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Ah well, I asked bc DOGS, and the story seemed to me like something you’d like, but if you’re not into him then you’re not into him I guess :T alas!

Confession- when I heard the title, it made me think of Plague Dogs (same author as Watership Down, I’ve been warned about it).

Aa~ The very first movie i ever saw in theaters was my mom taking me when i was less than three to see Milo and Otis.  Most of teh tiem I do avoid dog movies, as they’re schlepy ‘Hallmark’ type “Because of Winne-Dixie” or “Marley and Me’. I am trying not to get interested in Alpha because, yeah, movie dramatization of first domestication of dog; i’d be obliged to either hate it or love it.

Hey Heget, can you rank the descendants of Thingol and Melian down to Elros and Elrond from your most favorite down? ;)

Okay okay, I can do this. I suck at ranking favorites, but it’s only a few generations, so here is goes:

  1. Lúthien
  2. Elwing
  3. Dior
  4. Elros
  5. Elrond
  6. Elured and Elurin solely because we get so little of them

The next generation down I have to put Arwen first, but second would actually be Vardamir, because I love the idea of a ‘nah, I’m an astronomer, ruling as king is too much hassle and not worth it’.

But like, the whole family is gorgeous and powerful and wise and plus Olwë and Ingwë, winners of the ‘I’d vote for you as my king’ award.

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looking for good writing music

Oohh you prolly know this already but the soundtrack of shadow of the Colossus is wonderful and kinda epic and melancholic at the same time (always makes me think of the CoH idk ;-;)… I like the OST of the assassination of Jesse James, and the OST of nocturnal animals…. Btw unrelated but did you watch isle of dogs? 🙂

Ooo- I don’t think I’ve listened to that one- or maybe a long time ago. I actually started writing the current project with Unravel’s OST and that’s been good. Yay, recs!

No, I haven’t. But then, I think The Royal Tenabaums is the only Wes Anderson film I’ve actually seen. (I know, I know) Visually I see clips of his other movies like Grand Budapest Hotel and they look interesting, but him as a director and writer doesn’t appeal to me. There’s a ‘quirky man writing hipster literature’ vibe to him that just slightly off-putting to me. Probably unwarranted, but I’m not enthused about him. Have a sister that loves his films.

Haven’t gone to the movies all summer, even though there were films I wanted to see and I have a really cheap theater close by.

Re: the mermaid’s story. Well, I related hard to Gislin going “I don’t know these names”, haha! There is, thus far, a certain lack of emotional resonance, probably caused by the distant way the tale is told. Do color me intrigued though by all the neat concepts: forest-taint, greensleeves, etc. The Mirror Realm’s inversion of sea and sky. Amabel’s description of Iro was a highlight, really beautiful prose. “Only one hurricane” – loved that and also – “a whale pod escorted me.”

😀 Yep, this isn’t the proper quest story with the main cast, just a completely unrelated scene that came into my head about the idea of a complicated royal family tree inspired by Aquaman (the punch line involved the revelation that they were naming their kids after the daughters of triton), but then, even though I knew I wasn’t going to write a full fic about it, I tossed it into the “Rose Red” world and asked myself where it could be made to fit. Gael’s character as a lover of popular ballads and former apprentice artist is partly an excuse to have a character to retell all these side fairy tale stories.

 Amabel was already a mermaid (and harpy on the other side of the Mirror Realm- think of the world as a giant shallow bowl, ocean in the center, and in the center of that is a floating island where the Celestial Court lives surrounded by a waterfall that flows upward, very Narnia-esque, and on the underside of the island is the entrance to the Underworld). Most of Amabel’s backstory was already plotted out (she’s another story transplant where I changed and added details to make the idea work for this fantasy world. This is the giant sludge pile story), but not the beginning of it, before she ends up isolated in the human kingdoms. So there was a gap in the world that needed “Mermaid Society” anyway. Having Amabel tell a story about her homeland was, as I started playing around with the idea, a good way to introduce the important connection between her and Gislin. If the goal wasn’t to get the ‘Iro royal family comedy of errors’ out of my head and written down, for the Rose Red main story, it would be mostly cut to get to the last few things that Amabel says which have the most relevancy to Gislin. (It involving eating livers). Instead, it’s a rambling storytelling of “people whose names we don’t know” -which was me as the author making fun of myself.

The only one small hurricane was supposed to be funny, so yay!

The greensleeves especially are a concept that I think could work on their own for a fantasy story. At first it was just a power-set to give to the main character, but then I tried to think of a way to make a fantasy-world unique version of the Green Lanterns and mixed it with the Hanseastic League and maritime pilots. 

…and yeah, wow, my Teleri bias is really obvious.

@crocordile I finally had free time and finished watching the latest Voltron seasons, needed a new marathon show while working on sewing projects -thus something in english/no subtitles. I had watched the pilot two or three years ago and had wanted to watch the series. I knew the Stan twins reveal because I’d seen the spoiler posts about it when it happened on tumblr and some of the speculation posts before that. Plus, back when I was watching Young Justice and Green Lantern AS, during the hiatuses and cancellations, everyone was mentioning Gravity Falls as a good alternative, so it was one of those ‘been on a list forever to watch.’

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i haven’t watched it im sending you my support, that dress looked so underwhelming? Hey, what did you think of the guy who plays the beast, was he okay?

Dan Stevens! which- weirded me out because I didn’t connect it until transformation happened and I went: “Hey David!” The problem is the CGI Beast was terrible and had a bland design- it looked like a bad fursuit, no animation just painting over the actor. And they changed/removed scenes so their Beast was bland and characterless

The yellow dress was worse than thought (CHEAP looking fabric, pinking edges, it looked like a decent prom dress you buy in a mall), the white dress at the end- the doll version was better and fooled me into thinking it was a nice 18th gown instead of a nice 1950s frock. and half the time her blue dress she had half the skirt tucked up so her entire bloomer left leg was showing. Most of the other costumes were fine or great

For kicks, I’m making my way back through your “working on silm fic” tag and it’s a capital-D Delight.

I hope you find some amusing gems- and while I don’t usually tag which fics I was working on under that tag, I can imagine the ones where I am struggling with the Cuiviénen Era fics are the most obvious and most amusing, considering how often they are complaints about ridiculous world-building problems because, as Tolkien himself proven, for any real Science! you have to throw the Arda cosmic myth out the window. Or complaints about how much a fic is either ballooning out of control or promises I’m almost finished- for weeks.

Would you ever write horror? Would you ever write smut?

Yes-ish~

IDK, you have to quantify what counts as horror. The Baby Eöl Fic is my very slowly written foray into the closest thing to straight horror. It’s easier for me to pepper in horror elements in the Tol-en-Gaurhoth and Angband settings. But pure downer ending horror dark fic? Hard for me to say never, but …it’s a thing that the Old Kingdom series and other fantasy that do have horror elements is very influential for me- but I almost never watch any horror or slasher or suspense films or tv shows (I watched the first few episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, but that was a big anomaly for me, and I don’t watch Insidious or Conjuring or even older horror movies. And the only Stephen King novel I ever read was The Green Mile.) The amount of horror in ASoIaF is about it. Or the sort of graphic violence ‘Hammer Horror’ of the Netflix animated Castlevania. So the Kingfisher in a Cage has a tidbit of the gore and psychological horror, or Wall the Heart. But it’s not my committed genre, so I’m not sure if my efforts would satisfy a craving for horror.

Smut… confessional time. I’m more comfortable with my writing abilities to fake a fight scene and write violence than fake a sex scene. Now are there three contenders for ‘I will write you two and definitely have to pull the AO3 rating up to mature?’ Yes. I just don’t know which will come first: Faron and Faelindis post healing, Ingwë and Ravennë’s first time and it’s cultural mandated exhibitionism, or the Nienna visits Melkor when he’s chained in Mandos for I know you know I know you are just using me for sex and how do I go about writing sensory deprivation-related smut when they’re both Ainur and thus bodies are sort of negligible anyway.

About your Tolkien heraldry: Why do you use lozenges for female designs?

On the images themselves for all the sigils, male and female, they fit inside a square. Originally the designs were made as part of a texture for a 3D model, so the image had to be a square (and then rotated 135 degrees when mapped into the model). So while the female sigils are circles, as per Tolkien, there is the extra corners of fabric, so to speak, for their images as opposed to male. They aren’t part of the design logo proper. Sometimes I’ll edit the file image, like for use as avatars, to remove the corners and keep only the circle – and then have to insure I save the correct format to keep the opacity. But it’s a style and file consistency and a holdover.