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unfortunately with historical romance written after 2015 or so you are at risk of getting something that’s like well you see i did not rip the bodice because that is aggressive and coercive and problematic and you’re like oh for g-d’s sake

it is a truth universally acknowledged that a guy who loves his wife is admirable but a public figure of some sort whose whole schtick is that he is a wife-guy is inevitably an animal. the wife guy doth protest too much, as they say

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ñolofinwë said brother how can it be that i am not thy jacob, that i did not come forth clutching thy heel when since first i drew breath thou hast no less felt my clawing nails biting at the tender flesh there as i clung to thee and anairë said dear are you talking to yourself in the shower again

evangelical men who cheat on their wives talk about it as though every day jesus christ himself does battle with satan to keep their penis flaccid and every single day he loses like some sort of erectile sisyphus which always makes me feel bad for the guy like first he got crucified and now this

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“when one of them makes the other feel safe 😍😍😍” no. how about when one of them is transgressing the pseudomedieval sociopolitical hierarchies of elf feudalism, chivalric masculinity, and the procreative sexual ethics of valarin catholicism to fuck his liege lord in the ass

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“They have shown friendship to me in every need, but I fear that they will show neither love nor mercy to you (...)” The Silmarillion #Curufin #Finrod #Silmarillion #Curufinrod for @rosenroty.bsky.social

i don’t know i feel like a lot of anger towards boomers or whatever is just misdirected class resentment. like. old people did not take away all your economic opportunities, rich people did. i need you to keep your eye on the ball even when you find grandma irritating

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objectively it’s very funny that i am not really that invested in celeborn and galadriel as characters but because i am the guy who looms over conversations about dwarves with a loaded gun i end up involved in talking about celeborn and galadriel so much

everyone’s real problem these days is that we’ve lost the traditional family. without an active father in your life to threaten his half brother at swordpoint in a way so hateful and phallic that you still feel some guilty arousal at the memory you’re going to end up with some serious issues

it’s very funny when people defend schlocky things by saying “if the lotr movies came out today, people would COMPLAIN about them changing things!!” because girl that is exactly what happened then. that is rather famously a thing that happened. that continues to happen regularly among the wise

i do believe that i exist in defiance of g-d just because i’m what happens when a hick and a jewess reproduce and i don’t think that was ever meant to happen. nobody was supposed to be out here saying stuff like y’all it’s so hot out i’m fixin to start shvitzing. that’s prohibited somewhere i’m sure

one weird manifestation of the way that nobody can read is that “um, actually” type replies often don’t even disagree with you at this point. i semi-regularly get replies that in form and tone are clearly intended to be a correction but the content is not in any way at odds with what i just said

something i always bring up to people when they are understanding the conlangs as simply a really intense attention to detail in how middle earth works is that we have nearly no idea how money or legal systems work except in very specific instances when it becomes meaningful to the story in some way

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a conlang in a world that has no particular interest in language as an aspect of the story that it is telling (language as class, language as history, language as artistic tradition, language as violence) is just data. it’s there as a garnish. and that’s fine, but it’s not what the old man was doing

obviously tolkien did create various languages for middle earth but i find that his attention to language is remembered far too much as merely inventing elaborate “lore” rather than the way that poetic tradition and song and language as culture and politics are woven into middle earth

a conlang in a world that has no particular interest in language as an aspect of the story that it is telling (language as class, language as history, language as artistic tradition, language as violence) is just data. it’s there as a garnish. and that’s fine, but it’s not what the old man was doing

i think social media has just forced us to know that authors are weird in unromantic ways. it takes an unusual person to write a good book but we were previously free to imagine that as distant, charming eccentricity whereas we now get them up close and personal behaving badly and being embarrassing

of course a person who spends months or years alone tinkering with something that may never be seen by anyone is a character. that just used to be something i found out in letters and memoirs years later if i really bothered to know rather than getting it broadcast live in public to me directly

i can believe that bilbo baggins and thorin oakenshield specifically having a relationship might have been a problem for people in universe because they’re both men and thorin is the king of his people but i refuse to believe dwarf/hobbit is unheard of in general. there’s just no way

you’re telling me dwarves have been regularly passing through the shire along a trade route for as long as anyone can remember and nobody has heard of a hobbit and a dwarf being together? you’re telling me this about hobbits, known prolific havers of 38833288282 children? it’s just not realistic

does anyone else ever think about the alien eroticism of a reunion between the ents and the entwives or is that just me. any other real #elfkissers think about pollination burdened by insurmountable grief and millennia of estrangement

