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Sleeping Beauty: Prologue

The cover art is by @a-bungle ♥️

Reminder: A poor little meow meow is a person who is like a sad wet cat and evokes sympathy despite being a little bit evil.

FAQ: This is a bracket style tournament. No new characters can be added. I will not be changing poll images. Tumblr poll choices are permanent and cannot be changed.

For the seventh day of the #NumenorFaithfulCalendar artist reveal we have June, for which we have Merry aka @queenmeriadoc , who you can also find over on Bluesky

For the second day of the #NumenorFaithfulCalendar artist reveal we have February, for which we have Raquel aka @nekroticism, who you can also find over on Bluesky

Artist reveal has begun for the #NumenorFaithfulCalendar, beginning with January, for which we have Rhia aka @mysteriesunfoldthemselves

So he holds up in mordor gathering a new army, and only after about a century is he strong enough to do cool magic shit again, by that time however the ring hadnt been used in decades so there were no whispers of it except oops we found this weird little fucker who keeps yelling about his fucking precious, better go check out “shire baggins” whatever the fuck that is

So he finds out a fucking hobbit has his ring which in middle earth terms is like finding out mr magoo has your fucking nuclear launch codes. So he starts sending wave after wave of his own men to get the ring and they keep failing cause this fucking hobbit has friends. He has his homie saruman send some uruk-hai to get them and then sends some goblins to make sure everything goes right but for no apparent reason they stop reporting in, (something about horses and trees?) so he sends a guy to ask saruman straight out wheres my fucking ring and saruman straight up lies about it. Next thing he hears saruman has launched an all our invasion of rohan with 10000 uruk-hai so rip the bronies right? Nope the next day his army is defeated and saruman has fucking vanished.

Confused as fuck now sauron gets a fucking phone call from a god damn hobbit (ITS YOU!) but all he gets out of the little sovereign citizen is some shit about “i do not answer questions” and next thing he hears the hobbit has gone to fucking gondor. Alright send fucking everything we got, take gondor do whatever it takes get my fucking ring back. And what does he have to worry about right? After all even if rohan helps he’ll still win. Wtf is that an army of ghosts???!?!?!?

So then hes sitting there with his diminished army trying to figure out his next plan of attack and he gets another fucking phone call from the god damn great grandson of the prick who cut off his ring in the first place. “Oi cunt i got ur ring and im gonna fuc u up m8!” *click*

Goody he thinks, this arrogant sob is gonna bring my ring right to me, time to throw everything i got at this bastard. So then the fight starts hes super excited cause hes clearly winning and OH DEAR GOD MY RING IS IN THE VOLCANO HOW THE FU- *dies*

Right, okay. I’d just like to say something, speak my truth, and I beg of you not to come for me Silmarillion fandom

unpopular opinion: Sauron is always twinkified to hell, and it’s annoying.

*ducks for cover*

HEAR ME OUT ON THIS ONE

In SO much fandom, he’s portrayed as really slender, effeminate, usually to play into the idea of being ‘dominated’ by Morgoth, or to be a femme fatale temptation corrupter kind of figure for the likes of Celebrimbor and Ar-Pharazôn.

which is okay!!! Draw him how you want, it’s your hc, and there is so much AWESOME art of him out there! But it annoys me that this has become the primary interpretation when it’s so, idk, implausible. like? Morgoth’s terrifying right hand? His sinister torture master? The dark commander of Angband? Most likely his chief blacksmith too? So many interpretations that make him this twinkish (for lack of a better word) figure are just not as intimidating as they plausibly would be. The vast majority ive seen seem to be more focused on making him sexy, which he certainly would have been sometimes, when the situation called for it. But I REALLY doubt how appealing he looked was on his mind when he was torturing Maedhros to within an inch of his immortal life, or gleefully having his wolves devour Finrod and Beren’s friends slowly one by one in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.

and then there’s Annatar. OF COURSE he would have been divinely beautiful, that was the point. He gave radiant a new definition. But Tolkien describes him as ‘a man of great power and stature’. That’s literally the only description we’re given, that and his angelic beauty. Now, great power can be given a lot of faces, but great stature tends to imply a person is like… really fucking tall and muscular, when used in the physical sense. So the approach of him being this very slim, shorter-than-Celebrimbor, boytoy-ish kinda guy is… an interesting one, to say the least. He’s convincing the Mírdain he’s a friend and Maia of Aulë. I’m guessing he would’ve wanted to look like one, and blacksmiths don’t tend to be as slender as he’s commonly portrayed.

and yes I KNOW he’s a shapeshifter and can probably change his muscle mass as he pleases, but why would he do that? He’s there to seduce Celebrimbor with POWER at the end of the day, as much as some would hate to admit that. For that, he’s going to want to seem powerful himself, or the deception will fall pretty flat. And anyway, I’d just like to remind you all that Celebrimbor was actually on team ‘hey this Annatar fucker is dodgy as shit’ when he first rocked up, along with Galadriel, Celeborn, Elrond and Gil-galad, until he WAS seduced with the promise of power and renown, not with how good Annatar looked in a skimpy smithing outfit (though that may have been a bonus).

and then Zigûr. That is the most viable place for twink Sauron, but even then, the whole point of THAT is that Pharazôn felt good for dominating and defeating an incredibly powerful dark Lord. So I’d imagine Sauron would want to seem immensely threatening for a while until he settled in, that in itself being a way to suck up to Pharazôn’s ego, then after that he starts the seducing.

Anyway, that’s pretty much all from me. I just don’t think Twinkron is a particularly interesting (or at all likely) concept, and would like to see some other interpretations become more prevalent. Where my eldritch demon/big scary blacksmith torturer dude Saurons at y’all?

SecUnit's memory is in a large part digital. When it stores something there, it's not putting something into an external device, its keeping it inside itself. I would honestly be surprised if this didn't impact the files themselves in the same way that a kid's favorite blanket would never be indistinguishable from a brand new copy of the same pattern.

As it is, Gurathin definitely took as much data as he could and started shaving off episodes when he realized he wouldn't have enough room. He almost certainly began with other shows and was getting nervous when he had to start cutting into Sanctuary Moon, but thankfully he only needed to lose a little more than a hundred episodes with the lowest replay count before he found the balance between "absolutely everything comes with me" and "no wait I still need to be conscious enough to walk out of this room".