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I reblogged a Spotify Wrapped meme for 2020: there had been lots of posts about the top five, but what about #6? I added:

#lol #'realm of power' by two steps from hell

incognitajones tagged me in a fantasy aesthetic meme!

The prompt: Google “your name + fantasy gown, fantasy crown, and fantasy weapon” and post the results.







Pretty cool look, I have to say.

I originally tagged: heckofabecca, jubaah, grumpyfaceurn, kareenvorbarra, nanyoky, and tulina

I reblogged a post from steinbecks which included a screencap of Anthony Oliveira/meakoopa on Twitter saying "everyone has a sandwich that they think about for the rest of their life."

I added:

#lol it has to be the filet mignon hamburger i got in la #with a brioche bun and gruyère cheese #it was the most extra hamburger i've eaten in my life #thank you for enabling the experience :P

[ETA 3/5/2024: for context, steinbecks and I met up in LA in 2015 or 2016 and went to a Mediterranean restaurant, where I meant to get Greek food but was distracted by the most extra hamburger description I'd ever seen in my life. She encouraged me to Experience it and it was, indeed, an experience. I did get baklava for dessert, though :P]

An anon responded to the headcanon meme:

♥ faramir

I replied:

♥ = family headcanon

Normally I would go for either the holy quartet of Denethor, Finduilas, Boromir, and Faramir or something to do with Lothíriel, but I’ve actually been thinking about something else—not really to do with blood.

So, one of the responsibilities of the Steward is representing the king when he’s away (rather than this falling to another member of the royal family). This is why Mardil was running things after Eärnur rode off. So when Aragorn is off at war, Faramir would generally be the one ruling Gondor. And apparently there are a lot of wars in the earlier decades of Aragorn’s reign that send Aragorn and Éomer abroad pretty often.

Meanwhile, Arwen is … you know, right there. So my basic headcanon is that Faramir and Arwen at first have a tentative respect that leads Faramir and Arwen to consult with each other about the management of Gondor even though Faramir is technically in charge. And that the initial tentative respect deepens into real friendship, all the more as they have certain common interests and priorities (I imagine Arwen is also a lover of music and lore, say).

(And, more unhappily, they have common fates; in some ways they’re the last gasps of fading peoples, ‘springless autumn,’ and they’re each going to watch the one they love die before them.)

I imagine that Eldarion and his sisters are born in the midst of all this (as are Elfwinë and his siblings in Rohan, but that’s a different story). Arwen, I think, wants her children with her as much as possible, while Faramir is also frequently with her for administrative/friendship reasons, so he’s around the children a lot. I think he’d be good with children, and—anyway, this is a lot of words to say that my headcanon is that he’s not only good with these ones, but quickly becomes an affectionate uncle in all but name to the prince and princesses, and they love him in turn. :’)

In reference to this meme, rain-sleet-snow said:

I'm curious about Philadelphia!

I replied:

So, once upon a time, I wrote a P&P AU that basically re-tells the whole story, but with m!Elizabeth and f!Darcy. The main appeal for me personally was f!Darcy, though, and while that one stuck pretty firmly to the P&P rails, I couldn’t help thinking of a more ‘what-if’ style AU where Darcy is the only genderbent one. Darcy/Elizabeth femslash!

The doc is called ‘Philadelphia’ because I was trying to think of a feminine name that began with the Fi- sound but also had L’s in it, and thought of either Philippa or Philadelphia—I chose the latter because it sounded more pretentious to me, lol, and because it was a name used repeatedly in Austen’s own family. Here's an excerpt:

To be sure, Miss Darcy neither did nor said anything wrong. Her manners, however uninviting, were correct; her appearance was more than correct. Elizabeth had never seen a handsomer woman, except Jane, whom Miss Darcy did not resemble in the slightest. To look at her, in fact, she might have been Lady Catherine’s daughter rather than insipid Miss de Bourgh. Miss Darcy had the same black curls, the same cold dark eyes in a colourless face, the same decided way of carrying herself. 

Elizabeth did not suppose that Lady Catherine had ever been quite as pretty, or as sensible. Miss Darcy spoke well when she deigned to speak at all—but her air of superiority was exactly Lady Catherine’s. The haughty silences would have been, too, if Lady Catherine ever confined herself to silence.

[ETA 3/3/2024: as you might guess, the "Philadelphia" fic was an early iteration of Love, Pride & Delicacy, but I ended up changing a few major things about it: I decided to re-use "Catherine" as f!Darcy's name just because it struck me as so apropos for Lady Anne's and Lady Catherine's daughters, Elizabeth goes from moderately disliking Philadelphia personally but not even remembering that she was supposed to be Wickham's villain to carrying a grudge against Catherine for Wickham's sake, and Philadelphia was implicitly white while Catherine is visibly biracial.]

WIP title game!

incognitajones originally tagged me! Thank you :)

rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

My list is … not exhaustive, but:

• Fíriel and Denethor
• tolerably well acquainted (9)
• Jewel of the Seashore
• TJATSL: 21
• Philadelphia
• one more tomorrow (6)
• ad astra (23)
• fíriel
• Faramir/Éowyn wedding
• Jysseia
• wandering inside this night (2)
• Tindómiel
• F/A childhood friends
• Faramir and Éomer
• Netherworld
• Noir AU
• mystery!
• thrown together
• SW/LOK (not the Luke and Leia one)
• chandelier AU
• Kuvira
• publishing house au (Juan and Lucrezia)
• Louise
• coffeeshop au because reasons
• self-indulgent AU

My filenames are very illuminating!

I originally tagged elperian, irresistible-revolution, heckofabecca, kaz, and heget, if they wanted to do it!