jaiden_s gave me this prompt: I'm trying to remember the specifics of your LOTR stories, but it's been a minute since I read them. What about a short scene related to cooking? Maybe baking bread or realizing an ingredient is missing or having to whip something up for guests with what is in the pantry?So here is a very short vignette, 447 words. Mostly a ( Read more... )

I found the Gimli trip fic I'd been working on back in '09 (helpfully labeled on the flash drive as 'Gimli Trip Fic, lol, and I really like the title I had/have for it, "A Journey Measured in Friends"), and it's a good 9.3K. The problem? I apparently at the time had some big secret that Gimli was going to tell Pippin and Merry once he arrived in ( Read more... )

A while back, my dear friend kymyrra designed a bumper sticker for me and uploaded it to his own little cafe press shop. He bought one and sent it to me as a surprise gift. To my discredit, it's taken me until now to put it on my car. But yesterday I went through the fancy automatic car wash and then put on the bumper sticker. It's not perfect; I managed ( Read more... )