I've created an account at Dreamwidth, with the same username as here: https://eledonecirrhosa.dreamwidth.org/

I'll keep this LJ account live, at least until the current Werewolf campaign is finished, since there is gaming related posts on a community I created specifically for that purpose. 

I'm pondering moving to Dreamwidth. Meanwhile, here are some ramblings about my time at Eastercon.

Panels attended:

• From LGBT to Quiltbag - I don't think I was very awake, so can't remember much about this.
• Dinosaurs in Fact & Fiction - a very entertaining talk. Though I recognised the Scrotum humanum fossil, so saw that joke coming...
• Military & ( Read more... )

Aeons ago the BBC wiped various tapes, including Dr Who, to save money. I just found one.

I'm cataloguing old David Attenborough quarter inch audio tapes - mainly from Zoo Quest and Tribal Eye. And I've just come across one which has this crossed out on the box: 531 DR WHO "F Episodes 4 & G" The F and G are my best guess, since those have been ( Read more... )

I have a new addiction - mucking about making contour lines look more 'realistic' on maps I'm drawing for military science fiction RPGs. I want game maps which look like proper topographic maps, not like fantasy novel frontispiece maps. I'm using CorelDraw and making the initial pile of contours is dead easy. But then I can spend DAYS titvating ( Read more... )

Here are the books I read this year: ( books read in 2016. )

The Hairy Brother has just departed back to the frozen north, after a Christmas of gaming goodness.

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Context for those not already in the know: I've been running Night's Black Agents, which is spies versus vampires. I'd been doing a certain amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth, because the player group is so risk averse that they'd managed about half a dozen sessions without actually finding out that vampires exist. They've seen some weird ( Read more... )

Life seems to be very busy at the moment. Previous few weeks have included:

• Armadacon
• Visiting Stockport to see keith_martin, then a day trip to Manchester.
• Seeing various films at the cinema: Dr Strange, Arrival, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them. (Interestingly the cinema in Manchester was much cheaper than the ones in Bristol ( Read more... )

Thoroughly enjoyed Armadacon last weekend. I admit that I usually go to Armadacon mainly to see the other regular attendees. I liken the con to a family wedding, where only the relatives you actually ENJOY talking to have turned up ( Read more... )

I remember ranting about Dream Sequence a while back, so I guess this is rant number 2 ( Read more... )