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You know, this is probably kind of morbid, but I can’t keep off thinking about scene in DoS where Thorin and Co run into a chamber full of dwarven corpses. And the bodies look like porcelain dolls. And I’ve been thinking ever since, what if dwarves do turn back into stone after their death? that’s why they have to be burried inside mountain, that’s why Burnings after Azanulbizar were such a tragedy – they couldn’t return back to stone Mahal made them from.

AHH NONNIE – you’ve put your finger on one of my own headcanons!

I use this idea in Sansukh! We know from the Silmarilion that the elves believe that the dwarves ‘return to the earth and stone of which they were made’ (though in context this is sorta derogatory and suggests that Elves believe dwarves have no souls)

anyway, when I read that phrase i sorta gasped a bit – and then went slightly worldbuildery bonkers.  

So, the fic is peppered with phrases like ‘returned to the stone’ or ‘sleeps in stone’, and it’s not just figurative. 

We see skeletons in Moria, so I though ‘BONES OF STONE, BODIES OF EARTH PERHAPS?  Or maybe even dust?’ IDK, but it is such a great and slightly alien, nonhuman sort of concept aaaaaaaaaah 

Hi there Dets! I can’t believe the Dwarfling is two and a half already, how did that happen? She sounds like an absolute ray of sunshine and I’m so happy for your little family! ♥ On another note, I saw that anon talking about printing out Sansukh – totally planning on doing that as well and then finally reading the whole thing (Idk if you’d remember, but I’m the anon from a while ago who said she’d been waiting since chapter 30 for the story to be finished before continuing haha) 1/2

I just wanted to make sure you’re okay with that though? I’m not planning on selling it, of course. Sending so much love your way for all the work you put into this huge project ♥♥ 2/2

Hey Nonnie! *Hugs* 

I KNOW, where did the time go??? She was a baby three seconds ago, I am sure of it! And now she can say ‘i love you, Mummy’ and ‘Mummy, can I banana ‘Rozen yoghurt pleeeeeeaaaase!’ and ‘X is for Xyra-phome, Y is for YACHT!’

(she can’t quite say xylophone. She also has trouble with the letters F and V, lmao)

Yes, absolutely! I am totally overjoyed for anyone to print it out for their own use, COMPLETELY so. ❤ I hope it brings you much enjoyment, Nonnie!

Hey Dets, so I don’t think I’m alone in planning to print a personal book version of Sasuksh (even if it’s going to be like five volumes plus Appendices … so much paper….) (it’s just that my eyes can’t handle always reading on a screen and gosh darnit it *DESERVES* to be a book!) anywho after the semi-recent ask concerning a forward, I can’t help but wonder if there’s a name besides determamfidd you’d prefer as the author? I mean determamfidd IS a pen name, but idk I’m just curious?

hey there, Nonnie! 

awwww, I am so honoured! Thank you FOREVER, and I hope it brings you lots of hours of enjoyment ❤ (i knowwwww, so much paper, augh)

nah, ‘determamfidd’ is fine, thanks! I’m not comfortable with using my RL name on fanfic 🙂

How’s your Dwarfling doing?? I still think of her as this tiny baby that’s just starting to crawl, but then I remember she’s around the same age as my nephew, and I’m like??????

Hey Nonnie!

She is AMAZING. She is truly the most amazing little wonder, I am stupendously lucky to be her mum and to know her and love her. 

She’s 2 and a half, now! Looks a lot like I did at that age. she’s a happy, talkative, creative, curious and energetic bundle of love. She’s mad for art, play-doh, painting, puzzles. She likes crafty things: we made kitty ears on a headband the other day, and painted them. 

Her imagination is spiralling everywhere! She plays all sorts of games with her bunny (Most Important Toy is Bunny) and her other ‘special’ stuffed toys, Little Mouse and Little Owl. She has a toy kitchen she can spend hours in. She is always making up wonderful little games!

