No one special. But hey, nice to meet you! Just to say, I am not as much as a fan as others are, since I try to be chill as much as I can be lol. I post everything and anything that catches my attention. Any pronouns.
that’s the whole point of frodo—there is nothing special about him, he’s a hobbit, he’s short and likes stories, smokes pipeweed and makes mischief, he’s a young man like other young men, except for the singularly important fact that he is the one who volunteers. there is this terrible thing that must be done, the magnitude of which no one fully understands and can never understand before it is done, but frodo says me and frodo says I will.
(when boromir is thinking of how he can use the ring to defend gondor, when aragorn is thinking of how it brought down proud isildur, when elrond is holding council and gandalf is thinking of how twisted he would become, if he ever dared—)
but then there’s frodo, who desires nothing except what he has already left behind him, and says, I will take the Ring.
it is an offer made out of absolute innocence, utter sincerity. It is made without knowing what it will make of him—and frodo loses everything to the ring, he loses peace and himself and the shire, he loses the ability to be in the world. It’s cruel, the ring is cruel, it searches out every weakness you have and feeds on it, drinks you dry and fills you with its poison instead, the ring is so cruel.
and frodo picks it up willingly. for no other reason except that it has to be done.
(the ring warps boromir into a hopeless grasping dead thing, the power of the palantir turns denethor into an old man, jealous and suspicious, it bends even saruman, once the proudest of the istari, into a mechanised warlord, sitting in his fortress and bent over his perverse creations—all the best of intentions, laid waste)
but there’s a reason gollum exists in the narrative, which is to show—well, to show what frodo might have been. because even as frodo grows mistrustful and wearied, as the burden of this ring grows heavier and heavier, he is never gollum. he is gentle to gollum. he is afraid—god frodo is so afraid for 2/3 of these books he is so tired and afraid, but he keeps moving, he walks though it would pull him into the ground, because he asked for this, he said he would.
someone else could have carried the ring to mordor, I suppose. the idea of a martyr is not dependent on the particular flesh and blood person dying for some greater purpose. but such a thing has to be chosen, lifted onto your shoulders for the right reason, the truest reasons, and followed into the dark, though it would see you burnt through and bled out.
I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.
y'know say what you want about tumblr (and I have), but this is still probably the simplest and most powerful distillation of the heart of the Lord of the Rings I’ve ever read. I think back to it all the time
stop. its ok. you don’t need to do these things. just focus on functionality(like the video player). we don’t need these little updates when somethings(like the video player) need your focus. thank you for your time but really, tumblr looks great. try to fix more important things(like the video player) so that we can all properly enjoy the features of tumblr(like the video player)
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like “posts that a gnome would make” or like “are you a phone”
Diversity win! You saw your ex with someone else at the Pride event.
I spent all week on this! Now I can finally draw something else, LOL.
For those who lack context, Admiring Actor visited during Days of Rainbow 2021. Since thrillseeker was the rainbow guide (cough gay cough) the two of them were shipped together. After that, thrillseeker was shipped more heavily with jellyfish whisperer because they hosted DoR together.
For AA to return at this time again… well that would be quite the shock, wouldn’t it? No one really wants to meet their ex’s new partner. So I wanted to explore how that would feel for both of them.
I wish I was a female tiger because then if I was talking to someone and I was getting off topic I could say “but I tigress,” and then kill and eat them because I am a tiger
I’ve been having this au in my head for a long time now, inspired by those kingdom hearts x final fantasy xv fics out there. I’ve been thinking; what if Roxas and Xion went to Eos?
they’d probably be on their way back from a mission from yen sid or something, opening up the railways for the world train thing? I guess? and roxas n xion would have needed the distraction atm after the whiplash of a seemingly happy ending and then suddenly losing sora right in front of their eyes, something I thought they’d be happy to do since we see what everyone else was doing in the dlcs.
“what about lea and isa?” well they would obviously not let the duo out of sight after everything they’ve been through, but oops, lea got hurt on a previous mission and someone needed to stay to make sure the man doesn’t make his injury worse(he’s fine, he just need time to heal)
one of the Astrals or the messengers visited roxas and xion in the train on their way back to yen sid and asked for help, and because roxas and xion are roxas and xion they would have agreed to help, albeit cautiously
