Frerin invented shield-surfing first. Kíli uses the Durin Death Glare. It’s super effective! Dwarves have sensible gender concepts, stone giants are a hazard, and everyone is collectively done with a certain old scrotum beard.
*hugs* Thank you, Nonnie, and congratulations to you. *MGA fistbump of solidarity*
Guh, I am still being flattened by work, and we had visitors over this weekend. So, no update yet (DAMMIT). I am inching ever closer, however!
(also: had a new idea for a song. DOUBLE GODDAMMIT. I don’t have the effort in me to make another Light on the Horizon!!! this one will likely be a LOT smaller, heheh)
A note on the whole ‘Ones’ thing: no soulmates in Sansukh, sorry. I dislike the whole ‘predestination’ thing… I like free will. I also believe that it isn’t one person alone that could be ‘made for you’… you could be happy with any number of different people, but you have to choose them, choose it, and work at it, every day. A personal bias thingy there.
Nori explicitly tells us in the story that he and Dori are both aro-ace… well, actually, he specifies that Dori is aro-ace, and that he himself is definitely aro… perhaps not ace! But he ain’t telling. A Dwarf needs a few secrets, and Nori likes to keep folks guessing.
Fili’s storyline in this fic is not about romance, and I will not create one for him… his story arc is about stepping up to leadership in his own right.
(I hope you note that Nori was first calling Thorin ‘boss’… but now? Now he calls FILI ‘boss’. Also, Fili has developed a nearly pathological protective streak for Frodo a mile wide. He is becoming a leader and a protector in ways that have nothing to do with his bloodline and heritage. GO FILI, GO FILI, GOLDEN HEART MY SON, YOU LITTLE BEAUTY)
Frerin has the crush to end all crushes on both Eowyn AND Faramir. But also recall, he still has the body and emotional responses of a mid-teen. Poor boy has the intellect of a much, much older Dwarf, but it’s crammed into a tiny body with a truckload of hormones. I don’t think we will see him in actual, reciprocal romantic love in this state.
(but hey, we have good evidence that he is at the very least bisexual, and that he is hella poly.)
So while listening to Lady Gaga on repeat I drew my fave gal pals Barís Crystaltongue and Bani. I’m honestly pretty happy with how it turned out.
Both these lovely ladies are from Sansukh by @determamfidd
omg they are GORGEOUS
*shrieks softly* SO GORGEOUS
the BELLS on Baris’ beard are! SO! AWESOME! and Bani’s glasses, and her lovely nose and her topknot and AHHHH
I love baris in that blue, it is so effing lovely, and kjdsflsjkhd her expression, biting her lip, and omg those beautiful, beautiful brown eyes! I AM MADLY IN LOVE WITH HER EARRINGS AND CHAINS AAAAH
thank you thank you thank you thank you *shrieks somewhat louder* THANK YOU!
Aw Yiss 