Omg, just started Band of the Red Hand last nite on AO3, loving it annndddd can you the Vanyar up that list please? I’m not ashamed to beg at this point.

EEee! Don’t admit you’re a new reader – that’s like waving a pick of bacon in from of the dog! Okay I tease, but XD I’m glad you are enjoying this series of bittersweet OCs. Excellent timing, with the long Bân entry finally completed instead of the dribbles and incomplete pieces I’ve been sharing periodically for a year now. The out-of-order nature of writing them does probably hinder their flow if read chronologically, but hopefully they work as a complete picture by the end.

Vanyar fan, too? Well, knew there had to be a reason you were following this blog. 😉

The WIP/To-Do List was organized by categories, not by the order in which I can promise any of it to be written, though as Release from Bondage and Of Ingwë are the two multi-chaptered and unfinished works over at AO3, their demands for attention are shrill. Then it becomes a toss-up between Ravennë-centric ideas or light-hearted Faron/Faelindis fluff.

When/if I return to the Bór – need to continue the saga of what Bledda is up to and formally introduce Bortë, unless I go back into pre-Beleriandic legends similar to what I did for The Brides of Death (which I bring up only because if you wonder where the inevitable fusion with Star Wars is hiding, that’s where) – said stories would have as the major supporting characters a troop of Vanyar soldiers and their commander, Edrahil and Aglar’s half-Vanyar cousin.

Oh, forgot two fic ideas from the back burner  – one is (Takeda Katsuyori) Fingon ousting his Aunt Lalwen as regent/adviser to take full control after Fingolfin’s death, but the other one is teenage Turgon hanging out with Vanyar scribes working in Tirion.

But as I promised, feel free to give actual prompts. or questions about the individual fics.

Ermahgod yes!!! bless ������

*looks up, didn’t even realize this was a fan here* yeah I’m showing up to discourse four years too late bitching about people bitching about Indis’s name. It’s that, too much free time browsing articles on paleolithic humanity, and Ingwë commits ritual murder! That’s totally Tolkien canon! that form the tripod on which this fic stands.

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Heget akzhslaha this is hella cute!

Thank you! I really need to make a stuffed animal and blankets and do a cute photoshoot or something. And make more. The Wonder Woman doll is still my favorite to use as a model. (I have so many red-heads right now, ugh just one brunette please! SW can’t have stolen all of them) I’m making up the patterns as I go, so the really ambitious projects are still pipe-dreams.

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Very cute! And I just got my age of Arda anthology in the mail yesterday and I’m still crying over the pretty!

So much pretty! And I love the simple yet elaborate cover, hence its semi-permanent status as doll photo backdrop.

She looks amazing! And I see your Wheel of Time books heeeyyy

Thank you! And yep, that’s the second shelf of the bookcase with all the WoT- I have up to Knife of Dreams, though that’s the only one with the new artwork. (AHHUGH, the vastly superior new covers) I started reading them in sophomore or junior year of high school- staying up all night and reading through the class day as to finish the first eight books in about a week and a half. (There’s also the big white book you can see in the pics). I know the RuroKen omnibuses would have been more appropriate a backdrop but they’re a shelf down and behind the Dicsworld novels. 

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Still Bitter over Egwene al’Vere and Gawyn Trakand…

I got so upset about them last week. Just washing the dishes….then RAGE!

Sometimes I think about AMOL and just … ugh~~~

Those Min chapters in the beginning of the fifth book where she’s on the run with Leanne and Suian and Loghain were the only time I liked Min, with Gareth’s Javert-esque hunt after them, and I was chuckling with excitement during his POV chapters how he kept thinking of Suian without realizing who she was – and their adorably ‘can’t admit it to ourselves let alone each other’ will-they-won’t-they romantic tension… They were my 2nd tier OTP and that they didn’t get to have semi-retired (ha neither would have settled down to that farm) politicking and ruling life post-Final Battle… *grrr*

(IT WAS AN EITHER/OR! YOU COULD HAVE PICKED THE OTHER COIN FLIP!)

Ugh, I think that’s why I loved the 4th and 5th books so much, that White Tower coup and Salidar plot-line that was so different (that the Deposed Wise Magical Organization Authority survived the predictable removal to open up more drama and had a story after that event is novel and neat). Plus that’s around the point Rand’s chapters started their long slide into ‘cannot stand’. (Ugh, by book six I was already only reading his plot-line by sheer willpower. Which is bad because he was the most central character and in the first two books he was as enjoyable as the other leads. Book Three was one of the best for him ;3 , just for how behind the scenes and between the lines.)

I was very actively stalking online all the theories and Arthurian/mythology/etc.. symbolism and decoding the prophecies, so the whole Rand/Moridin ‘twist’ ending was something that had been called in advance. It wasn’t shocking. And Rand barely redeemed himself for me in the last two books anyway (barely) so I was waiting and hoping for his final sacrifice so he’d finally be gone.

(WoT is also why I forget and then get very annoyed with prophecies in ASoIaF, because I have my giant fantasy series where the crux of plotting involves various characters molding their actions off of prophecies (and are the prophecies of the same persona and are some accurate or dueling or what) and trying to understand their meaning and misreading them or conflicting because of them and magical artifacts. It’s central to WoT. Straight-up prophecies in ASoIaF feel invasive. It’s this weird feeling of mine.)

And Egwene we speak not of. Or Gawyn (poor baby. ugh when he picked up the blood-raven-shadow rings thingies, I knew in the pit of my stomach and still was in denial ‘til several chapters after it happened)