Sweet caffeine, never leave me again.
It’s OTW membership drive time-supporting the coders and servers that provide the AO3, and Fanlore and Transformative Works & Cultures, and Vidding History, and legal projects like a DMCA exemption for vidders. I love the Archive (and eagerly await the return of tag filters!), and I want to help it grow. I love both counteragent’s and cesperanza’s takes: the OTW has your back! And it’s a toddler! It's a dessert wax and a floor topping! Um, I'll come in again. (Warning: cesperanza’s post also has Fringe and Downton Abbey spoilers.) I can’t lie though, a significant reason I’m donating now is also to get a kudos bottle.
Another neat thing I just learned: LibraryThing has a semi-curated tag folksonomy too!
Stacia Kane, Sacrificial Magic: Chess takes a case for the Church; unfortunately it’s deep in the territory of the drug dealer who’s the main rival of her lover’s employer. So she has to deal with his jealousy, her drug dealer’s plans to harm the rival’s business, and her remaining affection for her ex-lover (who happens to be the rival’s son, as if things weren’t complicated enough). Also there’s black magic, of course. I think I’m reading these too fast-they clearly hit just the right id buttons for me, but I’m also starting to find Chess’s low self-esteem too repetitive, while not at all hard to believe.
Stacia Kane, Home: Sweet little novella about Chess investigating a haunting where the homeowners insist that there’s no ghost around, which is a bit unusual since ghosts are (a) murderous 99% of the time and (b) lucrative, given that the Church pays a big bonus to anyone who’s actually haunted. Love conquers all (though maybe not Chess’s drug addiction).
Stacia Kane, Chasing Magic: Last one in the series, to date, and that’s just about the right timing for me! As the two rival crimelords prepare to go to war, with Chess and her lover smack in the middle-and him subject to a magical vulnerability she accidentally created while saving his life-a new drug shows up that turns its users into killing machines. Also Chess’s addiction really starts to catch up with her, and her lover isn’t willing to see her go Leaving Las Vegas-style. The plot had more thought behind it than earlier ones, which was good, and I am rooting for those two crazy kids to make it work.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.
Another neat thing I just learned: LibraryThing has a semi-curated tag folksonomy too!
Stacia Kane, Sacrificial Magic: Chess takes a case for the Church; unfortunately it’s deep in the territory of the drug dealer who’s the main rival of her lover’s employer. So she has to deal with his jealousy, her drug dealer’s plans to harm the rival’s business, and her remaining affection for her ex-lover (who happens to be the rival’s son, as if things weren’t complicated enough). Also there’s black magic, of course. I think I’m reading these too fast-they clearly hit just the right id buttons for me, but I’m also starting to find Chess’s low self-esteem too repetitive, while not at all hard to believe.
Stacia Kane, Home: Sweet little novella about Chess investigating a haunting where the homeowners insist that there’s no ghost around, which is a bit unusual since ghosts are (a) murderous 99% of the time and (b) lucrative, given that the Church pays a big bonus to anyone who’s actually haunted. Love conquers all (though maybe not Chess’s drug addiction).
Stacia Kane, Chasing Magic: Last one in the series, to date, and that’s just about the right timing for me! As the two rival crimelords prepare to go to war, with Chess and her lover smack in the middle-and him subject to a magical vulnerability she accidentally created while saving his life-a new drug shows up that turns its users into killing machines. Also Chess’s addiction really starts to catch up with her, and her lover isn’t willing to see her go Leaving Las Vegas-style. The plot had more thought behind it than earlier ones, which was good, and I am rooting for those two crazy kids to make it work.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.