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More wives <3 I wanted to make them happy, for once!

“A dance, my lady?”

The voice catches Laerwen in a moment of quiet, in a brief space amidst the music, the chatter, the laughter. She was sitting alone, escaped for a moment from a knot of laughing friends, enjoying a sip of her mulled wine – and she savors it now as she lowers her mug slowly, as she turns to where her wife stands behind her.

Siril is radiant at Midwinter. She is radiant always, of course, but there is something enchanting about her tonight, lit as she is in the gleam of thousands of lanterns, her cheeks round and flushed from cold, from laughter. Snowflakes cling to the tips of her eyelashes, nestle in her hair, amidst the bright holly berries woven in among the coil: a shade brighter than the wine, than the robe draped over her in layers and layers of gauzy fabric, a wrapping Laerwen would love nothing more than to undo.

She licks her lips, tastes the remnants of the wine, a glow of warmth in her belly that intensifies when Siril’s eyes flicker down to watch the motion of her tongue.

“Of course,” she says, smiles slow and promising, reaches up to take her wife’s hand and rise to her feet. “I would desire nothing more.”

“Nothing?” Siril smells intoxicating, so close: wine and pine and snowflakes, a scent Laerwen could inhale forever. Her smile is a mirror of Laerwen’s, lips full and inviting, curled up even as her head tilts up, her body sways into Laerwen’s arms.

“Well.” The music is fast, a beat that encourages abandoned motion. In the distance she can see other dancers doing just that – her own mother a whirlwind in the arms of her father, slung about into leaps and flips and turns, to whoops and applause. About them, elves dance wildly, kicking up tufts of snow to sparkle in the lantern-light like facets of gems, the only disturbance to the surface of the snow. The trees themselves practically sway, the slow-deep thrum of their hearts lifted by the beat – and Laerwen heeds none of it. She rotates slowly, draws one leg up the side of Siril’s until her thigh hooks around her wife’s hip, tips her head back to bring their bodies in flush, breast to breast. Gazes up between the interlacing branches at snowflakes descending like stars.

“Well?” prompts Siril, and her voice is thick with laughter and desire.

Laerwen lowers her leg again, keeps her ankle hooked around the back of Siril’s. Pulls herself up, bends so that her lips brush the tip of her wife’s ear, cold against flushed lips, her breath a cloud of steam that sends a shudder through Siril’s body – one Laerwen can feel in every part of her own.

“Well,” she breathes, nips at the point of Siril’s ear. “Perhaps there is one thing.”

“Oh?” murmurs Siril: throaty, coy. “What might that be?”

“Let us leave the revels behind,” says Laerwen, her smile unstoppable now, “and I will show you.”

More wives

Feb. 1st, 2022 09:39 pm
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For Femslash February <3

For the Victor

“Siril,” she whispers again, and then her beloved is in her arms, warming in her hold, her hair smooth against Laerwen’s cheek. She never knew how empty her arms were before the first time she wrapped them around Siril’s body, full and soft and round against her, like a maid made of cloud, of autumn leaves. Laerwen pulls her in and Siril’s arms come around her back in turn, and pressed this close, breast to breast, Laerwen swears she can feel Siril’s heartbeat against her own.

They hold one another in silence for long moments, and then Siril murmurs, “I feared you would not wait.”


In the days following their official betrothal, Siril's family have made it more and more difficult for Siril and Laerwen to see one another. In a shared, stolen night, they take refuge in the promise of their upcoming wedding and the chance to make new family.


(otherwise known as: me playing with the fact that I basically wrote Siril as Cinderella)

A ficlet

Jan. 22nd, 2022 10:50 pm
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I was feeling anxious that I would never write again and nothing would help me but to try, because what to do late at night but project anxiety onto my favorite OCs? So have some totally unedited Mirkwood wives and PTSD, sorry if it’s awful.

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Written a couple of days ago on an elf-sleep kick. :) DeHeerKonijn and I share the beloved headcanon that elf reverie (that dream-state we see Legolas in in the books) and actual sleep are two different things, and that when elves really sleep they just absolutely pass out, totally vulnerable. (I actually do not now know where this headcanon comes from. Is there a seed of canon in it or not?) But this idea smashed through my block for two ficlets in one day (don't worry, the block is back now haha).

