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Hey gang - Deheer here to be extremely obnoxious in your update feed!
Since a large part of this mod AU exists as drawn images, I've been playing with the idea of archiving them here on Ao3 for a little while now. The goal here is to give them some structure and order for easy reference and also for the sexual high of seeing your entire 58-volume vintage Hardy Boys collection all lined up sequentially on your bookshelf.
A lot about modverse, like LOTR, is very location-specific, so I think it makes sense to break up content in the following way:
Chapter 1: Worldbuilding
All of the bits and bobs that set our scene - anything about Minas Tirith infrastructure or the way our blorbos exist within it goes here.
Chapter 2: Out and About
Anything character-driven that exists outside the home or the workplace. Bars, trains, aero-planes.
Chapter 3: Professor Gloinûl
Gimli at work! Anything about Minas Tirith University.
Chapter 4: Little Domestics
Sometimes a family is an elf, a dwarf, and their childless double income.
Chapter 5: Before the beginning
All the stuff before modverse takes place
Chapter 6: All of the Social Media Posts
My bread and butter, really ... anything that takes place in the digital sphere.
Chapter 7: All of the Porn
... you know. The recreational sweating.
** Because the majority of it is so gen I'm choosing not to tag this as an E-rating, although obviously Chapter 7 will be E-rated. You're a big kid you can make your own choices**

Finally, all work posted in this fic is my own - please do not redistribute it in any way! If you want to reblog or retweet it, you can usually find all of them on my tumblr or twitter.

Chapter 1: Worldbuilding

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long, tall image depicting many modern interpretations of life in Minas Tirith

This is my favorite sort of day-dream; coming up with the bits and bobs. I remember being particularly proud of calling the metro system the SFAX, and both RLF and I are enamored with the vertical corkscrew layout. (Patting ourselves on the back) It's extra fun because if you miss your stop, you have the potential to end up on the complete opposite end of the circle, which is fun for in-universe plot hijinks. :)

Legolas and Gimli in line in a coffee shop. Gimli casually has his hand on Legolas' rear, at exact eye-level with the hobbit standing in line behind them. She is visibly unamused.

Legolas and Gimli at Starbuck's AKA Earendil's ... get it, because nautical?

Legolas sitting at his messy desk.
Aragorn sitting at his messy desk.
Gimli sitting at his messy desk.

Bits and bobs, my beloved! My style icon has always been a Miyazaki-type room Full Of Stuff - you can convey so much about a personality in a cluttered environment, and that's what I really enjoyed about these pics of our three hunters.

If you're here, you probably know this by now, but ini this universe Legolas is an influencer, Aragorn is the PM, and Gimli is an architecture/professor of urban engineering. Initially I made Legolas an influencer because it was a nice excuse to draw a bunch of peacocky fanservice of him, but in retrospect I think it's an appropriate mirror of his role in fanon. That is to say: none of us really know what the fuck he does, his canon-characterization is about as close to a blank slate as you can get -- but we all agree that he is very beautiful. Boom. Influencer.

messy sketches exploring the physical differences between Legolas and his dad Thranduil. Legolas is willowy and slim, while Thranduil is bigger and broader.

Dad is here! This is a messy scribble page trying to work out the physical differences between Legolas and Thranduil, who, again, you might know this by now, he is the PM of Mirkwood/Eryn Lasgalen.

Speaking of -

legolas and his dad Thranduil in front of a campfire. Thranduil is casually dressed in a red flannel, and Legolas is wearing a hoodie depicting the version of Thranduil from the 1977 Rankin and Bass 'The Hobbit'. Legolas has his arm looped through Thranduil's and they are both smiling.
A collagee of drawings depicting silvan elves at an outdoor event.

Lasgalen lawn parties! This is a political even hosted by Thranduil - they're pretty rustic out there. Because I think it's funny, I've decided that the 1977 version of Thranduil from the Rakin and Bass Hobbit - the one where he's a frog - is a rude political cartoon in this universe that Legolas thinks is hilarious.

Legolas in his Rankin and Bass Thranduil hoodie

He had a hoodie made of it.

Legolas has always been in the public eye, but after his influencer career takes off he starts to be his own man instead of just Thranduil's son.

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