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I am a bad, bad girl, staying up half the night to finish my fic for Rhysenn's
Last Alliance of Elves and Men challenge.

But damn, it was fun.

I managed to get a draft in for the challenge; I'll post a link and final version once I have a chance to reread it *not* at three in the morning, to make sure it doesn't suck. I suspect it suffers from adjective overuse, for one thing. But just to tease y'all, it's set during the ride of the Rohirrim, attempts to bridge TT movie canon with ROTK book canon, and contains a horse-race, a sword-fight, and sex. Also at least two people likely reading this will show up in the author's note.

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So Rhysenn's decided that my fic doesn't qualify for her challenge, because despite the whopping dose of Aragorn/Legolas slashiness the primary pairing is femslash, and the challenge criterion was "a man/elf pairing", by which she apparently meant "man" in the "male gender identity" sense as opposed to the "younger race of Children of Illuvatar" sense. Am bummed; would have been really neat to get my story up in a Rhysenn-hosted challenge. But, hey, it's something I wanted to write anyways, and if the challenge got me off my butt to do it I suppose it served its purpose, and I'm still going to go read all the yummy man/elf pairings even if the Men are all men. (And, I assume, the Elves too... somehow I doubt Aragorn/Arwen would have gotten in either, despite the apparent man/elf-iness...)

the pairing deemed too scandalous for prime time!

Without Dawn No Evening.

Bridges movie TT and book RotK, so spoilers for both. Somewhat dark, and I don't just mean the Dawnless Day. Warning for a shortage of penises (or, perhaps, a surplus of breasts): if you have to have hot throbbing elf-cock in your LOTR fic, this may not be the story for you.