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"Battle for Maidan (18-19 Feb)" by Dymmar
Translator’s note: I realise that online accounts, particularly ones from unfamiliar cultures, can be hard to identify with. So as you read this, please remember that the author of this essay is a friend of my youth who is dear to me: a writer, LARPer, geek, and husband to another dear friend. Here is the original. FWIW, Dymmar speaks perfect ( Read more... ) -
Bugger the bland
My dear bluedevi has come home to a package of clothes from Hexagon: a top and a dress with gothy slashed backs and swirly patterns, and she inhabits these clothes with cheer and aplomb. They're not complicated fashion pieces, but they're cute and they look like somebody put some thought in designing them to be like soI would very much like to be in the ( Read more... ) -
Delicious bribes
Here's a game I'm going to play. I'm going to play it for a month, and if by the end I haven't expired of fatigue, I may have another round ( Read more... ) -
Writing words
So I've got Scrivener open, and I'm writing words - good words, they are coming easily, my people are sounding true. It's tiring, because I've got the tail end of the flu, and damn near everything is tiring, but the writing is going well.
I take a tea break, come back to the story - and a fist of panic punches me in the throat; I feel sick and ( Read more... ) -
...in which I don't get "Watchmen"
I tried watching "Watchmen" last night. The keyword, obviously, being "tried", because I got about half-way only by a feat of willpower, and then I ran out even of that, and gave the hell up ( Read more... ) -
Hard work
So yes, we've finally got our act together and joined the gym in the new place. (New place? We've been living here for a year! It doesn't feel that long. Anyway ( Read more... ) -
Post-scriptum to the previous
I'm surprised by how much I care about this election. Maybe it's knowing that, for the first time ever, my vote counted, and was counted: unequivocally and honestly ( Read more... ) -
Unexpectedly political
I find myself spending several hours a day glued to the BBC News channel. Watching the news happen ( Read more... ) -
This is encouraging...
The first verdict has come in on "Open". P. reckons it's a story, not a sequence of scenes, though he feels the character's change is expressed too subtly. That's OK, I can work with that ( Read more... ) -
Right, that was weird
"Consent" is now called "Open", and has an ending. I think. Anyway, it's off to the first readers ( Read more... )