(being a tempting taste of a Harry Potter fanfic currently under construction, based on an idea developed by orawnzva, fiddledragon, and batshua)

Hogwarts, two years before Harry Potter's return, sorting day:"Sly... no, wait..." I could feel the hat searching my mind, my heart, tasting me. "Your desire for power is great, but your heart is as sweet as your name, Melissa ( Read more... )

The rite of the Apple of Concord is a spell for achieving balance among the different areas of one's life. It represents a tikkun of the Greek myth of the Apple of Discord - you know, the one that started the Trojan war? Within the circle, participants re-enact the story, but this time a more sensible Paris does the right thing, war is averted, ( Read more... )

( I'm way behind on posting songs, but I'm working to catch up )

Not those silly, cute Santa elves - real Elves. Think about it. Recall the scene of the departure from Lorien in The Fellowship of the Ring, and recall the Father Christmas scene in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The gifts are of the same kind - sacred treasures to help in the struggle of light against darkness, the tools we need to be ( Read more... )

I don't write about Good and Evil very much - I tend to be more of the It's All Relative school. But Good and Evil do exist, and Heaven and Hell are very real as well, as close as the cartoon angel and devil on your shoulders. This Friday, real, unalloyed Evil, as petty and pitiful as it may be, will be coming to Brandeis University. I speak of ( Read more... )

I'd like to get my Quaker science fiction action/adventure musical, Walk in the Day, into shape to be actually performed at various events in the next year or so. I'll need several different kinds of help from a lot of people, including of course a complete (and most likely distinct) cast for each event.

Here's the plan.

( cut for plan )

This is all gfish's fault. Really...

See, Fishy posted this vignette about autonomous, self-reproducing steampunk clockwork vultures (really, niche-wise, clockwork crows). I thought that was really cool, but thought it didn't really pass as hard-steampunk - a clockwork brain powerful enough to control an autonomous agent that is going to survive in a ( Read more... )

As mentioned before, I'd like to arrange a performance of "Walk in the Day" at Conflikt. ( looking for editing help )

First, go check out Walk in the Day: the Musical - I'll wait.

edit: They're "Yrichii" now. Unlike the old name, this one is (a loose transliteration of) a native word, probably a word for "people" in the language of one of the larger city-states in the south, where contact was established first ( Read more... )

Guess what I did this week? I wrote a one-act science fiction action/adventure musical about Quaker peacemakers and Space Marine engineers working together to save adorable fierce furry nocturnal aliens from extinction on a desert planet.

Yes, that musical. Yes, all of it. Last you heard, if you've been following this journal, there were four ( Read more... )