An Edie and Emily in Valinor
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Rueful laughter. Yeah, no starving people to see if their standards for prettiness change. The Valar wouldn't approve.

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Quite.

(She keeps her opinion of the relevance of what the Valar think firmly in the private side of her thoughts)

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And the prettier printing press progresses.

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~Printing press!~

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It's a week before they have a version they deem satisfactorily pretty itself and producing sufficiently pretty letters.

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Imliss literally cannot spend all that time helpfully consulting; she will also get started on her books.

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Reading in Quenya is still slow, but they're well-written and useful at least.

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Well the way to get faster at reading is to read, obviously.

...Oh and she answers her letters, too. Kilaiuossari script for Feanaro.

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He's delighted. He writes back very rapidly whenever she writes to him.

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It's impressive how much of the adorableness of Feanaro learning languages comes through in his letters.

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A few days into the week, the letter is hand-delivered! With bonus sisterly hugs!

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"How're you finding Tirion, Imliss?"

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"The lectures were really fun and I'm helping a bunch of engineers reverse-engineer the printing press!" Also, uh, someone made a rude remark and Idaia had a witty comeback but your brother didn't want to talk about it?

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Yeah, he wouldn't. Tirion: remains socially conservative. Idaia: remains perfect. He kisses her.

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She dramatically shields her eyes. So...

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Oh, he's apparently bisexual, someone was a dick about the fact that he's had non-heterosexual sex, I asked them if they wanted me to take my top off to prove I was female.

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To be fair I should've told her, it would have mattered to a lot of people and I didn't know Idaia wasn't one of them except by 'she's perfect therefore she won't care' logic which isn't really logic.

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Why? I mean, it's not like you're going to cheat on her with anyone, so what does it matter who exactly you're refraining from cheating with?

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Most people'd consider it a really really big deal. Most people are terrible, but still, I'd be doing something wrong if I courted one of them without telling her something that I knew would change her mind.

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The part where you shouldn't lie to your prospective spouse makes sense. The part where it's a big deal that you're bisexual doesn't.

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You can get arrested. Nelyo wouldn't, it'd make the family look bad, but you can.

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It is against the law to have same-gender sexual relations, or to engage in behaviors suggestive of such relations. 

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I don't think it's illogical to think Idaia's too good to believe in that kind of thing.

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