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Fellowship Shenanigans

Storytime

Legolas: Well, obviously I didn’t see Bilbo, no one did, and the Dwarfs were kept in the dungeons.

Gimli: For no good reason!!

Aragorn: Oh no, not this again.

Boromir: Could someone please tell me what they’re on about??

Frodo: We’re just talking about Bilbo’s adventure.

Gimli: I wouldn’t say Bilbo’s-

Pippin: It’s Bilbo’s adventure.

Boromir: Ohhh!

Pippin, to Boromir: Do YOU think that Thorin and the others could have killed the dragon on their own?

Boromir: Sorry little one, I don’t know the story.

Everyone: What?!

Aragorn: Even I know the story, and I’m the only one who didn’t know someone on that trip.

Legolas: My father told me what happened.

Gimli: MY father told ME what ACTUALLY happened!

Sam: Everyone knows the story!

Frodo, to Boromir: You’re literally the only one here who doesn’t know Bilbo, aren’t you?

Boromir: It seems so.

Pippin: This needs fixing.

Merry: Agreed.

Aragorn: And this is the most important thing to be doing right now?

Pippin: Yes.

Aragorn: If you say so.

Frodo: You start, Sam, you tell it the best.

Sam: Thank you, Mister Frodo. Ehem. In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit-

Legolas and Boromir: You live in holes!?!?

Aragorn: Yeah they do.

Boromir: That’s weird.

Legolas: That’s tragic!

Merry: It is not!!

Aragorn: It’s a bit weird, if you’re not used to it.

Gandalf: Hardly.

Gimli: I, for the record, think it sounds great.

Legolas: No one asked.

Sam: EHEM!!

Several Hours Later

Boromir, extremely confused: Wait, so how long did they spend in Mirkwood?

Hobbits: A week.

Gimli: A month.

Legolas: A year.

Aragorn: Legolas, we’ve already established that your perception of time can’t be trusted.

Frodo: Bilbo says he was there for a week at least.

Gimli: Oh come on! It was far longer than that!

Legolas: Well only one of us was actually there, so-

Boromir, to the Hobbits: Why is half your story about food?

Sam: What kind of a question is that?

Legolas: Did Bilbo really miss the entire battle?

Merry: Oi! Judgy much!

Frodo: He did an extremely good job of not dying, thank you very much.

Aragorn: For which we are all very grateful, just try not to break his streak, will you? Pippin, talking to you.

Pippin: I have no idea what you mean by that, I’m sure.

Boromir, to Aragorn: So what actually happened??

Aragorn: Mate, I’ve heard at least five different versions of this story, three of which were just Bilbo in varying levels of drunk. I have no freaking clue what actually happened, only it was pretty amazing. Also it’s past midnight, everyone go to sleep! Legolas, you take first watch, with anyone except Gimli.

Gandalf, to Aragorn, once everyone else has settled down: You know what amuses me?

Aragorn: What?

Gandalf: Not one of them thought to ask me what happened.

Aragorn: Would you give them a straight answer if they did?

Gandalf: …

Aragorn: That’s what I thought.

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Kinda good, kinda bad. Depends on how you look at it, really.

How are we doing tonight my fellow nuance enjoyers

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I don’t know what I expected them to sound like, but it wasn’t that.

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just overheard my dad on the phone going “yeah, i’d be more than happy to buy her daughter off of you, how much would you be willing to trade her for?” and got Very Worried for a second before remembering that he manages dairy farms for a living. surely there’s gotta be a better way to word that man

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“X people can reblog this”: You’re not my mom and I don’t need your permission.

“X people must reblog this”: You’re not my mom so don’t tell me what to do.

All those “you can reblog this” posts just amuse me, because it’s like

A peasant who has finished ranting at court in a manner just on the verge of violating protocol: “You can have your heralds disseminate this.”

Me, lounging on my throne and on my fourth goblet of breakfast wine: “Haha! May I?”

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Funniest fandoms are where the fans are like, "I'm obsessed with this. I don't recommend it even slightly."

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Dude people come into fandoms every day and characterize every guy in wronger ways than you would have ever thought possible. You’re fine.

Getting into fandoms is so scary .if I characterize this guy wrong everyone is going to kill me I can sense it

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HANDHOLDING!? 😱

spy x family really got me screaming over two married adults with a child HOLDING HANDS

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death of the author yeah whatever but death of the fandom is so integral to enjoying legitimately anything like that is just a necessary step to take in ur head always. do not let them affect the text in any way exterminate them all with ur death ray. they r not real and cannot hurt u

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i love in fantasy when its like “king galamir the mighty golden eagle and his most trusted advisor who would never betray him, gruelworm bloodeye the treacherous”

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I see this about a lot of movies and shows; people will go, “Oh, the protagonist mowed down enemy soldiers by the dozen but suddenly has a crisis of conscience and can’t kill the main villain, hypocrite much?” And to be fair, that does happen sometimes, but more often, it seems like the people who say this are unable to understand the difference between an enemy who is actively attacking you and one who is incapacitated, surrendering, or otherwise not a threat.

Plus I feel like the debate over killing or sparing an enemy is approached from the assumption that nonlethality is an ironclad personal rule like with Batman, rather than that the character would simply prefer to avoid killing if possible, on the grounds of being rather a compassionate sort and also a teenager.

I saw your post going about RWBY not having a no kill rule and people complaining about it. the argument I have seen about ruby having taken off tyrians tail is that she didn't react to it they feel it contradicts rubys personality ( that Kerry stated recently in a stream about forgiving neo and what type of person ruby is.

The difference about Ruby giving Neo another chance and letting her go despite what Neo had done to her and Ruby cutting Tyrian's tail is that at that moment Neo's intentions were ascending and leaving them be, while Tyrian had just poisoned her uncle and he was still actively trying to kill her friends and kidnap her. Obviously in a situation like that she isn't going to think twice, whereas Neo no longer posed a threat because, again, she didn't want to fight them any longer. However, when they were fighting back at Atlas? Ruby tricked her and pushed her to the void without a second thought. Because, again, it's a different situation.

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The village Tree dies with it while Ever After's continues to provide life

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I love when writers approach adaptations of older works emboldened by the smug certainty that no one from ages past could have possibly written anything palatable to an enlightened denizen of the 21st century and therefore must be in need of a rewrite so as not to offend modern sensibilities, and then end up creating a work that is somehow less feminist than something written when the intellectual inferiority of women was considered a scientific fact. And by love I mean I despise it with the fury of a thousand suns.

One of the worst parts about the relentless disrespect given to Mina Harker in Dracula adaptations is that if we ever get one that actually follows the book version there would be backlash against her because critics and grifters would think Mina was just "stealing" from Van Helsing. Which, um, no. Crucial parts of book!Mina's heroism are constantly being taken from her. (i.e. "hey the undead douchebag who assaulted me now has a psychic connection with me. Let's use it against him and find out where he is!") All to be *checks notes* more progressive and *checks further* update the outdated source material.

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i dont know why anyone else misses analog board games, but to me, it's because physical parts let me cheat. there's no moving pieces around when someone isnt looking in a chess app, no sneaking bonus pieces out of the graveyard in checkers, no double drawing cards in go fish.

i spent years developing those skills as a Professional Little Brother. what am i supposed to do now, go back to college? learn how to play games the right way? i mean, who gives a shit? the fun part was never the game, it was the Getting Away With It. or, you know, for the rest of my family, Catching The Bastard. now that was entertainment.

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RWBY V10 IS CURRENTLY IN EARLY WRITING JESUS CHRIST FINALLY