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On the topic of cheesecake
Erulisse has posed, among other questions, how it is that cheesecake became such a staple in the bunniverse. I wish I could post the origin piece that it came from, but the yahoo group that had it has since been deleted, so it will need to be retold from memory.
Once upon a time, in the original Haldir Lovers yahoo group, there was an activity called 'elving' or 'elfing', depending on how you preferred to spell it. The basic idea was to run around Lothlorien, set traps of treats for elves, and then capture them and have your wicked way with them. (A big role play evening game type thing.)
There were certain elves that everyone always grabbed first, just snatching them up. Anyone in the movies was pretty much taken in the first hour. So I decided on the first night that I played this game in the group (I was like a been-there-a-month-newbie at that point), that I was going to start dragging Rivendell Elves into it. Glorfindel was my first candidate, and I kind of watched all of the things people were using as bait. Thin mints were popular, so was chocolate syrup and honey. I decided to mix it up a little and went with strawberry syrup and cheesecake. Nobody challenged me for Glorfindel that night(most of the time, most than one person would be after the same elf), and while people came along later that joined the Team Glorfindel, I was championing him for a while at the original HL. If that hadn't happened, I would probably not have written about him so much, because (as the name of the group implies) I started a lot of the ficcing I did in Lothlorien.
(Erestor didn't follow for many months, and was an accident. After I started writing for Glorfindel for a bit, I toyed with the idea of making him the father of the Lorien trio, but eventually paired him up with Gildor. Erestor appeared as a minor character a few times, but until I wrote Nothing More Beautiful, Choices, & Silver and Gold (which were all around the same time) Erestor was sort of just drifting about. I had intended for him to be a het character -- I had written two stories about his early romance with Galadriel -- so that was all rather unexpected. And he leaped more into being a 'regular' character after another elving episode, which happened on a boat. Participants 'won' an elf at the end of the night, and I was randomly given Erestor. I guess I decided to keep him. And because of that, Silver and Gold was originally supposed to happen on the boat on their way to Valinor. On a disk somewhere is the first draft of it, which looks very little like the final (or the edited final) version.)
Once upon a time, in the original Haldir Lovers yahoo group, there was an activity called 'elving' or 'elfing', depending on how you preferred to spell it. The basic idea was to run around Lothlorien, set traps of treats for elves, and then capture them and have your wicked way with them. (A big role play evening game type thing.)
There were certain elves that everyone always grabbed first, just snatching them up. Anyone in the movies was pretty much taken in the first hour. So I decided on the first night that I played this game in the group (I was like a been-there-a-month-newbie at that point), that I was going to start dragging Rivendell Elves into it. Glorfindel was my first candidate, and I kind of watched all of the things people were using as bait. Thin mints were popular, so was chocolate syrup and honey. I decided to mix it up a little and went with strawberry syrup and cheesecake. Nobody challenged me for Glorfindel that night(most of the time, most than one person would be after the same elf), and while people came along later that joined the Team Glorfindel, I was championing him for a while at the original HL. If that hadn't happened, I would probably not have written about him so much, because (as the name of the group implies) I started a lot of the ficcing I did in Lothlorien.
(Erestor didn't follow for many months, and was an accident. After I started writing for Glorfindel for a bit, I toyed with the idea of making him the father of the Lorien trio, but eventually paired him up with Gildor. Erestor appeared as a minor character a few times, but until I wrote Nothing More Beautiful, Choices, & Silver and Gold (which were all around the same time) Erestor was sort of just drifting about. I had intended for him to be a het character -- I had written two stories about his early romance with Galadriel -- so that was all rather unexpected. And he leaped more into being a 'regular' character after another elving episode, which happened on a boat. Participants 'won' an elf at the end of the night, and I was randomly given Erestor. I guess I decided to keep him. And because of that, Silver and Gold was originally supposed to happen on the boat on their way to Valinor. On a disk somewhere is the first draft of it, which looks very little like the final (or the edited final) version.)
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Haldir Lovers yahoo group, eh? Must've been before my time.
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Oops...back to work...
- Erulisse (one L)