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Work: Is great, in most ways. New job is rewarding and doing something important and actually out of the house 75% of the time. It is a bit more of a Kobayashi Maru situation than I was ideally hoping for - "we need a solution to this problem which is both good and cheap and fast!", hmmm - and the subject matter can get a bit upsetting sometimes, so I'm even more glad of being able to take it out of the house and come away from it when I'm off work.

Writing: It is all Tolkien, all the time. I am lost. Rings of Power has reawoken the Balrog of my latent Tolkien fannishness and I can remember all of it now and ohhhhhh I've missed this. I am also really, really pleased to have rediscovered writing fanfic as stress relief and am amazed by how much I can get written on my phone on the train. I am carving out a really nice happy-place writing niche for myself writing Galadriel and/or Sauron Rings of Power woven into wider Tolkien canon and I am having so much fun with it. Latest:

So Wide a Sea: 5500 words, explicit/mature (kind of borderline), Galadriel in s1 Rings of Power era then after LOTR, Galadriel/Sauron and Galadriel/Celeborn but mostly Galadriel, really.

Shadow-Bride: ongoing WIP, currently 50k words and 8/15 chapters. Galadriel/Sauron which lol I never thought I would be writing and is now this huge pairing, all hail the ff.net girlies who saw the light in 2003.

Also I have a fandom Twitter account now! all welcome come say hi. It is a wild and crazy world out there and the other week I got accused by some 'Tolkien purists' (pffft you kids know NOTHING) of being a paid-for Amazon promoter. lollllllll. Amazon if you're out there: I will come work for you if you give me a job that is as interesting as mine, less stressful than mine, and comes with an extra few seasons of The Expanse please please please.

Reading: more Tolkien. Currently on umpteenth Lord of the Rings reread, after... about fifteen years I think. But so SLOWLY, I have so little free uninterrupted time and much of it is spent manically writing fanfic. I am also reading Amy Liptrot's The Outrun, a memoir of addiction and life on Orkney.

Watching: not so much because ditto. I saw the first episode of s3 Picard and I quite liked it (but then I've always liked how previous Picard seasons started, just went off them as they went on); I saw the first episode of Wednesday which was fun but hasn't made me desperate to watch more; and I've started watching Lockwood & Co which is very young-adult-y but in the best way. Oh! And I finally saw Wakanda Forever when it came out on streaming, and LOVED it.