teens exploring their gender and sexuality options? Because one of the things I love the most about Sansukh is the absolute diversity of sex and gender issues!

Ooooh, Nonnie, I headcanon that the Dwarf culture is more accepting of experimentation and exploration, certainly. I think they do not have gendered occupations, roles or appearances, and so many of the obstacles facing us in our world do not really apply.

This is pretty idealised, I know! In contrast, I’ve headcanonned that Hobbit society, with all its properness and respectability and insularity and gossip, is much more strictured and repressive.

So within these headcanons, I think it’s very normal for Dwarf children and teens to explore who they are! Like people here, some might be totally certain at a very young age. Some might need a bit of time and a bit of trying-it-out-for-size before they find the right fit. Either way, it’d be totally accepted by the society as a whole. Because hey, they’re all Dwarves.

(I’m glad you like it, Nonnie! Thank you so so much!!)

You know, I’m generally not one to wait and hope for character death, especially of a character I like as much as I like Dis. But dammit, you’ve done it. When will Dis finally die?

Not telling 🙂

DETS HI I LOVE YOU AND YOU ARE WONDERFUL okay you can carry on now

awww hey Nonnie! Thank you, you are very kind and wonderful yourself ❤ ❤ ❤

have you ever seen this fanart? kurosmind(.)tumblr(.)com/post/126685213041 I know it’s not for Sansûkh, but it reminds me a lot of it

OH GOD NO I’D NEVER SEEN THAT – somehow I’d missed it (HOW, I love Kuro’s art, HOW did I miss it) and now my heart hurts. It is utterly utterly GORGEOUS – full of detail and soul and atmosphere – and oh, god, also so heartbreaking.

gonna reblog it now, Nonnie. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

…did you know that in the new Gilmore Girls season, one of the characters, Kirk, has a pig named Petal? Figured you might appreciate that.

whu REALLY?

AWESOME

I am now imagining Gloin’s beard puffing and retracting something like a frill neck lizard.

OKAY BUT HAVE YOU SEEN ONE OF THESE GUYS RUN

NOW IMAGINE GLOIN DOING THIS

So general reaction to gimli’s death, especially Legolas’s, has always been a popular point of discussion in the fandom, but what do you think would happen if Legolas were to meet an early end before they sail west?

oh, break my damn heart would you

I honestly don’t know. But I am pretty certain that Gimli would not sail without Legolas. So he would stay in Arda, and god idk, be buried next to Legolas if he could.

all right, I have no plans to get hitched anytime soon, so this won’t be me, but I foresee this happening sometime in the next couple of years – approximately how flabbergasted would you be if someone asked your permission to use Light on the Horizon at their own wedding?

APPROXIMATELY THIS FLABBERGASTED:

I WOULD PROBABLY SELF-DETONATE ON THE SPOT

WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN IN CHAPTER 49 OH MY GOD

😉

I’m really curious – how old is Legolas, exactly? (at least, how old did you “make” him in your fic, I know there isn’t really much to go on canon-wise.) I always have it in my head that he’s around 2000 years old, but I can’t really remember where I got that from — was it your headcanon? Did someone else estimate that?

I’ve seen 2000 years before somewhere as well! I think that came from the LOTR movies, actually, though I’d have to look it up to be certain.

I’ve got him a little older than that, actually – closer to 2.8K. I’m deliberately vague about it, though, because I dislike nailing down that figure: I like the mystery!

Also Gimli joking about how impossibly ancient Legolas is tickles my funny bone. “One million, wasn’t it laddie?” “STOP.”