#thetempleofthemasaigoddess

[cripplecharacters]

Hi! So my main character is a woman whose leg has been crippled in a car accident; she struggles a lot with the pain and with the cane she uses to walk. One day she gets surgery for an unrelated issue, and while she's under anesthesia her partner, the surgeon, realizes he can also heal her leg during the same procedure, and he does, without consulting her because a) she's sleeping AND b) he suspects she wouldn't accept out of pride. I'd like to know whether this behaviour could be considered toxic regarding her disability specifically? He does it out of love, because he wants to make her life easier, but apart from the lack of consent, I'm afraid there is something wrong about him trying to heal a disability. Thank you very much!

Hello,

So, first of all, it's probably not the greatest stylistic choice to refer to her leg as crippled unless you as the writer are also physically disabled. It is still a slur and it's best not to use it unless you know exactly what it means.

And second, it's just not good of him to do that. Physically disabled people do often have our bodily autonomy denied in real life, and it's a huge problem that's only recently kind of being acknowledged as a bad thing. This is something that may resonate with some readers and if it's portrayed as a good, romantic thing, it could trigger them. It can also give abled readers the idea that this is an okay thing to do, maybe even that it's a thing that should be done, and that's not a good thing.

Also, from a disability perspective, it's also not great that he went and cut her open to try and fix her disability. Procedures to do stuff like that, especially at the hip or spine, where a surgery for something like this would likely be, come with a massive risk for complications. There's a very real chance that now she's still disabled, just in a different way. I'll use an example of knee replacements. Yeah, people need their knees replaced sometimes to prevent, mitigate, or end a disability, but it's a major procedure on a weight-bearing limb and it's pretty complex, so a lot can go wrong. When things go wrong, these people are now left with an entirely different disability, sometimes a new disability joining the one they already had. That's the risk of a knee replacement surgery and patients are to be informed of the potential complications before they agree to the surgery. It's called risk-aware informed consent and it's extremely important. Doing something major without informing the patient of the risks means operating them without their informed consent and causing the patient great risk, maybe even doing undue harm. The Hippocratic Oath is to do no harm, and he will have his ability to practice taken away if he does this.

If you're going to do this, don't portray it as a good, romantic thing. It's not.

Mod Aaron

[queenmeriadoc]

I love journal shopping! May we see your new diary? 📖📒

Nothing too exciting, but yes you may 💛

I might place a sticker on the front

[sindar-princeling]

The young actor who played Eldarion in Arwen's vision is Sadwyn Brophy, son of Jed Brophy, who played Nori in the Hobbit and so many smaller roles in The Lord of the Rings!

(PS: Thank you for all your hard work on the newsletter! This week we had my favourite parts and I am so happy!)

yeah I just found that out too! I typed the tag "i don't know where they found that kid" and went actually... where DID they find that kid ajsjdldldj what I get from this is that people will ask, is anyone gonna put this Brophy in a lotr movie and not wait for an answer

(thank you SO much!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰)

[kurt-nightcrawler]

I'd be curious to know more about the vampiric merman. How does it work? I mean, does he become half human and half wolf on full moon nights? Or, like, a creature with a wolf head and a fish tail?

I’m a little confused cause I think you’re asking about a werewolf mermaid??? But for a vampire mermaid— basically it’s just like a normal vampire but he’s got a mermaid tail and scales and can swim and breathe underwater. D&D has a lot of rules for both vampires and mermaids that I don’t know transfer to most media, but mermaids can walk and breathe on land so he really doesn’t have a lot of issues with that!

My DM found a drawing of a merman on Pinterest and made the eyes red in photoshop so we could get an idea of what he looks like!

My DM also kinda likes to make some stuff up— like awhile ago we fought some giant ghost sharks. And one time he created zombie tieflings with wings!

I hope I answered your questions ok! If not feel free to ask more!

[joemawle]

I just wanted to thank you for being the n.1 Tumblr poster on Benjen Stark; I've been in love with him since episode 1, and it's so nice to find so many good gifs.

Hope you're having a wonderful day!

Oh sweetheart, thank you very much for your message. You can't imagine how wonderful to read your lines and it moves me. The number one? This sounds stunning, but I am one of you, with the same heart and you are all number ones :)

Benjen was my first love from Joseph, he will always have a special place in my ♥. No wonder this lovely character brought us here :)

I'll create some gifs of him in the next days, so stay tuned. This time of the year gives me Benjen vibes; you know the cold, the snow, the black crows, dogs howl at night like wolves, etc. ;)

Thank you so much for your kindness, dear. I wish you joyful days ♥

[gatefleet]

Ghost of the Past

CrossingLines: Sebastian Berger, CL Team

WordCount: 1,635 (Can you tell this one got slightly out of hand?)

T(W): Hospital, Abduction, Swearing, Funeral, Death

Request: Yes, “Hi, may I please request a fic for Sebastian Berger from Crossing Lines? Maybe Reader's a former girlfriend he meets when she joins the team and realizes he still has feelings for her, or he comforts her after she had been taken hostage and they end up kissing? Hope this is ok, thanks anyway" - @thetempleofthemasaigoddess

A/N: Can I just say that I LOVED writing this. Our German dork doesn't get enough love, I also may have gotten a little out of hand with this one ^^; - Hope it's what you were looking for! My German is extremely limited so I had to use Google translate for phrasing, apologies if it reads weird or doesn't make sense.

You had been given an impromptu invitation to join a Major Louis Daniel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, with a very vague job offer. One you had accepted and asked for the start date. You were a linguist with a speciality in Eastern European Languages and some of the more common European languages, something which attracted both Major Daniel and Prosecutor Dorn to your work as an officer, what made them reach out to offer you a position on the team they were assembling. You knew nothing about any of the other officers they had reached out to or the ones who accepted the job. You had come in earlier than the others, but not earlier than Dorn who met you with a kind smile and offered you a seat as you were putting down your ‘go bag’. You smiled back and introduced yourself, instinctively holding out your hand to shake his, he took it gladly and gave you a warm handshake.

You were closely followed into the room by a youngish brunette male who introduced himself as ‘Tommy McConnell’ – very distinctively Irish. You made a mental note to keep track of the nationalities you would be working with. A blonde female ‘Sienna Pride’ was next to enter and introduce herself – English. A young dark-haired female then entered the room with a red-haired female, ‘Anne-Marie San’ – French, ‘Eva Vittoria’ – Italian. You were about to ask about Major Daniel when you heard a very distinctive German accent enter the room with apologies about potentially being late. You closed your eyes briefly and took a couple of breaths to calm yourself before turning around. The German was exactly who you believed it would be ‘Sebastian Berger’, he was busy introducing himself to those that were currently standing and faltered when he got to yourself.

“You two know each other or somethin’?” The Irishman wasn’t slow in picking up on the awkward realisation between yourself and Sebastian.

“Something like that,” was Sebastian’s response with a lopsided grin and, dear god, had you forgotten how that accent (and that smile) made you weak in the knees. You faked a cough to break the tension and sat down again, Sebastian sat in the chair behind you, Tommy in a chair near the back with Eva and Anne-Marie had picked the one at the head of the table while Sienna picked the one opposite yourself.

Michel Dorn was introducing himself and the reason for the team when Major Daniel appeared with a scruffy looking male at his heels. “Apologies for the late arrival team, this is Detective Carlton Hickman, he will be joining us” the Major gestured toward the Detective who was looking at the floor, almost ashamed. “Please, Dorn, continue,” Major Daniel apologised and gestured for Dorn to continue. You tried to focus on what Dorn was saying and not the fact that Sebastian was behind you, tried to shake the intrusive thoughts of his breath on the back of your neck that you once loved, you gave your head a gentle shake and began to stand when you noticed everyone else was beginning to move.

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You were standing in a cemetery in England, dressed in black with the rest of the team. Sebastian had his arm around your shoulder, and you stared blankly at the hole in the ground which your friend and colleague was about to be lowered into. Tommy had taken the loss hard, angry at himself for not seeing it coming. When the priest had finished speaking and the team began to walk to Sienna’s mother you felt Sebastian’s hand on your lower back as support as you walked on the grass in heels and saw Anne-Marie with her arm looped in Sebastian’s free arm on the other side. Tommy couldn’t contain himself and spoke some hard truths to Sienna’s mother. The team tried to calm him, but it was in vain. Sebastian continued to support Anne-Marie up the muddy hill while you and Eva had linked arms and walked behind. Returning to the hotel in the cars was sombre and quiet, you were in a car with Eva, Tommy, Ann-Marie and Sebastian. Tommy was driving as he was the one most adept with British roads and driving, you, Sebastian and Anne-Marie were in the back. Poor Sebastian had been placed in the middle seat and you were staring out the window closest to you, not paying much attention to the passing scenery. You felt a warm hand grip the one of yours which had a vice grip on the loose part of your dress making you realise and release the fabric. You focused on Sebastian’s reflection in the window you were gazing out of, he had given a small look toward your hand and then looked forward as though it was instinctive and natural. You forgot how grateful you were when he was this thoughtful and effortless in his affections.

