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Omg what you’re writing a fic for this??!?!??! I didn’t know!! I would’ve put more thought into it (honestly I was kinda bullshitting everything?? Some clicked and they we’re just PERFECT!!!!! but others were just not???) I’m very curious as to how this is going to turn out!!!!!!! (if you want we can bounce a few more ideas of each other, I had multiple creatures for each one (except Ulmo sadly, honestly I drew a blank with him))

Yes! For a few years now – I can give the AO3 links, but they’re also on my blog. Of Ingwë Ingweron – it’s the long labor of love (and niche interests) where I started writing the part of The Silmarillion I thought I never would aka elves pre-Great Journey, focused mostly on the Minyar/Vanyar. So far the only Valar to appear is Oromë and Nahar, and the chapter I’m trying to finish is has the majority of the shape-changing. (a WIP is the most recent post in my young bucks of cuiviénen tag) In the side-story collection is more prehistoric animals cameos- or at least one vaguely referenced, also where I complain that having the elves encounter mammoths and mastodons don’t contradict canon, but having them gather water reeds and rushes does. But the only other fic I’ve written that uses these ‘Valar in prehistoric megafauna’ ideas is this Ilmarë one.

Eh~~ Ulmo doesn’t show up to meetings, he doesn’t get to show up on these lists 😉

And it’s a spit-balling ideas post, so these off-the-cuff ideas are perfectly fine, so yes, would love to hear ideas!

kingbratwurst:

sindefara:

squirrelwrangler:

Okay, Valar fans who are also paleontology fans or just big dinosaur fans- help me brainstorm what other extinct megafauna the various Ainur are

Ossë is a basilosaurus- those gigantic sea serpent looking toothed whales of the warm shallow seas.

Oromë is a giant ground sloth and the large antlered deer like the Irish elk.

Ilmarë is a terror bird, and so might Eönwë.

Is Aulë one of those giant beavers? 

Who is the saber-tooth cat? Or the tiny precursor to the horse?

Is Ulmo a coelacanth?

Ulmo was a Dunkleosteus)

I wanted to do all the Valar so please bear with this long post (also please excuse any language mistakes this was done by a non-native speaker in a hurry)

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Yay, more lovely detailed replies!

So as someone who loves vultures and already wrote vultures into my Bór series as the always paired with eagles positive royal iconography of their culture and thus also very prevalent in early Númenor, having Manwë as a beautiful giant vulture is frankly more delightful that giant eagle. Also something something symbolic cleaning up after Melkor’s violence, repairing of Arda Marred so it’s livable, be nice to the scavengers and decomposers because the ecosystems depend on them.

Varda can be as big or small as she wants, and since her handmaiden is a terror bird, we can go back further. To be honest, something about that collecting and using the nectar/dew of the Trees in vaults and pools to make more stars does bring to mind the image of bees making honey, but the connection to flowers and spring and dancing means the bee iconography might show up in depictions for Vàna or Nessa instead. Still. Let’s let Varda have her bees.

Ulmo….lol, dunkleosteus, coelacanth, lungfish … yeah I don’t want some animal that’s very impressive for him. I don’t like him that much, and when he has to do overwhelming grandeur and awe, Ulmo can do that giant manifestation in scale mail that towers like a tidal wave. Ossë the basilosaurus and Uinen who switches between jellyfish and coral when they aren’t in humanoid bodies is here to stay, though.

I like armadillos too. Aulë honestly is the craftsman, so a form without thumbs probably isn’t his jam, but I ain’t saying no to a Vala as an adorable giant armadillo.

Vána as the tiny horse ancestors! OMG YES! Because that’s a) the cutest thing ever and b) Oromë the rider of horses and how this concept of Oromë and Nahar introducing the elves to horseback riding has been a multi-chapter thread so story thematic this is perfect.

Nienna the mammoth – I’m nodding along with you.

Yes- Oromë as the one with most page time and getting to show off his various animal transformations- and as the one where animal transformations seem most aligned to his character- gets to list out several choices: giant deer, over-sized auroch, ground sloth, wolf, panther, weasel… But even if I wrote the hunting scene where he only shifts between ‘elven’, deer, and bull, if Oromë is just by himself and wants to be something other than human/elf, giant ground sloth would be imho the perfect fit for him.

