Wow, haven't been here in a while. I've missed it since it trailed off last year.

Posting this story at the request of rainweaver13 and also because I'll be pretty interested to see how it reads to anyone who knows only one of the fandoms, or to anyone who knows neither fandom.

Title: Seven for a Secret
Author: ravenclaw42
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman ( Read more... )

Posted with kind permission of the mods.

I'm pleased to announce that nominations are still open for the FPS and Classic Fiction categories of the Men of Middle Earth Awards, celebrating the extensive variety of pairings in the LOTR slash fandom ( Read more... )

On being "Not too bright", courtesy, initially, of stephen_dedman.

Marvelous essay on why writers write. I encourage you all to go take a look, and hope there's some discussion here around it.

*First and foremost, is anyone else, not seeing the community on their flist? I have no filters, btw. I know that LJ is rather random but still... I'd really rather not miss posts to this comm in particular. - shegollum ( Read more... )

Just a random poem I found in my notebook between notes on Media Law and The Writer and the World.

Naked Bar

into nothingness
the travellers swiftly slip
somewhere past the world

in the naked bar
waiting he sits, waiting and
decaying with time

Title: Blind Sight
Fandom: LotR book!verse
Summary: What if Gandalf and Beregond had arrived later to the pyre of Denethor?
Feedback/Background: Important! This take place in the book!verse of Lord of the Rings not movie!verse because movie!verse Faramir is a very different character. Also, I use a heck of a lot of Tolkien's words in this. Like, 90 ( Read more... )

Title: Lambs to the Slaughter
Author: redjacket
Characters: Sean Bean, Karl Urban, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, David Wenham, Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Jason Isaacs, Roy Dupuis, Harry Sinclair and the list keeps growing, but these are the main ones ( Read more... )

I'm pleased to announce the creation of a new LOTR fanfic awards community, the Men of Middle Earth Awards. mome_awards plan to recognize the extensive variety of OTPs in the LOTR slash fandom by presenting awards based on story length and pairing for both RPS and FPS. RPS fics completed between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007 are eligible and winners will ( Read more... )

My brain
was banished
…has vanished
and yet has managed
to tear
and stitch
and twist and lie,
recall and forget.
fall backwards to scream ahead.

the only thing it hasn’t done is
STOP

Title: Lambs to the Slaughter
Author: redjacket
Characters: Sean Bean, Karl Urban, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, David Wenham, Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Jason Isaacs, Roy Dupuis, Harry SinclairFandom and/or pairing: LotR RPS plus some. Pairings would be telling ( Read more... )