If, like me, you're feeling sad and angry and kicked in the groin, here's something to help lift your spirits. Gacked from rubynye.

"In your journal, rec a story that you re-read for comfort when you need to feel better because it gives you warm fuzzies, a story you read recently that was scorchingly hot, and a long story that you re-read because you can lose yourself in it. It can be any pairing, any rating, any fandom. "


Sweet comfort story: The Care and Feeding of Hobbits, by baylorsr (Gen, rated G). I fell in love with this story from the first page. It's so gentle, and fun, and innocent, and yet has depth to make the characters real. Baylor has a way with Tolkien's characters; her stories always fit beautifully right alongside the canon, for me.

Scorchingly hot story: The Touch of the Sun, by Fennelseed (F/S, rated NC-17). Fennel's got a new one! Well, not exactly a new one - apparently she wrote it a while ago. But it's new to us, and that's cause for rejoicing, in my book! Huzzah! And of course, there's always Lessons in Maturity, which is my perennial Frodo/Sam Smutbomb (though really, anything by Fennel melts my panties off). She's got a way with the porn that just gets me every time. Wonderful images, detailed and hot. Rawr.

Long story I lose myself in: All That I Had, by Elenya (F/S, S/R, F/R (in one chapter), ratings vary from PG-13 to NC-17). This is the big one, for me. In case any of you haven't read it, a long post-quest WIP that ties together all the threads left in Tolkien, AND does it without bashing any of the characters. It's lyrical, lovely, sad, sweet, hot, joyous and just plain divine. I go back to it when I want to lose myself in Middle Earth AND Frodo/Sam, because Elenya's just so damn good at both. I can't recommend this one highly enough. It's THE post-quest F/S for me.


Hope that's a nice bunch of hobbitfic to cheer y'all up.

Dang, this is a real surprise. Seems my Muse is being awful nice to me.


One Left Over - For the "Birthday Candles Are Hot" Challenge at hobbit_smut


Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo! Big smoochy hugs to you both, my dear hobbits. Whatever would life be like without you?

Much to my surprise, my Muse really was serious when he started to nudge me this week. You can see the results here:


The Taste of Salt - Hold Me, Heal Me Challenge at hobbit_smut


Be warned - this fic is quite angsty. ("Oh, what a surprise", I hear you mutter as you roll your eyes. Shut up. ;P)

I'll be posting this here when the community rules allow. I think that's a week from now, but I'll have to check. And now I'm off to sleep, as it's 3:30 in the morning, and I gotta go to work in 3 hours.

Enjoy!


A big kiss to my Muse. I love you, Baby.

So, at this great new job assignment, I can listen to music. But I gotta do it with my own music thingie, and since I don't have a portable CD player (SHUT UP, I'm getting one next weekend), I brought my little ancient Walkman and have been exploring my long-ignored collection of audiotapes. Lots of lovely stuff there I haven't listened to in years.

So the other day I'm digging on my copy of CSNY's debut album, and came across a song so totally reminiscent of F/S, that I decided I had to post it here. I've modified it, of course, since the original in not about two hobbits fucking (and how's that for a Zen koan?) But I didn't have to change hardly anything except the title line. The result is below, and I think you'll agree that it's achingly appropriate.


( Holding you close undisturbed before the fire... )

Is that not lovely? *sigh* I'd forgotten all about that song, but I got a little tear when I heard it.