[ SECRET POST #2552 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2552 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 077 secrets from Secret Submission Post #364.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/HBUHXkm.jpg

Secret 4 - The Hobbit (movies), the dwarves

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a drawing of the Company of Dwarves from "The Hobbit". They are all wearing robes and have long beards, except for one person who might be Bilbo?]

I'm normally pretty open to Alternate Universes, but browsing Hobbit movie fic, I despise every single Alternate Universe I find. I think I've figured out why.

It's because despite paragraph-long studio blurbs, the Hobbit dwarves (besides Thorin) are barely two-dimensional. Even Bilbo's a bit thin. Knowing where the dwarves are from and where they're going, you can find some depth in them from context. Without their history, they're nothing.

Unrelated: Kili/Fili is the new J2.

Notes

[transcriptanon]

J2 = the ship name of Jared Padalecki/Jensen Ackles, the main actors from the TV series "Supernatural".

Re: Secret 4 - The Hobbit (movies), the dwarves

[(Anonymous)]

OP

The last bit is supposed to be 'Unrelated Kili/Fili is the new J2', as in, fics pairing those two characters while making them unrelated (thus removing the only shred of characterization they have and reducing them to a couple pretty faces).

Re: Secret 4 - The Hobbit (movies), the dwarves

[transcriptanon]

Ohhh, gotcha! I will correct that on page 2. Sorry!

[silvereriena]

Soooooo, tell me OP. How many coffee shop AUs are there in this fandom?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Too. Fucking. Many.

Actually I don't know. There's an amazing variety of horrifying AUs, which is... nice?

[(Anonymous)]

I would read a Hobbit coffee shop AU if it consisted mostly of dwarves tossing dishes at each other while singing.

[(Anonymous)]

With Bilbo as the extremely harassed owner who's constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown and whose relatives are constantly trying to steal the family business?

[cakemage]

That'd certainly make it the only coffee shop AU worth reading.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

...I agree.

[truxillogical]

What is the DEAL with coffee shop AUs? Do a disproportionate percentage of fandom have experience working in coffee shops? I mean, heck, I live in a city that's pretty good with small, local restaurants, but even so there's maybe two, probably only one local coffee shop I know of, and it isn't remotely quirky.

It's not that they're inherently bad. I'm just confused by the prevalence. (Although I will take the glut of Coffee Shop AUs over the glut of Alpha/Omega ones...)

[(Anonymous)]

You know what, I think this is why I don't like the AUs in this fandom either. I never really thought about it before.

[nightscale]

I've never been a fan of the AU's in the Hobbit fandom and I think my reasoning is pretty much the same, they kind of need to be in Middle Earth to be the characters that they are.

[elaminator]

Imo (most) the dwarves felt more fleshed out in the movie than in the book, and despite liking them anyway I agree. Taken out of Middle Earth they aren't half as interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

meh even with the history in the books they're still not that fleshed out so it doesn't bother me.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

The only sort of modern AU I like is either reincarnation AUs or the sort that is translating the canon storyline into the modern world.

I specify those two because they actually preserve some of the original backgrounds and the reasons why the characters are who they are.

But mostly I prefer AUs that change a detail and explore how that makes things different.

[(Anonymous)]

I find this true of a lot of AUs.

I'm sorry, my character is just not my character if they're a barista.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish there were more historical AU's, or AU's in warzones maybe? There are enough refugees which could parallel the dwarfs.