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... did armstrong... use al in a box as a weapon ??? .... ????

[retellingthehobbit]

Retelling The Hobbit Chapter 15: Unattached First chapter / Previous / Next Read full comic on: Webtoon/A03 

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Thank you for reading! The next chapter of this comic adaptation of The Hobbit will be titled (drumroll)....The Song of the Lonely Mountain!

Check under the cut for notes on the callbacks to previous chapters of this comic, and to Tolkien stories like the Unfinished Tales! —-

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One of my guiding ideas for this comic is that the story is being written/drawn by Bilbo Baggins, an  “unreliable narrator,” who has a biased way of recounting events. As the comic goes on, parts of the story get retold through new perspectives (or through the eyes of other characters), and you realize the initial version you read was incomplete. 

A lot of you probably noticed that this chapter features a ton of callbacks to the earliest chapters of this comic! We saw child Bilbo and Gandalf's friendship told from Bilbo's POV in Chapter 3.....but in this chapter we see it retold from Gandalf's POV. However, Belladonna Took is our biggest instance of that!   Not to overexplain my own writing, but Chapter 1 is an older Bilbo painting an idealized happily-ever-after fairytale picture of Belladonna, while Chapter 15 features a younger Bilbo telling a far less optimistic version of her life.  While there's truth to both of them, neither of them is the full truth.

In the Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo tells Frodo that ‘books need to have good endings,' like endings where everyone "lives happily ever after." If I were to continue this comic to the end of the novel, Bilbo’s habit of “rewriting things to be happier" would become a whole Thing. 

Second: Much of this chapter is taken directly from “The Unfinished Tales: The Quest For Erebor.” That story was Tolkien’s attempt to unite the tone of The Hobbit with LOTR, by having Gandalf explain what The Hobbit looked like from *his* perspective. The gay line about Bilbo feeling incapable of settling down into a Traditional Marriage with a Wife And Kids is taken almost directly from the Unfinished Tales. So are all the lines where Gandalf reflects on what Bilbo was like as a child, and the moment where Bilbo reflects that all of his desire for adventure has dwindled to a private dream.

Third: Obviously, the other big influence on this chapter (outside the original novel) was a similar scene in the PJ film. The little bit where Gandalf reveals the lore behind Bullroarer took monologue is the only dialogue I’ve directly lifted from that scene. ;3

Fourth: some of you may have caught that I used a quote describing Frodo’s wanderlust in the Fellowship of the Ring to describe Bilbo. The bit describing "the maps that only show white spaces beyond their borders" is also why I emphasized Bilbo’s canonical nerdiness around  maps in earlier chapters (chapter 5 especially, but also in Chapter 6, Chapter 7, and a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in chapter 14.) 

Fifth: one of my favorite things in the original book are all the scenes where Gandalf does fun Whimsical things with smoke/smoke rings. In the book he usually makes them change color or race around; in my comic he usually makes them turn into butterflies (he also does this in chapters 3 and 11.) you may have noticed that Butterfly Symbolism is a big thing in this comic.  But yeah, in another callback: Gandalf finally had time to blow smoke-rings with Bilbo, which he said he 'had no time for' in Chapter 2!

Thanks again for reading! I tentatively plan for the next chapter to arrive on November 13th.

[yuespropagandablog]

Back at it again at Krispy Creme.

What game should I play next?

Bastion

Coffee Talk

Oxenfree

Wavetale

Voting ended onJan 25, 2025

All shorter games. After playing Persona 3, and My Time at Sandrock, and Cassette Beasts, and Persona 3 again, and Persona 3 again, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I am kinda looking forward towards a game that doesn't ruin my life for a long period of time. All the games in this poll take less than 10 hours to complete according to HowLongToBeat Main + Extra.

Propaganda below!

Bastion (9.5 hours)

Pro: Made by the people who made Hades, so yay! I actually bought this ages ago on sale with Transistor. I have already played Transistor and liked that one a lot as well. Looks like I am quite a fan of the studio, so this game might be the next big hit for me.

Con: It's been on my backlog for a while and I have honestly forgotten what it is about. Also, funnily enough, longest game on this list. It barely made the cut!

Coffee Talk (5.5 hours)

Pro: Newest addition to the backlog, hello! It's very down to Earth and cosy. I played the demo and it's simple, yet nice.

Con: Kind of not in the mood for a visual novel after playing 50 hours of Persona 3 Portable, but this is still different.

Oxenfree (5.5 hours)

Pro: A genre I am usually not very familiar with, so that is intruiging. I like a good story, and I've heard this one has a great one.

Con: I also bought the sequel for €2, so if I like this I might play the next one as well so there goes the whole max. 10 hour thing.

Wavetale (5 hours)

Pro: Looks really nice and I've had my eyes on it for a while. It looks like it's an adventure game, which sounds cool.

Con: I admit I also don't know much about the story of this game either, so I dunno what I am getting into. It better not be like AER.

[arsenart]

*whip n nae nae’d* OwO new phone who’s this???

[marshmallowprotection]

OH MY GOSH I FORGOT MC DRIVES IN THE SECRET END So, I think Saeran wouldn’t have a seatbelt on him and that combined with my totally not horrible driving would result in Saeran ✨almost✨ flying through the windshield and everyone getting whiplash ever time I make a stop

Vanderwood is in the passenger seat. MC is driving. Seven is in the back with his brother just to make sure that we know what the car layout looks like here as not to confuse anyone. They had to speed in a hurry because of the guns, it may be bulletproof but that won’t save them. To be fair, it was a dangerous situation so I think you would get away with that. High anxiety, fear, so on, and so forth is a factor to consider. 

I think Vanderwood and Seven, since they’re ones who are conscious, are going to learn to never let you do that again. 

[orsino-the-enchanter]

[goodyprostate]

Another crisis this year? In this economy? Boy I’m tired.

[kindathoughtprovoking]

major bops are incoming