#SO CURIOUS ABOUT THE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF THESE

[dizzybevvie]

[Rb for sample size pleaseeee :D]

[tathrin]

The Extremely Serious and Scientific Legolas Fandom Hair Colour Poll:

What colour hair do you picture in your head for your personal mental image of Legolas of the Woodland Realm? (Not necessarily which one you think is more or less "canonical"; rather just what you see in your head when you're reading something.)

Ideally, you can also share when and how you were first exposed to Lord of the Rings in the tags or reblogs, and what you think most influenced your mental image.

No I'm not procrastinating from writing stuff, go away.

[gayford]

ok real question time bc ive seen both takes but do you think ford actually called fiddleford "f" as a nickname or just wrote it that way in the journal for his own sake

[realredbanana]

This is probably gonna sound like a really weird question but:

*By ‘sort of’, I generally mean ‘I don’t generally read them as such, but I can see why they would be’.

[jazzandpizazz]

I finally have polls!!

[wellcomeoneileen]

Okay I’m reading comments on an old queer as folk S5 AU fic, and it’s so wild how different the opinions are to mine about Brian asking Justin to move in with him at the end of S4!

A lot of the comments have said Justin up and moving to LA without talking to Brian was wrong, esp given Brian asking Justin to move in was this big deal on his part.

and I agree Brian asking was big for him! And I thought the “drawers in drawers” scene, in a vacuum, was super sweet/cute.

However…until reading these opinions I totally thought it meant to signal it was too little too late?

Like Justin was nearly living with Brian already, and had officially done so prior (multiple times). Brian asking IS sweet and IS meaningful! But it’s not a super big gesture to me? My first reaction was “oh i thought they already had this convo off-screen.” And Justin had also already helped Brian through Cancer and they had their MAGICAL moment earlier in the season where Brian all but publicly confessed his undying devotion to Justin lmao

And SO I thought we were supposed to see it as this foreshadowing of where their relationship was going, given their differences in character in-universe and their archetypes in narrative structure.

Like Justin is someone who goes a million miles a minute, is youthful and energetic, and seems comfortable being in-flux, while Brian is older, more set in his ways, slower to change.

So this monumental thing to Brian is, at this point in their relationship, seemed more of more of a blip to Justin.

It’s one of the many signs that I personally interpreted as the shifting power dynamics between them, as Justin started off trying to keep up with Brian, and by the end, Brian is more the one trying to keep up Justin by the end. Like this is a big moment to show Justin isn’t begging for scraps anymore, and is actually more interested in his personal future over his relationship future.

To be fair - I haven rewatched S4, I’m still in S2, so I might change my tune in a couple of weeks lol

[corvidarcana]

Is Knuckles with Regular Gloves cursed

[deliriumsdelight7]

Genuinely curious: when does taking the premise of a fic from one fandom and using it in another stop being stealing and start being a trope? I’ve seen people accusing others of taking a fic idea from another fandom and using it in their own, but… isn’t that what we’ve done for decades? That’s where sex pollen, Omegaverse, Only One Bed, fake dating, etc. come from, isn’t it?

Is there a line I’m unaware of? Like, okay, if you’re inspired by a fic for the same ship, the right thing to do is mark your fic as inspired by the original on AO3. Makes sense. But what about different ships within the same fandom? Chances are you’re not going to mark it as “inspired by” because people clicking that link will be taken to a fic with a different pairing. So… what’s the etiquette? Is it okay to yoink a base premise if the ships don’t “conflict?” Or is it always bad to do, regardless of whether they’re rival ships?

[hrokkall]

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[evil-gadgeteer]

Guess who got polls

BTW this does NOT include Bowser Jr.

Feel free to make specifications in the tags

[wiitzend]

does chronic pain count as a disability?

[lilyflower06]

Finished Dv3 and head full of thoughts rn...