lendmyboyfriendahand:

lendmyboyfriendahand:

Do you ever have a song that doesn’t actually fit your OTP, but you know that one member of your OTP would insist is “our song”?

Fingon is like that with ‘Long Live’ by Taylor Swift

Some of the best quotes: 

  • It was the end of a decade / But the start of an age
    • “When your father’s exile is over, we’ll have the wedding, and then we can establish our own kingdom in Endore!”
  • All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you 
    • “Himring is indeed beautiful in the summer, but you should come to Hithlum this fall.”

  • the cynics were outraged / Screaming, “this is absurd” / ‘Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world 
    • High King Fingon and his ‘trusted advisor’ Lord Maedhros both fought at Aqualonde, and functionally rule all Beleriand outside of Doriath

  • Long live all the mountains we moved / I had the time of my life / Fighting dragons with you
    • Fingon sent Maedhros a letter saying “Babe, I fought a dragon, you should have been here, I looked super hot and together we could have killed it.”

  • But if God forbid fate should step in / And force us into a goodbye / If you have children someday / When they point to the pictures / Please tell them my name 
    • Insert your own sad Maedhros teaching Elros and Elrond headcanon here

  • Long live the look on your face / And bring on all the pretenders / One day, we will be remembered 
    • “King Fingon and his consort Prince Maedhros, the brave elves who defeated Morgoth and saved Beleriand. That’s what they’ll say. Not ‘the Kinslayer’, not ‘that half-mad near-orc’, Prince Maedhros the tactical genius who defeated a Vala.”

This is so much fun.

newyorker:

In 1974, four years after publishing his first children’s book about the close friendship between Frog and Toad, the author and illustrator Arnold Lobel told his family he was gay. “I think ‘Frog and Toad’ really was the beginning of him coming out,” says his daughter, Adrianne

OMG! My son and my daughter (ten years apart) both adored those books! My son wandered over when I was reading it to his little sister (he was about 12 or 13) and said. “Oh, I loved that book. It was awesome. Only kid’s book I ever read about two gay guys.” And I said, “Oh, I can see that! But I thought it was about friendship.” My son says, “Well, one does not exclude the other. Right?” Getting all sentimental. My kids were awesome when they were young.