FAQ May 2025

Go into lake and foot touch something bad.

Thank you so much @cryoverkiltmilk .... it's quite impressive craftsmanship too

Mr. Business and The Heavy have claimed the role of Luigi's giant goth girlfriends.

sorry i had toooooo draw them

my partner might be onto something when she says you can disguise your pickiness and food sensitivity as an adult by calling yourself a “purist.” so instead of saying “the taste and texture of cooked raisins make me want to hmork,” you say “i’m actually kind of a cinnamon roll purist, i prefer just a classic cinnamon filling and a really good dough instead of something with a ton of random mix ins,” which takes you from who gave this four year old a bachelor degree to oh wow this guy is a pretentious asshole about more things than i even thought was possible

and from what i’ve gathered, in the grown up world being a pretentious asshole about something is the first step to respectability

found a really good greek terracotta figurine

@elodieunderglass - for the legginess of it all.

That is a good figure!

I know its an old joke but it really does crack me up to think Frodo might not know Legolas's name, especially in the most obvious scene at Frodo's bed after waking up and he addresses literally everyone by name except Legolas, like come on you're telling me you couldn't have gotten Elijah to do another take so he could say that beautiful Elf's name lmao

TFW you’re on an epic Quest and you never got this one guy’s name but now you’ve been through so much mortal peril with him that you’re too embarrassed to ask 😔

Doesn't Frodo speak Elvish though? Aragorn saying it while talking in Elvish shouldnt get in the way of Frodo’s comprehension.

It's been a minute since I've done a reread, @elodieunderglass, I feel like you would have some thoughts.

This is film canon not book canon (Frodo appearing to forget That Guy when reunited with the Fellowship in Return of the King) but people do say "Legolas" in Fellowship of the Ring more often than that in Frodo's earshot!

we don't need to workshop it too much, though!

Caring too much about this is horseless behaviour.

Frodo went through something traumatic and in the films he apparently never spoke to Legolas. Even if they were on a reasonably-long camping trip together (which in the film is only a few nights) then several months and much trauma and many meetings and Sauron chewing a hole in his mind, he could have just forgotten the guy's name. He had it! it was there! but Frodo's been used as a psychic chew toy!

I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. 

Sam couldn't get him to remember the taste of strawberries.

Gollum, a longer-term ringbearer, also forgot: we forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind.

Frodo recovers his own blood-cousins that he grew up with. Aragorn was a fairly important figure in his life. He appears to remember Gimli. But in the context, try this on again: oh yeah it's... Oh NO. What's happened.

which is better and sadder and more realistic and funnier. of the many intangible things Frodo loses, one of the silliest, but clearest, is "the name of the guy he went camping with for a bit a few months ago".

we don't have to do the Reddit Fandom thing of picking apart trivia and movie scripts (boring, dull, never intended to stand up to heavy usage.) we ARE braver and more bisexual, we can be more creative and therefore worse 😇

There is an absolutely HILARIOUS fic along these lines, wherein Thorin realizes halfway to Erebor, that while “Mr. Baggins” was an appropriate title for a company member he disliked and wanted gone, it was NOT an acceptable address for one who had nearly died several times to save them.

He can’t admit that to Bilbo, of course, after their rough start, and he can’t ask the dwarves (because then Balin would Know, and give him Disappointment Eyes).

So he spends the second half of the quest desperately trying to get someone else to say it.

It was equally funny and heartbreaking, and I’ll have to find it it to link it here.

That’s https://archiveofourown.org/works/3507428 by @andhumanslovedstories ! Ten years old and still pleasing!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3507428

trauma therapy has been swell

I know its an old joke but it really does crack me up to think Frodo might not know Legolas's name, especially in the most obvious scene at Frodo's bed after waking up and he addresses literally everyone by name except Legolas, like come on you're telling me you couldn't have gotten Elijah to do another take so he could say that beautiful Elf's name lmao

TFW you’re on an epic Quest and you never got this one guy’s name but now you’ve been through so much mortal peril with him that you’re too embarrassed to ask 😔

Doesn't Frodo speak Elvish though? Aragorn saying it while talking in Elvish shouldnt get in the way of Frodo’s comprehension.

It's been a minute since I've done a reread, @elodieunderglass, I feel like you would have some thoughts.

This is film canon not book canon (Frodo appearing to forget That Guy when reunited with the Fellowship in Return of the King) but people do say "Legolas" in Fellowship of the Ring more often than that in Frodo's earshot!

we don't need to workshop it too much, though!

Caring too much about this is horseless behaviour.

Frodo went through something traumatic and in the films he apparently never spoke to Legolas. Even if they were on a reasonably-long camping trip together (which in the film is only a few nights) then several months and much trauma and many meetings and Sauron chewing a hole in his mind, he could have just forgotten the guy's name. He had it! it was there! but Frodo's been used as a psychic chew toy!

I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. 

Sam couldn't get him to remember the taste of strawberries.

Gollum, a longer-term ringbearer, also forgot: we forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind.

