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New fic up on AO3!

To Halve and To Hold 

Bagginshield, Soulmates AU, Rated T, chapter 1/? 

I’ve had lots of various bits of this fic finished for a long time, and finally decided to just throw the first part up online. Enjoy!

bagginshield-tober day 9: retire

I love being comfy with blankets in bed!!! And these two need that stat!!!

"You want to help me, maybe?"

"Hmm but I'm so comfortable."

"I guess I could use the extra warmth."

Bagginshieldtober entry for Day 2: Breakfast

This one speaks for itself

I just had a thought…

Has anyone written a fic where the Company are a bunch of college students of various ages backpacking across [insert your region of choice] & Gandalf convinces/strong-arms/kidnaps Bilbo into taking a break from his PhD program to go with them?

Because I would read the hell out of that

Bilbo is an expert on the languages spoken where they’re backpacking

They’re trying to find Thorin’s father, who is an archeologist or anthropologist or something & is really bad at keeping in touch. All they have to go on is a near-illegible hand-drawn map he included in one of the letters he sent to Thorin, along with a message that he might be dying of some unknown illness & is unable to travel now. Hence the backpacking.

No wait, Thrain is a geologist, or maybe a biologist. An entomologist? He doesn’t necessarily know the language or culture where he is, and has probably been out away from other humans, bc he’s really only interested in the rocks and/or bugs. Again necessitating the rescue mission.

Modern au dwarves as geologists makes a lot of sense… ooh, and maybe he’s found a cache of a super rare mineral that lots of people would kill for.

(Mithril. It’s mithril.)

Which is also why the orcs modern au skinhead gang working for some corporate overlord? are chasing them. They want to get to Thrain/the mithril first, and will literally kill anyone to get what they want.

JRR Tolkien, writing The Hobbit: The passages there were crossed and tangled in all directions, but the goblins knew their way, as well as you do to the nearest post-office…

Me, a child, reading it: Oh dear. I’m not sure I do know the way to the nearest post-office. It sounds as if that’s absolutely something I’m supposed to know. I can’t know less than a goblin. The book will be disappointed in me.

Me, a little while later, figuring out the location of a nearby post-office: oh thank goodness

Me for the rest of my life: feeling vaguely comforted and affirmed by knowing the location of the nearest post-office, a facility I almost never use, because I am at least the navigational equal of a goblin

some doodles of silly husbands :^)

lazy mornings

you can get a print here!

I will let you go if you but return what is mine.

I compiled the comic on AO3, (/rutobuka) if you'd like to read there!

🐺 Click here to read! 🐺

Bonus spin-off included, of course 😉❤

A couple of Thorin drawings

I’m so sorry

a very comfortable reading position, to be sure! 📚

let me play with my little centaur AU, ok? Thorin just found some berries to share!

nothing but respect for my king

[image ID: a greyscale digital drawing of thorin oakenshield from the hobbit films. he stands in profile with his arms crossed, looking stern. end ID]