#knowing ive haunted u with the ghosts of fandom wank past is all i demand from this life

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hm. being reminded about the frodo and sam actors thing nearly killed me. what year is it. ok to be clear this is someone who hung around f_w at the time and not someone who shipped lotr actors although maybe this would be a more entertaining anon message if i was?

so in fairness to @feferi and others who remembered this, & who i accused of being old, i actually also remembered it was called “domlijah” but then thought “no, because.... dominic something was definitely pippin’s actor.....” 

so i was wrong on two counts because first of all dominic monaghan played merry and second of all it was domlijah so i guess people believed it was the frodo and merry actors who were secretly gay and using their shirt colors to signal that they were being suppressed by management. (i love that shirt color is apparently a classic, recurring signal adopted by tinhats thruout history btw.) i know i could go find extensive lj tinhat histories of these events if i chose but it kind of feels better for there to be at least one prominent fandom lj controversy that happened when i was in kindergarten that i just don’t really know anything about