Éowyn is a cat

Where are all the Adariels? 🖤✨

✨ I was inspired to make this Adariel edit after remembering a song from about 100 years ago (okay, not really—but it feels that long ago!).

Did anyone else watch Quantum Leap back in the day? (You're probably all too young lol) There was a song in it called Somewhere in the Night that stuck with me from childhood. I honestly thought I’d never hear it again, and I tried desperately to remember it. Thanks to the magic of the internet, I tracked it down, listened, and I knew what made me go looking for it!

Okay, it’s got kind of a cheesy 90s vibe, but the lyrics about darkness turning into light are just so Adariel coded. I'm sure the universe nudged me to rediscover this song now, just so I could set it to my loves Adar & Galadriel. 🖤✨ Enjoy!

I think my current work-in-progress, 'On the Bright Western Shore', is the most detailed re disability.

It is rated Mature for Adar's memories of Utumno and Angband (PLEASE READ THE WARNINGS!!!), but the 'present' of this story is mostly Adar and Cirdan pottering around in the garden like Frog and Toad, drinking tea and talking to hedgehogs.

Adar (barely) survives his assassination at Eregion, and is given asylum by Cirdan in the Grey Havens. Cirdan has long been concerned about the fate of the moriondor and their persecuted children, so this is an opportunity for elves and uruks to move forward. Also, he has a massive crush on Adar personally...

This fic has some details about Adar's gauntlet as an accessibility device, the effects of millenia of torture, the sensory & communication differences among uruks, and confronting elvish assumptions about health, 'purity', independence, and ability.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73847056/chapters/192597091

Commissioned this awesome piece from @asinoeiv for my Melkor joins the fellowship au (here) isn't it just perfect?? It was a delight to commission from her, please check her page <3 For those who read the fic, let's play a game of spotting as many easter egg details as you can!! :3

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Adar: "Is it true she calls you 'Teleporno' when you're alone?" Celeborn: "That is none of your business, master Uruk."

Amazon fumbled the best original character in Rings of Power to a CATASTROPHIC degree, so in complete denial of his absence this season, I will be badly photoshopping Adar into S3 stills until further notice.

Find yourself a husband that will argue about who killed more orcs with you

Kudos!!

Reread and still loved!

This was my bedtime story tonight! <3

CAN YOU HEAR ME SCREAMING

Cryin in the club rn

I love how you write [CHARACTER]!

PTERODACTYL SCREECHING

This was great! My fav line was [insert line here] <3

😎🤏 😮🕶️🤏 holy shit

Can you hear that? It’s the sound of my heart shattering into a thousand tiny pieces

Kudos, bookmarked, printed and framed and hung on my wall

Summary: Adar and Celebrimbor continue to dance around their growing feelings and make fools of themselves in the process while Shazzash, Miriel, and Galadriel, Celebrimbor's original lesbian and bisexual protection squad watch judgingly.

Still shocked (I shouldn't be) about how people try to defend their poor arguments to hide their intolerance. First was the accuracy to Tolkien work. But, of course...you cannot defend that 'accuracy' if you invent characters and don't follow events. Then was the white washing of the story saying that it was based in Europe. Oh boy. I have bad news for you then...🤷🏻

So, fellow racist: read the stories. Read Professor's letters. Read history books. Educate yourself to be tolerant and embrace diversity. Because if we make you an DNA test...maybe you would have a heart attack seeing the results.