Soledad's Journal

So, my friends, it's time for us to party! You are welcome to the virtual cookies and to the Hobbit-style birthday gifts. Five of you asked for a story, and here is the list to find them:

Halloween for lindahoyland

I Didn't Know for red_day_dawning

It's Her Birthday for adafrog

Better than Mushrooms for chocolate_frapp

Fond Memories of a Barrel-rider for curiouswombat

Have fun, my friends, and don't forget to review! *g*

Oh, and here is a selection of cakes until I can post a photo of the actual birthday cake, which hasn't been cut yet. Virtual calories are for the win!





And for those who prefer some salty goodness, here are little buns and spicy pastries:



Enjoy!

And - last but not least - today's coffee table with the chessboard cake:

Finished Chapter 18B of "The Toreador Chronicles". With all the double parts, I'm up to Part 26 so far. Posted it to FF.Net and hiddenrealms, to the latter complete with a poll about Michael's fate. Don't know whether the poll actually works or not, as there are only comment-votes so far. I hope it does. This is my first poll on LJ.

Finished Part 6 of jastaelf's birthday story. The Forgotten Relams/LotR x-over one. Haven't typed it up yet, though. That will have to wait till Thursday, I think.

Also finished a so-far unnumbered chapter to this year's Advent calendar. That would make three finished parts and one half-written one already. Go me! Usually, I don't start before the last week of November.

Have worked out some more Dwarf charcter sheets to the retaking Moria story. Still a long way to go, but I'm working on it.

I have exactly 45 minutes left to be 50 years old. Then I'll become another year older. Where has all the time gone?

Still lagging behind with the French holiday report thingy. By this (lack of) speed, I'll be still at it next summer. Gah!

Can't think of anything else. Frigging weatherfront shifts make me all shifty-eyed and drained. This getting older part really sucks.

Edit: Uh, oh! I knew I was a ditz! Thanks for the birthdy card, rcfinch!

... which will be jastaelf's birthday fic. I've written 4 full chapters already, some of it is a way bit creepy, but I'm content with it. Chapter 5 is on its way.

I might have to post it un-betaed, though, at least for the beginning. Just as some of the Edhellond anniversary fics. Too many eskimos, too few fish... or whatnot. I'm tired, we have a heat wave, school starts on Monday, and I've already been called to the principal before the whole thing begins, so I'm having such joyous expectations - NOT! Don't expect me to be coherent.

Went to Vienna with Mum to end the summer with a nice experience. Got me the 3rd season of Buffy on DVD, the 8th season of Stargate and some Babylon 5 stuff I've never heard before. No Alien Nation, no Andromeda. I wish frigging amazon.uk would accept our money. They have such nice boxed editions, and in Region 2 coding, too... ah, well.

Almost finished the "Tales Before Tolkien" anthology of modern fantasy stories. Some of them were nice, some of them were utter crap. I'd like to write a few reviews about them, but just don't feel up to the challenge.
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Got the original Underworld movie, after all. It's... interesting, even though a bit too brutal for my taste. Liked the werewolf scientist a lot. Too bad he got killed. It's always the funny, quirky guys with personality who have to bite the dust. Looking forward to watch the sequel, soon.

Blade - the Series is finished on PRO7. Too bad the show was never picked up for a second season, although Blade himself is the least interesting character in the whole thing. I kinda liked Marcus Van Scriver, even if he was evil. larian would hate the show, as Kavan Smith dies a horrible death in it. *g*

More French picspam as soon as I get around editing my photos. Still hate the keypad of my new Notebook. Still miss my old PC. Still unable to access my saved work, due to the lack of some programs on said Notebook. *sighs* Life is complicated.

I started to repost Seal On My Heart to the TFF archive, as this is the only one where I can post all the adult parts, too.

A pity that it's also the archive with a very low feedback rate, unles you are a Big Name Author (which I am not) or your friends feel like reading - which they already have on FF.Net in this particular case. In any case, the newest chapters haven't been posted to FF.Net to begin with, due to the erotic content and the new "no quotes at all"-rule, and I've re-vamped the old chapters, too, deleting quite a few paragraphs that dragged along heavily. I think it's a better story now, and perhaps one day I'll even manage to finish it.

Also, I posted a very belated birthday ficlet for archet to edhellondawards. It's actually a discarded scene from SMOH that no longer fit into the story, and I didn't know what to do with it. I'm very sorry, Archet, that I haven't thought of it earlier - but it's all yours if you're willing to accept it. You'll have to friend the comm, though - the piece is friends-locked, because of the erotic content.