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My Slashy Valentine runs again!

From the Years of the Trees to the Fourth Age, from sultry tales of the Silmarillion to romances in the Ring Wars ... sound familiar? That's right, Slashy Swaps are back with another chance to make your Tolkien fanfic dreams come true.My Slashy Valentine is a hand matched slash fiction exchange focused on the people of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Sign ups are now OPEN so spread the word, recruit your friends and fellow authors, and get ready for MSV 2025. The minimum word count is only 1,200 (there is no maximum, you just do you) and it's a lovely, fandomy way to go into the new year.

Sign-up Period: December 6th to December 20th
Assignments distributed: by December 28th
Deadline for first time participants: January 31st, 2025
Deadline for veteran participants: February 7th, 2025
Archive opens: February 14th, 2025

The FAQ and Rules are on the AO3 collection page! Okay? Are you ready? This way to our SIGN UP PAGE.

I’m in the process of cleaning out my circle / flist quite a bit.

The last few years have brought a lot of change to me with more to come, and I haven’t been able to socialise online in the way I’d like to for a considerable time. I always hoped things would get better and I would find more leisure for this, but it just never happened.
Some of the changes are positive, but also burnout as well as the constant feeling of being overwhelmed and never managing to catch up have become steady companions, and I realised I need to make some changes for the sake of my mental health. Shrinking my circle and flist to the people I’m actively interacting with here or elsewhere is part of this, I hope you’ll understand.

Title: A Motley Crew
Author: Ysilme
Characters: Sean Bean, Boromir, Richard Sharpe, Ned Stark, Alec Trevelyan
Fandoms: Actor RPF, Lord of the Rings (movies), Richard Sharpe (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), James Bond (Brosnan movies)
Prompt: any, any, actors meeting the characters they play (second fill)
Rating: gen
Content: 3SF 2024, crossover
Words: ~275
Disclaimer: This is a work of transformative fiction, done purely for enjoyment. No infringement on the rights of the original creators is intended and no money is being made.
Notes: Please note that this is a reader beware exchange, there won't be warnings for possible spoilers, trigger warnings etc.
Written for the

threesentenceficathon 2024. My heartfelt thanks to

lordhellebore for invaluable help and being the bestest writing buddy!
Summary: Confessions at the campfire.

Read it on the AO3 | on Squidgeworld

Three Sentence Ficathon

I only found out about the

threesentenceficathon exchange a few days ago at

trobadora's but got immediately hooked - such an easy concept, so many lovely prompts, and so many of them also generic so can be used for any fandom! 😁 The what & how on their sticky entry is really easy to understand, but it boils down to this: anybody can post prompts and post fills of three sentences or more, as often as they want. Go check it out, it's really fun!

As ficlets are perfect to dip your toes into a new fandom, I'm having a lot of fun with some of them already with various Age of Sail ideas, altough the first and so far only one I filled isn't one of them:

1. Chance Encounter on the AO3 and on Squidgeworld | Fandoms: LotR/Sharpe (TV)/Actor RPF | chacaters: Boromir, Richard Sharpe, Sean Bean | gen, crossover

I've posted a few prompts myself already; you'll find them on these pages:
Entry 2/p. 9 and Entry 2/p. 10:

223: Hornblower, Hornblower & Bush or Pellew, tea-drinking

224: Hornblower, Hornblower, Bush, adopted by the ship's cat

225: Hornblower, Hornblower, Pellew, even an Admiral might need to be rescued

225: any Age of Sail fandoms, any, characters from different fandoms end up with each other in an awkward situation

227: Master and Commander/ Jack Aubrey Series + Star Trek, Stephen Maturin, tea with the captain

Eeep, I nearly forgot to share this:

My Slashy Valentine runs again!

tolkien_slashy_swaps

From the Years of the Trees to the Fourth Age, from sultry tales of the Silmarillion to romances in the Ring Wars ... sound familiar? That's right, Slashy Swaps are back with another chance to make your Tolkien fanfic dreams come true.
My Slashy Valentine is a hand matched slash fiction exchange focused on the people of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. There's still a whole week left to sign up and we would love for you to come and join us. The minimum word count is only 1,200 (there is no maximum, you just do you) and it's a lovely, fandomy way to go into the new year.

Sign-up Period: December 7th to December 21st
Assignments distributed: by December 28th
Deadline for first time participants: January 31st, 2024
Deadline for veteran participants: February 7th, 2024
Archive opens: February 14th, 2024

The FAQ and Rules are on the AO3 collection page! Okay? Are you ready? This way to our SIGN UP PAGE.

Title: Catch Of The Day
Author: Ysilme
Characters: Erestor, Glorfindel, Elrond, Celebrían
Genre: gen
Rating: teen and up
Content: Second Age, Imladris, merfolk, mer Erestor, fly-fishing, WIP
Words: ~ 1800 words
Disclaimer: This is a work of transformative fiction based on JRR Tolkien’s creation, done purely for enjoyment. No infringement is intended and no money is being made.

