Magic and Moonlit Wings

aros you're marrying for tax benefits i just want to know the general consensus on whether this is okay or no cause i heard some people at work talking about it like it was a cardinal sin

Wedding dress, 1907

From the Musée Mode & Dentelle

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Strange Magic - Fandom, Strange Magic (2015), strange magic movie - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Butterfly Bog - Relationship, Bog King/Marianne (Strange Magic), Bog King & Marianne (Strange Magic), Dawn & Marianne (Strange Magic) Characters: Bog King (Strange Magic), Marianne (Strange Magic) Additional Tags: Drabble, Drabble Collection, Tumblr Prompt, Originally Posted on Tumblr, angsty with a touch of laughter Series: Part 1 of Strange Magic Tumblr Prompts Summary:

Marianne runs out on her wedding-day, and runs into Bog, who’s fiance just left him at the altar for her long-lost high-school sweetheart. They end up talking about it. (sent by elf-kid2)

How DARE Tolkien omit in the final draft the information that the traditional hobbit marriage custom is to have unspoken vibes for years and then disappear without explanation for an indeterminate length of time!?

Adds a certain frisson to the whole situation, given that Bilbo vanished with an entire PARTY of dwarves (so which one, or several, was his spouse? And did Gandalf conduct the wedding? Is Gandalf QUALIFIED to conduct the wedding?) and then returned entirely alone. Did he get divorced? Without telling anyone?

And then there's the Lord of the Rings. Clearly, this means that Frodo and Sam are married, or at the very least are going to have to explain why they aren't, and clearly, their joint marriage to/queerplatonic relationship with Rosie is going to require a certain amount of explanation. Merry and Pippin probably get out of it, on the grounds that they're respectively a Brandybuck and a Took and the more scandalous explanation - having gone on an adventure - is appallingly plausible and provides plenty of gossip food. But Rosie Cotton, marrying without running off? Dear me, heavens above, not in my young days, etc. I give it even odds whether Sam stands on the bar at the Green Dragon and announces that he's had enough a) of Foreign Parts, b) of nonsense, and c) of camping, and will get married when and where his sppuses agree to marry him, so SHUT UP, or whether Rosie goes to Frodo, unrolls a map, and says "so where did you say this Rivendell was, then? Sam tells such lovely stories I do have a fancy to see some elves."

In this latter case, Rosie, Sam and Frodo take part in the only hobbit wedding ever officiated by Master Elrond, who is very confused. His confusion is not improved by Bilbo saying delightedly that his boy has found a way to do things the right and proper hobbit way while simultaneously sending all those old biddies in Hobbiton into a tailspin. Running off without a word to anyone, yes - but married by ELVES?

"I wasn't aware we were scandalous," says Elrond, baffled.

"Then you haven't been listening to a word I've said," Bilbo sniffs.

@cycas​

#delightful #though I suspect that Elrond may have conducted previous hobbit weddings for adventurous Took lads and lasses 

Well yes, but Elrond didn’t realize they were scandalous. As far as he knew, getting a non-hobbit to officiate was just part of the custom. (In his mind, this made sense, because if you had a hobbit officiate, the whole Shire would know before you were back.)

the idea of two aromantic platonic partners having a “convenience marriage” is like my favorite thing right now I’m both getting really excited and cracking up over the possibilities I mean just imagine:

#we got married because weddings are really exciting and we can plan it how we want it and it doesn’t need to include kissing bc that can be weird#but it gives us an excuse to have a dessert table#because dESSERT TABLE#I just want dessert table festivities#festivities around a dessert table#ahh#desssseeeeerrrrrt#CHEESECAKES THOOOOOOOO#YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 

this is the most important addition anyone has made to this post bless you and may the Force be with you my friend

#aromantic couple that learns about the practice of getting married again to ‘reaffirm your commitment’#and proceeds to get married every year#and every year the dessert table is bigger and more extravagent#and they start experimenting with variations on the ceremony (x)

#we got married because we only needed to buy one copy of each book #we got married because then no one goes to the movies alone #we got married because then we got to design WEDDING CLOTHES #we got married because pillow fights #we got married because this makes emergency contact info much easier #we got married because weirding out conservatives (x)

 We got married because broadway duets while doing chores, we got married because HALF AS MANY CHORES, we got married because surprise cookies on bad days, we got married because surprise cookies on GOOD days, we got married so we’d never have to ask the other if we could come over today again, we got married so our parents would stop asking (x)

#we got married because someone will get meds when we’re sick #we got married because secondary income #we got married because joint big finish account #we got married because two people can walk more dogs than one person which means more dogs #we got married because broadway duets while doing anything #we got married because only one of us likes cooking and the other is fine with dishes #we got married because both of us like cooking and we can trade off #we got married because help with disabilities and someone who doesn’t judge #we got married because of the satisfaction of hearing ‘have you found someone yet’ and getting to say ‘yes’ and hang up #we got married because anniversary parties are even more fun than weddings #MORE DESSERT TABLES #we got married because couples discounts on things

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#we got married because two people can walk more dogs than one person which means more dogs PERFECT

