Tag: awesome anons

Omg Down the Road and Back Again is one of my favorite fics of all time!! I just love everything about it, especially your snarky, sassy Bilbo. Ugh, just the best! I also have a soft spot for Plate Your Cells (Watch Them Grow). I used to work in a lab so it was super relatable while still being really sweet.

Oh, shit, I’m so sorry – this has been sitting in my inbox for days. ANYWAY. Thank you so much! ❤

Also, scientists unite! High five!

can you make an amazon wishlist or the list of books you want to buy and how I can get them to you? you’re a great writer and i love buying people books.

I’m sorry I’m so late in answering this!

Long story short, I do have an Amazon wishlist as of a few minutes ago, but I’m paranoid enough not to want to post it publicly. If you, amazing human, would like the link, please come off anon and I’ll send it to you. 🙂

skinny is not any healthier than fat. fat is extremely important for your body to be able to take shocks. my grandpa had a stroke bc he ate whatever he wanted and recovered in a week. my grandma was extremely skinny and didn’t eat well and did not recover for more than a month. those shitheads will never bother seeing your life or seeing you. they don’t care to make sure you’re happy and healthy, they only care about being shits. so fuck them. Live well. be happy. we’re rooting for you.

🙂 🙂 🙂

Yeah, I’d like to see fatphobic fuckwads take on my mother, who has the same genetic high cholesterol that I inherited, but at fifty-eight has NOT ONE SINGLE calcification in her arteries.

Meanwhile, both my grandfathers died of invasive and horrifying cancers, but the one built like a tree trunk made it a number of months longer than the thin one. Make of that what you will. (Dammit, Papa and Grandpa, I miss you. And it’s been a decade and a half.)

im sorry you have to deal with stupid fatshaming and shitty society standards on top of undoubtedly other, more important things but i wanted to share a few things that helped me. my family is east asian and the standard there is size zero. period, and its related to gender roles and a whole host of stupid shit. listen, being skinny will not keep you from dying one day. being skinny will not guarantee happiness. the people who disrespect you for not being size zero will probably never respect u

*HUG*

Thank you, anon. The major problem is that a lot of it is in my head. I’m at “get hit on by creepy men in the street” size, not “get told to eat salads” size, and I know that I have a lot of thin privilege compared to some. I still don’t like feeling that my body is doing things independent of any control I can have.

Doesn’t help that I have a crippling fear of death. 😦

I reread the Hobbit and I need to rant because the antisemitic undertones are so obvious to me and the story is falls apart if you don’t agree with it. I can’t deal with posts saying Tolkien hated the rich just because he made his Dwarves a representation of greed when the end has Bilbo going home richer than before. How is this anti-rich? I wish ppl would challenge this more because ppl use Jews to make some anti-greed message all the time and everyone praises it while rich gentiles are fine.

You know, you’re not the first person who’s said this. Like them, you are not wrong.

What traits do you personally as a fic writer care the most about conveying about Bilbo and Thorin when you write fic?

This is a really cool question.

For Bilbo, I try to keep him fairly close to Tolkien’s original vision/inspiration: a crusty Englishman, or in this case Hobbit, who’s pretty set in his ways and has mutual culture clashes as a matter of course with his companions. He’s sassy, definitely, but I don’t want to put him into Sassy Gay Friend territory, and most of all I try to avoid the shrinking violet trope that people complained about in fics post-AUJ.

For Thorin, I try to convey the responsibility he feels he has to shoulder – the Atlas figure, if you will, without making him into a maudlin Christ figure or anything. He’s an educated prince, with extensive knowledge in warcraft, statecraft, languages, and culture; he’s not a bumpkin, and he’s just as sophisticated as Bilbo – if anything, Bilbo’s the provincial one. At the same time, I also try to get across that he has depth, especially regarding his fear and realization of mental illness.

Thanks for the ask! 🙂