#macalaures

wait youre learning cuneiform?? holy shit thats so cool ugh im jealous af

Sadly no. My school might offer it next year, but all the Syrian-Iraqi specialist profs are on mental health breaks this year for obvious reasons. Just Ancient Hebrew at the moment :P

I know oh my god. or just generally things like that where I'm supposed to be less feminine to seem more professional. its like god forbid people find out i'm actually -- GASP -- a woman (sHOCKING)

YES oh my god this (and then there’s also the women who get shit for dressing/acting “not feminine enough” so it’s a very narrow range of acceptability)

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post “Tie your hair back and try not to play with it* when you’re talking...”

I feel this so hard :/ I've also been told to modulate my speech patterns, and I totally do - but I kind of hate that people won't believe I'm smart or professional if I talk 'like myself'.

(Esp since my brother, who talks like a total frat bro - but who knows, like me, how to turn it off and on - does NOT get these kind of 'tips')

i’m caranthir oMG

B THE CARANTHIR 2 MY AMROD!!!!!!!!! (theyre like. my feanorian brotp ok ok)

Short and sweet, but still a lot of fun and I'm hoping we can do it again in 2015 :)

2014

Amrod - ambrorussa Celegorm - quickersilver, doabarrelroll41 Fingon - aviva0017 Huanafinwë as himself Nerdanel - worldflower Miriel - greymantleish

OP (Amrod) #tbt Celegorm's garlands Fingon pops in - Amrod & Fingon Indis' sweaters - Amrod, Celegorm, Nerdanel, Miriel Fruitcake compliments - Nerdanel & Amrod Celegorm the not-so-tactful - Celegorm, Huan, Nerdanel, Amrod 'battle shoes' thread part one - Amrod & Celegorm 'battle shoes' thread part two - Amrod, Celegorm, Nerdanel

2013 Amras - kanafinwhy Amrod - sketchspot Aredhel - houseofhaleth Celebrimbor - greymantleish Celegorm - beleggs Curufin - erestorsr0bes Erestor - chiefcouncilor-erestor Fingon - hikingofthenoldor Maedhros - contemporaryelfinchild Maedhros - valinorisforloosers Maglor - macalaures Nerdanel - worldflower ? - boredprince

We have several diverging threads at this point so if you’re looking for one in particular, this may help. Divided into character and topic.

OP (Amrod) Thread 1 Amrod, Celegorm, Maglor, Nerdanel Thread 2 Amrod, Aredhel, Celebrimbor, Erestor, Maedhros, Maglor, and Nerdanel Thread 3 + more + more Amrod, Amras, Aredhel, Celebrimbor, Erestor, Fingon, ?, Maedhros x2, Maglor, & Nerdanel Thread 4 Amrod, Curufin, Maglor Burning the Christmas Tree Thread Amrod, Celegorm, Nerdanel (and a special rp appearance by Feanor) worldflowerextras Celebrimbor, Celegorm, and Nerdanel

Hey guys, long time no see! It's Ambarussa here, and I don't know about you but I just had a lovely christmas dinner with too many relatives. *sighs* Anyway, I've finally got some free time to say hello. My brothers are all doing their own thing and hopefully shouldn't interrupt. Anyway - look what I got! Moryo knitted me this great fluffy scarf and Curvo went nutters bejeweling one of my old shirts.  (idk what is up with him man but it looks pretty awesome so why not wear it?)

So this year mom and dad were still a bit mad at each other and stuff but the food was great and it helped distract everybody and Tyelko was a bit crazy so that helped, and

TYELKO ARE YOU IN THE HALL DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE YOU

WHAT ARE YOU DOING ...(several minutes later)....

I fucking hate brothers.

He said that all of us have to wear those ugly-as-shit christmas sweaters Indis got us (red on red?! really? does she have NO sense of color?!?) and he forced me into this and threw my jewelry at me and ran off. Presumably to do the same thing to Macalaure, since I saw him by the bathroom a few minutes ago and he's still in the vicinity.

Well, let it never be said that I can't take a cue. Everybody, get your sweaters on and come join us for the BIG FEANORIAN CHRISTMAS SWEATER BASH! :D

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I think honestly this isn't something specific to particular cultures in the Tolkienverse, it's something specific to the upper class, so I'm not sure how well it relates to oppression, considering the privileged own the valuable objects

mm, I see. it's not so much that I'm thinking of in-universe oppression; it's not (necessarily) how these attitudes harm people or contribute to any sort of dynamic within Middle-earth itself. I'm thinking of how these attitudes relate to ones that are involved in or used to perpetuate oppression with irl issues, and why even when the Middle-earth context is different, the place where people/writers/whatever and their attitudes are coming from here, makes me uncomfortable seeing that sort of thing. if that makes sense.

peredhel replied to your post “peredhel replied to your post: ngl though I do actually get very...”

I've personally never seen any group called too greedy by the fandom (obviously some groups are in-universe). which is what I meant, that I'm baffled, because most groups are materialistic.

ahh. yeah, definitely a personal experience thing then. (which, I mean I don't think I've seen any outright statements along those lines either; it's usually more subtle/oblique stuff that unfortunately I don't know how to describe very well when an example isn't sitting in front of me.)

macalaures replied to your post “ngl though I do actually get very defensive internally of the sort of...”

I've been feeling the same way about this for a while but couldn't even begin to articulate the nature of the feelings (if that makes sense?) and this does that perfectly. so thank you :)