Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
toss stones at me in the street i'm making a post about idril but talking about maeglin for several paragraphs. also throw stones at me because i'm talking nonsense about elves again.
the craft maeglin is known for is metalwork, it is the distinction given to him and the skill that he is praised for, and it is the distinction granted to his house when he is granted his own official lordship. the idea that idril would match or outdo him in the one thing that is most valuable about him, that anyone would do this and render him obsolete but particularly her, plays heavily on his fears of usefulness and making himself invaluable to turgon. in reality its not as though turgon would be rid of him even if he were useless. as his sister son and as a resident of gondolin, maeglin will not be going anywhere even if he wished it to be so. but the need remains to make himself valuable, to earn the respect and the safety from the individual who as of yet holds power over him.
the uglier part of him that needs to have mastery over everything cannot stand that it would be her encroaching on his craft. he can have anticipatory satisfaction at taking this from her and comfort taken in knowing that he will be the one to take this from her. But the knowledge curdles in him that he will only have this by taking and knowing that her skill is something she has and very well might still have even if she is kept from exercising it. the satisfaction in taking is diminished knowing the truth of it is he's threatened by her.
his projection of his father as someone who was all powerful completely overrides any self-awareness or consideration of the possibility that maybe his father's domination stemmed from the same insecure place as his own does. in being his child and not his spouse and coming from a perspective where eol always was superior to him because he was a child, he's still looking at the specter of his father through this lens of being below him. they were never on a footing level enough for him to interrogate why it was that he did what he did and what made him do so. and he holds fast to what was ingrained in him by his father regardless of where he finds himself now, as an adult, when it would not be impossible to attempt to look back and make sense of what his father had done. because these lessons can still hold true if he holds to them. he is praised for his usefulness and rewarded for his loyalty to his uncle and he is rewarded with control. and where these beliefs are challenged with the limits of his control or limits to what he is allowed he grows bitter and resentful at being denied what he believes is his due. (and frightened at the possibility that for all of his work at being someone valuable and necessary, this does not actually guarantee anything. if this hasn't earned him his safety, then what must he do to have this? it must be that he is due what he cannot have, because then it is only a matter of being denied, and righting a grievance. nothing fundamental has changed.)
all of this had a point and it was to explain the nature of idril's armor as small pieces fitted together as opposed to larger unmistakable pieces. small things are easier to make in small bursts and smaller amounts of time, smaller amounts of materials to squirrel away. harder to assemble in the mind as belonging to armor when they could more plausibly be used as pieces of adornment or anything at all. even if maeglin is not there to witness her at her work he is still present in the home of her father more often than she would like and if not his eyes, then other eyes will see her at work and might unthinkingly answer his questions when he asks after her. if their eyes see small works of little note then that is all they will speak of.
and she wants to believe nothing will come of being seen at the forge and of creating what she will, that she could just as well be doing all of this less carefully. that there were no need for it at all, but she can't shake the wrongness. though he hasn't said what it is he holds in his heart she knows that there is something off about maeglin in regards to her forgecraft. and even if she were looking too far into that, is she looking too much into how often he asks after her? how often she finds him close at hand? is she thinking too much of his presence in a home that is his? where he is welcomed and loved? is there something within her that creates such suspicion where there is nothing? does no one else share her fears, is she alone among those that love him as they ought, with her own love unfairly withheld?
behaving in this way treads the line of paranoia, which she knows is her inheritance from her father, but when she is so sure that things are not right and she has the means to act, she cannot stop herself from acting. if nothing comes of this then nothing comes of this, she carries out her actions in secret and none will know if nothing comes to pass, but how is she to sleep at night feeling with her entire body that something is wrong?
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Creatures of U'mhaha. A damp, swamp world colonized by the Arikra. The Arikra who stay here long adapted longer limbs. The planet's native fauna are six limbed mammalians often with vertical mouths.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
hello and welcome to gondolin. shining city on the hill? alike to the elven cities of old in valinor? it wont be if you dont pick up a shovel and dig more privies. get to work.
of note:
the aforementioned privies which are perhaps the first "structure" on site, if you could call pits structures.
the lovely quarry and single temporary house
the impractical but strategically chosen tower construction taking place. while not the most functional or necessary building, high morale and visible results are also necessary for a project of this scope. if it has the added benefit of being a monument to lordly authority and might, well that was by design.
the chosen valley is unfortunately rather devoid of trees, on account of the altitude and particular climate, but it is rich in stone, clay, and scrub. this issue was of course identified in initial visits to the valley and there are the plans for lumber orchards in the works. it is thought that the lowest lying part of the valley closest to the south has the greatest depth of soil thanks to the river deposits, and will provide a shaded causeway to the first (planned) gate.
there is also a fierce debate taking place over how best to manage the necessity of pasture and farmland with the overall footprint of the city itself. this is complicated by differing opinions of what "counts" as the valley and at what point construction and habitation should continue no further up the slopes.
elemmakil is not all alone up there, there are a good number of elves posted up on even more miserable peaks surrounding the valley. (though there is be some distance between him and his closest fellows.)
they plan to be living out of their travel dwellings for at the least a year, but likely several years more in most cases. as more foundations are laid and projects progress, the dwellings can be shifted as need be as placeholders for future more permanent structures. due to the size of the valley (and the wish to emulate tirion) it is expected that future dwellings will utilize as much vertical space as possible, with multiple families living in the same larger structure together. of course with the exception of the lords, who will all have their appointed estates.
(literal)house of the golden flower and associated outbuildings
freshly slathered in clay and not nearly as ornamented as it would later become as gondolin developed a taste for their large flowery frescoes.
luxurious use of wood for awnings and walkway of dubious safety
outbuildings include a tower (of course) which is officially in use as a nesting place for migratory bird populations. a most auspicious thing to have in this valley looked after by the eagles. following gondolin's engagement in the nirnaeth arnoediad the tower took on the unfortunate double use as a grave for the dead left behind.
other outbuildings include the kitchens and stewards residence, the latter with its adjoining garden. the path to the main house from the kitchens is miserable. so miserable in fact, subsequent remodelings delved a stair from the kitchens to the basement of the main residence.
gondolin has no particular interest in window glass or its production. the dry cold of the climate in the winter, as well as the sometimes unbearably hot summer necessitate some trial and error when it comes to maintaining optimal indoor temperature. high-set, small windows are an easy solution in smaller dwellings, but a lords house requires more natural light than a cave, thank you. the larger windows of the second floor maintain a pleasant coolness in the summer, but is a bit colder than is desirable in the winter, unless one wants to shutter them completely and live in the dark.
in later stages of remodeling and habitation the land on the hill is further developed (though the garden is fiercely maintained). the dubious wooden walkway attached to the kitchens is also done away with, and the wood is repurposed as shutters. (the cold won.)
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
yousharknotpass
jacobvanloon
tangentwithtanner
