Lancelot was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer today. Recently, he'd suddenly lost a lot of weight. On Sunday, I touched him and realized I could feel his skeleton; it felt like it happened overnight. We started observing him more closely, and he was not eating kibble, though he was happy to eat canned food. Bobby made him an appointment at the vet ( Read more... )

The summer is winding to a close for me, and it's been a busy one in terms of research and writing. I have a few new things out in the past couple of weeks that might be of interest!

First, I was interviewed on the Athrabeth Podcast about my survey research into the Tolkien fanfiction community. I talk about Tolkien fandom history, cultures, how ( Read more... )

The other major thing that happened toward the end of the school year/beginning of summer break is that we welcomed our miniature donkey, Luna, into our farm family. This means that our farm family is complete. No more animals! (Well, except for the constant rotation of various poultry, but that doesn't count ( Read more... )

We had to trade in my Jeep, Sherman. Vermont has an annual vehicle inspection requirement, and what it would have cost to fix what was wrong with him was more than he was worth. I've been driving him on an expired inspection sticker for four months now, nervous every time I pass a cop car ( Read more... )

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I started this post yesterday and then Bobby, who was playing Mario 3 or our NES, was like, "You should come in and play too!" and the Siren's call of nostalgic video games overwhelmed the urge to writing about books and writing.

First of all, I'm doing a Read Around the World challenge. I started it p-locked (and my list is still in-progress ( Read more... )

I want to do two quick things!

First is to rec the new story of my beta-author, Idril's Scribe, The Stars Above the Sea. This is the sequel to her story from earlier this year, Under Strange Stars. USS is an AU story in which Glorfindel is tasked with tracking down Elrohir, who was kidnapped as a child, sold into Umbarian slavery, and currently ( Read more... )

Titles in bold are written by an author who is from the country or whose parents are immigrants from the country ( Read more... )

It's never good when I outdo myself in terms of working hard. Between Monday and Tuesday, I worked 28 hours: two 14-hour days. I'm not as tired as I probably should be, but I still did not allow myself to bring work home tonight. I felt like a turtle without my shell coming home without my backpack, but here I am ( Read more... )

Crossposted from Tumblr, where I received an anon ask: Do you think after Maedhros dies his spirit goes to Mandos or does he face the eternal darkness for “breaking” his oath? I love the character and I often think about what his ultimate fate is because he had an end like no other elf that I can think of ( Read more... )