I’m glad it’s over, heget, and i hope the rest of the day is very peaceful and pleasant!
So far it has! Been one of the most pleasant Thanksgivings in a long time. Plus I had my piece of pumpkin cheesecake with whipped cream and going back to watching tv
I keep trying to cancel 2017 but somehow I’m still subscribed and it won’t even let me change the channel to an alternate timeline
uugh. And i’m still feeling unreasonably bummed because I was using Justice League as my motivation to make it through the second half of the year, and I got my worst fears realized. At this point there’ll be some bullshit connected to Tolkien/Silm and/or The Force Awakens will have all the plot and character developments I fear including idk, that Snoke is actually Admiral Thrawn.
Oh damn, hmmm. I think Wonder Woman’s character going from her stand-alone to BvS and JL would be very popular with Galadriel and survivors from the Third Age. Actually WW would be a popular movie for Beleriand, that leaving paradise with optimism about defeating evil only to face the fact that the real world isn’t black and white but to have faith in goodness and try anyways and that she does defeat Morgoth Ares. That would be cathartic. Man of Steel, with its central message of an orphan boy sent to be fostered in a new place for his safety, the outsider looking for his people, trying to defend the home he knows, who is inexperienced because of youth…like damn, I want to show Túrin that movie and promise him there’s a happy ending. Tuor too. I think Tuor and Idril would make in-jokes comparing themselves to Lois and Clark. Then the self-sacrifice in BvS, he would understand that and to show him the funeral scenes and Bruce’s speech. I think Finrod would love them all, and Beren and Lúthien. And the Valar. Maybe Thorin and the other dwarves too.
Suicide Squad is a funny one, because the premise is people thought of as irredeemable by society are being manipulated as tools but those in power, and yet the squad is able to find fellowship in each other and do the right thing in spite of the world. If the Tolkien characters can look pass the punk rock sensibilities, modern craziness, and the gray morality of the protagonist characters, I think they could like it. I remember Túrin redeeming the outlaws, so I think there’s a chance. Maybe Beleg loves it?
I have that idea about Batman in general starting among the Balar refugees – widely popular at the start of the Second Age.
Green Lantern: the Animated Series is beautiful space adventures of Space Dad and Space Uncle babysitting their AI daughter and helping Angry Space Zuko work through his beautiful redemption arc and then the later two have this star-crossed lovers and not sure why but I can see some Third Age people (Elrond) loving it. Elrond and his brother are huge DC Shills.
Thingol loves and hates Under the Red Hood because of how Bruce doesn’t reconcile with his son and Jason doesn’t come home.
Aquaman is going to be widely popular. Ironically not just the Teleri- there are some Noldor princes, not naming names, that get a kick out of Arthur stopping Orm and gaining the kingship.
The central conceit of DC is Godly Powerful beings trying to be human, and the movies that reflect that (BvS especially in my opinion) would be very popular with the Ainur. Gandalf understands their hope.
OH OH I LOVE THE FUSIONS
THANK GOD BECAUSE I AIN’T STOPPING ANYTIME SOON
’
but only because the bar was so low.’ ;A;
Let’s look at this- the main one: I stuck the character in the literally pits of hell on earth, slave to an actual Evil God, also took away some fingers and toes, kept him there for almost a century, had the other character also stuck in Evil God Central HQ as a prisoner after having her entire city destroyed by a dragon ….and it’s still a softer fate than their original canon. Other AU had the forgetting of identity with added animal transformation. Still nicer.
Plus, Halls of Mandos and Gardens of Estë. Even with the other fusion characters I’ve killed even with the one or two that didn’t die in the original canon, like Cloud Strife, I get that reset button of everyone heals and is reborn. Purely benevolent resurrections. No Red Gods.
I came out to have a good time and I’m feeling so attacked right now. I keep walking this path of pain and thorns ;_; omg it’s so good but whhhhyy
If I replied any way but honestly, it would be a disservice to you, a lovely loyal reader who made the extra effort to write me a reply. So:
I like tears.
And I keep promising that there’s happy stories with these OCs and then posting what amounts to a long string of death fics. Which…these are Silmarillion fics. I can’t write true original flavor, but here’s how I try my best.
Hey, he gets reembodied and reunited with Indomunië and they live together at the inn she runs and he works as a delivery/messenger boy because remember, this is angsty only because I’m borrowing it from this.
…. you’re on a mission to destroy me
I PROMISE YOU – all reading this series and Release from Bondage– that I have plans to write the sequel series of “What Everyone Is Doing After They’re Reborn”, just as this series is who they were before and during their imprisonment in Tol Sirion. And it will be self-indulgent fluff and comedy.
But yes, these particular stories are hunting for readers’ tears and heartbreak
Say what now about Luthien??
I think the bullet-point you point to is the one that is basically about all this: Hinnies and Mules (aka I started writing a sequel/interquel that was almost all humorous/horrible dialogue to Hold Fast Err Night Comes, and a stealth prologue for Whatcha Gonna Call It?)
WHY DID I COME BACK FOR MORE SUFFERING!??
….look, I don’t know what to tell you. It took me a while to be honest with myself, but as an author I tend to have three dials and I run through those settings: slice-of-life sweetness, sarcastic levity, and angsty horror, trying my best to end on notes of bittersweet and either fridge horror or fridge hope. (Release from Bondage, for instance is slice-of-life inside a horror setting with an end goal of perfect romantic movie no-more-pain-what-so-ever ending). Is that last dial the one my thumb lands on the most? Probably.
I mean, hey- I just confirmed for y’all that Mahtamë will be reunited with the husband she thought lost forever.
rencat replied to your post : Dreadful Wind
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Yes, this IS the exact reaction I was looking for.
Alako- and Imin and Iminyë- were always loose ends I needed to address with my proposed backstories for the Kings of the Elves. Some solutions I could hand-wave or found a resolution that worked. Alako was refusing to appear in any Valmar setting or when I decided Imin (and a separate Iminyë) would be reborn just in time for the War of Wrath. And thinking of Dowager Queen Former Huntress Mahtamë- she wanted an answer. And I’ve been writing the Oromë waging war on the Dark Hunters – it came to me, the perfect answer of exactly what and where Alako was, the story of their reunion. And by writing both sides, I had the perfect answer to the POV switch prompt.
rencat replied to your post:
POV!
Ermahgod, I love it and that I remember them hehe
It’s Final Fantasy VII, so it was lots of Tifa Lockhart love and fans’ character analysis and how to translate as much of it over into Tolkien while not loosing what makes her while making something interesting enough for a Silm story. And hey, surprisingly it worked even for non-FFVII savvy people. (my worry with fusions like these. Is it enough from the base character to satisfy? Will those unfamiliar with the character root still be interested?)
I like my spear-carriers, what can I say?
heget's WordPress 