AMC--Chapter Thirty-Two

I hope everyone had or is having a wonderful holiday! AMC will now resume its twice-weekly posting schedule beginning today. Now, we get to follow Tyelkormo to Orome's Halls. It's quite a safe chapter for all readers--unless you consider a little catfight between Tyelko and Findekano reason to fret--so I'm giving it a general rating.

Per usual, comments and criticisms are always welcome. Thank you for reading!

( Chapter Thirty-Two )

Happy Howlidays!

To everyone: I hope you had a wonderful Christmas or are having a wonderful Hanukhah or simply enjoying your holiday season, however you choose to celebrate it. This has been a wonderful Christmas holiday this year for me, with the chance to share much with friends and family and the feeling of being appreciated and accepted in turn. I didn't always have this, so it's been wonderful to share the holiday with all of you this year.

( Holiday Rambling under the Cut.... )

Friday night was the Capitals/Canadiens hockey game. Some of you might remember mention of a bet made some time ago...the Caps are my favorite team and the Canadiens are Bobby's, so for the first time ever, we went to a sporting event rooting for different teams, in our different jerseys. We had a bet that--if the Caps won--he would have to read one of my fanfics, of my choice. If the Canadiens won, I'd have to watch the hockey game of his choice on TV.

Well, my Caps came through for me, with a 4-2 victory.

What this means is that I have to choose a story for Bobby to read. And I would like to ask my readers and friends for help with this. So I'm happy to hear your nominations, and I will post a poll later in the week. Now there are a few stipulations:

1) I'm not going to make him read all of AMC. However, I know people will want to nominate it. So if you feel an itching to force my hubby to read AMC, please specify a chapter or a PoV section. Preferably, though, it should be a chapter that can stand on its own, without a lot of knowledge of AMC backstory...what little bit of it there is.

2) Bobby is a big boy and can handle sex, but I'd rather not choose a story written solely for sex since he can get the real thing and I don't know how squicked he'd be reading his wife's story about Elves gettin' it on. (Bobby, you can chime in and ask for pr0n, if you'd like! :^P)

3) He's already read the Stupid Sil Play and he's also read "The Election Farce of Nargothrond."

4) Living with me, he has a remarkable grasp of canon and characters, so don't be put off by issues of canon. He can name all of the sons of Feanor, for example (although he forgot poor Curufin last time I asked....)

All of my short stories are archived in my LJ here and all of the AMC chapters are archived here. (Incidentally, I just realized that the first short story listed was written for Bobby...weird....)

( Back under the Cut, Fell Beast! )

For those of you who didn't see the post, the holiday gifts are all finished and are posted here. And a big thanks to arandil13 for the card, juno_magic for the charming e-card, and ford_of_bruinen for the wonderful ficlet! Belated thanks also to rhapsody11 and alassante for their thoughtful holiday emails. I'm still working my way through my flist, so if you posted something for me to read and I have not yet, then I will. Soon! Promise. :)