#dwarrowdams

Ta-da! Lady Dis!! ✨

I had way too much fun designing Dis, hehe.

A little extra...

I had to draw these two lovely dams from this post

Meet Tia, a broker that manages exports for various companies and Ghelevún, the beloved youngest daughter of a dry goods merchant

they are both frequent travelers to Dale, so they see a lot of each other. Their opposing personalities can make conversations a bit one-sided hahaha

Thorin Stonehelm x Berl

&

Dís x Gerda.

Both I ended up writing into Let Me Be Your Fire. They just flowed organically as I was writing about the characters and the back stories bloomed in my mind, so now they're integral parts to the Hearts On Fire Verse series. (Well in Thorin Stonehelm/Berl's case it's slow growing on page. But.)

Aspec Arda Week Day 2: Aromanticism and Community

Betua and her bestie Aífe out shopping.

Betua is aroace (much like myself) and shy around strangers. She met Aífe when the latter saved her from a particularly aggressive would-be suitor. The two have been inseperable ever since!

Aífe belongs to the wonderfully talented @helplessavacado

Lady Bofur

So, Tolkien Dwarves we know are a secretive race. Which prompted me to consider the idea that maybe they use ink which is only discernible by other Dwarves.

Other races cannot see Dwarven tattoos, unless that specific Dwarf wants someone to. It's as much a privacy measure while out in the world amongst the Big People, and I guess Hobbits, as much as an intimacy thing. (Or lack thereof.) Like some Dwarves never trusting those outside of their own enough to allow anyone but another Dwarf to know them well, etc.

Because Dwarven tattoos are a part of them, of their culture, of their own life's story. There are layers.

Also; for the Dwarven Ones soulmate enjoyers - some or all tattoos, if the Dwarf's One is another Dwarf, could still be hidden unless they're Ones. Which allows them to see everything, versus just some of them.