playing catch up

okay... passed along by purrsia

List your current six favorite songs, then pick six other people that have to do the same:

1. Let's Get Retarded - Black Eyed Peas (ALL YOUR FAULT, BOOKY! *slurps*)
2. Take a Chance on Me - the Erasure version, not Abba
3. Tikki Room song (the disney one)
4. In Your Wildest Dreams - Moody Blues
5. I'm Your Man - Wham!
6. Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue

I'm tagging the following to do this meme:

uhm... erm... again, just choose among yourselves... thus far, none of you have done this, so we're just going to keep practicing until you get it right! *cracks the whip, causes Glorfindel to jump* oopsie, sorry, didn't mean to cause any undue flashbacks...


Then, Charlie passed along that stress thing, but I did it already... so instead... I thought I'd do a hoe down -

*goes all Ashley Simpson and hoe downs across the stage, knocking over Gladders*

Ho down! repeat, ho--- oh, my, your highnessness, i didn't realize how fast you could manage to get yourself up while still being graceful *runs like hell from irate elf queen*


I've been getting myself in trouble, yup yup... playing with naked elves. Naked elves in bed, dancing on polls, in fishnets... it's been an exciting evening.

And the MPAs are going to be FABULOUS!

Trust me on this.

-Zhie

Okay, elf-friends, listen up!

Alrighty, so... I've heard a LOT of complaints about Quill and Ink. Oh yeah, I'm going to mention them by name. I've heard complaints about other places, too... but I'm not feeling like I need to take up an official big ass public stance against any of them because to the best of my knowledge, they aren't suddenly thinking themselves the guardians of Tolkien, canon, and what should and should not be written.

Thus, I call upon you - all those of you who are elf fic readers, elf fic writers, people who just like to go to elf fic archives and roll around in the fics as if they were tens, twenties, and the occasional half-dollar...

Apparently, Q&I, who is/are quite harsh with their archiving criteria (for which, they use a questionable set of standards, which makes me, as a librarian and puppy lover, cringe)

I'm going to rant now (no, the above is not a rant, it's a bitching fest... here's the ranting...)

Erestor. Love him... LOVE. Thank you, Tolkien, big kisses for Ress. BUT. He has, what, THREE LINES. There is practically NO way to write him out of character because he was never GIVEN any except what the reader extrapolates. Which, boils down to this:

He's an elf.

Elrond trusts him and his judgement.

He lives in or around (perhaps under or on top of) the Last Homely House.

He can ride a horse.

He speaks Westron.

He loves Glorfindel (okay, I made that last one up)

And that's about all folks, without starting to interpret, and then sweeties... guess what?

No, guess.

Okay, fine...

then... it's no longer canon!

*end rant*

*snuggles Erestor*

Okay, back to the bitching...

in conclusion...

I'm getting tired of hearing how they keep making everyone feel bad with their blatent insensitivity. Are any of you J.R.R. Tolkien, m'dears? Did he come to you one night in ghostly form and say 'You there, I want for you to take up this quest and decide for the world what is and is not to be written of my works'. What, no, you're not and he didn't?

to quote my brother...

Be-yatches, please.

*end quote*

*snuggles Erestor more*

*nibbles reader for the heck of it*

*apologizes for not lj-cutting this*

I am enlisting those of you who are willing, able, and crazy enough-- wait, okay, just willing and able then-- to help me promote a happier, nicer, non-rating your story before you post it archive for elf fic.

Yeah, it would be the one I'm helping to run. Put that aside for a moment...

http://swoon.dreamelf.com

it's het, it's slash, it's canon, it's fanon, we love us a mary sue or a self insert, or just plain general fics, smuttiness or not, and nearly everything in between. there were a few things that we decided no on... very few, though, basically, way graphic type stuff. oh, and no glorfindel/balrog pairings, that was another one... just because, there are adult sites that do well with that stuff, and why re-archive it, when aff.net and library of moria are such great places already? no need to reinvent...

okay, i'm done. for now. someone will undoubtedly come after me for this, but y'know what?

DON'T CARE! mwahahaha haha ha ha ha

okay. really done. thank you. and double thanks for those of you passing along the info.

^_^

-Zhie

*end bitchfesting*