#dwarven woman

[pixel-cherry-pie]

Dwarven princess, fierce and beautiful.

I probably got a little too excited about the dress and it looks far more modern than I intended, but I guess it's fine!

[undercat-overdog]

Ok, I said in this post that I wanted to talk about POV and what different characters would use for their species; I've been thinking about it for a while, because it's important to me to portray Elves as thinking of themselves as the default and I like having them think of mortals as different, as a way of worldbuilding and establishing POV. It's the same basic principle as why I think the War of the Elves and Sauron is a Númenórean name, not an Elvish one.

In brief: man and woman can and should be used to refer to Elves when writing from an elven POV.

I think about markedness a lot when I think about writing generally, and one of the concepts is that there are things that are unmarked, the standard, the default, the normal, the unexceptional. To an elf, the default species is elf, not human or dwarf or ent. I want to write from that POV - to an elf, humans are different, even alien. They're other. Elves are us, humans are them.

I, meanwhile, am writing in English, and man and woman are common words, the most "unmarked" words for the concepts; they're standard (e.g., woman sounds more normal than female human). Something like elf woman or female elf is more marked. Why would an elf use a more marked term to refer to their own race? Using she-elf or whatever for Elves but woman for humans uses more marked words (more uncommon, more specific, etc) for elves than it does for humans - but for elves, it should be the opposite! Elves are unmarked! Elves are default! Humans are different. If an elf is talking about someone, the default assumption would be that the someone is an elf, so if they're not an elf, it would be specified.

So when writing from the POV of an elven character, I would use woman for a female elf and mortal woman for a female human (if necessary to disambiguate). Man, meanwhile, means "Human" when it's capitalized and male when it's not. (Now, if I were writing from a human or dwarven pov, I would use elven woman, if necessary to specify that she's an elf.)

But, you say, what about using Elvish words? Well, first of all, I hate it. We're not writing in Quenya. English is great, and so are the other human languages people use to write fanfic. But that is a subjective matter of taste and you may disagree! Nothing wrong with that, de gustibus, etc.

More objectively, nér and nis are not words specific to Elves; nér means all males, so using it for specifically elf men and not human and dwarven men is incorrect (to quote Elfdict, "Nér can be used regardless of species and so is equally applicable to male Elves, Men, or Dwarves, but is unlikely to be used of male animals, for which the word [ᴹQ.] hanu is more applicable."") (Sindarin is a little more complicated, given the more complex out-of-universe changes, but it too has race-neutral terms for man and woman.)

Lastly, Tolkien himself uses man and woman to refer to non-human species. He calls Galadriel and Finduilas women, and Aredhel is "taller than a woman's wont." Earendil is a man (though he is not a Man) and Curufin is a horseman and there are lots and lots of kinsmen and kinswomen. Hobbits meanwhile, in Appendix F, have "women" and "man-children" (Tolkien is talking about how Hobbits name babies, thus the children part, but I like to think he's getting one more dig in at Pippin).

[tum-bakery]

The biggest tradgety about making a d&d world become a modern au is that... if fantasy races aren't present... cis dwarf women lose their beards... :((

[soldier-poet-king]

started another bg3 playthru bc i Am Sad TM, draconic bloodline dwarf street-urchin sorcerer bc i am making this as Sad as possible for a gale romance <3 i probably will not actually play it for a bit, but i was cooking in the character creator for like 3 hrs

[mightymizora]

I have a new favourite (completely nonconsequential?) NPC. Dame Guisarme... who are you?

EDIT: I'm reading that this is a critical role reference? But this is a dwarf and not a gnome. But a reference to Grog and Pike apparently!

[lelianaslefthand]

doing leliana's sliders gave my psychic damage bc i was thinking about how she was softened in origins and so young and full of hope still and then in inquisition she's ruthless and disillusioned and the love of her life is dead 🤒

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[lesbianjobutupaki]

For international women's day please enjoy some Dvværf pů§§y

[binxheras]

One thing I won’t get over is the fact binx shares gwyndolin is dating one of her warlocks . IS GWYN DATING SCRATCH

[artsynerdwithasword-takecover]

A lineup of new 'fits

We had another session this week where we were teleported (consensually) to the other side of the map where the climate is approximately 20-30 degrees warmer, so we needed some new clothes to not perish from shear sweatiness.

So here be the Heart's Walls, from left to right: Rowann the lost princess bloodhunter (played by this artist), Alex the retired war hero wizard, and Nadia the permanently cranky-looking monk/barbarian!

[heartsdefine]

*slides the rpc $2* write kíli as a masc lesbian to my tauriel.

[thehellishflora]

My latest ttrpg character: Nic'Kel IronBark

[shivunin]

for arianwen: 26 (medicine) or 42 (mortify)

Thanks again! I had fun with this c:

(Micro-Prompts)

Mortify

This particular drinking game was a familiar one now, though in all the months they’d played it their Warden-Commander had never lost. 

“—but I understand that brains are one means of softening leather, so I don’t suppose it was so bad that I couldn’t scrape them all out,” Arianwen finished at last, spinning a knife across her knuckles and back, “any other questions?” 

Oghren groaned and tossed his coin into the pile in the center of the table, looking faintly green as he downed the last inch of his ale. 

“What are you doing?” Tabris’s lover asked, and the trio on the bench turned to look at him. 

“Trying to mortify the Warden-Commander,” Sigrun said cheerfully, “but it's not working.”

The Warden-Commander watched him with narrowed eyes while they explained the game, but she didn’t move away when he leaned close and murmured in her ear. To the astonishment of her Wardens, the tips of her ears went pink, then red, and the color descended to the narrow vee of her exposed neck. Abruptly, she tipped back the rest of her glass and pushed away from the table, making for the door along the far wall at a steady clip. 

With a grin, the assassin scooped the coin into a belt pouch, saluted the astonished Wardens, and sauntered after their boss.

“Well, that seems like cheating,” Nathaniel said after several minutes of silence, crossing his arms. “Don’t suppose any of you caught that.”

[omesprout]

what do you look like?

so this gave me the idea to run some pics of me through clip-interrogator ...

#dwarven woman #bbwchan #bam margera

[corset]

When will there be a romanceable dwarf companion bioware please

[stormtide-leviathan]

My TTRPG characters sorted by how much of a freak they are (relative to the standards of their peers).

Morgan Bailey

Reave

Eel

Isha

Maw

Red

Najeela

Moirara

Vessel? (not sure yet, still getting a feel for her)

My TTRPG characters sorted by how much of a freak they are (relative to the standards of the real world)

Eel

Reave

Maw

Najeela

Isha

Red

Moirara

Vessel

Morgan Bailey

[agardenintheshire]

TEARING UP EVERYTIME I LISTEN TO THIS RUNSI YOURE MY SPECIALEST GIRL I LOVE OYUR SO MUCH