Caldar Greencloak

thank you my dear @oloreaa for the tag <3

from death inspires me

Mike walked over to them, his arms crossed. He gave Nacho a long look. "Care to explain why you're antagonizing my guys?"

Nacho didn't blink. "Nick isn't your guy, he's Fring's."

"Fring's guys are my guys."

Nacho snorted. "That's not true and you know it."

They were both silent for a while. Jesse risked a glance over towards the other side of the building, where Nick was gving Nacho a dirty look.

"He was harrassing Jesse," Nacho said

Jesse looked up incredulously. Don't throw him under the bus! "He wasn't—"

"He was," Nacho said, "and this wasn't the first time, either."

"I see." Jesse looked between the two, but neither of them had changed their expressions or body language at all. It was like standing next to a couple of brick walls. "Well—"

A shot rang out, splitting the air.

"You got this, kid"

But then you actually touch grass and talk to normal people. Not even that, you talk to people who self diagnose as hard core Tolkien fans. And. None of them have read the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is famously a book that nobody reads.

And yet. On AO3 The Silmarillion and Other Histories of Middle Earth has more works than The Lord of the Rings. Think about that. That’s baffling. It’s ridiculous. Like I realize that LotR fandom is split a bit by the movie, but still. The Silmarillion has almost four times as many fics as the LotR movies. Everybody has watched the movies!

I need to know what percentage of people who actually read the Silmarillion went on to write fic or draw fanart about it. Because it must be insane, surely. Like, I’m pretty sure the Silmarillion wins some kind of record in this department.

Thinking about the fanfic bell curve where on one end you have “Perfect, needs no improvement or elaboration” (LotR sits here) and on the other you have “So bad it’s no fun to even think about” with the middle being the fanfic zone. But I think there may be a secret fourth Silmarillion option. Which is a book that is perfect* but simultaneously non existent. It’s not even a real story! The language is super pretty and deeply incomprehensible (especially to people who, unlike me, were not raised from early childhood on both the Bible and classic literature). And it’s more of an outline and an abstract painting of cultural and world building vibes (not cultural and world building facts and information) than an actual narrative. There are story hooks galore. There are vivid and fascinating characters, but their lives are glossed over and you only get one or two paragraphs of prose that will reorder your brain chemistry and haunt you forever. There are countless more characters who only exist as names, the implication of whose existence is fascinating. All of this is deeply frustrating, both to casual readers who just want a Normal Enjoyable Book, and super fans who want All the Lore. But it is catnip to anyone who engages in transformative work.

Aha…

Ho’ysa = it’s cold afffffff!

It’s very cold here now so….yeah I agree….

aw yay!!! thank YOU bc your ask has introduced me to an excuse to post these random doodles (inspired by various convos with friends)