Estë the giant wombat I have only one minor quibble: can they swim? Because she’s in the middle of an island.

Ooo~ Irmo as a snake, and if we tie in a little bit of the caduceus symbol it connects to healing and thus Estë, but then the Sumerian rebirth says Nàmo should be the giant snake, not his brother, but then the two snakes of Finrod’s ring so one or more of the Valar have to be snakes or associated with snakes…

Tulkas is the hell pig. Of course he is the hell pig. Frey and the boars of the Celts and other Northern European traditions on which Tolkien was drawing inspiration demand that someone is a giant pig. And let’s face it, Oromë has sort of claimed the cattle iconography, so Tulkas is the only one left. Like, you have bull, pig, and bear (and deer and horse) as your main three that have to show up. If Tulkas isn’t the Entelodon, then only Melkor is. Yes, pigs are evil. 

meme-spren:

tanoraqui:

From Syl’s point of view, these books are basically one of those cliche movies where the teenage girl really wants to race horses but her father won’t let her because her mother died racing horses; then there’s this one horse who won’t let anyone ride him but she KNOWS has the potential to be great, so she sneaks out and trains him and even though one time he throws her so her leg breaks and her dad freaks out, they eventually win the big race and save the farm. In the very end her dad begrudgingly pats the nose of the older but not quite retired racehorse who’s been begging him for sugar cubes every time he came to the stability to drag his daughter out, a sign that in the direct-to-dvd sequel, he may take up riding again as well.

The best part is that the role of the horse goes to the guy whose hatred for horses is a literal fandom meme

Reblog if you dont shave your legs everyday.

therearecertainshadesoflimelight:

anarchistcuddles:

neshtasplace:

therearecertainshadesoflimelight:

daenys-dreamer:

geneva-pnw:

I just want everyone to see how unrealistic some expectations are.

Wait, there are people who do this? There are actually people who shave their legs everyday? I shave them like once a year and only because I wear shorter pants in the Summer. I was seriously unaware that shaving everyday is something that people do.

So…I’ll share. I shave my legs every single day. I can do it very quickly and have it down to a reflex. I wax my eyebrows regularly too. Really really regularly. Or I have one. My mother did too and I learned it from her.

I’m Sicilian. Dark Body hair maintenance is part of the deal. I can’t go to work in a skirt in a professional setting without shaved legs and be accepted/respected so, yes, I shave every day. My tights wouldn’t even lay smooth if I did that. I have to.

When I hear other women talk about how they shave every few weeks and it’s no big thing I think….yeah….that’s like never been my reality. I was mocked and teased and bullied as a pre-teen because of the black hair on my arms and legs and I begged my Mom for a razor by the time I was in grade school bc I couldn’t take the teasing. I shave in the morning and could literally shave again 6 hours later.

As @captaindove and I have discussed in the past….some of us can’t just stick it to the patriarchy and not shave for months. We don’t all have the same :::kind:: of body hair to get away with that and as silly as it sounds I wish more convos about female body hair remembered that. For a lot of women, body hair maintenance is a necessity or we would face legit public scrutiny/be viewed as gross or lacking in hygiene. It’s not fair but it is what it is.

This kind of feels like some conversation I have with cis women in terms of performing femininity.

I also have dark and thick body hair, and I have a similar experience… I like cannot wear a skirt or shorts unless I wanna show off my bushy legs and be read as a man or like shave the morning of (something something transmisogyny). But like… I often see discussions about leg hair (in various contexts) exclude women of color. Like, yeah sure Sarah, you can not shave your blonde fuzz and talk about how you’re defying the patriarchy (which is definitely a valid and real struggle), but don’t forget about the rest of us : P

I’m super glad this resonated with some people because Tbh I was hesitant to say anything but….yes. And, look, I can’t speak for women of color because as I said above…I’m Sicilian so I can’t speak to what they go through. I can only speak for me and, generally, most of my other white girlfriends have literally no idea what goes into body hair maintenance for some of us. They brag about how they have not shaved for a few days or even weeks and I look at them like …ok not an option for all of us to be accepted by society and not mocked but congrats I guess. :/

