More baking
Feb. 19th, 2017 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartSo, I made a small chocolate cake for a colleague, who is a very nice young woman (half my age, actually), to celebrate the fact that she's successfully faced a complicated (work-related) situation. I hope she'll like it. As she's allergic to lactose, I had to make a cake that had no dairy products in it and still tastes good.
Here it is, waiting in its box to be taken to school tomorrow:
On a side note: where is everyone? Granted, I mostly keep this journal to follow the events of my own life - and those of my online friends - but where have said friends gone? In these days Linda is the only one still around. :(
Also, I began to post my Tolkien fic to AO3. Very few people over there seem to be interested in Tolkienfic anymore. And even those seem to be completely uninterested in the stories I personally think are my best ones. Like "The Face of the Enemy", "The Last Stand" or the Halabor-related ones. Are people only interested in formulaic fic in these days?
I find that the most grateful readers are still in the Torchwood fandom. Go figure. They even comment in every leap year, unlike the others.
Here it is, waiting in its box to be taken to school tomorrow:
On a side note: where is everyone? Granted, I mostly keep this journal to follow the events of my own life - and those of my online friends - but where have said friends gone? In these days Linda is the only one still around. :(
Also, I began to post my Tolkien fic to AO3. Very few people over there seem to be interested in Tolkienfic anymore. And even those seem to be completely uninterested in the stories I personally think are my best ones. Like "The Face of the Enemy", "The Last Stand" or the Halabor-related ones. Are people only interested in formulaic fic in these days?
I find that the most grateful readers are still in the Torchwood fandom. Go figure. They even comment in every leap year, unlike the others.
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Date: 2017-02-19 11:20 pm (UTC)How are the German studies doing? And your sweet little boy? Is he healthy and growing properly?
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Date: 2017-02-22 02:36 am (UTC)I have not been online much. I'm usually a week behind on friends' posts (as you've probably noticed!) I'm trying to post a bit more, just a photo with a few lines, something about what I've been up to lately, which doesn't amount to much. My life is as exciting as a trip to the dentist. Which is what I'll be doing tomorrow morning.
I love your Tolkien snips and links from picowrimo. I will get over to AO3 and start with the ones you've said you think are your best. I wonder if the interest in Tolkienfic has faded because it's been quite a while 'The Hobbit' movies were released - the waning of an exciting time for all things Tolkien.
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Date: 2017-02-22 08:08 am (UTC)As for not leading an exciting life: neither do I. But LJ is an excellent way to stay in touch with online friends without bothering them with private emails about banalities for us, older cirizens not made for the hectic of the newer social media sites. I would really hate to drift apart.
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Date: 2017-03-04 02:05 am (UTC)re: Tolkien fic: I think the (dreadful) Hobbit movie(s) killed some interest in the series. :(
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