#FINALLY found a new lotr song to be obsessed with

[will-ruadh]

Tolkien fan songs don't need to go this hard every time, but they do. The artists do this for us.

[justheretoship]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

tagged by @cloudiness (ty Giorgia 💙💙)

Favourite color: blue 💙

Currently reading: I’m reading LOTR, but I also finished a light novel a few days ago, and I'm also reading fanfictions and manga so... a lot of different stuff I guess 🙈

Last song: Deadly Drive by GRANRODEO (it's actually a Japanese song because I'm obsessed with Bungou Stray Dogs lately, including all openings and endings)

Last series: do anime count as well? If anime counts, Bungou Stray Dogs, if not Only Murders in the Building ~

Last movie: it's an anime movie of Sasaki to Miyano (including a bit with Hirano and Kagiura my beloveds 🥺)

Sweet/savory/spicy: sweet just for chocolate 👀

Currently working on: Learning a new language as a hobby counts? I guess that 🙈

Three ships: whoever thought three ships are enough is just downright evil

1. Destiel (Dean Winchester/Castiel from Supernatural). The finale of the show made me lose interest completely in anything Destiel related, I even stopped reading fanfictions about them, but I gotta put them in the list anyway because so many years I've spent obsessing over them. They used to be my OTP, don't think they still are, but they deserve to be here, I still love them even though it was mostly fanservice.

2. BakuDeku (Bakugou Katsuki and Midoriya Izuku from Boku no Hero Academia). Now, I admit, in the past I thought whoever shipped them was downright crazy. But here I am. One of them had such an amazing growth, which changed their relationship as well, and I just love that, I love the more a relationship change, and they're the epitome of that. From childhood friends, to enemies, to having to work together, to friends (and to more in fanfictions and in my silly mind). So yes, a fairly new ship all considered for me, but I already love it so so much.

3. Ineffable Husbands (Crowley and Aziraphale from Good Omens). Choosing a third is awful because I love so many ships, but they deserve it. They have so much bickering, just like an old married couple, and that is something I love a lot. Give me bickering and I'm in. Also all that happened in season 2, painful but so good, yes please, can't wait for season 3.

(Please forgive me for not including Lestappen but they would have been in my top 5 if this was a top 5 ships 😢)

First ship ever: ...so this is weird. Because I found out I basically unconsciously shipped Merthur when I was around 9 or 10 lol (I hated seeing Arthur with Gwen, especially kissing scenes, and instead loved all his scenes with Merlin). But my real first ship is probably NaruSasu, although my first fanfiction was about Goku and Vegeta (which is funny since I don't even ship them and I never have).

Currently craving: money, always money. With money I can have books and visit places so money (hopefully finding a job soon would be good enough too).

Tags: only do this if you want!! No pressure! And if you've already been tagged ignore me~

@il-predestinato @jussst-lurking @coffeecities @cupidskissx @redwoodghost @pressradio @maxemilianverstappen @blueballsracing @dreamingamongthestars

Also whoever is reading this and wants to, consider yourself tagged by me 🥰

[amypihcs]

Ho postato 433 volte nel 2022

Sono 296 post in più del 2021!

19 post creati (4%)

414 post rebloggati (96%)

Blog che ho rebloggato di più:

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@tairin

@kaxen

Ho taggato 273 dei miei post nel 2022

Solo 37% dei miei post non aveva tag

#joachim murat - 14 post

#awsome - 8 post

#so cute - 7 post

#the three musketeers - 6 post

#love this - 6 post

#awsome art - 5 post

#raoul - 5 post

#fantastic - 5 post

#i mean - 4 post

#the boys - 4 post

Longest Tag: 96 characters

#napoleon's abusiveness showing in how many people of his higher rank sent him to go fuck himself

I miei post migliori nel 2022:

#5

AAAAND another one of my mad AUs

Music? On and rocking Courage? Mustered Dignity? Already waved her goodbye OK i’m ready. Apparently summer, having to study for exams i dislike and most of all reading nice books that send me in hyperfixation with the characters give me IDEAS™. After some time spent convincing myself to do it i’ve finally read The Three Musketeers and having loved it to FOLLY, i CLEARLY devoured also Twenty Years After and started the Viscount  of Bragelonne (Athos, i love you, but we’re not talking of you, forgive me my man). This new obsession tonight coupled with my ever present love for LOTR and Silm and since APPARENTLY heat goes up to my head, i thought:

Ok, here we have Aramis, ridiculously always good looking, even at like... 20 years from the first time we meet him he is THE SAME AS ALWAYS and in the Viscount for the little i know for now he didn’t age much either, Devilishly good with horses AND swords (eggrazziearcazzo, you may say, he’s a MUSKETEER) with almost ZERO impulse control (Athos works as impulse control for them, actually) but GREAT cold blood, can apparently sing quite well, some disregard for rules and some great agility and effort in actually always managing to break one of two of those and... oh look, all the boxes check and hear me out. Aramis. Being. MAGLOR FEANORION!!  I talked about this with my darling @tairin, my nice sis who i love and thank very much for being always there to hear me rambling about my obsessions and not having killed me yet. And she is even more of a genius than i suspected! (@joachimnapoleon​ please don’t kill us) She made me give a second check to who ELSE checked all the boxes and here, the illumination.  Good looking Incredible with horses Apparently skilled in verses/songs Devilish with a sword some disregard for rules NOT imposed by himself Joachim Murat. Being Maglor Feanorion.

Tolkien fandom out here (@thiswaycomessomethingwicked​ i get you’re one of us?) tell me if maglor wouldn’t have a portrait of himself like this one of our darling jojo, c’mon! He checks out also the diva personality!! 

Anyway, this was my new silly AU, don’t kill me please, i still have to pass biochemistry and see confirmed my credits for cmcf, i’m too young to die and my cats would miss me😂  I hope you at least laughed a bit form this one silly thing.

