Tag: jeri

There have been too many arguments between the parents and children of Erebor and the Iron Hills about the appropriateness of boars as pets. (“But the King has one! Her name is Buttercup! Why can’t I get one?” “For the thousandth time, NO!”)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now I’m imagining Beri and Genild having this argument together, with Jeri chiming in (and the Stonehelm totally and firmly on the Pig side of the argument and egging it on.)

Eventually Beri and Genild compromise on the pet issue, and get an Iron Hills goat. It’s stubborn and ornery and eats everything in sight, and is 1000x more trouble than a pig ever would be.

Beri loves the thing, and it loves her back. It is full of fiery hatred for everyone else.

Genild is resigned and grumbly about it. “I SAID WE OUGHT TO GET A PIG, DIDN’T I?” There are a lot of comments about garlic these days.

(Jeri doesn’t sleep over at their mums’ place too often anymore. Something about being woken up by a pair of square yellow eyes…)

A big test for prospective royal guards: tell Gimizh and co. that Dain has a big plate of chocolate chip cookies in his private sitting room. Goal: do not let Gimizh get the cookies. (After the guards get the test, Gimizh and his friends get the cookies as a reward for services rendered). This is a surprisingly effective test.

It really would be. More than any test of fitness or weapon-skills, it would be a test of extreme cunning and lateral thinking. 

Gimizh is slippery as an eel, when he wants to be. He knows every nook in the Mountain. He can charm the socks off the birds. He can use Frerinith as a decoy. He knows nearly everybody. He can and WILL smuggle himself in somehow. 

Jeri? Jeri won that test very easily. 

Jeri asked around, and so came armed with a batch of Beri’s best spiced fruitcake. 

Has Gimizh ever stolen any of Dain’s clothes? Or Dis’?

I don’t think he’d steal from Dain’s – not for lack of trying… it’s only that Dain’s apartments were guarded. He’s the King. 

It was probably a thing, a final test for elite guards like jeri. Keep Gimizh out of the King’s Apartments, and you’ve leapt the last hurdle. 🙂

(he has absolutely NOT stolen Dis’. At all. NOPE. He’ll go steal Mizim’s instead – she’s a lot less terrifying.)

Idk if this ask went through … So picture Beri and Genild the avid quilters. They met at a quilting bee/quilter’s meeting. So cute. Such a practical and pretty activity. They make quilts as gifts. Jeri has so many. Dain got a pig quilt or three. Quilts for royal baby. Dis has a line-of-Durin quilt.

I didn’t see it, sorry about that! *glares at tumblr*

Aww, I can see Beri taking up quilting, after Jeri is grown and they’ve gone up in the world, and she’s no longer a soldier and has the leisure time and the funds to take up a hobby… but my sincere apologies, Nonnie, it’s not Genild’s sort of thing at all!! 

But here’s this: I can imagine Beri trying to teach her… and Genild glaring at it. Like, forever. Because urgh, fiddly, and takes-too-long and MAHAL ALREADY can she go do something that isn’t sitting down for hours and stabbing herself in the thumb a hundred bloody times?

Beri would finish off the quilts, chuckling to herself, probably, as she unpicked every clumsy stitch. 

(the sounds of Genild huffily smacking pots about in the kitchen as she begins on “something useful” – translation: cooking up a batch of her spicy fish stew -echo down the hallway. It sounds rather as though Genild is using the pots and pans as practice weaponry. Beri would grin down

just a little wider

at the half-finished quilt on her lap. She has negative amounts of stillness, Beri’s darling wife. Always has to be up on her feet!)

Now that it’s generally known that Bomfris is pregnant … Imagine all the baby stuff she and Thorin Stonehelm are getting. Some of it’s from family, some of it’s not. So we have some of Bomfris’s sibs with kids bringing hand-me-downs, various relatives/close friends on both sides bringing useful stuff, often handmade. Thorin is amazed at all the stuff that babies need. Bomfris is resigned. Jeri makes some cute crochet hats based on Thorin’s story of lack of head hair as a baby.

they do, they need So. Much. Stuff.

(all the lovely old second hand stuff from Dis brings a certain amount of sadness along with the gratitude.)

So Genild and Beri probably great-aunt a lot of little spdwarf kiddos who don’t have a lot of older relatives. Beri misses dealing with kids, and Genild likes their enthusiasm. This is also why Jeri is so good at making rock candy -it’s one of their more regular contributions to their “little cousins” along with piggyback rides.

LOL! This is freaking adorable Nonnie! I fully believe that Beri would deal with the itty bitty slightly-gloopy-and-sticky ones, whereas Genild is much more comfortable when they are a little older (and can feed themselves and use the bathroom, for example). Genild is not a small-children person! 

Jeri would be all about those kiddies, hells yes. (Jeri LOVES KIDS, Jeri has a soft and gooey nougat centre, they do!) 


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For the amazing, wonderful and brilliant @dain-mothafocka. I hope you like it, my Queen!

Basically I have been won over to this ship 😀 Jeri is my OC and Khalei belongs to Jade, but goddamn do they make a hot pair. 

Bit of background: When writing this, I wanted something of the lazy langurousness of sliding, slow kisses; something of the ease and warmth of these two. Jeri’s understated humour and Khalei’s confident charm, bouncing off each other and melding into something deep and stable and sensual and dreamy. I wanted to write the sort of simple, evocative theme that makes someone close their eyes and imagine the heat radiating from sun-warmed stone – or soft, tattooed skin. 

I also wanted a departure from the more Celtic-based folk tradition I have been using for most of my Dwarf compositions… Khalei is, after all, a Blacklock! And so we have some sliding notes and chords inspired by Jewish and Middle-eastern music in there. 

I was going to add a descant and a verse in Khuzdul, but you know what, I think fussing with it more might disturb the atmosphere I am trying to capture! I do hope I succeeded, and I do hope you enjoy this short little thingy. 

(if you would like to read more on these sexy dorks: here is my Jeri tag, and here, here, here, here, and here are some AMAZING one-shots by @dain-mothafocka!)