Who is this Admin person anyway?

[katajainen]

 I was first to mention introductions, so I guess the polite thing to do is to give one myself. Here goes:

Katajainen (she/her) lives in Finland (timezone GMT+2) and has insulated her family’s humble dwelling with bookshelves. She will probably never write an original novel, but would like to finish a novel-length fanfic one of these days.

Or, a longer version:

I’m old enough to have been an avid teenage Tolkienite well before the live-action LOTR movies came out, but I only got hardcore into writing fanfiction a few years back. You can read my stories on AO3, and I’ll also be holding onto my Tumblr account for the time being.

I always like to rec great fics to people, but I have a hard time picking all-time favourites; so, off the top of my head, three Gimli/Legolas stories I love:

- Sansûkh by determamfidd (rated T, almost finished, epic in the grand scale, major character death)

- By Sarn Gebir by TAFKAB/urbanspaceman (rated T, a perfect, atmospheric vignette)

- Advice by Theresa Green (rated E, post-canon, extremely well-written, utter crack)

What I’m currently reading (I’m with fics as I’m with books; I always have several unfinished lying around):

- Beneath the Hard World by lordnelson100 (rated E, complete, alternate first meeting AU, with H/C and curses; a bit on the darker side with implied past rape/non-con and explicit violence, so mind the warnings/tags, but it's so so good, and I'm completely hooked)

- A Tangled Web by TAFKAB/urbanspaceman and Roselightfairy (rated M, WIP, post-canon, mutual pining, wilful obliviousness, politics, in short: utterly delightful)

- Finding a Voice series by Roselightfairy (rated M, an on-going series, excellent characterizations, a slightly unusual, yet canon-compliant take on Legolas, wonderful OCs, lovely worldbuilding, etc, etc. go read it already!)

P.S. Please, I beg of you, do not ask me what I’m currently writing. You’ll only get whining and a mile-long list of unfinished WIPs.