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So, I finally jump properly into LJ, and find so many lovely people, and meet up with some old friends as well. And just as I’m starting to feel at home among such a delightful crowd, all **** breaks loose. I try to keep my RL out of this journal but thanks to those who've been so encouraging offline when I really just wanted to crawl under my ( Read more... )

Mechtild, a thousand pardons! I’ve been wanting to sit down and answer this properly for days now. I'm having to put it here because I've gone and been long-winded, for which I entirely blame and thank you :-)

( So anyway, about discovering fanfic, and one's preferences... )

This started as a reply to a question from mechtild, but got so long-winded it gets its own post:

maura wrote in a comment in this post:
I'd been reading the books for years but never heard of fanfic until after the film franchise came out. I remember how I discovered it - I did a Google search that went horribly, massively awry :-)

and mechtild asked: ( Read more... )

If anybody I know hasn't read this, you reeeally ought to do yourself the favor. Even though it is AU. Even if you're a canon-y sort. This link is to the third of three chapters, so grab the other chapters first (linked on the page). What I really hope is that some of the incredible artists in this fandom will find this fic and illustrate it, ( Read more... )

It was while writing "The Secret On The Vine" that it occurred to me that I've never seen a jack o'lantern carved with the One Ring inscription. Which, if you think about it, should be a natural, what with it being evil, and engraved, and glowing-letter-y, and all. I'm sure it must have been done before but I've not come across it.

( So I gave it a try )

I know Halloween means a lot of things to different people, but to me it's always had two overtones: spectral appearances and "beyond-the-veil" stuff, or harvest themes, centering especially on pumpkins. I really adore pumpkins. They're beautiful; they're nutritious and they qualify as comfort food in my book (we're having homemade pumpkin soup ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm going to try posting my very first fic on LJ here in a minute, which I'm very bad at. A little later there should be illustrations to go with it, courtesy of the delectable poppybrandybuck.

Oh my, this is scary.

is this thing on? Testing, 1, 2, 3...