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Is your Blorbo older or younger than you? (If their age is not specified, use your general estimate)
They're order than me
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We're the same age
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few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again
Someone mentioned on another tumblr post about how nobody complained that Agatha Christie wrote ANOTHER book about murder.
Write your story. Write it again. And again.
Okay but do you understand the TREASURE TROVE of reading a fic you enjoy and then looking at the author's page and discovering they have written multiple just like it?! That is the ultimate score!
Nobody complained that Agatha Christie wrote ANOTHER book about murder
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It's called having a specialty, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Ep 6 was pretty good
stop making forcefem/detransition jokes about transmasculine people im so serious
Every time Sean Astin makes a statement on whether or not Sam and Frodo were indeed gay for each other in lord of the rings heās always like āwell we have to acknowledge that attitudes around sexuality have changed dramatically over the past several decades and since authorial intent is only up to speculation, the story is open to multiple readings, some of which might have different significances for different groups of people also they kiss on the lips because I said soā
at the rose city comic con panel this month a fan asked them (sean and elijah) if sam and frodo were in love and they said
Sean: .....yes. absolutely
Elijah: 100 percent.
Sean: dont tell rosie
Rosie: "This is my husband Sam, and that's his husband, Frodo. Frodo is my husband-in-law. I'm not into him, he's he's a bit too 'elfy' for my taste, but Sam likes him, and that's fine with me. As far as I know, Frodo can't give Sam children, but Frodo looks after ours all the same, so I don't mind sharing Sam if it means another pair of eyes on the wee ones. In all honesty, our family tree is right simple compared to some hobbits. Yes, I'm referrin' to you Lobelia, over there pretendin' you ain't eavesdroppin'. Still bitter you ain't got either of my boys or their house, eh?"
Tbh it's canon that Frodo invited Sam and Rosie to move in to Bag End after their wedding and they all lived there for a couple of years until Frodo went to Valinor, so yeah. Running with it.
And once Rosie dies, Sam says his goodbyes and disappears after him.
whatās funny is people assuming that rosie would somehow be too dim or naive to KNOW that sam loved frodo, instead of looking at a guy who would loyally follow a beloved friend to hell and then help carry him home again, and not be like āoh i canāt not fuck that.ā
Polyamory, specifically polyandry, would be an interesting solution to the oddball population of the Shire.
The Shire is excellent farming country, with consistently good weather, and only one tough winter in living memory; hobbits like to produce large families; theyāre resistant to disease, rarely violent, and encounter few dangers. It is usual for hobbits to produce many children, so that (for example) Bilbo and Frodo are unusual in both being only children, with no siblings, and not having children of their own. All of this should point to a population that increases every generation if not doubling outright. Young people (and their ideologies!) should rapidly outnumber the old with an ever-increasing effect and impact on society. However, the Shire has a surprisingly stable history; it never seems to increase or decrease greatly in population, and the bell curve of age seemsā¦ demographically balanced? There certainly isnāt a conflict from rising young bloods challenging the middle-aged reactionaries; thereās no unemployment; there are no housing crises or waves of emigration, or even a tendency for young people leaving home to marry. Meanwhile, not only does the Shire not suffer from internal pressures, but it remains obscure and hardly noticed in global politics.
What makes sense here is that adult hobbits form a loose group. Four parents in a polycule, between them all, may produce four children. All four parents claim to have four children. An outsider would assume this meant the adults had eight children.
Hobbits therefore are not especially fertile or fecund. They simply have large families. Much of their interest in genealogy is due to the complex relationships of blood-kin, hearth-kin, love-kin and pledge-kin, who must all be carefully tracked and measured - not just because you need to make sure that you donāt climb into bed with an un-permitted degree of blood-kin, but to track family alliances and carefully quantify the precise level of thoughtfulness to put into the proper present to gift your fatherās loverās lover (too much implies a degree of intimacy that might upset the polycule.)
