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College AU for whatever pairing you'd like!

I’ve been thinking about this and I’ll go with Eowyn and Faramir because I watched the movies for the first time last month and I am currently reading the books (and lots of fanfiction) at a slow pace. 

College AU

- Eowyn is a badass student studying Medicine, wanting to specialise in women’s health. Faramir is a law student because his dad forced him into it but would love to study Art History.

- They keep seeing each other around campus: library, cafeteria, bookshop, the gym… they end up talking about the weather at first, but become fast friends

- They have a complicated handshake. Snapping fingers and all

- So many study sessions. They enjoy spending time together while working on their individual careers, so they work together at the library. They even have their own table. Usually, they sneak snacks and bribe the security guard with a bag of Haribo bears.

- They are clueless they fancy each other. Until one day Eowyn falls asleep on his car after a long night studying for finals at the library. He decides to lower the seat and spend the night in the car so she could rest. After a couple of hours, she wakes up and drags him to her room to sleep together.

- Their brothers adore them. Boromir becomes best friends with Eowyn and Eomer thinks no other man would be acceptable for his little sister. Their siblings just love spending time with the couple, and with their partners (Lothiriel and Boromir’s significant other) they have a cheese and wine club once every fortnight.

5 AU headcanons

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@ anyone who’s considering writing a high school au, may i humbly suggest: lothiriel and faramir wearing eowyn and eomer’s letterman jackets

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Eowyn and Eomer, not liking Grima

Also flower meanings!

(pls appreciate me lotr fandom )

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She’s a terror.

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My favorite horsey siblings 🐴

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1928 c. Gold lame and green chiffon evening dress. From Pinterest.

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thinks about the scene in the house of healing where Aragorn points out that Eowyn got fucked up mentally because of how she was treated at home… and Eomer - who had just gone from thinking Eowyn was killed, to realizing she was not dead but dying, and then to the immense relief of knowing she’s been stabilized, all within the span of a day - now has to realign AGAIN to the fact that she had in fact been trying to kill herself by being out on the battlefield.

And he has to process that he might’ve been part of why that happened.

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amy and rory before amy and rory

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I love you “unlikeable” female characters I love you rude girls I love you mean women I love you girl interpretations of the “Asshole with a Heart of Gold” trope I love you women who get labeled Cold and Unfeeling I love you girls who lash out I love you women who lie I love you female characters who make people mad just by existing

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Many have suggested that Mr. Benedict Bridgerton might desire to join the mart this season. This author suspects what the second son truly seeks is a sense of purpose. I do encourage you to say yes to society for once, Mr. Bridgerton. You never know where it may lead you.

Society may surprise you yet, Mr. Bridgerton...

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LOTR PEOPLE just thinking about a Possession AU where Éowyn and Faramir are PhD students at different universities researching this early medieval Old English text called Þāra Hringa Hlāford and they develop an academic rivalry about whether a certain two figures in the narrative were getting it on or not. This debate is much encouraged by a certain reincarnated Prof. G. L. Findel who knows an enemies to lovers moment when he sees one and gets them together for some field study

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You get it!

Imagine that. You're Aragorn. You're Isildur's heir. You inspire loyalty wherever you go. All who know you love you. Your people will follow you into the gates of hell. You're a deadly and valiant soldier, yet your hands also have magical healing powers. You save Middle Earth and become a great and beloved king.

You're own creator still says you're not good enough for Eowyn

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Modern art

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just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog

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Hi! I've been following you for a while and I love your account! I wanted to ask, where does your love for Rohan come from? Did you simply watch the movies/read the books and decided it was your favorite place to be or was there a deeper reason/is it a place you gradually fell in love with? I'd love to read more about your headcanons, they're all so interesting!

Aw, thank you! That’s such a lovely thing to say. I know a lot of your own characters and interests are set in the Gondor context, and I love my Oath of Eorl buddies!

I basically always loved Rohan from the first time I was exposed to LOTR as a reader. I grew up around horses, so that was hugely significant to the younger me. Rohan also had the most substantial female character in the story (Galadriel was cool but kind of scared me!), so I was very attached both to Éowyn and her land.

As I got older, I got (a little!) more nuanced in my feelings. Some of the things I like best about Rohan now are:

–Their culture seems to develop and value free thinkers. We repeatedly see Rohirrim break or bend rules and customs in order to promote what they think is a just and fair outcome – Éomer, Háma, Éowyn, Elfhelm (and presumably all 100+ guys in Elfhelm’s company), Dúnhere and others all do this at various points – and everyone who isn’t being actively manipulated by Saruman seems to accept that as a normal/good thing.

–When a book or movie positions one group of people as good but somehow inferior or subservient to another group, I often find myself attracted more to the alleged inferiors. So when Tolkien set up his hierarchy of humans and put the Gondorians/heirs of Númenor at the top and Rohan a rung below them, I just naturally gravitate to the Rohirrim, who (in my eyes) accomplish just as much and display equal honor and valor while also having the limitations of being so-called “middle men.” I like an underdog!

–Some of the big Rohan characters evolve quite a bit during the story, which doesn’t happen for everyone. Faramir was apparently born a fully actualized person, for example, and (Book) Aragorn has a pretty solid grasp on himself and how the world works. But the Rohirrim are always learning. Éowyn’s arc is huge and impactful. Éomer is constantly taking in new info and adjusting the way he looks at the world (like when Gandalf explains the concept of patriarchy to him in ROTK!). And I appreciate that about them.

–The movies absolutely played right into my preferences. The Rohan score, the scenery, the overall aesthetic (warm colors and carved wood vs. Minas Tirith’s stone and monochromes), the armor, the Karl Urban, the 6,000 people screaming “Death”. All 100% my vibe.

Thank you for asking!

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)