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Headcanons for the bay of belfalas maiden because I Love Her and @a-lonely-dunedain tags on this post on my art sideblog have me Thinking
i imagine she's pretty powerful? more powerful than the rivermaidens, at least, if not quite as powerful as osse and uinen, since her power is still localized in a specific area.
she's definitely Tall!! in her regular size, I imagine she's like. at least nine feet, but if she's interacting with people which is probably kinda rare, i imagine she takes on a more… normal size, though she's still Big.
there's probably a festival in Dol Amroth that celebrates her every summer, probably around peak hurricane season, and then they leave offerings whenever the ships are headed out on an Important Journey, to prevent damage/injury during storms and hurricanes and all that stuff.
i feel like her hair kinda like. changes color depending on where she is? like the further out from shore it gets deeper and darker, and the closer to shore it gets lighter and more… turquoise?
it also shifts a bit, and shimmers, like how water will kind of change depending on how light hits it.
her dress is almost made of like, sea-foam, and ripples when she moves.
she doesn't often interact with the people of dol amroth, like. ever. maybe once each century, maybe less, but she still cares about them a lot. very similar to gwindeth in that regard.
misses amroth and the elves of edhellond alot, i imagine they hung out together more often than she did with the dol amrothians
sand dollars!!!!!! are important to her!!!! along with 'sailor's stones'
what are those thingies on the bows of ships. like. the mermaids. in dol amroth, they tend to have her on them.
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Eight years ago I was possessed with the idea of doing a ‘30 before 30 challenge’ Then I got pregnant (which, tbh *was* on the list, so… 🤷♀️) and thought ‘well I can’t go skydiving, do a tölt on an Icelandic horse, or eat an oyster now, so I (as is my wont) sacked the whole thing off.
Still, I did do the first one- climb Mount Snowdon. And I’m very happy to say that it was a great experience and I will never have to do it again. Why would I when the weather was perfect and the views spectacular the first time? I think I’d be pretty disappointed hiking all up there to low cloud, mizzle and no view. I was obsessed with those lakes. So pretty.
Perhaps I can transfer over the things from original list and try a 40 before 40 😂. After all, I’ve still never tried an oyster…
#snowdonia#yr wyddfa#mount snowdon#wales#Welsh countryside#wales is so beautiful. I want to live there#between the mountains and the sea#Cymru am byth#personal#no I did not do crib goch#you must be joking I’d be straight over the edge
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I need you all to know that the poem of the Fall of Gil-Galad lives rent free in my head and has since I was at least like, 12.
That is all
#tolkien#gil-galad was an elven king#of whom the harpers sadly sing#the last whose realm was far and free#between the mountains and the sea#his sword was long#his lance was keen#his shining helm from afar was seen#and the countless stars of the heaven's field#were mirrored in his silver shield#but long ago he rode away#and where he dwelleth none can say#for into darkness fell his star#in Mordor where the shadows are#and to think i learnt that in spanish first and the translation doesn't rhyme
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It's that time of year again where it gets a little warmer and I remember that Amphibia is a show I very much enjoy thinking about. Have some Anne outfits, as a treat <3
If you would like to see what aspect of headcanon/ au worldbuilding had consumed my consciousness like a pestering maggot, feel free to continue below.
Hello! Welcome to I focus on researching one very specific detail until I burn out!
My entire day has been consumed by figuring out how Amphibia's farming works. Like... amphibians are carnivores why do they have farms?
Well, I'll tell you why! The Plantars grow animal feed for predominantly crickets but also others such as silkworms, spiders, snails, etc. They grow produce like cabbage, mushrooms, parsnips, potatoes, dandelions, and turnips as well as heartfruit, a fruit not found on Earth.
In the past, the original amphibian hunter/gatherer societies found that mealworms were attracted to fallen heartfruit, among others. They began to use this knowledge to make traps and eventually began both containing the worms as well as growing the fruit.