Notes: Written for Sortumavaara for Scribbles & Drabbles 2023 for the art prompt "Catch of the Day" by Sortumavaara.
My heartfelt thanks to lordhellebore for alpha-reading and hand-holding.

Summary: All Gorfindel wanted was a bit of peace and quiet. But wishes are not always granted.

Read it on the AO3 or on Squidgeworld

Title: There Was Only One Bed
Author: Ysilme
Characters: Erestor, Glorfindel
Genre: gen, hurt/comfort
Rating: gen
Content: Early Third Age, Eriador, travelling, friendship, hurt/comfort
Words: ~ 1500
Disclaimer: This is a work of transformative fiction based on JRR Tolkien’s creation, done purely for enjoyment. No infringement is intended and no money is being made.

Notes: Written for IDNMT for Scribbles & Drabbles 2023 for the art prompt "There was only ... ONE bed" by IDNMT.
My heartfelt thanks to lordhellebore for alpha-reading and hand-holding.

Summary: Glorfindel looked at Erestor, but the other stood with half-closed eyes, looking every bit as exhausted as he likely was. He sighed.
"I suppose it cannot be helped. We take it. But he fire needs to be good and the dinner plenty, do you hear me?"

Read it on the AO3 or on Squidgeworld

Title: Tea for Two
Author: Ysilme
Characters: Elrond, Bilbo Baggins, a cat
Genre: friendship
Rating: gen
Content: Third Age, Imladris, friendship, friends being nerds, teatime, drinking tea, cats
Words: ~ 900 words
Disclaimer: This is a work of transformative fiction based on JRR Tolkien’s creation, done purely for enjoyment. No infringement is intended and no money is being made.
Notes: Written for maglor_my_beloved for Scribbles & Drabbles 2023 for the art prompt "Teatime" by maglor-my-beloved.

Summary: Two friends share an afternoon of tea and friendship.

Read it on the AO3 or on Squidgeworld

Scribbles & Drabbles 2023 have been revealed!

Go check out an awesome collection of fanworks all over Tolkien's works made for equally awesome art prompts!
Part of the even is also a prompt gallery in memoriam for , which aimed at creating art prompts for prompt requests and preferences she'd made in the past. Stories written for those prompts are also to be found in this collection.

I've been swamped with the most delightful gifts; all three of my artworks (moodboards) have been claimed at least twice! ♥

For Fabrics of the Forest:
sallysavestheday wrote These Soft Threads That Bind Us (Legolas, OFC (Legolas' mother)
maglor_my_beloved wrote Made With Love (Elrond, Erestor)

For The Silver Tree:
GoschateWabn wrote The Silver Tree (Celeborn, an entmaiden)
sallysavestheday wrote Not Yet a Song of Remembrance (Celeborn & Thranduil)
daughterofshadows wrote Where are your roots? (Celeborn & Nellas)

For The Making of a Loremaster:
lferion wrote Beginning Loremastery (Elrond, a cat)
maglor_my_beloved wrote Telumbë (Elrond, Erestor, a cat)
XirinOfArvada wrote Five Decades, Seven Voyages (WIP) (Elrond, Elros, OFC)

Three moodboards made as image prompts for Scribbles & Drabbles 2023, using photos by me and from unsplash.com.
The full tag sets and detailed image descriptions can be found on the respective Squidgeworld or AO3 entries.

1. The Making of a Loremaster
Link to AO3 | Link to Squidgeworld

Thumbnail of sixteen-photo moodboard illustrating the story title. For detailed image decription please follow the link to the AO3 or squidgeworld entry.

Characters: Elrond & any
Summary: Lindon in the Second Age: Whenever Elrond is able to escape his duties at the court of Lindon, he goes exploring, following the lead of his insatiable thirst for knowledge. An embarrassing or absurd incident is happening, and perhaps Elrond even gets a cat?

( Two more under the cut )

I finally managed to get another drabble finished for this series, and realised I've never posted #26 also over here. Both drabbles are also using prompts from 2019's B2MeM Bingo card The Apothecary Garden. I'm also not sure if I ever posted all drabbles of the series also here on DW, but you'll find them on the AO3, Squideworld and FFnet.

( Drabble 26 + 27 )

Does anybody know what the issue with Imgur is? I find my photos hosted there aren't displayed any longer, and I can't also see any of my images when I log in, just placeholder squares, since about two days, and I also found images from others using the service aren't displaying.

Sharing an info by

hhimring :

Because this seems to have spread since I first saw it warned for and now is affecting writers in the Tolkien fandom as well, I thought it would be worth putting an alert here, as well:
There is now at least one spambot (perhaps more than one) that accuses writers in AO3 comments of having their work written by an AI.
If this happens to you: it is spam, you did nothing to provoke it, so don't take it personally.
What you need to do is to hit the Spam button next to the comment to report it to AO3, rather than just delete it.

