Food,Glorious Food.

Food, Glorious Food.

Bonjour mes petits pétales!

Ok, so this is my first fan fiction that I've ever published! Please give me feedback, I really need the help! 😂🤭 

Bit of a pre warning: 

(I’m a bit of a history nerd) A Pavise is a large rectangular shield that would have covered the entire body, just in case you didn't know :)

Much love! 

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The silence resonating amongst the prison of Mirkwood was chilling. Although this was somewhat an improvement for the residents. Some floors above, the white-haired elves tilted their heads and looked inquisitively from one another to establish why the dwarves had ceased their droning complaints, which before now were so loud and irritating they could have easily woken a Balrog from its slumber.

Now, you had been travelling with the dwarves for quite some time after they had accepted you with relative ease, all thanks to Gandalf’s pre-warning. A prophecy had been passed straight from Galadriel to the wizard himself when he had been summoned to Lothlórien with an urgent invite.

The prophecy stated that a strange woman would be found in Middle Earth and was to aid Thorin Oakenshield in his quest to regain the dwarves’ homeland.  Gandalf had taken you to one side after the trouble of finding you, explaining how the dwarves could not know how it had been the elves to deliver the prophecy, despite you not really listening; it did not help that you were extremely cold and frightened, as, I think we can all agree, being transported midway through throwing an empty wine bottle at your god-awfully loud French roommate, whilst in your short Assassin’s Creed pyjamas was not the most ideal moment to be taken from.        

Anyway, that had been months previous to now. The morning before the silence fell had begun like any other… stuck with a load of dwarves, in a prison cell, in a cave that looked like a big tree.

“No, no, no! But that’s not how names work!”

Thorin scrutinised the girl through tense, tired eyes and huffed out a response,

“Well, that is how my name works”.

“That’s not an answer. You are the line of DURIN, yes?”

Thorin leaned his cranium against the jagged wall behind him and closed his eyes. To his chagrin, the girl continued.

“I mean how do they even know it was a bit of oak, anyway? You were in the middle of a bloody battle, not a nature walk, it could’ve been, Christ I don’t know, birch! Thorin Birchshield! Doesn’t really have the same ring, does it?”

“(Y/N)…”

“If we’re completely honest, Durin does kind of sound better than Oakenshield. More regal.”

“(Y/N)-“

“But then Dis married another man so why is Kili and Fili Durin, because surely the line of Durin is your ancestors, not Dis’ husband's. Could Fili become Fili Pine-Pavise? Nah, that seriously doesn’t sound-“

“FOR MAHAL’S SAKE (Y/N)! WILL YOU SHUT YOUR GOB, OR GOD HELP ME, I WILL CHARGE THROUGH THESE BARS AND DO IT MYSELF!”

The rest of the dwarves were immensely glad for Dwalin’s roar because, let’s be real, (Y/N) could go on chattering to herself like a babbie rook for quite some time.  

The (Y/HC) haired girl grunted and collapsed to the floor with the grace of a ballerina (with a broken foot, although in irritation her movement into sitting crosslegged seemed far more elegant).

She sat in that position for a good while, simply fiddling with the edges of her jacket. A slight crinkle made the woman’s hand pause in its ministrations. She fingered over the outline of the recognisable packet and allowed a Cheshire Cat grin to spread across her face.

Yanking the packet out of her inner pocket, she squealed when she indeed proved herself right and laid her eyes upon the glorious red packaging, the wonderful white letters imprinted over the wave of multicoloured ovals.

A sort of… gleam of obsession flowed its way across her eyes. She could fondly remember the days of how she would tackle Antoine to the ground before shoving one or two up his nose for bringing home another woman without informing his roommate. The wine bottle was the final straw, I mean the girl wasn’t that aggressive (only mildly). Besides, having to walk out of your room to find a half-naked woman making pancakes would get old after the first few times, no matter how delicious the pancakes were. Giggling to herself, she chanted under her breath, something sounding like “taste, taste, taste the rainbow”. It was a wonder she hadn’t fallen down with Bilbo in the goblin cavern, but maybe that’s just what Tumblr is doing to kids nowadays… moving on.

“What’s that you got there, Lass?” The lively voice of Bofur broke her train of thought.

“Hm? Oh! These, dear child, are the finest sweets in all of creation!”

The two’s chatter had gained the attention of a few of the other dwarves, the rest following after Fili and Kili’s “ooh”s and “aah”s. (Y/N) rolled her eyes at the two ‘young’ dwarves and popped a couple of brightly coloured circles into her hand before passing them through the bars into Bofur’s cell.

He chewed. And chewed. And chewed. Swiftly, Bofur jumped up with a caw of excitement and laughed.

“Lass you’ve got to share those! Boys, why they’re the most incredible things I’ve ever tasted!”

A final wave of commands and pleads washed its way over the woman, who giggled at their enthusiasm and happily handed the bag around to her new (adopted?) family.  

