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Having all three Illyrian men end up with white women is...a choice. Especially when they so openly disdain their own culture.

It would be the perfect set up to look at internalised racism in moc in positions of power and how they use that power to approximate whiteness but this isn't that kinda series and she isn't that kinda author.

So I'll do what most people seem to do and quietly accept that the Illyrians are probably just white.

[this is not an attack on Elriel or Gwynriel shippers, in fact this is specifically anti Nessian, don't worry]

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No, Penelope is not "Spartan"

.....not in the way you think she is, rather.

People do know that the Sparta from Homeric myths is not the same Sparta as the one we are familiar with in popular culture, right?

People do know that countries, islands and cultures can change over time, right?

The "violent, bloodthirsty Sparta" that people think of (especially the agoge, aka the Spartan education) is mostly documented thanks to later sources, like a source from the 4th century BC, Xenophon (who wasn't even Spartan himself!)

Sparta rose to prominence as a military powerhouse in the 7th century BC. The Spartan education is said to have been created in the 7th or 6th century. Not widely popularised, merely created. So the Sparta depicted in popular culture is most likely inspired by this era of Spartan history.

The Iliad however was written...... in the 8th century BC. Homer was born a century before the military stronghold!

And his stories take place even earlier than his birth. For when does the Trojan War takes place, according to scholars? 12th or 13th century BC!!!!

They're not from the same eras of Greek history!

You're allowed to make headcanons all you want, but it would be severely incorrect to act as if the Spartans from Homeric myths and more generally ancient Greek mythology are the same as their "bloodthirsty, violent and ruthless" counterparts from our usual modern depictions. And that's without even going into the supposed accuracy of this description... (but that's a whole other story)

Six centuries or even more separate Penelope (and Helen) from this epoch.

That's like saying that a British nobleman of the time of the Hundred World War between Britain and France could be accurately depicted as any British man from 2025. Sure, they are both British. From the same city even, perhaps! But they are not... exactly... culturally similar...

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Valar. Lineup of all designs I made for the fanart Valar series.

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Ellen von Unwerth

Monica Bellucci (1996)

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Glorifying the American Girl (1929) dir. Millard Webb

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Sobbing over this. ILY 😭

It’s been a while. Med school has me swamped to high heaven. My lack of RinaJack art will not stop my love for them though. Commissioned the wonderful @yanabeardoodles to draw my bg Rina with Jack. She did her so much justice I’m. Screaming. Forever in love with this piece.

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Vintage 1940s blush pink satin gown ♡

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Lauren Fern for Mirror Palais ♡ྀ

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Hi,

Sunny day Jack would make airplane noises as he puts his dick inside you.

Bye.

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It’s been a while. Med school has me swamped to high heaven. My lack of RinaJack art will not stop my love for them though. Commissioned the wonderful @yanabeardoodles to draw my bg Rina with Jack. She did her so much justice I’m. Screaming. Forever in love with this piece.

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Lady Galdriel (little) Queen of Mordor

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People have been asking for elves who aren’t just perfect ethereal Mary Sues for ages and the minute they get Galadriel making bad choices because of her PTSD and Gil Galad being kind of bitchy because he’s got objectively one of the worst jobs in Middle Earth (which he inherited as a teenager and has a nearly 100% fatality rate), folks are upset they aren’t likable enough?? If y’all saw what the elves got up to in the First Age you’d hurl.

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Obsessed with the Elves being constantly deceived by Sauron in all his many guises and Durin taking one look at him and going "fucking fraud"

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Nenya wept 🍂

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And in the darkness, bind them.