First, a little depiction of some of my Mirkwood OCs, also playing on my "winter is the spooky season on Mirkwood" headcanon, with the idea: what if it's a Big Deal for the forest and its defenses when Thranduil has to sleep in the winter because he's so tied to the wood that it is more vulnerable when he is?

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And then another ficlet, totally on brand for me, that's just a sweet winter snuggle with Legolas and Gimli (because it's the cold season and it's all I want):

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Also view DeHeerKonijn's adorable sleepy art here.
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This Drowning Ground

“The sink-swell/of this drowning ground,/a reckoning.” – “Tremble” by Lindsay Lusby

Laerwen comes to visit Legolas in Ithilien, to see the land he loves and the work he has done. She has not traveled so far south in an age, and quickly learns that – despite all that has passed between them – her own memories of Mordor still lurk close to the surface, waiting to overwhelm her and bear her down into the marshes of her own mind.

Fortunately, her brother is there to act as a lifeline.
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...because I have siblings on the brain today.

No idea when this fic will ever be finished, or if, but I was inspired to start writing it by Ben Platt's "In Case You Don't Live Forever," which strikes me as such a Legolas-Laerwen song that I couldn't help trying to write to it.

His eyes sting at the words, the depth of melancholy pride in her voice. He knows what she means, about giving up wishing, but he has never managed to do it. Always, it has marked him different from his father and his sister – that he dreamed of green where the trees were black and twisted, of warmth where their souls froze. It has spared him no grief, but if he is to be the wisher of the family, then he will allow himself to wish once more that Laerwen could have been allowed the same softness, that she could have learned what she might be in another world. That she could have allowed herself the dreams he never gave up, that she could have seen beyond the bounds of a world that has let her down so many times.

For himself, he cannot wish that things were different – not now. Years spent denying the sea-longing, and now he will go; he will listen to the desire of his heart and let himself be pulled along in its wake – and he will take the beloved he never thought his life would grant him and see if the sea might save them both.

But he can wish for her.
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...DTW was actually two weeks ago but I failed to finish the project for the week, so I put it up later.

For all that I try to write my wood-elves as Indigenous-inspired POC and try to do it as respectfully as possible, it feels somehow weird to post something like this for the prompt - because I didn't really make any extra effort to include diversity, just kind of pursued headcanons and portrayals I already had, so it feels like I shouldn't plug my fic for this week because I didn't do anything extra - but also I don't want to pretend that actively trying to include diversity isn't a goal for me . . . I don't know. All this is to say I feel a little self-conscious about the piece and whether it really deserves to be in the challenge, but the week prompts gave me a reason to finally try writing Cuindis and Siril reuniting in Valinor, so I suppose it was worthwhile. Or, I hope it was, anyway.

Heals All Wounds

Summary:

And yet that urgency is familiar enough, even if the words skim past her ears – she remembers seeing it in the elves that gathered to greet her, remembers the arms reaching to help her, the healers descending upon her. It is the greeting committee for one who has traveled here not by choice but by necessity. This is no joyous arrival, no voyage made for love and longing for a reunion, but something desperate.

Did she not know this was the only way her family would come to her?


Valinor may be a land of peace and healing, but that does not mean its residents are free of homesickness – particularly those who never wished to sail to begin with. After a thousand years of living without her family, Cuindis struggles with what it means to welcome a daughter-in-law to join her at last.
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Rereading my own fic like, "dang, every single one of these dwarves who gets to make out with Alma is so lucky."
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In honor of the fact that I posted the last chapter of Ever Changing, Ever Climbing today, I went back through and scrolled the tag for the story, because . . . navel gazing, I guess?

Anyway, it's been a really wonderful journey and I am very proud of myself. :)
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I Feel the Earth Move (Under My Feet)

Summary: Frai has never trusted elves or men – and she has never doubted that distrust before. But after a family friend sought to commit treason – and betrayed her trust to do so – she finds all her convictions overturned. Reeling in the aftermath, she wanders out in search of solitude and finds someone else instead.

At first, she does not know what to think of her new friendship with Eadwulf, a young man from Rohan stationed in the Hornburg. Despite all her ingrained distrust, she finds herself opening up to him more and more as their friendship deepens. But when a threat arises from neighboring Dunland, leaving Frai in a locked-down Aglarond and Eadwulf on the front lines in the Hornburg, she realizes that her feelings run much deeper than she ever imagined.

Some more absurdly specific OC fic from me!
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Ugh, I don't know; it's been a rough day. Let me see what I can do.

1. A sprawling set of characterizations and characters to fill out my imaginings of the Tolkienverse - one established enough that I no longer feel like I'm building it so much as filling it in - finding places where new ideas can fit.
2. The tiny skittish cat let me scratch her neck and chin for a long time this morning.
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Posting this just so I can finally compile my bingo list!

This snippet sort of takes place in medias res of a longer story for which I have nothing written, no real plans, and not even a solid concept, but I really liked the idea and wanted to write a short fic. More Legolas and Eleniel, and I have this wild random notion that sometime well into Ithilien’s establishment they go off on a semi-undercover mission to somewhere in the North, maybe Rhun or something… maybe to check out the territory and get a sense of the attitudes in the area so that Aragorn can try extending diplomacy? (And now I feel like this kind of sounds like Aragorn is planning on colonizing, which I will NOT be writing.) It’s for friendly purposes only! Do I have any idea why or how? No. Do I have any idea how the language or general worldbuilding works? No. Did I come up with this thought solely so that I could write the following story?

…Well…

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An entry for my bingo card! I have now completed a row, but I don't feel like compiling them all right now so I'll do that another time. For now, I just want to post this one, because I wrote it today and I'm very happy with it.

Takes place within my usual LOTR universe. Legolas has returned to Mirkwood after visiting Gimli's family post-Ring-War, and it will be his last extended stretch at home before he leaves for Ithilien. Contains: discussion of/aftermath of traumatic burn wounds; platonic bed-sharing; old, old friendships.

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I took a break from posting the monster this Thursday for a different fic I've been working on, an in-depth look at another beloved OC and an exploration of dwarf sexuality that has been simmering for almost a year now.

No Greater Love

Summary: It is a well-established fact that Alma daughter of Aldis is the most sought-after dwarf in Aglarond.

It is equally well established that for all she might take bed-partners, she will have no love, no matter who – and woe unto the poor fool who tries.

This does not, of course, hinder many poor fools from trying.
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Ever Changing, Ever Climbing

“Love among elves is not a craft,” she said, “not something to be created and finished and left on a shelf or put to use. Our love is a vine that grows along with us: ever changing, ever climbing. Our hearts seek out those whose lives will twine with our own, who will weather the storms when they come and blossom come springtime – who will change with us into whatever shapes our lives end up taking.”

In all the years that an elf might live, she might experience triumphs and sorrows uncountable by mortal thoughts and still have more to learn, more to become. Laerwen Thranduiliel has spent all her childhood being shaped into a perfect princess, but she will learn that there is much more to the role - and to life - than she ever knew to expect. Siril, on the other hand, has never been ambitious, but when she at last heeds the urgings of her heart, she finds herself swept unexpectedly into the royal family of the Greenwood - and proves to be exactly what it needs.

The life and love story of the Princess of the Greenwood, from the late Second Age to beyond the Fourth, as she and her wife journey through love and war, darkness and loss and unexpected joy, and learn who they are - together or apart.

...in case anyone wants to read the monster, I have finally stopped my dallying and posted chapter 1!
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Because I am drawing dangerously close to the moment when I just lose all patience with this story and start inflicting it on people, regardless of whether they want it or not. In the meantime, I must content myself with inflicting small bits of it on you.

Snippet: Thranduil/OFC. Takes place in the first few years of my absurd OC story. Extremely over-the-top flirting, because youngish, not-king-yet Thranduil is a great deal of fun to play with.

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Scars

Oct. 15th, 2019 07:28 am
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For day 15 of Whumptober. A little OC exploration, because how could I not? Legolas guest stars. Warnings for the aftermath of traumatic scarring and burn wounds.

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More sad fic including major character death and OCs.

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I'm having more Feelings about my own OCs-- different situation this time-- and arrivals in Valinor. I apologize for inflicting them on you.

If you are interested in a tiny snippet of Legolas and Gimli welcoming Eleniel to Valinor, read on. Warning for platonic mouth-kisses between BFFs.

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latest up in "off-screen fridgings now having to be brought onscreen": I just finished horribly maiming Eleniel.

(I'm so sorry I'm the worrrrrst)

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