ever on and on

[aria]

Aten't dead! In fact I have been posting to both tumblr and twitter with reasonable frequency, but my life in 140 characters or gifs with capslock commentary is not ... particularly in depth. So: hello! I am here to warn you all that Martin Freeman's face has hypnotic powers of suggestion, because my recent fannish activities have fallen into one of these two categories:

1. rewatch Sherlock/rewatch the Granada Holmes series/desperately seek post-Reichenbach fic/reread the Paradox series & all of Katie Forsythe's fic in a fit of madness/gaze upon Sherlock vids/curse the heavens that I have to wait so long for the next series

2. reread the Hobbit/flop about and make joyful noises about how fucking perfect Freeman's Bilbo is going to be/watch the Hobbit teaser trailer about a million times/rewatch all the cast bits in the Extended Edition Lord of the Rings DVDs/read all the Mark Reads entries of the Hobbit & what he has so far of Lord of the Rings/accidentally trip and fall into the first few chapters of Fellowship, which is fair enough as I haven't done a proper reread in three years

I am combating this White Dudes Doing Stuff thing by working on my novel that has basically one white dude doing stuff, and plenty of ladies and nonwhite dudes doing stuff, which is great! But the fannish channel is all hobbits and detectives right now. (Although no hobbit detectives! There seems to be a pretty low crime rate in the Shire, but I really hope there's a hobbit detective in Bree or something.)

Meanwhile I want to pull out something that I posted last time I was reading Lord of the Rings, because it was SUCH FUN, and it is the One Ring game! The One Ring game basically goes: think of (a) character(s) from a fandom other than LotR, and figure out what would happen if they were given the One Ring and charged to destroy it. So, for example: Neville Longbottom would destroy that sucker; Andrew Wells from Buffy would hide in a dark room with it and call it his Precious and be totally useless; Benton Fraser would TAKE OVER THE WORLD. &c. Give me characters! I will tell you what they do! Epic quests and evil overlords for all!

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[gehayi]

Hmm. I'll try answering the Bat question later. In the meantime, how about the Witches of Discworld, then? Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick, Mrs. Gogol, Agnes Nitt, Tiffany Aching and Letitia?

[aria]

Oooh, okay.

Granny Weatherwax just would. not. take. it. Because if she did, she would use it, and she'd try to help people, and eventually she'd become the next Dark Lord.

Nanny ... bless her, she'd get quite far towards destroying it, but eventually she'd take it for herself, and she wouldn't end up ruling anything; she'd just wither away with it.

Magrat would also end up muttering to herself in a cave, although she'd put up a much better fight first than anyone would suspect of her.

Mrs. Gogol and Letitia I do not remember well enough to say for sure!

Agnes! AGNES DESTROYS THAT RING. Hell yes. She gets all the way to Mount Doom with it and she throws that damn Ring in. It kept tempting her with stupid pointless things that she doesn't need anyway.

If Tiffany had help, I believe that she'd be able to make it almost all the way there, although someone else would have to destroy it. If she didn't have help, though, she'd go the way of Granny Weatherwax.

[gehayi]

I love it. Thank you!

And in return, here is your Bat-family saga:

Bruce Wayne/Batman. Um...it kind of depends on which Batman you're talking about. Because the Batman that I grew up with? Totally honorable and would never even consider using something so despicable to protect his city. He deserved the nickname "Dark Knight," because he really WAS rather knightly. He would have gone the Faramir route.

But the darker Batman from the 1990s and 2000s--I see him fighting it and eventually deciding that he had no choice but to use it against the Joker. And he would end up falling to the Ring, becoming not a Dark Lord but a grim, implacable Dark Judge.

And if it was Frank Miller's Goddamned Batman, Kidnapper of Dick Grayson, Aged Twelve...he'd fall immediately. And he would end up muttering to himself in a cave somewhere.

The modern Dick Grayson would, I think, believe that he could never do as good a job at destroying it as Bruce, but he would try anyway. And he would get almost to Mount Doom before he fell.

Barbara Gordon/Oracle/Batgirl. Barbara would study the Ring. She'd want to know how it affected people the way that it did and if there was any way to prevent it from doing so. I don't see it having a lot of power over her. (In the Silver Age, Barbara and Dick Grayson canonically overcame SATAN. Not an imaginary story, either. If these two could beat the Devil himself, they can take it to Mount Doom.)

Cassandra Cain. Early Cass would have just seen the Ring as a tool and would have used it. Current Cass would react like Gandalf--she wouldn't touch it because the Ring would remake her into the kind of person she didn't want to be.

Stephanie Brown. I think that she would try to get it to Mount Doom to prove to Bruce and the other Bats that she was worthy to be part of the Bat-family (even though she has been for some time), and, although she'd get close to Mount Doom, I don't see her being able to give it up--partly because it saved her life along the way. If Cass comes along and plays Sam, though, everything works out fine.

I don't really have an opinion about Tim Drake or Jason Todd, because I've never seen them.

Damien Wayne...LET US WELCOME OUR YOUNG DARK OVERLORD.

[mecurtin]

I think Nanny would be the Tom Bombadil sort. It just wouldn't have a hold on her mind, she'd stick it inside one of the hideous souvenir mugs her family brings and the forget which one it was in. She's having a perfectly lovely time as it is, she doesn't need to be a "Queen" or anything. She has more fun just being Nanny.

And then Greebo, chasing some critter, would knock over the mug and swallow the ring. Hijinks would definitely ensue.