"I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

carrying the world around his neck

"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."

Approval Mechanics Meme

mastersnowdrift:

In terms of how I play my character and where they fall in terms of ethical alignment, do you approve or disapprove? Send one of the numbers (technically integers) to my inbox to indicate such, followed by your muse’s name.

• +20 approval (basically a romance option / perfectly aligned)
• +16 approval (we’d make good friends)
• +12 approval (my character approves of all of your muse’s actions
• +8 approval (my character approves of your muse/muse’s ethical alignment)
• +4 approval (our characters like each other a bit)
• +2 approval (our characters agree)
• +/- 0 (don’t know what to think / still getting to understand you / on the fence)
• -2 disapproval (our characters don’t agree)
• -4 disapproval (our characters do not like each other)
• -8 disapproval (my character disapproves of your muse/muse’s ethical alignment)
• -12 disapproval (I disapprove of all of your actions)
• -16 disapproval (we fight. A lot.)
• -20 disapproval (or my character despises you so totally that they’d stab you in your sleep. Repeatedly.)

((Please do not send the full text, just the number))