phyncke

My latest one!
Title: Maedhros' Journal
Author: phyncke
Character(s): Maedhros/Fingon, Fingolfin, OC’s
Rating: G
Beta(s): Aglarien
For: Slashy Valentine 2023
Gift for: Sylanna
Note: The Silmarillion
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, they are the property of JRR Tolkien and his estate, and I have borrowed them for my own amusement and for yours I hope.
Summary: Fingon gifts Maedhros with a journal, quill, and ink after his rescue from captivity and this is the result. Fingon promises they will take a journey together when Maedhros is recovered.

This story is dedicated to the memory of my friend, Keiliss. I will always enjoy her gifted writing. I miss her.



Link here -
https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/112274575

So have been writing some last night and today so far and feel like I got a good amount done. I started with basically nothing and now I am at 2153 words. Feeling a lot better about it now and like I have something. I am thinking it will be a 5000 word story. The story is structured as little bursts of entries so it is writing pretty easy - and I am writing from a new POV which I really like. I am enjoying it a lot. I can do this. Woot. I really don't see this story having any sex in it. It is just not that kind of story. I cannot see it.
Anyways. That is my update.

Hi all - posting in on New Year's Day! I got back from the East Coast here on Thursday and have been down with a bit of a cold from my flight. I have tested for covid twice and it seems like it is just a cold - my tests were both negative for covid. I am going to go to the city testing site and do a PCR test just to be sure on Tuesday - just have to rule things out.

I don't do anything for New Year's Eve. It was nice and quiet here. I cooked a nice meal and watched the LOTR movies at home (theatrical releases). Seemed like the perfect way to spend New Year's. I don't drink really and I don't like to be on the road on Dec 31st either. I was pretty tired from the cold and so I was asleep by 9:30 pm - very boring here. I usually don't make it to midnight and I find the New Year's Eve shows pretty boring too. Really, who cares anyway?

I was on the East Coast visiting family and had a nice time. I stayed with my parents who are very elderly and it gave my brother a break from caring for them for 9 days. I got to see how my parents are doing and I concluded that they need some help there in their daily and weekly management and that we should put in place some home health people to assist them. They need help with things like food prep, house cleaning, and things like that. So my brother and I are going to see what we can do. I did a bunch of research about companies in the area that do services so we have the info. The trick is getting my parents to accept the help. That is the tricksy part. They are very resistant to anything there - but they really need it so hoping we can make this happen.

We did some fun things there too - my SIL planned some fun activities for the holiday - we went to see "A Christmas Carol" at the Palace Theater in Manchester, NH. Just a beautiful show based on the Dickens story with amazing costumes and music there. Love this. I have seen it once before and they go every year. We also went to see Bob Marley the comedian for my brother's birthday and he is hilarious. Very funny show - side splittingly funny. Loved that. I also took my brother out for sushi a few times and we had a nice Christmas Day.

Good times. I got my Slashy Valentine assignment and it is nice and open ended. I better start on that right away before it gets away from me. Time has a way of passing quickly on that.

Back to work on January 3.

Hope you all had a great holiday time and happy new year to you. May 2023 be a better year for all of us.

Hi all - the MSV stories have posted and I thought I would post in with mine - it is called Aftermath and is a Maedhros-Fingon story in the aftermath of his rescue. I hope you enjoy it! 

You can find it here - 
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36889183

Thanks!  

I started my MSV story today and made some progress - close to 1000 words on that for starters. Hoping to continue at this pace. Woot. I am hoping to have a nice, short, manageable story. Please let it be so.

Jaws has been on AMC today. The first movie and now the second one. I really love the first one but the sequels were not very good. But that first movie was brilliant. Always love to watch it.

Title: All Is Not Lost
Author: phyncke
Beta: aglarien
For: My Slashy Valentine 2021
Recipient: Sylanna
Characters: Maedhros/Fingon, Fëanor, Nerdanel, Anairë
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters. They are the property of JRR Tolkien and his estate. I have borrowed them for my own amusement and for yours, I hope.
Summary: Maedhros and Fingon grow up together and develop more than a friendship during the Years of the Trees. They meet an elven woman who tells them their future but then she disappears. Who was she really? They never forgot what she told them.

Link to AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/2021_MSV/works/29010474

Ok - I can write about writing now - I am spending the day writing today. No other plans but to write my Slashy Valentine. I have 4829 words and am at the good parts. The naughty bits. The slashy parts. It is going well. I am hoping to finish today or get most of it done. I have not written smut in a while but this story sure wants to be naughty. I usually don't do smut but this is going there for sure. I have to do what the story wants so that is what I am doing.

