#violinclad

I'm so sorry someone sent you anon hate, but holy fuck that is the best response I've ever seen.

Why thank you! 

1. Do you make lists to remember things or just remember them?

I tend to be a listmaker, though usually less for remembering things and more for getting organized. I’m more productive with a physical to-do list in front of me :)

2. First age, second age, or third age?

Tough one! It’s gotta be the First, though. 

3. Best weather?

When it gets in the 80s (Fahrenheit) in April and May, before the oppressive heat and humidity set in.

4. Top three albums?

Of all time? Nightfall in Middle-earth - Blind Guardian, Thriller - Michael Jackson, Folie à Deux - Fall Out Boy 

5. Cinnamon or mint?

Mint in tea and candy, cinnamon in baked goods

6. What is your comfort book?

Forever Tolkien’s Roverandom

7. What is your favourite myth/legend and why?

The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise Any Faust(us) tale - I love the universality of it - the archetype makes for a fantastic tragedy. (Plus Marlowe’s play has some A+ dialogue)

8. If you were in Middle-Earth and could choose on any side, be any race/creature, in any place, during any age, what would you want to be?

Gah, why is my gut reaction ‘a Fëanorian Noldo, of course’? But no. We’re going to think this through. I think I’d like to be one of Námo’s Maiar. You stay fairly safe, but still get to meet plenty of interesting (dead) people and maybe help them out. You’d get to hear a lot of stories firsthand.

9. Fave area of literature?

Fanfiction! No, I’m serious -- I’m a big fan of character-based stories, and I’ve read few novels that can touch the levels of character nuance you can find in a well-done fic.

10. Which art movement do you prefer?

I know woefully little about art, but I’d say Impressionism :)

11. Rogue, warrior, or mage, and why?

Mage all the way -- I’d be no use in a physical fight, I’m much more the strategic planning type.

My eleven questions:

1) What movie did you watch over and over as a kid? 2) How’d you get into Tolkien? 3) OTP(s)? (Any fandom!) 4) Where’s the farthest from home you’ve ever traveled?  5) Favorite poem? 6) Tom Bombadil headcanon of choice? 7) What’s your favorite thing hanging on your wall? 8) Do you post fanworks online? If so, link a drawing/edit or rec a fic of yours (only if you’re comfortable doing so :). 9) Care for spicy food? 10) Favorite line from the last song you listened to? 11) What’s one thing you’re looking forward to?

Whoops, sorry, I spoke too soon. I have now read it all and it exceeded my expectations by far. This idea was pure genius (not digging in mount doom, but the premise for this story, haha). Anyway, I'm just dropping you a line to let you know how terribly impressed I am and to say you don't have to answer my former ask.

speedy!! lmf there aren’t that many pages i’m. slow updates so i don’t burn out.

• get randomly assigned as your lab partner for a whole semester

Taako. Either he’d goof off the whole time and we wouldnt get anything done but we’d have a lot of fun, or he could use his wizard powers to do the experiments.

• get trapped with on a broken elevator for ten hours

Magnus. We’d probably strike up good conversations, and he could also likely get us out of there. 

• get as my employee trainer for my new job at McDonalds

Your sauron’s wrathful face at ar-pharazon’s antics is my favourite thing ever

What is a big goal you are working towards?

Weeeeeell. . . I’m trying to get into a Ph.D. program, actually. It’s been a brain-twisting exercise in several ways: do I have the chops? The funds? The experience? Do my old professors remember me well enough to write compelling recommendation letters? Can I make my interests in narrative and reader response theory sound appealing to the point that someone looks at my CV and says ‘hmmm, yes, our university should invest a couple thousand dollars in this particular human bean’?

What’s your aesthetic?

Snowy afternoons spent under fleece blankets by a big window. The last red velvet cupcake in the box. A dog-eared copy of Good Omens from Blackwell’s. The instrumental cover of a favorite song played on repeat for three hours. Black-and-grey tattoos of swords. An abandoned RP blog. The ever-present tick of an anachronistic analog clock. 

Do you collect anything?

Custom/original art in all its forms - tattoos, signed copies, fanart. . . 

What is a topic you’re always up to talk about?

Tolkien re: canonicity! Fandom, its practice(s), and its history! Ships, always ships. . . 

What’s a pet peeve of yours?

Hypocrisy. It gives me hives. 

Good advice to give?

Just start writing! You can always come back to it later, but if you wait for the perfect idea or expression, it might never happen. 

Recommend three songs:

Soul Meets Body by Death Cab for Cutie

Every Me and Every You by Placebo

Help I’m Alive by Metric

A food that’s nasty in your opinion:

Three-bean salad. Ugh. . . 

Tag nine people:

Sorry for not answering earlier - I went to bed before I saw I had asks to do :c

6. Favourite band

Of all time - probably Nickelback

Saw this and literally threw my hands in the air!

Amazing! Hope you enjoyed it <3

violinclad replied to your post “An Evil Cradling - Chapter 8”

Ah man, I have a bunch of work to get done, so when I saw that this was up, I got really excited and called it a little ray of hope, which is, in hindsight, the least accurate description ever.