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Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
The e-ARC of Bujold's Ivan book is now available from Baen. It is good.
Without getting into spoiler territory, I'd say this is a lovely, fluffy cream-cake of a book. It's kinda like A Civil Campaign without the agonizing self-induced clusterfuck centerpiece (and only one POV-couple romance); the overall tone also reminds me in various ways of ( Read more... ) -
recycled cheese
No, really. In a good way.
We've been accumulating a small rockpile of petrified cheese chunks in the fridge, and today I was bored enough to try finding something to do with them. There were about ten ounces total-- Gouda, Cheddar, and Parmesan, I think-- which seemed like enough to try some version of Alton Brown's "Fromage Fort" recipeI don't ( Read more... ) -
dried persimmons
Nom nom nom ( Read more... ) -
Yeesh.
Watched a fansub of Shin Kyoto Hen ( Read more... ) -
iRhyme?
From an ML prompt: I always wanted to write a poem where all the words are spelled like they rhyme but don't.I think that I shall never hear ( Read more... ) -
Internal game chronology (WIP)
I'll have to figure out how to set this up-- at first, I was thinking a table format with one column for each route, but I don't think that'll work by itself. I may need to combine color-coding as well. Bleah.
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More thoughts on Sakuya
(Dammit, kid, cooperate or I'll go after one of your less fluffy prumpts instead.)( Read more... ) -
Random fic notes
Some thoughts on HatoFic1.) Sakuya is weirdly difficult for me to pin down, at least into the mood I'm trying to get him into. He's very high-strung and skittish, with a brittle arrogance that can quickly flare from ice-queen snobbery into rank-pulling snitfits. Under physical strain, he goes into wild-eyed panic mode. He's bossy and rude and I ( Read more... ) -
I am writing pigeon fic. O_o
Not much more to be said, really :b
It is horribly bad so far-- the usual structural stereotypes of backfill, description, and internal monologue with almost no actual dialogue or ongoing action. Dammit. -
Hatoful character name kanji
And so the spiral continues downward. ("DATING PIGEONS IS NOTHING BUT SUFFERING AND MADNESS.")
I am actually having plotbunnies god help me.( Read more... )