The summer is winding to a close for me, and it's been a busy one in terms of research and writing. I have a few new things out in the past couple of weeks that might be of interest!

First, I was interviewed on the Athrabeth Podcast about my survey research into the Tolkien fanfiction community. I talk about Tolkien fandom history, cultures, how ( Read more... )

This thing, which is technically a response to the SWG's "Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song" challenge (using the Smashing Pumpkins' song "Thirty-Three" that was in fact an Important Song to the nascent love story of Dawn and Bobby Felagund), got out of control because it was also inspired in myriad ways by the Mereth Aderthad, most obviously
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I have been promising Bobby that I would learn to snowboard for a couple of years now. Of course, until last year, I was working on my MA as well as teaching full-time (and commuting two hours a day and trying to have a social life and taking care of multiple fandom projects ...) So it just wasn't in the cards.

But this year, I had no further ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is lately with my reembodied Elves kick. Maybe it is because Halloween is getting close. Maybe it is the encroaching dark of autumn. Maybe I am just weird ( Read more... )

Y'all. I wrote a piece of fiction! Do you know how happy this makes me because it suggests I might have a creative life again?!

The story is for Silver Trails, for the Around the Fire challenge the SWG has been running this quarter. ST asked for, "I would like a conversation between Caranthir and Maedhros, in Valinor, once they both leave the ( Read more... )

Tomorrow it is back to work and school, so I will be back on hiatus, writing my thesis, until May. But, over winter break, I had the opportunity to write not one but TWO new Tolkienfic stories, both for the LotRGenfic/MPTT Yule Exchange. So before I sink back beneath the waves of despair work and grad school, I want to link them here, for anyone ( Read more... )

This is somewhat old news, as the story was posted on the B2MeM community a week ago, but I wanted to get it cross-posted before SSPing it, and that happened in dribbles between doing mod stuff for B2MeM.

I have written a Silmfic story. It was written for the Back to Middle-earth Month 2014: Seasons of Middle-earth compilation for the music prompt ( Read more... )

I have spent the weekend trying to keep my head above the water in terms of lesson planning and grad school after our trip, so I have not yet posted here about my new story or the lovely story that Elleth wrote for me! D^: This year, I decided to participate in MPTT's Yule Fic Exchange. In the past, because I'm usually taking two classes, I could ( Read more... )

As a prize for winning the Season of Writing Dangerously, Himring requested a remix of her poignant and lovely Maglor Plays For His People After Doriath. I decided to accept this particular challenge, and the result is my short story "Sharp Things in the Way," which touches on the same events and time periods but from Daeron's rather than Maglor's ( Read more... )

I am a day late for the International Day of Femslash, which was yesterday, but this story turned out much longer than I expected when I started writing it. If this story were to fall in a pop culture genre, it would be the summer beach romance. Here is a [hopefully better] summary from the SWG:

One oppressive summer in Tirion, Anairë is sent by ( Read more... )