Bobby and I just finished the new Danish-language Netflix series Nisser (Elves) last night. It is a Christmas-themed horror series about a family taking a Christmas vacation on a remote island with a populations of ravenous elves walled behind a sinister fence. These are not curly-toed Christmas elves; they're not even hack-happy Noldorin Elves. No ( Read more... )

First of all, I have authored this month's SWG character biography on Uinen for anyone who wants to take a look. I chose her because I thought she'd be easy. Ha! I know
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I've started The Nature of Middle-earth and gotten through Part I, sections I-V, which includes many of the early bits that were released and caused such a stir: the length of Elven pregnancies and the convenient fact that Elven men are significantly older when they are "ready for marriage" (read: done tomcatting around) than Elven women, who are ( Read more... )

I've just updated the SWG's "Ratings & Warnings" document and, perhaps more importantly, posted to the SWG's social media about it, which will mean a few days of white knuckles whenever I open my inbox because no matter how many years we've gone around about this, it still triggers the fuck out of people. Having dealt with* ratings and warnings for ( Read more... )

This morning, at 8:30 AM, Bobby woke me from a dead sleep by calling my name: "Dawn!"

My first thought: Oh shit, I overslept. I was interviewed for the Tolkien Experiences podcast and was doing a live premier with my interviewer, Luke Shelton, at 9:30 this morning. I'd been up late the night before due to a combination of 1) drinking a beverage ( Read more... )

I keep thinking I should post about the covid (as Bobby and I call it at home), but honestly, feel like everyone would be fatigued about hearing the particulars of one more person's lockdown. Still, I know I should, for posterity, right? As a primary document for future historians ( Read more... )

About a month after losing Lancelot, Bobby started to look at what options existed for Golden Retrievers in Vermont. We have always had two, and we really believe in having two because they are playmates and companions for each other in a way that we, as humans, cannot be. We did not intend to get a new puppy anytime soon, but much like when we ( Read more... )

I have been busy with fandom stuff over the past month or so. Some of this stuff is going to be old news to the people who are reading here. But for everyone else, here's a month's worth of fannish things!

First of all, my paper Affirmational and Transformational Values and Practices in the Tolkien Fanfiction Community has been published in the ( Read more... )

I have been putting off writing this entry because I was honestly exhausted by the whole situation. Going back to work, everyone wanted to console me about it, which is thoughtful but means I had to have the same conversation as I'm about to type here about twenty times, plus people wanting updates while he was sick. I just wasn't up to writing it ( Read more... )