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Athos asked earlier as a tagalong to an earlier posting why I don't archive on OEAM [Of Elves and Men] or some other place... took me a while, it's Tuesday, I'm slow...
There's a line under the rules about 'no self-insert'. And, I totally respect how other people run their archive.
Problem for me is, that every single character I write about, is on some level an insert. An adaptation of someone I know in real life.
Or, an adaptation of myself.
For that reason, everything I have written, could conceivably be SI, or something like it. Drawn from someone in real life; even many of the events are simply retellings of my life and the world around me.
In Lorien Origin, Haldir asks for a brother. When I was a little kid, I asked for a sister. Haldir got Oro; I got Maggie.
Orophin's 'no pants dance'.. very much similar to my brother's 'front porch towel extravaganza'.
The pouncing.. really does happen. The notes the wardens fire across the borders to each other.. was Maggie wadding up messages on scrap paper and tossing them at my head at work one day. Salgant.. bane of my high school years, only different gender and I didn't slap her like Erestor slapped him, but I really would have liked to (but, I did call her out before an audience, and was, in fact, quite severely punished, all things considered).
I could continue for a while, but it might get boring.
So, it seemed unfair to 'sneak it in' per se. *nods* Besides. I have a purple archive. With bunnies. Not many can say that. Wheee!
There's a line under the rules about 'no self-insert'. And, I totally respect how other people run their archive.
Problem for me is, that every single character I write about, is on some level an insert. An adaptation of someone I know in real life.
Or, an adaptation of myself.
For that reason, everything I have written, could conceivably be SI, or something like it. Drawn from someone in real life; even many of the events are simply retellings of my life and the world around me.
In Lorien Origin, Haldir asks for a brother. When I was a little kid, I asked for a sister. Haldir got Oro; I got Maggie.
Orophin's 'no pants dance'.. very much similar to my brother's 'front porch towel extravaganza'.
The pouncing.. really does happen. The notes the wardens fire across the borders to each other.. was Maggie wadding up messages on scrap paper and tossing them at my head at work one day. Salgant.. bane of my high school years, only different gender and I didn't slap her like Erestor slapped him, but I really would have liked to (but, I did call her out before an audience, and was, in fact, quite severely punished, all things considered).
I could continue for a while, but it might get boring.
So, it seemed unfair to 'sneak it in' per se. *nods* Besides. I have a purple archive. With bunnies. Not many can say that. Wheee!
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As for archive elsewhere, I know that I first read 'Lorien Origin' (and 'Lord Celeborn's Book', Alex!) on the now-defunct Galadhrim.net. I am so glad, because that was the first LOTR fiction site I found and it led me to so many great authors :-)
However, I soon found the trail of the Purple Bunny, and have spent many hours perusing you wonderful stories so-
THANK YOU, ZHIE!!!!