I've just been reading your fic Interstitial and oh my god, it is absolutely amazing!!!! You write so well and the horror and tension is excellent. I've never read anything quite like it. I don't know if you're planning on finishing it but I've thoroughly enjoyed it and will absolutely devour any more of it you end up writing. So so good!!!
Oh wow thank you so much!!! I really appreciate that, wow, thank you!! I'm so glad you've been enjoying it. I am still planning on finishing it! I've got the whole plot laid out and just need to keep chipping away with it after I move and get my surgery :) I hope you will still enjoy it once it's updated!
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Sméagol and the Gift
'Now!' said Sam. 'At last I can deal with you!' He leaped forward with drawn blade ready for battle. But Gollum did not spring. He fell flat upon the ground and whimpered.
'Don't kill us,' he wept. 'Don't hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We're lost. And when Precious goes we'll die, yes, die into the dust.'
Devastated by this. Just a little longer, he begs. Even though his existence is a torment. Even though the will that holds him to life is barely his own anymore. He has long outlived his time but it's such a cruelty that now the only freedom for him is in death. I'm glad Sam didn't kill him but the whole scenario is awful.
When a mortal keeps a ring of power he does not gain more life, he continues, denied natural mortality as the fear of death is amplified and twisted into fear of separation, nothing matters anymore but the keeping, the continuing. In that miserable existence there is no peace, and at its end there is no graceful goodbye to life, there is only dust. Sudden, empty, and final.
It would take murder to spare him that. Or falling with the ring into the fire.
Bilbo let it go in time (did he feel anything when it was destroyed?) Frodo is freed of it now, though the toll it extracted for the separation was at very least a finger. It was too late for Gollum for the price to be anything other than it was, and that's brutal.
If you live long enough, death is no longer the enemy. What Sauron did to Gollum ensured that it would always be the enemy, to be feared and avoided for ever, once time and the ring had fashioned it into the only escape left. Evil.
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KASPER THOSE TAGS. THE IMPACT THIS SCHOLARSHIP CAN HAVE ON THE GUNNAR HENDERSON BLEEDING LOVE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
GHBLCU!!! I can’t even look at the tags I wrote my own self without blacking out bc rhi’s scholarship captures SUCH a specific and visceral mood that yeets me violently back to high school and college, but it also captures the vibes around certain men so so well. Like yeah!! If I was Gunnar Henderson having to be around chosen one Adley Rutschmann who is so kind and so big and so goofy and so disinterested in me romantically but loves me wonderfully like a brother, if I was Gunnar sitting on the couch watching The Dark Knight with Adley, both of us sprawled out and kinda paying attention but also not really because neither of us actually wanted to watch the Dark Knight, Adley wanted to watch Casablanca and Gunnar wanted to watch V for Vendetta and they just ended up on The Dark Knight rather than re-litigate an argument about how many times you can watch Casablanca without Humphrey Bogart becoming Your Thing, if I was Gunnar and I was kinda bored and I knew Adley was kinda bored and I could see him shifting restlessly on the couch like he wants to start that argument again anyway, then, yeah, I would be feeling some things. If I was Gunnar, I would kinda wish Adley would feel me up on the couch!!! A lot!!!!
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Something I’m thinking about on this fine morning is how there’s absolutely no way Tom and Katie don’t know about Sam’s leaping.
Both of them (and Thelma and John) were super freaked out when Sam leapt back into teen!Sam, though of course at the time it was written off as teen!Sam pulling a stunt so his big brother wouldn’t leave.
But then we have Tom’s “thanks to you, little brother” while looking right at Sam (which I think seals the deal that he knows, somehow, that that’s really Sam, especially since that’s the moment Sam leaps) in 1969 and what Katie must feel once the Beatles break up in 1970 and when Imagine comes out in 1971. The whole incident would be in incredibly recent memory for both of them since he leaped home in 1968. Not to mention the fact that teen!Sam would have absolutely no recollection of acting so strangely for that Thanksgiving, even though everyone else would. There’s absolutely no way they don’t know, and no way they don’t feel incredibly hopeless and helpless when they realize Sam’s disappeared.
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