I want y'all to pause for a moment and consider this: all of the things that people have cited above? Those are the things, in my experience, that make marriage ACTUALLY work in the long run. Splitting the work, taking care of each other, walking the dogs, sharing tasks because I am okay with folding laundry while my spouse hates it but he’ll carry the heavy baskets for me, because singing duets in the car is fun, because sometimes I worked all day and he’s on leave right now so he made dinner and made my favorite pasta dish with fresh tomatoes… those are the REAL reasons a marriage works. So think about this for a moment because romance is, frankly, very secondary to what makes a marriage work in the long term. Partnership, task-sharing, friendship, all of those things are the true thing that will tell you whether a marriage will stand the test of time. So it’s not that I’m saying that aromantic relationships are like taking a “normal” relationship and taking out the romance, I’m saying that IF YOUR RELATIONSHIP WOULD NOT STAND UP WITHOUT THE ROMANCE IN IT, DON’T GET MARRIED. We should in fact consider the aromantic “platonic lifemate” as the ideal BASIS for a marriage in the long term. We should be looking at platonic lifemates and saying, “do we measure up to that standard? Is our love for each other aromantic TOO? Are we at that bedrock?” Because you will go through periods in your life, and your marriage, where even if you love one another romantically and deeply, there won’t be much romance. Maybe, you know, your spouse just got part of her spine removed, or you are really stressed out by work, or a move, or your dog/cat/kid/mouse/pet tarantula is sick, or your neighbor is crazy and intruding on your space, and you will NEED EACH OTHER but there won’t be much romance in it. If you can’t be platonic partners, if you don’t stand up to that ideal, seriously consider this. Consider BUILDING this as part of building your relationship – and use it as a good test for whether or not sex/romance is covering up serious communication issues, or abuse. I submit that we should refer to this as the New Platonic Ideal. Thank you.

This has very strong ButterflyBog vibes, I feel.

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Folks I am once again upset by the fact that "bride kidnapping" is not a filterable tag on ao3 so here's some brainstorming ft. @lyratalus about all the ways this trope can be used

How do I make this a multi-fandom thing I have such a need... please accept this dubcon trope into ur hearts...

many years ago i had an idea about two wizards one light and one dark going on adventures in a party and falling in love and later marrying with a special wizard ritual and years and years later the dark one becomes full on an antagonist and the light one is guiding a group of new adventurers to defeat him and nobody is old enough to notice they both still wear their magic rings bc they still love each other and dream of having the other be by their side even tho they have to fight what im sayin is….might realise that concept

two of them (more lore in og post’s tags)

wanted to add your tags bc 🥺

The enemies and lovers teachers

“Due to a magical pact of your ancestors you two must get married. Breaking the pact results in death.”

“Okay, before I get mad: how long do we have to stay married?”

“Beg pardon?”

“What does your magical pact say about divorce?”

i’m gonna make a movie where two normal ladies fall in love. everything’s chill, no age gap, they’re both out of the closet, their families love them, everything’s fine. the catch is that one lady has a cat and the other lady never figured out what the cat’s name was cause the Owner Lesbian ALWAYS uses a dumb nickname and now it’s been three years and they’re getting married and it’s too late to just ask

It’s garnering more and more urgency because the cat’s importance is growing (the cat is going to be the ring bearer, oh no!)

The First Lady asks her fiancé if they should get a fancy collar with the cats name for the wedding and her fiancé throws her arms around her and says “great, would you go do that tomorrow?”

the longer i think about it the more that sounds like a valid conflict to base an entire movie around and the fewer problems i could think of that cant have a solid writing solution available

“Just wanted to confirm the spelling before I gave the order, hun. This shit is costly and I only got one form.”

“Oh, just the normal spelling, no crazy vowels or anything.”

This is so good. Plus it’s not like you can try out likely names and see if the cat responds, like a dog might. It’s a cat. It’s just gonna sit and squint unblinkingly at you regardless, no matter how many names you try.

Plot twist:

It’s not a stupid nickname.

The cat really is “miss kitty.”

Y E S

no no no. the cat doesn’t have a name, the cat owner never decided on one so she just goes with various silly nicknames. but since her fiancée acts like she is aware of the cat’s name, the cat owner assumes the fiancée mistook one of the nicknames for the actual name. but she doesn’t know which! so the cat owner doesn’t know what the supposed cat name is either, and relies on the fiancée revealing it at some point, but it never comes and she’s getting agitated too because she doesn’t want to admit she never named her cat

Hey hey hey in a similar vein to ^^^

What if

Neither if then know the name

Because it’s neither of their cat.

The cat decided to move in about the same time one of the girls did. Both think it’s the other one’s cat. Both are committing these increasingly elaborate shenanigans to figure out the name from the other.

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

the stricklake wedding we deserved. + best man jim!

Ok #jlaire fam this ones for you, the happy ending (beginning?) Jim & Claire and yooouuu deserve hoo hoo! Fun fact Jim’s belt and Claire’s necklace were wedding gifts from Douxie, he made it based off the amulet and the shadow staff respectively. They’re enchanted cuz duh. Additional fun fact, I gave them a Romeo and Juliet themed wedding outfit ensemble (tried to incorporate those beautiful Mexican braids though for Claire). Research was a little loose for the outfits but hope y’all like it!

Stricklake Month - Week Three: Family

Jim and Walt think it’s a great idea to re-enact their knife fight for “fun” wedding photos. Barbara is Not Amused.

(I’d also like to use this opportunity to draw attention to their matching ties: Jim picked them out. :>)