#The Ring-In

[welcometololaland]

seven sentence sunday, just bringing out the fic banner! tk is doing gods work and attempting to seduce his lawfully wedded husband at a...food truck.

TK makes a soft, pleased noise that has Carlos’ heart doing funny things in his chest. He decides that, contrary to his initial opinion, he loves the obscenely bright lights on the food truck. TK shines under them like a beacon of happiness.

“You wanna do a roleplay later?” TK asks, now smirking as if he’s won his own version of the battle of Texline. “It will be fun.”

“Really?” Carlos counters, arching an eyebrow. “Please don’t say it’s the gas station attendant and customer one you suggested in the car. There are only so many euphemisms you can make about gas pumps.”

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[whimsifae]

the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[megaman-exe-execute]

Just a few more hours

[ginnie-darling]

[balrogballs]

i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would rightfully put me into a blender and press the button if i go and out myself as "balrogballs") and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...

.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.

and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.

(yes they published the book)

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

I have never once wished for Tolkien to still be alive as much as I do in this moment

(Some more clips)

[shinraalpha]

i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

[spale-vosver]

[welcometololaland]

Is it true you’re writing a sequel to The Ring-In ?

If so that might be the best news I’ve heard in ages. The Ring-In is my favourite fic

hello, anon :) it is true. thank you for asking about it!

i'm concurrently writing eurotrip and the ring-in sequel. my goal is to finish both by mid-late September!

i am SUPER happy with ch 1 of the ring-in sequel. it has exactly the same vibes as the first one (imo), but chapter 2 is a little slow going because i have this particular, kinda silly sex scene i want to write and i think i've built it up in my head too much and now it's haunting me. ANWYAY. we persist. i just finished a circuit breaker prompt fill, so my attention is turning back to the ring-in!

you didn't ask for this, but have a snippet from ch 2:

“I didn’t want to mention it before, but my dad just messaged out group chat—” Carlos grits his teeth. “Where’s he taking the Camaro, TK?” “Nowhere bad!” TK protests. “He’s just excited about driving it to some date he’s got tonight. I guess he thinks it’s a…chick magnet.” Carlos snorts. The very concept of his car being used to seduce women is so foreign from its intended purpose, which is to accelerate fast, look pretty and be a convenient place to make out with TK. In Carlos’ admittedly biased view, the only person who is truly flattered by the passenger seat of his car is his husband. “Anyway,” TK adds, now scrolling their shared roadtrip playlist. “We know that it’s basically impossible to get up to anything freaky in that car because of how small it is—” “TK,” Carlos says sharply. “That’s— He’s your father.” “I’m just saying!” TK protests, dropping his phone into his lap as his left hand flails about demonstratively, “We’ve tried to do road head like, seven times, and—” “You’ve thrown your neck out?” TK throws him a dark look. “No need to rub it in. Last time it needed a lot of ibuprofen.” “Yes, as the almost-beneficiary of road head, I would know.”

thank you for being curious about this fic, it's always such a compliment when people ask!

[cactusringed]

I forget that most people ship things because they want characters to be in a happy relationship and not because they want them to have weird sex things with atrocious psychological consequences

[torchwood-99]

While it was a longshot, I do appreciate that Gimli did try chopping the Ring up with an axe first. It was worth a shot, and they'd have all felt like bloody idiots if they took the Ring all the way to Mordor only to find out it could have been chopped up by an axe all along.

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.