Who would like to hear a Romani Lullaby? I'm wriitng it anyway cause I can lol.
Its used in my first fic that I wrote for my 12 year old. It is a lullaby my mum sang to me and I sang to both my boys so it seemed fitting for me to have Bilbo sing it Fili and Kili when they were in their sick beds after BOTFA.
Its this fic, but it is undergoing serious editing as it was my first time writing in over 20 years. Stop me Fading
I probs could have waited, but I was talking about it and wanted to share a bit of my culture and how it affects my writing where it can.
Excuse well, me lol, but this is how it sounds when I sing/say it (never done an audio clip before)
Bilbos Lullaby
Jaw to sutters my tiny chal,
Tumaro mami keri buci pe phav,
At rarde she wrl palal,
Si te zavli she tusa,
Jaw to lutherum, tiny baw,
I'm teerie deya's purie mami,
Sar drago tuke her miliko ilo,
She von kerd les kana she sas musha."
Go to sleep my tiny boys,
Your mum's out working the land,
When she comes back at break of day,
Cuddle you she shall,
Go to sleep, tiny guests,
Your mum's my lovely daughter,
Just as you love her gentle heart,
So did she, when she was mine.
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Well, quite likely you do, but chances are maybe you don't always get around to writing as much as you'd like?
Do you know people on Discord? š¾
This one is harder but really, there are a lot of people out there and they aren't all scary, promise.
Then, you should write Stories with People on Discord!! š
"But How??" you ask. š¤·āāļø
Ofc you ask that bcs what the heck am I even talking about? I am talking about the...
āØRound Robin Storybot āØ
A Discord bot that helps you write stories with friends! Or, at least other people! (Or really you could write stories by yourself as well, that's actually kind of fun.)
Isn't he cute? (Yes, the branch was originally meant to look like the AO3 logo, and no, it's nothing actually to do with AO3, it just started out that way and it stuck. You might see the old logo with the red lines floating around. The bot is super fun to write collaborative fanfiction with!)
The Round Robin Storybot is a robust collaborative writing bot and story relay game that runs relay-style story events where writers take turns contributing entries.
When one writer finalizes their turn, the next participant is automatically selected and notified.
Isn't that fun? (Yes, really it totally is!)
Multiple stories can be run concurrently, and there are many configuration options available like:
- Full story metadata including Rating, with the option of having Mature or Explicit stories routed to a separate, age-restricted channel
- Stories can be written in Slow, Quick, or Normal mode for varied complexity and pressure (or no pressure!)
- Multiple writer order options: Random, Round Robin (random but everyone gets a turn before it repeats) and Fixed (join order)
Install the bot on your Discord server here:
A robust collaborative writing bot and story relay game.
And please join the bot's support server to tell me about how you're using the bot here:
Home of the Round Robin Storybot collaborative relay-style writing tool. Writers take turns contributing entries in turn, adding images or m
I've written this bot as a labor of love for my Hobbit fandom @bagginshieldbookclub Discord server. We've written nine collaborative stories so far, nearly 50k words together! We started out using another bot, Storybot, but I wanted a better turn order than just completely random, and the whole project blossomed from that one desire. It's been great fun to create, and I'm eager to share it with others! If you want to support me but don't have a Discord server, please like and reblog, or share this with others. Thanks! ~Shantismurf
This event focuses on ALL creative works focusing on disability in Tolkien's universe.
You can do worldbuilding, fan fic, fan art, share a favorite character, your favorite headcanons, write a song, poem, show us your LOTRO Oc!ANYTHING providing-
Absolutely NO USE OF AI IN ANY PART OF THE PROCESS
Ableism and violence against Disabled character should be done with nuance and plot in mind. Remember this is a pride event we are more than willing to have dead dove- provided it is done justly and tactfully.
Tag all your works appropriately and place under a read more.
Tag: "tolkien disability pride" AND "obscuredurins" to get your work featured.
We have an AO3 collection!
This is a spoonie friendly event!We accept past works, WIPS, and encourage this as our time to display PRIDE in our community.
This...this just might be a push to help me work on my Frerin Lives! fic. It explores what about the Quest might change if he's around to not only influence Thorin's attitude and decisions, but also for the fact that he suffered a traumatic head injury instead of dying at Azanulbizar.
I'm doing my damndest to be respectful to such a condition, and as such the story is near and dear to my heart. Writer's block has had me pretty well stomped, but now I need to see if I can bust out for this.
