their first deaths in 1099 during the First Crusade. Maybe I'll do historical versions of the other Old Guard members as well. While I was figuring out what they would have looked like, I had some thoughts about their historical specifics. So here's my headcanons based on history:

Military orders (like Knights Templar) were only established as a result of the First Crusade to secure pilgrims to the Crusader kingdoms and wage holy wars, which hadn't really been a thing before the First Crusade. This means that the practicing priests among the crusaders were not part of the military, they were there doing priest stuff, not swinging swords. So my headcanon is that Nicólo is originally from a landlord family and was trained as a knight, but he didn't want the heterosexual feudal lifestyle so he joined the church. And when the First Crusade was called, he left the church and joined the crusade as a knight.

Genoa did participate in the Crusade but with a navy, not with an army, so I wouldn't make sense that Nicólo would have fought under Genoan banner, especially if he died in the Siege of Jerusalem as it's implied. So my headcanon is that he joined the army of Tancred, one of the two Norman led Southern Italian armies which were part of the Crusade. Maybe he was in Rome as a priest to study theology or something when the crusade was called.

Fatimid Caliphate (who held Jerusalem before the First Crusade) were ruling from Egypt. Amazigh from Maghreb were significant part of their cavalry. Originally their cavalry consisted of Kutama tribe from Algeria, but they separated from the caliphate around mid 11th century, so I've decided that Yusuf would be from Libya and I headcanon him as part of the Mazata tribe.

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“I asked chatgpt” well I asked Fëanor, son of Finwë, High King of the Exiled Noldor and he thinks that sacrificing your critical thinking skills to the whims and machinations of techbros is THE WORK OF MORGOTH WRITTEN INTO THE ODE THAT ARDA SINGS and that to do so IS TO SHAME YOURSELF AND YOUR UNLIMITED POTENTIAL. BE FREE. BE FREE AND CREATE WORKS OF WONDER YET UNTOLD

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gossip rag

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What did Theodora see???

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Posting incredibly local memes

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Bro, we are cooked. The knight that dogs the prince's shadow like a dark and silent wraith just knelt to press his forehead to the prince's hand. Yeah, now he's uttering a prayer whose recipient is ostensibly God but in reality is the deified version of the prince that exists only in his mind. Aaand the prince just caressed his cheek to preemptively grant him absolution. I gotta... I gotta get out of here.

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in my work of fanfiction i am going to hold the villain responsible for their actions by making them have sex with the person they tried to kill, which will effectively address all the relevant moral issues by being hot.

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The inner law of the beloved person appeared more and more clearly in his picture: the noble head shaped by the mind; the beautiful controlled mouth, tightened and ennobled by the service to the mind; the slightly sad eyes; the haggard shoulders animated with the fight for spirituality; the long neck; the delicate, distinguished hands. Not since his departure from the cloister had he seen his friend so clearly, possessed his image so completely within him.

Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse