Tag: seas stuff

Salty Ask List

gsut:

  1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*
  2. Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*
  3. Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?
  4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*
  5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*
  6. Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?*
  7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*
  8. Have you received anon hate? What about?*
  9. Most disliked character(s)? Why?
  10. Most disliked arc? Why?
  11. Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
  12. Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
  13. Unpopular opinion about XXX character?
  14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
  15. Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?
  16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?
  17. Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…
  18. Does not shipping something ‘popular’ mean you’re in denial and/or biased?
  19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?
  20. What is the purest ship in the fandom?
  21. What are your thoughts on crack ships?
  22. Popular character you hate?
  23. Unpopular character you love?
  24. Would you recommend XXX to a friend? Why or why not?
  25. How would you end XXX/Would you change the ending of XXX?
  26. Most shippable character?
  27. Least shippable character?

*several of these questions are taken from a list that was not rebloggable

Fic that I clearly need to write

Oh, no, I Nwalin’d!

Dwalin catches Nori with his hand down Dwalin’s pants. Nori freezes, then kisses Dwalin, pretending he was trying to stealth grope him instead of rob him. This ends up back at Dwalin’s place, Cue Nori accidentally falling in love with Dwalin over the course of the fic. Oops. 

Fleshing out Thorin was definitely a good thing, but it makes the ending even harder to swallow. Why out of every character is he the one so bad he has to die, or have to spend the rest of his life always seen as bad compared to everyone else? I see other characters made mistakes too so why does he only have to pay with his life? I did notice people who got angry that Thranduil was more flawed in the movies and Bilbo didn’t chose to fight by the Elves /1

/2 are the same who said Thorin had it coming for the moral and in this
current time I don’t agree with that moral. I don’t agree with saying
it’s greedy to want a home back. It’s sad watching a character go
through all that and have to agree they have to die. It’s like excessive
punishment imho. (please don’t tag this with the fandom)
       
   

(Wasn’t planning on it.)

I agree that it’s kind of a rock-and-hard-place situation, but given the choice of seeing Thorin humanized and having his death hit harder or seeing him portrayed 100% as a greedy villain and having people cheer his death, I’ll take the first option. They were never going to address the anti-Semitism in a sensitive manner and let him have any semblance of a happy ending (possible even if he died – *cough*secret marriage*cough*), let’s be real.

I still absolutely agree with you about all of this.

Hey, the anon who sent the message about Tolkien fandom here. Clarifying that I got called an SJW for bringing up implications like the anti-semitism, so it was calling someone an SJW for bringing up social issues. Even mentioning it in a nice way has caused trouble if one doesn’t agree with Tolkien. I’ve seen people criticize the movies because they wanted Thorin to be just greedy like the book intended, but criticizing the intent was called SJW. Hope that clears it up a bit.

Yes, thank you for clarifying! I’m sorry people flew off the handle at you for calling out something legitimate. The anti-Semitism is really fucking gross, and Peter Jackson got a lot of things wrong, but humanizing (Dwarfenizing?) Thorin was not one of them.