The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

To keep track of fic fills for FFSB

LadyBrookes's salad bar

salad 1	Confused | Early Afternoon | Pink
salad 2	Livid | Early Morning | Blue
salad 3	Delirious | Dawn | Gray
salad 4	Proud | Evening | Gold
salad 5	Anxious | Late Morning | Green
salad 6	Despondent | Dead of Night | Black
salad 7	Thrilled | Dusk | Purple
salad 8	Content | Midnight | Red
salad 9	Confident | 11:11 | Orange
salad 10	Pained | Noon | Yellow

Ingredients Used: Salad Dressing (Colors 1), Eggplant Emotions, and Turnip Times

Fills:

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Feel free to ignore this, people not involved in it. :D 

I finished my one for April, so I feel accomplished.

hunger	magical/mythological creatures	ritual sacrifice	lazy day off	day at the beach
resurrection	sports/games	history	jealousy	wine/alcohol
counseling/therapy	distress (and rescue)	WILD CARD	beauty	quarantine/isolation
violence	bedtime rituals	multiple personalities	substance abuse	drugs/intoxication
mistaken identity	family (meeting extended family)	undercover	outer space	evil scientists

A Silm fanfic for Halloween, featuring Orodreth, Finrod, Finarfin, and the woman who secretly loves Orodreth. Also, who killed Olwë? No real warnings, other than the fact that the name of the woman has to be guessed/inferred (however, there's not too many people it could be from the description.)

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So, even though I'm horribly behind on replying to comments (again), I'm also now in the habit of cross-posting new essays here. And I was prompted to write another one this morning after reading through journals that made me go "Why? Why are other women saying these things? WHY?"

So, for your reading pleasure -

( Female vs Male Fandoms: A Look At Fandom Misogyny )

...because I need to write things down, or I forget them.

1.) Finish this fic by the end of CampNano. This is going to be hard, but technically not impossible. I just need to write like 8000 words a day. Writing scenes out of order will probably help. Especially if I focus on the scenes I already know what is going to happen, so: 1. Celeborn and Indis talk about Miriel and Finwë; 2. Olwë and Celeborn fight, as Olwë plans to give up the search for Elu and venture to Valinor; 3. Celeborn and Galadriel talk; 4. Celeborn purposefully freaks Finrod out; 5. Finrod and Celeborn have a long discussion about why Celeborn trusts the Finarfinions less than the Feanorions and Fingolfinions; 6. Celeborn finds out about Miriel's death, Finwë's remarriage, and Finwë's death (complete with mutterings about beating Finwë's body); 7. Celeborn threatens to hit Dior with a candlestick.

2.) Figure out if I want to try and run my own Wrimo, based on pairing generators.

3.) Finish the pairing generators (it would help if I stopped getting ideas).

4.) Figure out what I'm doing for the second session of Camp NaNo, plus NaNo this fall.

5.) Finish birthday presents.

6.) Finish editing/writing all my B2MEB stories (the folder is so scary...)

7.) Finish the next three Troll!Mandos stories. Finwë's rebirth, Curufin's rebirth, and Aredhel & Turgon's rebrith.

8.) Keep all my various RP accounts on Twitter afloat.

9.) Next summer, start a blog/journal where I will (going at a rate of two chapters a week), examine the Quenta Silmarillion from the idea that it is assembled based on propaganda that is highly balanced in favor of Turgon, Idril, Earendil, and Elwing, and those elves that they were fond. Based off the fact that the Silmarillion, in universe, was probably based on the Annals of Beleriand and the Annals of Arda, which were written/edited by Pengolodh, who served the above people in Gondolin and Sirion. I'm sure other people have thought of this before, but I don't think anybody has taken it chapter by chapter (if anybody has, please tell me.)

*dies* If anybody wants to join any of the above things that are group activities, such as a possible wrimo, the RP accounts, etc, let me know. Or if you want to tell me I'm insane, you can do that too.

In case anybody wants to experiment with writing crack pairings (though, you can also take ideas for non-crack, friendship, whatever), two of my friends and I have made a website featuring generators that can be sorted by books, races, sexualities, or ages (the ages category is still unfinished, I'm slowly working my way through them.)

In addition, there's an infrequently updated blog and forums (for anybody who wants to point out where I've made a stupid mistake and misspelled something, wrote a town's name instead of a person's, etc.).

Click here to visit the site.

Is it merely the opposite of fanfiction?

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Yes, I'm back. I brought you all a nice, shiny 500 word essay on original characters in original fiction, non-original characters in original fiction, and fanfiction. Hopefully, I don't forget my password again.

There were so many good prompts that weren't called....

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