Checkin' checkin' in

[cleolinda]

So the last month has been such that I haven't even been able to stop by and say "hey guys it's my 35th birthday!" or "hey guys, happy holidays!" or "hey guys, I have a Black Ribbon story coming out in the Athena's Daughters anthology!" It was... that kind of month. Some kind of pinched nerve or pulled muscle in my back, a conglomeration of flu and

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[herewiss13]

If you're looking for an easier format for your recaps, why not storify/clean up your live-twitter? I don't follow twitter generally but I always look your account up as/after I watch. Just insert a small amount of context and you'd be golden. :-)

[cleolinda]

Heh, I thought about that a little too late--I could have tweeted a bit more if I'd thought of that as an option. I may go a bit more tweet-heavy, yeah.

[boompsy]

Argh, I missed the Kickstarter by 31 minutes! So sorry :( Will there be another way to throw money at the book later on? The backstory you gave sounds fascinating :)

[cleolinda]

I have to think they'll sell the anthology in the wild, as it were, when it comes out in June--they mention that the hardcovers can only be bought through the Kickstarter, which implies that you'll be able to get the paperbacks (and ebooks, certainly) elsewhere/later. Thank you for wanting to back it, though!

[lilacsigil]

I'm super enjoying Dracula (and hoping Lucy becomes Jayne's vampire-killing protegee) but I have to admit that Dracula himself is the weakest part. Renfield, however, is awesome.

[herdivineshadow]

RENFIELD FOREVER.

[cleolinda]

I am not liking where the Lucy thing is going. I swear to God, just cut out the middlemen and hook Lucy and Jayne up together and save us all some aggro.

I love Renfield, though. I even like Dracula! I just SO DEEPLY DON'T CARE about the Order of the Dragon. DRACULA is supposed to be your #1 villain in DRACULA. Jesus, can you imagine if Hannibal was actually about the dark shenanigans of the American Psychiatric Association? That's what this feels like.

[lilacsigil]

Your recap featuring "WA WAWA WAWA WA." totally saves me through those parts!

[goldenusagi]

Because I want to save up my strength because Hannibal is coming back early!

If I had to choose, I'd say screw Dracula and focus on Hannibal recaps, lol.

Dracula didn't click with me at all, so I'm slightly biased.

[wolodymyr]

That's true from a sense of original-material-merit.

The thing is, Cleolinda, your Dracula recaps are what I had most fun reading in all of latter 2013.

Sometimes the critic bests the material. There's no argument for you to keep going. I kind of feel bad wanting you to keep going. I ALSO REALLY WANT YOU TO.

[cleolinda]

God bless. It's killing me because I really want to have written the recaps, you know? I want them to be here for everyone to read and they were pretty entertaining to do at the time! I just don't know that I currently have the strength/energy/health, and I hate when I get like that.

[litlover12]

"To have written" -- oh, yes. All hail Dorothy Parker (or whoever said that). It's one of the truest things that's ever been said about writing.

Welcome back, happy belated birthday, and may your blarg soon be gone!

[gluttonousangel]

NEW SEASON OF HANNIBAL!

[cleolinda]

Oh man, I hope it's just as good and doesn't disappoint the new viewers. I mean, I have faith in them, but I still hope.

(Man, the first, I don't know, twenty minutes of us sitting around on Twitter after the finale was just amazing. Just trying to process what we all had just seen. Everything was terrible forever and yet SO SATISFYING. And they made that episode NOT KNOWING THEY WOULD GET RENEWED. I still stop and think about that last scene sometimes and just shake my head at the glorious nerve of it.)