Author: ennepolaris

fozmeadows:

words-writ-in-starlight:

jam-art:

thranduil sleeps calmer knowing even if his son married a dwarf at least he married The Supermodel dwarf and singlehandedly crushed the hopes of single dwarves and dwarrowdams everywhere

this is my headcanon and you will never take it from me.

listen, just Listen for a second, okay.

Gimli Gloinul is from the line of Durin okay, he’s from the line of KINGS, his bloodline stands up against Legolas’ perfectly, if the elves and dwarves got their shit together for a hot second they would be like “YES, PERFECT, A DIPLOMATIC MARRIAGE TO BIND OUR HOUSES TOGETHER AND NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN THROW ONE ANOTHER TO DRAGONS…again.”  because you have a king’s son and a king’s nephew which, well, I love Dain but he’s not an EREBOR KING and GIMLI IS FROM THE FAMILY OF EREBOR KINGS.

And Gimli acts like he’s from the line of Erebor kings, too, okay, he’s a diplomat and a warrior and a nobleman, he’s the sort of person who SAYS things like ‘faithless is he who says fairwell when the road darkens’ and stares down Elrond Peredhil in his own home when his strength and faith are questioned.  And he’s the kind of person who swears his allegiance to people he barely knows because it’s Right and Good and Gimli knows it.

And Thorin Oakenshield was handsome, and his sister the lady Dis is beautiful, and Gimli’s cousins Fili and Kili were fine young dwarrows, and Gimli’s mother is a great beauty.

Basically my point here is that Gimli, proud strong gimli with his firebeard hair and bold laugh and mithril tongue and clever fingers, broke the hearts of everyone in Erebor and not a few people outside of Erebor when he married a goddamn elf.  Like.  Not even Arwen Undomiel (WHO MARRIED A GODDAMN HUMAN, it’s been a weird couple of years in Middle-Earth, everyone wonders strongly if they’ve been drinking too much).  Like he’s not even marrying a great beauty of the elves, Legolas isn’t ugly by elvish standards but also he’s nothing particularly special, and he’s not a great diplomat, and he’s BARELY a king’s son because everyone knows that Mirkwood elves are…a little odd.  Legolas is a big cheerful hunter who sings songs he doesn’t remember all of, who chatters to trees and has no sense of the right thing to say even if he’s developed enough self-preservation to know the wrong thing to say, and FOR THE LOVE OF MAHAL HE FIGHTS WITH A BOW.

“GIMLI” Gloin bellows “YOU TURNED DOWN THIRTY-TWO SUITORS FROM FINE DWARVISH LINES FOR THIS”

“Ignore him, amrâlime, he’ll get over it” Gimli says in amusement as he beckons Legolas over to his forge, where he’s carefully smithing mithril-inlaid gold marriage clasps that will grip fine elvish hair.  It’s too hot in the forge to wear shirts, if you’re working.  Every dwarf in twenty feet stops what they’re doing to watch Gimli’s biceps flex as he holds up a jewel for Legolas’ inspection.

“YOU COULD HAVE HAD A HAREM” Gloin wails from down the hall.

#a headcanon I never knew I needed until this very moment

Les Amis as people from my school’s model UN

Enjolras: always making PowerPoints with font size 56 to passive-aggressively flash arguments across the room when he’s not allowed to talk
Combeferre: is VERY nearsighted but only puts glasses on to read the placard of a country so they can call them out By Name if they say something ignorant
Courfeyrac: shared a chair with another delegate for the whole meeting and refused to move despite numerous empty chairs surrounding them
Bahorel: always leaves 40 minutes early because model UN overlaps with their boxing practice
Bossuet: tried to parkour over a row of desks, tripped and ripped their already artfully ripped hipster distressed boyfriend jeans
Joly: “dinosaurs are NOT an endangered or at risk species”
Jehan: sits in the corner, always quiet, looking sad and contemplative. they’re playing Don’t touch the spikes on an iphone 5
Feuilly: has a speech-giving voice described as “white morgan freeman”
Grantaire: somehow convinced half the room to vote for a paper they didn’t agree with just so the meeting would be over faster
Marius: went to the bathroom, got locked out, missed a whole voting procedure

ke1ths:

ke1ths:

For Thanksgiving, you can start your dinner by acknowledging the land that you are on and acknowledging the tribes of peoples who have been forced away from their home lands and are now struggling to reconnect with their culture and families due to the cultural genocide that took place when colonization began. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, take the time to do some reconciliation for the hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who have suffered and still continue to suffer to this day. 

I encourage people to reblog this. Esp white folks.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman
(via wordsnquotes)