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nudibranch (Acanthadoris lutea). Moss Beach CA, Nov. 2011

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✦ fluorescence

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Just some late night post card making ft Gars

[ID: horizontal lines of blue and white identical garfish with orange and yellow stars interspersed. end ID]

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Some see Beren as idiotic for relying so much on Lúthien’s dad’s blessing to marry her instead of just running off with her as she was willing to do … but you guys need to understand just how noble and un-toxic that is of him.

He doesn’t want to take her away from her family forever or force her to cut all ties with them. He knows there’s a chance her dad will disown her if he takes her away and he doesn’t want to put her through that. (Thingol never directly says this, but I think it’s possible he would’ve, considering that he’d literally rather send this guy to die than let him marry her, so if she were to disappear with this guy, he probably wouldn’t be happy with her. Either way, Beren is an understandably paranoid person.)

Plus it’s important to remember that at this point, Beren believes that Lúthien will outlive him by centuries - he has no idea of what is to come. So if he were to just take her away, he’d condemn her to eternity as an outcast from her family and people, long after his death. On top of that, he’s already a wanted man. Morgoth’s forces are hunting for him. So without her family’s support or the safety net of Doriath, Lúthien would be left all alone with the long-lasting consequences of being Beren’s widow during a time of war against the Dark Lord who already massacred Beren’s dad and friends.

Naturally that’s the last thing he wants her to have to deal with. How could he whisk her off for a few decades of bliss just to die and leave her with the burden of paying the price for HIS enmity with Morgoth himself while being an outcast from her people?

Thus, instead of running away, he takes the most dangerous path because that is the path that will allow them to be happy together without costing Lúthien her loving relationship with her parents or her safety net.

A lesser man would’ve just swept her away. But Beren doesn’t want Lúthien to lose or give up anyone she loves in order to be with him, or be left as an eternal target of Morgoth with no backup or support system.

Come on, ladies, that’s husband goals right there.

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Henryk the Sturgeon Knight Character I made a while ago that started story about fish knight I'm working on (temporarily called "Ashore Project" till I figure out a better name). Will probably do some smalled tweaks to his armor at some point, but I love him very much.

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I AM YELLING RIGHT NOW. This is it, this is where I stand. My view on the Jedi is the same as I have for Bail and Mon and Padme. That they weren't perfect, that for all my defense of them and pointing out why they would make any given choice they did and that it was reasonable, understandable, and empathetic, that no one's hands were perfectly clean. They couldn't be, not in the situation designed to drag them all down into the dirt. But that doesn't mean they weren't good. That they didn't live their lives striving not to abuse the abilities they held. That they worked damned hard to help people, they died to help people, and they deserve justice... or at least a decent funeral. The galaxy is poorer without them in it. They were good and they were ordinary and they were fallible and their traditions were honorable and they were all trying to live up to them. The Jedi don't have to be perfect to be our heroes and I think that's true of every single heroic character in this franchise, from Luke Skywalker to Mon Mothma to Bail Organa to Padme Amidala to Leia Organa to Ezra Bridger to Cassian Andor to Ahsoka Tano to every Jedi in the Jedi Order. They were good and they didn't deserve to die just because an old man knew they wouldn't stand for his tyranny. (Star Wars: Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear | Alexander Freed)

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can you draw maedhros? 🥺

Maedhros my beloved shakespearean hero :')

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We've had a family/murder of crows visiting our garden for years now, and this season the chicks are soooo helpless! They just stand around expectantly with their mouths open as the mom crow eats. Which is what inspired this comic! :)

Stickers-socials-patreon!

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People will literally be doing anything on ao3

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Stages of Understanding Legolas’s age

0: Oh look, I’m watching the movies and he looks fairly young

1: Ohhhh, he’s an Elf, he must be old as heck.

2: Oh he’s young for an Elf, aww, grumpy teenager.

3: Elves live for thousands of years, but at 100 they are fully grown. 2000 years old is a very respectable age for an Elf.

4: Elves age primarily by their experiences and practically nothing has happened in the last 3000 years on Middle Earth. Legolas has spent his life so far running pest control in his isolated kingdom, compared to every other Elf here, he is absurdly young.

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jedi but they're actual knights

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Where the fuck is mama?

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maybe this is just me idk