Dreamflower's Mathom-house

I have to go to work in a few minutes, but I wanted to take the time to type up a really neat dream I had just before waking up this morning before I forget it.

I dreamed I had a job at the White House. I'm not exactly sure what it was, but it apparently involved sitting in a big green room at a table looking through books, so I guess it was some sort of research. There were other people scattered about the room and once in a while President Obama would wander through and say hello. There was lots of art on the walls, and at one point I got up to look at some of the pictures. Then Michele Obama came up beside me, and told me the one I was looking at was one of her favorites. She led me around the room as we looked at different pictures, and she told me about some of them. She was very sweet and kind and warm, and I really enjoyed the impromptu art tour.

When I got off work (still not quite sure what I was doing) the DH picked me up in our Volkswagon Thing, a car we have not owned since 1979. Then I woke up. *sigh*

Also, we seemingly still lived here in Cushing. That's quite a commute.

The fic I wrote for the hobbitstale prompt fest has been posted, and it's not anonymous, so I can post the link here:

Old Friends and New

Bag End is in for a jolly time when some of Bilbo's old friends come for a visit. (Domestic fluff, as requested! Fluffity-fluff-fluff! with some backstory and only a teensy bit of possibly angsty foreshadowing.)

It's kind of a departure for me, being a meld of movie-verse for The Hobbit:AUJ, AU, and book-verse, and it was beta'd for me by the incomparable shirebound, who also gave me the title! And there is a little tribute to the story marigoldg and I co-wrote, "Ho! Ho! My Lads!" as well.

I've been cleaning like a whirlwind this week--we have company tonight in about 20 minutes--it's our turn to host a discussion group from the church.

The house is neat as a pin, in spite of us not having a lot of room. I have homemade sliders and mini-baked-potatoes in the oven as my contribution, along with tea, sugar free lemonade and green mint tea made from my very own mint in the garden.

I'm a little nervous about how many will show up, TBH.

AND in fannish news: I got a new chapter up for In the Court of the High King. No time for formatting links right now--but it's up at SoA, MPTT, and FF.net.

Wish me luck tonight.

Due to various happenings in RL, I did not get the chance to finish and post this on my actual birthday, so consider it a belated birthday mathom to all my friends!

Rating: G
Summary: Bilbo and Frodo celebrate one of their birthdays in the West.
Author's Notes: There are a lot of references in here to my story "Ancestress", as well as to my story with pandemonium_213, "The Prisoner and the Hobbit"! You don't need to have read it to understand this story, but it might be more fun to spot some of the references. (BTW, Pande, I borrowed another of your characters! *grin*).
Word Count: 3,576

A Birthday on the Blessed Isle ( Read more... )

Sick! I had to come home from work when my shift was less than half over; the DH was very nice and did not say "I told you so" when he came to pick me up. He'd told me to call in this morning.

Unpleasant sicky TMI under the cut: ( Read more... )

At last another update to my biography of Bilbo:

Chapter 24: One Eye on the Mirror as You Watched Yourself Go By at

Chapter 24: One Eye on the Mirror as You Watched Yourself Go By at Many Paths to Tread

Chapter 24: One Eye on the Mirror as You Watched Yourself Go By at Fanfiction.net

Bilbo and Siggy have a chat with Adalgrim before the wedding.

I have always been proud to be a United Methodist, a denomination whose motto is "Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors".

And then someone does something like this.

*sigh* At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that most of the other Methodists I know also find this embarrassing.

Blazing Saddles is crude, filled with racist language, ethnic slurs, sexism, political incorrectness, potty humor, ridiculous slapstick and jokes that were old enough to grow mold even then. It would be impossible to make a movie like that now, and I am not sure that's a bad thing.

It's also very funny.

And Madelaine Kahn was brilliant.

Just saying.

Apparently Amazon has decided that fanfiction can be profitable.

I don't like the sound of this. I REALLY don't. Here's my comment to the article:( Read more... )

ETAThank you to ramblin_rosie for this link, where you can find this VERY OMINOUS quote:

“We will also give the World Licensor a license to use your new elements and incorporate them into other works without further compensation to you.”

and this:

"“Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright.”

Which means your special AU or your awesome OC is no longer yours. And you only get paid for your story once