Thorin Oakenshield slowly wakes to the sounds of Bilbo and his nephews softly talking, colder and heavier than he has ever been in his life, but before he can get a word out Bilbo is punching him square on the nose. Quite rightly, as it turns out, because he’s been dead for a week and has just sat up in his tomb with no warning whatsoever.
Following the aftermath of the Battle of the Five Armies where Thorin must fight with his own guilt and mind over his choices and what they mean and meant, where he must decide whether or not to rule, and how to live with himself after dying. Focusing on many different characters and relationships, as well as building on the lore of Erebor and Middle Earth. A story about coming home.
Bagginshield | Kíli/Tauriel | Gimli/Legolas | Thranduil/Elrond | Thranduil/Bard | And many more probably | Everyone lives au | Fix-It | Fake Marriage |Thorin in the Shire | Mental health |Angst |Pining |Fluff |Smut | And many many more tags to come as they happen most probably | Slow Build | Slow Burn | Happy ending | Diverse genders / sexualities / neurotypes | Lots of Angst | Loads of pining
Thorin blows out the candle so Bilbo can speek about the thoughts troubling him.
Fanfic book club week 2
Gray Conté on black paper
THIS IS GORGEOUS
Acorn-related symbolism realisation omfg
okay, bear in mind that I still haven’t seen the extended Life-Ruiner. But I hear that Bilbs plants the acorn in Dale. And I wondered – whu, but why?
I know that for a lot of people, the acorn symbolises love (and my bagginshield-shipping heart rejoices) and I totally think that’s awesome too and this isn’t meant to stomp on that interpretation. It’s just that I had to think again what it was that Bilbo says when he first reveals the acorn:
One day it’ll grow. And every time I look at it, I’ll remember. Remember everything that happened: the good, the bad… and how lucky I am that I made it home.
This hit me like a freight train…
Guys.
GUYS.
The acorn is memory. He’s planting it where he doesn’t have to see it every day. He’s not planting it at home, at Bag End. He’s planting it far, far away from the Shire. He can’t look at it without a ridic long journey.
Bilbo is purposefully trying to forget*. He doesn’t want to think of ‘the good, the bad, and how “”lucky”” [he] is that [he] made it home.’ He doesn’t want to remember.
THIS IS THE BAGGINSHIELD EQUIVALENT OF ‘IF THIS IS LOVE I DO NOT WANT IT, TAKE IT AWAY, PLEASE’
EDIT: okay, I am informed that they still don’t show where Bilbs plants the acorn, though I just checked and there was apparently a scene shot of him planting it in Dale (from the Hobbit Companion Book)
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*Bilbo’s later memory-problems now 905725% more tragic, thanks so much BOTFA
an open club for those who want to discuss Hobbit fan fiction works (with a focus on bagginshield fics, although other pairings will inevitably make appearances)
only Completed fics of any AU/canon-verse with word counts under 50k will be up for discussion (tbd by baggvinshield – you know you trust me) for at least the first 5 sessions
we will utilize Skype group chat for weekly discussion, scheduled tentatively for Wednesdays at 5pm EST (day/time can and most likely will change based on the needs of the group)
other info
we need your Skype by October 7th, 5pm EST which is when we will have our first ‘meeting’ – however, you may choose to join at a later date as this is an open club
track the tag #hobbit reading club (bc we can’t think of a good name rn) (let’s change this later lol)
we will announce thefirst fic assignment this Wednesday, September 30th. members will have one week to read each fic before we Discuss.
it’s gONNA BE AWESOME SO YOU SHOULD JOIN
how to join
create a Skype account if you don’t have one (make a separate one just for fandom purposes if you aren’t comfortable sharing your Skype name with others)
send an ask to baggvinshield OR killaidanturner and let one of us know your Skype so we can invite you to the chat
You have no idea, my sweet summer child. None at all.
Okay. If I tried to list everything, I will never be able to finish this post. So – here are my three current fandoms (I have others, but yeah… long post will be long) and here are like a few fics off the top of my head.
This is one of the best Alternate Universes that it has ever been my privilege to read. It’s still Sherlock Holmes and it’s still John Watson, even though they’re actors in this universe and not crimefighting super sleuths.
It’s gorgeously written, it’s expanded into a universe in itself and it’s one of those fics that you can just sink yourself into and never want to leave.
My absolute favorite thing in the MCU fandom is any fic that deals with the heroes in social media and in a meta-ish way. This is THE ultimate outsider POV Stucky story – and even now, I’m in awe at how the author manages to capture every individual fan you know on the internet.
You KNOW these people.
They ARE your people.
They ARE you.
It’s brilliant. It’s Steve/Bucky and their presence is very tangible in this story, even though they themselves aren’t directly appearing to the reader. Again, it’s not just a fic, it’s become a universe I can escape to.
basically, one of the best canon divergences i’ve ever read. i mean, canon-wise, Bucky either gets killed or gets put through a lot of pain and this fic is like everything i want after watching CATWS and going, “please, somebody save bucky barnes and steve rogers!”
Epic. This is a WIP but it’s worth keeping an eye on.
This is how you do fan fic on an epic scale. It is world building, it is expanding on the existing canon, it makes you think and imagine and cry and laugh and…. yeah, okay, this is why fan fiction is such a good thing.
Did you ever sit yourself down and wonder things about the fictional universe you just discovered in a book? All those little details and nitty gritty things and stuff that the canon only hints at or doesn’t really get to tell because we have to keep the story going and there’s no time to get into it?
Sansukh does that and it retells the Lord of the Rings and the in-between years of the Hobbit not just from a dead Thorin Oakenshield’s point of view, but it basically attempts to tell us the stories that were not told because we were following Frodo and Aragorn on their own respective journeys. It tells us about Dain and Erebor’s heroic stand and the kingdom Bard got to re-establish. It tells us their stories and it makes the existing canon all the richer.
This is short and sweet and funny as hell and adorable as anything. Also hot but look, aside from going all nnnnnngh at the Good Bits, you’re still giving yourself gigglefits at all the lovey-doveying going on.
Ta-da. Enjoy!
Oh Stitch…!
Thank you soOO much, you wondrous and sweet and kind person! Wow, that is some illustrious company whoa
I am absolutely blown over by your absolutely beautiful words, I am just so grateful for them and just so happy that it has touched you so, I lasdhfgjalshfdgas *brain borks completely* THANK YOU SO MUCH!
THOSE ROTTEN SACKVILLE-BAGGINSES *cranky Dwarf noises*
(tbh I sort of love Lobelia a lot… particularly bc of the Scouring of the Shire…but I can certainly see Thorin’s initial opinion of her being less than complimentary!)
Aw Yiss 