#push back the hands of time

[solipsistful]

i'm not going to die in here

(spoilers up to episode 119)

- ace

[weirdstuffthathappens]

Happy Halloween From Weird Stuff That Happens

[sysig]

Good skeles, like you lots (Patreon)

[sesamenom]

@general-illyrin @tar-thelien @who-needs-words I think you all mentioned being interested in the reverse gondolin au - is anyone interested in helping with wrangling the timelines, especially the second age stuff? Here's the current outline:

(Edit: anyone feel free to help out if you're interested!)

YT 14365 - Birth of Lomion

YT 14373/FA 1 - Death of Argon

FA

2 - Aredhel adopts Lomion

300 - Birth of Idril

316 - Turgon & Idril kidnapped by Eol

400 - Turgon & Idril rescued. Death of Eol

465 - Finrod more-peacefully passes throne to orodreth while on Quest. Everyone except beren still dies

472 - Nirnaeth. Turgon named High King of the Noldor.

476 - Turgon abdicates official title. Aredhel named High King of the Noldor.

496 - Tuor comes to Gondolin

502 - Wedding of Idril and Tuor

503 - Births of Earendil and Elwing. Idril begins to have foresight dreams about the Fall.

506 - Second Kinslaying. C^3 dead, celebrimbor stays in gondolin. Aredhel denounces the oath/kinslaying and disowns C^3

Elwing survives & is found by Oropher & Thranduil // Galadriel & Celeborn. oropher, thranduil, oropher's wife, and thranduil's then-gf // galadriel & celeborn take Elwing to Gondolin as refugees. The Silmaril is left hidden in the woods of melian's domain.

507 - Elwing comes to Gondolin.

509 - Idril captured by Morgoth. Idril reveals the location of Gondolin in exchange for an Oath to not harm her family (Turgon, Tuor, and Earendil). Idril rescued.

510 - Gondolin prepares for war with Morgoth.

513-522 - Siege of Gondolin. Deaths of Duilin and Rog. Gothmog slain by Aredhel the Huntress. First use of the Three Rings by Lomion and Celebrimbor in defense of Gondolin. House of the Hammer of Wrath destroyed.

523 - Maedhros believes a Silmaril is with Elwing at Gondolin.

525 - Earendil weds Elwing. Lomion weds ???. Adoption of Gil-Galad

532 - Births of Elrond and Elros.

538 - Third Kinslaying at Gondolin. Death of Amras. Elrond and Elros kidnapped by Maglor. Deaths of Elwing and Turgon. Second use of the Three Rings by Lomion and Celebrimbor. Deaths of Maedhros and Aredhel. Lomion named King of Gondolin and High King of the Noldor. Deaths of Salgant, Penlod, and Tuor. Earendil named Lord of the House of the Wing.

540-549 - War declared between Gondolin and the Feanorians of Himring over the Third Kinslaying and kidnapping of Princes Elrond and Elros.

549 - Elrond and Elros recovered. Feanorians and Gondolin severely weakened. Celebrimbor // Gil-Galad declared heir to the High Kingship.

552-554 - Second Siege & Fall of Gondolin. Third use of the Three Rings by Lomion and Celebrimbor. Deaths of Ecthelion, Glorfindel, Egalmoth, and Turgon. Idril and Celebrimbor lead survivors through the Secret Way.

555 - Gondolithlim refugees arrive at Sirion.

556 - Idril departs for Valinor.

558 - Earendil searches for Valinor.

560 - Havens of Sirion destroyed by Morgoth. Gondolithlim/Doriathrim survivors scattered. Elrond and Elros rescued (as adults) by Maglor.

572 - Morgoth controls Beleriand. Earendil and reembodied Elwing come to Valinor and rally the Host.

575-617 - War of Wrath

618 - Maglor claims the Silmaril from Eonwe's camp and casts himself into the Sea. Death of Maglor.

620 - End of the First Age.

SA

1 - Founding of the Grey Havens and Lindon under High King Lomion

2 - Elros becomes the first King of Numenor

c. 500 - Sauron returns to Middle-Earth in the East.

650 - Eregion is founded

1000 - Galadriel is given Vilya; Lomion wields Nenya

1170 - Annatar comes to Lindon and Lomion turns him away. Lomion warns Celebrimbor of Eregion of his suspicions.

1200 - Annatar comes to Eregion. Celebrimbor takes him in to monitor.

1250 - Celebrimbor creates the Seven; Lomion creates the Nine.

1410 - Annatar is kicked out of Eregion.

1600 - The One Ring is forged. Sauron remains in hiding.

1610 - Sauron begins to gather and prepare armies in the East.

1673 - War of the Elves and Sauron begins.

1675 - Sauron invades Eriador.

1677 - Fall of Ost-in-Edhil. Celebrimbor and Lomion remain at the House of the Mirdain. Death of Celebrimbor in battle // Fourth use of the Three in battle. Sauron does not learn of the Seven. Founding of Imladris.

1678 - Sauron defeated by the Numenoreans and the Elves of Lindon.

1679 - Sauron flees to Mordor. First White Council held.

3147 - Civil war in Numenor.

3225 - Ar-Pharazon seizes the Sceptre.

3228 - Elrond claims the Sceptre. Ar-Pharazon disowned. Tar-Miriel named Ruling Queen.

3232 - Sauron taken to Numenor as a prisoner.

3274 - Elrond kicks Sauron out of Numenor and outlaws the morgoth cult.

3310 - Morgoth cult publicly reappears.

3319 - Downfall of Numenor. Tar-Miriel leads a greater force of the Faithful away.

(green // blue means two main options, red means i need to think about it more)

The main details I'm figuring out right now are

does Celebrimbor still die at Eregion - I don't think he's getting captured/tortured, but he could still die in the battle. On the other hand, he could probably survive by using Narya & Lomion using Nenya, but that would definitely have repercussions further down the line

how does Idril's deal work - I'm currently thinking of Idril exchanging the location of Gondolin for her family's guaranteed safety, because it seems in character for Reverse Idril? But on the other hand, even if I limit it to immediate family at the time of the oath (tuor, turgon, earendil) then idk where turgon dies? Maybe Maglor can kill him but that seems kind of random

where and how does Turgon die

how does Prince Elrond's character even work

how does Numenor still fall when factoring in Prince Elrond - I'm thinking that the morgoth death cult gained enough traction during the time sauron was there that even after Elrond kicks him out, the cult still sticks around and reemerges later? The Fall still happens, but they never go to attack valinor and there's a good deal more Faithful (maybe 40-60%?)

[taibhsearachd]

Hey, for real? Can we stop using "biting" to describe what Wilbur did to Shelby? Because I think "assault" is a much better word. She explicitly revoked her consent, and then he hurt her more. Wilbur assaulted Shelby.

The problem isn't the biting. That's a neutral action that can be loving, can be gentle, can be consented to.

He fucking assaulted her. There are memes about it because it apparently seems childish and funny, and it's not. She asked to stop being hurt and he did not stop.

[ciderjacks]

worlds most earned hug I’m ngl

[kazoologist]

congratulations to Mme. Pascale Leclerc, who has surely just experienced both the funniest and most unhinged weekend a mother could ever have. Dear fucking christ, I hope your middlest son brought you a bottle of champagne for yourself, ma'am.

[averlym]

no one would notice if i ever vanished // if bodies could sustain // this never-ending army // like blood pumping through a vein

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:OOO hello. anyway since these are all posters i'd have in an ideal world or smth and i'd like to store the high res versions somewhere,,, here's the google drive folder for them? hehe ''

close up!

