B2MeM 2013:: Day Three: Wildcard Day
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b2memIt's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Throughout the month, we will offer weekly wildcard days, days when there are no new prompts but instead a simple, Tolkien-related task, for those who wish to participate. We hope wildcard days will give you a chance to refresh your muses, read, catch up on your WiPs, and breathe! :)
Our first wildcard day task: Step out your front door.
B2MeM is an event for the entire Tolkien fandom. Just look at what's been posted so far! All three major books are represented and characters ranging from Bilbo to Balrogs, Finrod to Faramir. Because of our diversity, though, we may not all know each other and we may define ourselves more by the communities from which we come rather than viewing B2MeM as itself a community. So, today, step out from your front door. Say hello and meet someone new. Lean out, take a look down the road, and ponder where it leads.
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary.
To participate, leave a comment here and introduce yourself. Tell us the name you go by, what your passion is in fandom, and anything else about yourself that you want to share. Then, share a link to your favorite of the fanworks that you've created. (If you're new and don't have any fanworks yet, feel free to share a link to your favorite work by another author or artist.) The link you share does not have to be to a B2MeM piece; please make sure you include appropriate ratings and warnings if this won't be apparent when visitors click on the link.
After you've introduced yourself, take a moment to read/view another person's fanwork and leave them a comment to say hi and tell them what you thought.
Throughout the month, we will offer weekly wildcard days, days when there are no new prompts but instead a simple, Tolkien-related task, for those who wish to participate. We hope wildcard days will give you a chance to refresh your muses, read, catch up on your WiPs, and breathe! :)
Our first wildcard day task: Step out your front door.
B2MeM is an event for the entire Tolkien fandom. Just look at what's been posted so far! All three major books are represented and characters ranging from Bilbo to Balrogs, Finrod to Faramir. Because of our diversity, though, we may not all know each other and we may define ourselves more by the communities from which we come rather than viewing B2MeM as itself a community. So, today, step out from your front door. Say hello and meet someone new. Lean out, take a look down the road, and ponder where it leads.
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary.
To participate, leave a comment here and introduce yourself. Tell us the name you go by, what your passion is in fandom, and anything else about yourself that you want to share. Then, share a link to your favorite of the fanworks that you've created. (If you're new and don't have any fanworks yet, feel free to share a link to your favorite work by another author or artist.) The link you share does not have to be to a B2MeM piece; please make sure you include appropriate ratings and warnings if this won't be apparent when visitors click on the link.
After you've introduced yourself, take a moment to read/view another person's fanwork and leave them a comment to say hi and tell them what you thought.
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Date: 2013-03-03 07:26 pm (UTC)My fandom passion and my RL passion actually overlap quite a bit. I am a teacher, and I have a poster on my classroom wall that (among other things) says, "Know that none are silent, though many are not heard." I sometimes wonder why I have poured so much time and so much of myself into this community for the last eight years, even when common sense would tell me to step aside for a while because of a sometimes wildly busy RL, and I think this is the crux of it: I believe in making it possible, to the fullest extent of my ability, for others to be heard. My love for Tolkien's works and transformative works based on them has inspired me to work to build open and supportive spaces for sharing creative works. The Silmarillion Writers' Guild is my online firstborn, founded back in March of 2005, but I also webmaster for Many Paths to Tread, am an adviser to the Stewards for the Tales of Middle Earth Awards, and of course, help to organize B2MeM each year. My fiction, as well, tends to tell the "other side of the story" or the story of characters who are in the background in the books.
In real life, I am a special educator and English teacher; I teach teenage boys with emotional disabilities, which takes up a huge amount of my time: just when the lesson-planning ends, the grading begins! I am also working on a Master's degree in the Humanities.
My favorites of my works are my novels, but if I were to recommend something short-ish of my own (I'm not exactly known for my brevity!) it would be Reembodied, the story of Tata and Tatië, the first of the Noldor to awaken at Cuivienen.
For a great time, read this one!!
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