#prancing pony

“Bree”

"Yes."

"Not nearly frightened enough. I know what hunts you."

All shot using real figures and miniature sets.

Starting 2025 with a living room upgrade 🥲❤️

Is meet-embarrassing a concept? Because it should be. 😂

Another plotbunny ahoy!

So I literally just listened to Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan for the first time. I can't believe I haven't until today.

And of course, between the song and the music video, I've come up with a plotbunny.

Lothíriel is a descendant of Japanese zaibatsu people on the one side and Boston Brahmins on the other.* She attends a friend's bachelorette party in LA, which takes place in a vibrant, queer-friendly bar.

The girls all sing sexy karaoke and dance on stage (which may or may not include a stripper pole 😂). Lothíriel is reluctant, having always been wary of scandal and bad press. But one of the party is the bride's sister-in-law, an author whom Lothíriel admires. (Yep, Cora Nisilë, my hard-living, bestselling writer-alterego is back). She manipulates Lothíriel into dancing on stage.

Lothíriel is awkward at first, but for a few anxious moments, the music breaks her inhibitions, and she puts on quite a show.

Meanwhile, Éomer and Merry Brandybuck are at the club, having snuck in for shits and giggles. They are business partners, and usually, this is not their sort of place.

When Lothíriel comes down from the stage, flushed and flustered, someone in the bridal party tells her that a man wearing an awkward trucker hat has sent her a drink.

(*For non-USamericans, being a Boston Brahmin has nothing to do with Indian castes. It is the name given to upper-class Bostonians who have lived and held wealth and leadership positions in the city for multiple generations. Usually, they are WASPs - that is, White Anglo Saxon Protestants.

Thorin in Prancing Pony -Bree

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