Aearwen's Corner

( Music-related nitterings and junk under the cut )

Life is good; tiring, stressful, and frustrating, but good.

In a review of one of my previous postings, someone once asked if we would ever see how or why Glorfindel chose to come back to Middle-earth after perishing in Gondolin.

In this quadrabble, written (of course) for Back to Middle-earth Month, I answered the question.

( Decisions, Decisions )

( Birthday shinies under the cut )

I hope your birthday celebrations were the finest ever, and the year to come full of promise and satisfaction.

Not long ago, I ended up writing a crack!fic drabble as a gift for dreamflower02. I should be shot for this...

With apologies to Monty Python:

( Surprise! )

Life has been pretty good - mostly - on the Real Life™ front.

( Miscellaneous yickety-yak under the cut )

And so, with everything, I think I'm sitting on the cusp of life taking a new and interesting turn. All in all, I'm happy with the idea of change too.

A few of us here participated in a Q&A community, started up by Lev Grossman, wherein he asked fandom-related questions in preparation for writing an article for TIME magazine on the fan fiction world. The questions themselves were very germaine to discovering who we fanfiction writers are, what we do, why we do it, and so on; and Mr. Grossman's interactions with those of us who commented was consistently respectful and genuinely curious.

Well, the article is due to come out to the news stands tomorrow (Friday, June 8th), but for those who wish to read it beforehand, it has already been put up on TIME's website. In the LJ community, Mr. Grossman bemoans the fact that his article was cut by 1000 words, but the words that remained were good ones.

Read the article: The Boy Who Lived Forever.

After all the kerfluffle over Keith Mander and his utter ignorance of fandom and what it's about, it's like a breath of fresh air to see that someone from the outside came to us properly and really "got" what he was hearing. This gives me hope that, someday, so many of us won't have to cringe or hide our fannish natures anymore.

I have no idea if you have been using LOTRFF as your archive, but you should be aware that it has been sold to someone who wants to turn it into a for-profit enterprise. Aside from the obvious violation of the "Fan Fiction is a NOT-for-profit activity", and/or the potential mine-field involved in a tussle with the Tolkien Estate over the revenues, I personally have a great deal of trouble with the idea that this guy essentially intends to make money for HIMSELF through the use of MY hard work.

Here's his blog, where he talks about it:

http://www.keithmander.com/?p=1191#comments

Note that I speak up, and that I'm less than happy about his plans.

I have deleted all my stories from LOTRFF, as I hadn't posted to that archive in a while (long story - in essence, I got reamed for not responding to a review as quickly as the reviewer wanted me to) and so feel this as not much of a loss. But some of my friends have used LOTRFF as their main archive for years.

Just thought you all should know. FanLib kerfluffle, Take Two, anybody? :-p

A huge hug of thanks to nierielraina for bringing this to my attention.

As I said, B2MEM gave me another opportunity to find a few characters who normally don't get much exposure. This week's Little Bit - a tribble (no, not the Star Trek furry pest, but a triple-drabble of exactly 300 words) does exactly that.

( Waste )