September 2025 Updates

Hi, everyone! Happy end-of-September! I hope the month treated you well. My updates are below.

• Most of my creative energy has been going to the fanfic ideas I mentioned in my August updates. While I do wish some of that motivation could also go toward my original writing, I’m still having an exciting time working through different concepts!

• In terms of reading, I have to admit that my reading has slowed down a bit, but I did read a few beautifully written Silmarillion fics this month. I particularly enjoyed timelessutterance’s “The Cradlesinger,” silmalope’s “On Tomorrow's Bright Frontiers,” and NIQtraust’s “Rings, Ravens, and Revelry.”

Anyways, that’s it for this month! As always, thank you for stopping by, and you are welcome to share your fic and reading updates in the comments. This month, I encourage you to support AIDESEP, an organization in Peru that supports the rights of Indigenous peoples along the Amazon. It appears that you need a Peruvian identification number to support them financially through their website, but you can follow their social media accounts for more information about their actions. I also encourage you to support On the Rise, a Massachusetts community and Safe Haven for women, transgender, and nonbinary people moving through homelessness, and to follow Refugees in Niger, which brings attention to the Black African refugees protesting the neglect and human rights abuses they are facing in Agadiz. For more resources and organizations to support, please look here.