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we hit 20,000 cherik fics on ao3!!!!

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some old works

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What she says: I’m fine.

What she means: The constant woobification of Fëanor and his sons and the constant Noldor bias in the fandom has really made it difficult for me to actually enjoy the Fëanorians and most of the Noldor as characters. It really doesn’t help that a lot of people like to demonize the Sindar for so many reasons. These fans won’t extend the same grace they give to the Fëanorians to Sindarin characters like Thingol, who made mistakes but at least tried to make amends for them, unlike Fëanor and his sons. In addition, their need to demonize Beren and Lúthien is honestly appalling, because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of their story and the broader themes of the Silmarillion— that there is hope in the world that’s worth fighting for. And furthermore, the constant demonization and victim-blaming of Dior and Elwing is genuinely unsettling, especially when the Fëanorians are pitied for the crimes they committed. Lastly, their obsession with property rights and the Silmarils, and their willingness to justify the Kinslayings shows that these people have not truly read or understood the text, and they probably don’t want to properly understand it.

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Round 2 Side C

(no image for Míriel Þerindë)

who is more dead wife?

propaganda:

Portgas D Rouge:

Wife? of the Pirate King Gol D Roger. Mother of his child, which is basically how she died. Were they actually officially married? It's never shown for sure but I think she still counts as a Dead Wife.

Míriel Þerindë:

Míriel Þerindë is the deadest of dead wives. She is so dead that when given the choice to be alive again she refuses! She says "no I am staying dead" and in FACT she is such a dead wife that she is the ONLY elf to die, in all of elf-history, of anything other than violence. Elves are not supposed to die! But she does. After giving birth to her son, Fëanor, she is so exhausted after this and put so much of her strength into making her perfect boy, that she goes to sleep for so long that her soul slips out of her body entirely! Fëanor has a lot of feelings about this and even more feelings about his father remarrying, the first and only elf to do so! This sets off a solid 75% of the plot of the book. (The other 25% is Satan being a dick and wrecking shit.) Míriel is the deadest wife and she is Haunting the Narrative! Also she invented needlework, which is why she's called Þerindë, which means "broideress" (as in a woman who does embroidery). Another fun thing about her: after she died, there was a sound change in Elvish that changed þ (th) into an s, which would make her name Serindë, but her son Fëanor objected. First because it would confuse words by making new homophones but also because it would change his mother's name and make it sound more like the word "serë" meaning "rest."

Are YOU tired of soft gentle dead wives giggling under a white top sheet for some reason?? Do YOU want a Dead Wife where the primary description we get of her personality is that the most Unhinged character in the whole book inherited his personality from her? Have YOU ever wanted every single problem for every person in the world ever to be caused by the most unhinged son ever being completely obsessed with living up to his dead mother’s legacy?? She EVEN caused a major linguistic rift after her death and so much arson happens because she died. Every single problem she caused could have been solved by polyamory but nobody would explain what that is. She EVEN had foresight about her son doing arson because she died, and then insisted on dying anyway. Nobody is doing it like her.

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it was a bad pain day yesterday so i was using my cane and i said to my bf “when i use my cane it makes me feel like i should be prescribing mouse bites.” and bf did not know what i meant so i sounded malignantly insane

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been going through a bit of an artstyle change but here it is

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remembering all the times i spent money

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(i am usamerican so please convert to your currency of your country if you're non-american)

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It's only a headshot but It's 2am and I'm working tomorrow💀

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If Charles dies in Apocalypse… Just want to see Erik begging Charles to read him.

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What if.. Glorfindel joined the Fellowship,,

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Glorfindel with his big cool white horse and luscious hair <3

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may the fourth be with you or whatever they say

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idk why ibis paint suddenly saving my art to photos rather than files,,,had to take a ss </3 that means the quality is worse :((