Remembrance

beguilingblackness:

Even as I write this I know that people in Arina have forgotten almost everything about them. It is plain to me. I would talk to my father about all the silver they had paid us and he would be puzzled, like he did not know where it had all come from. I would ask the innkeeper, Arafat, about them, only to see him struggle to remember. “They slept for three days here, right? I didn’t talk to them too much,” he would tell me, then quickly change the subject to something more mundane.

They had, in fact, slept in his inn for months.

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“The tall one showed me then something he called a “star chart”, a disc of wood I had brought him where he had carved circles and dots, which he said represented the constellations of the heavens above. ’When one hunts the dark,’ he said to me, ’one needs light to guide him.’”

BLUE. WIZARDS. REALNESS. 

beguilingblackness:

kingofexplodia:

Morgoth, in his prettiest form, holding a Silmaril or three.

Still can’t show any of my recent client stuff, so it’s been fanart month, apparently!

Morgoth. With a beard. SIMON UNDERWOOD YOU ARE A VISIONARY!! May I interest you in joining the SIlmarillion fandom?

*gestures* WELCOME, PLEASE COME IN

snartha:

I wish there was a Tolkien-themed Secret Santa for artists/writers. I know there’s that “leave anon messages every day” Secret Santa but it’s not the same, I want an art exchange. 😦 I don’t see anything going on for the Metalocalypse fandom either this year, sigh.

i will totes be someone’s Secret Jewish Art Santa!

Fandom: The Gift Economy

[Excerpted from Fan Labor on Wikipedia.  See also Fan work: Labor, worth, and participation in fandom’s gift economy on Transformative Works and Cultures.]

Gift economy

The most common formal economic model associated with fan labor practices is a gift economy.[15] In the social sciences, a gift economy is a society where valuable goods and services are regularly given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards (i.e. no formal quid pro quo exists).[16] Ideally, simultaneous or recurring giving serves to circulate and redistribute valuables within the community.

The gift economy manifests in fan labor practices through the writing and posting of a story (the gift given/exchanged), followed by the reading of the story (gift acceptance, completing the initial exchange), and finally, feedback to the original author and potentially passing the work along or linking to it for others to see (the reciprocal gift given).

The gift can also be surplus labor made in excess of the labor necessary from the worker, created not for other fans but rather to compel the original media property to notice their indebtedness and do something for the fans in return.[17] These gifts are like offerings made to show the original producers that there is a lively fandom for their product, and possibly encourage the producers to make more. This was the case with the fans of the Firefly TV series, who engaged in very visible fan activities, such as charity events, “guerrilla marketing” activities, creation of fan videos, and filk in order to successfully convince a studio to green-light a movie sequel to the canceled TV series.[18]

The organization of a gift economy stands in contrast to a barter economy or a market economy. The gift economy of fandom is seen by many fans as a central tenet of “what makes fandom different.”

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The road goes ever on and on etc etc WOOOOH MOUNTAINS!

OKay okay okay so apparently I’m going to be on the road tomorrow (packing tonight blueeeuughghgg) and heading home for Thanksgiving! Not sure how long I’m going to be there, probably two weeks or more. 

I’m takin’ most of my art supplies and stuff with me so I can work on commissions. I’ll probably get some more writing and RPing done while I’m there because I’ll be honest with you Idaho Falls is not the world’s most exciting town. XD

WISH ME LUCK ❤ 

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