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I’ve just posted a *Bilbo* and *Bofur* comic I drew back in 2016! Please take a look if you're interested!

🚫NO reupload my art, and NO AI training.

🚫NO無断転載 & NO AI学習 禁止

Dear my friend(Bilbo & Bofur)

↓The following few pages are examples.

Several years have passed since I last drew these characters, as my health has remained very poor, making it difficult to create new artwork. Even so, I was delighted to know that there were still people looking at my work. Recently, I decided to revisit these characters and have begun gradually reposting the artwork on xfolio—a platform that protects works from generative AI and unauthorized reposting.

★After giving it a lot of thought recently, I’ve arrived at the conclusion that these two fall somewhere on the Aro/Ace (A-spec) spectrum.

I imagine Bilbo as polyamorous and demi- (or quoi-) romantic/quoi-sexual, while Bofur is likely polyamorous and quoi-romantic/pansexual.

Both of them love Thorin (especially Bofur, for whom he remains the King), and they will likely always share the grief of having lost him. If you ever see an illustration of them crying, it’s almost certainly because they are mourning Thorin.

I want to cherish every possibility.

If I had to describe them using current A-spec terminology or labels, perhaps the best fit would be "queer individuals who are best friends but also engage in sexual intimacy at times." Of course, I plan to repost this content to xfolio with appropriate content warnings. All possibilities are valid!

im seeing people fact-check this in the notes so i'll add that the full inscription is "marcosior maternia" and if you search that in google scholar you'll find lots of sources. it might not be true but it's definitely real, by which i mean that scholars don't know for sure what "marcosior maternia" means but this is a common interpretation. it's written on a spindle whorl (little weights that are used in spinning) and there's actually a lot of spindle whorls from roman gaul that have sort of amatory inscriptions on them, so they might have been gifts for lovers but it's not clear, but anyway a sexual meaning is perfectly expected for this type of object, and maternia looks like a woman's name in either the nominative or instrumental case, and marcosior looks like a passive verb related to the word for 'horse' in a desiderative or future form. so "i want to be ridden by maternia", "i will be ridden by maternia", and "maternia will be ridden" are some of the plausible interpretations.