12 note - Postate 15 giugno 2022

#4

Happy death day Naps!

Wandering around facebook i found this nice Dumas quote

Do not be deceived, today I am doing better; but I feel the same that the end is approaching. When I am dead, each of you will have the sweet consolation of returning to Europe: you will see one another’s relatives, the other’s friends. As for me, I will see my good ones in heaven...Yes, yes - he added, animating and raising his voice with an inspired accent - yes, Kleber, Dessaix, Bessières, Duroc, Ney, Murat, Massena, Berthier will come to meet me, they will tell me about what we did together, and I will tell the last events of my life: Seeing me again, everyone will go crazy with enthusiasm and glory. We will talk about our wars with Scipio, with Caesar, with Hannibal, and it will be a pleasure... Unless - he added, smiling - they are afraid to see many warriors gathered up there. - A. Dumas, Napoleone.

Just to wish him a happy death-day

12 note - Postate 5 maggio 2022

#3

Guys i just needed to vent out a bit. We can’t find my cat. we looked into the house, outside, all over the sort-of-village where i live (i live in the country) and we can’t find it. Does any of you have an idea of why a cat can be disappeared in such a way? I just know that a moment she was inside and the other she was nowhere to be seen. I just needed to vent out a bit ‘cause i think i’m panicking just as much as before when we where actively looking for her. Do you have any idea of why a cat can just... fly and boh... i don’t even know if she actually is outside the house, even if i looked everywhere in. She’s injured under her neck, she had a dermatitis that we can’t manage to heal, even if she is way better than some months ago. sorry, just some venting out i don’t know how to cope with this

14 note - Postate 3 febbraio 2022

#2

Excerpt from ‘Gioacchino Murat e l’Italia meridionale’ -- presentation of the King

Sooo guys. Some time ago i got a book, ‘Gioacchino Murat e l’Italia meridionale’ which was introduced to me by @joachimnapoleon and after reading it I thought of making a post about it. Hope you will enjoy it!

So let’s get started! In the third part of the book we have a focus on the people who actually governed Naples, starting with the King and the Queen and proceeding with the ministers, describing how their personalities fitted in their roles and how they actually got their work done; this post will be about our favourite King of Naples, Joachim Murat. (the mistakes in the translation are entirely mine)

Here the original text in italian

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18 note - Postate 14 maggio 2022

Il mio post numero 1 del 2022

Just arrived!! I'm looking forward to reading it! I'm sure it will be epic!

28 note - Postate 26 novembre 2022

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[master-tonberry]

Good grief, we have lots in common! Well, I'm really glad I sent my silly survey now because I have some very exciting ideas percolating for you present. :)

Thanks for taking the time to answer all my whimsies!

MY FAVORITE SONG IS "MERCY"!!! You made my heart so happy reading that. Hyungwon's songwriting skills are unparalleled for me.

Night owls represent!!!

I had to google that book, and now I want to read it. It tells me much about you. My favorite novels are Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace, both of which I read in my femlit class in college. My other favorites are Pride & Prejudice and the His Dark Materials books!

Winter is my favorite season, and I abhor summer. Like you, I love the cold. I'm happiest when it's snowing heaps and I know can play in it (I never grew up, to be clear lol).

My husband and I started watching the Willow series this weekend! He had never seen Willow, so we watched it, and he LOVED it. Like you, it was a staple of my childhood, along with Goonies and The Neverending Story. I love a good quest! And as I mentioned, HDM is one of my favorite books, and the series is so lajdfljasfldjaslfdjlaskdjf. FINALLY, someone did it justice! I CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH THE FINAL BOOK COME TO LIFE.

Aw, I didn't see Wheel of Time, but you're right, I didn't read good things about it either. :(

YOU LIVED IN ICELAND??? Pump the brakes! In 6th grade, that was the country I picked to do a travel report on, and I have been obsessed ever since though I've never been. It's both so alien and primordial and fantasical. What was that like that you can remember? Where else have you lived?

I am fascinated by big cities--their ebb and flow and all the possibilities available--but as an introvert, I feel like it would zap my energy every day. My city is a small-market, but I love it dearly. (I'm in the US, and I assume from your previous asks that you are, too?)

Since you didn't mind my barrage of questions, let me close this with a few more.

Fantasy, sci fi, comedy, or documentary:

Favorite character in the Willow movie:

Favorite character in HDM:

What kind of video games do you play?

What's your favorite story trope:

You're part of a quest. What role do you play? The leader, the comic relief, the planner, the silent but skilled expert, the troublemaker, or the one everyone thought was just a regular nobody but has a power that awakens unexpectedly to save the day?

Have fun! No rush! Get back when you can! :D I'll be waiting for my new friend.

xoxo mbb Secret Santa

omg no way, Alias Grace is one of my favorites!! I love Margaret Atwood, and if you like her you'll definitely like Sheri S. Tepper!

And holy shit Goonies 😭😭😭 That's my all time favorite movie ever! I watched that and Willow and Neverending Story and Last Unicorn over and over lol. And the animated Hobbit, which turned me into a massive LotR nerd and led to a debilitating D&D habit.

And yes, I'm in the US! My father was a pilot before he retired so we lived in some cool places. Iceland was great, I was pretty young so I don't remember a lot, but I do remember going on road trips and visiting lava fields. It was like being on a different planet. We also lived in Germany for a while, which was also wonderful and I also want to go back and visit lol.

Okay, questions now!

Fantasy, Sci Fi, Comedy, or Documentary: I like all of them but I'm most drawn to fantasy.

Favorite Character in Willow: This is like choosing one of my children!! I love the brownies so so much but also Sorcha oh my god. I adore her.

Favorite Character in HDM: Lee Scoresby, easy lol. I was born in Texas so I'm partial to Texan characters, especially noble pilot types.

Video Games: I like all kinds of games! I play cozy games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing, rpgs like Final Fantasy, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect, big dumb shooters like Gears of War, basically anything that has a good soundtrack and interesting gameplay mechanics.

Story Trope: Probably found family. Most of the games, books, and shows that I'm into involve it in one way or another. I also dig a good enemies to lovers lol

Role in a Quest: I would probably be the planner lol. I have that super power combo of ADHD and mild autism plus anxiety, so if the mission goes wrong, I guarantee I have already stressed out about it and come up with at least four contingency plans for that exact scenario 😂

I hope your week is going well so far, and I'm looking forward to your next ask! 💗

[ponyguru]

Tonight I watched all of He-Man: Revelations and most of Centaurworld (I watched the first three episodes like, a week ago?) and I have ... opinions. (And it’s 4:37am, might as well share them while they’re fresh!)

(Warning, this got very long and ranty, sorry for stretching out your dashboards if that’s even still a thing anymore?)

He-Man was entertaining, but it did feel like (as someone with like, less than a passing knowledge of the characters) someone’s super-angsty fanfiction more than like ... a continuing series. They killed off multiple well-known, beloved characters, to drive home the point of how SERIOUS and how HARDCORE this series is, and instead it felt like being a little kid in the 80s watching Optimus Prime get murdered to sell more toys. Like, WHY DID THEY DIE? Oh right, to show the viewer how SERIOUS the bad guys are! And to give the other characters things to angst over, to show you they’re no longer just shallow 80s muscle man stereotypes to sell toys! But then you gotta wonder, where will they go from here? Who’s even left to continue the storyline? Is it still He-Man if half the supporting cast is dead?

Like I said, I’m not a He-Man fan by trade, but aside from the pointless murder, it did seem like it delved into the backstories that a lot of people have probably wanted since the 80s, and it made some very interesting points. So, hey, maybe it’ll be beloved by its fans! And it was very entertaining, especially as someone who wasn’t a childhood fan so I didn’t have a lot of nostalgia that I had to watch die. It doesn’t end on a happy note, there’s definitely the ‘what if the villains WON’ theme going, so maybe my opinion will be less dour when the next part comes out. (I did like that it focused more on the female characters, which was a very unexpected change, and in that aspect I felt it was very well written; that could explain why I’ve heard other screechingly negative feedback elsewhere online, heh. He-Man fans probably don’t appreciate the heavy preference paid to Teela.)

Centaurworld was ... well, I watched the first episode with my mother, which was a Huge Fucking Mistake. I heard that it was a thrilling combination of something akin to Adventure Time and a more serious cartoon like Avatar, and instead I got 10 minutes of that, and then 16 minutes of continuous ass, fart, and poop jokes, combined with a couple of great tunes and a lot of tuneless recitative style “songs”.

If you follow this blog, you probably know toys; you know the Poopsie Surprise toys? The ones which were so obsessed with uncomfortably sexualized poop/fart/barf references that entire scholarly articles were written about the sexualization of children with scatology-themed toys? Yeah, that’s what Centaurworld felt like, almost the whole time. Like just ... an uncomfortable amount of poop/butt/fart “jokes”, to the point where it felt like it had to be one of the writer’s fetishes. Like, it was clearly not funny, and the main character is clearly uncomfortable with it ... and it just keeps going.

I say jokes in scare quotes because jokes are supposed to be funny, and a lot of Centaurworld just wasn’t funny. You could tell it was meant to have jokes, but it was very much dated early-2000s type humor, I want to guess? The kind where it’s not so much ‘setup-punchline’ but the more ‘awkward reference awkward reference awkward reference drawn out wooooord’ type of “jokes”. And most of those “jokes” were just - you guessed it - drawn out references to butts, or farts, or some combination of the two. I felt like an aged boomer watching it. I like to think I’m hip and with the times, but it felt like it should be aimed at a middle schooler - but like, an oversexualized middle schooler? It was uncomfortable to say the least. (One character talks to his farts, claims they talk back to him, and he addresses them as ‘Daddy,’ while another character expresses how uncomfortable that is, and implies he has “issues” to unpack. Because that’s hilarious, I guess?)

Centaurworld did, beneath the heavy layer of scatology, have an intriguing storyline. A warhorse from a LOTR-style world is thrown into a wacky Adventure Time-type land made up of silly centaurs, and has to try and find her way back home. It was thrilling at times, if you could slog through everything else that beleaguered it. There were some really good jokes! But I couldn’t quite muster up a laugh, because I was still wondering when the next butt reference would sneak in. After ten terrible jokes, the one good joke couldn’t manage to lift me from the depth of despair I’d sunken into. It really only felt like the show got ‘tolerable’ around episode 7 (out of ten!!!!), which was an episode heavily focused on cats. (Which, again; wasn’t the internet very much about LOLCats in the early 2000s?)

If six episodes of a ten-episode series is nigh-intolerable, is it a successful show? Should you bother watching something that is 60%+ garbage? (And DON’T FUCKING WORRY, the poop/butt/fart jokes continued UNTIL THE FUCKING FINAL EPISODE.)

I suspect that, if there was a “goal” for all of the fetish stuff (beyond fetish stuff for fetish sake), it would be to illustrate to the viewer how uncomfortable the main character feels in this strange new land, and for us to share in her discomfort. Which, fine, sure! Secondhand embarrassment is definitely a trope. But the sheer uncomfortable volume of the poop/butt/fart jokes clearly went way beyond mere discomfort, and veered into ‘why is this coming up so much, is someone getting off on this?’ territory, at least for me. A couple butt jokes an episode, fine, okay. Entire five minute bits devoted to farts and butts? Entire songs about butts? I start questioning why it’s such a beloved subject for you to write about.

