ribby

It was a wonderful day indeed--lots of sunshine and a fantastic art exhibit and then all of you with your wonderful wishes... so I had a fantastic birthday!

Thanks to seleneheart and foxrafer for the ecards, to bethbetter, liars_dance and mooms and govi20 for the delicious chocolate tortes (all the chocolate I can eat, and no calories, yay!), to anthos65 for the ruby heart, to foxrafer again for the snowman (I think he helped scare away the rain!), and to kittylass for the blue dragon (I'm pretending he's a fire lizard...). Also, thanks to just_ann_now, alex_quine, and fawsley for the amazing birthday fics.

And as usual, I spent my birthday knowing caras_galadhon would provide a lovely post-birthday giggle--and she did, so thanks to her for that, as well as the birthday wishes (and c'mon, wrestling and hockey, we gotta do it... *snrch*)

If I've forgotten anyone, my apologies--you all spoil me dreadfully!

*hugs you all so very tight* Thanks to all of you!

~Kris

My muses have been shamefully absent for months, alas, but I hope what I *can* give you will make you laugh:



Can't you just see Aragorn watching from the tower, and torn between *facepalm* and wanting to replicate some of those moves... in private? Hmmm... gimme a day or two, I might have something there...

*hugs you tight* A little silliness for one of my best friends!

Happy housewarming, sweetie!

~Kris

Title: Horton Hears a Who-Doctor
Author: Kris
Fandom: Dr. Seuss/Doctor Who
Characters: Horton the Elephant, Tenth Doctor, Ninth Doctor
Rating: G, and BS for Birthday Silliness!
Summary: "A person's a person, no matter how small." Unless, of course, that person happens to be a Time Lord. And a Doctor.
Notes: Happy Birthday to foxrafer and a slightly belated birthday to bethbetter! This silly little nothing is entirely the Fuzzband's fault--he started me down this road with an offhand comment about Horton and Doctor Who, and as these things do, it went rapidly downhill from there. So I hope it was and is a terrific day, ladies!

( Horton Hears a Who-Doctor (a silly birthday gift for foxrafer and bethbetter) )

Title: The True British Passion
Author: Kris
Fandom: LOTRiPS
Pairing: SB/VM
Rating: G
Summary: Everyone knows beer and football are British passions... but Sean has a slightly different hierarchy.
Archive: Rugbytackling, Sons of Gondor, anyone else please ask.
Notes: This is not the fic I mentioned earlier. *grin* This little bit of nothing's been niggling at my brain ever since foxrafer wrote her wonderful fic Cupcakes for the Soul, and commented that she'd love to see a fic where Sean was a Doctor Who fan. Well, since her fic was about knitting, I sort of took that and ran with it. So this is for you, Candice! It's *extremely* silly, but I hope it's enjoyable!

( The True British Passion )

Title: The Good Wife
Author: Kris
Fandom: LOTRiPS
Pairing: SB/VM
Rating: G (with an ES for Extremely Silly)
Summary: Sean Bean's "wife" is filing for divorce... or is he?
Archive: Rugbytackling, Sons of Gondor, anyone else please ask.
Notes: With all the sturm und drang going around lately, I figured we could use a bit of silliness. This is especially for liars_dance, for the link to this article, which started the silly ball rolling. Enjoy!

( The Good Wife )

Title: Shelter
Author: Kris
Fandom: LOTRiPS
Pairing: SB/VM
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't own them, no money being made here
Archive: Rugbytackling, Sons of Gondor, others please ask.
Summary: Shelter isn't always physical.
Note: This was written for the wordsontongue flashfic fest.

( Shelter )

Title: A Library Across His Chest
Author: Kris
Fandom: LOTRiPS
Pairing: SB/VM
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't own them, no money being made here
Archive: Rugbytackling, Sons of Gondor, others please ask.
Summary: Viggo is bound within words; for Sean, the only boundaries are his heart.
Note: This was written for the wordsontongue flashfic fest.

( A Library Across His Chest )

Title: Plus-One
Author: Kris
Fandom: LOTRiPS
Pairing: SB/VM
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't own them, no money being made here
Archive: Rugbytackling, Sons of Gondor, others please ask.
Summary: "He's my plus-one. 'S that all right?"
Note: This was written for the wordsontongue flashfic fest.

( Plus-One )

Title: Gunslingers
Author: Kris
Fandom: LOTRiPS
Pairing: SB/VM
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't own them, no money being made here
Archive: Rugbytackling, Sons of Gondor, others please ask.
Summary: A little bit of cowboy justice.
Author's Note: Look, I'm still here! *grin* This is for Candice (foxrafer on LJ), my birthday twin, and for Beth (bethctg2) as a slightly belated gift... happy birthday to two lovely ladies! It's also a hobbity birthday gift for all of you, because what's a birthday without presents for everyone? Beta'ed, of course, by the wonderful seleneheart, without whom I would mix my tenses and my “lay/lie” every time!

( ”Gunslingers” )

Seven years and... *checks* 458 entries ago, cruisedirector brought forth upon the Web a new journal. And its name was ribby, and it was good. *grin*

It's been an interesting seven years--if you'd told me then I'd write more than 400 pieces of fiction over the next seven years, I'd have told you you were crazy, that I wasn't any kind of a writer. *sheepish grin* Good thing no-one did, huh?

And you all have a great deal to do with having such a wonderful seven years! It's amazing to be part of such a creative, supportive, and wonderful community... I still sometimes wonder what I'm doing here! *grin*

On that note, also, thanks to all of you for the emails and comments wondering where I am... I'm still here, but just... taking a sabbatical, I guess. My muses have scarpered, and even though I have a couple of ideas, I can't seem to write them. Part of it, I think, has to do with the yearly "this isn't working, let's try another career" pattern I seem to be in. That and, well, I'm into my "obsessive reading" phase with the new fandom (Torchwood/Doctor Who). But I'm still here, and still occasionally commenting--and I'm always here by email.

Since the publishing industry is going kaput, at least where freelancers are concerned, I decided to try my hand at grant-writing. Which is going, but slowly. I'm still trying to find clients, as always. So if any of you know of a reuptable nonprofit (I'm best in the arts, but really, I can write anything) who is willing to take a chance on a grant-writer with little experience but *lots* of writing chops, I'd love to hear about it!

*toasts all of you with good French cider and cookies* Happy seven years--here's to more!

~Kris