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sorry

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Nothing like holding my love

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Au of the hobbits if the Shire was more in line with the 1920s instead of the 1800s!

Also Pippin has found a lil camera and is snapping a picture of Merry :P

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living in America, access to all kinds of books is quickly becoming limited. libraries in my state are being pushed to get rid of/make a private section for books that feature "sex" and "gender."

as an avid book collector/reader, I want to check out these soon-to-be-banned books as much as possible.

PLEASE give me your recs for weird, old, sexy, new, gender-y, theory, fiction, gothic books. things you think are likely to go out of print or be pushed quietly under the rug. the type of books that would be found in the back of an old used book shop, that are likely to be thrown away.

we can't let queer voices become dimmer, either with legislation or with time.

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"Don't you know your Sam?" is a devastating line but I always forget about it because I know Sams theres good in this world speech is coming

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can we bring back don’t like don’t read? this was really hurtful to receive on a newsies fanfic of mine. if you don’t like the way I write you can click off. i (and other fanfic writers) write for free and in our very limited free time. all we want is to share our ideas and creations with other fans. no need to drag each other down!

if you are a newsies fan please consider checking out my fanfic (despite this negative review, lol).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66350389/chapters/171084058

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Ive been out and living openly as a gender nonconforming  lesbian since 2002 and I really think right now, in 2023, there is as much if not more hostility, disgust, and erasure of lesbians than there was when I was growing up. Well meaning allies afraid to say the word lesbian, treating it like a dirty regressive hateful identity, or as a slur. A cyclical, meaningless, ever changing carousel of language around lesbianism. The demonization of same sex attraction and homosexuality. Young queer people parroting the same shit violent homophobic men said to me in 2005 without any irony.

It’s deeply dismaying. Lesbophobia and misogyny, including internalized lesbophobia and misogyny, are not only normalized and accepted but rebranded as “woke” or progressive. It’s absolute bullshit.

So whatever, I know I might get backlash for this but I feel like as pride month is winding down it needs to be said: I am proud to be a lesbian. I love being a lesbian. I love the word lesbian. And there is NOTHING WRONG with being a lesbian. There is nothing wrong or morally questionable about same sex attraction. You never have to interact with a penis ever again if you do not want to. That does not make you bad. You’re not a vagina fetishist or a bioessentialist. SAME SEX ATTRACTION IS NORMAL, HEALTHY, AND NOT HATEFUL. We exist and we will always exist and we are not deviants. Our sexuality does not need to be ‘inclusive.’

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I open tumblr at midnight on the first day of pride and this is what i see. happy pride month to sam and frodo and also everyone else.

baby, both arms cradle you now.

both arms cradle you now.

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This is an interesting thing I'm noticing as I'm reading but it kinda seems to me like a lot of the Tolkien characters all seem to have elemental symbolism that seems to follow their characterization.

Like Gandalf and Bilbo both seem to have a lot of fire symbolism that follows them around. Gandalf uses light and fire as kind of his two go to weapons and he's the keeper of the ring of Narya which is the fire one. And of course Gandalf the White is forged out of flame. And then Bilbo's introduced in the middle of smoking, and he spends a lot of time hanging around campfires and hearths, like the campfire storyteller he is. He seems to like hanging out in the Hall of Fire at Rivendell, and his conflict with Smaug obviously also involves a lot of fire. He's also arguably the character who is closest to Gandalf.

Frodo on the other hand is like all water imagery. One of the first things we learn about Frodo is his parents were weirdos who hung out in boats and then drowned, and he's introduced filling drinks at Bilbo's party. He makes his stand against the Nazgul at the river. He himself nearly drowns like three times in the story, and spends a lot of time in boats, being haunted by dark waters, and the sound of the ocean (and of course ends the story going over the sea). Like the water symbolism with Frodo is nonstop and he shares that in common with Gollum, who specifically is characterized by pools, rivers, and lakes, as well as fish, worms, mud and roots and caves—very wet and slimy compared to Frodo's more mariner/wayfinder imagery. But they're still kind of two sides of the same coin.

Pippin and Merry get a lot of plant and tree symbolism. Besides hanging out with ents and drinking tree wine and that time they both got eaten by a tree, it's clear Merry grew up wandering forests and knows a lot about wild plants (and writes a book on it later) and Pippin gets a ton of association with Gondor, y'know, that place that is represented by a big ol' tree. Their tobacco leaves too actually kinda play a pivotal role, and are again, very plant focused.

You'd think Sam would also be more earth oriented, being he's a gardener, but not really? Unlike Merry who's out here spitting plant facts 24/7 and working on his plant book, Sam's interest in plants seems like to only be around when he's on the clock. His symbolism is all very celestial. He's the guy who ends up using the Star of Earendil. He sees Earendil while he and Frodo are walking through Mordor. He evokes Elbereth, the Star Goddess like multiple times. He names his daughter after the star-sun shaped flower Elanor which literally means "Sun and Stars." And if you think about it, Gardener is actually kind of a perfect role for a star-guy when you remember how dependent plants are on the sun. He also seems to share some kind of connection with Galadriel who is also caked in a lot of star imagery. It also tracks he'd be paired with Frodo thematically as he serves as a guiding light to a mariner, in contrast to how Gollum represents the depths.

IDK what all that means, I just think it's neat!

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Hobbits with spring flowers!

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Samfro Sunday everyone 🤧

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on a warm summer evening, samwise gamgee climbs the stairs to bag end, wondering how one mr frodo might receive a very special gift....

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No one ever talks about the guilt and shame Frodo must feel after the events at Mount Doom. He failed his quest, he failed Sam and he failed Middle Earth. He got the ring all the way up to the edge of doom yet he couldn't bear to destroy it himself. Yet all of Middle Earth regards him as the hero who destroyed the ring, and he probably doesn't see it that way even though he was the one who wrestled Gollum off the edge. But he didn't do it because he was thinking of the greater good, he did it because Gollum stole it from him. And even while hanging off the ledge his need for the ring makes him consider letting go to get it, he needed to be coaxed by Sam to not let go. His behavior is so much unlike him that he becomes a completely different Hobbit with no concern for anything but his precious- something that he feared since meeting Gollum.

In the scene where Aragorn tells the hobbits they bow to no one, I always felt the expression on Frodo's face is pained almost as if he feels he doesn't deserve the praise

Frodo Baggins is such a complex character and I especially love Elijah Woods portrayal of him because you can really feel how torn apart Frodo is inside after the events of RotK. His guilt doesn't allow him to feel like a hero.

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learned that ALL and I mean ALL of my fics were hit by the recent ao3 AI scrape. I mean this sincerely, I do NOT respect AI and I never will. It is soulless and heartless and cannot replace humans or human work. human work holds value.

for all my LOTR mutuals, I’m sure you all respect the time and effort put into writing fanfic.

I want to reshare my LOTR fics here.

even thought they’re obviously not classic works of literature, I believe they hold some value, and readers who take the time to read it are valuable too.

to remind myself that it’s not all bad and it’s not just AI reading my work and using it for its dark plagiarism purposes.

I love fans and I love fan works.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/ThoughtfulMess/works?fandom_id=741433

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“Boromir apologist” he doesn’t have anything to apologize for????? He fell victim to evil ringTM like once. and then immediately redeemed himself. Guys come on.

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someone on here mentioned this recently but I just wanted to reiterate how good this article by Molly Ostertag is about Sam and Frodo’s relationship. Molly has been a huge force in the lotr fandom for some time and has provided amazing fan works! give it a read