Despite mealworms historical prominence in the farming and feeding of Amphibia, crickets are more popular nowadays due to their higher levels of protein. They also began growing a larger variety of produce to further increase efficiency.
Heartfruit is a kind of tree grown fruit with the color of a raspberry, size of a kumquat, and shape of a peach (hence the name). The Plantar's orchard is the only producer of this fruit as its traditionally significant but not necessary for frog kind. They are Anne's personal favorite of the Plantar's produce, being chalk full of nutrients and somehow feels nostalgic to her.
Speaking of Anne, she survives mostly on the Plantar's produce along with cricket meat (knowing that she can at least eat crickets).
After discovering that the amphibians hibernate, she begins to plant pole beans, blueberries, elderberries, and other produce and herbs in her greenhouse to cultivate while she forages and stockpiles for winter. She preps and stores wild rice, pecans, and sunflower seeds (discovered through trial and error). She keeps spare root veggies and other product in the basement. The Plantars help her do this, once they understand the situation, drying heartfruit and salting and smoking fish as well as making jerky out of bugs that they know she can have.
Anne's gonna learn to survive, even if the first winter is especially hard.
#Not my usual content but I love her and this au so much <3#amphibia#4 Stars Au#I've done the research for what Anne would grow and eat no less than four times and it comes out vastly different each time.#Researching what grows in swamps + what frogs eat + what bugs humans can have + what the plantars grow + ...#farmer anne#trans anne boonchy my beloved#I could not find a suitable place for this but a different farm grows spirulina (a freshwater algae) for tadpoles. Anne will also eat this.#They are sold in jars (like baby food)#This whole au is about emphasizing the differences between humans and amphibians#Anne is warmblooded? Must prepare for winter#Can't live on an amphibian's diet? Eat animal feed and forage#Sasha is more resistant to the harsh climate of the mountains as well as to dangerous substances like citris and salt#She eats orange slices as a power play is all I'm saying#Marcy ends up being the first to truly research Amphibia's oceans because she can acturally survive touching the sea#Desi (4th star) is called the 'Sunchild' for a reason#Can't breathe underwater? Learn magic#anne boonchuy#plantar family
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ace attorney posting is making me think about nick and maya ouguhghgngng my number one dynamic duo since I was a kid... they have that kind of deep love that transcends all labels. "relationship so close it blurs the line between romantic and platonic" kind of bond. arhgngnghghnnbg
#clutching my head my standards for any kind of relationship are way too high and it's probably because of ace attorney#you don't just play that at 11 years old and come out the other side willing to settle for anything less than 'will take a taser for you'#and 'will move mountains and part seas to clear your name' from the people you keep in your life#I said this#I'm phoenix wright because I think maya fey is the bestest most wonderful girl in LA and also those 5 long years between me getting into aa#and spirit of justice being released took a major emotional toll on me PERSONALLY. that HURT.#plvsaa was so important that was like water in the desert for everyone who loved and missed maya in the years between aa3 and aa6
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The nature of time is that (culturally) Christian Euro/Anglo colonial consumers (hereafter white ‘people’) fetishize the idea of being ‘close to nature’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘savage’ and latch on to the idea that there are groups of people in the world who are somehow bestial or who have some kind of special powers from holding animist beliefs/beliefs that acknowledge the body as opposed to the Christian belief that the body is a kind of useless appendage to a person. We see this across decades from the 19thC to today in the racist fetishization of indigenous people across the globe, particularly residents of the Americas, Australasia, and southern/eastern Africa.
White consumers use a warped conception of other cultures to live out the fantasies that the Christian soul/body stuff engenders. You keep getting told that your emotions and physical sensations are the devil’s work? You want to get in touch with those physical sensations, but you don’t want it to interfere with your worldview? Simply project them on to a convenient group of people with slightly different conventions from you. Imagine how cool it would be to be 100% physical sensation (especially those pesky violent and/or sexual urges) and no mental burden, then unleash that in a way that causes millions of deaths worldwide via the dehumanization of entire nations of people just trying to live their lives. White consumers love a Proud Warrior Race Guy.
