#I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole

[i-scan-your-poems]

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole

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metrical form: dactylic tetrameter catalectic

[her-satanic-wiles]

Y'all, I've just discovered Wind Rose, and now I might be obsessed.

[nekofantasia]

sometimes I just wanna go back into minecraft and build me a dirt house

[shittykankridaily]

Digging a h9le is exhausting even when it’s n9t h9t 9ut.

Non-quirk text: Digging a hole is exhausting even when it’s not hot out.

[undertalecheckpoint]

12 December, 2024: Entry #47

Song: 047 - Ooo

2^47 = 140,737,488,355,328. This is how much money, in dollars, or euros, or a-bit-less-than-pounds that would need to be invested by the entire world by 2050 into fighting climate change in order to reach the goal of global temperatures being 1.5°C higher on average than before the Industrial Revolution. It seems like a lot of money, but it is literally our planet we are fighting for; if the world has to shell out $5,000,000,000,000 a year, it’s worth it. It’s a daunting task, but I think we - as in nations and companies as a whole - can do it.

Just did a word count on all of my entries (reminder to look at the google doc), and it turns out that I have TWELVE THOUSAND entire words written in this silly lil journal thingie of mine. Wow. That’s like, an entire novel. (no, it is not) I genuinely think this is one of, if not the, projects that I have put the most dedication into.

I’m currently working on the Wild Life FINALE recap - and this is probably the video I’ve spent the most effort on so far. Funnily enough, I still don't know who won yet; I've just been watching everyone's POVs until they die or all wildcards are deactivated - nothing beyond that. The videos already around 15 minutes, but it's only up to when the first trivia wildcard comes in… the trend of videos getting longer and longer continues. And I still need to make my Wild Life: The Movie video too…

thursday edit:

Just watched it and YEAH JOEL WON!!!!!!! YEAH!!!! I LOVE YOU JOEL!!!

Also, the Game Awards just happened. YEAH ASTRO BOT WON!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!

You know it’s the end of the year when every ‘year in review’ is coming out. Spotify Wrapped, Youtube Recap, heck, even Google Year in Search. And I still haven’t done many of my end-of-year projects, still. Welp, I have a few weeks to procrastinate still.

I have a weird habit of forgetting the really cool and important thing I should say in my journal entry but keep forgetting when the time comes to actually write it out… 

Oh! I remember!

My friend’s organising a D&D campaign for our friend group! Everyone is very excited; more people kept joining until she had to put a cap on it; we have 9 people now. Most of us have never played D&D before (myself included); we held a few group calls to set everyone’s character up using D&D Beyond, and wrote our own backstories. I wrote mine entirely on the day they were due, and it came out to around 500 words. Apparently, we weren’t supposed to make them that long - only one person’s was longer than mine. I now curse myself for not writing it just a liiiitle bit longer. Our group is made up of three elves of different types, a half-elf, a dragonbord, an aasimar, a tabaxi (fancy), and a regular human, and we all have different classes. For me, I chose… a mountain dwarf. i yearn for the mines, diggy diggy hole, rock and stone, etc. And honestly, I can’t wait for the campaign to start in two weeks. I am WAY more excited than I should be, heh.

Writing this with music on and the ‘diggy diggy hole’ song comes on just in time i cannot tell you the levels of satisfaction and magnificence i am currently experiencing

[amloveabledeathmo]

Letters To a Made Up Lover, Bagginshield Idea

Bungo and Belladonna approach Bilbo one day. They start discussing how he has never gone to the singles parties and they supported it but are still worried for his happiness and as Lobelia has convinced her parents to push for an arranged match between her and Bilbo, they rather encourage it.

For awhile he's shocked silent. Bilbo who is a few years past freshly of age and has never liked Lobelia decides he better find a way out of it and his only thought is that his parents would prioritize a love match like theirs. So he finds himself blurting out a fake story of finding his love on a recent trip to Bree. Poor Bilbo realizes his mistake way to late when he sees his parents relief and joy. Soon his mother is making tea and insisting he sit and tell them all about it. When he is questioned about the details he says it was a handsome dwarf named Thorin with black hair and blue eyes. (I'm thinking Bilbo is a known scholar who gets information from all over so he had been reading some Dwarven history or current letters on the political climate in Erebor, which is not good, or something is where he got the name and description).

