Out of curiosity, do you write or headcanon Legolas as autistic? I noticed some of my own tendencies of confusion and strange lacks of shame in your writings of him.

I hadn’t! I tend to explicitly state all the representation I have put into the fic, so that there’s no erm… Dumbledoring.*

But what a great interpretation, I love it! Nonnie, if autistic!Legolas is what you see, then it’s as valid a reading as any other. 

I’m now reminded of a quote from Boojum!: “Still, if words mean more than we mean to express when we use them, and if there are some good meanings in the book, I’m very glad to accept them.”

So, if there’s anything in the story that works for you, I’m very glad to accept it 🙂

*by this, I mean any minority representation that is not openly stated in the text itself, but is added as an afterthought through word-of-author. Like Dumbledore

Hey dets this is kinda personal but I hope you don’t mind. Anyway I’m asexual and usually avoid any media with sexual content, But there are a few authors I’ll read Absolutely Anything they write regardless and you’re one of them; I gotta get the Complete Sansûkh story. I love it. “Sansûkh” has actually entered itself into my autocorrect suggestions. I hope you keep writing as long as it makes you happy.

Hey Nonnie. Thank you SO much for sharing, and I’m so honoured that you read my work. And I am so flustered to hear that ‘Sansukh’ is in your autocorrect – it isn’t in MY autocorrect, and now I feel like lsjahdgflajghfdakhgfakhga whoa wut

And perhaps Gimris and 6C? (AND A DOUBLE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!) Thank you so so much! Hope you’re having a stellar day!

squidspawn:

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I’m finally getting back to the expression meme! Woot! Sorry this took so long, but goodness me, Gimris is fun to paint. Especially with this expression, like she’s watching the last of her fucks fly away….

*SCREECHES*

OH MY GOD SHE IS GLORIOUS – that expression! Is so SO GIMRIS I may just depart from my body from the sheer perfection, the sheer done-ness, the utter Gimrisness of her expression!!!

Her beard! Is MAGNIFICENT, as it should be, and holyyyy her lil ears and her bracelet and her jewelery and I love the way you do highlights on skin and hair aaaaaah!!! and those fab furry eyebrows! YES WHAT A DWARROWDAM, WHAT A BABE

*hugs squiddy* THANK YOU! Thank you so much, you are amazing! I am in awe of your work!

o h i just realized that one of the trees cut down near bag end was the acorn from the last movie. o h n o

welp, it could have been? But we don’t know for sure. 

In a cut scene, Bilbo buries the acorn in Dale. And it is the most perfectly Bilbo scene in the history of Bilbo Bagginsness. Hope in the face of utter death, the possibility of replanting and rebuilding. I’m still a bit pouty that it was cut.

Here it is. 

At the end of this clip, you hear PJ saying that because they cut the scene Bilbo would still have the acorn in his pocket when he gets home. 

We know that it isn’t the tree over Bag End, because that is already there when Bilbo leaves the Shire. 

(shitty MS paint circle to show Bag End and Tree in the background)

Anyway, we dunno for sure, it’s not confirmed where it is, or even if Bilbo planted it at all. It could have been the Party Tree. 80 year old oaks can sometimes get big enough to be the sort of size Tolkien describes – the Party Tree was massive, apparently. 

But hey, Sam replaces it with an actual mallorn after the Scouring – the only mallorn west of the Misty Mountains. Which imo is a fitting and appropriate successor, and Bilbo would 1000% approve because he is rather fond of elves himself. 

(it would have given Thorin the EPIC sulks)

idk I now and again toy with the idea that Bilbo never planted it at all. Because he can’t bear to put it into the cold dark ground, never to be seen or held again.. 

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