cairistiona's place

Months back, when I was rather deep in the throes of dealing with my father's final days and the aftermath, tanis2014 gifted me with the final version of her lovely podfic, complete with sound effects and music, of my B2MeM story, Bear It Still For Me A While. The story is near and dear to my heart because it touches on all those themes of deep friendship that I love exploring in stories about Aragorn and Halbarad, and even though it hasn't gotten the hits and reviews some of my other stories have, it's one that's high on the list of my own personal favorite. That she chose to create a podfic for it is a gift I will always treasure.

You can download or listen online to the podcast here, and read along with the story here at ff.net or here at SoA. Or stay here on this post for some visuals, including the photo of quiet, pastoral hills that inspired the piece...




Many, many thanks to Tanis for the wonderful gift, and my apologies for not giving it a signal boost much, much sooner!

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Sources:
Banner illustration (x)
Screen cap of Harlond from PJ's ROTK
Spring landscape (x)

I had plans this morning to do all kinds of things, none of which included spending 45 minutes creating Halbarad on azaleasdolls.com.



suzll, I blame you entirely, because I'd never heard of that site until I read your post. Now I'm all full of Halbarad feels, when I need to be full of Bowen feels.

I wonder if there's a "create a Bree-land farmer" tab...

( Hmm, maybe...? )

I did a wee bit of research for suzll this afternoon, to help her win a bet (Elros and Elrond *are* twins in canon, per an obscure line in The War of the Jewels' "Tale of Years"). So when she said she was going to collect her winnings, I whined for a cut, since I, like, took five minutes to look something up and could have suffered a paper cut. Or something equally dire and debilitating. Plus, I was afraid my hill was about to burn down* ... so she wrote me a terrific Ranger drabble.

Read it here. :D

Thank you, my friend!

*There was a brushfire on the other side of our hill this afternoon. Lots of smoke, but there were a couple of firefighters keeping watch on our side of the hill while a few additional firefighters got their brush buggy up into the woods. They seem to have contained it to that side of the hill, so crisis averted, yay. \o/ It's still kind of smoky outside, though. *cough*

The things you discover while eating lunch. I was watching the season premiere of Hell on Wheels, which I had on the DVR, and a shot of Anson Mount stopped me mid-chew and forced me to pause the playback, sit and drool reflect, and then grab my camera and take a pic of my TV screen.

( Cousins, most definitely... )

I'm always on the lookout for Ranger-y looking actors, to help me firm up what Halbarad might look like. In cairistionaverse, he looks enough like Aragorn to pass as a brother (or at least, that's what Bowen Rushlight thinks).  I've found a few actors that *could* be him but none have ever really felt "wow, THIS is Halbarad!"  Until I came across this guy, while watching AMC's Hell on Wheels (which is a western, but I cropped out the hat. *g*).  If he's not my "wow" guy, he comes very, very, extremely close.


( Anson Mount, aka Cullen Bohannon, aka... Halbarad )

B2MeM Challenge: B14, Roles and Names of Aragorn, "Telcontar"; Rangers of the North, "The Grey Company"
Format: Drabble
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG
Warnings: Box of tissues alert for themes of death and loss
Characters: Aragorn, Halbarad, The Grey Company
Pairings: None
Summary: In memoriam.
A/N: Title is taken from the poem “In Memoriam” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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B2MeM Challenge: G51, Injury & Other Illnesses, "Torture" (which I took in the figurative sense rather than literal, though Halbarad might argue otherwise... and apologies to Lily Baggins who I know was stumping for a very literal torture fic!  I may write one just for you when B2MeM is over, my dear...)
Format: Ficlet/Vignette
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings:  None
Characters: Aragorn, Halbarad, OCs
Pairings: None
Summary: After nearly losing his chieftain, Halbarad calms down and takes a deep breath.  Inspired in large part by the comments left for part 1, which got me thinking that I needed to carry the scene a wee bit further.  Thank you all!

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B2MeM Challenge: G50 Hurt/Comfort, "Warm Blankets"
Format: Ficlet, Vignette
Genre: Drama, H/C
Rating: G
Warnings: None, really, unless a warning is needed for mention of OC death
Characters: Aragorn, Halbarad, OCs including Rangers Denlad, Galadh, and Eledh, and the cobbler Maevor, from "A Star In Midwinter"
Pairings: None
Summary: His people have dwindled enough.

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B2MeM Challenge:Ficlet from I-18 prompts: healer, hawk, market day, stomach flu, old age, rope making, and arrow wound from the following BINGO cards: Aspects of Aragorn, Beast, Economy, Injuries and Other Illnesses, Life Events, Talents & Skills, and Hurt/Comfort
Format:Short Story
Genre:Hurt/Comfort
Rating: PG for squeamish moments
Warnings: Not especially detailed, but, er, it is about stomach flu
Characters:Aragorn, Halbarad, OC
Pairings:None
Summary:Halbarad is under the weather.

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