Belladonna delightedly insisted he write to his beau and as he couldn't see a way out, Bilbo did.

He wrote a simple address: Thorin, Ered Luin

Bilbo almost wished he hadn't gotten new stationary for his last birthday as the envelopes were embossed with his return address and for such a humiliating thing he would have rather remained as anonymous as possible.

*

To The Definitely Real And Not Made Up Thorin,

If anyone actually reads this letter I shall be most embarrassed. I suppose I should introduce myself, my name is Bilbo and I am a hobbit. You see I am reaching an age where my parents are concerned for my future happiness as they put it. I have no spouse or intended and a truly nightmarish situation was brought to me because of this.

There has been a girl, Lobelia, who has harassed me since childhood. She is in love with Bag End and has declared many times that she will do whatever it takes to make it hers. Those are also simply not her only flaws. Suffice to say I would be happier if I never had to be within walking distance to her again. Therein lies my predicament, she has asked her mother, who so happens to be a great friend of my mother, to formally arrange a marriage between us. I simply could not stomach the thought and blurted out the first thing that came to mind. I told my parents that on my last trip to Bree I found myself a love.

Admittedly it was not my most well thought out plan as I soon discovered when my mother delightedly questioned me for details for hours. Just so you are aware, our first meeting was when I slipped trying to climb off a stool at the bar and you happened to be right there to catch me. We gazed into each-others eyes for however long is considered romantic and then you asked me to join you for pint. I of course accepted since you are an exceptionally handsome dwarf with black hair like the night and blue eyes like forget me nots (I may have also said you were exceptionally tall and had very muscular arms, mother was delighted with those details).

I thought that would be the end but no, it soon spread to the whole village that I had a dashing dwarven sweetheart. I have told far to many nosy neighbors that it was love at first sight, that we spent the whole week together, and now I am being forced to write and mail letters to a very made up dwarven boyfriend. I have no idea how I will dig myself out of this hole. Will I have to write return letters and try to mail them from somewhere else? If I don't get any letters will they make me marry Lobelia or can I say I'm too heartbroken?

If someone is reading this I'm sure you are having a good laugh. My hope is that it just gets tossed in a fire somewhere when they can't find the recipient.

Your Beloved (fake) Beau Bilbo

*

What I thought for the rest of the story is that Bilbo was telling the truth about Thorin catching him falling off the stool since drink and heights don't make for good balance, and the long stare and handsome dwarf, Bilbo just didn't actually realize it was Thorin. So the letters go on, a couple a week just talking about all sorts of things, Bilbo starts using them as almost a diary. Sometimes he even talks about what things he'd like to do to Thorin or get done to him in the bedroom. But of course he still thinks Thorin is fake but also no harm in fantasizing about that handsome dwarf he based his lie off of right?

Anyway a few months in, cause I imagine it would take a couple weeks to months for the letters to arrive even in one direction, they get a damaged letter that they can make out B on it and know it came from Ered Luin. Bilbo gets it and the legible parts of the letter paint a bad picture of Ered Luin being under attack by goblins. It leads to a shire wide meeting with the Thain leading it discussing helping Bilbo's love. They decide to contact the rangers and send some bounders along as well as healing supplies and preserved food. Bilbo just assumes the letter was supposed to go to Bree or somewhere to request aid.

He keeps sending letters but never gets another back. No one is suspicious because of the war with the goblins.

Then one day there is a knock on the door and Bella excitedly yells for Bilbo. He comes out from his study and there in the door is the dwarf from Bree. Also a good bit of dwarves behind him. Thorin says who he is and Bilbo is so shocked he faints and Thorin catches him. Bella welcomes them all in and Thorin puts Bilbo in a chair while Bungo gets the smelling salts. Bella makes tea and grabs snacks and settles everyone in before asking Thorin a million and one questions. He eventually admits that they need aid. He has his company who are all here and about 50 other dwarves, mothers and children and the sick or injured and they need a place to stay to overwinter before traveling to Erebor. Of course Bella and Bungo get on it immediately, contacting neighbors, finding rooms and tents and setting a large celebratory potluck since Bilbo's Thorin had survived and was here.

