Contrary to appearances, I am not in fact dead, in jail, or on the run from giant vampire gerbils. It's just that the chaos level in my life has reached new heights of stress and strangeness, and I've been entirely too busy, so some things (like most of my active forum participation in various places) has had to slide.

My apologies if Princess of Shadowfire and the ring of doom has been linked already -- I know it's making the rounds of all the usual sporking sites, but a quick scan didn't show it here. This is the most over-the-top Mary Sue I've seen in a long time. It's just ... remarkable. There are no words. You have to see it. This Sue might need more than two Agents to take her down. A lot more.

I'm thinking of doing a major dissection of that fic over on Wandering Criticism. If there was ever a textbook example of how not to write LotR fanfic (or how not to write, period), that is it right there.