#bmouse rambing

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Ok I seriously did not expect the sheer avalanche of Bagginshield in that movie. Just wow, it's canon. So canon.

"He was my... he was my...!"

Bilbo-chan you're in the world's bloodiest, saddest, shoujo manga because you seriously cannot spit it out. 

The adorably awkward endless mutual smiling in the acorn scene killed me. I had to hide behind my giant soda. Also, if temporary exposure to acorns and Bilbo smiling sappily seemed to knock the madness off a bit why the devil didn't they just duct tape acorns all over Thorin and/or bodily snatch him up and lock him in a broom closet with Bilbo.

JFC, Company. You'd think traveling with him for months and smelling his fur coat get even funkier as time went on would rub the royal glamour right off Thorin. He needed an Intervention something fierce. Frankly I kept expecting Dwalin to punch the crown right off his head in that one scene. Someone just needed to call him a right git and tackle him away from the treasure.

In conclusion: bless you "Fix-It" tag, bless you "Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies" tag, I am coming for you both.

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Rambling about old trek fic..

I found a strange little treasure trove of old 90's StarTrek (w/ some DS9) fic but instead of just kind of passively enjoying the badness I started to notice how far we've come. A lot of 90's fic has weird gender role shit in m/m pairings, like suddenly because someone's the one being penetrated it's their job to emotionally manage and 'soothe' their partner. 1950's wifey much? There's weird body-shaming stuff too. For example all the evil OC's are fat. And I know today there's people who still think that some bodies are better than others but it seems like fandom is becoming a better place - a place where you can't say that without getting called out as an asshat. I mean there's still problems and internalized misogyny and the fact that a lot of female characters still can't seem to get traction as 'that one character we obsess over and write tons and tons of fic for' and f/f pairings aren't as huge as m/m ones. 

But from here it seems like we're headed to a better place than we have been before.