Current WIPs
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endless_natteringsThis is half a "keeping myself accountable thing, and half to actually be able to link to this for the WIPs ask game
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Pseudo Inbox for Ask Games/Miscellany
Mar. 18th, 2026 02:01 pmendless_natteringsSo one thing I really do love doing on Tumblr is ask games! And I saw on one of the tutorial/newbie entries that this sort of thing might be a good way to simulate the ask system from over there! So I'll keep this as a sticky note with fully screened comments (that way they don't pop up directly) and then I'll answer them in a new entry (and redirect from the comment section or something, I'll figure it out). I'll also (for simplicity's sake) keep a list of ongoing ask games here so people know what they can ask about! I'll put each of them behind their own cut so it's less of a mess
You can also of course use this as a general inbox/ask system if you'd like (or if like me the messaging here still feels a little intimidating)
WIP Filename Game:
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Hypothetical Fic Game:
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Ship ask game
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Opinion Game:
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Sleepover Questions!
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Three or more sentences game:
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You can also of course use this as a general inbox/ask system if you'd like (or if like me the messaging here still feels a little intimidating)
WIP Filename Game:
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Hypothetical Fic Game:
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Ship ask game
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Opinion Game:
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Sleepover Questions!
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Three or more sentences game:
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Enough
Jan. 10th, 2026 04:01 pmendless_natteringsDay 7 Prompt: Free Choice
Summary: Learning she's going to be an older sister would hard enough to process. The political implications behind it make it worse
Author's note: Another Finduilas piece! This one isn't even sad (there's some frustration but no tragedy)! And this is another one that got inspired by an ask (we were doing a hypothetical fic game and they ended up less than hypothetical for the most part, I think I acquired like four extra WIPs after that
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wish you would walk through my door
Jan. 8th, 2026 03:28 pmendless_natteringsDay 5 Prompt: Finduilas
Summary: If he had really gone off to fight, it would mean that he had lied to her. That he’d known he was going to lose, and that meant he knew he would be leaving her behind. So he hadn’t. She refused to believe it.
Warnings: Mentions of war, death, and captivity. Some mild passive suicidal ideation
AO3 Link
Author's Note: This ended up spiraling from an ask I was sent that just consumed me.
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Canning (Or how to focus on preserves and not the horrors that haunt you) (Tumblr Crosspost)
Jan. 7th, 2026 02:08 pmendless_natteringsDay 4 Prompt: Galadriel
Summary: Galadriel at the start of the Second Age. Establishing a brand new home is not easy. Neither is any of the rest
Warnings: Mentions of blood, vague references to pregnancy
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Author's Note: My first time writing for Galadriel, she's a character I struggle with a little but hopefully I've done her justice.
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Best Intentions (Tumblr Crosspost)
Jan. 6th, 2026 01:04 pmendless_natteringsDay 3 Prompt: Aegnor
Relationships: Aegnor/Andreth
Summary: In spite everything (and that everything is heavy) Aegnor does believe he's doing the right thing. Or at least he hopes he is.
AO3 Link
Author's Note: I adore these two so obviously I was going to write something for Aegnor. This is a sort of companion piece to Saudade (DW link) but they can be read independently.
Thalassophobia (Tumblr Crosspost)
Jan. 4th, 2026 03:37 pmendless_natteringsDay 1 Prompt: Eärwen
Relationships: Eärwen/Finarfin
Summary: Eärwen is terrified of the sea, which is not an ideal thing for a princess of the Teleri. She might also be losing her mind but that's not something she wants to talk about.
Warnings: Blood and injury, unconscious/unwitting self-harming behavior, drowning, uncontrolled foresight.
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Day 6: Smitten (Tumblr Crosspost)
Nov. 23rd, 2025 03:09 pmendless_natteringsDay 6 Prompt: Original Characters
Relationships: Orodreth/Orodreth's wife
Summary: It is a shame neither of their children ever found their calling as playwrights, their story would have been perfect for a classic romantic comedy. Oh well, perhaps it was better, that way their story would remain theirs and theirs alone.
(Or how Hîthwen and Orodreth fell in love and came to be married, told in snippets)
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Author's note: What's this? I've written something that is not depressing or horrifying? No but seriously, this is the lightest, fluffiest thing I've ever written so far. (I meant it then and I mean it now I've got like maybe three non tragic/sad fics I've written total, maybe five if we allow for some sadness with an eventual happy ending/happiness so long as you don't look at the canon timeline. And this is still the fluffiest)
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Day 5: Saudade (Tumblr Crosspost)
Nov. 22nd, 2025 03:18 pmendless_natteringsDay 5 Prompt: Andreth
Summary: It is a strange pattern to be trapped in. Never formally named anything or invited anywhere that matters, but still wanted and expected, always heard but never truly listened to.
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Author's note: I just think that Aegnor and Andreth definitely met through the years in between their sort of break up and his death, and it kills me to think about how frustrating and painful that must have been.
Day 3: Aredhel (Tumblr Crosspost)
Nov. 20th, 2025 01:30 pmendless_natteringsDay 3 Prompt: Aredhel
Summary: Írissë has always been stubborn. But she doesn't think she's being unreasonable.
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Author's note: While I do think Mandos as a place of healing is a good idea in principle, there are inherent problems to it. Add to that the fact that the Ainur don't really understand the elves, and Tolkien's world building around marriage? Yeah, there's going to be issues.(Look I've got opinions about stuff regarding this)
Day 2: Tourniquet (Tumblr Crosspost)
Nov. 18th, 2025 05:47 pmendless_natteringsDay 2 Prompt: Findis
Summary: In between the laughing and trying to get her sister off of her, she almost misses Curufinwë’s shadow slipping out through the main gates. Almost.
