I think this is the first year I am able to participate fully in Back to Middle-earth Month since B2MeM has existed. Normally the events require quite a bit of work from the mods during the event; this one was structured quite by chance--though no less brilliantly--so that the work was heavily front-loaded, which means that I'm able to actually ( Read more... )

It is presently icing/sleeting outside and has been for now going on 12 hours. Schools are already delayed two hours tomorrow morning with "morning reevaluation," which means that they're at least considering closing altogether. I can always use a snow day; I always have stuff to do. I finished the short article based on my Mythmoot presentation ( Read more... )

I am rather blue and blah at the moment; it is pouring rain outside (at least it's not snow?*) and the wind is howling something fierce. I'm wrapping up my contribution to the B2MeM review award grand prize banners, trying to think of how to represent mithril seasonally, and feeling like wasting some time but not on something completely fruitless. ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention a whole bunch of stuff in my last post!

• I have started at a gym. O.O This is something I swore I would never do. (Just like I swore I would never study English in university, would never become a teacher, would never write fantasy/fanfic ...) But I spent more than a year in constant pain, dealing with inflammation issues and ( Read more... )

I'd imagine most everyone has probably seen me post about this already, but since the prompts are being claimed even faster than I anticipated, then I want to be sure that anyone who wants to participate in this year's Back to Middle-earth Month gets a chance to sign up before that perfect prompt is claimed by someone else ( Read more... )

I'm choosing Fridays as my day for Back to Middle-earth Month, although I will not be observed "B2MEM" in the usual fashion. I'm really not that into the LotR fandom; I love LotR--don't get me wrong--both the books and the movies, but LotR has never inspired me the way The Silmarillion did. So a lot of my stuff will be First Age. Hey, it's still ( Read more... )