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The Mirror Crack’d, Chapter Eight

A new chapter! If you needed some really awkward, emotional conversation between Maedhros and Anniavas, hoo boy do I have you covered!

LAST TIME on The Mirror Crack’d: Fingon tried to settle everyone’s nerves, Dernodhos took Anniavas to a hot tub, and last we heard, Fingon and Celegorm were dueling…

THIS TIME on The Mirror Crack’d: Anniavas races to find Maedhros as Fingon and Celegorm square off; later on, Maedhros and Anniavas have a complicated emotional conversation at a funeral.

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The Mirror Crack’d, Chapter Seven

It’s new chapter day!

LAST TIME on the Mirror Crack’d: Anniavas performed a successful surgery, and Fingon kept Maedhros from attacking him.

THIS TIME on the Mirror Crack’d: Fingon has a very trying day, and Dernodhos takes Anniavas to the hot springs.

Chapter Rating: T and up

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Monster’s Guide to DNWs and Prompts

I really like exchanges.  I usually do several a year, mostly fandom specific (Queen’s Thief and Tolkien fandoms, primarily).  Every year I read through dozens of prompts and DNWs (partly because I like writing treats in addition to my main fic) and I always end up stumbling over a lot of things where I’m like “this is going to make it unnecessarily hard for your writer.”

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