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Happy Birthday,

cairistiona! I enjoy your posts so much. Of course Boom and Pip are bringing you breakfast in bed, and will snuggle close in these cold temperatures. ♥

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Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Sons of Feanor, Elrond, Feanor, Daeron, various others
Warnings: n/a
Summary: After years in Lórien, Maglor and Maedhros are ready to return to their family and to make something new with their lives--but to move forward, all of Fëanor's sons must decide how, or if, they can ever reconcile with their father.
Note: This fic is a direct sequel to High in the Clean Blue Air.

Prologue / Previous Chapter

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Hopefully this year I can keep up with these a bit better.

So far I've only read one book in 2026, but I also want to mention the last few I finished in 2025:

The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World, by Shelley Puhak - This is about two Merovingian queens, Brunhild and Fredegund--I didn't know anything about the Merovingians going into this, or much about that time period in Europe (6th century), so I learned a lot and it was really fascinating.

Nemesis: Medieval England's Greatest Enemy, by Catherine Hanley - More medeival history, this time about Philip Augustus, who in spite of my interest in the Plantagenets I didn't know much about. This book is a biography focusing primarily on his relationship with Henry II of England and his sons, which is fun.

The Impossible Fortune, by Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club books are always a great time. I think some of the various different POV segments were not quite necessary, but it didn't feel as egregious in this one as in the last Osman book I read (We Solve Murders, I think?).

And this year so far I've read:

Guilty by Definition, by Susie Dent - All the main characters work for a dictionary so there's lots of fancy vocabulary floating around, which was delightful to me. The story itself is also really great, the mystery engaging, takes place in Oxford. Tolkien got namedropped. I had fun!

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Happy Birthday to

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slightlytookish! Hooray for your special day, ladies!

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Challenge #6: Top 10 Challenge. The category(ies) you choose are up to you.

Have ten random fanworks I've read/watched/seen recently. I'm cutting this section for length, but it includes Tolkien fic and art and Star Wars art, fic, and a handful of fanfilms.
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Challenge #7: LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

1. Creativity.
2. Taking active steps to be who I want to be.
3. Stubbornness.

Challenge 8: Challenge #8: Talk about your creative process.

My writing creative process these days is mostly mental screaming as I'm very much struggling with having the mental energy to write when I have an emotionally exhausting job. Basically, I write nothing for months, get a flash of inspiration, spend two weeks writing a 10k fic, and then go back to not writing.

Challenge 9: Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

I have always been fond of canon divergent AUs, hurt/comfort and whump, and I have an abiding love of Star Wars-Tolkien crossovers. I adore Maglor wandering in the modern day fanworks. I have a quiet love of rule 63/always-a-woman fics, especially for Maglor in The Silmarillion and Cal Kestis in Star Wars. (The latter pretty much doesn't exist, and it annoys me to no end that the game devs basically said that the reason Cal's not a woman is because they thought it was too unrelatable and no one would play the game.)

Challenge 10: Big Mood (Board) CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I'm going with Depa Billaba! She's my favorite minor character in Star Wars, specifically the Kanan comics version (there are three versions, two of which belong to Disney canon). I love her to pieces. In the comics, she carries a green lightsaber, but they also show how she's grown and healed after surviving a traumatic battle. She's drawn with a lot of plants in her chamber in the Jedi Temple. And the third link is for a fanart portrait that really captures her personality and it makes me happy to look at it.

Green and healing
Plants
Fanart portrait

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Just thinking about the wonderful harmonies of the Mamas and the Papas this morning. I wish pop music hadn't abandoned talented singing and harmony for auto-tune. /curmudgeon comment of the day

It's cold, but well, it's also January, so to be expected. Still don't like it, but you do what you gotta do. I'm very impressed, however, with the whole-house humidifier. It's keeping the humidity at a stead 32-33%, which is just fine for comfort. I haven't broken out in itchy spots because of the dry air even once since hubby installed it.

We had to grocery shop yesterday in the 12F temps. That's such a pain, because you bundle up for the walk in from the car to the store, but then you start sweating by the time you're done in the store. They need to have coat check rooms at the front of stores.

Dink is always busy on Sundays, as she's found a church she likes, and they have a small group Bible study later in the day, but she's off today--Happy Martin Luther King Day (amazed Dump hasn't cancelled it), so she came out to raid our fridge and pantry yesterday evening. I don't cook on Sundays, so I just told her to have at it. We were, thanks to grocery shopping, at least well stocked.

She'll probably come over today for lunch or supper or both. She mooches food whenever she can. XD

Today is another cold one, with temps staying in the 20Fs all day. We *might* have a chance of snow at the end of the week, but I'm not getting excited just yet. We're in a severe drought right now, and when we're in the midst of them, it feels like it won't every rain or snow ever again.

Happy Monday, all.

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I promise!

Our volunteers are from all over the world and have lots of different schedules so we can't always guarantee to have it at the same time each time. I know the last one was really late and that has made everyone (me included) nervous, but it is going up today within the next two hours. Thank you for reaching out. ❤️❤️

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