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44. Rant about something writing related.

Sorry, Sharky, it's taken me so long to actually respond to this - real life being annoyingly demanding and all that. Also you know me - I'm always ranting, but what to rant about this time?

So many things I could rant about, but I'm trying not to be too contentious at present and also recognise I likely do versions of the things that annoy me.

That being said one thing that comes to mind is the fact that I am yet again on a Wheel of Time hyperfixation and it's yet again another series where I prefer the prequel characters and there's little to no fandom activity about them. Also (and this is no disrespect to the few fans that are posting/have posted about them), but I always find my shipping and interpretations are very different from the Tumblr niche in whatever media I'm obsessed with, so I tend not to interact much with the majority of fandoms on here. That goes double if there is a new adaptation that I personally dislike which will of course bring new fans in with more differing views and fanworks.

Still, it's sad to rant into the void, or practice post necromancy and see little to no response. I think the joy of fan spaces is to find those people you resonate with and can share views and inspiration on things you can't talk about with people in RL. Even sometimes, it's nice to have a civil discussion with people who do share differing views and headcanons to you. I've just decided I'm going to try and do what I can - whether it's meta or fanfic - and not expect a response. Despite loving this story and these characters for literally decades (even with all its flaws), there's obviously something deeper that keeps drawing me back and I think exploring that alone could be beneficial. I've never been in a popular fandom or if so, a popular fandom focusing on a popular pairing/character, so I tend to be a bit below the radar. In some ways that's probably for the best!

🔥 Give us your hottest Silm hot take.

Thanks Sharkey! I don't really have a hot take that hasn't been discussed by Tolkien fans and scholars for ages. I ask if I did have one is that Tolkien's relationship with creativity is very interesting and possibly fraught.

I think this is one of the things I find most fascinating and difficult to understand and it's the main thing that drew me to Melkor along with the awesome Dark Lord and defiance of the rather Good Two Shoes Valar. He is clearly a Lucifer metaphor despite Tolkien normally disliking allegory, but his 'sin' isn't pride, at least at first, it's impatience stemming from his nature as a phenomenally powerful creative being.

I'm not a Catholic like the Professor, although my own spirituality is extremely important to me. So in some ways I can understand what he's saying that attempting to create apart from the Divine would be a terrible thing, but also (I apologise to any Catholics/Christians reading this) I find Eru's rather forbidding Old Testament version of the Divine quite hard to relate to. Therefore I find it easier to relate to a Melkor who would rebel from that (for me) stultifying relationship, but I'm aware that Tolkien wouldn't see it that way.

It's interesting how his most extraordinary characters from Melkor to Aule to Feanor and Sauron and Saruman all fall afoul of the creative/and or technological desire in some way that means they lose their accord with the Divine. Aule of course quickly backtracked.

Wow your art skills are getting better with each post 👌👌👌

Anyway that's just my two cents since we're already sharing 😅

Yeah, definetly agreeing with what you're saying! Plus, I believe it's just so far we only seen a few scenes and it's kind of hard to judge how it's gonna look as a whole And with bow, while I think it's a neat design choice just as a design but at the same time a character design for action game where I have to see movement it's kind of strange decision? Though again, considering she does turns in different forms and glows (the same when you take lollipop in bayo1), maybe it for sure will look better in action and better in better locations tbh!!

I'm not in all the same fandoms as you, but I love the overall vibe of your blog 💙

"In 16th century Venice, circumstances force Veronica to turn into a courtesan. But unlike other women, she enjoys privileges such as delving into the arts and interacting with powerful statesmen."

Basically it's sexy times in nice costumes 😉 It's definitely a guilty pleasure 🍰 Anyway hope you're doing well! 🎍

No, but it sounds RIGHT up my alley (sexy times??? IN NICE COSTUMES?!?!? 🍰🍰🍰?!?!?!?!!!!! 😍) and I am going to track it down tonight! Thank you so much, sweet Shark! 💙 Dang this looks good. Aaaaaaaaaaa it looks so good! I am so pleased you mentioned this, thank you again! 😍

Please let me return this favor with a recommendation for something with some overlap (woman forced by circumstances to change her life, does not rock it 100% of the time but manages to thrive in surprising ways)— not quite the same, but a favorite of mine that I think might do it for you, too. It’s a book, The Blood of Flowers, by Anita Amirrezvani. The storytelling is really good and beautiful, even when the story is not.

lol! this colour certainly would make you think so! but it’s actually cosmos who turns in to  UFO here is a much nicer toy of him: