#ask-novelty

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I'm gonna be annoying and predictable and ask for DonZé (birbs) 😭🙏🏼💙💚 Only if you want to of course!!

DONZÉ IS NEVER ANNOYING, here you go!

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Now that the final chapter is up I’m very excited to finally be able to post the art that I made for the fic Dinner for Three by @ask-novelty and @stoopakoopa ! If you haven’t read it yet and you love donzé, please go check it out!

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I love your little slippers. What are those, bunnies? 💜💚 Keep being funny and awesome.

Aw<3 They’re cat slippers! I don’t have them with me right now but trust me when I say they are adorable. 

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#1 and #4, if you feel like doing two. 😚

Thank you for askingggg

1: when you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk?• I actually barely eat cereal but when I do I don’t even add milk heh

4: how do you take your coffee/tea?• Again gotta dissapoint you I don’t like either of those so just chocolate milk for me with loads of sugar and cacao powder

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ask-novelty replied to your post “After reading your latest chapter about Bilbo taking the ring to...”

Somewhat of a random question, but hypothetically speaking, let's say that Tolkein's Hobbit/LOTR and PJ's Hobbit/LOTR takes place in two different parallel timelines, possibly existing as one at some point before branching off into two different paths. What would you say was the inciting incident that cause the divide into two divergent paths between the more innocent timeline and the darker timeline?

Been thinking about this one since I saw it, actually! I mean, obviously PJ took liberties, telescoping a lot of Middle Earth history and just plain altering it to better fit a cinematic medium. I kinda feel like the differences in the stories of LotR and The Hobbit aren’t so intertwined that it would be the same event for both? But here’s my theories:

1) In LotR: Elrond witnessing Isildur’s failure. At least, under those particular heartbreaking circumstances, Isildur’s nasty little smirk etc. I think he also saw it in the book, but in the movie he’s just way more salty about Men in general and it feels to me like he passed a lot of his distrust of Men onto Aragorn in the form of a sort of internalized racism. A lot of the biggest changes in the LotR movies are around Aragorn’s ancestry - his self doubt over Isildur manifesting as him NOT seeking to become king but in fact being a reluctant king, which creates tension between him and Boromir, perhaps even in some way informing Faramir’s “choice” to try to take the Ring rather than give it up, though that’s a stretch. I wanted to go for an event as far back as possible, but Elrond’s attitude towards Men and the possible repercussions of it strikes me as a strong potential “divergence point” between the books and the movies to explain their differences.

2) In The Hobbit trilogy I’d have to say it’s Azog surviving the Battle of Azanulbizar. Obviously that whole battle went way different than in Tolkien’s writings, since it was in itself revenge for Thror’s death, Thror died before the battle in the books. Maybe that could count as the divergence point. But let’s think of it this way: Thorin takes on Azog instead of Dain, wounding him instead of killing him. This makes Thorin immediately a more heroic figure, so he’s less of the foolish treasure hunter that we see in the book. He’s got more purpose as the bearer of his own heroic legacy and the burdens of it. Azog is alive, Dain never killed him, so you have all the nastiness that falls out in the trilogy because the Company is pursued by a persistent nemesis instead of a series of rather ridiculous circumstances. 

Furthermore, because Thorin’s experiences have made him a different person, Bilbo sees him differently, so he’s not snarking about this absurd windbag leading the party, he’s actually very respectful of this solemn and fairly quiet hero that Thorin has become. There’s a connection between them that in the book never really came to light until he saw Thorin’s heroic charge in the golden armor, just before their final parting. Perhaps Thorin himself had never known heroism until that charge, and it transforms him into someone Bilbo can respect in the final hour. Well, for having killed Azog, he becomes someone Bilbo can respect much sooner. The feel of persecution perhaps also exacerbates Thorin’s madness in a way that it’s not in the book, because he really has evidence of people out to get him (Azog) in a way that the book only had by chance. 

(Also one of my favorite fanfics ever (which is devastatingly incomplete) plays with the idea that Bilbo’s first lifetime follows the book, but he goes back and relives it and it becomes the movie timeline and I adore it so much it’s called (Un)Familiar Ground by the Feels Whale) 

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ask-novelty replied to your post “Steven Universe thoughts so far… I got through a good chunk of Season...”

I'm unbelievably pleased to hear that you are giving Steven Universe a shot. What episode are you on right now?

I left off at “An Indirect Kiss” (1.24) before I really had to go to bed. I did choke up a bit at the discussion of Rose, in part because I have hints of where that’s going based on the fandom, and also the two parter episode that followed looked like it was going to be important so I should be awake for it. I like Connie a lot. I like all the characters, actually, like I said it’s just a huge relief to see a show that feels... aware? Like everything isn’t aimed at some generic 10 year old white boy (or 40 year old white executive) with a perfect family. It shows diversity, and women who aren’t there for sexiness or to be a love interest, and well fleshed out characters with real world problems and concerns but shown in a fun and not-depressing way. There’s a lot of heart in the show, which I admire, you can tell the creator loves the characters too. It’s rare to find a story like this in the mainstream to be honest (at least in the US?) and I’m sure I will grow to like it more as the story matures.

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Bunnicula!! OMG I used to love those books. The Celery Stalks At Midnight! Nighty Nightmare! Holy fuckoly, I had no idea they made a TV series out of it too.

Howliday Inn was my faaaavorite

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How often do you get asks that have nothing to do with the story in your blogs, neither to ask a relevant question nor to direct the next course of action? Random rp asks and questions pertaining to nothing in particular seem to be the bane of my existence on thedoctorandroseluck these days...

This is why I do what the pun pony comic does sometimes: I send back a checklist of reasons why I can’t use certain asks and check off all the reasons that particular person’s ask was not valid.