a rant book of lotr rants, headcanons, (aralas) fanfics and fic recs, aralas in general, ship rants, (character) analyses, ship justifications, frosam, random things i notice, things i love, things i hate, rings of power, really anything and everyth...
Thank you, thank you, thank you so so so so so much for sticking around, Ik some of you have been here since the beginning in January, some of you are new, but regardless of when you joined the LOTR Rants community - I appreciate you <33
I've literally always wanted to write something on Wattpad and have it hit 1K reads, so this is seriously a dream come true for me. I literally can't express how much this and how much every single one of you mean to me!!
Your comments, votes and overall presence on a fic that I didn't expect to go anywhere have really kept me going these past few months ❤❤
Thank you all so so so so so much, I love you all 3000 <3333
Specifically, however, I wanted to thank three people who have been doing the absolute most:
Who has voted on every single chapter of this fic, who I can always count on to be here the day I post, and who checked out my first AO3 fic!! Ilyyyy <33
Y'all are the OGs, thank you for being here and listening to me rant about my bs for so long, I really do appreciate all three of you more than I can say, and it's been lovely talking to the three of you in comments, all of which always brighten my day ❤❤
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For this chapter, other than thanking my wonderful wonderful readers, I wanted to talk about the update schedule of this fic and where that's going now that we've hit 1K, and I also wanted to include some ✨memes✨ that I made for this fic and never ended up using so they're going here
Basically if you didn't notice I sometimes make LOTR/LOTR Rants related memes for this book and insert them into chapters to add some ✨pizzaz✨ but I have a couple left over unused so the second part of this chapter is essentially going to be a bonus reel/bloopers made up of those memes
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This was for my "aragorn's main character complex and why i HATE it" chapter, and I just never ended up using it so enjoy ✨
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This was for a chapter that never got made (it's still sitting in my drafts) called "the sexualities of everyone in lotr" that was basically my sexuality headcanons for every single lotr character. I might still use this if I ever finish that chapter, which I doubt
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This was also for that chapter, although let's face it, this could work for this whole fic
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I'm honestly sad I never got to use this one. This was for my "a rant about rings of power + EXCITING NEWS!!" chapter but I decided there were too many images in that chapter already and I didn't want to overload it with this one, even though I'm weirdly proud of it.
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Those are the memes!!! Treasure them, bc I highly doubt I'll ever finish/add them to the chapters they were supposed to be in
Anyways, let's talk about the update schedule
So basically, I've expended every single idea I've ever had for this fic.
Like, I've talked about every subject that I have an opinion on in lotr, I had a list in my Notes app on my phone of things I wanted to talk about in this fic, and guess what?? It's now EMPTY.
So because of this, I will be relaxing the update schedule of this fic.
Meaning, I will no longer be posting on the 1st, 12th and 24th of the month, like I have been since February, I'll only be posting when I have inspo, when there's a huge update in the lotr community that I need to talk about, etc, etc
THIS DOESN'T MEAN I'M DISCONTINUING THIS FIC!!! I'm not, I'm just gonna be valuing ✨quality✨ over ✨quantity✨ in terms of chapters. Despite this, you can still expect pretty consistent updates since lotr is always on my mind, but I think I just need to take a bit of a break and get some inspo back.
Ofc, requests are still and always open, and I'll still be present on Wattpad so it's not like I'll be internet dead or anything.
You can defo defo expect (for the next chapter) either a pt3 to my "lotr things i've been thinking abt" series OR if I don't get enough inspo for that b4 September, I can guarantee a rant abt the first ep of rings of power
So, watch out for that on September 3rd right after it comes out!!
That's all in terms of real updates.
So, b4 I sign off, thank you all again so so so so so much for reading, not just this chapter, but in general, and helping make my dream of 1K reads come true!!!
