andie, she/her, 26, united states. this blog is full of Tolkien. also other art, photos, fandoms, and big-eyes-emoji stuff, but mostly Tolkien. i tag! my girlfriend is bright ivanaskye, who is a lot, but not too much
it also doesn’t have efts, which if you didn’t know (I didn’t) are teenage terrestrial newts who are too cute to be real
as in, so cute and tiny and bright orange that I thought one was a toy first until it moved
waterfalls
also shale. shale is a good rock
sea level is weird and fake and there’s a lot of air in the air, which means that even “strenuous” things can be recovered from in like ten seconds at most
humidity is real
it apparently makes cars frost a little bit with… car-dew? I don’t understand
I recognize almost literally 0 of these trees
I am trying to learn though, and when I looked it up, apparently here there’s things like elm and ash and hawthorn and freakin’ sassafrass… all things I’ve heard of, because the east has irritating cultural dominance over the rest of the country, but have not “actually” “seen”
although based on what little I did manage to learn I may have successfully identified one (1) hawthorn today
there are so many squirrels
and relatedly, so many acorns
did you know acorns fall from trees and make sounds while they move through the branches?
also bugs make more sounds here than out west, even in the daytime
giant millipede
slightly different chipmunk with much smaller tail
the trees are like, almost all deciduous. the seasons are going to feel cartoonish, again bc eastern cultural dominance, little kids are taught about seasons as they present out here rather than. yknow. where they actually live
I’m really bitter abt that you guys
but it’s actually nice out here
just pls guys do us a favor and learn as much about the West as we’re forced to learn about you, I’m begging you,
I love the Tindómiel/Undómiel thing not only because Elrond names his only daughter to match Elros’s only daughter (though I do).
And I love it not only because the two names act as counterparts in terms of their relationships to their people: the morning star of Númenor, the evenstar of the Elves (though I do).
I also really, really love it because the morning star and the evening star are the same star: Eärendil.
it also doesn’t have efts, which if you didn’t know (I didn’t) are teenage terrestrial newts who are too cute to be real
as in, so cute and tiny and bright orange that I thought one was a toy first until it moved
waterfalls
also shale. shale is a good rock
sea level is weird and fake and there’s a lot of air in the air, which means that even “strenuous” things can be recovered from in like ten seconds at most
humidity is real
it apparently makes cars frost a little bit with… car-dew? I don’t understand
I recognize almost literally 0 of these trees
I am trying to learn though, and when I looked it up, apparently here there’s things like elm and ash and hawthorn and freakin’ sassafrass… all things I’ve heard of, because the east has irritating cultural dominance over the rest of the country, but have not “actually” “seen”
although based on what little I did manage to learn I may have successfully identified one (1) hawthorn today
there are so many squirrels
and relatedly, so many acorns
did you know acorns fall from trees and make sounds while they move through the branches?
also bugs make more sounds here than out west, even in the daytime
giant millipede
slightly different chipmunk with much smaller tail
the trees are like, almost all deciduous. the seasons are going to feel cartoonish, again bc eastern cultural dominance, little kids are taught about seasons as they present out here rather than. yknow. where they actually live
I’m really bitter abt that you guys
but it’s actually nice out here
just pls guys do us a favor and learn as much about the West as we’re forced to learn about you, I’m begging you,
”But Finarfin spoke softly, as was his wont, and sought to calm the Noldor, persuading them to pause and ponder ere deeds were done that could not be undone.”
ivana and i celebrated our moving in together by watching the first two episodes of utena. my impressions so far:
1) gay
2) i see why gogol likes this
3) they really play that full apolcalypse song transformation sequence in every episode huh
guYS i just realized i never in fact announced this — @ivanaskye will be moving into my room in my beloved 14-person student co-op uh, tomorrow??? yeah, tomorrow. we will still talk over text rather than out loud at least 75% as often as we do now, but now we can do it while snuggled together in this freezing drafty old house and while i try not to make too much weird allistic eye contact with her. pls give congrats!
1) write every day. write once an hour. write every quarter hour. did you know that neil gaiman is writing right now? if you are ever not writing, you are not fully dedicated to your craft
2) stop writing. only talk about your story. tell it to people on the bus and subway. tell it to your coworkers. tell it to HR
3) post at least once an hour about what amazing twist your story has just taken. no need to actually write the twist. just tell people. they need to know.
4) write your next scene using only your pinkies
5) write your next scene without the letter e
6) write a novel length modern AU. If world building gets too complex, set it in a coffee shop
7) Obsess over a very minor character. Write sidestory after sidestory about them until you lose track of who your protagonist is
8)
said is dead. never use a dialogue tag again. or quotation marks. characters should be seen but not heard
9)
think about how fandom will misconstrue your characters once published, and write an angry screed excoriating all their interpretations
10) name all the possible ships preemptively. don’t write the relationships or characters, just make the tags
11) score and cast the eventual tv adaptation.
12) write an angry screed about theoretical adaptation choices
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth 