quick LOTR fic rec

The Dûnhebaid Cycle, by Adaneth.
I seem to expand my tastes in my recent LOTR reading binge, because this one is all original characters and set about a century before The Hobbit. There is some action-adventure, but no epic quest, instead it paints an awesome tapestry of everyday Middle Earth life with regular Men, dwarves and elves, and friction and suspicion as well as friendships and alliances against common foes between the different peoples, and also factions within each group. It is mostly about Dúnedain and dwarves, but elves also feature, and I ended up invested in most of the characters, who have all their own strengths and faults, different interests, cultures and priorities. The first four novel-length stories in this series are finished, the fifth is still in progress.

DC fanart recs

In February I recced DC fanart on fanart_recs, unsurprisingly quite Batverse heavy. You can browse and hopefully enjoy all six of them under the DC tag there. In March I volunteered myself for Marvel fanart recs. Others are going to rec Inception, Merlin, SGA and Supernatural. BTW, if anyone else was interested to post some recs, it is not too late to sign up for March (or any other month), as you see it's not very crowded yet.

I probably ought to have promoted the comm more to rouse interest to counter the volunteer drop off (still should), but as you've seen from the dearth of posts in my journal, February wasn't great. (Nothing particularly bad happened or anything, just mentally it wasn't a good month, with me feeling mostly like an inert lump in hibernation.)