AMC--Chapter Thirty-Six

In chapter thirty-five, Macalaure has an unfortunate incident with Nelyo and one of his...*ahem*...interests, that leaves him rather POed with his brother, made worse by spending a night in the rain and having a vivid nightmare alluding to Nelyo's later handlessness. In this chapter, the brothers reconcile a bit and make their way to the sea, but not before finding themselves in the the usual excitement, getting a bit drunk, and Nelyo having a rather uncharacteristic outburst as a result.

The boys discuss orcish-type things in this chapter, so if you're bothered by gruesome topics, please be forewarned and proceed carefully. Other than that, I think that they more or less behave in this chapter.

Per usual, all comments--good and bad--are welcome and appreciated. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to give me comments and help with this story. I'm a bit amazed to be in chapter thirty-six already; it seems just yesterday, I was nervously posting chapter one. Yesterday, while working on editing the next week's worth of chapters, I moved from my second disk of material and onto my third. I have some rewriting to do, but so far so good. I'll let you all know if I need to delay posting the next couple weeks' worth of chapters.

To all who have read this (monstrously long) story: Thank you!! And now I'll stop rambling and post the chapter. :)

( Chapter Thirty-Six )

Call for a Meme! Pet Peeves

Yesterday, while tagging people for the weird habits meme (and finding few people who hadn't been tagged), juno_magic suggested creating my own meme. Now, for a few weeks now, I've been working out the particulars of a MadLib for my flist, but until I motivate myself to put it in my LJ (or actually write it), I would like to know about your pet peeves.

Now, I'm sure this has been done before, but not during my six months on LJ with actual friends. (I was on LJ for four months, talking to myself, until the exciting day that I friended enismirdal, juno_magic, and arandil13.) And when I say pet peeves, I don't want lofty, general, idealistic things like, "I don't like injustice" or "I don't like narrow-minded people," but the really gritty, petty things that simply make your blood boil. You know you have them; we all do. I have them, and I'm generally an amiable, peaceful person. I want to see things like, "I can't stand the word 'elflings'" or "Prepositions dangling at the ends of sentences drive me mad." I want to see the petty, stupid things that might make us feel like lesser people but in fact keep us human.

So tell me ten of your most inane, enraging pet peeves. And tag five people to do the same or invite your whole flist to play. (Some people like tagging and others like leaving it up to each individual; as proof that I'm really not the asshole that my pet peeves make me out to be, I'm leaving it up to you.) And tell us why these things irk you, if you want, with as much vitriol as you can manage.

Because I'm originating this meme--or at least this version of it--I'm inviting all to play and spread the peevish love.

( Ten Things that Make Me See Red...and Not in a Happy Feanorian Way.... >:^| )

So what are your peeves?

On a completely unrelated--and more positive--memeish note, miss_nightowl posted this one in her LJ: Ask me one question that you don't know--but think you should--about me. It can be as mundane or crazy as you like, and even if it seems like something you should know but don't: ask! I'll do my best to answer. Then repost this meme if you want, and I'll ask you a question, and you can see what other questions you get.