crocordile replied to your post: I dreamed I was in Numenor during Ar-Pharazon’s…
WHY DONT I HAVE DREAMS LIKE THAT…
i am blessed by irmo
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth
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
crocordile replied to your post: I dreamed I was in Numenor during Ar-Pharazon’s…
WHY DONT I HAVE DREAMS LIKE THAT…
i am blessed by irmo
bamboocounting replied to your photoset “Was tagged by @nelyafinwe for the lockscreen/homescreen meme that I…”
hair mingling in the wind….
OMFG………which one of us is eowyn and which one is faramir………
crocordile replied to your photoset “Was tagged by @nelyafinwe for the lockscreen/homescreen meme that I…”
I had seen that pic of ur cute smiles before , but not that beautiful dog! :O
she was the most beautiful dog! she was an extraordinarily stubborn sheltie who whenever we took her to the beach, would run up and down its length importantly barking at the waves convinced that her Mad Herding Dog Skillz was the only thing keeping the waves from flooding out indefinitely, and would often affect a snooty unconcerned air apparently to try to make us thing she wasn’t interested even though she was wagging her tail really hard, and would sneeze like 15 times in a row when she got rly excited…..she was Good…. 😦
thearrogantemu replied to your post “Having a million leftover Depression Habits while not actually feeling…”
Ain’t that the truth; it’s like trying to run a functioning government after years of misrule. The whole bureaucracy is messed up; there are whole departments that haven’t even gotten the memo.
actualmermaid replied to your post “Having a million leftover Depression Habits while not actually feeling…”
“Why did you have broccoli and liquor for dinner again???You have real food!!!”
EXACTLY. GOD. it’s such a RUT.
crocordile replied to your photoset “Haircut!”
im nodding at my screen like a turtle…. like…. Mega Babe…hell yeah wow
‘LIKE A TURTLE’………i have never seen a turtle nod so i don’t know why this simile works but it does
garden-ghoul replied to your photoset “Haircut!”
you look like you are wearing a flapper dress, just because of like the spirit vibes you are projecting, 11/10
SDFHJSJHD ivana keeps saying i have a flapper aesthetic tbh
lunavagantt replied to your photoset “Haircut!”
you look fantastic omg
thelioninmybed replied to your photoset “Haircut!”
omg what a LOOK
gurguliare replied to your photoset “Haircut!”
damnnnnn
nelyafinwe replied to your photoset “Haircut!”
iconic. wholesome. vogue. 100/10
linguisticparadox replied to your photoset “Haircut!”
…god you’re pretty *_*
ivanaskye replied to your photoset “Haircut!”
a bab!!!!
a me!!! omg…..thank u guys…..<3333
berrysphase
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”
oh shit I’m so sorry that sounds utterly debilitating
Not debilitating thank god but really REALLY disruptive because the pains are so completely random and unconnected to anything you do or any direction you move or anything else that allows you to get used to an injury-related pain -_-
imindhowwelayinjune
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”
OH NO I had exactly this this past winter and it SUCKS I wish you many antivirals and a speedy recovery ♥️♥️
UNFORTUNATELY i got to the doctor too late for antivirals, but yea hope it doesn’t linger too long
pipcomix
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”
Oh fuck I got shingles when I was 22 and it was one if the worst things that’s ever happened to me I’m so fucking sorry shingles is the worst :(((
GOD, sympathy fistbump. and i was told mine is a relatively mild case – can’t imagine what a severe case feels like 😐
bamboocounting
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”
D: that’s the worst let me know if you want distracting fish sculptures
I would DEFINITELY LOVE fish sculptures where are these fish sculptures u mention
actualmermaid
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”
YO THIS IS HORRIFYING SHINGLES IS TERRIBLE
it’s p terrible BUT ALSO THE VIRUS/PHENOMENON IS REALLY COOL???
