y'all the last time i updated was november 11
it's currently february 21st, and god knows how much more time will pass before i post an actual chapter and not this
anyways sorry to all the people who clicked on this chapter expecting said actual chapter bc i rly thought that if i just dissipated and didn't update for literal months people would just.... yk... ✨stop reading✨
but oh my god we got like 1000 more reads??? even more than that??? like 1300??? 1400??? i dont even know anymore
point is there are so many more of you so HIIIII WELCOME <333 i cannot express in words how much fun it's been reading y'alls comments as new people discover this fic and read my old ass outdated chapters about rings of power and aralas and STILL SOMEHOW ENJOY THEM LIKE WHAT??? that is insane to me
anyways since i was gone i watched the original trilogy for the 9th time (BUT THIS TIME ITS JUSTIFIABLE BC MY MOM WAS WATCHING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME W ME OKAY) and reread the silm again, read children of hurin, fall of gondolin.... i read so much lore y'all i dont even know
the reasons i wasn't updating varied between i didn't have anything interesting, no ideas, i was taking a break, i was focusing on other stuff and then just having SO many thoughts on lore and not knowing whether i should write abt them here bc this is LOTR rants and not LOTR LORE/SILMARILLION rants but idk maybe i'll publish a few here we'll see
anyways i'm rambling but what i came here to say is a) IM ALIVE AND I MISSED YALL AND I PROMISE I WILL UPDATE SOON b) i have a tumblr now!! i did the thing, i finally joined and it's in my bio, so even tho i'm posting a lot less here i'm still posting daily there and it's all (mostly) lotr/silm stuff <33 c) THANK YOU FOR ALMOST 1000 READS ON MY LOTR FIC ON AO3??? OH MY GOD???? SO MANY PEOPLE LIKED IT AND SAID IT MADE THEM LOSE SLEEP BC IT WAS SO GOOD AND IDK HOW TO PROCESS THAT??? and d is this:
these are the (spoiler-blurred) notes for an absolute ESSAY of a chapter im working on rn, about aralas and aragorn and legolas together and separately, and every single scene they had together in the original trilogy (which i'm rewatching again FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES) and giving y'all my aralas fic recs masterlist, which is also on my tumblr rn, among other things like a full historical analysis of aragorn/arwen and aragorn/legolas and how history repeats itself in the legendarium
its very possible that this chapter(s??) will be broken into several parts, but y'all i make ZERO promises as to when i MIGHT post it
anyways, that's all <33 love y'all sm, thanks for sticking thru and for 2.6K reads (YES MY CHILDREN BUILD THE ARMY OF ARALAS GAYS WE WILL TAKE DOWN THE TOXIC FANS IN A FUCKING CAVALRY CHARGE LETS GOOOO) and i will (hopefully....???) see y'all soon with an actual chapter <3
out ✨