Thus, while a hobbit matron may tell a startled dwarf that she has seven sons, she might only have borne five of them herself, and have one hearth-son by her wife, and a pledge-son of her first husbandās. There are between three and four fathers involved at various stages of production, from conception to pledge-duty, but there is debate about the precise number of fathers, as one child was festival-conceived and therefore provisionally pledged to the Brandybucks until more distinctive paternal traits should materialise. Itās expected that four of the sons will be uninterested in women, and their contribution to family life will be in raising hearth-children and pledge-duty. However, this level of detail is normally negotiated later in conversation, as a mutual overture of friendship. So sheās just clear and simple: yes, certainly, she has seven sons. Yes, theyāre all hers. Yes, thatās fairly normal - yes, hobbits like big families. How big? Thatās really hard to say! Well, about thirteen hobbits live in her houseā¦ er, she has forty-three nieces and nephews. Yes! She has nine siblings, thatās correct, but some of them are still babies themselves..
In this way, a bewildered dwarf might assume that hobbits are absurdly fertile, producing an average of seven children per couple, at an absurd pace.
When in fact, with about half of hobbits never bearing biological children, the population of hobbits is pretty much always the same.
Tl:dr, hobbit population works perfectly well, both internally and in the perceptions of outsiders, if the majority of the Shire is gay, theyāre all polyamorous, and they all firmly claim to be parents of high numbers of children. Of course Frodo fathered Samās kids - he named them! They were pledge-kin but not hearth-kin, as Frodo needed a lot of quiet and stability in the home.
No outsider ever parses hobbit genealogy well enough to understand this except for Gandalf, who never explains anything either.
Okay, reblogged this too quickly out of enthusiasm.
This makes so much sense in the worldbuilding, actually???
Like, consider: Elves don't understand hobbit families, but hobbits are also baffled by elf families. You have exactly one partner ever? And it's considered wildly inappropriate to take another even if that partner straight up dies? And they only raise their own children, usually three maximum? Most hobbits would be convinced that elves were cold, unfeeling and anti-social.
Bilbo is percieved as oddly elf-ish when he comes back from his adventure at least in part because he only takes on one hearth-child, and even then quite late in his life. Like sure dude, you don't have to have romantic or sexual partners but no children????? Very strange. Here. Take a Frodo. Maybe he'll fix whatever is wrong with your brain.
And this also explains why hobbits get on better with Elrond than most other elves. Because Elrond has a weird af family by elf standards and takes in foster children all the time. He seems much warmer by comparison. Basically, when Bilbo comes to stay at the Last Homely House and he's doing his writing Elrond would be thrown by how comfortable Bilbo is with his family.
Elrond: My apologies, I know this must be quite confusing for you.
Bilbo: No no I understand perfectly. You have two blood-parents (Elwing and Earendil), two hearth-parents (Maglor and Maedhros), one blood-brother (Elros), and one pledge-brother (Gil-galad). Certainly a bit unconventional due to the kinslaying and all, and a bit on the small side, but other than that...
Elrond, who has never in his life had his family called 'small': ...
You get it
I need detailed breakdowns on the differences between blood-, hearth-, love-, and pledge-kin STAT
Hard at work at the yaoi factory
They fucking called fujOSHA on us
For me, censorship laws are a lot like the death penalty. There are people I wish would die, but I don't want the government to have any say over who lives or dies (because then they can stretch laws out to justify killing someone they dont like). There are stories that I think are reprehensible and should have never been written, but I don't want the government to have any say over which stories are reprehensible (because then they can stretch out what they deem wrong out to fit anything they don't like)
Has anyone figured out whatās so viscerally wrong with this woman yet
Sheās so one dimensionally evil you guys šš how is she real
read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.
our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
yāall mind if a white boy let an evil entity into his body tonight
Iām doing something, can everyone reblog this with an object that vaguely relates to their fandom and pass it on? I want a big sample size :)
My sister is doing pet play with women on roblox and I donāt have the heart to tell her itās probably a kink for the others involved
No, I canāt emphasize enough that sheās totally clueless about anything that could be weird about it, she just thinks itās funny. I had to sit there with a straight face as she told me about how she made this girl eat off of a plate on the ground (in roblox) and sleep in a dog bed (in roblox) whenever she misbehaved and go āoh haha thatās so funnyā and pretend like everythingās normal.
maybe
how old is she
Sheās in college, she isnāt like, a child
she looking for another dog?
Hey is your sister single (obviously not counting her harem of dog girls)?