Plus, and I may be reading into this too much, but several of the only Black-coded characters felt racist. I’m talking neck-snapping, tribal body paint type racism, although only one got the exaggerated “soul” type music to sing, which I guess is a relative win? (Waterbaby and Judge Jacket, if you’re wondering who I’m referencing. One of them is a literal hippo centaur, giving us shades of Madagascar.) It wasn’t obvious, but combined with everything else, it felt ... bad. (There are multiple other nonwhite voice actors who aren’t stereotypes, so maybe it was just a bad case of ‘trying to represent different culture while being clueless white people’, who knows?) There was also some classic fatphobia, with one of the villains being shown as a fat neckbeard collector/nerd. Wasn’t that relevant in - wait for it - the early 2000s? They redeem themselves very slightly by having maybe two other characters who are visibly fat, but one of them is also viewed as an antagonist.

Anyway, I was disappointed enough with the show to feel like I should say something, so - there it is. Centaurworld did have some good moments, some lovely songs, and there was some really heartwarming and tender character development that I liked, sandwiched between huge swaths of discomfort. There might be a season 2 (there shouldn’t be, LOL) and hell, I will probably suffer through it because I want to see what happens to them. But I can’t recommend that anyone else do the same, in all good conscience. It’s not good. It’s just not. But if you have 5 hours to kill, there’s worse stuff out there?

If you want to watch one episode to see the best of the series, I recommend episode seven, “Johnny Teatime's Be Best Competition: A Quest for the Sash.” It’s themed after the CATS musical, and the extended number at the end gave me shades of MLP or Fashion Star Fillies. (I found an official clip of the song posted here.) There’s also other lovely songs in the series, but you’d have to suffer through entire bad episodes to see them. The lovely “You’re Okay” shows up in the very first episode, so if you’re curious give that a watch... just be aware it never gets better, only worse.

This series genuinely upset me, because I wanted it to be something much better, and there were glimpses of it; you just had to try and close your eyes to the obsession with butts and farting to see pieces of what it might have been.

One notable fact that I thought was kind of like ‘wow, oof’ was that Meghan McCarthy, of MLP:FiM fame, was a story editor for Centaurworld. And considering how MLP went downhill in later seasons, I gotta say I’m wondering if there’s a commonality there. Maybe her fetish is bad writing? There’s worse fetishes to have, AS CENTAURWORLD CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES.

[underaswift-sunrise]

Seven comfort movies

I was tagged by @vishcount and @ashenwren , thank you so much!!! Your lists were so good! I usually love watching new movies instead of revisiting ones I’ve seen already, but there are some I just know I’ll enjoy no matter how many times I watch them! xD Especially when I have some quiet time or during holidays, I like to go back to these movies! (Added gifs because... I love gifs ahah xD)

1. Lotr trilogy 

I lost count of how many times I watched these movies but I never feel like skipping a scene and I never get bored!! I also associat them with very warm memories about high school and even middle school, since that’s when I first read The Hobbit and went into Tolkien madness! xD 

2. The Lion King 

Oh dear, I know this movie by heart in Italian! It’s still my favorite Disney movie and I watch it from time to time because it has everything: the drama, amazing comedy moments, a wonderful soundtrack (Some months ago I found on Spotify the score demos, which are slightly different from the final music used in the movie but they’re incredible nonetheless) and songs... To this day, I still can’t watch Mufasa’s death... T_T Gif from my absolute favorite scene!!

3. Howl’s Moving Castle

Ahhhhhh this movie!!! It just warms my heart every time and when I really can’t decide on something to watch I know Howl’s Moving Castle is always a good choice! xD 

4. Amadeus

Not really a happy movie, quite the contrary, but it manages to move me to tears every single time! I saw this for the first time in middle school and I knew almost nothing about classical music: the scene where Mozart is dictating the Requiem to Salieri is absolute genius, hearing the single instruments coming together to create that music, it made me listen to any musical piece in a different way!

5. Dead Poets Society

Oh, this movie... I watched it for the first time in high school and some quotes from it just never left, I was just so obsessed with poetry back then, so you can imagine what this movie meant to me! The soundtrack is brilliant, and it has one of the most satisfying endings. Also, the Italian dub for it was absolutely excellent and I just feel a sort of affection and nostalgia whenever I hear it! 

6. Pacific Rim

I love Pacific Rim so much because it has the right balance between action and FEELS. I never get tired of watching it! Also Mako and Raileigh are just... <3 

7. Ice Age 

I usually struggle to find movies that make me laugh out loud, but this one has the power to have me in tears from laughing within the first two minutes xD And the sequels make me laugh a lot too, which is honestly incredible! When I want to have a good laugh, Ice Age never fails!! 

Honorable mentions to Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Jumanji, almost any Star Wars movie (especially Rogue One!), Balto, Labyrinth and probably others I can’t think ok right now xD

I’ll tag @hobbithorse19 , @betweencrossedblades​ @jesiyathatsit , @captain-onyourleft​ , and lovely anon, if you see this!!! <3 No pressure, you can just have a laugh with the gifs I chose ahahah xD 

[lovecolibri]

I was tagged by @litwitlady and @adiwriting and @neeterlovesarrow - 😊

FUN FACT! I am an Enneagram type 4 so nearly all of my answers fall into some form of “it depends” because everything is determined by my mood, and that is usually effected by the weather so a lot of things change depending on the season. So enjoy my rambling answers!

Favorite Color(s) - I like soothing teal ocean colors as a general rule although since I fully embraced my Hufflepuffy-ness I have an affinity for yellow, especially in the fall, and I stubbornly wear it even though it doesn’t look the best with my skin tone.

Last song I listened to: Not sure but as I have been binge-listening to Folklore it was probably something from that album, or something from Sleeping at Last or Panic! at the Disco. But it’s almost time for my Halloween playlist because my music tastes have to reflect the mood of the season or it makes me feel uncomfortable. I just found out a friend literally puts her WHOLE ASS MUSIC LIBRARY on shuffle and listens to it that way. Christmas music, and classical music, and rap music just all one after another, it’s utter madness and makes me panic to think about.

