forcibly fill my belly up and call me your cute little cow~ then hint at the fact that I won’t stay little for very much longer
soon, I’ll be your massive, waddling, very fat cow… busting out of my clothes, outgrowing my collar… kiss every inch of my wide & wobbling self, and then fill me to burstingagain
The chief reason I go for dead Elves in the Halls of Mandos not being able to see events aside from their own life in the tapestries, to not know what’s happening in the world of the living: it genuinely horrifies me. My skin crawls at the thought that all the actions of the living are observed; I feel terrible for the characters seen. I recoil at the thought that my dead relatives could see me in private moments, breaking down or having sex or hiding away to escape the world or crying hopelessly or being hurt or laughing with ecstatic joy in a place alone or a place that I share with one other person and one person only. People have the right to private things and I cringe when that’s taken from them without permission.
And yes, the tapestries that Vaire & co. weave may well just show the highlights of what’s going on in the world outside death, but I’m not sure that’s the common interpretation? Or at least not when the subject is examined in detail as a possible thing? It’s not something I see a lot at least in fic set in Mandos. (Often it feels like increasing the angst of the dead relatives at the expense of the privacy of the ones experiencing life? And idk - it’s obviously a personal thing of mine, but in fic or in meta about a particular character it can feel to me like it’s privileging one character or set of characters over another, and in a way that makes the latter - the characters living and being unknowingly observed - accessories to other characters’ angst or pleasure or character growth. Anyways, I’ve never seen a character react to knowing that others have seenall their life and private moments, moments they might not have shared. They often don’t show up as a character, but are instead scenery, if that makes sense? At most I see them accept the (metaphorical) hug and comfort and not ask why others had the right to see them, nor have I ever read about a character who was watched feel violated (which would be a natural thing to feel, even if for a moment!) And me, imagining myself in this situation. It makes my skin crawl. Someone wanting to hug me for pain that I wouldn’t have shown them had I had the choice that was taken from me - I would shrink away. Especially if that person was someone I had not parted well from in life. Like, someone I’m estranged from doesn’t have that right. Even if it’s not the wish of the person watching, even if it’s not their fault: it’s still a boundary being violated.)
There are other reasons I prefer that the dead in Mandos only see their own life - death as a place of the lack of the new and thus no new knowings, a general preference for reborn people not knowing what’s happened in the intervening years (and thus shock, needing to catch up*, the need to relearn and reknow family and loved ones), death as a place that is fundamentally different from life and thus Mandos as a place where there isn’t new information to learn but rather a place to grapple with you learned and experienced in your own life. Like, I prefer death for the Quendi as nothing more and nothing less than grappling with your past life (this includes not interacting with other elven spirits, which is canonical). But mostly other people seeing the private without permission is horror for me.
Anyways. Never seen this discussed before. Thoughts?
*while I’m in general not terribly interested in Feanor, this is the one area that does fascinate me, a version of him being reborn and not knowing anything that’s happened since his death. A version of him that’s come to a place where he can accept loss and accept that other people have rights too, a version of him that is capable of growing into a better person, a version that’s regained his love and interest in the world - and then he has to confront everything.
not to be fake deep about Minecraft on main but. anyone else ever get the feeling that Minecraft is a post-post-apocalyptic sort of world that, with each update, is starting to heal? we start with skeletons and zombies and giant spiders and weird mutated things, but life slowly returns - scary things live in the ocean, yes, but coral reefs came back, diverse fish populations returned, there are dolphins and squids and stuff. in 1.16 the nether goes from a blighted hellscape to still terrifying, but a place that can sustain life. there’s new types of trees, animals, flowers, bees were added. basically the Minecraft game universe feels like a place that, with each update, is healing from something terrible, and that’s just neat
I wish we could have seen Voyager change more throughout the seven seasons because I like the original idea about Voyager being unrecognizable.
When Janeway hails Starfleet command they are greeted by a bridge that has been rebuilt with Borg technology, officers that hasn’t worn their uniforms in three years and the various crewmen, liberated drones, hitchhikers, criminals and at least five dogs she has picked up on the journey. The dogs roam the ship freely, as does Janeway’s and Paris’ salamander offspring.
There’s definitely a duality in this concept which I’ve touched on before too, in the sense that there’s comedy and tragedy there. You can have comedy in those moments where their lives are absurd yet normalized to themselves, but tragedy when their changed selves return home and have to adjust to lives made for what feels like other people. So there’s definitely several ways to tell that story.
Hear me out, hear me out, Jumping Johnny Jumbles word mix up kind of works like a stutter at times when he’s not working and that’s where his whole gimmick came from.
“Yeah they’re my favorite nabd- abdn” annoyed sigh “they’re my favorite band”
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