Cats'Tales

Oh my god I'm posting the epilogue of A Hundred Miles Through the Desert tonight! It's coming in at just over 375k words which is wild and also serves me right for deciding I needed to do a weird POV-alternating pattern with eight POV characters. This fic and High in the Clean Blue Air have turned out to be some of the best fiction I've ever written and certainly my top two favorite fics--writing them has been really fun and really rewarding and also really cathartic in a lot of ways, and I can't believe it's almost over. Or at least, the major arc of the series plot--Maglor's story is ending, and I finished the prologue a little while ago and am very happy with it (aside from a few tweaks I need to make sometime later this evening). There's also From that Rubble that I've been working on which is just Desert all over again but from Feanor's perspective, including what he's doing off-screen, and featuring more Findis, Lalwen, and Fingolfin. 

There's also probably going to be other spin-off fics in this 'verse because I'm really not ready to let it all go. But it's moving down the priorities list, which is both nice and weird and sad all at once. 

Uhh what else. The asparagus is coming up! But we got hit with a very cold snap that included a freeze warning, so that killed some of the flowers that were blooming and also took out some of the asparagus stalks, but that's fine, there's a bunch more coming up. My peonies are also budding, which is very nice. And we had a red-headed woodpecker hang around the backyard on Friday! They're not usually found around here and I spotted him entirely by chance, so that was neat. Dad tried to get some good photos with his nice camera but there always seemed to be branches and things in the way. 

I made a marble cake the other day that turned out very nice. I'm next going to try this zebra cake which is basically the same thing but in an actual cake pan and with a stripy pattern to it rather than just dropping the batter in random blobs. 

Am still in a reading slump. If I could just. Finish a book? That would be great. I keep picking them up and even if I'm enjoying them I end up putting them down halfway through and just not picking them up again, and it's very annoying. I think in large part it's because most of my brain has been occupied with Desert, so maybe now that that's done I'll be able to focus on other things. 

Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Sons of Feanor, Elrond, Feanor, Daeron, various others
Warnings: n/a
Summary: After years in Lórien, Maglor and Maedhros are ready to return to their family and to make something new with their lives--but to move forward, all of Fëanor's sons must decide how, or if, they can ever reconcile with their father.
Note: This fic is a direct sequel to High in the Clean Blue Air.

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