Last film I watched: I am usually watching shows not movies so the last one I watched was The Old Guard and I have not stopped thinking about it sense.

Last TV show I watched: Finally started season 5 of Lucifer last night!! Although before that I was getting my grandma to watch The Good Place with me and now I kinda want to watch that all over again. 

Favorite character(s) - Oof. There is literally no solid answer to this. Roswell is of course my Tumblr obsession but I always have a soft spot for grumpy characters who are deeply traumatized and in pain and really just need someone to love and care for them. (There is a reason Hufflepuffs and Slytherins make good friends). I just know what it’s like to feel lonely and like no one understands and putting up a prickly guard because I only love by whole measures. Everyone deserves love and hugs and by golly! I volunteer as tribute to give it to them! I also love sunshine characters though, like Barry from The Flash and Kara from Supergirl. I need the balance.

Pets: Two adorable Caviler King Charles Spaniels Vincent and Rory who are brothers and soooo sweet, and three cats. Jasmine who came with the house we bought and is old but very sweet and shy. Persephone who is almost a year old and a shelter rescue. She is a black and gold calico who loves me sooo much and purrs at me at all times and snuggles her face into my hand and then drools on me, but also weirdly likes to smoosh the side of her face into my face and occasionally nips at my nose or lip if I’m not careful (she pulled my lip ring out once since it didn’t have the balls on). And Angelo, a kitten my mom got that was found abandoned under a porch. He is white with blue eyes and it starting to get orange spots on his feet, tail, and ears. He loves to snag toes and is an adorable little monster.

Sweet, Savory, or Spicy food? I like the idea of sweet foods, and I love to look at them and think about them, but I really, really love salty, savory, spicy foods. It’s the New Mexican in me. Breakfast should always include green chile and I will literally never, ever turn down potatoes. I also put red pepper flakes and/or Siracha on most things. I also love a good salty/sweet, or spicy/sweet combo!

Favorite Book(s): Too much data. Does not compute. I don’t read as many books as I used to because my brain is being difficult but fanfic, specifically the RNM fandom has single-handedly saved my reading life. But if pressed to answer the question, Lord of the Rings is what I usually go with for my favorite book(s). The last one just fills me with an aching bittersweetness so I haven’t read it in awhile. I’m a big fan of fantasy and escapist reading so I have a lot of favorites but LOTR really kicked it all off for me.

Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Ben and Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch is my eternal favorite but I don’t splurge very often. I also love mint, coconut, a really good vanilla bean, and various sorbets. 

One Thing On Your Bucket List: I don’t have one because the idea stresses me out but I’m currently working on updating my room and once I replace the window (should be arriving by the end of the month, yay!), and cover the popcorn ceiling, and paint, and strip the carpet out and redo the floors, and get a bed frame with drawers so I can ditch the dresser and have more space (wheeew, I’m tired just thinking about all of that) THEN I want to put in an infrared sauna (Like what Tyler Blackburn has, I’m sure you all remember THAT photo). As a general “things I want to do” list I would like to travel more, but that gives me a lot of anxiety and planning is very stressful for me. I also got lost in the grocery store a few times as a tiny child and still have a weird panic about getting lost so I’m still looking for a life partner to be my travel buddy so I can actually enjoy seeing things. Also, if I end my life covered in nerdy tattoos, that would be a plus. I’m working on it but the pandemic has thrown off my yearly tattoo schedule. 

Favorite Festival(s): I...I do not generally attend festivals as they are loud and full of people and there aren’t a lot where I live, but there is a corn maze in the fall about an hour away and we always go do that which is fun. I need to find some arts and crafts festivals though because I do love that kind of stuff and they aren’t so noisy and it’s usually full of nice old ladies and dapper millennials which I can deal with.

I feel weird about tagging people because I always feel pushy or like I’m bothering people who already did it (hello, middle child syndrome), but I do like doing these things and if you want to do it too, feel free!

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

hii. this one is for the "top 5" ask thing. top 5 book series or single books??? (no Tolkien or grrm pls) would love some recommendations

I have to admit that when you said no Tolkien or GRRM, it took me a moment to think of some books/book series lol. I’m too obsessed with those two and need to actually read something else. (My reading has dropped significantly in the last few years, honestly; life is so busy and I miss the days where I could spend hours at a time with a book.) 

In addition to these books, I also recommend the series that I mentioned in this post, although I didn’t include any of them in this list because I saw that you already reblogged that one, and I don’t want to be giving you the same recommendations over and over again. 

*In no particular order, because I suck at choosing :P

1. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

This book was heartbreaking, and I enjoyed it absolutely (I love suffering, what else is new >:D). In essence, the book is a retelling of the Trojan War in Greek mythology told from the eyes of Patroclus, with its main focus being the romantic relationship between him and Achilles, and in my opinion, executed this quite well while remaining mostly faithful to the original myth. I liked Miller’s Achilles for the most part, even though he was a prideful, insensitive, selfish prick who could honestly be somewhat horrifying without Patroclus’ betterment, and loved her versions of Patroclus, Achilles' closest friend and in most cases, lover, and Briseis, a woman who was taken as a captive by the Greeks and given to Achilles as a war prize. As you might predict, they are the major characters of the story, and their dynamics with each other were beautiful. Naturally, it’s not perfect, and I had my gripes, but I would still highly recommend it. 

2. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Another book based on The Iliad, I particularly loved this one because it gave a woman of the war a voice. In this book, the main character is Briseis, who provides us a window into the lives of all the raped and enslaved women whose lives were affected by the Trojan War. Briseis’ relationship with Achilles is much more antagonistic in this one as compared to The Song of Achilles,��as The Silence of the Girls writes her as Achilles’ concubine. Achilles is also a POV character, and although we never get to know him quite as intimately as we do Briseis, Barker still creates a very fascinating figure who marks a stark contrast between ruthlessness and civility. All in all, I think this book was a very good depiction of the women of the Trojan War, who, in the original Iliad, seem to have been created solely for the advancing of the men’s arcs. 

