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[elesianne]

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Several replies: @acommonanomaly @nstephens14 @irreverentecthelion @alystraea about ficlet & personal post

acommonanomaly replied to your post  “Wealth of iron”

                       I think it's good have stuff posted in multiple places, if you are thinking of posting it on ao3.  =)                  

nstephens14 replied to your post   “Wealth of iron”

                       Fantastic! Yes, you should post to AO3.                    

irreverentecthelion replied to your post   “Wealth of iron”

                       Aaaaahhh i love this what a good <3                    

Thank you guys, I appreciate you replying <3 I will post it on AO3, probably tomorrow though because I always have trouble posting things between midnight and 2/3 AM and it’s that time here now (this has something to do with timezones). I only hesitated because this ficlet is so short.

nstephens14 replied to your post “I thought I’d do a small personal update since I have posted very...”

Lord of the Rings Online is an excellent stress reliever (242 hrs myself??!!) . Self care is important and you shouldn't feel bad prioritizing your own health.

Haha I don’t even dare to check anymore how much I’ve played it! Possibly more than your 242 hours? My fiancé first lured me into playing it in 2012 and then I got back into it in autumn 2014 and played almost every day for six months. I agree that it’s a particularly good stress relief game.

alystraea replied to your post “I thought I’d do a small personal update since I have posted very...”

Health problems are so tough to have - they really do affect all aspects of daily life, and I hope yours get better! Thanks so much for updating us. May you have time to rest and relax lots despite all the Christmas prep.

Thank you for your kind words <3 I’ve got Christmas prep mostly under control now, I think, after hunting presents for hours yesterday, so I hope to have some restful days before joining my family at my mother’s – there’s certainly no restfulness there... I hope you have a good holiday period as well!

acommonanomaly replied to your post “I thought I’d do a small personal update since I have posted very...”

It's good that you're focusing on doing what makes you feel less stressed and not worrying too much about other things (though I'm excited to see what you've written). The holidays have slowed me down quite a bit, but I'll sill be around, and I'm glad to see an update because I was just wondering what you were up to!

I’ve been terrible about replying to your messages again, I’m sorry! (I know you understand why, because you’re great, but it’s still rude of me and I’ll strive to do better. I really enjoy talking with you). The holidays do tend to slow down all other things! I hope you’re able to enjoy all the fuss though :)

[elesianne]

acommonanomaly replied to your post “Help me decide which WIPs to start working on”

I love the variety of ideas here (my own focus is so narrow)! I'm not feeling too coherent, but my first thought was to express that I feel enthusiastic about all of these. I'm eager to read anything you write with Maedhros and Fingon, and well, you know me, anything with Feanorians, period. But I'm very curious about your Finrod/Amárië, too! I should also add that I really love your writing and so would read any of these if you posted them, and I'd thank you afterward for making me branch out                    

cycas replied to your post “Help me decide which WIPs to start working on”

I'd definitely click on 1,3, 6 - the others I might, depending on how interested I was in the summary. I probably wouldn't read OFC romance with Maedhros unless the premise was otherwise really compelling!

nixiegenesis replied to your post “Help me decide which WIPs to start working on”

I'd love to read your take on Finrod/Amárië and also Curufin and Celebrimbor sounds interesting too!

@nstephens14​  added in a reblog:

Hard to chose. I’d go with Maehdros/OFC or the Eomer story. Looking forward to reading whatever your muse leads you too

Thank you guys! *virtual hugs* Finrod/Amárië got most ‘votes’ so I’ll start reanimating that particular corpse first. I’m delighted that many stories sounded interesting to at least one person, and I’m glad that I asked for opinions since just getting them seems to have helped my imagination – I have already gotten new ideas about things to add to several fics!

Also I’ve made very good progress on the new chapter of Your spirit calling out to mine. I’ve got two rounds of editing left: the ‘are all these expressions good, idiomatic English and appropriate in style and tone’ and ‘let’s remove some dashes and semi-colons and commas’ rounds.

[elesianne]

nstephens14 replied to your post “My wrist is almost painless now (with careful use and care) so I’ve...”                        

Love the wordiness! It means more to read, which is always a good thing in my book.                   

nixiegenesis replied to your post “My wrist is almost painless now (with careful use and care) so I’ve...”

I love your style as well. And, Maglor was the lone feanorian who put himself into self exile. I would say obnoxiously stubborn might fit :)     

Thank you guys <3 I really appreciate you taking the time to reply with kind words.

I’m mainly worried about making Maglor too obnoxious in his stubbornness because I got a slightly depressing review on fanfiction.net and though I’ve tried not to care about it too much, that kind of thing is difficult to ignore for someone like me. But seriously, Maglor is clearly a stubborn character, and I am under no obligation to write him otherwise flawless either, right? He’s ‘better’ in some respects than, say Curufin and Celegorm, but he doesn’t have to be a perfect little angel either.

[elesianne]

alystraea replied to your post “Close to two weeks ago I was tagged by @alystraea @acommonanomaly...”

so great that you're writing again! I love that your Feanorions don't always get along. Given their wildly different temperaments, why should they?

erotetica

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“Close to two weeks ago I was tagged by @alystraea @acommonanomaly...”

adjsk this is such a Representation, I love them, I love how you write them

nixiegenesis

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“Close to two weeks ago I was tagged by @alystraea @acommonanomaly...”

I am SO excited for this!!!!

Thank you lovely people (and also @nstephens14)! Your enthusiasm definitely encourages me to keep writing. It’s bit of a struggle at the moment, I have very little spontaneous inspiration, but I know that if I just force myself to keep writing a little bit every day, I’ll produce something worthwhile eventually.

I’m so happy&relieved every time someone says they like my take on the Fëanorions because there are so many ways to interpret them. But indeed, why should they all get along? Human siblings often don’t, and Silm elves are in many ways very ‘human’. With seven sons of Fëanor, the odds are that not everyone is everyone’s best buddy. And I must admit I love writing them squabbling.