It's a full life, if a trifle banal

The results from the MEFAs came in a couple of days ago, and I'm the lucky recipient of some gorgeous shinies. What are the MEFAs? I hear you cry. They are the Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards. What's nice about the MEFAs is that scoring is done by reviewing: the longer the reviews, the more points for the story. It is a big reading and reviewing annual festival.

There are numerous heroic people involved in running it, but particular thanks must go to: telperion1, who is the main organiser; aranel_took, who designed a new website from scratch for the awards this year; and the wonderful banner makers who made and customised my shinies: ellynn_ithilwen, esteliel, and particularly mrowe, from whom I demanded a shopping list of shinies as long as my arm! Not forgetting the various adminny people who quietly do good work behind the scenes - my thanks to them too.

And I'm hugely grateful to everyone who took time to read and comment on my stories over the past few months: those reviews coming in kept me going throughout an exhausting few months towards the end of last year (some occasional grim moments).

Now, shinies!

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The Middle Earth Fanfic Awards completed last week, and a couple of my stories placed. My rather lovely banners are under the cut. Thank you to everyone who reviewed, and to the MEFA organizers, especially telperion1, for all your hard work.

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