3. The Witcher by Andrej Sapkowski

Not a series that I’ve actually read, but I’ve heard so many wonderful things about it, and I’m greatly looking forward to being able to read it when I get my hands on it. It was recommended to me by @marta-elentari, who says it’s like a perfect mix of LOTR and ASOIAF. The main characters are Geralt of Rivia, a man who makes a living by hunting monsters, Yennefer of Vengerberg, a sorceress, and Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, a princess whose blood gives her the power to cross space and time. I’m told that the plot includes dwarves, elves, war, Celtic and Slavic mythology, and political intrigue.

4. Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession by Alison Weir

As you can tell by the title, this story follows the second of King Henry VIII’s wives, Anne Boleyn, who is also my personal favorite among his queens. (By the way, Alison Weir is writing a series called Six Tudor Queens, obviously one book per queen, and this one is part of it.) I believe Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession did quite well in capturing Anne’s spirited and passionate personality; the personality that attracted Henry VIII as a mistress, but was considered distasteful for the wife of a king. I also loved its depiction of Anne’s dignity and courage during her final days, and even up until the moment that she died. Unfortunately, it can also get pretty repetitive with the constant Henry attempting to woo Anne, and Anne staving him off, and I didn’t dig Weir’s portrayal of Henry too much. He just seemed too … lovesick and lacking the complexity and charisma of the historical figure.

5. For the Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser

Yet another retelling of the Trojan War. XD I’m sorry, Greek myths are one of my favorite things to read about, especially since I first read about The Iliad and The Odyssey when I was a child, so I kind of grew up on them. (What I did not read were the poems themselves; that would have been way above my comprehension level at that age.) This one focuses on Briseis and Chryseis. You already know the former, whom I also mentioned in recommendations 1 and 2, and Chryseis was also a war prize who was given to Agamemnon, the king of all the Greeks (who was also an absolute pig in this book, he can burn in hell). The book does a good job in fleshing them out and giving them backstories, motivations, and personalities, as well as some of the agency that was stripped of them in the original Iliad. 

I have two personal complaints: Chryseis was implied to have been raped by Agamemnon, and Hauser seems to fail to capture the traumatic effect of this on her psyche. The other complaint is that the complexity in Achilles and Briseis’ relationship is rather nonexistent, and I honestly found it off-putting to see it treated like a love story; in that regard, The Silence of the Girls did it best. Overall, the reason I recommend this book has less to do with the relationship between characters and much more to do with the fact that I liked seeing these two women fleshed out and humanized. 

[atanesblog]

10 Songs I’m Currently Obsessed With

Thanks to @chicken-nuggets10 for tagging me! Finally found some time for this.

1. Lake Shore Drive by Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah

Because its super chill and gives me nostalgia. Love listening to it when sitting at our nearby lake.

2. all of the Hobbit and LotR soundtrack

I´ve started to do art for the silmarillion fandom again lately and listen to it all the time while creating.

News of that soon

3. the 3rd fma brotherhood opening (and the rest of them too tbh)

Finally watched it on Netflix and am blown away (that opening in particular. I love it. It´s so funky.)

4. Sayaka Miki´s theme from Madoka Magica

because it´s saad and gets me into the mood for drawing/writing

5. Single Ladies by Beyonce

because of a stupid inside joke I have with my friends involving cosplay

6. The Symphony by Snow Patrol

*awfully sung by me*

"Cause you can see the road ahead in your dream,

The engine's more a sigh than a scream,

Your ghosts look more like angels from there,

The coast comes like a raft of warm air"

it makes me feel good

7. The Golden Age by Woodkid

Kind of a titel song for a Silmarillion Au I wanna write. (the whole album is soundtrack material)

8. A New Form Of Scilence by Combichrist

(also intruder alert and human error (weil... geht halt ab))

9. Is It Any Wonder by Keane

I love so many of their songs but you gotta pick one

10. Dickes B by Seed

Makes me want to go to Berlin and walk the streets in the most extra way possible. All of their music is amazing btw. (also Peter Fox´s Solo Album)

​Tagging @sayumichu , @hello-from-valinor , @barad-doom, and everyone who wants to do it!

[deadlyanddelicate]

92 TRUTHS TAG GAME rules: once you have been tagged you are supposed to write 92 truths about yourself. at the end, choose 25 people to tag!

I was tagged by @hestlias, thanks bb! <3 putting this under a cut for length, here we go:

LAST… [1] drink: fennel herbal tea [2] phone call: facetime with my parents [3] text message: claire @mishcollin on text, ambra @silkspectred on whatsapp <3 [4] song you listened to: omg i had like... a super cheesy 80s playlist on streaming, so i think it was ‘total eclipse of the heart’ [5] time you cried: lol probably when i watched the merlin finale for the second time

HAVE YOU EVER… [6] dated someone twice: listen i barely get to date people once [7] been cheated on: not that i know of [8] kissed someone and regretted it: no [9] lost someone special: yes [10] been depressed: YEP [11] gotten drunk and thrown up: nope (i do get tipsy/drunk, but never to the point of sickness)

LIST 3 FAVOURITE COLOURS: [12] blue [13] violet [14] pale pink

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU… [15] made new friends: yes [16] fallen out of love: amazingly, i think i finally have [17] laughed until you cried: no [18] found out someone was talking about you: i don’t think so? [19] met someone who changed you: not in any drastic way, i don’t think [20] found out who your true friends are: yes...ish, or to be more precise -- i was lucky enough to have it confirmed again i have amazing friends to count on, but i’ve also fallen out of touch with people whom i still consider friends, so... who knows, man, who knows [21] kissed someone on your facebook list: lol nope

