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Hi Dets! :D so I’ve been wondering if Yavanna is going to show up on Sansûkh~ She is my favorite Valar and since your ladies are such awesome badasses it made me curious about how you would write our lovely greenery queen <3 You don't need to tell me if you are going to make it a surprise, but do you mind sharing your headcanons about her? Love ya and looooove your writing, keep being kind and precioussssss <333333

Hi there Nonnie!

Yes, we are going to see Yavanna! She will turn up 🙂 Quite soon, in fact!

I’ve written a bit about how I see her before, here! But here we go, I’m a little inspired now, and so have a wee flight of fancy: 

She is my untamed goddess of moss and jungles and algae and scrubland. She loves the flytrap and the fennel, the grass and the deathcap mushroom alike. She fills the needles of her mammoth conifers with near-indigestible resin so that they cannot be eaten. She covers the cactus in thorns, covers the apple in flowers and fruit, and covers the spreading fig in tangling vines that will one day pull the giant to the ground. She cups the fern-leaves to house a tadpole, and fills the pitcher-plant in acid to kill its prey. She pours scents both sweet and stinking from her hands. She scatters the wheat that is grown and harvested – and then covers the resulting bread in fungus. Rot and renewal make up the rhythm of her steps – and they are slow and inexorable. She has the endless dry patience of the Resurrection plant, its heart curled tight, waiting for rain in the desert.

Her Ents stride in her wake, and their feet soak up the decay and rebirth of her passing.

Bees sing in her retinue, and beautiful flowers nod their poisonous heads as she goes. 

🙂

(so, i may have recently re-watched ‘Life of Plants’, and it makes me think all over again that ‘HOLY HECK YAVANNA MUST BE FIERCE AS FUCK’)

Hi! I’m a big fan of Sansukh, and I was wondering if there was an update schedule or if you were planning another update soon?

Hi Anon!

I am afraid that instead of an update schedule, there is just an A4 piece of paper with “SHITFUCKSHIT” written on it, hehehe. In other words, there is no update schedule – I post the minute I have finished a chapter (and often, I am still editing it after posting). 

I’ve just gotten back from a very long trip/holiday/visit to family in another state! I hope to have another chapter out next week (I HOPE I HOPE, cross your fingers and toes for me!) – but I haven’t even started it yet, tbh. 

I know what is going to happen in it, in broad strokes, and once I begin writing I tend to move fast, so it is entirely doable to get a chapter out next week. My awesome lil toddler goes back to daycare next week, too, and I will actually have the opportunity – huzzah! So, sorry that I can’t be more reliable, but I promise I am doing my best 🙂

dets help what should i make for my lunch for tomorrow

um, my first instinct was to be flippant at you here, Nonnie! But I am guessing you want me to Mum at you a bit? Okay, but I am a bit kerflummoxed here! Like, I hear food is highly recommended, and you can even go to sites where you input what you have in your cupboards and fridge and come up with recipes now. Catch a link here!

Anyway, Mumming at you. Here’s some ideas and some things I’ve used – mostly learned from my own mum, tbh. She is a KILLER GOOD COOK, btw, and it is thanks to her that we have our own garden and make so much stuff, not through any virtue of our own. 

-if you dress a salad too early and leave it for too long, it will wilt and go mushy and gross. Likewise, sauce or mayo on a sandwich causes lettuce or salad leaves to go mushy if they’re not eaten straight away. 

– Canned fish in a small workplace Makes No Friends.

– RICE IS AMAZING. Make cheesy rice balls, paella with chorizo and peas and saffron (a dinner staple for us, I always have leftovers), fried rice, whatever. It will keep and also be yum.

– frittatas, quiches and egg pies are delicious eaten cold, and can last two or three days in the fridge, depending on the ingredients (eat a tuna or salmon one on the same day or day after making, though). Make a big one and freeze that sucker in portions. 

– Avocado is a time bomb. Dress it with lemon juice to keep it green straight after cutting into it, or it will begin to brown. Wrap it in plastic so that air doesn’t touch the cut surface.

– PASTAAAAAAAAAA. PASTA PASTA PASTA. We make our own – it’s not that time-consuming, and good god is it tasty (the machine is pricey however, if you get a decent one – and GET A DECENT ONE, the cheap ones are shit. It’s a great investment tho!). Just pesto and olive oil stirred through pasta is good enough tbh – or saute a few sage leaves in oil with garlic, until the leaves go crispy, and toss the pasta in that.

– wraps are Good, but better on the day of making (sauce or mayo again – things get Soggy so QUICKLY). Use leftover roast veg if you have any, but make sure they’re not too oily or the bread will (once again) go mushy. 

