December 2014 – Page 5 – MisbehavingMaiar: Tumblr Archive

-hesitantly kisses Melkor’s cheek- Happy Yule… Again.

Ah, yes! Today is a special day. One year of faithful service as my jester! I think it’s time we gave you a holiday bonus, don’t you?

What would you like, my pet?

givenclarity:

haven’t had much of a chance to draw laltely but I did manage a tiny Gorthol Mormegil

THANKS A LOT

Source: apriki

PS: I will never be offended if you come collect me for talking out my ass on your home turf.

misbehavingmaiar:

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.

Marco Polo is a fun show and overall I enjoyed it, but I wish they don’t twist the history too much just to make Marco as a white saviour. Him uncovering Ariq’s treachery, finding the secrets about Xiangyang wall and teaching the Mongolian to build trebuchet just simply wrong (it’s by muslims) & took the credits from the people who really did it. I’m grateful for the interest in Mongolia but as someone whose culture presented there and also familiar with the history I think they can do better.

I absolutely agree.

I mean, not only is it inaccurate (I will take your word on that because I will be the first to admit that I am ignorant about not only the politics and history of the Silk Road but that whole geographic region) but from a writing standpoint the show is at its weakest when it tries to crowbar Marco into a position of “heroic lead”. Even the fact that the series is called “Marco Polo”, as opposed to Kublai Khan (who is ostensibly the focus of the series) is a weird decision. I feel like half of those instances were caused by some executive’s insistence that the series be “relatable” to white Western audiences by giving them Marco as a lead….. WHICH IS BULLSHIT, because the whole show is basically built to be relatable to Western audiences in the first place, and putting Marco at the center of attention is just plain unnecessary; and it is done at the expense of real history and real people. (To say nothing of the occasional montage of ~*exotic orgies of the forbidden Eastern women*~. JUST?? WHY. Those scenes are so uncomfortable and gross. I mean, they go back and try and humanize SOME of the characters afterwards BUT UGH UGH NO UGH WHY EVEN GO THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!)

I don’t necessarily think the fact that it caters to Western audiences is a bad thing? I think it’s AWESOME that we have this showcase of amazing actors and costumes and music. The problem lies, I think, with the fact that it is going to be a lot of Westerners’ ONLY window into that period. A costume drama should never be a substitute for native voices and scholarship– it can be a really exciting introduction, and even a primer for history, but when its the only example you have in the genre, it can lead to very damaging consequences.

That is why I hope that this show does well– receives the necessary criticism publicly, and encourages more and better examples to come forward and be successful.

I think the show does a many things right and it is, as you say, great fun. And yes, absolutely, they could do better. And I hope they do!

–And hey, thank you for speaking out! You’re doing a brave and valuable service to the fandom and I’m happy to listen. 🙂

assholedisney:

on the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me five golden rings

on the 6th day of Christmas I realized my true love is Sauron and he does not share power, I think these birds he gave me are spying on me, and he chopped down my pear tree after like the third day??

jrrtolkiennerd:

nevui-penim-miruvorrr:

Saying their last good byes, forever.

ohelrond

NO. NO. NOOOO. No. No. NAH. NOPE. NERP. nap. NO. NOOOOOOO. NOOOOOOOOO YOU STAY OVER THERE WITH THOSE FEELINGS. I DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS. I DON’T WANT THIS. STAY AWAY. GET OUT AND YOU TAKE YOUR HALF-ELVEN BROTHER FEELINGS FAR, FAR AWAY FROM ME YOU STUPID PICTURE I DO NOT NEED TO CRY TODAY I AM SO DONE

Source: nevui-penim-miruvorrr