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How does Laerophen react to Gimizh stealing his clothes? (And how did Frerinith end up with so many pairs of elf undergarments??!!??!!?)

At first, he is both confused and frustrated. He knows he put that jacket right there. Only yesterday!

Secondly, he is outraged. How dare  – that little sneak-thief! How incredibly RUDE!

But Laerophen is, remember, not very confrontational. He gets stiff and awkward and super formal when he has to front up to anything. So every time he tries to draw himself up and speak out about his annoyance, Gimizh does something innocently charming (gives him a cookie, grabbing his hands to swing him into a dance, folds him into his latest imagination-game) and the momentum for his outrage is lost. 

Eventually he’s a little helplessly confused. It’s not as bad as he first imagined – he gets his things back, after all – but how in Elbereth’s name can he broach the topic? It’s been weeks!

Gimris shakes her head when she sees his predicament. “It’s all right, everyone’s in the same cart,” she says, resigned. “And he’s been spoken to about this, more times than anyone can ever imagine. He simply doesn’t see anything wrong with it yet. He’ll get there as he gets older. And don’t worry, Mum and I make sure everything’s laundered before he goes creeping back.”

Upon that last sentence, Laerophen’s face is a picture.

(Frerinith is at the stage where he… isn’t actually all that enamoured of clothes. The challenge is keeping them ON HIM. It’s not uncommon to have a toddler doing a nuddy-run down the public corridors of Erebor!)

Since Gimli went away on the Quest, Gimizh wears SO MANY of his clothes. So many. Like, he wears Gimli-shirts as tunics with his little boar-pattern leggings. Gimli-scarves are perpetually wound around Gimizh’s little neck, smothering him and making people think he’s Balinith. Gimizh sleeps in Gimli’s nightshirts, hitched up three times and still making him look like a bride with all the trailing cloth. Gimizh wears Gimli-jackets that are waaaay to huge, he looks about 1983.

LMAO 80′S JACKETS WITH GIGANTIC SHOULDERS ON TINY CHILD LMAAAAAAAAAO OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

One of Gimizh’s favourite things is getting clothes to match his favourite grown-ups so they can match. He has several Gimli outfits, a tiny Bofur hat, etc. His little Dis-dress goes surprisingly well with his hair, and he likes the way it makes his legs look longer. Gimizh is getting some Laerophen clothes made in his size. It’s adorable.

tbh Nonnie, I don’t actually think Gimizh is the one who enjoys being matchy-matchy… and I say this as a person who was made to be matchy-matchy with my younger sister. It’s usually adults who find it cute.

It often sucks to be a kid made to be matchy-matchy, it makes you feel like you’re not an individual. That’s why every schoolkid in Australia ‘customises’ their school uniform in some way, if they can.

Nah, I see Gimizh as an unrepentant clothes-thief, frankly. If he likes that new thingie you’ve got, it will suddenly disappear from your chest of drawers and three days later you’ll spot him wearing it. And when he’s done, it reappears in the drawer (sometimes covered in cookie-crumbs) just like maaaagic. *waggles fingers* MAAAAAGIC.

If you confront him about it, he will pretend he has ♩♪♫NO IDEA♬♪♫ what you’re talking about. Even when wearing your hat right in front of you.

Seriously. He is a terror.

Hey you’re like really awesome and I’m 17 and seeing that hey, adults can have families and actual lives and still be in Fandom is really cool and I really look up to you and yeah. Thank you for all you do!

Hey Nonnie! *blush* awww. Thank you so much!

I know a LOT of 30+ adults in fandom. Some 40+ and 50+ as well!

My family and life and job, of course, are the biggest part of me, and so they take up around 90-95% of my time. I can’t spend uninterrupted hours on my hobbies like I did when I was 17-25, which can be frustrating at times. But there’s no age limit on fandom, so I just plod along at my own pace nowadays 🙂

If anything, having the dwarfling has solidified our nerdiness – both of us. I can’t WAIT to read her The Hobbit. CAN’T. WAIT.

(Mr Dets is determined to introduce her to Classic Who. He is a massive DW fan, going back decades… when I bitch about Moffatt, he shrugs and says, ‘should have seen the stink about John Nathan-Turner as showrunner’.)

Hello! I’m sorry, this is probably not the kind of ask you usually get, but I heard that the great barrier reef is dead. Do you know is it true? :( I love your work!

Hey Nonnie! I live 100km away from the Reef, so I am actually very close to it. I get a LOT of news about the Reef.

No, it is not true. The Reef is NOT dead.

It is, however, in danger. Very grave, immediate, and serious danger.

Coral reefs are INCREDIBLY delicate ecosystems.

Leaving aside the long-established threat of Crown-of-Thorns starfishes (it swarms in the MILLIONS and destroys coral), man-made threats are now endangering the Reef beyond its capacity to adapt.  

Port and shipping traffic in and through the Reef is set to more than double by 2025. 

Expansion of the ports at Abbott Point and Gladstone would have involved dredging the Reef. Furious opposition has seen these plans scrapped, but there’s still noise and worry.

There has been fantastic action on the part of most farmers, whose pesticide runoffs were contributing to the decline of the Reef. Now there is common support for the Reef Guardian Farmers initiative – but it remains that farming runoff is a major MAJOR threat. 

Climate Change/Global Warming is causing coral bleaching as the seas warm faster than the delicate organisms can cope. As the oceans absorb pollution, the water gets more acidic. This is the most dangerous and the hardest threat to address, as it requires not only Australia-wide but world-wide action.

Tourism has too much footprint on the Reef. Tourism is so important to the economy of Eastern Queensland – hell, the town I live in was BUILT on tourism – but the damage that boats, divers, etc make as they view the coral and fish is a real concern. Many formerly popular diving places are no longer the beautiful, stunningly vibrant displays they were, but rather grey and drab and denuded, thanks to too much disturbance and human destruction. 

The Federal Government has put forward a long-term sustainability plan called Reef 2050. It has also come under some criticism for not addressing many causes of the damage, and for not allowing time and funding. 

To fix the Reef would cost $8.2 billion AUD, over 10 years. The Federal Government has only set aside $1 billion. 

I don’t know everything, but I can tell you that I am far from the only Australian (or Queenslander) worried about the Reef. 

Check here for more: https://fightforthereef.org.au

How would Halloween go in ME? Would there be little Gimli’s, Thorin’s and The company walking around?

Wee Thorin has been Azahgal, Bifur, Dain, his dad, his mum, his uncle, and finally Bard the Bowman.

The hallow’s day Wee Thorin dresses up as his namesake is the day Dwalin tries very hard not to cry.

Gimizh has dressed as Gimli for twenty years running. He is planning to go as Gimli again next year.

Balinith would damn well dress as Narvi. Damn it, he fucking would.

Frerinith has ambitions to be a cake.