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Kalendeer/Calendille (@quarantined-feanor)

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Also found on the SWG discord, on AO3 (I like to chat in the comments!, pseud is Calendille.

This year I’m art-ing for the first time, writing for the second time!

A Feast of Ashes is my first novel ever, and a dream come true. I've been writing for several years, but short stories and never finished novels were my speciality. Well, no more! I hope a lot of readers will come and party with me at the end of this big project, that spanned 8 months this year!

A Feast of Ashes

T with some extra warnings for specific chapters.

Now High King of the Noldor in Middle Earth, Fingolfin decides to host a feast to reunite the free people of Beleriand, the Noldor, and his own family. What he did not expect is to be reunited with dead relatives, spies from Angband, dark secrets from Cuivienen, and a fair share of angst.

A Feast of Ashes is a Silmarillion novel spanning more or less 150k, from Cuivienen to the end of the Feast of Reuniting. As I write this summary, I am writing the last chapter of this story; small epilogues are planned through the summer, but if you start reading now, you are 100% certain of getting the ending!

Top creative tips/words of wisdom for fellow participants: Writing a big piece is a pain, don't do it unless you are ready to write every week, even when you are tired, even when you don't want to, even when your writing sucks. However, there's nothing like the feeling of finishing a story and sharing it with people!

Last word of widsom: send love to the supermods. SEND LOVE! They work super hard!

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Mod note: we promise we didn’t ask her to add that last part! :D

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See you tomorrow for another Summer Showcase.

Excellent! Okay, already talked about unpopular ships here as for the rest:

Ship that you have as an OTP

Ohh, difficult one! I’m going to have to say it’s kind of a tie between Caranthir/Haleth and Feanor/Nerdanel? And for fairly similar reasons too, as well, actually xD I just love how both Feanor and Caranthir are so taken by the level of shear competence that both Haleth and Nerdanel show. Feanor respected Nerdanel, he listened to Nerdanel. So, she wasn’t the most beautiful amongst the Noldor? So what? She could carve statues that seemed to live, she held a will that could match his own, and an adventurous spirit to match! And the same thing goes for Caranthir and his relationship with Haleth. He underestimated her people, but her own strength of will and willingness to fight, the fact that she was able to hold off the orcs for a week untill he arrived…he was impressed with that.

Of course, in the end both of them parted (Caranthir on far better terms with Haleth than his father parted with his mother, but…) I guess I have that weakness for tragedy though, things that could have been but never were. What can I say, i love a good heartbreaking moment! And besides…there’s always fanfic to provide me with my happy endings ;D

Ship that you’re indifferent to

Hrmm…Okay…okay…I know that what I’m about to say is probably sacrilage but…Beren and Lúthien? >.<

Awh thank you so much!!

At the moment I’m not doing commissions unfortunately as I’m too busy with uni work (which the Nargothrond gang I did is a part of) but I’m planning on opening them after my deadlines in April! :)

Would you ever draw Fëanor, Curufin and Celebrimbor with so many jewels on them they look like fireworks?

Hey, sorry this took so long! And this isn’t REALLY a petition to the government but this was what it made me think of. :)

I. A Petition to the Government

Moff Loiran,

I understand that you are currently occupied with organizing the forces for the invasion by the Eternal Empire and have little time to pay towards other matters. However, I ask that you consider my request.

For the past four years, I have had the privilege of serving under the Emperor’s Wrath. During that time, she has accomplished more than some Sith do in a lifetime, rising from her position as an apprentice to her current title. She was responsible for taking down the Republic War Trust and the victory on Taris, as well as instrumental in leading the fight on Yavin IV and evacuating our people on Ziost. Her accomplishments have been a boon for the Empire and though she has stumbled, she has never fallen.

I do not believe that it is possible for her to have fallen in the fight against Zakuul. She has placed me under her service until her passing, to be transferred to her apprentice, Jaesa Willsaam, should the impossible occur. As such, I must decline your offer for reassignment and ask again to be allowed to search for her.

We need our Wrath in these turbulent times. I humbly request that you allow me to bring her back.

Thank you.

“No, you’re not.”

“We remember our father.”

Maglor smiled kindly. “Putting aside the fact that adoptive families are no less real than those bound by blood-”

“We’re bound by blood alright,” said Elros. 

“-I’m also the man that sired you.”

“How?” the twins cried, their voices shrill with horror. 

“You see, it is the way of bards to don disguises, to traipse from town to town in the garb of a simple wanderer, gathering tales and tidings. And it is the way of fair young women, with their husbands gone to sea, to seek solace in a minstrel’s songs. And, if the mistral is very charming and very handsome, in his embraces too. Ah, the music that we made together! She sighed like the sea and our bodies came together like the break of waves upon the shore. I lost myself in her depths, tasting salt upon my lips-”

“Stop!” Elrond cried, catching at Elros’ shirt to keep him from throwing himself across the table at him. “How dare you speak of our mother so!”

“More importantly,” said Maedhros, who’d been pretending to ignore them until then, “You were in Sirion? In the Lady’s house? Where the silmaril was kept?”

It’s true that Amrod burnt at Losgar and that Amrod fell at Sirion beside his brother. But how? 

Simple; Amrod and Amras weren’t twins at all. They were triplets. The confusion arises from the Feanorians, for obvious reasons, not wanting to admit that they were fucking stupid enough to set one of their princes on fire. Luckily everyone was bemused enough by them all being called Ambarussa and two of them being called Amrod that they were easily fooled into thinking there had always been just two. 

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