#wtty

I have told this secret to several friends, i.e. Something Blue. But now I’ll tell the secret to you all.

Spite and “EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID IS WRONG”

I’m a horticulturist who still dreams of being able to finish my degree properly and be a botanist. I love plants. I love studying them and how they work. And before I wrote Something Blue, I kid you not, A DAY BEFORE I STARTED, I read a Bagginshield fic that claimed Bilbo’s (NORTHERN MOUNTAIN CLIMATE) garden had orchids.

Rage. Pure, unadulterated, /RAGE/ and SPITE and me literally SHOUTING OUT LOUD “THAT IS NOT HOW ORCHIDS WORK”. Something Blue was started purely from PlantScience!Nerd Rage.

I was also hella fucking annoyed because back then people kept making Dain a villain. Dain is not a villain. My characterization did not line up with what we got, but gawd, I was so FUCKING ANNOYED with people making Dain out to be some horrid monster.

WTTY was actually inspired by the American TV show “Sons of Anarchy”, from back in the first season, and inspired by my own life experiences of being a dumbass teenager playing around in a world I was too young for.

So this is an excerpt from the What Tradition Told You ‘verse, as you asked!

3.) “Please, don’t leave.”

“Wait.”

Damn it, Gimli waits. He’s ready to storm out, and really, he should. He absolutely should. If he had any sense, he would never have let any of this start. He shouldn’t be here, in this too big house, dressed like this, like he’s one of them.

“Gimli, please,” Legolas says, reaching out for him. “Please, don’t leave.”

“I’m not going to stand in there and listen to that,” Gimli argues. “I’m not, not even for you.”

Title: Ain't What You Want Rating: Teen Warnings: Mentions of violence, child abuse. Thoughts that could be termed depressive. Characters: Kíli, Ori. (Fíli/Ori, Kíli & Ori) Summary: Kíli was his friend too.

Title: If You Don't Believe Rating: Teen Warnings: Violence, sexual situations, drug use Characters: Ori, Bilbo (Fíli/Ori, Bilbo/Thorin) Summary: The Smith boys all have different fathers. All soldiers. Ori watches the dragons circling overhead.

(Or: The one where Bilbo seeks out Ori for help with Frodo, because he knows Ori understands better than most what Frodo is going through)