YES! I read it… maybe two years ago? I know I have a tumblr post where I was going back and re-reading the series sometime around last April and May. That was when I noticed other people on my dash had discovered the series and I got excited because that doesn’t happen with me. No one else outside family has read Honor Harrington or Ring of Fire or the other SF series I constantly re-read. But as for Vorkosigan, I was first introduced to it because of Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series noting on the TV Tropes pages and elsewhere that a certain couple were expies of Aral and Cordelia. And thus I knew I had to hunt down that source of awesome. Plus Bujold was one of the big Baen Staples of that Author Stable that I hadn’t yet got around to reading (she hadn’t co-written anything with Eric Flint yet, there’s my excuse). But Baen Free Library and their CDs meant I spent a few weeks breezing through the Vorkosigan series (and grumpy that I still can’t find copies of the latest two books at my libraries or local book stores). I can’t remember if I read The Hallowed Hunt before or after Miles. But for the longest time I only had that third book because the other two weren’t at our local library. But when I started watching Isabel (Spanish historical drama), I went back and looked up the Chalion series to realize the earlier two books were ‘AU Fantasy Isabel -sort of’. And read them (in reverse order, again, damn my libraries).
Ugh, I love how so many of Tolkien’s heroes are ace! or could very easily be read as ace or on the grey/demi scale.
I’m sorry but I can’t see Boromir as interested in anyone sexual/romantically – he loves deeply, cares deeply for his friends and family and people and duties, so strongly so that the Ring uses that. But yeah, even more than ace!Luke, here is my hill I shall die upon. raise a cairn, sing three verses, and send my body on a boat out to sea.
Thank you! Not just for the message but taking the time to send to my inbox. Yes, Indis Appreciation! ♥♥♥ She was one of the first characters in the Silm that I fell in love with, and I hunted through HoME for more info about her. So tall, buff, very athletic Indis is very canon (as opposed to slender petite Míriel).
And any positive focus on the Vanyar is always a good thing – they deserve it 😉
mahidevrans answered: new reply bubble too i think w extension, THOUGH IT DOESN’T WORK
Wherre/What is this? And uuuugh, this is very annoying that the drag-drop to see the likes/replies to my posts has now these little buttons at the end that, looking at them, are quick links to go directly to their blog or to block someone (like, okay? why would I need an easily clicked/easy to accidentally click option to block someone who has liked one of my posts?). Which, the same thing if you click on the avatar.
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
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)
Original characters and gap-filling describe 90% of my Silm fics 😀
Yay, the Cuiviénen fics! it’s a bit of an oddball stylistically, not to mention that gap-filling of a less than popular characters or place, again OC and headcanon heavy, so I fear it doesn’t generate reader interest of love -so thank you for sharing your like of it! (More incentive to finish chapter 5 wherein I finally get to the naming of Indis)
Well, the goal is eventually to own any gaming system (besides the Wii that’s up with my sister), and I’d want the HD remasters (for the extra game-play and bundle w/ X-II just so I’d have a chance to play a copy that doesn’t glitch out at the start of chapter 3).
When Morgoth himself, in the text straight up, says that the Fëanorians have only ever aided his evil dominion of Middle-earth – yeah, that’s your sign they aren’t doing things right. (to put it mildly)
I can have pity for the Fëanorians, but it’s a very slim and ugly pity born of the scorn and disgust, that they weren’t always the wretched monsters deluded that they weren’t as god-awful as they truly are. But if there is any “Pengolodh bias” in the text, it is that Maeglin is accounted the worst of elves for submitting to Morgoth and helping him to destroy one elven city, whereas the Fëanorians without the completely understandable excuse of coming face-to-face with mindfuck Valar-powers Morgoth still sacked and/or destroyed three elven cities and also attacked and killed guards appointed by Eönwë, that Celegorm and Curufin were advocating for the slaughter of an entire people, that Fëanor consigned his sons to death knowing that’s what that Oath was (and fuck that Oath), oh and by the way Fëanor is a controlling paranoia egomaniac (and the only funny thing about Trump is the quotes from everyone else describing him the same way I’d describe Fëanor – there was a clip from Jindel I think where I had to do a spit-take and laughed for a long time) and the speech in Tirion reminds me so much of something so fucking fascist I care barely read it…
Back when I first entered the SIlm tumblr fandom, before I blocked people once I realized just how wildly incompatible our readings of the book and certain characters were, and when I had the energy to rant more often about the stuff I was trying to ignore, I would post more frequently about ‘the unpopular fandom opinions’. Like the fanon daddy!Maglor that can go jump into a crack of the earth, or perfect motives sad woobie Maedhros. Or that Elrond carried the trappings of and thought himself as Fëanorian (f*****k)
And when I first read the book, got into fandom, I fell into that trap of over-blowing a villains’ virtuous moments (anghraine has a nice post about that phenomenon of criticizing literary characters’ traits if they’re heroes or villains by the moral/immoral actions that not fit that dichotomy out of proportion). I wasn’t completely fine with positive portrayals of Maglor and the twins, because I couldn’t ignore the incredibly wrong situation around it. And over time the anger grew.
Because deciding not to murder two more young children should not be something to praise (and if you think no children died because of Maglor and Maedhros’s various actions, that that the blood is on their hands as well…). Though they could have returned the captured children as so as possible to Gil-galad and Círdan – and again. we have no canon statement of when the boys left the Fëanorians. Or how.
And bloodthirsty warped by war Nandor madman wearing a ton of pink is a great OC idea.
heget's WordPress 