There had always been a Baggins in Bag End. More to the point, there had always been a Baggins. Bilbo Baggins had been there from the beginning, since before the small folk crossed the Misty Mountains and before the great Drowning of the West.
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Dragon!Bilbo AU in which Bilbo is transformed into a Hobbit by Yavanna towards the end of the War of Wrath and is commanded to live amongst her children. Thousands of years later Gandalf ventures to the shire expecting to find a grandchild of Bilbo (whom he had met some decades before) to recruit as a burglar, and instead finds Bilbo himself, and on the same garden bench, no less!
This is how you handle getting your privileged called out.
Not “reverse racism!” Not “heterophobe!” and all those other dynamics that don’t exist. Just recognition. Recognition of privilege (and hopefully continuous self-checking)
the worst thing about speaking two languages is trying to use an expression from one language that fits perfectly into your conversation but the other person won’t get it
i dont speak two languages but i speak fandom so i sort of get this
I know of a kid who was in a coma for a week and when he woke up the first thing he did was panic because he had homework due and I think that sums up the American school system pretty well
I know of a kid who was in a coma for a week and when he woke up the first thing he did was panic because he had homework due and I think that sums up the American school system pretty well