Bilbo and Thorin get married because Bilbo does not want Lobelia and does not want to have to admit to the entire shire he's been fibbing to them for like a year or more (also he desperately wants to get his hands all over Thorin) and Thorin really needs the marriage to make sure his people are safe over the winter and because of the political climate back in Erebor it would look better if he came back married to a love match.

The idea for why Thorin is traveling to Ered Luin is that Thror is getting way to violent and Thrain has decided/realized that the only way to protect his family and Erebor is to kill his father. He want's no blame to be placed on his children so he sends Thorin, Dis, Frerin, Fili, Kili, and the others that Thorin picked, which at this point would be the company minus the Urs since they are from Ered Luin. He just says they need to check in on their clan there but then the goblins happen.

Thorin has been entranced since the first letter. He remembered meeting a hobbit just the same way as described and how cute he was so he hopes that's the mysterious Bilbo. He reads bits out loud to his company when things are down, not about the lies but just things that Bilbo talks about happening, and about Lobelia. So literally everyone besides Thorin and Bilbo think this is a whirlwind romance soulmate love match. Of course they do end up actually loving each other.

[biologist-with-a-blog]

*Wind Rose starts playing*

I was playing Wii sports, and the "sport" was digging a massive hole.

[notmaplemable]

Trenches

RWBY: *Digging a trench*

Yang: Why *Pants* do we have to do this?

Weiss: We're huntresses, not ditch diggers!

Blake: It'll be over faster if you stop complaining.

Ruby: This is worse than the time dad banned me from eating candy for a week.

Goodwitch: All of the pain you feel while doing this is nothing compared to the headaches you all give me on a weekly basis.

RWBY: ...

Ruby: I wonder how JNPR is doing?

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Jaune: BROTHERS OF THE MINE REJOICE!

Nora: SWING SWING SWING WITH ME!

Jaune: RAISE YOUR PICK AND RAISE YOUR VOICE!

Nora: SING SING SING WITH ME!

Jaune: DOWN AND DOWN INTO THE DEEP!

Nora: WHO KNOWS WHAT WE'LL FIND BENEATH!

Jaune: DIAMONDS, RUBYS, GOLD, AND ORE!

Nora: HIDDEN IN THE MOUNTAIN STORE!

Ren: ...

Pyrrha: Born under- Umm. In the dark- Shoot. Made of i- Dangit. Could you two slow down a little bit?

Port: You lot sing far better than CRDL did. Couldn't even get past the first verse of Men of Harlech.

JN: I AM A DWARF AND I'M DIGGING A HOLE!

[a-sweet-potato-63]

"I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole" is actually a song written by elves to make fun of the dwarves but Elrond sometimes forget that and hums it subconsciously when he's distracted and one time he was walking through the forest with Durin and he just goes "I am a dwarf and i'm digging a hole... diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole..." and Durin was like respectfully what in the FUCK

[loverxiety]

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole Diggy diggy hole digging a hole edit: Taking requests of what GOW character I should turn into a tsum tsum next, from any of the games ^^

[autistic-speedbump]

The subgenre thing is real though. I recently discovered dwarf metal through Wind Rose and am now in my dwarfmaxxing arc.

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[cathkaesque]

> Overheard next door's kids (ages 7 and 5) singing I am a dwarf and I'm digging in a hole from behind the fence while I was gardening

> quietly sung the next verse along with them

>Raucous response

:)

[chryza]

i am a dwarf and i'm digging a hole! diggy diggy ho--why did my light go out.

[soleul]

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a fucking hole.

[notbecauseofvictories]

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole

or LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

[birdofmay]

"Diggy Diggy Hole" has been stuck in my head for DAYS now 🙄

Won't link the song because there are many many versions of it, but "my" version is by Wind Rose...

I AM A DWARF AND I'M DIGGING A HOLE, DIGGY DIGGY HOLE, DIGGY DIGGY HOLE 🎶

Life is hard 😅