Started shaving my legs when I was eleven/twelve – and wanted to sooner to avoid the teasing I got. Another white woman here (Not Mediterranean, let’s blame the Hungarian genes)- with very dark body hair, curly and wiry. Have two sisters – redhead and blonde – with much finer and lighter body hair, enough that it isn’t noticeable if they don’t shave. But yeah, if I don’t shave my legs, it would poke through my socks, leggings, pants (even jeans), you name it. And you bet I was teased for it, and still teased for the rest of my body hair (arms, face, etc…) in school. I don’t bother shaping my eyebrows, but I also pluck to avoid a uni-brow. And some of that is just because after doing so for half of my life, I’ve adjusted to it feels weird and ‘itchy’ otherwise.

So even though I wear makeup very rarely – I might put on lipstick for work, sometimes some eye-shadow, on the odd occasion some mascara, yet to bother with full make-up i.e. concealer and foundation and all that which is a ‘normal routine’ …yeah, maybe twice a year? But I shave my legs at least every other day, even in winter when my legs are completely covered. It’s not about if my legs look good at this point but that they feel uncomfortable, to put it mildly, if I let the hair grow out beyond two or three days- especially if I want to wear anything on my legs.

So yeah, some many of those congratulatory don’t shave your legs posts majorly disconnect with me, so thanks for pointing out why.

Can I ask you couple of questions? Why DC hate Jason? Like why did they make the poll, killed off and then victim blame him? And why he was such mess after UTRH and before the reboot?

phantomchick:

some1onao3:

jaytoddfacts:

jaytoddfacts:

DC doesn’t hate Jason, my dear. You need to learn the history of Jason creation as Robin and Red Hood to understand what actually happened with him because it’s really not a matter of DC hating him and man, Jason has a very interesting history that worth knowing.

Jason was first created in 1983 because of argument between the bat writers and the titans writers over Robin because the former wanted to use him again in Batman books and the latter were like “too bad because we aren’t giving him up” so bat writers were like “you know what? Freak it, we are going to create our own Robin!” and titans writers were like “Wait, what?”. So, DC give the green light to bat writers to create another Robin while told to titan writers to give Dick another identity (which is kind of funny if you think about it because Jason’s creation was the reason behind the birth of Nightwing). Years went by and fans reactions were ranging from “CHANGE IS BAD! REEEEEEEEE” and “I like the new Robin, but his background isn’t very original” (also, I want to tell you two facts here about pre crisis Jason because I really do like him and many unfortunately dismiss him because they think he was just a “copy”. First, it’s not true that pre crisis Jason and post crisis Jason are completely different characters because many things fans like about Jason was influenced by his pre crisis version and the biggest difference between the two versions was the background. Second, Tim road to become Robin was hugely inspired by pre crisis Jason’s and follow the exact pattern. Like discovering that Batman is Bruce Wayne, trying to convince Batman to make him Robin….etc) until the reboot happened which DC decided it was the prefect opportunity to change Jason’s background and Batman become slowly darker thanks to the big success of Miller TDKR which played a big role in what made DC decide to get rid of Robin. You ask why? That’s because some writers and fans liked the idea of dark solo batman stories and Starlin (Batman’s writer at that time and one who wrote Death in the family) in particular felt that Batman is better off without Robin (I want to explain here that he hated the concept of Robin and not Jason himself because he felt that it was stupid how Batman is making child soldiers). Starlin spent months trying to convince the editors to get rid of Robin and was pretty much pushing him at the background until O’Neil “finally” decided to kill Robin by making a poll and let the fans decide “Brilliant, O’Neil!”. So, they were given the green light to make “A Death in the Family” storyline and opened the poll which got them a big response with 10k votes in just three days. Things seemed fine at the beginning and everyone was congratulating O’Neil over his “brilliant” idea until things went south. The story got a big media coverage and people were really pissed off. There were people who liked Jason and were angry that they killed him off (because yeah, it’s not true that “everyone” hated Jason and he actually had fans), people who felt that it was such a coward way to kill a character and the ones who absolutely hated how they killed a child friendly character. So things weren’t going well for DC and the “suites” weren’t happy so Starlin was shown the door and O’Neil tried to control the situation by blaming it on Jason. Yes, he actually was the one started the whole “Everyone hated Jason Todd which is why fans voted to kill him!” and “Jason is very bad Robin who deserved death!”. Not only that, but he also revealed years later that the poll wasn’t legit and Jason wasn’t actually supposed to die. What make it worse that they not only refused to own up to their mistake, but they also decided to destroy Jason’s repetition completely while propping up the “new” Robin.

