ay im not gonna be as active on here bc im in my star wars era so like. dont expect anything new for a while
hmmm actually hot take but both melkor and mairon are femme actually. in this essay i will
#lee chatters#no but seriously#so much of how we view them as characters when shipping them together is just an extension of modern gender roles#applied to two characters who are canonically immortal shapeshifters#why would they follow human gender norms?#also not even getting into the idea of the person on the 'bottom' being viewed as subservient bc again#WHY WOULD THEY FOLLOW THAT#THEY DONT EVEN NEED BODIES WHY WOULD THAT BE VIEWED AS ANYTHING#at some point we have to be not weird abt that#assigning mairon a particular sexual position because he ranks lower is dumb#likewise assigning melkor a particular sexual position because he ranks higher is dumb#how hard is it#we write abt gnc/enby mairon all the time#but we also need to consider how we handle that#especially when approaching him with a more feminine appearance#it's still misogynistic to portray feminine as equivalent to subservient even if the character is amab#okay rant over#for now#melkor#mairon#angbang#the silmarillion#first age foolishness
once again thinking abt how canon angbang would probably be non-consensual. also that mairon would not be fine with that.
#he wouldn’t freeze up i don’t think#he’d get mad#like so many times people depict him thinking it’s unsolvable or even that he’s fine with it and just#what did you miss#where does tolkien establish that he would do that#nah he’d do what he did to everyone else who tried to overpower him: fuck shit up#lee chatters
ah yes, the silmarillion. or as i like to call it, the lore of the rings.
Favorite potential angbang trope: Melkor is very much in charge. Please ignore the Mairon behind the curtain manipulating Melkor into doing whatever Mairon wants him to.
Hi hello spoiler alert for the next oneshot I’m writing:
Mairon always lies.
Second spoiler:
To everyone.
hate trying to find legit criticism of trop it’s like and over here are the actual nazis
thinking about them (Galadriel and Melian) and their unmatched swag
still hate the valar/maiar dynamic and how the fandom personifies the Maiar as a subservient race :)
#lee chatters#like besties if you don’t understand how problematic that is then you are not allowed to write any vala/maia dynamic ever again#writing privileges REVOKED#literally some of the shit y’all write in fics has me thinking abt justifications for slavery in the southern us#ITS CREEPY AS HELL
damn mairon does not give a shit about anything. king.
brief sneak peak into my mind:
“You are a fool if you think that is all I am doing.”
“I am no fool.”
“We allied ourselves for one reason, Sauron. To kill him. To get me my throne back. So yes, I expect you to be docile, as I will be, while we plan.”
Anonymous asked:
Never said you couldn't be mad Irish caricatures. I'm well aware of British colonialism in all its forms. Tolkien wasn't "kind of racist" - he was. Tolkien being racist since he was writing from the 40s doesn't change the fact that you still have plenty of apologists who grasp at straws to refute his racism and there's plenty of current white writers, like JKR, who are racist and writing right now.
Ah, that was a phrasing mistake on my part. I understand this perfectly—I am also Cherokee, and am WELL aware of how shitty JKR is when it comes to race.
oh tar-míriel and sauron team up coup au that exists only in my head we’re really in it now-
pov you’re melkor and the maia you’re trying to seduce has told you to leave because making you shiny things is beneath his station
in other words: i wrote canto I of an epic poem a week ago
do not even pirate the Amazon show it is not worth it. it’s like watching a train filled with English men wreck in slow motion set to the Wii theme (played poorly on a kazoo).
who wants to hear about a weird-ass Maia and his underground elf kingdom and the fact that he dropped a mountain on Balrog?
great! his name is Túvo the Wizard and you should check him out immediately
councilofelrond reblogged
…the urge to write an epic poem version of how mairon turned evil lies deep in my soul.
help.
i am about six lines in now. this is being written in iambic tetrameter, as an homage to the Lay of Leithian.