anghraine:

squirrelwrangler:

[spins the color decoder wheel = I trust you,

I’ve been following you for a long time,

You make me laugh,

You have influenced my decision/thoughts on something]

Thank you, m’dear! That I have earned and not lost trust is probably the most meaningful compliment off that list, and there are times were I’m aiming to be funny so yay for success;) am curious what the last one is

#Team Steward #i would follow you for the austen alone #or star wars #heck i still haven’ #t watched The Borgias and I love all the context you post for it anyway #lovely followers

*blows kisses*

You’re very welcome, and thank you!

I didn’t like Fëanor, but at first I thought you were underselling him a bit, and now I’m like, nope, fuck that guy.

re: tags -you know it’s true. 😉

And as for him, the funniest thing is before tumblr, I would have the same reaction. I never liked him, and even after the first reading that he resented his step-mother and half-brothers was something, while understandable as a weakness of human nature, did not make him attractive at all, and then threatening attempted murder of his brother and the light consequences (yes, I saw the ten-year banishment from Tirion as a light punishment, especially with dangerously enabling Finwë’s actions) soured me on him. But he disappears from the narrative so blissfully soon that he can be weirdly forgettable. So my attitude was that he wasn’t a great guy understatement but not 100% monster without redeeming factors and I didn’t mind his fans- mostly because at least in the mid 00′s I wasn’t truly coming across the fans of the Fëanorians to realize just how much they dominated sections of the fandom and what readings of the characters were out there that put my back against the wall. Oh, I noticed and disagreed with the concept of Fëanor as this champion of freedom of expression and knowledge suppressed by the Valar and the trend towards the demonization of Indis and Fingolfin, though my first exposure to the Silm fandom on tumblr was full of that, plus attacks against Lúthien and Elwing – hence my what the fuck avoid this. But even while trying to avoid that when getting into the Silm fandom, the white-washed version of Fëanor (or just the 180° interpretation of his personality) and others forced me to go back and closely read sections with him that I had always skipped over. And analyzing it made me notice just how uncomfortably nasty his rhetoric in Tirion was, the timeline of when that quote about great deeds casts it as his denial of any wrongdoing in the unprovoked slaughter and theft of allies, just how much my acceptance and tolerance for daddy!Maglor had worn completely away, so on and so forth.

It also forced me to look at Thingol and go from ‘eh i don’t like him but his people are great and he’s not always terrible’ to ‘fuck y’all he’s awesome’.

(Denethor II, Ruling Steward of Gondor, has always been my favorite character from LotR the minute Pippin met him and he refused to play to Gandalf’s script and omg yeah the noble but worn and hardened too brittle by duty older proud warrior authority figure, hello my type)