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#one weird counterintuitive aspect of being asexual #is that im more open to kinky or weird shit #im not HAVING kinky or weird sex it's all theoretical
Hey @rosierugosa I hope itās okay that I stole your tags because YES.
Because sexual desire is so weird and alien to me, personally, I find myself more accepting of weird and alien sex: Iām definitely not a monsterfucker in that I donāt wanna fuck the monster, but I fully accept and respect all monsterfucking because hey, sex in general -- straight, gay, or otherwise! -- is already so weird to me. Wanting to fuck Chad McDude down the street is just as strange to me as wanting to fuck the mothman. So my attitude is...go for it, I guess! Hereās a water bottle.
I never thought of it that way, but yeah. As a teen I was mystified at how anyone would just want to have sex with someone, like that was the goal. I understood getting off, sure, but to want to with the guy in chem class because heās hot? Weird.
And like, reducing hypersexuality in the queer community is an important conversation. We are more than our sexualities, all of us! Asexuals know that better than anyone. As such we should absolutely have spaces in our community where sex is de-emphasized. But for many people in the world sex is a natural part of their lives and what has, in the past, set the queer community apart is frank and open discussion of sexuality instead of shame. We should be trying to help the straight world adopt that frank openness instead of trying to assimilate into shame.
*shows up 15 minutes late with a cooler full of gatorade*
Also don't forget about sex neutral and sex favorable asexuals! Asexuality, like most things, is a spectrum, and we tend to get left out of discussions regarding asexuality or boiled down to gotchas regarding ace people being in relationships with non-asexuals, but we exist and aren't any less asexual because of our decision(whatever the reasoning behind it may be) to have sex!
We are also just as tired of asexuality being used as a scapegoat for attacking kink in the queer community, since that attitude not only is bigoted bs, but it hinges on the assumption that ace people who have and enjoy sex just don't exist, which, news flash, we do!
Plus a lot of us are very kinky, just sayin', so when you support sex and kink as a natural part of the queer experience you're not just helping your fellow queer allosexuals, you're helping people within the asexual community as well!
Anyway there really are tons of reasons ace people understand why we shouldn't police what people do in the bedroom, and ace people across the spectrum don't want to nor should be used as a cover for anti-kink bullshit. It hurts us just as much as it hurts everyone else.
fun fact, while most mini horses and ponies look fat, like the shetland above, some are genuinely just scaled down versions of regular horses
you look at this and think āwow thatās a horse i bet I could ride thatā but youād be wrong because this is an american shetty and itās the size of a large dog
also fun fact, this is the worldās smallest horse, thumbelina
and this is the largest horse ever, brooklyn supreme
Please, reblog! IItās called self defense. Apart from having here, in the US, one of the highest cases of homicide and rape in the world and high rate of GBV, think about how this could help your mother or sister
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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but Iām hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen daysā backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.
My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! Iām amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. Iām fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813
*electric guitar riff*
And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like
My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.
Tears in my eyes! I'm gonna crack a rib, I work in an OFFICE and desperately trying not to cackle like someone INSANE I'm dying oh my god Aragorn's suffering
bagginshield scene analysis because I fell in love with this part of the movie the first time I watched it and I NEED to talk about it. (if someone else has already said all this, my bad.)
(cw: a lot of cursing!! I got very fired up while writing this. also slight spoilers for the hobbit movies)
Bilboās speech after they escape the goblin tunnels?
yeah, we donāt talk about this scene enough.
we donāt talk about how nice Bilbo is, and what a monumental open-up-my-ribcage-and-pull-out-my-heart moment this speech must be for Thorin.
because whatās significant about this scene is not just the fact that this is the first real change we see in Thorin and Bilboās relationship, where they finally seem to come to a mutual understanding and respect for one anotherā
itās Bilboās fucking kindness. Itās the fact that Bilbo says āyou know what, Iāll admit that Iām scared. I canāt fight. I donāt really know what weāre up against except for a dragon that might burn me alive, but sure, Iāll help you. because youāre a person, and I know what it feels like to have a home, a place to go back to, but you donāt anymore and if I was in your shoes I would want someone to help.ā
LOOK AT THAT GLANCE. THERES SO MUCH TO BE GAINED IN THAT GLANCE, GOOD LORD.
