#laurelsblue

a few more tassels and weird accessories and he would fit right in over in metal furry world

“alright here’s the pitch, lads. they’re [thunk] doctors but they’re also [thunk] gamers?? who the fuck put gamers up there none of our middle-aged writers know anything about that shit -- nevermind, whatever, meeting adjourned”

god we can only hope. ideally i wouldn’t want them to fight, though. imagine whatever cute little rider we’ve got in 2021 getting dragged into a dumpster and aggressively read some bad emo poetry

I think my final plans for the scene is to just write out the actual conversation dialogue in English but italicize it and maybe hide it as the hovertext or place it down in the author’s note, because I’ve looked at it and aesthetically I find actual lines of quenya, be it sentences or poetry, to be ugly to look at; it’s not the type of fan content I find enjoyable, and honestly for 99% of readers who will be hovertext or looking down at footnotes for the translation, it makes no practical difference if the non-translated text is translated quenya or a mash of wingdings except for the author to show their work. So I should stop fretting over translating and just do the footnote coding

for anyone who’d like to watch fiveman: https://twitter.com/XIGFansubs

Sits atop this mountain and feels this to my bones.

Oh yes! And I made the connection between those circular patterns and the sigils right away (lol of course). If they didn’t have a sigil yet, I would imagine young elves using Edain patterns as a fad/starting point. And if they did, especially women as they had round sigils already, hemming their ‘Edain-style’ garments with their sigils. (Which, I figured those elven heraldic symbols were more like kamons sewn on court garments instead of painted on shields)

It is such a weird thing when given even a smidgen of critical thought, which is why I love Erikwa so much. Just the fact that the contrast of waking in pairs versus having parents on what constitutes what their ideas of inate connections to others should be.