Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bard the Bowman/Thranduil Characters: Bard the Bowman, Thranduil (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Grief/Mourning, Thranduil never sailed West, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Folklore, Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Reincarnation Series: Part 32 of Barduil Month 2023 Summary:

There is a legend in Dale, that somewhere deep in the forest that borders the city lives the forest king, an ancient being with a special care for archers, and for all things that grow. Bard, camping in the woods after his finals, finds a place that isn’t on any maps and begins to dream of something - someone - familiar; and years later, after the heaviest loss he has ever had to bear, he goes back out there again, hoping to find something that might help him recover.

This is an extra for @bi-widower-dads‘ Barduil Month 2023, days 18 ‘myths’ and 30 'reincarnation AU’, inspired by @piyo-13’s glorious piece of art for day 18. They said “thousands of years have passed, middle earth is well into the age of men; but around dale, a myth still persists of an ancient forest king, often considered a patron of archers and growing things. bard has never really bought into the myths, but one day he goes camping in the woods, and through a series of events ends up in an old, crumbling hall… except the stained glass windows are still, stunningly, intact. on the central one is depicted a figure, white hair and a long black arrow in hand… bard doesn’t know why the sight of this affects him so much, but it does, and he dreams of the mysterious figure all through the rest of the camping trip. and then the au proceeds with thranduil actually showing up or something, and bard regaining some memories from the past and falling in love all over again. or something :)” and I just couldn’t help myself. :D

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i mean this as is they seem like they’re good at the subject but honestly interpret it as whatever

THE TRAILER IS HERE !!!!!!!

Be careful, it’s slippery out there!

Eastern Blue Bird (Sialia sialis)

January 24, 2022

Southeastern Pennsylvania

My most popular photo of 2022 was something I almost didn’t post.  Technically, from a photographer’s standpoint, it is not as good a photo of a bird as I usually post.  But I have learned that my followers would rather see a photo of one of my common birds doing something birdy than a perfectly posed picture of a rare warbler.

TED LASSO | 3.02

that one power couple that always wears expensive coordinated outfits 

i, personally, love to straddle that fine line between “fandom blog” and “record of complete psychological breakdown”

>_<

Here's our most requested item: Bob Katter's same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

he just flips instantly like he’s bilbo seeing the ring again

trent crimm + the twitchiest, most uncomfortable week of his life

Feeling some kind of way

Another one for the Grackheads.

They were the highlight on this gloomy day.

what’s funniest about the pacific rim scientists is like. when newt geiszler says he’s a scientist he means an old-timey 1910s entomologist wearing khaki shorts and a comically oversized pair of binoculars traipsing through the jungle capturing endangered species of butterfly and murmuring “egads!! fascinating…..” and scribbling it in his journal. when hermann gottlieb is being a scientist it’s literally the fucking manhattan project. tortured chainsmoking physicist. pawn of a war. repressed homosexual all his life. gets executed for being a communist. And they have to do each other’s peer review

As much as we all love this sad skrunkly wet cat, let us not forget that he is, at heart, a stone-cold badass