♊ for useless details ask

what kind of mail do they get (except for bills)? have they subscribed to any magazines/newspapers? 

You didn’t specify a character, so I’ll do a few.

Theo Derensky (Sons of Jerusalem): communications from his agent, fan letters filtered through said agent, communications from work, angry letters from Danny (who doesn’t like email), spam, more spam, letters from Freddy’s school, spam. Subscribes to The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Highlights Magazine.

Bill Baggins (Sons of Jerusalem): invitations to join the AMA, weird misdirected mail that’s addressed to the guy who lives in his old apartment, letters from his more old-fashioned family in England, birthday cards. Subscribes to several scholarly journals in emergency medicine.

Thorin Oakenshield (Down the Road and Back Again): lots of letters from Bilbo, various communications regarding his royal duties, letters from kids, advertisements for hair-care products. Subscribes to Erebor Daily, the Trans-Arda Cat Fanciers’ Magazine, and the Warg Fanciers’ Association Magazine, published by Nori.

Bilbo Baggins (Down the Road and Back Again): everything, because he doesn’t like email, weird mailers from a hardware store (he suspects Fili and Kili signed him up, or possibly Lobelia). Subscribes to Arda Legal.

Octavius (AU, discussed with Sushi and @martinus-cornelius): letters written in Italian from his family, academic spam, way too much from his alumni association. He doesn’t get out much. Subscribes to pretty much every newspaper he can get his hands on, including a few from England and Italy (they arrive a few days late).

Jedediah (AU, see above): mailers from a bunch of places he ordered something from one time and can’t bear to tell no, letters from his more adventuresome friends without access to email, packages with souvenirs for his house, fancy food. Subscribes to National Geographic, Horse & Rider, Horse Illustrated, MAD Magazine, and the Journal of College Counseling.

17 and 18 for the OC ask!

I’m gonna combine these, because there’s one I really love.

17. Any OC OTPs? & 18. Any OC crackships?

In an AU where Frerin (Forrest) lives in Sons of Jerusalem, I pair him with Monique Willis, my nurse OC. Forrest/Frerin in this universe is a good-natured personal trainer fresh from 25 years in the Israeli army (although he disagrees with a LOT of what the government is doing, and was mostly working a desk and doing peaceful training for the latter part of his time there).

Sparks fly, of course, to the point that Theo is grossed out by all the heterosexual tension in his house.

thorinsmut:

image: a tweet asking a few people “do either of you know if any Jewish authors have written any fiction based on Tolkien’s identification of the dwarves w/Jewish culture?”

A person I follow retweeted to spread the question to followers, and I asked the poster if she was comfortable with queer fanfic. She answered ‘very!’ so I have recced @judayre and @werpiper. Does anyone else know of any Jewish fic authors reclaiming dwarves? (I’ve already asked @asparklethatisblue to recommend which of their fics to point her to, if any)

I know I’ve got some Jewish followers, and I am very aware that my fandom circle is small. I mostly stick to the nwalin corner, and I’d like to be able to recommend a wider variety of fics.

Thanks for any help!

TS

It’s been mentioned before in this thread, but I’m still working on Sons of Jerusalem. 🙂 (Rated E, heavy material in it consistent with canon.) Main pairings are currently Bagginshield and Nwalin, with some Balin/Dori, and in future there will be Gimli/Legolas.