Frodo recovers his own blood-cousins that he grew up with. Aragorn was a fairly important figure in his life. He appears to remember Gimli. But in the context, try this on again: oh yeah it's... Oh NO. What's happened.

which is better and sadder and more realistic and funnier. of the many intangible things Frodo loses, one of the silliest, but clearest, is "the name of the guy he went camping with for a bit a few months ago".

we don't have to do the Reddit Fandom thing of picking apart trivia and movie scripts (boring, dull, never intended to stand up to heavy usage.) we ARE braver and more bisexual, we can be more creative and therefore worse 😇

Be brave. Be bi. Be worse.

Thanks @sufficientlylargen let’s workshop this

Everyone thinks Frodo is terrifically resilient yet also psychically tormented and incredibly deep, but actually he’s just

I know its an old joke but it really does crack me up to think Frodo might not know Legolas's name, especially in the most obvious scene at Frodo's bed after waking up and he addresses literally everyone by name except Legolas, like come on you're telling me you couldn't have gotten Elijah to do another take so he could say that beautiful Elf's name lmao

TFW you’re on an epic Quest and you never got this one guy’s name but now you’ve been through so much mortal peril with him that you’re too embarrassed to ask 😔

Doesn't Frodo speak Elvish though? Aragorn saying it while talking in Elvish shouldnt get in the way of Frodo’s comprehension.

It's been a minute since I've done a reread, @elodieunderglass, I feel like you would have some thoughts.

This is film canon not book canon (Frodo appearing to forget That Guy when reunited with the Fellowship in Return of the King) but people do say "Legolas" in Fellowship of the Ring more often than that in Frodo's earshot!

we don't need to workshop it too much, though!

Caring too much about this is horseless behaviour.

Frodo went through something traumatic and in the films he apparently never spoke to Legolas. Even if they were on a reasonably-long camping trip together (which in the film is only a few nights) then several months and much trauma and many meetings and Sauron chewing a hole in his mind, he could have just forgotten the guy's name. He had it! it was there! but Frodo's been used as a psychic chew toy!

I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. 

Sam couldn't get him to remember the taste of strawberries.

Gollum, a longer-term ringbearer, also forgot: we forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind.

Frodo recovers his own blood-cousins that he grew up with. Aragorn was a fairly important figure in his life. He appears to remember Gimli. But in the context, try this on again: oh yeah it's... Oh NO. What's happened.

which is better and sadder and more realistic and funnier. of the many intangible things Frodo loses, one of the silliest, but clearest, is "the name of the guy he went camping with for a bit a few months ago".

we don't have to do the Reddit Fandom thing of picking apart trivia and movie scripts (boring, dull, never intended to stand up to heavy usage.) we ARE braver and more bisexual, we can be more creative and therefore worse 😇

Be brave. Be bi. Be worse.

I haven't said! It was a defining thing for the B-trio though. Their reasons were excellent. Their management of the problem was Perhaps Not.

deep murder lore via @elodieunderglass

BACK IN MY DAY WE MURDERED PEOPLE AND MEANT IT.

Piebald Junco in the snow

@elodieunderglass have u seen this guy yet

What a creature, what a chap!

the classic Finnish mix of extreme dutifulness and “we will make actual conversation after a silent interaction trial period of 6 weeks, thank you” can be really funny sometimes. told my coworker that I’d like to save the coffee grounds the workplace generated and take them home “for my mushrooms and worms” and she was just like “okei” and dutifully saved every single grounds-filled filter for weeks and weeks. about five weeks into this whole thing, after I thank her for the coffee grounds and tell her my worms must love them because they’re breeding very enthusiastically, she finally asks “so your worms… do they have a purpose or are they just… worms”. like sure I’ll save you all these coffee grounds every single time I drink coffee, 3+ times a day, but god forbid I inquire about your specific worm habits before propriety allows it. you could be eating them for breakfast for all I know but that’s your business

this post has been up for so long I’m at a new workplace now, and here’s a new one: someone finally getting a close enough look at the jar of homemade nut butter I’d been using to make snacks for days (in a reused jar, still with the pesto label on it), realising the contents were not as advertised, and saying with poorly concealed relief “ai!!! you weren’t spreading pesto on bananas!” like she’d been quietly dying inside the whole time but had grimly committed herself to never ever presuming to ask wtf was going on

#I mentioned to a coworker how my friend had mailed me some goldfish and I was so excited to eat them#and she labored under the misapprehension for days that I was consuming actual real fish mailed all the way from America#before one day I brought some for lunch and she was like ohhh these are crackers!!

congrats, this is so cursed and the best addition someone has made to this post

#i’m not gonna lie i feel like a lot of people online could do with a dose of this type of finnishness #y'know. the ‘i have no idea what you’re doing and it seems really weird but it’s not my business to pry and also you do you’ attitude

Don't dope your baby. Household discoveries. 1913.

Internet Archive

For some reason, the cover preview of this Dorothy Sayers murder mystery on my library's website is actually the Cat in the Hat. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of character overlap between the Cat and Peter Wimsey, but I still don't think this is quite right.

Fixed it!

And they were roommates...

@elodieunderglass seems like something you'd enjoy.

they're so silly! thank you!