That was until a thundering voice shouted out in disgust: “Blech! Ugh no, they’re awful! How on earth did you eat those, brother?” Bombur exclaimed. The air in the prison stilled as the dwarves paused their pestering for more of the sweets.

Well, that was a first.

And to think, to find a food Bombur didn’t like only took a strange woman falling from another world.

Indeed it was true:

Bombur couldn’t handle the rainbow.

How to study: Information Based Subjects (Biology, Home Ec, History)

Hey everyone so I have been thinking about starting a series on how to study certain subjects. The subjects I did in high school were English, Irish, french, maths, home economics, biology and physics. I think this series will be a 4 part series starting with today’s which is How to study information based subjects such as subjects like Biology which has a lot of information to be learned !

Disclaimer: This is how I studied for my exams and it worked for me and it might not work for you!

Flash Cards

This is my number one way of revising anything with a lot of information.  Let’s say I am studying asexual reproduction in plants for biology. I go through the chapter and underline relevant information. If you don’t know what is relevant ask a friend or a teacher. Once I know what relevant info I need I start making my flash cards. I add a title card with the name of the chapter. I use small enough flashcards and so I like to write the information big. I tend to keep the information short and sweet and leave out any unnecessary words. Try to not overcrowd the flashcard. Try having 3 pieces of information on one flash card. If you are going to draw a diagram cut out a piece of plain white paper the same size as the flashcard that way it can be included in the pile of flashcards! Once I am done a set of flashcards I will put it in a pile and use a paperclip to keep a chapter together. Then I will go back to them when I am revising

Mini Whiteboards

I got this idea from my biology teacher who used mini whiteboards with us at the start of class where she would have a little pop quiz. Now I know most people won’t have access to a mini whiteboard so if not I am going to give you two ways to make one with everyday supplies. The first way is how I did it! So you will need a polypocket basically the things you put in folders to protect your pages. Then you will need a white page to insert into it. That’s it! You will then have a fully functioning whiteboard. Just write onto the plastic with a white board marker and rub it out with a tissue or a cloth to be more ecofriendly! Another way is to laminate a blank page. You could use lined or just plain paper whatever you think would work for you! And it works the exact same as the page protector! I use this to do definitions when writing them out again and again! This way im not wasting as much paper and you are still learning as you are writing the information down. I would also revise a chapter by writing down everything I know on a chapter and then revising anything I don’t know!

Notes

Take notes in class! Whether it’s writing it into the book beside the text or into a notebook they will come in handy at some point even if it’s when your doing questions on the topic! If your teacher uses powerpoints ask them to email them to you and take notes at home or review them at home while doing revision questions! The notebook doesn’t have to be anything fancy just a plain copy will do because by the end of the year it will probably be a mess anyways!

Past Papers

Past papers are one of the most important things to do when revising anything especially information heavy subjects. Start at least a year before exams that way you can get used to the layout and the marking scheme for your subjects. I didn’t do enough Home Economics papers and when I got the actual exam I felt out of my depth because of this. I would recommend asking teachers to mark them for you as they know the marking schemes better than you do and they might mark you harder than you would mark yourself which is a good thing when it comes to exams. Past papers are a good revision technique because they often repeat themselves over a certain amount of years so you start repeating questions and this helps you learn over time!

Homework

Always do your homework! There have been subjects that I hated so much that I refused to do the homework and it just caused added stress and anxiety and it came back to bit me in the arse when it came to exams ! Just take a half hour out of your day to do that essay or those revision questions because let’s be honest your teacher doesn’t really care if you do them or not because it’s going to harm you more than them ! Even if you start your homework during free classes or lunch it will benefit you. On days that I had a lot of homework I would take my lunch to myself and sit in my class with my headphones in getting it done and most of the time I would work on something that had a heavy book because I didn’t want to carry it home!

Videos

Since subjects with a lot of info can be a lot sometimes videos can come in handy especially the night before an exam. The night before and the morning of my biology exam I watched Crash Course and everything that I watched came up and I was able to picture the diagrams and definitions in my head and the examples Hank gave for certain things! Some of my favourite videos series include: Crash Course and Khan Academy

Quizlet 

I know a lot of information heavy subjects have many definitions to learn and I know mine did. I used quizlet to learn my definitions. I use the type function to learn them as it really helps to revise them and get them in my head. I do this until I know the definition!

Mindmaps

I not a fan of mind maps but they work for certain things. I found they work great for history especially if you draw pictures beside the fact!

These are my tips on how I studied for information based subjects especially subjects such as History and Biology. Take these tips with a grain on salt and learn what works for you and learn from what doesn’t! It took me a while to figure out how I studied and these are the majority of how I would study for these types of subjects!

Let me know how you study and if you liked this post please reblog it! I will be continuing this series in the next few weeks so keep an eye out for those! It’s great to be back and thanks for all the support over the past few months!

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The hardest part of doing a big essay is starting it off in the first place. My tip is to write a plan. Even if you don’t think you need a plan – you do. You always need a plan! Organise your notes and write a plan, and you’ll find that first sentence just that little bit easier. ✨ How’s your Thursday going?

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