Flash forward to the 2010s, it’s generally considered impolite to spread the same propaganda that justified the genocide and dispossession of many different groups of people. However white culture hasn’t changed that much and normal human activities still need to be explained away to maintain the veneer of white intellectualism that has been used to justify white violence for years and years. You can’t just stomp around and clap your hands and dance badly, you’ve got to project it somewhere else.
But wait! There’s a community of people considered ‘tribal’ and ‘savage’, considered violent and bestial, who were never colonized! It’s…the Norse. Fetishizing early medieval North Sea raiders can’t be cultural appropriation, see, they’re white! It’s not offensive to replace an entire culture with white (male) ideas of what’s cool if that culture is totally unassociated with colonizer stereotypes and is in fact a culture of colonizers!
And that’s my theory on why there are so many Norse-inspired folk bands/video games/tv shows/memes/literally anything in the 2010s. VSaga not counted because that manga has been running since 2003 and is actually well-researched and comes out of a culture with a similar but distinct tradition of racism. The Euro storytelling tendencies of needing some kind of violent avatar have taken on ye anciente Norseman now that people care a little bit about the gallons of blood used to sketch other ethnic stereotypes. Done and dusted. Except the other side is that the fetishization of early medieval Norse culture is literally just white supremacist 101 and a lot of artists don’t step around that nearly as carefully as they should
#it’s the old saw about rammstein being constantly talked up by American nazis because they can’t speak German and having to write a song#called ‘links 2 3 4’. asscreed/the northman/vikings tv/wardruna/god of war/whatever are fairly harmless cosplay activities#but taken together it’s like. where is the line between condescending cosplay fetishization (not great but whatever) and the sort of#idealization/valorization/historical erasure that plays into white supremacist rhetoric#after all—look at where we get a lot of pop culture viking imagery from: it’s Wagner#kelsey rambles#this is a long bad post about me having Spotify as blocked on my work computer and playing some faun and then letting the radio take away#praying and wikipedia-ing that it doesn’t take me to some dogshit nazi band along the way#which YouTube recs have done repeatedly. it’s a fucking cesspool out there in the metal/neofolk world#I also keep thinking back to Faun (neofolk forerunner) saying explicitly that they use central/south asian melodies and tonalities#the whole medieval folk aesthetic thing is a cobbled-together vibe that was created by 19thC romantics and 20thC fantasy writers#i just feel like there should be more of an…acknowledgement of artifice to ward off the nazis#I like neofolk music. I love vinland saga. I enjoy mountain scenery and stories of sea raiders.#would love to be able to enjoy it without looking over my shoulder all the time
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//Tag drop
#Gil-galad was an elven king (promo)#Of him the harpers sadly sing (playlist)#The one whose realm was fair and free (lindon)#Between the mountains and the sea (headcanons)#His sword was long his lance was keen (nsfw)#His shining helm afar was seen (wardrobe)#The countless stars of heaven's fields (aesthetics)#Were mirrored in his silver shield (weaponry)#But long ago he rode away (hiatus notice)#And where he dwelleth none can say (queue)#For into darkness fell his star (history)#In Mordor where shadow are (memes and starters)#v: snows of hithlum (childhood)#v: círdan's home (childhood)#v: the pearls of balar (youth)#v: young high king of the noldor (youth)#v: the war of wrath (youth)#v: foundations of lindon (between the mountains and the sea)#v: elvish rings and elvish forges (between the mountains and the sea)#v: the faithful ships (between the mountains and the sea)#v: of elves and men (tall ships and tall kings)#v: Starlight (tall ships and tall kings)#v: moon's fall (the last alliance)#v: keep darkness at bay (the last alliance)#v: aeglos and narsil none could withstand (the last alliance)#v: starlight (the last alliance)#v: the halls of mandos (into the west)#v: the undying lands (into the west)#v: in Mordor where he never fell (survival au)#v: Starlight (in Mordor where he never fell)
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.... I just really want her to be real. I want it more today than I did yesterday, and I'll want it even more tomorrow. And I worry about it, but I also have such a strong gut feeling. I just, I really want her to be real.
