What is the LOTR retcon you're talking about? Asked in good faith I've just never read the books
Sorry to the other anons (and non-anons!) I've been meaning to get back to for a month, but I couldn't resist a question with a straightforward answer, lol. Not a short one, but straightforward!
The shorter version: the whole concept of the ring Bilbo acquires in The Hobbit being a problem at all is a retcon to make Lord of the Rings happen. Originally the ring was totally fine. Just a helpful magic ring! Basically not unlike finding a cool and harmless magic item in D&D. Once Tolkien realized Bilbo's ring could be the thing that drives the plot of a sequel if he made it super evil, with the bonus of providing some continuity between The Hobbit and a sequel populated almost entirely by different characters with different stakes and a very different mood and genre, he retconned the ring into the One Ring.
He revised the already-published The Hobbit into a new edition that would be more consistent with LOTR, especially wrt Bilbo's ring and Gollum, and claimed the original edition existed in-story as the initial deceptive account from Bilbo to secure his claim to the Ring, and the revised edition accommodating the retcons from LOTR is the real account. Nobody cares that LOTR essentially belittled the original, very very beloved edition of The Hobbit as self-serving half-truths because Tolkien does the work of convincing us LOTR is worth it.
And it is, of course! Who cares if he had to do a little after-the-fact surgery on The Hobbit for it to make sense? It's LOTR!
But if LOTR was a mediocre-at-best cash grab playing on the popularity of The Hobbit and But It Has the Same Author Name on the Cover without putting the effort in to win people over, we'd be talking about its brazen retcons very differently. Or not talking about them at all because it'd be in the same trashbag of pop culture as Caravan of Courage.
The long version:
The retcons of LOTR are bound up with The Hobbit, so some context for that. It was, essentially, a little side project of Tolkien's propelled by the opening line popping into his head. He was an obsessive perfectionist as a human being, to be clear, so his idea of a little side project was not everyone's, but it was genuinely a fairly light, short fairy-story heist for children and was published in those terms in the 30s. He hadn't initially envisioned it as meaningfully part of the much heavier, adult-oriented story cycles of The Silmarillion (which he was working on from the 1910s to very shortly before his death in the 1970s—he was working on it during WWI and no doubt would still have been busy not finishing it had he lived four years longer and seen Star Wars). Decades later, The Hobbit still shows up as assigned reading for preadolescent kids (my school assigned it in 6th grade and it was like a third eye opened for 11-year-old Anghraine).
So, in the original, extremely acclaimed and successful version of The Hobbit that wasn't glued to the Silm stuff, the ring Bilbo picks up was just a helpful magic ring, nbd. Gollum, IIRC, was quite a bit more chill. There was no Sauron, just some offscreen bad guy causing convenient problems (convenient for the plot, not the characters). The Elves of The Hobbit are, uh, like that because he hadn't envisioned them as quite the same as THEE Elves. Bilbo wasn't lying in that version—well, he lied sometimes because he's a grumpy trickster, but not for foreboding Ring-shaped reasons.
The massive success of The Hobbit (to this day one of the most successful books in print) drove the demand for a sequel. Tolkien ended up trying to write something to bridge the chasm between The Hobbit and what he most cared about, The Silmarillion. He hoped the sequel to The Hobbit that slowwwwwly took shape with a lot of difficulty and painful level of perfectionist re-writing would be essentially paired with a version of The Silmarillion; they naturally went together. Ultimately he didn't get his way on that and ended up working the material he considered essential from The Silmarillion project into LOTR itself, mainly the first half of FOTR (relatedly, this is the section of LOTR that's generally the most difficult to get through for new readers; once the Fellowship leaves Rivendell, it's a much easier read).
More importantly, though, the project that was supposed to be the sequel to The Hobbit had become something very different in all this: darker in tone, heavier, more adult, far more ambitious, and vastly longer, to the point that it couldn't feasibly be published as a single novel (which is what it is) and it had to be awkwardly split into three volumes. It took Tolkien years to iron out the various complications involved in folding together such disparate genres and ideas (over a decade). And one of his main ideas for how to get from The Hobbit to its now incredibly unwieldy sequel was to take Bilbo's harmless ring from The Hobbit, and make it a huge problem for everyone.
