The Daily Drabble: "Dissolution"

( Word of the Day for 26 March 2006--bellwether )

( Word of the Day for 27 March 2006--conflueunce )

Whew. Lots of examples for that last one. Someone at Dictionary.com must have been thinking, "Hey, let's test Dawn Felagund's skills at rotely placing HTML tags!"

"Bellwether," of course, is yesterday's word. I have been a busy girl on the weekends, so I wouldn't expect that I will be keeping up with the daily drabble then but rather doing a drubble/tribble or a drabble series on Monday, using all of the Words of the Day. Next weekend won't be much better, as my old skating group is having their show and I must go see it and console myself about where I've been versus where I am now (a neurotic soloist with a bum leg!)

Anyway. Since I did a drubble for my last two-word day, I will do a pair of matched drabbles today. (Remember the drabunculus? Expect that to rear its ugly head sometime soon!) The drabbles are collectively titled "Dissolution" and are about Nerdanel and Feanor. I have always found the most fascinating aspect of their separation not to be the angsty last moments of their marriage but, rather, the insidious dissolution of their bond in the days leading up to this...hence, "Dissolution."

( Dissolution )

Bobby, these are your words of the day too. ;)

Whew. A Pimp, a Meme, a Whole Buncha Other Random Crap....

Wow, what a weekend! I was busy from start to finish but only in the delightful, fun way that involves getting slightly misplaced in the woods, writing lots of HTML/CSS code, and not nearly enough napping. Of course, that means that I am behind on my beta-reading again. (Apologies to Alina and Cheryl.) It seems to be either 1) get behind on beta-reading or 2) get behind on everything else. I'm always behind on my own writing, regardless.

Before the rambling gets underway, I would like to pimp my sister. Again. I pimped her last week with regards to a piece she'd written on "gay adoption." Over the course of the week, I've had the urge to pimp nearly every one of her subsequent posts. But rather than do that, I am just pimping my sister. She is (obviously) very interested in GLBT issues and posts articles and commentary on a pretty regular basis. (She's also a good poet, but I'm crap at poetry so I can't say much more than that!) Since I know that a lot of people on my flist are interested in these issues, I am encouraging you to friend my sister and read her stuff. I asked her, and she says that does not mind and has wanted to friend some of you whose comments she's read in my LJ or to whom she has "spoken" but isn't into Elves and so didn't want to infringe on our happy fandom bubble...but I told her, "Infringe away!" We can talk about more than just Celegorm's hair color and care more about whether Maedhros or Feanor is hotter! (For the record, it's Maedhros. While Celegorm's hair color is debatable, there's no argument there. *hides from Alina and Arandil*)

Her LJ name is ssotknapsack. The most recent entry of hers that I read was an article on "gay adoption" as it relates to Catholic charities in the US and the foolishness of preferring that children remain unadopted and "in the system" than going into a home with loving parents who want them. Being straight and able to skip about in my happy la-la land with my husband where our love is sanctioned and we could have or adopt children if we wanted to, these things often slip under the radar for me, but I find myself grinding my teeth to stumps reading about how ignorant, bigoted, and cruel people can be. But that is a rant I've made many times before and will save now for another time.

I've seen this meme floating around. On my flist, mirien had it first, but I've seen it elsewhere since then. It seems rather interesting, perhaps cathartic, and a little dangerous. So here goes.

List 10 things you want to say to people but know you never will. Don't say who they are.

For the record, no one being badmouthed in this meme is on my flist. Which lessens the danger but also the chance of feelings being accidentally hurt. Because I love y'all and you wouldn't be on my flist if I thought you were a pain in the ass. Also, I can't guarantee that I won't say some of these things. The nice things, of course, I'd say. The mean things...well, I have been known to exhibit a rather Feanorian temper....

( The Truth Meme )

Whee. That was kind of fun in a completely evol way. >:^]

( The Weekend! )