#sansukh

• Michael Sheen reads Aziracrow fanfic

• Misha Collins uses the destiel confession meme

• A lot of the Hobbit cast has read parts of Sansûkh

• Alexander Siddig and Andy Robinson have acted out Garashir fanfic

Viewing their brother in a coma as the Hail Mary flies to Tau Ceti. Seeing him wake up and, to their horror, forget ever having brothers. His memory a black hole.

Ryland meeting them in dreams, his shock and terror at seeing faces he doesn't know.

He gets better, slowly. Colt and Six slowly piecing together his forgotten past. Helping him see his life in dreams and memories.

Six pounding his head on walls as Ryland does his first spacewalk (Colt shouting instructions his twin never hears. No one sees their brothers when awake).

All three weeping as Rocky gives his fuel from the Blip-A to get Grace home.

Colt and Six screaming in fear as Ryland is crushed in his chair in the skies above Adrian.

Both keeping watch over Rocky and Ryland as they slept, recovering. Hoping.

Them becoming enraged at seeing Ryland's worst memory (Colt had to physically restrain Six when they're awake to not go after Stratt).

Them watching as Ryland gets thinner and thinner as the Hail Mary races to Erid. Praying that he will make it another week. Another day.

"I desired..." Legolas said, and he raised his head to meet the eyes of the Man, something fierce and defiant and desperate in his gaze. "I desired to tell him that my tale is now thirty-one."

[sansûkh, chapter 25]

SANSÛKH FANART IN THE GRAND 2026?? HELL YES!! I just finished my semi-annual reread and it reawakened my middle earth hyperfixation ferociously!! this story is simply perfection and it has fully merged with canon to me.

Sansûkh (and Tasâlalkhud) by @determamfidd

I’ve wanted to try my hand at creating a lectern book basically since the moment I saw one, and what fic could fit the bill better than the most epic work in a very much epic fandom?

✨ Sansûkh retells the entire story of the Lord of the Rings and then some, so fitting all of it into a single volume was the kind of fuck around and find out idea that is common among ficbinders.

✨ So, I typeset the text in a two-column style, made it way smaller than what I usually go for (but still very much readable!), added footnotes (as opposed the original endnotes) with translation. It turned out to be 1200 pages, which I printed out twice (remember the fuck around and find out part? Textblocks over 10 cm thick do not fit into the guillotine I have access to, and using 70 gsm paper led to a textblock of just over 10 cm. So I had to scrap those 300 sheets of paper and start again with my trusty 60 gsm Ekko paper).

✨ So then, I painted the edges black, sewn 14 cm of endbands, and took a long hard look at my life and my choices. The lecterb case was only made possible thanks to this fantastic doc by @spockandawe and @lootthecoyote's excellent mathing. I’m honestly amazed it turned out so great on the first try (ok, we did construct a mock-up first, but even it only had one mismeasured part and that 100% on me). I also made an inner cover so no parts of the textblock would show indecently. Also! The case even has inner endpapers (all theoretically visible parts are lined with the same paper I used for the actual endpapers, but taking picture of this whole Object was super awkward.)

✨ Not only did I foil the spine, there’s even a foiled design (matching the one on every spread of the pages) inside the Oxford hollow (that’s the creepy black tunnel between the textblock spine and the spine of the inner cover, you can see it in the first photo).

✨ And the most amazing part: it does the thing! Stands on its own, opens nicely and all that. (Though the pages are a bit too light to want to stay put, and you have to hold it open a bit).