crocordile
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”
Andie oh my god, do painkillers help?? D:
thelionimybed
replied to your post “˜Sup guys I got shingles and that long nerve thing that curls around…”
but on the plus side I’ll buy any medical dictionary you choose to publish
Yes you should all hire me for properly vividly descriptions of all ur medical complaints
ninethousandbees
replied to your post “Are there any gay bars named Saruman Of Many Colors”
if there aren’t, there should be
actualmermaid
replied to your photo “The tumblr-reblog-like conversational graffiti on the inside of the…”
there used to be a coffee shop like this near me and then they had a water pipe explosion and couldn’t afford to repair it so they had to sell the building and it’s a hipster beer establishment now and I’m still upset
UGH….unfortunately ‘hipster beer establishment’ is ALSO an Extremely Common Vermont Occurrence but fortunately this shop has been able to stick around a long time……
crocordile
replied to your post “also witnessed today in VT: dude with a t-shirt reading “i’d tap that”…”
if you ever see it buy it for me and i’ll pay u
anghraine
replied to your post “From your personal experience what seems to be the worst fandom ever?”
I was going to say that I’ve been in worse ones, but then I remember just how many people I have blocked.
I’ve been in ones i disliked more, but the sheer breadth and depth of whatthefuckery in New Star Wars fandom is headspinning, and I’ve been in a lot of fandoms in the past 11 years
ivanaskye
replied to your post “Do fans have some sort of hivemind theory I’m oblivious to that tells…”
I know you’re talking about this for multiple characters but also we all know which character you’re PARTICULARLY talking about
Ok you are DEFINITELY RIGHT but also i was thinking a lot about the baffling Faramir thing
actualmermaid
replied to your post “Do fans have some sort of hivemind theory I’m oblivious to that tells…”
“Opened a book once” = BOOK NERD. “Mentioned next to a flower once” = AVID GARDENER. “Was sad once” = ALWAYS SAD ALL THE TIME.
But it’s so much MORE befuddling when there’s like 28 major explicit canon scenes/descriptions/details/contextual dynamics that are THE EXACT OPPOSITE of that and like 1 ambiguous thing that might have been a dubious detail in support of that characterization IF AND ONLY IF they were a character with no other distinguishing features whatsoever. Also i’ve gotta say this fetish for this 1 specific type of character – the super insecure people-pleasing doormat stuttery….thing – is imo something that goes far above and beyond the generalized sledgehammery fanon thing.
wijopat
replied to your photo “ivanaskye:
introvertproblems:
suzangean:
Introvert vs Extrovert
…”
Ambiverts(people who’s affiliation shifts based on context) are the VAST majority of us! Stop using labels and self identification to limit your potential!
THIS IS VERY TRUE, thank you!!!! actually I think i would be much more accurate in describing myself this way more than pure introvert (tho def leaning more towards the introvert side).
crocordile
replied to your photo “Calm yo tits”
What happened tho? :O
He was saved by a clever ‘wait actually you didn’t fail bc you were worthless, you failed for a good reason!’ thing by Krishna, which is smth that happens like 248 times in this story.
gurguliare
replied to your photo “@actualmermaid is the anime because of the eyes or the seto kaiba hair…”
somehow i feel like you’re accusing me of being schroedinger’s actual, mean cat
anyway it was PUREHEARTED ADMIRATION
I was NOT, because i didn’t know schroedinger’s cat was mean at all, but i gladly accept your purehearted admiration ^_^
YEAH
A MAJOR (if untenable) LOOK
berrysphase
replied to your post “��”
well that puts a new light on amon hen
THAT JUST OCCURRED TO ME AFTER I HAD POSTED THIS
gurguliare
replied to your post “��”
A CHAIR WITH A VIEW
It’s something every father needs!
kareenvorbarra
replied to your post “��”
andie!!!!! fuck!!!!!!!
Thank u, thank u, I can do this all night, i think.
STAR WARSSSSSSSSS

@actualmermaid is the anime because of the eyes or the seto kaiba hair tuft
I love how @crocordile is exquisitely sweet and appreciative and @gurguliare says a schroedinger’s cat-like insult/compliment

I don’t mind vomit if it’s in place where I can avoid it, but airborne is a special case…..
