Happy (belated) birthday, spiced_wine ! I hope that it is going to be a good year for you! *hugs*

No pictures of elves this year, but instead a page from my favorite webcomic - because hot gladiators are better than chocolate cake. ;)

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In much better news, one of the things that more or less made that past year so terible for me has - I'm not going to say vanished, but... got considerably better? Looks as if is going to get considerably better very soon? Just... a ray of light, but you cannot imagine how relieved I suddenly feel.

Anyway, I decided to reward myself - was going to buy TP for Ell, but then I saw that amazon had the complete collection of Lost on blu-ray on sale for only 80€ when usually it's almost twice that much... And I still had amazon vouchers from Christmas. A completely unneccessary thing, but rewatching Lost from the beginning will be awesome, and I only spent 40€ on it, too in the end, when usually one season is that much.

Still getting TP for Ell to spend on wardrobe space, though. \o/

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Last week, I had far too much fun following this discussion - especially the recommendations and links posted therein! (It is still my great hope that thanks to the new blood in the fandom which the Hobbit movie will attract, there will be a lot more Tolkien fic along these lines. \o/)

All these wonderful recs even made me read fic in a fandom I'm not even in, but then, that is the joy of AUs. The Revolution Will Not Be Civilzed - Interception fandom, but I don't think you need to know the movie to enjoy this. Of course, it might not be your kink, but I was enjoying this far too much.

The discussion also made me reread an old favorite in the HP fandom: An Eye For An Eye. Yay threesomes. <3

There was lots of wonderful LOTROing yesterday, but I'll be happy if I never have to see the Pits of Iron ever again. But to make up for the hours spent in a cave, there was relaxing at the server's Saturday Night Social afterward, where there was music and dancing and drink. And a fashion intervention for Gwyndir beforehand, so we all looked stunning. :D

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New icon, heeh! :D

Also, I found this via synecdochic:



This is just awesome! I don't know ASL at all, but this is still utterly hilarious.. and the explanations here make it even better.

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So, MEFAs... I still feel guilty that I didn't get around to reviews. But instead of starting the year with even more guilt, I'll rather try to make up for it by leaving more reviews next year (well, this year, really).

I got two honorable mentions, and even though CE was disqualified a few days ago, spiced_wine's nomination and the lovely reviews were truly appreciated! And when I was browsing Tumblr earlier today, I found something even better than an award. I just... I kind of want to print it and frame it and hang it up, lol!

Because you know you're doing something right if people start to draw comics about your stories.

*wipes tears of laughter from her eyes*
Ahahahaha! Really, this is just so much win!

♥ ♥ ♥

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Patience (884 words) by Esteliel
Fandom: Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply, BDSM
Relationships: Imriel de la Courcel/Mavros Shahrizai
Characters: Mavros Shahrizai, Imriel de la Courcel, Original Male Character
Summary: Patience is a virtue all of House Shahrizai greatly values, or so Imriel learns.


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Sweet as Tears, Bitter as Honey (1392 words) by Esteliel
Fandom: Swordspoint Series - Ellen Kushner
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply, Drug Use, Suicidal Thoughts, Noncanonical Character Death
Relationships: Alec Campion/Richard St. Vier
Characters: Alec Campion, Richard St. Vier
Summary: Death. It was something he had thought about often, in those dreamy, disconnected hours when Fool's Delight melted sweet as tears, bitter as honey on his tongue.


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Meh, this was supposed to be a Christmas entry, then I thought I'd write one at least in time for the New Year, and now it's overdue even for that. I'm really sorry for getting no MEFA reviews written this year. At least I managed to take part in Yuletide - not quite as good as the last years, but in addition to my main story in the Swordspoint fandom, I did manage to write a Kushiel treat as well, just in time before the archive opened.

I also got an absolutely amazing story written for me for Yuletide - if you've ever read Carol Berg's Transformation, go and read Trobadora's Dissolution! She has hit exactly all the many many things I love about Aleksander and Seyonne and written an absolutely fantastic AU! It's such wonderful "What If" scenario... What if Seyonne had chosen to stay Aleksander's slave in order to protect him, instead of returning to Ezzaria? She takes one of my favorite tropes and mixes it up with amazing insight into the characters and what makes them work and by the end of it, has me quite convinced that if anyone or anything will ever be able to change Derzhi society, it will be this Aleksander/Seyonne/Lydia triumvirate. \o/ This is exactly what I'd always hoped to read in this (tiny tiny) fandom!


LotRO-wise I got to see Draigoch yesterday for the first time - big dragon is big! O_o But I also got reminded of how much work regular raiding was in WoW. I'm just happy I got to see that dragon once. RP is much more fun. I'll take kittens over dragons any day... :D

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So, in case you haven't seen it already, Faerie is all back to normal. \o/ Sorry about this again. It happened of course while my internet was all wonky, and though I had bought an UMTS stick some time ago in case that should ever happen, Vodafone chose exactly that week to do something that killed their internet too. Nothing like poking and cursing your computer for 4 hours straight and thinking about doing a Windows reinstall to make the UMTS stick work again, only to find after those 4 hours that it's Vodafone's fault, not yours...

I managed to sign up for Slashy Santa just before the deadline too, and am doing that last mad rush of Yuletide ficcing today, after taking part in the best in-game wedding event ever in LotRO yesterday. \o/ My Ellonur has also reached the level cap now and when he is not RPing or working on that last bit of rep for his horse collection, he has found out that he enjoys skirmish raids a lot. Oh Celebrimbor, how I wish you would have left more of your worn symbols lying around...

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Not looking forward to Christmas at all this year, but I'm sure I will survive somehow. At least there's cookies and mulled wine and hot chocolate. :)

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I know the archive is down right now, And I'm really sorry - it's hosted on a webspace package of my dad's and it seems he forgot to pay for the next year of hosting. It hasn't vanished or anything, everything should be back as soon as he has paid for the webspace, though I don't know how quickly that hoster will react then. So, please give it a couple days - I'm really sorry for this trouble. Especially as when I put that archive online it was in reaction to LoTRFF vanishing, and I'm feeling really guilty that it might look similar now.

My internet is wonky too right now, so I'm posting this from my phone. I just want to assure you that the stories are safe and once it's back it should be the way it was. Sorry again for all this trouble!

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