At the hotel you got out and Sebastian and Eva helped Anne-Marie, you all met up with Louis and Carlton at the hotel bar along with a couple of other guests who happened to be staying in the same hotel. You all raised a glass to Sienna. You hadn’t noticed the glances and staring Sebastian was throwing your way, you were wallowing in your grief too much to notice. Sebastian had forgotten how beautiful and graceful you could be when you didn’t think anyone was paying attention to you.

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It had been a few months since Sienna’s funeral, her loss was still felt throughout the team. Tommy was still brooding. Anne-Marie had recovered from her surprise trip to the hospital shortly after the incident. The team was in a solemn routine, Tommy entered smelling like a distillery according to Dorn. You and Sebastian tended to be in the computer lab, Sebastian working on his Scan Gen, you working on a programme to gain quicker access to non-public access feeds. It was a comfortable silence between you both, the silence occasionally being broken by questions about software or code checking.

The day you never turned up was a surprise to the team as you were normally quite reliable at being in the office shortly after Dorn and Louis. Eva was supposed to collect you from a predetermined location, and you hadn’t shown. Louis attempted to call and message you to no avail. Sebastian discreetly attempted to reach you too. After an hour of no one on the team being able to contact you, Louis asked Sebastian to try and locate your phone, while reluctant, Sebastian obliged. When your phone showed you were at home, Louis and Eva went to your apartment while Sebastian began to internally panic and began to jump the gun and try to access cameras and CCTV to see if you had left your apartment and if you had, then at which point you went missing.

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You awoke with a pounding in your head. You tried to reach up to see if you had been bleeding and found your hands and feet bound to a chair you had been placed upon. You tried to open your eyes to look at your surroundings, but the minimal amount of light which penetrated the darkness surrounding you both was too much for your head but too little for you to see anything. You were left in the darkness, alone with your thoughts and your mind racing with who you had pissed off enough to come at you like this.

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You had been out of it for most of your abduction. The team had taken 2 days to find you, and when they did, they found you in Antwerp, Belgium. When they found you Sebastian and Tommy had been the first to breach the door. They had found you semi-conscious and your feet bound, and hands tied behind your back on the floor. Sebastian called to the team that he had you and for the others to go after the perp while he carried you outside. Once the team had left the room, he held your head in his hands and spoke to you, releasing your feet and hands, “Come on meine Liebe, don’t give up on me now Liebling.” You groaned and once while your eyes and head were adjusting to the noise and the light. Once you realised your hands were free you quickly and desperately clung to Sebastian.

“Seb?”

“Ja, Ja Liebling, Ich bin hier, du bist in Sicherheit.” He was frantic and reverted to his native language knowing you would understand, you gripped him tighter than you ever had before hands tracing his face, making sure this was real. He held you tightly and firmly in his grasp, your lips grazed each other’s in your closeness, “you’re injured, let’s get you out of here, think you can stand?” Seb, always a gentleman and not the greatest fan of getting caught in public. You nodded your head and clung to Sebastian like your life depended on it as he supported you to the ambulance to be looked over. You refused to let Sebastian leave your line of vision or be too far from you, Hickman noticed the reluctance of separation and suggested to Louis that Sebastian be the one to accompany you to the hospital instead of Eva.

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In the hospital you discovered that someone who had wanted to test the team had taken you to prove that the new cross border team could be vulnerable and had caught you as you passed by an alleyway to meet Eva. She had missed you by minutes and began to beat herself up about it, which you assured her she shouldn’t do, you were more embarrassed and pissed at yourself for being caught off guard than anything else.

(GIF CREDIT TO THE OWNER)

[daniel-bruehl]

Top give Daniel Bruhl roles?

oh well that's easy!

