appreciation post for the darling amazing wonderful @determamfidd – she’s so kind and reassuring and honest, she’s an amazing human being, she’s a mother and an adult AND WRITES FANFICTION that blows my mind that i adore irrationally and i love her and just wanted to share this with everyone.
omg aljsgdlajh thank you, you gorgeous generous human being <333
Hi there @callalillyg! I would LOVE to chat further on this, absolutely! Under the cut:
I absolutely ABSOLUTE agree with the Dwarves=Jews angle – if indeed it can even be called an angle, as Tolkien himself said that they were based upon the Jewish people. I’ve explored this in some further detail (with the help of some Jewish friends, as I am a Gentile) in ‘Midwinter’, one of the Sansukh Appendices.
Inorna (and Krummett) serve several purposes in the narrative – but the greatest purpose they serve is in their defeat. She was initially influenced by someone I knew in my teen years: an absolute vile bigot, a bully, a blatant twister of the truth who played victimisation games, and a contemptible manipulator of people’s sympathies. (I still have violent reactions against this sort of behaviour, even today).
When I first developed her character, aaaaaaaaaaaaall the way back in the Bofur-at-Dale scene (written more than two years ago, now), I was worried and angry at the escalating prejudice I could see in the world. There were attacks against Jewish-owned businesses in Europe at the time, for example. A lot of ‘oh well, shame – but what about US’ from many other peoples.
So, Inorna came about, both a character and a symbol. Krummett is that yes-man, the follower: he is emboldened by her outspokenness to air his own nasty attitudes.
I wanted a character to embody that sort of irrational, horrible prejudice, and I wanted the Men of Dale (through Bard and Selga) to utterly refute its place amongst them. Then I wanted the Dwarves and Elves together to both expose and DEFEAT it. With this attitude expunged, the narrative is now open to a new age of acceptance, respect and love for the Dwarves.
I didn’t predict the real-life events of the past few weeks, not at all – I can most certainly see how her vitriol feels more personal to you now, and damn, I am so sorry. I truly did not wish to poke at open wounds, and I am so, so sorry.
That the oldest of the Millennials are 36 years old.
In fact, some charts have them ending as early as 1995.
So if you were born between ‘95 and 2000 you could be either a Millennial or Gen Z.
I think the point I’m trying to make here is that most people talk about Millennials as if they’re all clueless teenagers when in reality they’re likely between the ages of 20-36.
Millennials are generally young adults suffering from a failing economy and a failed educational system, being portrayed as clueless children by the people who broke the economy and the educational system.
Reblogging for that shit ^^^
Thank you for this.
tfw when you’re an early Millennial (I’m 34) and older folks start bitching to you about ‘those device-obsessed Millennials, lazy entitled blah blah blaaaaah’ [insert tired awful stereotypes and lies here]…
…and when you say ‘I’m a Millennial’, the blood drains from their face and you watch them backtrack and mitigate their shitty words as fast as fucking lightning like
from the 26th of October to the 27th of November !!!
Sooo, because I reached 500(+1) followers I’m doing an art giveaway to thank you guys ★~(◡‿◕✿)
Which means three people get to throw their drawing requests at me!
As you might’ve noticed my main fandom is the Tolkienverse and I’ll include a list of other fandoms I’ll draw for below the cut, though if you’d like something from a different fandom you can ask and I’ll tell you if I’d do that, too (keep in mind though that my knowledge might not be as in-depth in that case :)) And I am allowed to refuse drawing ideas that I think are uncomfortable.
1st prize: full-colour drawing, with background, shading, up to
4 characters / 2 page simply coloured comic
2nd prize: simply coloured drawing, simple background and simple shading, up to 4 characters / 1 page monochrome comic
3rd prize: a monochrome drawing, up to 4 characters
For details/examples what those descriptions mean see below the cut ❤
rules n stuff:
– no giveaway blogs!
– likes DO count! please don’t spam, though!
– the
person must be following me (if it’s a sideblog, please let me know on
the tags, or I’ll rule you out.).
– unless you tell me otherwise I will publish the drawings on my blog and link to the winner; if you do not want that you need to agree to tell me your email-adress
– I can be persuaded to draw nsfw.
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Winners will be selected by a random number generator.
– results will be published shortly after the last day! (please have your inboxes open, if I don’t hear back from the
winner for a week after the results are out, I’ll have to choose another
winner)
this is my first time doing this, so here goes nothing 😀
I am so so sorry to hear that things have been so tough for you, Nonnie. I’m stunned and so grateful that my blatherings have helped (omg!! SMALL ONES ahhh my goodness…!). I want you to know that if you need an escape or someone to talk to, you are welcome to come off anon and chat to me. No pressure or expectation though. Just know that I’m thinking of you. *hugs and hugs*
Aw Yiss 