lord of the rings bigatures my beloved

You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”

Microfic: we looked like giants

sometimes, I wish for a happy ending. I wish that the camera would pan to us, sat out on the bench in the back garden, the branches green with new-furled leaves and the wind warm as it brushes the flowers lifting their faces to the sun. I wish it would linger on us, your arm around me, my hand on your knee. There, we would look like kings, like giants, content at last in our kingdom of small and hidden things. Then, the camera could fade to black, and there would be no questions about what came next.

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for @drarrymicrofic prompt, “We Looked like Giants” by Carseat Headrest. (Writing this while my sweetheart sleeps because my fibromyalgia flare is keeping me awake)

Microfic: pieces

you leave reminders for yourself that you do not heed. Coffee cups forgotten on countertops, notes scrawled on the backs of receipts. I look around this home, once so empty, and see you here, and here, and here. The bed half-made, and the biscuits you like going stale in the cupboard. All of these pieces of you that I gather, they culminate in a harvest of syrupy kisses and flashes of soft skin, bright teeth smiles that leave crows-feet fluttering at the corners of your spring-coloured eyes. How lucky I am, to find you here.

My son saw a bug on the ceiling for the first time

eagerly awaiting the day daniel radcliffe, elijah wood, and robert pattinson just make the most fucked up bizarre unmarketable film together

you have to make it homoerotic and weird

You can ship Frodo and Sam all you want, but saying that the reason why Frodo let Sam and Rosie live with him because he was in love with him simply isn't true. Arwen gave her place on the ships to Valinor to Frodo, confirming that he would not live out his days in Middle-earth. When Gaffer Gamgee died, Sam did not inherit the family home because he had an older brother. He also did not inherit Rosie's family home through marriage because she had an older brother, as well. Merry was an only child, and Pippin had 3 sisters, so they both would inherit their family homes when their fathers died. Out of the 4 hobbits, Sam was the only one who was from a working-class background, so he would not be able to buy a home for himself (or pay to have one built). Frodo knew he would soon leave the Shire for good, but he wasn't going to give everything to any hobbits who might have been his friends but weren't even relevant enough to appear in the films. The only person he could leave Bag End to was Sam, because not only was he Frodo's only friend who had no home to call his own but also because Sam had tended to the gardens for years and Frodo knew that Sam would take good care of it. Not out of gay love.

That’s a nice theory! But also if you look at the family tree in the appendices, Sam’s brothers had left the Hobbiton area, one to become a roper and another “removed to North-farthing”, so in theory the son who had followed in his father’s footsteps would have been the most likely to inherit the house, if we’re following your line of argument.

but also, on page 1001 (Book 6, Chapter 9), Frodo does ask, “‘When are you going to move in and join me, Sam?’” Note that the previous gardener, Sam’s father, did not live in Bag End with Bilbo, and Sam needn’t have moved out of the Gaffer’s house, as generational homes were more common (see the Great Smials). Frodo asks this before knowing Sam wanted to marry Rosie. Also, in the books Frodo did sell Bag End to the Sackville-Bagginses, and post-Scouring of the Shire and all that, could have likely left the place to his other friend who did not go with him on the whole journey, Fredegar Bolger, who we know less about but is mentioned as being one of Frodo’s closest friends in the beginning of the story. So I’ll leave that for you to ponder.

and besides, when did something being not true in a fictional world here on tumblr.com matter? Why not make it gay?

So um,

Yesterday, I learned that apparently, no one talks to Ashkenazi trans girls or women about breast cancer.

If you are taking female HRT, you are at a similar risk of breast cancer as a cis woman. And Ashkenazi women are at a higher risk than the average woman due in part to gene mutations.

Unfortunately, despite that, not all health insurances cover routine mammograms for trans women.

This makes it super super important that you do your monthly Breast Self-Exams (BSE) at home.

I've copied a video on how to perform a BSE below, but just a note that Ashkenazi women are more prone to breast cancer in general and at a younger age, so please if you do feel anything, make an appointment with your doctor

just learned that a mutual of mine is pro israel (they’re now blocked) so i wanted to take the time to say that if you believe what’s happening in palestine is not a genocide than you are not welcome here. unfollow me block me whatever i don’t want you interacting with me at all

Troy Quane, co-director of Nimona the only man I've ever trusted

(Link to article)

Literally Sam to Frodo after Frodo is stung by Shelob…. Like…. Sure, they were just a man and his servant who ended up living together even after Sam got married like….

“don’t go where i can’t follow” is literally the most romantic thing anyone has ever said. it’s like. i’ll let you bring me anywhere—far from home, far from the places and people i love, so long as you stay with me. i’ll let you walk into danger and through hell, but i will not let you go where i can’t go with you. that is where i draw the line. 

Sorry I Spent all mY spoons this week already and it's fucking Tuesday. We're heading to the knives