#[ ooc. ] wherever her spirit may be among the countless grains of sand and specks of dust between the harbor and the mountains…#[ /makes all of the dramatic hand gestures. ]#[ i've been going crazy and i'm losing my mind. i feel like monica geller walking into a messy house. ]#[ and the messy house is genshin's lore scattered all over the place. ]#[ it's terrifying to look at because it's so much and it's everywhere; but it's also so very riveting to unravel in every possible way. ]#[ and i'm losing my mind but i'm also having the best time and i just really adore her to the moon (haha) and back. ]#[ i'm also getting really tired of so much (all) of the fanart making her out to look so very young. stop it. look at her /here/. ]#[ does she look /young/? ]#[ ok but back to me losing my mind: /LOSING/ my mind. help me. i need to just-- dive into a hole where i write her. ]#[ instead of diving into the mariana trench of endless lore pits that has sea creatures in it that we've never seen before. ]#[ but also guys. GUYS. ALCHEMY!!! /ALCHEMY/ FINALLY. ]#[ and natlan is coming. and the resurrection arc/plot. and and and and. /shakes the air around her manically. ]
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Tag drop: Guizhong (don't mind me re-dropping this with the fixed ones, shh)
#guizhong. [ many things only seem to surface beneath the moon's poignant glow. wherever its light shines; the heart is wont to follow. ]#guizhong: ic. [ wherever her spirit may be among the countless grains of sand and specks of dust between the harbor and the mountains. ]#guizhong: countenance. [ and because they are afraid; they try so hard to become more intelligent. this i understand. ]#guizhong: introspection. [ although she did not live to see the splendid sights of today: she was as much a hero as any other. ]#guizhong: meta. [ her manuscripts lie unfinished in her abode. the blank pages give cause for contemplation on what might have been. ]#guizhong: little notes. [ she always sought to make everyone happy and one must say: she had quite the gift for it. ]#guizhong: wishes. [ it took a treasure hunt just to preserve the commandments that were once the lifeblood of a whole civilization. ]#guizhong: etc. [ we think of human life as like a lantern that's lit one minute and extinguished the next. but are we adepti so different?#guizhong: mortals. [ at their full potential; they could be her equal. a human who has as much to teach an adeptus as to learn from them. ]#guizhong: guili plains. [ as guizhong once said: “it takes every blade of grass and every flower to make a homeland.” ]#guizhong: liyue. [ perhaps she will look at the liyue of today and steal a smile when she sees the prosperous land that it has become. ]#guizhong: realm of clouds. [ a voyage to a sanguine sky. ]#guizhong: mechanical arts. [ in one's heart; i knew that she was indeed the superior talent in the mechanical arts. ]#guizhong: glaze lilies. [ they were far more abundant back then. the entire fields would appear to the eye as a veritable sea of flowers. ]#guizhong: adepti. [ until the moon set and the sun rose. and only then would the banquet finally come to an end. ]#guizhong: morax. [ whoever it was that revered her so much was very clever indeed. ]#guizhong: guili. [ with shortness of breath; i will explain the infinite. and how rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist. ] delusiona#guizhong: marchosius. [ who would dare snub the stove god and his wondrous creations? at the sight: we would all drop any argument. ]#guizhong: streetward rambler. [ it almost felt like she was back again. sitting right there on the stone stool next to me; chatting away. ]#guizhong: cloud retainer. [ we each had our ideals; and neither one of us would yield to the other. ]#guizhong: skybracer. [ to who lived by the mountain; he was their savior. they thought higher of him than they thought of the lord of geo.#guizhong: osial. [ she would disrupt the silence around them with a hum; as if to sing along to the harmony of water. was this his song? ]#guizhong: sea gazer. [ he was quite the braggart when it came to those collectibles he was so fond of; he always loved to show them off. ]#guizhong: ganyu. [ if we planted flowers in the guili plains; do you think that one day we'd be able to recreate the sea of glaze lilies? ]#guizhong: v. descension. [ she descended whose dominion was over dust; and whose reach shrouded the skies for thousands of miles around. ]#guizhong: v. guili assembly. [ it's great to have it back but i want to go back to the world. and start with guili plains. ]#guizhong: v. archon war. [ they fought upon the plains; where black dust choked the heavens and a thousand rocks splintered. ]#guizhong: v. present. [ all wrapped up in a city that has existed for many moons to date. all these things: they are why people chase it. ]#guizhong: inquiries. [ hmph. she always had a way with words. ]
