desquiggle:

Digital redraw of an Inktober. It illustrates a sad myth from the story I’m writing. Find the myth below, as told by a character in the story:

“Once upon a time, there was a mother dragon made of stars. She lived in the night sky. Although her three children loved her like crazy, her youngest daughter, Missy, loved her the most. Missy cleaned her mother’s starry wings and caught comets for her to eat while the older sons explored other parts of the sky. They made a happy family, for centuries and centuries, lighting up the darkness with twinkling scales.

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mottlemoth:

The best part of being a fanfiction writer is when you make friends with other fanfiction writers, who show you things they’re secretly working on before AO3 gets to read them. And you’re so excitedly happy for them and their beautiful secret project that it actually hurts a little. 

Another reason why Beren is a sweetheart:

radiantanor:

Remember Gorlim, and in particular how he is remembered as “the Unhappy”?

Beren was the only survivor of his dad’s heroic last stand group, and the only one to see the “wraith of Gorlim” and receive his warning. Which means he must have been the one who relayed that part of the story to the Elves or other Edain, who then wrote songs and histories about it. Given the detailed description of Gorlim’s backstory, his reasons for the betrayal and the emphasis on the mitigating circumstances, the most likely in-universe explanation is that Beren made sure he would be viewed sympathetically.

“The Unhappy” is not a positive epithet, of course, but it’s a lot more flattering than some of the other possibilities. Gorlim is a far more sympathetic
character than other notable traitors like Maeglin or Grima, and I know it’s because he actually was a better person. But in-universe, the main reason anyone would know all that has to be Beren’s decision to tell his story this way, even though he lost the last of his family and companions because of that betrayal. Many people would not have been as kind to Gorlim’s memory in his place, even considering his obvious regret and the attempted post-mortem warning.

hylja:

So I just read these epitaphs from ancient Greek and Roman owners for their dogs and…

-“I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home in my own hands fifteen years ago.”

-“My eyes were wet with tears, our little dog, when I bore thee (to the grave)… So, Patricus, never again shall thou give me a thousand kisses. Never canst thou be contentedly in my lap. In sadness have I buried thee, and thou deservist. In a resting place of marble, I have put thee for all time by the side of my shade. In thy qualities, sagacious thou wert like a human being. Ah, me! What a loved companion have we lost!”

-“To Helena, foster child, soul without comparison and deserving of praise.”

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“[Myia] never barked without reason, but now he is silent.”

…I’m gonna cry…