1. Number of responses you generated (WiPs also count).
25 published, 28 started.
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
Many.
3. Favorite card?
I loved playing the Femslash card, but I GOT NO BINGO ON IT! Magic and Real gave me a bingo, though.
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
Mmmmm.... well, I'll go with:
a) Femslash: kink - so hard for me, I wrote an essay to explain why (http://dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com/2506.html).
b) Aspects of Aragorn: Lover - writing embarrassment from the inside is hard for me, and I'm sure there was some involved in some of these episodes for Aragorn. My tendency is to flip over into angst to get around my limitations, but that would've defeated the purpose of writing the series, which was to try to write Aragorn and Arwen as having to deal in as straightforward a fashion as possible with Aragorn's PTSD, political life, and the fact that they're not a young married couple. Arwen's perspective is frankly easier for me to write in this regard; Aragorn's, I think, would've been impossible for me for most of the story.
c) Aredhel and Malgwen/Eöl genderbender break-up, a.k.a, the end of the affair: too long and involved, and I was exhausted.
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
G54: I wanted that bingo on the Economy card, and it would've given me "Easterling" on the Languages of Arda card, too! And I would've taken just about any number off the Deep Thoughts Card or the Femslash card (especially B2 for bingo, although different numbers would've challenged me more).
6. You're still going to write it, right?
I'm sure something will be written, at some point, on topics like these.
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
Hard to choose, but I'll say that in general, I enjoyed the Femslash card because it let me world-build in a different way, while foregrounding women's political roles, and that let me take a look at Aredhel for the first time, or see female orcs for the first time on their own terms (I've written one female orc before, but she was, um, not in the best of shape by then...).
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
The fact that we're all still conscious after the ficfest mania.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
I liked Body politic and Body language for what they did with characters/genres I've never written before; I enjoyed deconstructing Aragorn and Arwen in their post-Ring War married life, and I was happy to write Winter queen, which in some fashion or another has been with me for awhile.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
Total War (http://tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=5994) by Altariel has forever changed how I'll think about what Denethor saw in the palantír, and the Denethor-Faramir relationship.
Your WWI juxtaposition fics are likewise amazing, as is the Fallen gapfiller, The way to the river (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/10375.html#cutid1), which stands nicely alone.
There were two really memorable Mîm fics I read: A Decayed House (http://tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=6000) by Altariel and Curse from Afar (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/170300.html#cutid1) by Elleth.
Dreamflower's Fine feathers make fine birds (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/173792.html#cutid1) for its irony.
Grey_wonderer's Everything is better in space (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/68107.html#cutid1) crackfic story.
I can't possibly name everything, because the list would be so long, but there were some fantastic responses out there.
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
How are we all still conscious?
(Okay, seriously: are you now, or have you ever been/known an/-y Aredhel fan - ever?)
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:28 am (UTC)25 published, 28 started.
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
Many.
3. Favorite card?
I loved playing the Femslash card, but I GOT NO BINGO ON IT! Magic and Real gave me a bingo, though.
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
Mmmmm.... well, I'll go with:
a) Femslash: kink - so hard for me, I wrote an essay to explain why (http://dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com/2506.html).
b) Aspects of Aragorn: Lover - writing embarrassment from the inside is hard for me, and I'm sure there was some involved in some of these episodes for Aragorn. My tendency is to flip over into angst to get around my limitations, but that would've defeated the purpose of writing the series, which was to try to write Aragorn and Arwen as having to deal in as straightforward a fashion as possible with Aragorn's PTSD, political life, and the fact that they're not a young married couple. Arwen's perspective is frankly easier for me to write in this regard; Aragorn's, I think, would've been impossible for me for most of the story.
c) Aredhel and Malgwen/Eöl genderbender break-up, a.k.a, the end of the affair: too long and involved, and I was exhausted.
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
G54: I wanted that bingo on the Economy card, and it would've given me "Easterling" on the Languages of Arda card, too! And I would've taken just about any number off the Deep Thoughts Card or the Femslash card (especially B2 for bingo, although different numbers would've challenged me more).
6. You're still going to write it, right?
I'm sure something will be written, at some point, on topics like these.
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
Hard to choose, but I'll say that in general, I enjoyed the Femslash card because it let me world-build in a different way, while foregrounding women's political roles, and that let me take a look at Aredhel for the first time, or see female orcs for the first time on their own terms (I've written one female orc before, but she was, um, not in the best of shape by then...).
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
The fact that we're all still conscious after the ficfest mania.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
I liked Body politic and Body language for what they did with characters/genres I've never written before; I enjoyed deconstructing Aragorn and Arwen in their post-Ring War married life, and I was happy to write Winter queen, which in some fashion or another has been with me for awhile.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
Total War (http://tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=5994) by Altariel has forever changed how I'll think about what Denethor saw in the palantír, and the Denethor-Faramir relationship.
Your WWI juxtaposition fics are likewise amazing, as is the Fallen gapfiller, The way to the river (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/10375.html#cutid1), which stands nicely alone.
There were two really memorable Mîm fics I read: A Decayed House (http://tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=6000) by Altariel and Curse from Afar (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/170300.html#cutid1) by Elleth.
Dreamflower's Fine feathers make fine birds (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/173792.html#cutid1) for its irony.
Grey_wonderer's Everything is better in space (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/68107.html#cutid1) crackfic story.
I can't possibly name everything, because the list would be so long, but there were some fantastic responses out there.
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
How are we all still conscious?
(Okay, seriously: are you now, or have you ever been/known an/-y Aredhel fan - ever?)