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Sae not being able to buy a round for the gang has me cracking up. What *is* the legal drinking age in Gondor? Does she passive-aggressively hand the money to Dagoras (or someone so visibly old nobody's asking questions) while maintaining eye contact with the bartender? Does she tell him she did shots with several lords of Gondor before the siege? Say she's been able to drink in Bree for a year and a half? this concept is hysterical
adkfjgadjkgadfjkga YEAH you get it!!!! this is why the idea sparks so much joy because like. it's hilarious to me lmao.
i imagine the legal drinking age in gondor is roughly between 20-22 because i imagine that's when either 1) apprenticeships finish up and allow you to get your own job/you finish training in the navy/army/what-have-you so you're seen as Adult or 2)✨that's what they did in numenor✨ or smthn like that.
she'd probably do the old person & eye contact because that's just. an exceedingly funny mental image for me.
(or like. bribe her brother(s) to give the guy the money, that's also funny lol but they're not Old)
#sticky note tag#og post#cw alcohol mention#sae stuff#answered asks#between the mountains and the sea#*if* we were to treat this seriously tho:#she understands the reasoning of the bartender and would be content to follow that but is like 'bro i am not drinking please just let me pa#but treating it seriously is much less fun so!
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going to local ER instead since I’m losing too much blood, way too fast! last week was bad but this is scary and I need to be monitored ASAP!
#I’ll be watching all of your recs when I’m there 🙏#I also have so many updates and posts that I haven’t felt the guts to ever say#I’m sorry I’ve been a bad mutual but I’ve been a bad friend to all the online friends and friends from my university#im lucky I live in a condo community w/ lots of extention of family + help! my coastal city - particularly our part of the city#in a particular building where we all meet up together in the front on weekends#even at my sickest - I’m still pretty involved since we see eachother physically & I love cooking + baking for everyone on a 2x monthly#and we all walk the dogs together every afternoon in our dog walking by the harbor group#even then these old people have me in a group text and drop flowers off for me and me for them#living in a community is so helpful but it open my eyes that I’m not even just sick or even a bad friend but those two factors strained#my online relationships bc the effort was so much behind the scenes w/ my health and even typing something out that it makes messaging or#even blogging but I’d like to change that bc I want to be more overt online#and I explain how that relates to Palestine and findinfing joy + $$$ in this end stage capitalist nightmare#I want to be better but I also want to show people the joys of my city (a literal hidden gem yet is a national park) and so between fusing#ideas of environmentalism - community out reach & even descalation of yt Supremacist mentalities when doing outreach + volunteer#even our coastal environmental causes to such great causes that help indigenous latinx members of our community in particular#their rights and their accomplishments in agriculture & how fruitful this place is#we have the best strawberries + berries since they are indigenous plants but anyways from environmentalism to damn farmers markets#I live in a slice of heaven so why leave to go to LA and NYC when I create such beautiful joy by the ocean every day#we have such incredible water views in our condo along with the stunning plain mountains framing the water and sea of palm trees#every sunset is like Santa Barbara (we close!) w/ pink/purple/orange skies that are so vibrant that they make you take pictures constantly#especially with the herons nested there w/ there babies - so close to#is that we watch them all day long + the other coastal birds#all this Shit is random but I realized that if I put my effort into a few things academically that I haven’t even shared in these tags -#that I can