Thorin has had entire armies, soldiers that might have actually had a fighting chance at defeating a dragon, turn their backs on him and his people when they needed it most. He watched legions of armed elves turn around and walk away. Sometimes people treat Thorinās anger like itās irrational, but fuck, if I was in his shoes, I would be pissed off too. Like, if the guy I had a royal treaty, a contract with had the power to possibly save my entire kingdom, and then backed out at the last second, I would hate him too. like imagine being a young, relatively sheltered prince and seeing someone you trusted to come to the aid of your actively dying people, and feeling the hope leave your body as you realize no one is coming. and the elves were kind of your last hope against a fire breathing dragon anyways? so???? fuck????
(donāt get me wrong, Iām not blaming Thranduil for the fall of Erebor. like Thorin, heās also another flawed character with immense depth, and is also extremely bitter due to his immense and emotionally insurmountable grief. the beef he has with the line of durin is complex and heās not a villain, though some of his actions are objectively shit.)
(and at the end of the day someoneās gotta take the blame for all those dead people. Thorin takes most of it, because heās the heir to the throne and is plagued by chronic Kingly Guilt (TM), but like. some of that is on Thranduilās head too.)
and of course, weāve got to remember that after the fall of Erebor, Thorin spent years toiling away in human villages, facing harsh racial discrimination, being treated like he was lesser than because he was another poor, wandering dwarf looking for work. heās learned that true kindness is a rarity, and that anything good comes at a price.
Thorinās anger is a product of what he has learned. he canāt trust the elves; theyāre self-serving traitors. he canāt trust men; theyāre cruel. he can only trust his own kind, and even then, not many dwarves are willing to put enough faith in him to help him regain his fallen kingdom. heās all on his own, with the help of a total of 12 other dwarves, and heās aware that heās most likely going to get them all killed in this suicide mission of a quest. heās prepared to die; heās had to prepare himself for the possibility of all of the other dwarves dying, all of which have pledged themselves to his hopeless cause, including his nephews.
(small side note: if you take that into account when looking at Thorinās reaction to Bilboās betrayal, it makes things so much worse. because trust and loyalty are such important things to Thorin, and for him theyāre hard to come by, and Iām not articulating this well enough to get my point across but essentially I think that scene went down in the Worst Way Possible. because his heart basically got thrown back in his fucking face after giving it away when he found out Bilbo had traded the arkenstone and used it as a bargaining chip. I know I might be pointing out the obvious for some people but. fuck if it doesnāt hurt to think about)
and then this small, unassuming hobbit, at the very high risk of his own life, who will gain virtually nothing if he even survives the quest, is like. yes. Iāll help you.
this, in my opinion, is one of the best scenes to examine when trying to get a read on Bilboās character. Because in this scene, Bilbo shows an amazing amount of empathy. Bilbo extends his kindness to Thorināa virtual stranger, at this pointāeffortlessly, for the very, very simple reason of āyour situation looks like shit from all angles and I feel for you. you asked for my help, and Iām determined to give it to you not because Iām bound by my word but because i genuinely want to.ā
like can you imagine??? after literal decades of being treated like a piece of unwanted trash, of being powerless to stop the suffering of the people youāre suppose to rule over, of asking for help and never getting it and constantly getting stabbed in the back over it, after hoping and hoping and having nothing come from it, this hobbitāthis strange fussy creature who has only ever known comfort and peaceājust. gives you his life and faith. just like that. he just believes in you so easily, decides to help you simply because he has morals and itās the right thing to do.
and itās even more crazy that Bilbo does this because Bilbo 1) could die and 2) he has never been outside the Shire and realistically has no reason to relate to Thorin at all, because Bilbo has lived a relatively quiet life free of suffering (save for the death of his parents cough). his response is just pure empathy.
It shows that Bilbo is just. inherently kind, and I think thatās beautiful, because Thorin hasnāt met a lot of people that are just kind to him for the hell of it in the 60 odd years heās been exiled from his own kingdom. even Gandalf, the person who urged him on his quest, has his own agenda. so do the dwarves that have agreed to come with him. theyāre all expecting a share of the gold, and while he has their loyalty, he knows they have their own doubts as to the success rate of the quest.
not Bilbo though. Bilboās just along for the fucking ride and seems to be totally cool with it now, even though Thorin knew he was thinking about leaving and abandoning the quest altogether not even a day earlier. From Thorinās POV Bilbo has just had a sudden change of heart, and decides to keep sticking with the company even though he is clearly terrified.
and fuck. I know that bilboās speech probably scraped something raw and bruised in Thorinās soul. you canāt tell me some younger, much softer part of him didnāt crumple like a wet paper bag in that moment.
