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Mr.Kida

@mrkida.bsky.social
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Artist in the game industry. Adult. Any pronoun! Tolkien inspired dwarf artist/worldbuilder. Don't repost my art w/o permission | Not canon compliant Other socials: mrkida.carrd.co

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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Having these headcanons is ofc fine, but I just don't personally like them. I feel like dwarves are often portrayed as an almost infantilized race that needs to be "saved" (where their culture is wrong, hobbit culture is "right") due to fanon/popular tropes and that bothers me.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
....fandom tropes which is the EXTREMELY popular trope of "dwarves do not know agriculture" (contrary to canon dwarves) where Bilbo is the one to teach dwarves how to farm and feed themselves (I guess when they exist independently away from other races they just starve in this trope).
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Though many fandom tropes are about the ways hobbits are "better" than dwarves. Like how Bilbo is often portrayed in fanwork as being more skilled and knowledgeable in ruling a dwarf kingdom than the dwarvish royal family is themselves, and this trope is often combined with one of my most hated...
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Regarding hobbits/dwarves fandom tropes, it's interesting that the fandom trope of "hobbits being more resistant to poisonous plants than dwarves" is so popular. Dwarves are famously sturdy and resistant to any sickness, doesn't it make more sense for them to have such resistance?
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Oh well, at least my tiktok is going well but who knows what is going to happen with the ban and the uhh, Tr*mp stuff
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My tumblr is dying a slow death, I mainly use it as an archive nowadays (because it's been bad for a while) but it's crazy how much my numbers have tanked on there. I've been posting art (on different accounts) there since 2010, it's never been this bad before and it makes me sad for artists
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
AAND they are scottish too
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Oh yeah this bothers me too when it comes to lore fans, esp as everything in the legendarium is written by unreliable and biased narrators. I think in this case though it's because people just don't have the energy to read stuff (and because people get scared off by Silm)
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Natalie de Corsair @nataliedecorsair.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It is indeed
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Ohh I see! That was probably bsky.app/profile/dwar... 's headcanon post then!
bsky.app
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Grór vibes
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Very interesting! Do you mean you've seen her on my socials or somewhere else?
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
An old fem!Sam and fem!Frodo piece I made for a SamFro zine back in 2022 #samfro #samxfrodo #lotr #sapphic
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Me constantly forgetting to add body hair to dwarves and seeing it after posting because I'm in such a rush to finish my pieces lmao
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
HEENCE I decided Grór and other recorded Durin's Folk dwarves in the family tree (which does exclude all the women in the family except Dís) can and should be women even if they might largely be seen as male dwarves by other races. At least in my head, and it's more fun that way
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The legendarium itself is unreliable, I subscribe to the fact that "Nothing can be trusted in the legendarium regarding the dwarves". All dwarves appear male to other races, so I feel the gender of recorded dwarves is extra unreliable. What if the legendarium is just mistaken?
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gr%C3%B3r I know you said ignore the question but I'll answer anyways, this is my own version of Grór (who I decided should be fem). I am not a canon compliant artist and one thing I dislike is the way the legendarium handles dwarvish women + relationships
tolkiengateway.net
Grór
Grór was a Dwarf and a significant leader among the people of Durin.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is why I put huge watermarks on my art : ' )
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Confession time: I also hate drawing/painting hair (and my art focuses on DWARVES lmao)
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Very cool!
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
orc*** damnit
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#WIP Orcish children from a "War of the Dwarves and Orcs" centric piece I am working on
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🪻 ℙ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕠🪻 @pistachiozombie.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"It's such a beautiful night, don't you agree Mr. Boru?" [ #Art | #OC | #Fantasy | #Halfling | #LavenderSkies ]
Leanna holding a lantern in front of a shallow pond of water, looking back at Boru wiht a loving look on her face
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I'd rather not spend my last nickel TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH @snickettes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I have noticed a lot of people do not even consider reading the legendarium itself even when they actively have a strong interest in the topic. Though it may be because I operate in "The Hobbit" sphere where people are generally not well versed in non PJ movie lore? Idk
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I often get questions about which websites are the most reliable as a source when learning tolkien lore, and my answer is always the same. It's the texts this guy wrote himself.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
thank you so much!
