I've been moaning and whining about not being allowed to go to Hobbitcon though I totally have enough money to go, but apparently it's a blessing in disguise because the person who tried to guilt trip me for not getting her any birthday present will also be there. I just got the news this morning from two other friends who had to deal with her.
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This probably should go to tumblr but making long posts there broke my eyes and flash and I'm a bit scared of having opinions there. Anyway, I saw something today about Thorin being a private citizen and Fili and Kili not being raised as princes ("We grew up on tales of the Mountain...") and how that affected the quest (only 13 dwarves instead of
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Keeping this hidden on LJ because voicing non-positive fandom opinion on tumblr is like social suicide and also because there's someone on my dash who lashed out at someone because of this. Ok, here it goes
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Some plots have no business in certain ships. For example, if your ship(s) consists of masculine characters practically dripping with testosterone and your plot bunnies call for half of the ship to be a weepy, spineless, sensitive character, you may want to consider either (a) creating your own character and pair it with one half of your ship, or (
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1. Kili (or some other dwarf or Bilbo but I'm going to talk about Kili because I read about him the most) is not a character to channel female authors' fantasy! I've gotten sick of all the fics where he's portrayed as a damsel in distress! There's a difference between putting a character is an unfamiliar and troubling situation and turning them
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I read a 50 sentence fic yesterday and while I liked it, I felt that something was missing. It's been a while since I last read something like it (those LJ comms are dead now, right?) but I think back then something was different. I just realized why it's different this morning.
The fic is literally a 50 sentence fic. As is 50 sentences taken from
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Title: To Give A Chance Rating: T/PG-13 Genre: Humor? Fluff Pairing: Thorin/Kili Warning: Injury, Incest Summary: Fili used to worship his uncle, until Thorin decided to court Kili.
Title: His Rating: NC-17 Genre: Drama Pairing: Thorin/Kili, Fili/Kili Warning: Incest, Mildly Dubious Consent Summary: Thorin wanted Kili, and he would have him even if now he was with someone else.