He had never envisioned that while actually writing The Hobbit and there was no indication of it in anything he'd written at the time. But he needed something to weld them together into the Middle-earth of The Silmarillion, and turning Bilbo's ring into the One Ring gave the sequel the impetus it needed. Since The Hobbit already had a looming offstage evil presence driving some plot elements, "the Necromancer" could be fused with Sauron and made into, well, a much bigger offstage evil threat.
The problem was that The Hobbit had, of course, already been published. LOTR would not be published until a good 15 years after The Hobbit had been (JRR Tolkien: icon of procrastinators everywhere!). The original version with the harmless ring and all the rest was what everyone showing up for a sequel knew.
Some people would try to cautiously accommodate what already existed in print. But as LOTR developed, he decided to swing for the fences instead. LOTR insists that The Hobbit that had originally been published, the one that led to LOTR existing at all, is actually a somewhat deceptive account from Bilbo, already influenced by the Ring, justifying his actions and rights. Tolkien revised The Hobbit to be consistent with the new ideas he'd come up with to drive LOTR, with the whole in-world conceit that the revised version of The Hobbit was the real account and the original published version was the altered one.
The standard edition of The Hobbit that most people read today is the revised one, with the more fraught version of "Riddles in the Dark" and the more complex interactions between Bilbo and Gollum. That is, we read the version altered to accommodate the retcons in Lord of the Rings—not the original.
Even knowing about all this, we don't really think twice about it, because, let's be real, it's Lord of the Rings. The story does the work to sell it and then a lot (lot, lot) more. It's definitely the extreme effort end of Doing the Work to sell major retcons to something already beloved, that audiences potentially might well have a lot of resistance to seeing undermined but don't because what the new thing offers is so good. But even much more minimal ones ultimately have to convince the audience that engaging with your retcon is worth it to them.
you said thoughts on gp!reader?? pls… no one writes enough of it on here, i feel like the subbiest idols in my humble opinion get written as doms sometimes. totally get the appeal but i need a little sprinkle of dom reader for us wlw switches </3
like i feel like yunjin would ride a strap like crazy idk 😵💫
(Oh no you’re so real because did you see that video of her at the airport with this outfit? she was moving her hips and Omg)
I just know that woman can ride you insanely good. Whether is g!p or your strap, she’s gonna move like you can really feel it lol. Yun is so into pleasuring her partner that’s why. She’s gonna make sure to give you a show when riding you. Of course it only gets better once she’s closer to her orgasm. She goes “oh my god oh my god oh my god…” while grabbing your shoulders, fucking herself on your cock fast as you helped her, grabbing her hips and impaling her on your length like she doesn’t need to ever walk again.
Yunjin switches from sobbing to giggling, when you hit the right spot inside her, her eyes rolling to the back of her head with her mouth open. “Fuck yes, right thereee…” she says in between trembling giggles and you know your girl is losing it (in the good way).
She’s so into teasing you in public, she’d be talking about something she’s genuinely passionate about (you know how Jen gets really into the subjects) with somebody and her hand would “accidentally” go too high up your thigh, brushing your member, and you have to pretend nothing happened. Of course she compensates you, taking you somewhere private and giving you a handjob while she focus on your face with that pretty Fuckin smile of hers, loving knowing she’s the one who makes you feel this good, who knows your body this good.
Babygirl is loud by nature, I’m not saying she can’t keep quiet, but what’s the fun on that? That’s why even if you tease each other, you prefer to actually keep it inside your room and when nobody else is at the dorm. Of course your friends know when you’re gonna get it ‘cause you act a little extra excited about spending alone time with your girlfriend. Running downstairs almost tripping as you say your goodbyes to the other girls.
“Good luck on your activities today, have fun guys. We love youuu” Yunjin said hugging Manchae as everybody was on their way out.
“And call us when you’re on your way home!” You reminded them, and prayed they don’t forget that ‘cause you weren’t planning on getting caught making Yunjin moan and scream and-
“Don’t worry, we will, byeee!” Sakura said, looking at you suspiciously as she took the other girls out of the dorm.
