I have a theory that while Hobbits themselves sort of abide by a rather meek and gentle playbook and try to live calm, quiet lives, their fairytales and fables are absolutely vicious

I'm thinking like Brothers Grimm levels of morality and consequence

And no other race really has this tradition, the stories they usually tell their youngsters are more grey and balanced, so when Bilbo and Thorin are chilling in bed one night in the Shire and Bilbo suggests one of them read a traditional Hobbit fairytale to the other, Thorin scoffs and imagines it's going to be about clouds and rivers

And then is absolutely horrified to read story after story of wicked stepmothers putting their children into pies or corrupt thieves having millstones dropped on their heads or otherwise morally bankrupt Hobbits having their toes shaven and cursed to dance until they die

Thus, the King Under the Mountain goes to bed terrified

(And yes I need someone to draw this)

HTTYD Norse Mythology Fic: Home of Fogs

Over a game of dice Hikke and Tannlos had come up with the idea. It was as mischievous as they dared get, so as not to raise the suspicions of Ymir, who took pride in the evil ways of his sons. They made room in their heads for perhaps a season or two in which difficulty would be had between dragon and Man, before the beasts settled in and became one with the nature of Midgard. But here they stand, one thousand years later, watching Man rip the wings off the dragons they took such care to forge from Hikke’s splinters and Tannlos’s light. 'I thought they were ready.' 'I too.'

AU in which Hiccup and Toothless are Norse giants who lose each other in the immortal realm and find each other in the mortal one.

It had been two years since everything. Two years since the dragons left. Two years since she married.

They had, thus far, been the hardest years of Astrid’s life.

It’s our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, child birth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don’t. They have to seek it out.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ted Lasso (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Trent Crimm/Ted Lasso Characters: Trent Crimm, Ted Lasso, Coach Beard (Ted Lasso), Trent Crimm's Daughter Additional Tags: Friends With Benefits, Friends to Lovers, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Smut, Getting Together, Love Confessions, Miscommunication, Panic Attacks, okay this is more angsty than i'd intended but hey ho, this is just a load of time metaphors in a trenchcoat, i give trent all my problems and i do this because i love him Series: Part 3 of fraternité, solidarité, intégrité Summary:

Trent has been working with AFC Richmond for two months, three weeks and nineteen days. He’s been having sex with Ted Lasso for two months, three weeks and six.

I feel robbed of a different George O'Malley

George O'Malley had the potential, as a character, to be so much more. We could've seen a depth to his disconnection to his heavily masculine, Republican, Catholic family that went beyond "I don't like hunting and I went to college". We could've seen him struggle for more than one reason against his father's wish for him to be with Callie. We could have seen a conclusion to the dead-end jokes and heavy queercoding that defined his early appearances.

George O'Malley should have been gay. I know that it's a tall ask to expect a show that debuted 17 years ago to introduce a fully normalised LGBTQ main character with no stigma or snidery attached, but Grey's has always stood out to me as one of the more progressive shows with a lot of topics raised ahead of their time. Rather than cheat on Callie because of a horribly-written affair with Izzie, George and Callie could have mutually worked out why their relationship wasn't working and gone down a path that also helped Callie come to terms with her own bisexuality when the time came.

George O'Malley should have survived. I'm not going to deny the show dramatic license or pretend I don't know why things soured BTS, but it still stands for me. George could have spent Season 6 in deep recovery, but survived. He could have been permanently physically disabled and gone on to thrive outside his medical career; he was always the one on the fence about his passion and capability in the field, right? There's something in that. George was hoping to specialise in trauma. He knows what it's like growing up feeling outcast. I would have liked to see him the role of a carer, a fixer; someone who mentors young people in the position he was in. He could have worked with LGBTQ and/or disabled young people interested in the medical field. It would have been interesting to watch the career progression of a principal character outside of just going up or down the surgical chain.

On a more superficial note, I would have liked to see a male love interest introduced for George either before or after the accident. It would have tangled canon by introducing a new character at that point, but with the amount that come and go it would certainly have been doable.

And yeah, it's likely the character would phase out of screentime a couple of seasons in. But I would have still been satisfied with just the knowledge that somewhere in canon there's a gay, disabled, happily married man living not so far away from the hospital, living a life with more fulfilment than the surgical field ever seemed to give him.

when i look at trent crimm i see myself when i'm older and maybe that's why i love him so much

George O'Malley being the subject of two gay punchlines in the first three episodes of Grey's Anatomy makes me think that they very, very briefly toyed with the idea of making him gay and then suddenly forgot about it or decided against it