[solipsistful]

did you know i used to have a pretty strong conlang special interest as a teenager

sigh

anyway w.bg concepts translated into toki pona.

consolidation: wan sijelo ('unite bodily') or, if you're feeling spicy, wan kon ('unite essence-ly'). im sure Mikes would tend towards the latter

correction: you could probably talk about pona pi ijo pini ('making better of a past thing') or just ante pi ijo pini ('change of a past thing'). i dunno, "a correction" isn't a really a single Thing is it lol. however, i imagine "continuous correction" would look something like ante awen pi ijo pini ('continuing/staying change of a past thing'), or really it's more like lon ante ('other existence'). lon namako ('extra existence') lol.

iteration: mute tenpo ('multiply temporally') for the action, jan mute tenpo for an iterated person. that mayyy be a bad use of tenpo but toki pona doesn't really have a good term for "time, abstractly". maybe it still works?

calculator: ilo luka pi tawa tenpo ('handheld tool for time travel')

storage: poki pi tenpo awen ('box of continuing time')? again, iffy use of tenpo, to my knowledge. maybe it's more like poki pi lon awen ('box of continuing existence').

tracing: sona ijo pi tenpo ante ('knowledge of a thing in different times')

connectivity: i feel like you could go pretty abstract/vague with linja tan ('rope/thread of causes') or linja pi tenpo ante ('rope/thread of different times'). a connectivity strike is a sorta separate thing, more like moli pi jan mute tenpo ale ('killing/death of all iterations'). shorten that to moli mute ('death of many') lol.

and the most important one of all, cowboyification, which would be hard. my first thought would be kama jan mama soweli ma pi weka sona ('becoming a person who cares for animals of the place where the sun sets' does that even make sense in English.)???

toki pona also has a neat way of doing proper names that makes it fun to differentiate between jan An (Anne, a person), kulupu An (the council of Annes), and something like kon An (Anne, the essence). or go the other way and say jan An is the overall person, and any single one is sijelo An (Anne, a body)

...

ugh. anyway.

- ace

[bones-n-bookles]

Cave Bean for @losech 💜

[dumbf1sketches]

Right, that's it, never drawing again. Truly cursed Oscar within.

If I had to see it, you have to see it

I'm still trying to figure out his face, so I'm just doing tons of little speed sketches, and I thought he looked like a lil Pokémon trainer with his cap. Obv the heart eyes are for Lando

Also yes I'm just posting this because I want to talk in the tags lol.

Edit: I got a very lovely but very (sweetly) aggressive ask telling me to stop putting my art behind cuts 🫠🫠 I'm sorry I am just.... Not good at thinking nice things about my drawings and thinking that less people will see it makes me feel better about posting

[royalarchivist]

Techno imitating Phil and his iconic “Hey mate” line during MCC5

[danwhobrowses]

So Callowmoores am I alone in thinking it was cute that Fearne helped carry Ashton to the city? Like there's the parallel also with Ashton carrying her into the Bloody Bridge as well

[obsessive-dumpling]

Alright. Okay. I was putting off reading the last couple chapters. Cause I felt like my heart would not survive. And well... I just caught up.

I can't tell if this pain in my chest is because my heart is swelling with pride; for Deku, for Class 1-A and friends, for Horikoshi, for the little child inside me screaming GO! YOU CAN DO IT! Or if it's just breaking because that was so beautiful... and it's almost over. We've crossed the finish line and now we just wait to see the aftermath of a war.

Horikoshi put his absolute all into these final chapters and it shows. It has been such a magical experience watching this all unfold. Reading from start to finish as it was being created. I haven't had the privilege of getting to do that with many series let alone one this big and with such strong messaging to the current state of our world.

I'm so grateful I got to feel the breath of hope he tried to breathe into all of our lungs. And I hope to always carry it.

And I hope everyone can hear it. Horikoshi screaming at us: We are stronger together.

[solipsistful]

special interests are dumb

i had the thought the other day of "it would be very silly to translate woe.begone into toki pona" and that thought has haunted me since

- ace

[allrealnumbers-underscore]

roomba,,