undercat
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elves, mostly. same handle on ao3. she/her. adult.
It’s unfair to use someone else’s blog as a replacement for fandom_secrets!
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It’s unfair to use someone else’s blog as a replacement for fandom_secrets!
A far better use of your time.
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A far better use of your time.
The RSF is absolutely committing genocide in Darfur.
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The RSF is absolutely committing genocide in Darfur.
Yes, I'm aware palms aren't technically trees, lacking secondary growth and all*, but they're tall and function as trees in a human landscape, so.
*Well, some palms technically do have secondary growth, but not in the type that leads to woody tissue.
*Well, some palms technically do have secondary growth, but not in the type that leads to woody tissue.
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Yes, I'm aware palms aren't technically trees, lacking secondary growth and all*, but they're tall and function as trees in a human landscape, so.
*Well, some palms technically do have secondary growth, but not in the type that leads to woody tissue.
*Well, some palms technically do have secondary growth, but not in the type that leads to woody tissue.
(But no Geneva convention - but I could see Lindon developing something analogous to that. Probably sparked initially by the question of what to do about the Kinslayers who turned on their fellow Feanorians at Sirion.)
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
(But no Geneva convention - but I could see Lindon developing something analogous to that. Probably sparked initially by the question of what to do about the Kinslayers who turned on their fellow Feanorians at Sirion.)
(This isn't, btw, to say that the First Age Elves didn't have laws, including laws that governed relations between different polities. I think the clearest example of them is seen in Curufin saying to Eol it would be unlawful to kill him.)
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
(This isn't, btw, to say that the First Age Elves didn't have laws, including laws that governed relations between different polities. I think the clearest example of them is seen in Curufin saying to Eol it would be unlawful to kill him.)
May I recommend aipilosse's "In a Strange Land," which explores that, with a surviving member of the Mirdain sailing west and living in Eressea. Also featuring Pengolodh as the other main character, and I do love me some Penny.
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
May I recommend aipilosse's "In a Strange Land," which explores that, with a surviving member of the Mirdain sailing west and living in Eressea. Also featuring Pengolodh as the other main character, and I do love me some Penny.
Which leads to the interesting thought of how this culture - salons, courts, colleges - would impact Tol Eressea when substantial numbers of Elves sailed from Middle-earth in the wake of the War of the Elves and Sauron, Tol Eressea already populated with the returned Exiles.
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Which leads to the interesting thought of how this culture - salons, courts, colleges - would impact Tol Eressea when substantial numbers of Elves sailed from Middle-earth in the wake of the War of the Elves and Sauron, Tol Eressea already populated with the returned Exiles.
I really love the early second age as a renaissance - a naissance even! - a flowering of Elven art and science and culture. Which is then brutally destroyed by the destruction and sharp population declines of the later 2nd age And 3rd.
December 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I really love the early second age as a renaissance - a naissance even! - a flowering of Elven art and science and culture. Which is then brutally destroyed by the destruction and sharp population declines of the later 2nd age And 3rd.
3. Tthus, I believe that the real flowering of Elven law happened in the early 2nd Age under Gil-galad, sparked by increased contact with humans, more integration of disparate Elven groups (including different groups with Noldorin elements), and the events of the First Age.
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
3. Tthus, I believe that the real flowering of Elven law happened in the early 2nd Age under Gil-galad, sparked by increased contact with humans, more integration of disparate Elven groups (including different groups with Noldorin elements), and the events of the First Age.
(Also, it's not the fucking war crimes fandom and my fave did not commit war crimes. I know everyone is terminally Feanorian brained, but even their "war crimes" are arguable at best.)
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
(Also, it's not the fucking war crimes fandom and my fave did not commit war crimes. I know everyone is terminally Feanorian brained, but even their "war crimes" are arguable at best.)
Like Facebook was legally bound to not train their models on pirated books?
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Like Facebook was legally bound to not train their models on pirated books?
also adds a certain spice to the smut 😌
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
also adds a certain spice to the smut 😌
yes! and then, like, propaganda from the regime depicting pharazon-as-luthien defeating and humbling sauron. it must have existed! (the king's men being proud of their heroic founding family and their own interpretations of that heritage is such a rich idea)
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
yes! and then, like, propaganda from the regime depicting pharazon-as-luthien defeating and humbling sauron. it must have existed! (the king's men being proud of their heroic founding family and their own interpretations of that heritage is such a rich idea)
The point of CPR is to keep blood flowing to vital organs until (hopefully) the heart can be restarted and spontaneous circulation returns. You don't do CPR because someone has an acute problem with their heart, you do it because their heart stopped and their brain needs oxygen.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The point of CPR is to keep blood flowing to vital organs until (hopefully) the heart can be restarted and spontaneous circulation returns. You don't do CPR because someone has an acute problem with their heart, you do it because their heart stopped and their brain needs oxygen.
During a heart attack, the heart is still doing its job, circulating blood to the rest of the body; it's still beating. You wouldn't give CPR to someone having a heart attack because CPR is doing the job of the heart: each compression forces blood to circulate; you can think of it as a heart beat.
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
During a heart attack, the heart is still doing its job, circulating blood to the rest of the body; it's still beating. You wouldn't give CPR to someone having a heart attack because CPR is doing the job of the heart: each compression forces blood to circulate; you can think of it as a heart beat.
Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating. A heart attack is when the flow of blood is cut off to part of the heart but the heart keeps beating and thus the patient has a pulse (it's like a stroke except for the heart and not the brain)
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating. A heart attack is when the flow of blood is cut off to part of the heart but the heart keeps beating and thus the patient has a pulse (it's like a stroke except for the heart and not the brain)
“Found” isn’t the word I’d use, but yes.
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“Found” isn’t the word I’d use, but yes.
What you’re taught in a basic cpr class: do they have a pulse?
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
What you’re taught in a basic cpr class: do they have a pulse?
I also think this general point applies to names too. If I wrote First Age fic, I would drive myself batty coming up with OC names that fit Northern Sindarin. Or that are shitty translations of Quenya names into Sindarin (I love that little detail).
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I also think this general point applies to names too. If I wrote First Age fic, I would drive myself batty coming up with OC names that fit Northern Sindarin. Or that are shitty translations of Quenya names into Sindarin (I love that little detail).