sophinisba | fic link: Torn from the Map (Frodo/Aragorn)

FIC.

Earlier tonight I posted my story for the

hobbit_smut "Inside a Song" challenge, which is also my birthday present for

claudia603. The sex part (only R, sorry) is Frodo/Aragorn but there is also a lot of cousin love because, well, I can't seem to stop. I strongly encourage you to listen to the gorgeous Hem song "Half Acre" (written by Dan Messé) which inspired the fic and from which I stole the title and several lines.

The story, called "Torn from the Map", is here. The song is up for reading the lyrics, download or streaming (third song down), and maybe you can even go see the band live , as

gamerchick and I got to do Wednesday night! Long, rambling author's notes right here.

So, back in February of last year, while I was still lurking around this fandom and LJ and had not written any fic, I followed a link on

elanorgardner's journal to

andrastewhite's Everything I Know About Fandom. At the time it was number 3 on the list (It's okay to lurk for a while) that made the biggest impression on me, but I also really took number 1 (if there's something you want to read, do it yourself) to heart, hence the crazy!Frodo fic and the Stokely fic. And then there's her number 8: "Anything - songfic, MPREG, stories where characters who have never met on screen fall in love - can be written well. Some things are harder to write well than others." Ever since then "Anything can be written well" has been part of my fandom credo and, though I didn't know what a songfic was at the time, I remembered the phrase and for a long time have wanted to try doing one.

It was also around that time that I first went to see Hem and bought their second album (I'd had their first for a while), and listened to it so much that I forever associate those songs with certain beautiful fics I read that spring.

So you see, it was really very nice to bring all of that together in this fic, and also to write F/A sex for Claudia's birthday.

And then, weeks after I'd started writing the fic, I happened to find out that they were on tour promoting a new album, and so I got to go see them again this week!

Also, there's a Pippin/Diamond song on the new album (I made

danachan listen to it and she totally agrees with me) so, heh, this is probably not the last songfic you'll see from me.

fic link: Torn from the Map (Frodo/Aragorn)

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