LMAO I KNOW, I was trying to make everyone think it was gonna be a sad mortality-sucks fic, hehehe. And to be fair, most of what I write is marinated in angst, then fried in pain and probably covered in angst sauce to finish.
i just decided to change it up with a little happy thirsty smuts instead 😉
I am so glad you liked it, lovely Nonnie! *hugs* heheheheh, poor Thranduil, heard way more than he ever wanted to!
AHH NONNIE! you’ve made me so happy to read that! That was part of the plan: that it would at first seem like an ‘oh no – mortality! (DUN DUN DUN!)’ fic, and we’d be bracing ourselves to see Legolas being all sad about it….
…and then Legolas would totally flip the script by basically going, ‘NOPE, TWICE AS HOT NOW, HOW DOES HE DO THAT,’ and jumping Gimli’s bones, lmao.
(gimli didn’t help him at all, the gigantic tease)
SO STOKED YOU LIKED THE SMUT! I had fun with the brinkmanship and the sheer non-humanness of them this time around 😀 Very experienced pair this time – as opposed to say, ‘Snowmelt’ in which they don’t know a dang thing about each other! So much talking and joking, though. These two never shut up, even in bed!
I am so so thrilled you liked the opening build as well! Awww, Sam, I love him forever, brave sweet bab. I love just how much he gave to his home, I really do, he’s just amazing. And hooray you liked the glimpses of the happy and prosperous future! I think I really like writing in the Aglarond-era, dazzling city of the White Mountains, I gotta do it some more ❤
Legolas was away much with the Galadhrim, and after the first night he did not sleep with the other companions, though he returned to eat and talk with them. Often he took Gimli with him when he went abroad, and the others wondered at this change.
-The Mirror of Galadriel, pages 349-350
I really love these moments between Legolas and Gimli. Lothlorien is a place of rest and healing for the fellowship, and a lot of healing happens in Legolas and Gimli’s relationship. Additionally, while everybody in the fellowship has lost a beloved friend and mentor, Gimli has lost a family member as well as his ancestral homeland. The loss he suffers is overwhelming. Legolas could be spending his time with his own people, which would certainly be easy and comfortable, but he chooses, of everybody in the fellowship, to seek Gimli out. He supports Gimli throughout the grieving process by showing him some beauty.
Also, I’m really into the idea that at some point Aragorn asks him what he was doing all those nights in Lothlorien, and it turns out he was having a lot of sex.
HOW, how in the name of all that’s good and holy (and deliciously wicked) am I going to get any work done today? When I know I could be reading this?!
Self-discipline, I know you not.
AUGH sorry – aaaand my timing sucks once again! I hope you like it when you get around to reading it, and I REALLY hope that it doesn’t drive you bonkers all day at work!
Hey, it’s not your fault that my timezone is GMT+3… And luckily I was too busy to get distracted. Much. Almost not at all. Oh dear.
But. There’s an improperly proper and ridiculously over-length commentary at AO3, so I’ll just leave this one quote here:
“I will eat him alive, the earth itself be my witness,” Legolas grated beneath his breath. “I will endure no more of this!”
By his side, Thranduil choked on a sip of wine.
This fic is MAGNIFICENT beoyond all belief. More than the sum of its parts. RIDICULOUSLY hot. And OUTRAGEOUSLY fun. And exactly the RIGHT amount of sweet.
And everyone who ever shipped gigolas should read it.
*screams* KATAJAINEN OH MY GOD THE GORGEOUS REVIEW ALONE WAS ENOUGH TO PUT ME IN ORBIT
AND THEN
I SAW
YOUR TAGS…!!!
HOLY HANNAH I AM HOWLING
YOU BEAUTIFUL SOUL THANK YOU SO MUCH *hugs and hugs and hUGS*
so i was reading comes around again and then i watched the extended lord of the rings trilogy and then i drew this because i love these beautiful husbands ❤
@notanightlight’s AMAZING Wild West Gigolas fic – podficced by yours truly, including Really Outrageous Accents and my first attempt at soundscaping. (Because why wouldn’t you soundscape a runaway train fic??)
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! You utter GEM! I am in awe of you and I’m going to be grinning all day!!! I’m going to try to listen to it before work because I CANNOT WAIT!!!
Legolas knew Gimli’s body as well as his own, and he knew when it was subtly different. An immortal Elf never changes, and the workings of time upon his lover were a marvel to him. It fascinated him. It enchanted him. How could one person be made of such endless, enthralling variety?
(I suspect Aragorn develops a gigolas-related Spidey-sense by that stage. His head will sometimes just snap up, his eyes wide and alert, seemingly for no reason.
“What is it?” Arwen will ask, worried.
“They’re at it again,” Aragorn will say, in tones of doom.)
Aw Yiss 