GENERAL… [22] how many of your facebook friends do you know in real life: i don't know half of them half as well as i should like, and i like less than half of them half as well as they deserve (ok but on the real, i think i know most of them irl, i’m kind of a picky fb adder) [23] do you have any pets: no but i really want a cat :( [24] do you want to change your name: no [25] what did you do for your last birthday: went out to dinner with my closest friends, then out for drinks with them and some university buddies [26] what time did you wake up: around 11am, but in my defence i was up till 4am working on a thesis chapter [27] what were you doing at midnight last night: working on my dissertation sob :))))) [28] name something you cannot wait for: i don’t have any big events coming up, but it would be super nice to meet some internet friends irl :’) [29] when was the last time you saw your mother: yesterday morning, she was visiting for the weekend ♥️ [30] what is one thing you wish you could change about your life: i would like to actually have the willpower and focus to work on things when and how much i want to/need to [31] what are you listening to right now: nothing [32] have you ever talked to a person named tom: ...i actually don’t think i have [33] something that is getting on your nerves: mansplaining, racism, bigotry, ~men’s rights activists, american politics, uk politics, rape culture, heteronormATIVITY, BI ERASURE, THE PATRIARCHY--- [34] most visited website: either my university webmail, or some combo of twitter/facebook [35] elementary: sorta lonely [36] high school: once i was asked if i was a devil worshipper bc i was wearing fishnet gloves [37] college: interesting, challenging, but also fREE ME :))) [38] hair colour: naturally v dark brown, shaded auburn [39] long or short hair: short, trying to grow it out (we’ll see how long i last) [40] do you have a crush on someone: not really, though this one professor at my uni is fine as hell [41] what do you like about yourself? i try to be kind, i’ve got nice eyes, some people find my dry/nerdy sense of humour funny. sometimes i make words happen in a not-too-bad way

[42] piercings: ears (2 left, 1 right)

[43]blood type: A-

[44] nickname: none [45] relationship status: single and often not in the mood to mingle [46] zodiac sign: aquarius [47] pronouns: she/her [48] fav tv show: currently i’m slightly obsessed with merlin >> i also greatly enjoy brooklyn nine nine, new girl, parks and recreation, and jane the virgin [49] tattoos: none but i’m considering getting one shhh it’s a secret [50] right or left handed: right-handed

FIRST… [51] surgery: never had one (fingers crossed) [52] piercing: oh boy, i think i was like 11? [53] best friend: i don’t think i really have one best friend, currently, but i do have an irl #squad of 3 amazing ladies and we’d probably help each other bury bodies (ok maybe not quite but u get me) [54] sport: LMAO (ok no i actually really want to start yoga but....... i’m so lazy.........) [55] vacation: yes please [56] pair of trainers: uhh currently just a really comfy pair of trainers from an italian brand?

RIGHT NOW… [57] eating: nothing [58] drinking: still fennel tea [59] i’m about to: probably queue some posts on tumblr, watch a few youtube videos, and then sleep [60] listening to: ~the sound of silence~ (literally, not the song) [61] waiting for: me to finally get my life together and stop being a disorganised trainwreck [62] want: to be happy, or at least content with where i’m at. also, to write. [63] get married: would be nice, but not a priority/necessity [64] career: as long as it pays the bills and is not mind-numbingly boring, i’m up for anything

WHICH IS BETTER…

[65] hugs or kisses: hugs [66] lips or eyes: eyes [67] shorter or taller: taller [68] older or younger: irrelevant as long as the age difference isn’t extreme [69] romantic or spontaneous: spontaneous [70] nice arms or nice stomach: arms [71] sensitive or loud: sensitive [72] hook up or relationship: relationships [73] troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant

HAVE YOU EVER… [74] kissed a stranger? no [75] drank hard liquor? yes [76] lost glasses/contact lenses? i would probably be dead if i had [77] turned someone down: yes [78] sex on first date? no [79] broken someone’s heart? one person, probably [80] had your own heart broken? yes [81] been arrested? no [82] cried when someone died? yes [83] fallen for a friend: yes

DO YOU BELIEVE IN… [84] yourself? sometimes (rarely) [85] miracles? yes [86] love at first sight? i believe in infatuation at first sight; love takes time to build [87] santa claus? no [88] kiss on the first date? depends on how it goes! [89] angels? yes, though not necessarily ones with fluffy wings and halos

OTHER… [90] current best friend’s name: don’t have just one best friend, but the group chat of my main girls is labeled ‘boss ass bitches’, which is hilarious because we are in fact 4 gigantic nerds [91] eye colour: hazel [92] favourite movie: stardust for feel-good movie, the lotr trilogy for epicness

i’m super sorry i’m literally exhaUSTED but this was fun!!! so please go ahead and steal it ♥️

[delilah-briarwood]

The Hobbit Enjoltaire AU

Like always I’m back on my bs and coming up with an AU instead of being productive.

So Grantaire is the Bilbo of this AU

He’s a Hobbit that is very much content in his life of indulgence, being critical, and just general hobbitness. He has absolutely no need nor wish to go on any adventures whatsoever

But then enter Gandalf Valjean who sees this perfectly content and complacent Hobbit and is like ‘ah yes, the perfect companion for an adventure’.

Grantaire refuses to go but Valjean still leaves a mark on his door.

That night, a group of dwarves arrive at his Hobbit hole in small groups, eager to introduce themselves

The looming Bahorel is the first to arrive, followed quickly by his brother, Feuilly

Then comes husbands Bossuet and Joly who, despite joining the quest, have left their wife behind in the Blue Mountains

Brothers Courfeyrac and Combeferre; the company’s banker and healer.

Twins Jehan and Marius; the youngest and more gentle members of the Company with Jehan following the career path of a scholar and Marius being...Marius.

Marius’s attempted courting of Valjean’s adopted daughter is what drew the wizard in to joining the company.