– make your own pizza! You don’t have to make the base, if you’re pressed for time or spoons. Just use sliced bread and the grill. Many mini-pizzas! SO not authentic, but hey, meh. Toast the bread first. Add what you like to it, but perhaps don’t get too flush with Cheese or Sauce Power (again: SOGGY THE NEXT DAY). Anchovies also Make No Friends in small offices. 

– Jaffles (I think US types call them a Grilled Cheese?) but you can add so much more than just cheese and ham and tomato. Crack an egg into it, add leftover cooked veg, pesto, beans, leftover chicken, whatever you have lying around.

– I like pulses – they’re hella cheap and tasty. Barley goes great in salads and with roast veg like potatoes and carrots and pumpkin, cooled and sprinkled with balsamic vinegar. Chickpeas can be tossed with veg and herbs and flavoured oil. You can make yummo daal! I love daal, it’s VERY CHEAP, and my kid loves it too: lentils and spices and onion makes a good one, but buy decent ghee if you can, i find it makes a difference. 

– noodles, but leave that ramen packet aside, my friend, it is pure Salt. Add sliced and stir-fried veg like carrot, snow peas, choy sum and capsicum, and if you have any leftover chicken or beef or whatever, this is a good way to get rid of that. Dress that dude with a bit of soy sauce, a TINY bit of oil, sprinkle with sesame seeds or a weenie splash of sesame oil. Yeaaaaaaaah. 

– Casseroles in the slow cooker! Put it on overnight, and it’s ready in the morning. Freeze that sucker in small individual containers, and you have lunch sorted for a week. Doesn’t have to be elaborate. Slow cookers make magic happen.

okay, I think there will most likely be a thing you can eat in all of that! Hope it helps, Nonnie 🙂

What do u think of Legolas and Tauriel being 2 Of some of the only elves to fall in love w/ dwarves, and both of them having raised by just Thranduil and not Thranduil + his wife? Is it a coincidence or something else lol hope u had a good holiday vacation. Ur stories r amazing ❤️

Hey Nonnie! Nice to be back, and yes, I had a wonderful time with my lil family 🙂

IDK, there are several layers of answer here, and I went on a bit of a ramble. Please remember that these are only my opinion, bc you asked! If you want to explore these, or the question, in any other way, then GO FOR IT.  But here we go (and I’m gonna go in point format, because it makes my brain less messy):

– We know that Thranduil is not a fan of Dwarves. At all. Any softer feelings Tauriel and Legolas develop for Dwarves come near-wholly from their own experiences, personalities and observations, and not from him. 

– Sometimes children rebel against their parents when selecting a partner, true enough – but I don’t feel that either Tauriel or Legolas would have kept Thranduil foremost in their mind when they fell in love – that is sorta creepy, for one!

– Dwarves are very very private by nature. Tolkien uses the word ‘secretive’. There’s only a few places in the whole of the history of Middle-Earth when Dwarves and Elves have lived in close proximity to each other (e.g. Hollin) – and even then, they didn’t really mingle. They didn’t live together in the one city/place, but remained apart, nearby in their own kingdoms.

– Falling in love (actual love, not just lust or hero worship) requires reciprocal contact of some kind. There’s no internet in Middle-Earth, and so Elves need proximity to whomever it is in order to fall in love. If Erebor was situated in Harad or Rhun, then Tauriel never would have met Kili. If another Dwarf had been chosen for the Fellowship, Legolas would never have met Gimli. They would never EVER have sought Dwarves out, thanks to the climate in which they were raised by Thranduil. So, location and opportunity is a big factor.

– Adversity builds tremendous bonds between people (I am Captain Obvious now). Tauriel fights for what is right, which is ultimately for Kili and the dwarves’ cause… and that stirs up passionate emotions. We do get passionate about our causes, after all! They face terrible dangers as a consequence. Gimli and Legolas are side-by-side the whole quest, they are glued to each other by the end. They face overwhelming danger and darkness, together. That sort of bond goes deep.

–  Timing is also a factor, though it’s a little more… eeehhhh *wiggles hand side to side*. But there’s this: Tauriel and Kili’s story happens long before the War of the Ring, and Legolas watches it all. Would Legolas have bothered to look deeper at Gimli if he had not already seen Tauriel’s story unfold? IDK, a lot of that is entirely movie-based and there’s not much to support it in the books. But they’re interesting questions. 

so, back to the question – my opinion is that Legolas and Tauriel came to their relationships with Dwarves through other factors, ones which came from their own experiences and observations and passions. I don’t think that Thranduil’s parenting was the deciding factor in these relationships. But that would also make an interesting avenue to explore!

idk, I hope that’s an answer! And I’m really glad you like the stories, thank you so very very much! ❤ Have an awesome 2017!