Dreamflower's Mathom-house

A very nice quiet Sunday. We went to church this morning for the first time in three weeks (due to first his cold and then mine), and the service was lovely.

And our son called and wants to treat us to a movie this afternoon, so in a few minutes we'll be meeting him at the theater to see Oz, the Great and Powerful! I certainly hope it lives up to its trailers!

All last week the DH was fighting with a nasty cold, and ended up missing a day-and-a-half of work. (The half was when they sent him home with a temp of 102).

I knew I'd get it sooner or later, and now it's hit with a vengence. My sinuses feel like they are stuffed with cotton, I have the energy of a wet noodle, my left ear is stopped up and I have ringing in both ears, and I am starting to cough and hack. And I'm on my second soggie hankie.

But the worst is a couple of little things. I have a cold sore on my upper lip that feels like it's been slashed with a razor, and a sore cuticle on my right middle finger that feels like someone's stuck a needle in it. It *feels* like a huge hangnail, but there is no evidence of one. Just throbbing pain.

Why are these little things always so painful out of all proportion to their seriousness?

Fixing to have some apple juice and some more Tylenol and maybe fall asleep for a while. Ugh.

Posted at great_tales

Title: Fatal Attraction
Author(s): Dreamflower
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings
Character(s): Sméagol, mention of Déagol
Summary: Sméagol fell in love; Déagol was in the way…
Warnings: Death
Word Count: 398

Fatal Attraction

Thanks to children_of_lir for the link to this very interesting thread. It raises some very interesting questions.

http://fanficrants.livejournal.com/11256436.html

For example, can you spoil a seventy-five year old story?

Whose responsibility is it for spoilers--the person who's posting fic, or the person who wants to avoid the spoilers?

And the one that puzzles me most: Were the children of 1937 really more intelligent than the children of the present day?

(BTW, and totally OT: I DO NOT LIKE THE NEW POSTING PAGE!)

A library in OKC is sponsoring a Fanfiction Contest Unlike most such contests, there's no age limit, and the only restrictions seem to be entry length (2500 words or less) and the ability to show up in person on the day the winners are announced. OKC is a little bit of a drive, but certainly close enough for me to be there if I can get a Saturday off.

I've culled through my stories for ones of appropriate length. I tried to avoid stories that relied too much on OCs or minor canon characters, or too heavily on my own special universe. I've included one poem and one drabble set, the rest are fics. So now I need some help narrowing these down to the one I'd like to enter.

[Poll #1895961]

ETA: There is one other rule: it must feature a canon character.

Well, finally, 4 days after posting, it shows up! Here you are:



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My comment is here: http://asya-ana.livejournal.com/62625.html?thread=2426785#t2426785

OK, here's a question for my friends who post at ff.net:

This morning I wanted to post a crossover. I chose LotR as my first selection. Then I clicked on the second selection, from the dropdown I chose "TV shows" and then from the other dropdown I chose "Monkees" (Yes, it's that little crack!fic I did for B2MeM last year) and then...nothing happened. The dropdowns went away and I had a red sentence telling me to "Please choose a second category". So, is there a step I am missing? What's up with that?

(I tried the FAQs. They were less than helpful.)

Day 5

Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or consume different fanworks. Give that new fandom a go. Listen to a podfic or watch some vids if you haven’t before. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

 

I'm completely unfamiliar with anime. I went to ff.net and picked a fandom at random, and read a nice little story. I did not know the background, but it made me want to look up "Escaflowne" and maybe check it out.

This one is quite sweet, describing Bilbo's journey and his transformation: