I'm copying much of this from my friend heartofoshun, as she has so eloquently phrased this true end of an era. Henneth-Annun is going to shut down at the end of this calendar year. From the site announcement: "HASA will be retired and taken offline at the end of the year. This is not being done lightly, and there is a lot of sorrow surrounding the ( Read more... )

I was over at my LJ, deleting the masses of spam and screened messages that had filtered through and decided to scan any posts with the tag 'fic' to see if I could ferret out more of those damn 'suspicious/spam/screened' messages. I could, and did, and while doing so, came across a story I'd written in 2009 and could not even BEGIN to remember what ( Read more... )

I read aloud the Númenorean story that I'd started writing back in '03 or '04 to evannichols in the car yesterday while driving to Newberg. While it's pretty short still, only the beginnings, it reminded me of why I've held onto this one story and its to-be themes of obsession and… well, mostly obsession. Partnerships. At the time, it was a way for me to ( Read more... )

A confession: this is from a prompt request from [cough] May 30, 2011. Yeah. Not quite 2 years ago. So this is for you, espresso_addict. Her prompt was this:
How interested are you in the Gondor Steward's family? altariel & I were recently bemoaning the lack of Finduilas Lived! AUs, though that would turn out a lot more than a short story! If you don't mind ( Read more... )

My Finduilas/Denethor story is done! It needs a thorough edit and to be beta'ed, but it's finished. I'll look forward to putting this little story into the fandom. Happiness. :D

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In years past I have made it a point to reach out to those for whom Mother's Day is somewhere between a bittersweet day to one of outright grief. Early in my divorce it was particularly challenging for me as I wasn't in communication with my former stepchildren- and still am not. With time that has eased (and in recent communication with my wasband ( Read more... )

I was on the phone with the former emansil_08 (she's gone LJ-less for personal reasons) and ended up coming up with a whole long plot outline for a lovely long Gimli story, post-WR and him trekking 'home,' then to Greenwood, then to the Smials to visit Pippin ( Read more... )

A quick aside: it can take hours to update one's fic website when it hasn't been touched in 9 months. I knew I'd written a Rohirric/Dwarvish cultural study fic last winter but in scouring my LJ and various other sites, I discovered I only published it one place for an exchange I now can't remember. So quite happily, I have a Tolkien genfic to post ( Read more... )

Quite to my surprise and delight, it turns out that a local theatre in Staunton is participating in the showing of the 3 LotR films on the big screen! One of my choir friends, the woman I sang the duet with last Sunday, treated me to the movie as well as dinner beforehand. It was so much fun! I was so caught up in the moment that I was thinking ( Read more... )

I must be insane. I just signed up for Slashy Santa (which will post on Valentine's Day). I think it's because I'm feeling more comfortable in Tolkien land than anywhere else in my barely-fannish world these days, and I need a nudge to write. Well, it'll be exciting. Hopefully I'll be having a very quiet time over the holidays and can do my ( Read more... )