and most people agree that Thorin really started properly gaining feelings for Bilbo after Bilbo literally threw himself at an orc to save him, which is totally fair. but I think it was definitely during this scene that Thorin became at least a little smitten with his burglar. (read: A LOT SMITTEN)
in short, Thorin Oakenshield is yet another Tragic Tolkien King (TM) and THIS is the moment he fell in love with Bilbo (I would fall in love with him too, honestly). thank you for coming to my ted talk, I will now be taking questions ā¤ļø
Playing Starbrew Cafe mobile game and I'm at the point in the story where I had to go and open AO3 because I'm needing some Harriet/Cain fanfic now, pleaseandthankyou
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okay, I thought I should make this post since there has been an influx of scammers plaguing AO3 comments section and people are falling victims to them. so here it is;
WHAT THEY ARE
so far, there are three main types of these scam bots
bots that tell you AO3 is deleting works, and that you should delete the works yourself because your entire account will be affected if your works get deleted by AO3
bots that tell you your works are terrible
bots that tell you they want to draw comic panels from your works
ALL OF THESE ARE SCAM WITH MALICE INTENTIONS
bots that tell you AO3 is deleting works, and that you should delete the works yourself because your entire account will be affected if your works get deleted by AO3 are just trying to get you to delete your works, most certainly because they want to steal and/or use your works to train their AI and, once you delete your works, it becomes extremely difficult, almost impossible for you to claim ownership of your works when the original works have been deleted. AO3 IS NOT DELETING ANY WORKS.
bots that tell you your works are terrible are also just trying to get you to delete your works, most certainly because they want to steal and/or use your works to train their AI and, once you delete your works, it becomes extremely difficult, almost impossible for you to claim ownership of your works when the original works have been deleted. (more examples here and here)
bots that tell you they want to draw comic panels from your works are trying to hack your password, personal data and credit card information (they will say they see potentials in your work and are interested in drawing comic panels from it, and then they will ask you to discuss this with them on discord where you will have to pay/commission them for the ācomicsā you will never get, but you will get your password hacked, personal data and credit card information breached and stolen instead, do not fall for them).
HOW TO SPOT THEM
what all these 3 types of bots have in common is that;
most of them (keyword, most, not all) are guest users or empty accounts that have just been recently created.
their comments are all the same copied and pasted scripts that they mass leave on lots of authorsā works at random.
their comments are all vague, in the sense that there will be no mention of any specific charactersā names, no mention of any specific scenes or events from your works (granted, they need to be vague because they are bots, they never actually read your works, and they have to be able to use the same comments on other writersā works too).
EDIT: Iāve been told they got āsmarterā and are now mentioning characters by names and also specific scenes from the story. Most definitely because they ran your fic through AI and let AI write comments for them. So basically, if a comment, from someone you donāt know, ends in something along the lines of āIād like to draw a comic panel about thisā, ācan we chat on discord (or anywhere outside of ao3)ā or anything thatād require your email or other personal information, always assume that itās 90% a scam.
report them for spam then delete their comments when/if you get them.
please spread this if you can. us writers gotta look out for each other. stay safe, everybody ā”
EDIT (Dec 10, 2025): NEW TYPE OF BOTS WHO THREATEN PEOPLE WITH LEGAL ACTIONS
EDIT (Dec 15, 2025): BOTS IMPERSONATING LEGIT USERS, WITH REGISTERED ACCOUNTS, BY USING THESE LEGIT USERSā AO3 NAMES AS THEIR GUEST-USER NAMES IN THEIR GUEST COMMENTS
EDIT (Dec 22, 2025): BOTS PROMOTING THEIR APP/PROGRAM AND ACTING AS AN AD (WHICH I BELIEVE IS AGAINST AO3āS POLICIES) ON COMMENTS SECTION
In today's linguistics class we talked about metaphors, and we really want two of the ones we talked about to become conventionalised.
So first of all this one girl told us about a newer metaphor in Russian, "I have paws", which is something you say when you don't really want to do something, so you say you're incapable of doing it since you have paws instead of hands. Like, "hey, finish that report" "aw but I have paws :(" and I think that's adorable. It's like "I'm just a girl" but for animals.
We also had the task to invent a novel metaphor and have the others guess what it means, and the teacher really liked my "she's such a capybara" = "everyone loves her". Capybara energy is like golden retriever energy except you're chill about it. You're just vibing and everyone digs that.
Anyway I think these deserve to become more common in English