Title: Much That Is Fair
Author: Ysilme
Characters: Haldir, Orophin, Rúmil, Airendur (OMC), Maidhiel (OFC), various OCs
Genre: angst, hurt/comfort
Rating: Teen and up
Content: gen, injury recovery, unconsciousness, coma, siblings, estrangement, hurt/comfort
Words: ~ 6200
Disclaimer: This is a work of transformative fiction based on JRR Tolkien’s creation, done purely for enjoyment. No infringement is intended and no money is being made.
Notes: Written for

red_lasbelin for Scribbles & Drabbles 2022 for the art prompt "Much That Is Fair" by

red_lasbelin who also chose the quote below above as part of the prompt.
My heartfelt thanks to

curiouswombat for beta-reading, and to

lordhellebore for hand-holding and idea-bouncing throughout the writing process.

Summary: Haldir, gravely injured at the battle of Helm's Deep and believed dead by most, has left his brothers behind after a bitter argument. When they learn he has survived, they hasten to Imladris to see him again.

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places;
but still there is much that is fair,
and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief,
it grows perhaps the greater."

Read it on the AO3 or on Squidgeworld

The fandom tribute collection

red_lasbelin has created in honour of

keiliss has gone life on the 19th.

A Fandom Tribute to Keiliss

Rainbow-coloured neon lights in heart shape on a dark backdrop with the text as caption.

The collection is an open and open-end invitation for anybody who feels inspired by

keiliss and her stories to create something for her and her memory and add it to the collection. The collection will remain open indefinitely, so please check in again later to see more new works!

If you would like to create a fanwork for the collecdtion, more details can be found in the FAQs. A prompt list created by

zhie and

independence1776 is here.

Please also check out

red_lasbelin's entry about the collection and other tributes to Keiliss, like many stories of the MSV 2023 exchange which were also dedicated to her, or the community

tolkienshortfanworks dedicating their February challenge to her memory.

tolkien_slashy_swaps presents:

Lit candles surrounding a rose and a heart-shaped bowl with candles inside

My Slashy Valentine 2023 has gone live, and we have
79 great new stories for you to check out!
MSV 2023 collection on the AO3

I didn't participate as a writer this year, but joined

red_lasbelin as a moderator. It's been a fantastic experience, particularly working together with red who is super easy to work with and had endless patience for everything I was unfamiliar with, and I have a wholly new appreciation of the job mods do in a one-to-one gift fic exchange. Thank you for taking your chance with me, red, and for being such a terrific mentor! ♥

cornerofmadness lured me to

comment_bingo last year, and it's been a great motivation to reach my goal of more feedback, but also a great excuse for several lovely trips down memory lane to find fills for the year-related prompts.

Pink and violet squares forming a larger bingo square on a pastel background with the caption "Comment Bingo Round 2 Ysilme Blackout"

Pink and violet squares forming a larger bingo square on a pastel background with the caption "Comment Bingo Round 2 Ysilme Blackout"

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I just about managed to finish my card, and with a black-out, too!

( My card for Comment Bingo )

red_lasbelin has created a fandom collection on the AO3 in memory of

keiliss, intended for fan creations inspired by her and her works.

A Fandom Tribute to Keiliss

The collection is an open and open-end invitation for anybody who feels inspired by

keiliss and her stories to create something for her and her memory and add it to the collection. The collection will go live on

keiliss ' birthday on February, 19th, and will remain open afterwards.

More details can be found in the FAQ of the collecdtion. A prompt list created by

zhie can be found here.

My Slashy Valentine is a hand matched slash fiction exchange focused on the people of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. There's still a whole week left to sign up and we would love for you to come and join us. The minimum word count is only 1,200 (there is no maximum, you just do you) and it's a lovely, fandomy way to go into the new year.

Sign-up Period: November 27th to December 14th
Assignments distributed: by December 24th
Deadline for first time participants: January 31st, 2023
Deadline for veteran participants: February 7th, 2023
Archive opens: February 14th, 2023

The FAQ and Rules are on the AO3 collection page! Okay? Are you ready? This way to our SIGN UP PAGE.

This year's exchange is in honor of

keiliss , a very dear fandom friend to us all and a special supporter of My Slashy Valentine, who passed away August 2022.

From the Years of the Trees to the Fourth Age, from sultry tales of the Silmarillion to romances in the Ring Wars ... sound familiar? That's right, Slashy Swaps are back and it’s once again time to make your Tolkien fanfic dreams come true.

My Slashy Valentine is a hand matched slash fiction exchange focused on the people of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Sign ups are now OPEN at

tolkien_slashy_swaps so spread the word, recruit your friends and fellow authors, and get ready for MSV 2023.

Sign-up Period: November 27th to December 14th
Assignments distributed: by December 24th
Deadline for first time participants: January 31st, 2023
Deadline for veteran participants: February 7th, 2023
Archive opens: February 14th, 2023

The FAQ and Rules are on the AO3 collection page! Okay? Are you ready? This way to our SIGN UP PAGE.

This year's exchange is in honor of keiliss , a very dear fandom friend to us all and a special supporter of My Slashy Valentine, who passed away August 2022.

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