Tag: seas stuff

SoJ is such a comfort read for me, even though antisemitism is on the rise and there’s real upsetting topics in the fic it’s different than when gentile writers just make Jewish characters suffer, it’s not grimdark because I have faith you’re not going for needless torture porn and there’s hope.

❤ ❤ <3!!!!!

Thank you, kind anon! This is…wow. It’s so nice – I know these words are probably inadequate to express how over the moon I am. 😀 I have this weird soft smile on my face and I keep pausing so that the words come out right.

Possible spoiler: no, I don’t go for needless torture porn. Theo, Bill, and the rest are going to have a much happier ending than in canon. Honestly, I think they’ve earned it.

I just called the governor to yell at him about the new abortion bill.

If he signs it into law, it’ll be a felony to abort because the fetus has Down syndrome. You know what? Call me ableist or anything you like (and I have disabilities and a history of suicidal ideation due to stress, keep in mind), but potential parental quality of life is more important than people’s warm and fuzzy feelings about disabled babies.

Agree, I think RA did want Thorin to be a character people could empathize with, but the entire narrative would have to be changed. I’m confused by your stance, is the character good, or because most of the fandom still sees him defined by gold, there’s no salvaging it?

Here’s the thing.

I have a hard time believing that Thorin himself, of his own volition, actually did anything wrong. He was cursed – by hereditary severe mental illness, a dragon, or both (I lean towards both). Smaug was the causative agent of the war and Smaug fucked with Thorin’s head, much more explicitly in the movie. I see Thorin as an inherently good person who was thrust into horrific circumstances, not a raging, gold-sick Dwarf who split his time between greedily counting his money and playing the berserker.

The Hobbit movies didn’t do enough to rid the antisemitic theme of the book. When the majority of humor about the character of Thorin Oakenshield is about how he’s a dick and obsessed with gold, then it’s the common opinion, so it did not do enough. I am tired of Jewish coded obsessed-with-riches fantasy characters.

Yeah, this. (But if they’re going to dick around with Jewish-coded fantasy characters, they should at least cast Jewish people. Non-white-passing Jewish people.)

I just finished the first season of Dear White People.

I LOVE IT.

The protests had me on the edge of my seat (metaphorically, since I watch on my bed). Sam is so wonderful – prickly and vulnerable and so determined. I WANT TO BE HER FRIEND. Coco needs love, I’m torn between GODDAMMIT TROY and OH NO TROY, and Lionel is so amazingly nerdy. He reminds me of Moss on The IT Crowd, although much less clueless. And Sam’s relationship with Gabe is complicated and ouch. Reggie deserves justice and I just love all these characters. I love this show.

Aaaaaaa!!!!!!

OK, now that I’m on my computer…I GOT MY MITHRIL AND ACORNS GIFT! It is from the wonderful @it-comes-in-venti and contains:

  • A card
  • WONDERFUL Bilbo/Thorin art ❤
  • A felted glasses case with an acorn on it
  • Swedish candy!!!!!!!!
  • A notebook with an oak tree on it
  • And a wonderful pin with crocheted oak and winterberries on it. I’m gonna use this as a shawl pin.

Transcript of the card:

“Hey, [Seas!]

I wish you very happy holidays! May the next year bring you joy, love and inspiration. We are very lucky to have you in this fandom, and I want to thank you for your beautiful works.

Hugs, Po (@it-comes-in-venti)”

Holy shit, Po. Thank you so, so, so much. I LOVE IT and holy frickin’ shit, if you love my works that much, I’ll write fic outlines in the notebook!

❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ What a wonderful thing to have waiting for me when I got home from work.

@mithril-and-acorns

3, 19, 23 for the end of the year asks!

favorite line/scene you wrote this year:

ALL of Bilbo and Thorin’s quips in Down the Road and Back Again.

any new fics to start next year:

Guh. IDK. Possibly a(nother) sequel to Down the Road and Back Again? Mostly, I just want to finish Sons of Jerusalem, because that thing is officially an albatross.

fics you wanted to write but didn’t:

See above. I have so many sequel ideas for Down the Road and Back Again and I know half of what happens.:D