I know I’ll wither so peel away the bark
‘Cause nothing grows when it is dark
or
Making waves in pitch black sand
Feel the salt dance on my hands
(Crystals – Of Monsters and Men)
I know I’ll wither so peel away the bark
‘Cause nothing grows when it is dark
or
Making waves in pitch black sand
Feel the salt dance on my hands
(Crystals – Of Monsters and Men)
OTP: Finrod/Amarië natch. I’m not even picky what interpretation of backstory and personality for Amarië (well, that she be acknowledged as his equal in some manner of force of will or personality, no Valar or Vanyar vilification)
BrOTP: Nóm and his humans, be it Bëor, Beren, Barahir, Andreth, etc… Also the doomed ten, his brothers especially Orodreth, his parents and uncles Olwë and Fingolfin and Thingol, Círdan, any of the Ainur, dwarves… He’s a great friend and has lots of friends (I should be more invested in that very important friendship w/ Turgon)
OT3: You could convince me with Finrod/Amarië/Edrahil maybe… or Beren/Lúthien/Finrod/(Amarië) I have very few ot3s sorry
NOTP: Kill Finrod/Curufin with fire. Any Finrod/the terrible seven (I will allow Finrod/Celebrimbor to escape my DO NOT WANT). Finrod/his siblings.
Amused because we’re practically identical in Silm fandom but almost complete opposites outside it, like I never got into Avatar mostly because Zuko/Aang wasn’t a more popular pairing, and I’ll read Harry/Draco over Harry/Ginny any day. And hurt/comfort the sappier the better.
Yeah with the Hurt/comfort it’s a dynamic I really like, but idk, a fic labeled as such I wouldn’t click on. And yeah, the little bit of slash I do ship isn’t usually between the main characters, and if it’s between characters that are rivals, it has to be best friends hero/lancer now rivals but want to be friends again sort of …you know how I’m a glutton for the king & most loyal vassal (and queen). I’d ship Han/Luke if there was more for it, and Zuko/Aang isn’t terrible (I’d pick it over their canon pairings, tbh) but uuuugh do I vehemently dislike Draco/Harry (doesn’t help that I don’t particularly care for either character. Harry is main protagonist so I don’t dislike him, but could never care enough about him to care. And Draco *eyeroll*) The other example I could admit to is Naruto – zero interest in the main slash pairing of Naruto/Sasuke aka main character/his rival, but the mentor figure Kakashi and dead rival friend Obito I was shipping with all the angst (and only intensified when it was revealed the Big Bad sort of it’s complicated was said friend gone evil) to the point where you could almost call it my main ship. And aside from that, some minor m/m characters and the black hole that is Robin!cest in Batfandom, I ship het and mostly canon het at that.
Here is the post that has the most as well as another link: Treasured Secret of Khazad-dum is the Wordsmith. (and alas, I’m sad that my tags are being the helpful things they should. Sorting by character usually helps?)
But oh man I should commit that to a fic because the lingering echoes of Daeron’s last stand to save Dúrin and his people.

I wove that hand-basket to hell myself.
your answers are great, just so you know @fireflypersona sat on the couch and read them out loud to me with great glee
AAAAAaaaah (well that explains where the unfamiliar name came from). I’m glad I caused some glee – and apologize I limited to only one GIF (I was tempted to use many, though my profanity was starting to leak through. Why I can’t type the lord’s name in vain when I have no problem saying it -nor am a follower of any religious creed, idk)
*sad that you don’t like green tea ice cream* but yeah ice cream is good for swallowing pills. Peanut butter too.
Maybe you have a different brand, but the DH one at least can only be described as vile. Also, pityingly enough, I hate peanut butter.
yeah, I’m adding odd bits and pieces to half-finished things myself, although I think the Arafinwe during the Darkening thing is starting to cohere?
Oh Awesome!
Yeah it started with digging up some meme answers in my young bucks of Cuiviénen tag, and that plus reworking some of the direct quotations to fit in with the rest of the text more smoothly (and adding annotations). Some stuff will have to stay as separate smaller add-on stories, but the Ingwë Cuivi stuff is all too much my baby, I have to finish it.