Sauron Expy

[ID: Moodboard-style fic cover. In the center it reads "Laws & Customs" by AdmirableMonster, art by Zomburai. The central title is surrounded by photographs. Top left: a curly-haired man with a beard and earring is looking to the right. Top center: a person with dark hair is menaced by the shadows of three hands. Top right: A person with copper-green skin looking to the left. Left middle: a pen on an open notebook. Bottom left: a bare leg covered in bruises appearing from beneath a sheet. Bottom middle: a photograph of the Milky Way, partially covered by clouds. Bottom right: The bottom half of a person's face, lips and nose surrounded by curly hair.]

Laws and Customs

A Silmarillion Fic

by AdmirableMonster

Rating: Explicit

Summary: While searching for a series of his lost notes on Gondolin, the scholar Pengolodh is taken by bandits and used cruelly.

Rescued by a friend and taken to the remnants of Melian's Girdle, he begins a slow road to recovery that will lead to the apprehension of the attackers, the judgement of the king, and unexpected friendships and cultural exchanges.

It’s chapter update day! LAST TIME on The Mirror Crack’d: Anniavas and Celegorm talked oaths. THIS TIME on The Mirror Crack’d: Anniavas and Maedhros have a breakfast date (neither one of them notices it’s a date.) Chapter rating: T and up Read Breakfast with Maedhros on AO3! Read Breakfast with Maedhros on the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild!

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like, harry is A Lot. this is known. he is Too Much for a lot of people (dora included), but he is not Too Much for kim. Kim fucking eats that shit up. every time harry centers him or puts the spotlight on him, i expected him to be embarrassed and he puts on a show of embarrassment but if you have the good empathy you know, you know, that he's ABSOLUTELY LOVING IT, he's just not very demonstrative about it

he loves it when harry gives him a shoutout on his favorite radio station

he loves it when harry dedicates a karaoke song to him

he's a little less enthused about getting dragged out onto the dance floor but that's more because of his history as a juvie cop than anything about harry's attention being on him. this is a man who has always been sidelined his whole life, who has had to walk a tightrope to make sure he was never showing too much of himself and for whom the idea of attracting attention has typically meant attracting negative attention

and then he has harry's Whole Attention and suddenly all of it's positive and focused on him.

harry thinks that love at first sight is what happened when he met dora

but love at first sight is ACTUALLY what happened when he met kim

it just takes him a lot longer to realize it