Today I was talking to the ever-wonderful lilan14 about my recent frustrations with finding good fanfic of a particular sort that I've been having a hankering for, and was told to "join the club" to which I predictably asked if we get membership cards. Turns out we didn't, but now... we do!
( Disgruntled Fanfic Readers Club membership card )

So... I've been awfully quiet on here for a while. I mean, worse than usual. Non-posting, non-commenting disease or absent-from-LJ syndrome or something. Sorry 'bout that. At first I was just feeling kinda withdrawn, then I was pondering something best kept up here *taps head* and then for the last week it was all omens and stress over RL. But... ( Read more... )

So you're hanging out with other Tolkien fen, and you've run through all the inevitable conversations, such as discussions of the probability of wings on Balrogs, the nature of Tom Bombadil, and what lembas was really made of. You've even argued out whether there were two Glorfindels, whether Denethor was always like that, and which members of the ( Read more... )

Okay, I feel kinda bad about not getting to this the first week of March, but all my creativity laughed at me, so I'll just have to settle for what I can manage ( Read more... )

At the very last possible moment I decided to go to ORC (The One Ring Celebration) even though going at the very last possible moment meant that I didn't get to spend a whole lot of time there, but that's okay because I didn't really have time to spare anyway, but anyway, and I'll try not to babble too much, but here's the tale of yesterday... ( ORC report, long, contains spoilers for bloopers )

Now that the full schedule is out, I am so kicking myself for not being at ORC right now. Why why why?! Why am I an idiot? Why did I have to get sick for the last two weeks and forget all about it? Augh! It's not like it's soooo far from here! Just a 2 hour drive! First screening ever of the lotr blooper reels OMG! Discussions galore! Many ( Read more... )

'Tis 9 o'clock an' I raise me a big ol' dipper o' dat fine juice, and I says, "Yo' tale is told an' yo' frame is cold, but the legend of da hippest cat to ever groove upon this sweet swingin' sphere shall blow forever mo'. The Professor!"

ETA...

( Natal-day swing )

wheee! comic-con rocks.

( Babble and pix be here )

Ehh, just wanted to let everybody know... I'm gonna be offline for a while, dunno how long... just got a new comp and have to switch everything over, it could be done tonight, it might take all weekend, dunno...

Anyway, here's a Boromir obsession list I made a while back, figured maybe somebody might get a kick out of it.

( I say squeeee! )

If you're as weird as me, swallow your drink before reading this.

( weirdness warning. Beer and computers don't mix. Trust me... )