#merry and pippin tackling Boromir was definitely a precursor to a tickle fight

[androgynousevilqueen]

If I can nerd out here for a minute, I just want to thank fanfiction (specifically Star Trek and LoTR) for teaching me about sex as a teenager in the early 2000's. 😆

Fanfic has changed a lot since then, and it's interesting to see such a decrease in what we would've called "smut fics". Obviously there's still plenty of adult material, BUT

We used to have folks building entire websites just to have space for all our most NC-17 rated fics for our fandom. For LoTR, we had the Library of Moria (which still exists!!) which focused a lot on Men and Elves and even got really into the more obscure characters from Silmarillion and such. Harry Potter had The Restricted Section, now gone (shut down with lawsuits by JK, big surprise).

And then there was my favorite - the Hobbit Smut Challenges. It's now archived in AO3, but it used to have its own website, plus LiveJournal. All hobbits, all the time.

Ok, I know some of y'all might be like "hobbits aren't sexy" and if so, fine, have your opinion. But mine is that hobbits, especially our four boys from LoTR, would be by far the most fun to have sex with out of the entire cast of characters.

Cozy, simple hedonism, genuinely expressed love and warmth, and playful silliness mixed with the most incredible moxie and "I will go with you on this incredibly dangerous mission because you're my friend and Goonies never say die", plus an idyllic, lush landscape to heal your soul?

I mean, sign me up for a hobbitpile. I'm so poly for them.

Plus those bastards Merry and Pippin are up for all kinds of shenanigans, both in and out of bed.