Month: November 2014

The Shade of Atalantë

Her ghost came in with the tide
And the trails of her wedding shawl
Were weeds and a wet white winding sheet
Of a bride more fair than them all.

The great grey wave scored the heavens
And pulled down a star in its curl;
The lords of the land ought tremble
When the sea gives up its pearl. 

The water wed many such wives;
Great queens who when sunken, bore wings;
Judgment lies in the bright silver knives
Of their eyes fixed accusing at kings. 

The highest of hands drowned the mighty
When Man sought out what was banned;
But the lords of the land ought tremble 
When she walks on the quicksilver strand. 

✝ wish

sharpglance:

Send me a “✝” to read a wish from the book.

Do any of the Gondolindrim see the same sun that sets and rises that I do? Do they hasten their labors, and are they stretched thinner and feel more pressed after the Battle?

There are times when I sit idle with a sore body when I become acquainted with the feeling that there is a place that I justly ought to be. It is not quite so unfamiliar a sensation, but this time there is a rather wistful, tender feeling about it rather than a desire to be free from somewhere. Certainly, if I desired to, I could find something to fiercely blame for my being here or for why I have not yet tried to return: some personal failing or the fault of another, circumstances that I cannot change or bend to the favor of anyone.

To be powerless in a situation so beyond my control – I yearn for the kind of strength that my mother bore so proudly for years. I must find resolve, as she did.

(✿◠‿◠)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ 

Happy Thursday, everyone. I hope it’s a good Thursday. 

You make this, and every Thursday, a delight. ❤

WHAT ABOUT THÛSDAY??? GRONDSDAY? MELKWOCH? WE DEMAND REPRESENTATION IN YOUR HUMAN CALENDAR WEEK! 

Boys, please. You can rename all the days you want when you finish taking over Beleriand. 

…….

That’s still the plan, right?

WE ARE WORKING ON IT. 

Doesn’t seem like that’s going so well.  (ºーº ✿);;; 

SILENCE. EAT YOUR ROAST BIRD. 

give us some

YES GIVE US SOME ALSO. 

I want a drumstick 

┯━┯ノ(ºvºノ)  Well, have a seat i guess. Melkor, you can sit next to me. Sauron, you’re going to be next to my Aunt. Try not to bring up politics. Maybe don’t mention your day jobs. No werewolves at the table. Be prepared to answer questions about how you met and how long you’ve been together. 

…SINCE BEFORE TIME?

You can tell the short version. 

ARE YOU GOING TO MENTION YOUR DAY JOB?

I don’t have a day job. I just babysit you assholes. (°__°  )

DOESN’T SEEM LIKE THAT’S GOING SO WELL. 

SHUTUPANDEATYOURTURKEY. └(òロó└)

Grindr (G-R-N-DR): the gay Khazad finder app, not to be confused with Grinder (G-R-D-N-R), an app that tells you the Mohs hardness level of various minerals. 

OkayOromë: an online dating platform that features compatibility tests for Avari in love. Prospective partners’ profiles are compared and their percentages of Friend, Enemy, Kinslayer, and Relative, are revealed. Comes with a mobile app, solely for iOS. 

Adult Kinfinder: a similar site for Quenya speakers, with advanced features that allow you to determine the culture, age, death-status, and global placement of your dateable cousins. Mobile app available on multiple platforms. 

Moot Roulette: a chat service that connects you randomly with other online Ents. It’s mostly all men though. 

Pint.rest: Aggregate blog for hobbits. Allows members to share and reblog favorite pub pictures, locations, menus, open/close times, etc. Largely consists of snapshots of food, gossip, and trending hashtags. (“@lobelia where are my spoons???”  #SackvilleScum) 

Grondr: Grindr for gay orcs. 

napoldeinlove:

eehn:

I’m doing Fingolfin’s last ride for my animation final, and I need a little help. I want something translated into Quenyan, is there anyone who can do it? It’s this:

‘Come forth, O monstrous craven lord, 
and fight with thine own hand and sword,’ 

and

‘thou foe of Gods and elvish race! 
I wait thee here. Come! Show thy face!’ 

In return I’ll draw something for you. Just hit up my ask box if you’re interested.

summoning almare who is good at this sort of thing

*O* !!!!!!!

attackofthecosmobat:

The orchid genus Dracula, abbreviated as Drac in horticultural trade, consists of 118 species. The strange name Dracula, literally means “little dragon”, referring to the strange aspect of the two long spurs of the sepals. 

The Dracula genus has some of the more bizarre and well-known species of the subtribe Pleurothallidinae. The species which comprise this genus are among the most highly prized of all orchids in horticulture for their ever blooming habit and their large, bizzare, and colorful flowers. 

These epiphytic and terrestrial species are distributed in Central America and the northwest Andes, almost half in Ecuador alone. They prefer shadow and an even, rather cold, temperature. Read more…

Pictured above are three species of Dracula orchids: D. Vampira (Top), D. Chiroptera (Left), and D. Venosa (Right)

Ah, the flowers of Minas Morgul 

Source: attackofthecosmobat-blog

I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

Nalo Hopkinson, in “Write Your Heart Out”: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson on Strange Horizons (via marginalutilite)
Source: marginalutilite

I think of connectedness and connections—of how if we are to thrive inside an existing oppressive structure, we need systems of support. This need means moving away from the narratives that have been fed to us and narratives that feel safe because we recognize their boundaries.

For many of us, the idea of leaving behind the familiar landscape can be scary. If we are entrenched in our ways, adjustment is difficult and challenging. Challenging our own assumptions, questioning our biases, learning to look with a different set of eyes and changing the way we think about people is hard work. Indeed, it’s much easier to carry on down the familiar and beaten track rather than to launch out into the unknown.

On the beaten track, we know how to speak and how to walk and how to be. Walking the unknown means opening ourselves up again and making ourselves vulnerable to possible hurt and misunderstanding.

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, “Movements: Towards Change,” Strange Horizons, 24 Nov. 2014

(this article speaks about sf specifically, but I think it works for other genres as well – and yes, that absolutely includes fanfic/fandom. — Saathi)

Source: saathi1013
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