No sheās straight (but says sheād go gay for Taylor Swift) and has a boyfriend, sorry petplay girls
Volunteering to stand in as this person's sister during this time of need
I have a name
This post really makes you take a deep breath and ponder...
I swear to god if this blows up enough that it gets reposted on other social media and my sister sees you all wanting to be her roblox dogā¦
this will be 100k notes. I feel it.
Sorry liberals, despite 400 tags saying āposts that have 100k to me,ā weāre capping out at a nice cool 11k. My white ass is not making it onto tiktok, no robot lady is going to read this text, and my sister is not seeing it. Thank you all for playing
Donāt sell yourself short just yet
Everything is fine. Iām going to live forever
never seen a notes total as a punchline before
Since I've gotten dozens of asks and comments about this, NO, my sister still hasn't seen this post, but she is gay now
i have this awesome skincare routine called picking at my face till it bleeds. its great because it makes my skin way worse in every way and also it hurts
Cards Against The Cookies of Darkness
I NEED more group interactions with these guys. I don't care if Choco and Crepe technically aren't in the group anymore! I NEED MORE OF THE COD!! I need to see them being goofy goober villains and a dysfunctional family!
Angst angst angst
another small addition
last truth tea
characters raised to be tools
Weapons. Trained, tested, forged in steel and fire. Failure is an inevitability that ends in death. Pain should not be felt--it should be recognized, familiar, and inconsequential
Martyrs. In the form of servants and princes, of leaders and underdogs. If blood is necessary, the martyr will lift their hands and offer it all
Shields. Like tempering a sword, but only to bear and not to lash out. Wounds are medals--not symbols of pride, but symbols of worth. A pretty shield is useless; scars mean a job well done
Experiments. Raised on the cold comfort of a lab table. Restraints are only necessary when they're not in their right mind. Is it honorable, to be twisted beyond recognition? Or is it just a necessary evil?
Monsters. Cruelty, caution, and regarding one as a creature beyond reasonable thought is tempering in its own right. But if you keep a leash at the right length, perhaps the massecre won't reach you. One can hope.
Idols. Pretty face, pretty name, pretty hands around their shoulders and throat. There to seduce, manipulate, force any feeling to come to the surface and twist it to their favor. Any genuinity stays locked behind the guilded cage that surrounds their pretty little heart
Trophies. Status and wealth and the traditions that keep someone at their heels, on their knees, to display and serve and decorate one's ballroom.
Sacrifices. Drenched in honorable clothes, prepared and adored and cleansed. The gift of hope at the cost of one's life. Is it taken with no fight? How can you escape the ropes you were born in?
something something about bryony halbech's catchphrase being from a song about a one hit wonder being forced to sing the same tune over and over because that's all he's known for.
like we all know that cryoscience is bryony's bread n fuckin butter. but here's the thing. we don't know anything about her outside of her work and her brief stint as warren's wife. even when she talks to gordon about her motivations and wishes, not once does she mention any influential part of her life. the most we know about her personally is from karen. at one point, warren mentions her enjoyment of buble's music and we know the fact that she's seen friends. that's all we have.
here's another thing: i don't believe it when other people describe her as inhuman. like free my girl she did all that but she did it with enthusiasm. when i heard her talking to gordon about the work they do, she sounded happy about the work she does, even gets playful about it. the only reason we hear her sound this way is because gordon has similar enough interests with her to make her believe finally someone gets it, even if he refuses to fall for her manipulation in the end.
one last thing: clive is a capitalistic asshole. like this was obvious, he only ever looked for the best opportunities to make money and elevate his own status. we know that he frequently made bryony meet with board to present data because of funding etc etc. there was also always a push for more data quickly, especially since, as gordon said when warren emerged, he seemed like he made promises he could not keep.
how much of warrens treatment was bryony's actual cruelty? how much of it was pushed by deadlines? would warren's torture have been prolonged if clive and the board weren't so pushy about results? would have he been treated better?
bryony did not care about her subjects in a personal matter, but she cared about her work. it's all she has, all she's known for. she has to keep up all this paperwork and meeting in order to keep doing what she loves. when she went to work for amos tech, did she think for a moment that she was finally given the respect and man power needed to make her dreams of scientific progress a reality?
how long did it take before they shoved her into a crypod, making her perform the same thing over and over again because that's all she has to offer?
