with all that is left of my heart

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𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐎 as 𝐄𝐋𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐇𝐄𝐋

“𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈—𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚.”

We had SUCH a beautiful sunset at Katsucon that I had to turn it into something reminiscent of Valinor. ✨

Elrond - @woodsmokeandwordscosplay

Galadriel - @silhouette-cosplay

on the planet Gethen, everyone is both biologically and socially androgynous for 21-22 days out of a 26 day cycle. on those other days, you go into kemmer. If you go into kemmer by yourself, nothing really happens except you go horny-nuts. however! if you're with someone else who is in kemmer, one of you will become male and one of your will become female, and you spend the rest of the time fucking respectfully, because this is an Ursula K. LeGuin book. There is no real rhyme or reason to which gender you become--it can vary from kemmer to kemmer. If you get pregnant, you stay female through the pregnancy and nursing; otherwise you go back to being gender-neutral for the rest of the month. You can get married (vow kemmer) and always do this with the same person, but there are canonically also fuck hotels where you go have orgies with whoever else is hot to go, if that's what you're into. lineage is traced down through babies that came out of your own body.

I've never quite been able to forget the image of Estraven, proud yet vulnerable, and bound by his rules and customs, being forced to acknowledge Harth's presence as something which is unquestioningly sexual, and Harth, who has no prior experience with kemmer or even fully comprehends the concept of a genderfluid being, still finding Estraven undeniably attractive—to the point where he has to acknowledge that there is tension between them.