She’s soaking up words like a SPONGE. She has eight and nine-word sentences already, and loves any and every sort of alphabet game there is. 

I had a small fret over teaching her too swiftly? She just LOVES everything to do with the ABCs. ‘Big’ letters and ‘little’ letters (capitals and lower-case, heheheh) and her phonics (’Ess sounds like ‘SSSSSSSSSS!’ with so much GUSTO that you can’t keep a straight face!) etc, drawing them, reading books with animals or words in alphabetic order (such as A to Z, etc. Animalia by Graeme Base is her newest obsession). She can spell ‘cat’ and ‘dog’ and is always proclaiming that ‘A is for Apple! A is for alligator! A is for avocado!’ and the like. CONSTANTLY, about 300 times a day, she is telling us what letter is for what!

She also LOVES NUMBERS – esp. counting, she can count to 30 and wants more numbers, all the time. She even counts down with the microwave!

So, like I said: I was having a small fret. I don’t want to be a pushy academia mum, I don’t want to make her feel like this is her purpose, or that I love her only because she likes to learn things. But Mr Dets put it like this: “she’s a toddler, she learns in 5-minute bursts, and then it’s done, then it’s back to playtime! You don’t FORCE her, she WANTS to learn, she comes to us and asks us about it!” So i stopped fretting, and we’ll just keep going at her pace. When it slows (and it will!!!) then that’s cool too. Right now she’s at full throttle, though.

She likes books, all books. If I’m doing anything at all, she brings me a book to read to her. She likes dress-ups, and trains (SHE LOVES TRAINS OMFG) and rockets, and dinosaurs, and dancing! 

She is a good little eater: loves most things. Not mushrooms, sadly (I love mushrooms). Getting her to eat green things still requires a little sneakiness, heh.  Yoghurt is still her favourite.

She’s beginning to have Serious Opinions about her clothing, too. Favourite colour is purple! She only likes her sneakers when it comes to shoes, and no other shoes will do. Dresses, yes – skirts yes – TROUSERS NO. Though tights in wintertime are okay, apparently! 

We recently shifted her room around: no longer a baby’s room, it is now a toddler’s room. No more cot! (*wipes a tear away* MY BABY AUGH) Her toys are all in boxes where she can reach them, and her books are too. Every so often I buy a page of stickers, and we have fun sticking them all over her bed and chest of drawers and cupboard doors. 

She’s going to swimming lessons with Daddy now, and loves them. She won’t let me play my violin when she is home! Not because she hates it, oh no – because she WANTS TO PLAY IT HERSELF, so so so badly hahahaha! So I have bought her a little toy one of her own. She has fun with that. She also likes to bash away at my piano keyboard.

(she’s much more gentle with our poor ancient deaf and arthritic cat these days, too)

Now and then she has a good tantrum – clears the pipes, lmao.Well, she’s 2! That’s going to happen 🙂 she’s much MUCH more understanding of WHY things happen now, so they are getting rarer. When they happen, though, they can be pretty explosive! My little one has a stubborn Dwarvish will ❤

She travelled like a champ during the holidays – camped in the tent, had such a ball. Really, she was simply amazing. Travelling six hours a day in the car with a toddler can be very very difficult, but she was truly awesome. Grumbled only a little, listened to music and sang along, played games and read books. She was always very glad when we stopped for a play-break, though!

okay shut me up, i will talk forever about my beautiful, beautiful child

I grew up listening to “The Devil Made Texas” by Hermes Nye since, y’know, i live in tx, but that death bird velociraptor post u reblogged made me think it should’ve been written for Australia instead

LMAO ! yeah, the cassowary is a pretty scary birb! But really, you’re not likely to see one outside of a rainforest or a wildlife reserve. Cassowaries haven’t killed anybody since 1926, according to this site. They’re not very common.

(that site is a riot, omg – my fave story on it is the one about the guy who “

fell into a mating hole of a brush turkey who then approached the man and tried to bury him in a mating ritual.” BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA)