Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Day Two:

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so

Mark Watches and Mark Reads
This is a lot of fun; a guy who somehow managed to grow up without being spoiled for a lot of major popular culture, particularly various books, movies and TV shows that are big fandoms reads and watches them for the first time while blogging about his reactions. I first started in following his adventures a couple of years back when he did The Hobbit (book, not movie!). It's a blast to see his first reactions to things we who are familiar with a fandom take for granted.

Fandom in Stitches A comm that encourages fans to make fandom related quilts. I got about halfway through my quilt for "There and Back Again" before my printer went on the fritz and I couldn't print out more patterns. But I hope to finish it one day.

Organization for Transformative Works. If you are interested in the news of those who are trying to get more rights for fans, this is a great way to follow the work of the OTW, and to see what is happening in the world of copyright and trademark law as it pertains to fanworks.

Day One

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

First: A work-in-progress fic
Eleventy-one: Too Short a Time, Book One
This is my biography of Bilbo Baggins, beginning with his birth. It's still a WIP, and young Bilbo has finally come of age. The first part is to take him right up to the day Gandalf shows up at Bag End. Part Two will take up on his arrival home. I am also posting it at FFN,, Many Paths to Tread and AO3, though not all the chapters so far are up yet at the latter.

Second: Another Work-in-Progress fic, which I am co-writing with pandemonium_213
The Prisoner and the Hobbit is an AU in which Sauron ends up a prisoner in Mandos, rather than being destroyed by the destruction of the Ring. Bilbo Baggins is in Tol Eressea, and at Gandalf's urging he and Sauron become correspondents. It sounds sort of silly and crack-y, but it's not. There are a lot of references to both our separate universes, but you don't have to have read them to understand the story. It's a lot of fun to work on, as each of us has to wait for the other person to answer the previous letter in order to move forward. We really don't know ahead of time what will happen! The story can also be found at The Silmarillion Writer's Guild.

Third: Here is a bit of my art. I don't have a lot of it, but this one was a lot of fun to make.

I got a lovely little double-drabble-and-a-half in the great_tales Drabble Exchange! It's a very nice bit of Legolas and Gimli friendship:

Consanguinity (authors are still anonymous)

I hope to do more than lurk this year.

I just came home from seeing TH:DOS, and overall I had a good time. We saw it in 2D, because our son took us and so we went to the local theater (which does not have the equipment for 3D). I didn't wear my hobbit costume this time, but I did wear my Bilbo shirt and my hobbit feet. The DS took a pic of me which will probably show up on his Facebook page in a day or so.

General overall impressions: the music was as awesome as ever; the world-building pretty cool, and there were parts I loved and parts I hated, and parts that simply made me scratch my head. And a couple of times, I think I laughed in spots I wasn't meant to.

Tomorrow I will try to post something analytical and spoilery, but it's a little late for that now.

Crossposted from monthlydiaryday:

Except for the having of company, it was a rather ordinary day. Glad my 'net is working this AM.

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Yesterday I was supposed to work from 10-3. My back was feeling kind of stiff when I went in, and then I had some sort of muscle spasm in my lower back. It was so painful; I took some Advil and stuck it out for a couple of hours, but it kept getting worse. I started to have customers ask me what was wrong, and then I tried to give a customer his money back along with his change--thankfully he was honest and called my attention to it--but I knew I wasn't thinking straight with all the pain. So I told my boss I had to go home. I got home and took something else for the pain and put heat on my back and mostly slept the afternoon away. It's still sore this morning, but not like it was yesterday. I'll probably get a few things done but I'm not going to push things though.

The DH was a trooper; he'd spent most of the day out in the snow getting our outdoor lights up, but he also went to the laundromat and got all our laundry done, went to the store for some stuff we needed, and then picked up supper. (Take out fried chicken from a local grocery store). He's just the best!

Last night after the medicine wore off, I made a try at something I've been wanting to do, and began to put my first story up at AO3 (well, not literally my first there, but I didn't put the first one up, Yuletide did that a few years ago which is why I have an account I've never really used myself before). I'm beginning with "Trotter". We'll see how it goes.

As seen in about half the people on my flist...

<LotR 30 Day Meme in one day:
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I had to run out to the store this afternoon to pick up a few items, and Walmart had their big pumpkins on sale for .01!!!!!!!!!! That's right: one cent!

I picked up 5 of them. I'm planning to use them for Thanksgiving decorating, but I'd rather not waste them. I know you can freeze pumpkin, but I've never done that before.

Has anyone put up fresh pumpkin in the freezer? What's the best way to do that? Will they be all right uncut on the porch for a couple of weeks?