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the most brontë-esque in the world is that you can’t jokingly refer to people who embody their spirit as “the fourth brontë sister” because emily is already the fourth brontë sister as there were two girls older than the three famous ones who died in childhood of tuberculosis

in my experience the main thing that distinguishes heterosexual kindle unlimited a/b/o from gay people ao3 a/b/o is literally just that ao3 a/b/o is about three thousand times more concerned with the worldbuild like it’s all porn logic to be clear but the scenario is much more elaborate and specific

i love when i talk about romance novel nonsense online and people either defend reading romance to me or expect me to be angry that people read romance because i’m like in your mind do you think i know all this detailed information about what questionable romance novels are like by NOT reading them?

it’s so funny how if you stop and think about it for 5 seconds the vampire baseball thing in twilight makes absolutely no sense. if they’re throwing baseballs hard enough to make sounds you need thunder to cover even miles out in the woods they’re just destroying the bat and ball

your vampire boyfriend invites you to his family’s baseball game out in the woods. his sister throws a 350 mph fastball straight down the middle and he hits it, splintering the bat into pieces and shredding the ball. they do this repeatedly for 3 hours

there is a player for the chicago white sox whose last name is meidroth (pron. ‘my-droth’) and as someone with profound carnal knowledge of the elves in jrr tolkien’s 1977 fantasy epic ‘the silmarillion’ i’m like fucking WHOOOOO is up to the plate every time they announce him

my most pre-2020 trait is that when i see people on tiktok and instagram doing fandom on video with their whole face and government name i’m scandalized. back in my day we were supposed to be at least semi-anonymous when compromising the elf’s virtue and you all but have your linkedin attached

whenever i think about time travel or isekai situations i always imagine a traveler who starts fucking some guy just to see him at intimate moments so he can figure out how he’s supposed to do basic things here like how do clothes go on and how do we handle bodily functions and personal hygiene here

i’m sure people do somewhere but i never really see anyone else talk about the whole rape threat element of túrin chasing saeros which is fine but it does make me feel like i hallucinated that. is there a secret evil fag version of the silmarillion only i have access to where that happens

i’m sorry i will always be hung up on the forcibly stripping the elf naked and pressing a sword into his ass cheek and telling him to run or you’ll prick him on from behind thing. the fact that he’s doing this as a way to punish him for speaking ill of human women by making him like a human woman…….

i also don’t really believe jirt that the gondorians aging slowly and frequently living well into their late 90s means the stewards are not having children until their 30s and 40s because they can still be killed and it does not make dynastic sense to hold off on seeing to the succession like that

it doesn’t matter that if they were left to their natural lives they would likely be well and healthy into their 80s or 90s, the fact that the ruling steward of gondor’s sons are 41 and 36 respectively and unmarried and childless while fighting in battles all the time is a disaster waiting to happen

i support you if you are one of the many people who has ever said that eowyn and faramir are kind of lesbian in my hearing but as far as i am concerned that is yaoi. that is two men fucking. there are untold levels of chivalric masculinity turned sodomy going on in that heterosexual marriage

“as a great captain may to a young soldier he seemed to you admirable. for so he is” is the craziest way you could possibly describe your beloved lady’s unrequited longing for the king you both serve. what do you mean you understand because many a boy feels this way about his captain

it never stops being funny to tell people that the size of a pro baseball field is vibes based. the distance between the bases is always the same but the exact size and shape of the outfield is different at every park. whenever they build one they just go “fuck it, we ball” (literal) and do whatever