Inaugural is two days away. We have troops amassed in DC and all over the country because they think Trumpists are going to cause trouble. This is a really sad state of affairs but better safe than sorry. These people are not going to go quietly away. There are a lot of them and they believe what Trump says about the election - they think it was fraudulent and that we stole the election. I have friends that believe this and they think they have proof of it. They don't but they think they do. So it is a sad state we find ourselves in. There are 74 million of them - I don't think all of them feel this way. Fox TV is losing viewers so that is something. There are enough of them to cause trouble, as we have seen. So keep an eye out - I think we need to be observant. Biden has his work cut out - lots to do to recover from the Trump years.

It will take time but I am encouraged. More optimistic than I have been in a while. The Trump years were hard but those will soon be behind us. Trump can slink out of DC and then be prosecuted for all that he has done. One can only hope.

Here I am with another update - I am off work right now so I have time to update here. I also started a bullet or dot journal as we are calling it in my circle so I am in the mood for writing entries. I do an entry every day in that. A co-worker gave me the journal so I thought I would make use of it. I got some stickers to put in it to make it cute and fun. It feels really good to get back into journaling in all these different ways. Who knew I had so much to say.

I worked on the story (MSV - Slashy Valentine) and I now have 2005 words on that. It feels like it is in good shape. I got it to a good stopping point today and I need to think about where it goes next. So a natural pause and think. I don't write with an outline really - I just write the story and see where it takes me. That always works for me. So it is going good so far and I hope to keep writing each day.

Today, I took a nice walk with my friend J***. Both of us were feeling lazy but we did a good 45 minute stroll down College Ave in Oakland. We did not go in any of the stores - we stayed outside with our masks on. I feel like outside activities are safer and it is risky going into places. We kept outside and avoided people on the sidewalk and did a good long walk. I felt better after so it was good. I had coffee at home after - trying to minimize my spending and not get coffee out so much. It is $5.00 a pop on that and it adds up to a lot if you get a coffee every time. My coffee is good enough. It hit the spot today so it worked for me.

I probably have not told you all this but my Mom, who is in her 80's, has Alzheimer's spots on her brain. Her neurologist is not overly concerned and basically says she has the brain of a person in their 80's. The one thing I notice is that she has trouble finding words. She wants to say something and cannot find the word. Her memory is very sharp and all that. It is just affecting her language recall a bit. So that has happened. They want her to work on her balance and do some PT so she is doing that.

Anyhoo - this is pretty much today's update. I did do something funny - I got annoyed because the local radio station stopped playing Christmas music right on Dec 26. So I wrote them on their website and old them I thought they could give us a few extra days of the holiday music. Technically, Christmas goes all the way into January so a few more days would be nice. I am sure they won't reply but it felt good to write it.

The other thing I did today was write all my representatives in Washington about the pathetic legislation they just passed. It does a lot of things but it sure does not help the American people very much with direct help. So I told all of my people - Senate and House - my feelings on that. If you live in the US and are so inclined - I suggest doing the same - it is very easy to go on the Congressional website and find your people and send them a message. You will feel better. I know I do.

So I did a lot of writing today - feeling super productive. Hope you are doing well there and staying safe.

So in the post-Hanukkah thing - which is really Christmas and New Year's - my family is adjusting to the pandemic scene. We are trying to coordinate a Zoom get together for all of us for Christmas Day so that we can all see each other and hang out for a little bit. This presents a challenge getting my elderly parents with the program but I put my brother in charge of that. He has to set them up with Zoom and a webcam. We will see how this goes. Getting my Mom to even agree to it was the first part - she is very anti-technology so that was something. She is actually excited about the Zoom thing so hopefully we can make this happen.

I finished up work for the year yesterday and am so glad. I know I work from home but I really need a break from things and it is nice not to have to track emails and be on the computer all day. Less stress. Today, on my first day of vacay, I woke up at 5:30 am and could not get back to sleep. Not sure what that was. So I got up and made coffee and put the Yule Log on my TV and just hung out. I have things to do today so I just started the day. I hope I will be able to sleep in some during my break. I guess I am an early riser anyway but it would be nice to sleep in til 7:00 or 8:00.

So I signed up for Slashy Valentine and got my assignment. I don't anticipate any problems but I am waiting for inspiration to hit me on it. Ye newe idea. I would like a nice short story burst to get this done. I even opened MS Word and put a working title in the doc but nothing came to me. So technically I have started. LOL. Wish me luck. I will keep you updated in the usually Slashy manner. Hopefully not too much pain and suffering this time.

I want to wish everyone on my friends list Happy Holidays - I hope you are celebrating safely during this time and keeping healthy. Much love to you!

Hi all - it is Super Bowl Sunday and I am here with an update. I got sick last week - a cold/flu that had me out of work Thursday and Friday. I think I am over the worst of it though I still get tired pretty easily. I am trying to take it easy. I am doing a football party of one today for the Super Bowl. Thinking I will nap during the game and keep up with it that way. I love football naps - sleeping to the sound of that crowd.

I finished my story, y'all. aglarien1 did a valiant beta and I have uploaded my story to the archive. It I done and gone. It ended up a little over 3000 words. Not bad.

Hope all is well with you and yours there. Enjoy the day.