have an incredibly fulfilling life while sick as long it pays for itself and I think I can do it w/ a few different plans I’m#creating but I’m setting up a couple of businesss for passive income - go back to grad schooo but for medical research or political science#IR my old life of international relations and start publishing my research on Palestine and Jewish studies#I just need to publish either medical or political but if I do that - have my east businesses that not only highlight my life#but may help the people and animals of my city#but I feel the change finally coming and maybe it took something like this to wake me up#so many funny typos but this was just a quick way to explain that I need to be more comfortable on video + online w/ you all but on tiktok
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I need to stand on a beach ankle deep in the shallows and scream like a widow whose husband is presumed dead, lost at sea
#ra speaks#personal#ocean#sea#I miss the sea so much rn#sorry the sun is out and I become an annoying beach version when temps hit 60#*oscillating between loving the mountains and snow and -40 weather to loving the shore and sunshine and 65 degree days* parkour
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vietnamese creation myth says it all started with a divorce, and that makes me so proud.
#specifically between a dragon and a fairy#they split custody of all their 100 children and moved to the sea and the mountains respectively#and that's how you do it
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ahhh <3 so ive become fiction
and unloved by reality
yet i waited for you out here
oo ooo oo oooh (too much!)
#this doesnt make sense im just feeling particularly.. ''yearnful''#men are not real lol no men ive loved is real#im not even thinking of myself in terms of being single or alone its just that theres an abyss between me and all other men in the world#took me some time to figure it out#but hey i think thats just my own weird little way of living#i dont want to lie down in my bed and think about guys ever again#and god those ''theres someones for everyone -- theres plenty of fish in the sea''#i live alone in an aquarium#in the top of a mountain#lms
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(@silvercrowned - hi!)
Since news of a party coming from Lake Evendim had reached the royal halls in Forlindon, Gil-galad thoughts had been out of the room with whoever would bring him tidings of the newcomers. It had been but a tiny little thing to let his mind wander while the latest meeting of his council stretched well past noon, as pleasant and slow as a reunion of the Onodrim.
A few guesses could be made about the identity of the guests coming from Nenuial, but the High King's countenance brightened ever so slightly when, having bid a good afternoon to his council, he saw the lady Celebrían herself amidst the golden leaves of the courtyard.
"I would ask what news you bring about your lady mother," Gil-galad called, descending the steps towards his kinswoman, "if I did not know yours will be far more entertaining."
That was the one thing he wouldn't dare to say in the vicinity of Artanis, of course.
#silvercrowned#v: foundations of lindon (between the mountains and the sea)#hi sorry for being late as always!#q
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Just because I've been shipping quite a bit of femslash lately doesn't mean I'm not a fujo at heart... behind every Madeline x evil Madeline there's a Seroptitsa
#Put an image/gif of evil madeline and Bird rolling their eyes and smirking#Pls don't tell me the name of the ship or the part of madeline#I don't want spoilers I'm writing this post to let my fingers rest from the raising sea/lava screens#You can't deny there's similarities between these two ships though#Idk I guess an evil alter ego x normal by comparison human is something I'm into#MG Malevolent the mountain game... I never ended up shipping the moon guy but that's only because I didn't get invested in the series#It was good though ignore my personal brain shenainigans you should check it out#There's something about an evil side of you that knows you all too well but also doesn't know much else and does dumb shit because of this#That's a very hyperspecific dynamic but I love it#I should check out Venom sometime soon I wonder if it's anything like that#Hope you guys are enjoyiing rambles on 10 different topics in the tags hashtag I love tumblr dot com
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