Well, Hello!
I've had more new followers on my Dreamwidth in the past two days than I think I have in the past two years. I assume most (all?) of you are Tumblr refugees. Thanks for following me and welcome!
Much of my content here is under friend-lock because I talk about my real life a lot, and I am a teacher in a small town and need to keep some conversations off the public stage. If you are interested in Tolkien (or other things I'm interested in), I will add you back so that you can read my posts. If I don't add you back, just ask. Fannish posts are always public.
I have not been doing much here fannishly in recent years. I had shifted most of that content to Tumblr because many of the people here were old friends who, by this point, often weren't involved in Tolkien fandom anymore. I will try to do better about posting fannish stuff here too. You can also subscribe to a feed of my blog The Heretic Loremaster at
heretic_lore_feed.
Many of you may know me less as a person than a Fandom Name. I am, of course, the founder and owner of the Silmarillion Writers' Guild and present/publish in the field of Tolkien studies and occasionally still write fanfic too. (I'm working on one now, in the cracks of free time allowed me by my teaching career.) What you may not know:
Please feel free to say hi and tell me something about yourself! :)
This post was originally posted on Dreamwidth and, using my Felagundish Elf magic, crossposted to LiveJournal. You can comment here or there!
https://dawn-felagund.dreamwidth.org/435443.html
Much of my content here is under friend-lock because I talk about my real life a lot, and I am a teacher in a small town and need to keep some conversations off the public stage. If you are interested in Tolkien (or other things I'm interested in), I will add you back so that you can read my posts. If I don't add you back, just ask. Fannish posts are always public.
I have not been doing much here fannishly in recent years. I had shifted most of that content to Tumblr because many of the people here were old friends who, by this point, often weren't involved in Tolkien fandom anymore. I will try to do better about posting fannish stuff here too. You can also subscribe to a feed of my blog The Heretic Loremaster at
heretic_lore_feed.
Many of you may know me less as a person than a Fandom Name. I am, of course, the founder and owner of the Silmarillion Writers' Guild and present/publish in the field of Tolkien studies and occasionally still write fanfic too. (I'm working on one now, in the cracks of free time allowed me by my teaching career.) What you may not know:
- I am a middle school humanities teacher, and possibly the only thing I'm more passionate about than Tolkien studies and the SWG is the idea of improving equity through access to a strong public educational system. I work long hours--between 50 and 60 hours a week--so there are times when I go quiet. I am not gone; I'm usually doing something SWG-related every day but just have trouble keeping as active as I would like.
- My husband and I live in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, where we get a little closer each year to self-sufficiency on our small homestead. Living lightly upon the Earth is something that I/we also value a lot.
- I have too many little side-interests, including calligraphy and illumination, Middle Eastern dance, and open-water distance swimming, to name the first three that come to mind.
- Fannishly, I am most interested in the Finwions. I don't believe in negative engagement in fandom. I come here to make, talk about, and celebrate what I love, not what I dislike. So I will not pick fights with people over characters they like that I do not. In fact, I'm often itching to be convinced into liking a broader range of characters and developing a deeper understanding/appreciation of those I don't particularly care for.
Please feel free to say hi and tell me something about yourself! :)
This post was originally posted on Dreamwidth and, using my Felagundish Elf magic, crossposted to LiveJournal. You can comment here or there!
https://dawn-felagund.dreamwidth.org/435443.html