And this how the first part of Jason’s history end and I hopefully will continue with the second part “soon”.

And here’s the second part of Jason’s history.

Years passed, Jason became the costume behind the glass and no one imagined that he will ever come back. Well, until Hush storyline happened. Many people are convinced that Hush was supposed to be Jason and there were rumors running around that the writer got mad that people figure it out which is why he changed it, others think that DC chicken out last minute. What’s the truth? Nobody knows. The interesting thing though is that the issue where Jason appeared sold so well that even some of hardcore Marvel fans picked it up “IT’S JASON TODD” which made DC (and Marvel) go “hmmm…”. Another years passed by and Batman sales weren’t doing well (yeah, Batman wasn’t always a big seller) so someone was like “huh, what do you think about bringing back Jason Todd? Just for one story to boost sales and then kill him off” and Winick started working on setting up Jason’s return and then UTRH happened. What DC totally didn’t expect was Jason’s popularity and not only that, but fans actually siding with him over Batman. So DC decided to freak out “oh God, how did this happen??” and then they decided to keep him alive with them having no idea what to do except letting their writers playing with him until something stick. Didio though come up with the idea of making Jason the new Nightwing since Dick wasn’t doing well and his popularity was going down fast. So, they were setting up things for him to take over Nightwing book and the Outsiders book until the plan changed last minute and they decided to keep Dick. They were lost again about what do with Jason (and just have appear here and there randomly in some of their books) until Didio pushed for Jason to be in Countdown (Didio was actually pretty concerned about finding a place for Jason). Interestingly, there was a rumor that DC was planning to give the Red Robin mantle permanently and have him starring in a book with Tim called Robin and Red Robin, but the plan was axed because Morrison was planning to make Damian a Robin so Tim was left with no identity which is why they decided to give him the Red Robin mantle instead (it actually explain Jason’s sudden behavior in the end of Countdown). Things weren’t going well for Jason and Daniel made things worse with BFTC where he tried to make him irredeemable villain which of course didn’t work out. After the fiasco with BFTC, Jason completely despaired for a year which made fans extermly frustrated and literally asking for him in every DC panel “Where Jason Todd? Why he doesn’t have a book yet? What the heck is going on?” until DC made the big announcement that “Jason Todd is coming with Morrison’s new story as villain!! Yay?” Fans “………………”. Morrison: “so, I decided to makes Jason a balding red headed loser with no goals or motivation except making the Batfamily’s lives miserable. Cool, right?” Fans: “DCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!!” DC: “……Winick, please come back” and he did where tried to do some damage control (it was said that he was really not happy over what happened). Then, things started to get better when WB decided to make an animated adaption of UTRH and DC finally realizing that Jason is here to stay with Didio declaring in one of the retailers meeting that Jason is one of the most requested characters to get a book. He get a mini series with Winick and N52 has given DC the chance to start fresh with Jason by giving him his own book and team. While DC can do more with Jason by actually bothering to push him and promote him, he still in better place than he ever was before with growing fanbase and presence in the media.

And this how the second part of Jason’s history end where he survived DC’s incompetence, being Nightwing or Red Robin (thank God that it didn’t happen) and moved from being the character who some voted to kill off to one of most requested.

Great post!!! More people need to see this. I’ve come across so many ignorant airheads who claimed Jason was the least favorite, was the terrible Robin, etc. despite never once picked up a comic that had the actual Jason Todd in it. 

“Survived DC’s incompetence”