Erebor's Courting Auction - A Bagginsheild Fanfiction
The picture above inspired the Fic that can be Found here:
Erebor's Courting Auction
Summary of the Fic:
Even Dwarrow get antsy during the winter when they hole up within their mountains.
Worse the dwarrow get bored.
Bilbo finds out how they manage to keep the boredom away AND raise funds for Mahal's Shield (a program to help orphans, widows, veterans or those too injured to continue their previous job/craft) when he is forced by the weather to spend that first winter within Erebor after the Battle of Five Armies was completed.
Rating: Mature (Higher due to Bilbo being crass towards the end, it's short and can be easily skipped past)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
A small section from the beginning of the fic under the Read More
“What's this?” Bilbo asked as he picked up the loosely bound parchment that was sitting on Balin’s desk. He paged through it, noting that it must be a joint project with Ori; recognizing the scribes' rough sketches from when he allowed him to look though the journal he had kept while on the road. There were portraits of every member of the Company on their own pages with what Bilbo was assuming was their names and basic information next to them as he had managed to learn a few of the written Khuzdul runes and what they meant.
“Hmm? Oh, that? Tis the ‘Courting Catalog’ rough draft.” Balin said as he looked up from the parchment he was reviewing.
“The what?? I thought that dwarrow didn't allow people to be–” Bilbo started to say, but was interrupted when Kíli slammed the door to Balin’s office open, bolting across the room and through the connecting door to Thorin’s office while shouting in Khuzdul. Fíli chased after him, his blonde hair in complete disarray, clothing rumpled and beads missing from his mustache; he was shouting, too, in what Bilbo assumed was in an attempt to stop his brother. “Sold.” he finished saying as they stared after the princes as they proceeded to have a shouting match in Thorin's (thankfully empty) office.
“Should I get Dwalin?” Bilbo enquired after they had been arguing for a couple of minutes. Balin startled, as if he had forgotten that Bilbo was in the room. Shaking his head, he got up and closed the doors, locking the one to Thorin's office so the princes wouldn't be able to come back through.
“Nah, the lads are losing steam anyway. No need to ramp them back up by introducing my brother into the argument.” Balin said as he settled back behind his desk, tucking his beard between himself and the desk to keep it from the ink. “Now, the ‘Catalog’ you've got there is something we dwarves do every winter. It helps with the boredom of being cooped up within the mountain, and the coin raised is split between the courtee and Mahal’s Shield.”
Bilbo looked back at the rough draft in his hands. Opening it, he gazed at the portrait of Fíli that graced the first page. Without looking up as he slowly turned the pages as he spoke.
“What’s Mahal’s Shield? And what do you mean about splitting the money raised?”
Chapter 2 of A Desperate Play for Control by @in-my-loki-feels is out!
An Avengers AU where Mobius works at SHIELD and falls under control of the mind stone, joining Loki in his quest for glory. After six weeks in close quarters, preparing for war, Mobius is forced to face the lie he’s been living when the compulsion is broken. Things only get more complicated from there.
The story will be updating weekly with more art for each chapter!
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fahjdkh the pining!!!
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They accidentally take over a castle. Well, Gwaine calls it liberating. Merlin’s not sure what to call it—there was a lord, and now there isn’t.
(Kanen comes to Ealdor early, and that changes everything.)
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the angst slaps so hard in this fic (though there is still a ton of fluff!)
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Arthur is supposed to marry Princess Mithian in five days.
And then he meets the wedding’s florist.
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while it’s important for us to protest, raise awareness, boycott, and pressure our governments… it is also important that we appreciate palestinian people and palestinian culture. they are more than just victims. they are artists, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, movie makers, writers, musicians, scholars—they are people. so let’s celebrate all that makes palestinians who they are by supporting their businesses and showing our appreciation and solidarity.
FASHION
hirbawi
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bella hijabs
falastini brand
kuvrd
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dār collective
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west bank apparel
anat international
inaash
nöl collective
deerah
pali apparel
trashy clothing
barriersdenmix
nola creates
zaytoona stitches
lays embroidery
lubna palestine
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thobe sitti - palestinian thrift store
natalie tahhan
halimeh
rami kashoú
BEAUTY & WELLNESS
sea of herbs
sitti soap
yafa queen
olive & heart
the dirty lamb
pressology
the soap dispensary - the business itself is not palestinian but they are selling “nablus soaps” (made in the 13th century old tradition of soap-making from nablus) and all the proceeds from the sales will be donated to PCRF
JEWELLERY
nominal jewellery
nurnei
stated
diana jewels
ARTS AND CRAFTS
tatreez and tea
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palitatreez
shalabiyeh
the tatreez circle - join tatreez workshops
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hilweh market
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fyrouzi ceramics
el bustan
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BOOKS
interlink publishing
booklink booksellers
maamoul press - art, books, clothes, etc
crescent moon bookstore
FOOD
zatoun oil
canaan palestine
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knafeh queens
the coffee queens
luluscrackers
MISC.
shop palestine
NOTE: philz coffee is no longer palestinian owned and have been forbidding employees from wearing pins in support of palestine. take your business elsewhere.
*please follow @/books_palestine on instagram for more fun ways to support palestinians and celebrate palestinian culture. half of this list was made based off of their post (you’ll see in older reblogs i’d included the infographics they’d made. but i’ve since removed them bc i’ve made the list longer and organised it a bit differently to their list. did keep the first page on their infographic though ^^)
Friends, strangers, I want to share with you something I long thought I’d hallucinated, but which today I have discovered was absolutely real.
In the 90s my mum went to a number of Star Trek conventions and would often come home with a fan made tshirt. I need you to understand that my mother, barely 5’ tall, a catholic who to this day goes to church every Sunday, who was never heard to utter a swear word until I was in my twenties, who taught Grade One for decades at the local primary school. This woman, pure and innocent, went to a Star Trek convention and not only saw this tshirt but PURCHASED IT and now it’s been rediscovered in the garage and I’ve never been happier in my life.
I asked her what she was thinking and she said that she thought it was funny but when she brought it home my dad was (aside from side splittingly amused) absolutely adamant that she couldn’t wear it out in public because SHE WANTED TO DO THAT!! Grade One teacher, church on Sunday mum wanted to wear this around town! Who IS this woman I thought I knew??
Anyway now I have this awesome tshirt and I sort of want to frame it.
if your support of decolonization (anywhere) is predicated on your view of the colonized people as exceptionally peaceable, equitable, environmentally conscious/“in touch” with nature, or otherwise morally superior by your own personal standards, it’s not support. the only moral high ground colonized people need to justify decolonization is …. not being the colonizer
It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.
decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years
UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire
US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire
Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests
It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.
decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years
UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire
US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire
Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests