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
There is! Or well, it is a prevalent fandom trope anyways when it comes to tolkien dwarf fanworks (though it mainly shows up in the hobbit sphere of all the tolkien sub fandoms)
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The term "rendering" has been used in that context for a very long time among professional digital artists, I just think lately the term has made the rounds among hobbyists as well. So it's not just for video and 3D
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Yayyy I hit 4500 followers on Tiktok!
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Short haired Grór #auGrór #tolkien #dwarrowdam #fanart #lotr #tolkiendwarves
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Luuna 🌒 @lizzyluuna.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
First of four portraits for our #ShieldOfCelestia D&D campaign's 4-year anniversary ✌️ This is the wonderful Ruby, dwarf cleric of the storm goddess Procella! #dnd #dndart #dwarf #vartist
Digital artwork of Ruby, a female dwarven cleric with red hair. She wears plate armor and confidently holds a warhammer at her side.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It wasn't exactly an outward PR nightmare but internally it was , this extremely tonedeaf email angered everyone to the degree that management had to start putting out the fires it started. Imagine if they had posted this publicly???
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
When I was laid off from a fairly large (game)company the email the CEO sent out basically said "Unfortunately some of you will be laid off...But we are so exited to announce our plans for the future!" (which went on for many paragraphs,meanwhile the layoffs were only mentioned in ONE sentence)
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Which like, no shade to them , I just hate how wikis like this misrepresent lore to people who are actually trying to learn. about it. It just worsens the issue in The Hobbit side of the Tolkien fandoms where people think a lot of the fanon is straight up lore canon.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thank you so much! I really like this particular combo for Thorin, though for more book accuracy he should be decked out in more gold rather than silver (since he's flexing his wealth with his gold chains)
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Worst part is that I have seen people fall for this particular wiki personally, I only learned about it because it was linked in the Acorns & Oak Leaves discord where some first thought these OCs were legit/ real scrapped movie characters.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Nerd of the Rings is quite reliable (esp in comparison to fandom wikis which can be abysmal in terms of lore accuracy), I like to watch his videos too ^^
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thank you so much!
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
PJ movie dwarf fans: "Ugh, the orcs are so terrible, they hate the line of Durin just because the dwarves tried to take back Moria!" Legendarium dwarf fans: "Uh... About that...."
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Come to Sweden, you'll be proved wrong about this.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
There are many other examples in this wiki, honestly, it's one of the worst I've seen out there when it comes to Tolkien Wikis, but it's also one of the funniest
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
And "Thórin" Oakenshield , famously unmarried in the legendarium, is ACTUALLY married to a dwarf woman named Lís according to this wiki!
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Oh and Dís is supposedly the second to her name (and her mother apparently is named Lagertha), with a husband named Tíli and apparently she has a grandchild that lived in EREBOR somehow???? Lmaoooo
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
From "Peter Jackson's The Hobbit Wiki". This wiki not about the legendarium but instead the movies but it shows how bad fandom wikis can get. It claims that Frerin, a minor, was married to "one of the most prettiest of every dwarf-women in Middle-Earth" and had not one but TWO kids with her.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A book inspired Thorin redesign from 2024. #tolkien #tolkienart #thorinoakenshield #thehobbit
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thank you so much!
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hmm I see, I wonder if he's active on Tumblr as well. I've shared this around in some of the discords I'm in at least to spread awareness about this.
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Mr.Kida @mrkida.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Concerning stuff, I wonder if he's been operating in The Hobbit specific fandom spaces too since a lot of the fans there are part of the younger demographic. I really hope that's not the case :S
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Nicola Payne @ladynico.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
LONG POST - For those with larger audiences, a repost will be much appreciated to share with as many people as possible In June 2023 it was brought to my attention (and @drnosy.bsky.social ) that there was an individual stalking and harassing women across Tolkien Fandoms /1 #TROPSky #RingsofPower
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