King Richard

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Richard at the London Palladium stage door after his performance as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar. (August 14, 2026)

Dwarfs have many types of pet names in Khuzdul

Ex- Amrâlimê: my love, Laslel: rose of all roses

But they have a striking amount that specificly revolve around valuables and precious metals

Ex- Zirizkhîe: My gold one, Bunnel/Ghivashel: treasure of all treasures, Kidhuzel: gold of gold, Mesmel: jewel of all jewles

This is because of the nature of dwarvish courting, they're courtship gifts most often being finely crafted jewelery, swords, armor, ect. So there's a deep cultural association between lovers and valuables.

Hobbits, however, court with food. Pies, pastries, biscuits, warm breakfasts, and hardy dinners. I like to think they're pet names change accordingly.

Thorin (in deep rumbling Khuzdul): my love, my precious jewel, purest of all metals, gold of the deepest mines...

Bilbo is going home. Everyone survived. There is nothing else for him to do (lies but shhhh), and Gandalf insist they depart before the snow settles.

So the Company gathers in the gates to say their goodbyes. Bilbo makes his speech about how they are welcome to stop by for tea, don't bother knocking, and turn around, ready to go.

Before he can take as much as five steps, someone screams, "Wait!"

He turns back, and the wall of dwarves open to reveal a still battered, limping, not fully healed Thorin, carrying Orcrist and a small bag of supplies, leaning into a cane, making his way towards Bilbo.

Bilbo is so shocked that he is out of bed that all he can muster is "What are you doing???"

Thorin: What are you doing? (As of that is the real question).

Bilbo: I'm going home.

Go back to your books… and your armchair. Plant your trees. Watch them grow. 🍁☕️

(The whirlwind with which these two characters have cemented themselves into my psyche. I adore them so much... l'd like to think this takes place in the depths of Erebor. While they have a still moment together. Soft, shy confessions before the raging storm.) 🥲

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

Made for amazing @mylittlehappynerds 🥰 as a tiny thank-you gift for her PayPal donation ❤️

Thank you so much for staying with me no matter what, for remembering and caring. I am so grateful to you. You can't even imagine.

Richard on stage as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium. (August 12, 2026)

could you love me more

if by the sun and moon I swore

that I would never flee?

also, this scene is very important to me, bc you can literally see Kíli pulling himself together to be the warrior he is - and not just a scared boy who just got his uncle back