Cue Grantaire being very annoyed at the dwarves raiding his pantry and drinking all his wine.

Then comes the leader of their company; Enjolras, heir of Durin and rightful King Under The Mountain.

He’s also the brother of Courfeyrac and Combeferre (I wasn’t sure who would fit Kili and Fili so I guess Oin and Gloin are being combined with Frerin and Dis instead. )

Grantaire’s initial thoughts are that he’s underwhelming by dwarf standards and far too pretty and R’s far too gay

He finds out the purpose of their quest is to retake their home from the grips of a cruel dragon that has long since made it his home. He also finds out they want him to be their burgular and help to infiltrate Erebor.

It’s a noble cause but one Grantaire has no interest in. After all, what reason does he have to care about their quest?

Still, he somehow finds himself joining the company anyways.

The quest is an interesting one to say the least and absolutely bonkers with trolls, wargs, and eagles (oh my!)

The company is forced to stop in Rivendell much to the chargrin of the dwarves company. Valjean swears he has an old friend there who can help them read a map to the Lonely Mountain.

Thus we meet the elven lord Myriel and his daughter, Simplice.

Of course, they translate the ruins on the map and the Amis are given the deadline of ‘Durin’s Day’ (essentially dwarvish new year).

So they get a move on.

Along the way, they find themselves hunted by the orc Javert (I know it’s a loose fit but I didn’t know who to make him other than Azog ) who has a tense history with Valjean and a somewhat warrior past with Enjolras.

Finally, the Amis find themselves in Laketown and Erebor is within their grasp.

Unfortunately the lord and lady of Laketown are none other than Monsieur Thenardier and his wife. Both are greedy and are quick to agree to help in exchange for some of the Mountain’s treasure.

Disgusted by their greed but desperate for their help, Enjolras agrees.

However, before heading to the Mountain, the Amis insist Jehan and Marius stay behind in Laketown until the dragon is dealt with. They are seen as being ‘too young’ to take on the fire drake. Very reluctantly, they are left behind.

Of course things go mental once the remaining Amis make their way inside the mountain.

By this point, Valjean has briefly left them to deal with ‘personal business’ (aka a meeting of the White Council to set up the events of LOTR)

With great reluctance as the group have now grown close, Grantaire is sent in to make a first impression on the great dragon Louis Phillipe.

Before he goes in, Enjolras grabs his arm and they have this really intense stare between each other before he reluctantly lets R go.

Things go wrong. Grantaire is Grantaire and manages to anger the dragon thus leading him to an attack on Laketown.

Meanwhile, Marius has found himself developing a friendship with the Thenardiers’ daughter; Éponine - even if she sees their friendship as being far more than friendly.

However, when Louis attacks Laketown, she knows of her parents keeping an old artefact; a black arrow - also known as one of the only weapons that can kill a dragon.

So she manages to acquire it and uses it to attempt to kill the dragon, even if it is only in an attempt to impress Marius by ‘saving him’.

She succeeeds. However, she gets fatally wounded amongst the carnage caused by Louis before his demise.

Being praised by him as a hero, Éponine dies content in Marius’s arms. He presses a kiss to his forehead.

Meanwhile, Javert’s orc army has grown closer and began to infiltrate Laketown. In the process, Jehan Prouvaire is captured and held hostage.

Back in the Mountain, Enjolras has become infected by dragon sickness, slowly being driven mad by a lust for gold that has plagued his family for centuries. Thankfully, both Courfeyrac and Combeferre are effected to a far lesser extent.

Still, that doesn’t stop him offering a chainmail coat of mythril - an impenetrable metal - to Grantaire in what is absolutely a straight way. Nothing gay about giving your close campaign chainamil with an insane value - even after you’ve become afflicted by an obsession with wealth. It’s really gay.

Marius returns to the Mountain with a warning about Javert and need of Jehan’s capture.

Because all dwarves are stubborn, Enjolras refuses to go to the men or the elves for help. In his madness, he seems then as greedy and cruel; more enemies to be defeated than friends to be made.

Grantaire isn’t overwhelmed with the same madness. Not even slightly.

Stealing some of the gold, he slips out of Erebor in the dead of night to make deals where he can. It goes surprisingly well.

At least, it does until Enjolras finds out.

He sees Grantaire as a traitor who has stolen from him; another outsider there to rob him.

‘You are banished from here! Never to return! I thought you a friend! But it is clear you believe in nothing.’ ‘...I believed in you.’

In a fit of frustration and rage, Grantaire leaves the mithril shirt behind in Erebor as he leaves - much to the chagrin of his friends who are all appalled with Enjolras’s decision. They have lost one friend due to Jehan’s capture. They were not keen to lose another.

Finally Javert and his army of the national guard (national orcs??) show up.

In a word of warning and attempt at intimidation, Jehan is shown to be their prisoner before being executed. With one final cry of ‘Long live the future!’ that holds all the hopes and dreams they had at the quest’s beginning, Jehan Prouvaire is no more.

Seeing his friend die so brutally is more than enough to snap Enjolras out of his madness and essentially the Battle of the Five Armies happen.

However, Grantaire and Enjolras end up being the last two alive. In a final battle with Javert, both are mortally wounded. It is only upon Valjean’s return that Javert is truly defeated.

Injured and instead, Grantaire finds Enjolras resting on the ground besides a rock. He utters one single phrase before sitting besides the dwarven king; ‘Do you permit it?’

A sharp nod from him is all R needs. Both are content to die at each other’s side.

Using the little strength he has left, Enjolras presses a brief kiss to Grantaire’s lips before uttering his final words; ‘If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world’.

The two die holding hands.

After their deaths, Marius is left as the only surviving member of their company. As such, he is crowned King Under The Mountain with Cosette as his queen.

The Amis are buried with the highest honours in the mountain’s tombs.

Grantaire and Enjolras are laid to rest side by side; the hobbit and his dwarven king laid together always.