Lightning McQueen

Lightning McQueen

Lightning McQueen

Zemo

Lightning McQueen <3

thank you for asking! 💗

ask me my top 5 of anything!

(but to give an actual answer:

Zemo my beloved

Laszlo Kreizler my other beloved

Tonda my unwashed baby

Paul Krantz my beloved sad boy

Daniel Weltz my beloved bastard

but i honestly loved most of his characters except maybe sebastian zöllner lmao but even him he played brilliantly so it's hard to choose a top 5 here lol)

[makalauriels]

Hi! So sorry, I have just read your tags: is there a version in which Celeborn was married before Galadriel?? Thank you!

I'll have to check on that when I have time, but I think it's in the History of Celeborn and Galadriel in... I want to say Unfinished Tales, but I need to go and check.

As far as I can recall, it's from the time period when Amroth was written as Celeborn's son from his first marriage. And then he was Galadriel and Celeborn's son, brother of Celebrian. And then he ultimately became Amdir's son. These kinds of shifts happen a lot as Tolkien was still trying to figure out the story. That's what I remember, but it's also entirely possible for me to be wrong since it's been awhile. I promise to get back to you ASAP.

[heartoferebor]

Chrissenzia is a lovely name! Does it mean anything?

It *is* a lovely name but would not have fit me at all! The one they chose instead worked far better (and I loved it so much I did keep it as my second name when I changed names as part of transitioning. My first name is now the one they'd have given me if I'd been assigned a different gender at birth! (this happened by coincidence btw. I was looking for a name, really liked this one and was like HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT. And my mum, tearing up, went 'it's what we were planning on calling you when we didn't know what gender you were gonna be yet'. :D).

I think it was based on Chrysanthemums, one of my mum's favourite flower (plus, my birthday is at the end of December, and it's a winter flower :)).

[fukutomichi]

Hi, I'm so Sorry to bother you, do you have any idea where I could find a download link for Rings of Power? I saw you made many high-quality gifs, but I cannot for the Life of me find a working link. Thank you.

AAAHH!! So sorry for replying late bby! ;___; I use torrents for getting HQ episodes, and there’s one site that has some download links in case torrents don’t work. I’ll DM you some links! <3

[that-pissed-off-tolkien-blogger]

 ♪!!

SEND ME A  ♪ I WILL PUT MUSIC ON SHUFFLE AND GIVE YOU A SONG AND MY FAVORITE LINE FROM IT!

Song: TMHC by Aether Realm

Favorite Line: TMHC has entered the brawl TMHC will you answer the call? Now you're one of us Til your bones are dust TMHC takin over the world right now

[queenmeriadoc]

Celebrimbor, Gil-Galad, Elrond. 😘

Husband - Celebrimbor

Bestfriend - Gil-Galad (I am so sorry baby)

Brother - Elrond

Send me the names of 3 men and I’ll tell you who I want as my

[sindar-princeling]

Hi, I'm sorry to bother you, I just wanted to ask: how long will It be until the next pause for the newsletter? When will we have the First day(s?) without an entry? Thank you!

Hi! Right now we're going non stop right up to March 25th!

[elven-child]

Hi! Sorry to bother you, but I just discovered The Magnus Archive. Is there a website where I can listen to, and read, it, simultaneously, since I am too lazy to make an effort need a transcript?

Thank you so much!

Hi! No need to apologise :) whenever i needed to check out the transcript, I just went to the unofficial archive: https://snarp.github.io/magnus_archives_transcripts/

There's no site that has both audio and the transcript in one place as far as i know, though :(

[joemawle]

Hi! Sorry to bother you, do you know where I could watch Soundproof? I can't find it anywhere! Thank you so much anyway.

Hello :)

I found it only on Youtube in 6 parts. Unfortunately it's not the best quality and the subtitle can be annoying.

And you never bother me, write me if you would like to, dear :)

[gatefleet]

Hi, may I please request a fic for Sebastian Berger from Crossing Lines? Maybe Reader's a former girlfriend he meets when she joins the team and realizes he still has feelings for her, or he comforts her after she had been taken hostage and they end up kissing? Hope this is ok, thanks anyway.

Hey lovely!

I LOVED writing this request <3

Your fic has been queued and should be posted at 10:21am (GMT) on Saturday!

Hope it's what you're looking for I may have lost a little bit of control on this one.....