I do not own them YET but I am intently waiting to find a reasonable quality/comfort to price ratio……
SNRI is!:

Part of the reason for Eärendil’s panic and immediate assumption that something disastrous happened and everyone was dead, when he came to see Tirion empty and covered in diamond dust, was that stepping into the city immediately put him into a flashback of gondolin, the replica of Tirion, and the memory of the seeing its destruction. A vague feeling of Wait, did I actually ever leave? Did I escape across the sea or am I just somehow in gondolin again? Did Morgoth beat me here and surround us again like he did before? Since the siege of gondolin he had always been sort of claustrophobic…
Iirc the last movie I watched was Solo: A Star Wars Story. I liked it but also had v v low expectations so it’s hard to tell…..
due to the notifications apocalypse i have probably missed a TON but….i am making an Attempt!
actualmermaid
replied to your post “JoJos”
“super-chiseled chiaroscuro constipation-face.” art.
also i forgot to mention how there’s also usually some Manly™ blood around too
ivanaskye
replied to your post “las vegas glitz pics with @ivanaskye aka ‘local couple is too femme to…”
I love us
actualmermaid
replied to your post “las vegas glitz pics with @ivanaskye aka ‘local couple is too femme to…”
too glam, not allowed
aww i’m glad u appreciate our glam, esp given how we normally looked at breakfast in the Breakfast 24 Hours place in the casino downstairs >_o
bamboocounting
replied to your post “garden-ghoul
replied to your post “.”
what…”
holy shot
(typo, but mocking invocations to the valar before they fire their steampunk cannons at the coast or something)(the something is sauron)
God i’m so weak to steampunky industrial numenor……industrial stuff is just as good an aesthetic for fantasy dystopia as yk….all the other ones that appear in fantasy imagery stuff. and especially fitting for tolkien given the immensely long timescale/overturn of eras and generations, and the sheer number of wildly different nightmare-lands in the legendarium.
girlwithouthands
replied to your post “Sometimes…meta/fixitfic tumblr posts with 65k notes….are worse….”
on one hand i’d love to know what this is about & on the other hand do I truly want to do that to myself
Idk it’s always a risk of ‘oh i REBLOGGED that terrible post before’ but otoh this is also just a general principle….
actualmermaid
replied to your post “A RANDOM DUMP OF COLORADO AND VEGAS PICS BC IM TOO LAZY TO ORGANIZE:…”
Was born in Utah, can confirm that no one knows what the deal with it is
That looks SO FUN THO
IT WAS SOOOOOOO FUN!!! i might be biased due to being high on love chemicals the whole time but IT WAS GREAT….
pipcomix
replied to your post “Log of the past 3 days:[[MOR] Incredibly delayed flight out of…”
Oh that is my brain cocktail also, high five
It’s a wonder of wonders!!! <3333
bamboocounting
replied to your post “Log of the past 3 days:[[MOR] Incredibly delayed flight out of…”
DDDDD: I’m glad you had many sustaining memories of a wonderful person to look at utah rocks with!
aaaaaa i dooooooo thank u!!!! /)*////*( i wish i could have taken more highway pics of other non-Utah areas too but i was sadly DRIVING while passing most of them
crocordile
replied to your post “Log of the past 3 days:[[MOR] Incredibly delayed flight out of…”
welcome back Andie and I’m so glad your trip was so incredible <3 <3 <3 Sorry abt the car and internship, but I hope u can relax this Last Sunday!!
