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I love that thing in Lord of the Rings where the villains spend so much time obsessing over the character they believe is their Destined Archenemy that they overlook the character who actually defeats them

The Witch-King of Angmar, the Black Rider, seems to be Destined to fight the wizard Gandalf, the White Rider. He doesn’t consider Eowyn a threat right up until she stabs him in the face

Saruman is fixated on defeating Theoden, Aragorn and Gandalf in an Epic Light vs Dark Fantasy Battle at Helm’s Deep. So he completely overlooks the two hobbits and bunch of trees sitting right next door, who proceed to destroy Isengard

Sauron is fixated on defeating Aragorn, the Destined King of the Heroes and descendant of the man who defeated him last time. So he completely overlooks Frodo and Sam, who proceed to actually defeat him

as far as i know that’s the entire point jrrt tried to make

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Re: opinions, longer story. So what I hear you saying is, that you were making a cake, and you think

goof, now that i've said this i'm becoming more sure i need to split them, i cannot decide this is the worst, Anonymous

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I have also had many lovely replies on the post in question, which tumblr now makes it so difficult to reply to that I’m just. Not. but.

This is in fact the case. My post was writtein confusingly enough that like, it was maybe not obvious that 1) these additional chapters are going to be written and posted regardless, and 2) on approximately the same schedule whichever method I choose, and the entire question I’m grappling with was and remains, “does this additional material warrant splitting itself off onto a new story or should I cram it into the existing one”, and I still don’t know. It won’t be more or less complex, the material won’t be different in any way, it’s just whether I’m going to put a new title on this next bit and organize it around a slightly different central theme, or just glom it onto the end of the first story that I had originally conceived of only being three chapters.

The bonus of keeping it in the same story is that people subscribed to the story don’t then need to go subscribe to a new story, and also it’s easier on rereads to figure out which story has the actual thing you’re looking for if there aren’t two separate stories along the same stretch of plot. The downside of keeping it in the same story is that people can’t leave another kudos (that’s a dumb reason though), and it gets unwieldy as it gets longer, and on rereads actually sometimes it’s not easier to find your favorite moment in a super long story.

Does the material stand on its own? Well, Ideal Man is largely gender and new-relationship shenanigans; the new material has largely not addressed any new gender questions, but rather has just shown them getting used to one another, and in fact more explicitly is about him learning to trust her despite the historic precedents of it not being a great idea to trust mages. Like, there’s gendershit in it, but it’s mostly background, there’s no angst about it or focus on it. It’s mostly Lambert beginning to trust Keira enough to show her other things about himself.

Probably, then, what makes the most sense is to just glom it onto the end of the previous story, largely because I don’t want to have to come up with a new title. I was hoping I’d write enough of it to get to the action sequence I’ve vaguely outlined for it that will sort of be the focal piece of the new chapters, but I haven’t managed to in several days of work and I am just tired and want to post the other chapter I’ve had finished for like. weeks, at this point. it’s literally been sitting there in drafts for weeks, and I added another thousand words but it’s still just sitting there and I want validation and have not seen the sun in four days and am just so tired.

so anyway.

Look for that chapter later today, I’ll post about it, and thank you for the sweet validation of helpfully encouraging me as I witter on about this.

fic update: Ideal Man

fic update, meet death sitting

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So I have dithered extensively, provisionally decided the extra material is going in chapters pasted onto the end of The Ideal Man, and have gone ahead and posted chapter 3, which was originally written to be the end of this story.

I may change my mind and make it the end and make the new material a new story but I’m just out of cope for thinking about it at the moment, so for the nonce, we’re changing it to 3/? and going with that.

Chapter 3: Replica of a Replica https://archiveofourown.org/works/26847148/chapters/65637202

in which the dick on the mantelpiece in the first act is used in a duel in the third, or whatever Chekov was on about, IDK how pacing works

“Geralt’s. Hmm. Gullible?”

Lambert’s expression went a little more neutral, but set, harder to read. “Somebody convinced Geralt when he was pretty young that his only value in this world is what he can do for other people,” he said.

“See,” Keira said, “things like that. I just don’t feel like he would make an analysis like that.”

“I don’t know about that,” Lambert said. “He seems to have analyzed you fairly well.”

“When?” Keira said, startled.

Lambert gave one of those crooked sarcastic grins. “At Kaer Morhen,” he said. “When he showed up, and you were there? We talked about you, a little. He said he didn’t think anyone had been kind to you in a good long while, among other things.”

Keira blinked, blank. “I,” she said, profoundly disconcerted.

“It’s not that Geralt’s so gullible he won’t see through attempts at manipulation,” Lambert said. “It’s more that he’s likely to figure it out, figure out what the manipulator really wants, and do it anyway. I’m not as nice and I’d not forgive so readily.” He grinned, and she could tell there really was an edge to it, beyond the cosmetic appearance of such the tooth lent. “But I know you well enough now to know he was right.”

argh, a rant

fucking god

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all this “i voted did you vote yet!” stuff is really starting to stress me out [and, full disclosure, this was prompted by Instagram just now, not y’all, so don’t get upset yet] because a) this is the first year ever that NYS has allowed early voting, b) said early voting HAS NOT STARTED YET for us, c) I am leaving town the day early voting starts and will not be back in town until election day, and d) I will be back in town on election day so I did not apply for an absentee ballot because I will not be absent and felt like it would be dishonest. (and also, this is genuinely true, they don’t count absentee ballots unless the race is super close and likely none of my local races will be super close, so I won’t even be in the stats if I cast one absentee.)

so. No! I haven’t voted! Yes, I have a voting plan! Non-US peeps, I get that you’re invested in our elections but the signal to noise ratio is not great and is getting worse and with love I am begging you to Stop! Yes I am aware that I will likely wind up rotting in line for ages but that’s okay I am prepared! oh my gosh.

No, really, you don’t have to stop reblogging informational posts but please for the love of God make sure they’re not disinformation, ESPECIALLY if you are not actually a US voter yourself. (the one where it’s like “if the poll worker writes on your ballot” jesus christ, cut that out.) (oh my god ALL the ones that are like “in this extremely specific location here’s advice!” and then a reblog is like ”but this doesn’t apply everywhere of course look it up in your area” that is USELESS fucking NOISE you guys.) I would really like to encourage non-US people to cut that shit out entirely but I understand, American exceptionalism has really brought this on ourselves, but really, for real, you’re not helping. This is me, begging you to stop. Everyone I follow, I follow because I love, but some of you are on thin fucking ice.

I am so fucking stressed-out about this. I get that everyone else is too. But more fucking noise is not fucking helping.

gaysquaredwrites:p0rn w/ feelings is so funny it’s

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p0rn w/ feelings is so funny it’s like I’ve tricked you into reading this fic by offering you smut but as soon as you get there I pull out a chair, sit backwards on it, and say “hey, pal. you wanna talk about abandonment issues?” and then you have no choice but to listen