“Come here, babygirl.” You said, pushing the tall girl against the door, kissing her and getting between her legs, feeling her giggle against your lips as she started undoing your shirt. But…
“Don’t take your clothes off yet, open the door.” You heard Chaewon said from outside, and you quickly separated, letting the girl enter the place again. “Just making sure, NO fucking on the couch.” You gasped, both of you blushing as being read so easily.
“Unnie! What makes you think we’re-“ you tried acting offended but please bro that’s your friend.
“Ah-Ah! No fucking on the couch I said!”
“Yunjin unnie is getting it, isn’t she?” Eunchae asked her older sister, while they were looking at the front, waiting for their leader to come back.
“I am not having this talk with you, kid.” Sakura said, with an unbothered face.
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A little short I know sorry- I might update it a bit eventually! Once I’m happy with it I’ll take this little note out but for now I think this is good enough to post it lol
WHOEVER THAT PREVIOUS ANON TALKING ABT ROLLER COASTERS WAS YOU ARE SO RIGHT OH MY GOD thye're so prettyyyy. LSM launch systems are one of the hottest things ever... keep being objectum abt coasters I'm right there with you
Do u have any Fics or one shots recommendations of Leon that is accurate? I would love to read your recommendations
tbh anon....i struggle with this for two reasons...
1) reader fics. i absolutely hate it when a fic named as a reader insert but it's blatantly an oc.
i won't recommend ones like that, even if i found it a decent read, because i hate perpetuating the anti-oc rhetoric of recent years.
girls, guys and non bines, write your damn oc. own that shit!
2) i generally don't like to recommend fics that are still ongoing because i've seen so many of them turn out terrible when they started with promise...and also vice versa.
as a general rule i will say re2/re4 leon fics are better than re9 leon because people pre feb '26 were writing him for the love of his character....but this bitch needs that snarky veteran in her life.
there are a couple of fics i'm waiting on updates for at the moment with re9 leon that seem promising and that i'm hopeful about but it's very early days. so i'm reluctant to drop titles until i see something that makes me confident the author has his character on lock.
that being said i will come back to this post or make a new one at some point if the ones i'm watching do prove to be a good representation of canon leon.
i might do a 'master list' type post of recs...(if only for my own reference) if i find enough fics with him well represented, so stay tuned :)
I'm so sorry you're having to deal with a stalker. Their complete disregard for consent invalidates ANY right they have to be in the kink community as a whole tbh
Fucking hell you're so right and it's unending. They've sent two more anon messages since I blocked them and I don't understand how someone can not take that as a clear communication of my wants in this situation.
Like this????
Obviously the same person if you're violating my consent for the dozenth time to try be present in my life when I don't want you here.
If it isn't clear my response is leave me alone. I have enough things going on without trying to sate whatever desire you have to connect with me. I don't want an explanation. I don't want to talk to you. Go away. This is not healthy kink and if I block you it means I don't want to fucking talk.
I heard you post all the best stuff. Any recommendations on how to get into figure skating? I normally just want during the Olympics but I want to be really into it
well the next thing to watch is the world championships starting 25th of march in prague
I also highly recommend you follow @sywtwfs also on their website, this is how I keep up with what's going on and when the competitions take place
the international skating union (isu, the devil) has an official youtube channel that streams the grand prix series as well as european championships, four continents championships, and worlds, but depending where you live you might need a vpn because they geoblock and paywall hard
and keep following the figure skating tag here on tumblr^^ that's what made my interest turn into a hyperfixation 🤭🤭🤭🤭
and I would absolutely recommend you follow @theskatingarchive for rewatching individual skating performances, and it's also a really great place to dig through, I visit it almost daily when I get it into my head that hey I could really watch this or that program again
also expect to feel all five stages of grief during every major competition, this is normal with this sport. you will also learn to cuss out the inventors of each jump (bruce mapes for the toeloop and likely the flip, ulrich salchow for the salchow, werner rittberger for the loop, alois lutz for the lutz, and axel paulsen for the axel)
and above all else, enjoy! this sport is called the hellsport but when it's actually good it's so good