Relationships: Findis & Fëanor, Findis & Írimë, Minor Findis & Fingolfin, Minor Findis & Finarfin, Minor Fëanor & Fingolfin
Warnings: There are some references to childbirth and some mentions of societal pressure to have children.
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Author's note: This is the fic where I tricked myself into caring about Findis and Fëanor's sibling relationship.
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Day 1: Caesura (Tumblr Crosspost)
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:25 pmendless_natteringsDay 1 Prompt: Míriel Þerindë and Indis
Summary: Predictable as it may be, it started like most things do when it comes to the Eldar, with starlight. Starlight, songs in a field bathed in darkness, and laughter rippling over the water of a lake.
Relationships: Indis/Finwë, Indis/Míriel (Implied)
AO3 Link
Author's Note: I still really love this one, I might actually expand on it someday. (Also, highly recommend clicking through on the tumblr link for this one, because a wonderful artist did some fantastic art there and I'm still not sure what the etiquette is on intersite reccing). Also
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Day 6: and now they wait
Nov. 1st, 2025 11:15 pmendless_natteringsDay 6 Prompt: Nan Dungortheb
Summary: A traveler, like many others before him, looses his way in the valley of Nan Dungortheb. He meets a different end than others have.
Characters: Original Elf character, Tavros, Tevildo
Warnings: Mentions of spiders and some potential body horror. Mentions of death
Author's note: Inspired by that line in The Lay of Beleriand about older gods that live in Nan Dungortheb (or Nan Dungorthim at the time). A little additional thing to note is that there are elements of absurdist fiction in here so it does get a little weird.
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Day 5: Hound or Hind (Tumblr Crosspost)
Oct. 30th, 2025 08:48 pmendless_natteringsDay 5 Prompt: Nan Elmoth & Hunted like wild beasts
Summary: Aredhel's arrival in Nan Elmoth
Characters: Aredhel, Ëol
Warnings: Animal death, physical injury, and gaslighting
Author's note: This is the one that actually got me to start posting on AO3 because it got a bit too long for me to force people to read it on their dash. Also I spent so long looking at horse anatomy diagrams.
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Day 4: The mysterious disappearance of Marjoram Appleton (Tumblr Crosspost)
Oct. 29th, 2025 04:07 pmendless_natteringsDay 4 Prompt: The Old Forest
Summary: A hobbit tale about the dangers of the ancient woods
Characters: Original Hobbit characters and an original human character
Warnings: Physical injury
Author's note: Much lighter than the other ones in tone (though it does slightly introduce my conspiracy theory about old growth trees in Arda that I've yet to expound on)( Read more... )
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Day 3: Candles for the Dead (Tumblr Crosspost)
Oct. 28th, 2025 01:59 pmendless_natteringsDay 3 Prompt: The Dead Marshes
Summary: The marshes are not a place for the living. Still, there are candles lit amongst the will-o-wisps and the ghostly faces.
Characters: Maglor (going by another name at this point in his life)
Warnings: Mentions of dead bodies. Implied depression. (If I'm missing any warnings do let me know)
Author's note: I feel that if Maglor was still wandering the beaches we would probably know more about his whereabouts/what he's doing (if only to have confirmation that everything remains the same), so hiding out in a place like the marshes would be something he'd at least consider at some point. He's referred to as crow/raven in Sindarin in this.
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Day 2: Games Mice Play (Tumblr Crosspost)
Oct. 27th, 2025 02:02 pmendless_natteringsDay 2 Prompt: Minas Morgul
Summary: When Minas Ithil fell, the city and the lands around it became poisoned and deadly. Even so, not everyone can escape disaster and life must go on.
Characters: Human OC and an unnamed voice
Warnings: Mentions of death, poison, and both physical injuries and illness. There are instances of what could be auditory hallucinations.
Author's note: This one got away from me, it was originally supposed to be something like a haunted house tour of the city but then I got caught up in thinking about logistics and who does the everyday chores around and well... Meet Hild! Overall she's holding up decently given the circumstance (we are grading on a curve). (I'm still pretty slow in this whole crossposting business, but I'm learning)( Read more... )
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Endless Natterings’ Arafinwëan Week 2026 (Tumblr Event) Masterlist
Mar. 17th, 2026 10:40 amendless_natteringsThis is the last masterlist I've got running around (they're like chickens in my head)! I do have a series of fic rec lists, but I'm not sure what the etiquette is regarding that (are they welcome or do I need to get permission to rec something over here first?)
And as always any warnings are present on the post themselves and the tags on AO3
Thalassophobia (Day 1 Eärwen): Eärwen is terrified of the sea, which is not an ideal thing for a princess of the Teleri. She might also be losing her mind but that’s not something she wants to talk about. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
Best Intentions (Day 2 Aegnor): In spite everything (and that everything is heavy) Aegnor does believe he’s doing the right thing. Or at least he hopes he is. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
Canning (Or how to focus on preserves and not the horrors that haunt you) (Day 3 Galadriel): Galadriel at the start of the Second Age. Establishing a brand new home is not easy. Neither is any of the rest. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
wish you would walk through my door (Day 5 Finduilas): If he had really gone off to fight, it would mean that he had lied to her. That he’d known he was going to lose, and that meant he knew he would be leaving her behind. So he hadn’t. She refused to believe it. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
Enough (Day 7 Free Choice/Finduilas): Learning she’s going to be an older sister would hard enough to process. The political implications behind it make it worse. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
