On all levels except physical, i am a wizard

I tried to get her to look calm and foam like - she has been finished for over a month, I just forgot to post her🫣

Whether you're a kid in school with classmates who won't take "no one" as an answer to who you have a crush on or an adult whose coworkers have picked up on the fact that you've never mentioned a romantic partner; after enough time, a lack or insufficient amount of romantic interest will raise the antennae of friends, family, coworkers, etc... They will notice and they will speculate and they will ask.

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

LEVEN RAMBIN as Glimmer

Can you just think before you speak, and then perhaps not speak?

Aragorn, thinking oof yeah, he's just been abducted by Saruman's henchmen and spent a week expecting to be tortured to death personally by Saruman, he is just a lil guy and this is probably gonna be really awful for him: Absolutely. I got this. Don't worry about him.

Ah, incredible question. I've been thinking about this all night, trying to collect my thoughts. So interestingly, and as many of you know, there are a lot of parallels between these characters. They both are born in 2978 and die unmarried and childless in 3019 within 24 hours of one another. They almost certainly knew each other, as Boromir was said to visit Rohan at least semi-frequently, and Éomer remarks that the Rohirrim were enamored of Boromir. For these reasons, I tend to favor shipping them. But lets think a little about what their relationship might have been like. Théodred, I think, is gay, and also demi-sexual. He doesn't feel romantic or sexual attraction easily, he tends to find the most intimacy in his friendships. As a teen, when all the boys his age start expressing lust for women, Théodred starts to think there's something wrong with him, but he keeps it absolutely secret and to himself. He pantomimes interest in the same women that his companions admire, and he even drunkenly has sex with women a few times, if only to try to prove to himself and others that he's 'normal'. So, it takes him by surprise when he feels genuine sexual attraction for the first time, to one of his close companions in his éored. That, too, he keeps entirely to himself. Théodred knows, as son of the king, that he will be expected to marry a noblewoman and produce an heir to the House of Eorl, but he tries to put it off as long as he can. Boromir, on the other hand, is rather comfortable with his sexuality in my mind. As I've been writing Faramir, it's made sense to me that there's a contrast between the two of them: Faramir at least percieves Boromir as outgoing and sexually liberated, while Faramir himself is more reserved. Thus, I tend to imagine Boromir as bisexual*, having enjoyable dalliances with men and women, but having no real desire to settle with anyone. While Boromir enjoys sex a lot, he seldom feels significant romantic attraction to anyone, and for a long time he feels like he maybe that sort of companionship isn't in the cards for him. Like Théodred, though, he feels the pressure of his position mounting: as the next Steward of Gondor, he knows he is expected to continue the family line.

Now, Boromir and Théodred probably knew each other starting in their twenties. They don't develop feelings for each other right away. Boromir maybe finds Théodred attractive, but for a long time Théodred only sees Boromir as a friend. But, over time, their connection deepens. They hook up once, and at first Théodred swears it will never happen again, but then it does- repeatedly. It's a relationship arc that really forces Théodred to come to terms with who he is, and Boromir, being much more comfortable in his sexuality, is able to support Théodred along that journey. I'm sure there's a lot of angst and denial and laden epistolary exchanges and even some not-strictly-necessary travel between the Mark and Gondor for these two. And, over time, they both realize that their relationship is perhaps the most intimate one they will experience. Yet, circumstance and expectation continue to drive a wedge between these two, and ultimately their lives both end in tragedy. --- thank you for this ask! I hope you enjoyed! It's the last day of pride month, feel free to send any additional asks about my pride-related headcanons for any tolkien character!

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