DETS the update was unbelievable. (As always). I was at work when I read it and had SUCH a hard time not squealing and cheering for the amazing badassery of the Hobbits :’D Also I’m curious- was it a conscious decision to make the Bagginshield interactions more comfortable and old-married-coupley at this point? Because I couldn’t help but notice the slight change in their dynamic. (Either way it was incredibly adorable to see!) LOOOOVED it.

Ahhh Rippy! *hugs and hugs* so lovely to hear from you again!

BADASS HOBBITS. I have always, always loved the Scouring of the Shire, it’s always been a source of mild disappointment to me that we don’t see it in the films, because thematically it is just SO important. So glad you liked it! Ahh thank you, friend :)))

Yes, it was! You’ll notice that over the past three-four chapters, Thorin and Bilbo have been having little conversations that deepen their connection and emotional intimacy – esp. in #46, with the ‘forever isn’t long enough to show you all the ways in which i love you’ exchange.

Thorin has supported Bilbo through his own rather painful growth (his anger, secrecy, suspicion and lies-to-himself, etc) and hasn’t pushed him to forgive, or forget, or anything – he’s just been there. Bilbo has in return, come back to Thorin over and over and over again, and learned why Thorin has been through his long journey. They’re not separate and conflicting entities that keep confusingly bumping into each other for no reason now, they’re very much a unitied team. They’re both pretty cognizant of the triggers and issues of the other, and make concerted efforts to support each other through difficult moments.

They’ve also moved past the ‘newness’ of the relationship quite quickly… well, it wasn’t exactly new, after all, just sort of ‘arrested in its tracks’! They’re not dealing with endless longing and bitterness and repression and regrets and what-ifs anymore. Each one knows and is totally secure in the love of the other.

So yeah, they’ve moved to the ‘Old Marrieds’ pretty naturally!

YOU SAID YOU CANNOT ART YET ALL I SEE IS AMAZING ART

courtugger:

determamfidd:

ARTING IS SOMETHING I AM VERY NERVOUS ABOUT

LIKE

REALLY REALLY NERVOUS – hand-tremblingly nervous

I AM NOT AFRAID OF SINGING OR WRITING OR ACTING… BUT *gulps* arting.

ALSO THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE HERE WHO WORK VERY HARD FOR THE SKILLS THEY HAVE

MY FREEHAND SCRIBBLES WITH THEIR MILLIONS OF ERASINGS AND MISTAKES ARE NOWHERE NEAR THAT LEVEL

THE FACT ANYONE LIKES IT AT ALL IS A SOURCE OF TOTAL AMAZEMENT TO ME

But yooooo, the detail in bby Stonehelm’s hat and his shirt and the details tho!

Plus those chubby cheeks

ILU TUGGER THANK YOU.

The First Lines Meme thingy

I got tagged by the wonderful, generous, kind, phenomenally talented and delightful @notanightlight! I adore you, lovely.

I have to give first lines of 10 of my fics. Okie doke! I do get a little over-enthusiastic at times, and so you get an opening paragraph instead 🙂 Links after each quote!

“What’s this?”

(Irreconcilable Differences, Explicit, 133K, Avengers, Science Boyfriends)

When Legolas returned to Eryn Lasgalen, he was much changed. His father embraced him gladly, and then pulled back to study his face. His eyes were deeper, and filled with the joy and sorrow and yearning of the Eldar who have walked too closely to mortality.

(From One Age to Another, Gen, 12K, LOTR, Gigolas)

3. "What are you doing? That logo – Tony, that looks like…“

"Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no uncomfortable truths that make you stay up at night tossing and turning in your star-spangled onesie, Cap.”

(Red Against White, Mature, 8K, Avengers, Science Boyfriends)

The first month is the hardest one.

(Twelve Months and Fifty Years, Gen, 3K, The Hobbit)

The first time Gimli sets eyes upon the Elf, he is less than impressed. He looks exactly like the rest of them: tall, pale and inscrutable. Not a whisker on his chin nor a line on his face. He is blank, a white unwritten canvas, with no distinguishing features or marks upon him to denote a personality at all.

(Some Other Beginning’s End, 5K, Mature, LOTR, Gigolas)

So strange. And. Yeah, Bruce can’t quite get his head around it yet. Something actually affected the Hulk, scared him, scared him so badly he hid inside, so deep and dark inside their head that Bruce can hardly feel his usual presence. God, the strangeness of it all. He’d almost become used to being invulnerable, invincible.

(They Know, 9.5K, Explicit, Avengers, Multi-pairings)

7. The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.

All that once was is lost, and I alone still live to remember it.

(The Long Road, Teen, 6K, LOTR, Gigolas)

The water was going to be cold.

(Snowmelt, 8.8K, Explicit, LOTR, Gigolas)

To Dáin son of Náin, heir of the Lordship of the Iron Hills, from his cousin Thorin son of Thráin, Prince of Erebor, greetings.

(Yours Faithfully, 10.5K, Gen, The Hobbit)

~~Aaaaand last of all, a sneak-peek of the opening of the next chapter of the behemoth itself…~~

10. Ori stared at the massive sheet of parchment. It was covered
in crossings-out, and small notes were scattered all through the margins in an
assortment of different hands. He could just make out the blocky script of Thrór, the cramped chicken-scratch
that was Óin, and Frís’ graceful loops. All in all, it was an unrecognisable, unreadable
mess. A hot, sinking feeling began somewhere in his belly.

(Sansukh – Chapter 40, second draft, 405K, Teen, LOTR/The Hobbit, Gigolas, Bagginshield, etc.)

I tag… uh, I am not sure who has and has not done this thing? Anyway, I will tag a few people, but anyone can do it if you would like to! @avelera, @linddzz, @bead-bead, @yubiwamonogatari, @scarletjedi, @baggvinshield, @fishfingersandscarves, @bubbysbub, @culumacilinte, @diemarysues and @alkjira!