hsjdfihdsjds this reply is all moot now buttttt still <333333
garden-ghoul
replied to your post “So I have been on vacation in first Colorado, then Las Vegas, with my…”
this sounds like a wonderful time I’m enjoying your liveblog. I’m glad u are having a good time in the Desert and in the Mountains, my natural habitat
ur natural habitat!! i have so much more appreciation for it……there’s so many little things that i never before imagined about them that i love
garden-ghoul
replied to your post “Ivana and I are in Las Vegas and while ‘’’needing food’’’ and ‘’’being…”
I’m very fond of you and I am quickly becoming fond of ivana by proxy
THANKS and also GOOD bc she is a wonderful good and deserves fondness ^_^
theotherwesley
replied to your post “I JUST REALIZED THAT THE MENELTARMA IS A MESA”
WEIRD MESA-GIANT-TREE-CONSPIRACY-THEORY CONFIRMED!!!! #exposed #confirmed #ancientValarAliens
YUP. valar stompin’ around, thinking that just bc the continents are all scrambled no one’s gonna figure it out….
nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui
replied to your post “I JUST REALIZED THAT THE MENELTARMA IS A MESA”
I always read it as a volcano – that’d explain the cone shape as well as the sudden coming-into-existence and equally sudden and eruptive end of Númenor… XD
that WOULD make sense but otoh too straightforward! why not choose a theory that raises more questions than it answers….that’s how it works right……
crocordile
replied to your post “002 – Elwing/Earendil?”
earendil is a noldo savugsdnjisd, also seconding star spray (i feel like……………i read a fic once…… idk tho………), also, the ocean? ouch, also: big yes
omg i suddenly very badly want your thoughts on how meeting ar-pharazon would go
i sort of started vaguely outlining a mini-fic about it actually but mostly i figure….multi-stage debate built on a ton of future events that pharazon never imagined or could have foreseen….sort of like, on some level, he was also vaguely apologized to on behalf of his ancestors who didn’t get enough of an explanation – i.e., centered around that quote from the Akallabeth:
“The love of Arda was set in your hearts by Ilúvatar, and he does not plant to no purpose. Nonetheless, many ages of Men unborn may pass ere that purpose is made known; and to you it will be revealed and not to the Valar.”
and kind of like…..ok, compromise, you can be in suspended animation so that you can still be alive and in the world when what answers you seek will be revealed to Men….and get to meet the ancestors whom you hold up as proof of your deserving to see aman…..etc
the-artifice-of-eternity
replied to your photo “#just kshatriya things”
This reminds me of Thor trying to pick up the cat he doesn’t know is actually the World Serpent, and getting humiliated. *squints at Indo-Europeans*
lmaaaoooooo….i should also mention, this is FAR from the only time this trope of humbling-a-big-ego-via-temporary-humiliation-that-fosters-self-compassion-and-perspectitve-rather-than-resentment in hindu mythology…..it’s kinda obsessed with that trope
berrysphase
replied to your post “002 – Elwing/Earendil?”
“furry” huh do tell
well more like a “feathery” but you kno >_o
nelyafinwe
replied to your post “˜aspen groves’ also known as ‘lothlorien’—”
pando = the OG lorien in aman
aspens are also just by their nature, w the cloning, such very legendarium-compatible trees
imindhowwelayinjune
replied to your post “FRIENDSHIP CANCELLED WITH VERMONT. NOW COLORADO IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND.”
Yea u like that orogeny doncha
SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE……I’M WEAK
imindhowwelayinjune
replied to your post “FRIENDSHIP CANCELLED WITH VERMONT. NOW COLORADO IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND.”
COME SAY HI
god i’m still super disappointed i wasn’t able to make it 😦 SOMETIME THO….since i’m def visiting colorado again sometime soon…..
simaethae
replied to your post “I have a bright red rental car and 100 miles of highway with…”
i’m really psyched to watch two episodes and then blacklist it on tumblr, gonna be great
avoyagetoarcturus
replied to your post “I have a bright red rental car and 100 miles of highway with…”
At least Tolkien fan blogs will get more popular & people’ll get more curious about the books. Lol
awwwww u guys are so good at silver linings <333
AAAAAAAA OMG YESSSSS. Wow maybe the light/magic and stuff leftover from the Lamp’s destruction was used by the Valar in the creation of Numenor…..? Numenor being kind of a mini-Almarien, those increasingly smaller fractal echoes throughout the history of Arda, etc…