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the silliness of plot bunnies
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marycatelliOut of the blue, it hopped up again and suggested I could work on it and fit it in a collection that is, at the moment, still up in the air.
How silly those plot bunnies get
Bones rules
Feb. 5th, 2026 06:48 pmmarycatelliTurn-of-the-last-century grammar lessons. Basic, sound grammar, with some additional interest in his choices of sentences to analyze. Many from poems, and with some interesting placing of the parts of a sentence.
He does note that any word can be used as a verb, even then.
Thankful Thursday
Feb. 5th, 2026 04:58 pmmdlbearToday I am thankful for...
- Finally getting a phone call made, and finding that (as usual) it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. NO thanks to my phone phobia -- should have done it a month ago.
- The Harwich - Hoek van Holland ferry. Would be more thankful if the night run afforded more time to actually sleep.
- Ordering stuff online.
- A nice warm fuzzy blanket to wrap myself in. NO thanks for a body that feels cold in the evening no matter what the air temperature is. ALSO no thanks for deliveries that make me get out of my nice warm fuzzy blanket to answer the door.
- Good Drugs.
- Filk cons I can get to by public transit.
"Traditional Publishing" -- what I expect when I hear that.
Feb. 5th, 2026 09:33 amseawasp- ( Read more... )
Golden Sunlands by Christopher Rowley
Feb. 5th, 2026 08:52 amjames_davis_nicoll
Federal Ranger Cracka Buckshore's efforts to keep irate parents from lynching handsome Fodo Bathin are complicated when Cracka, Fodo, and everyone else on the planet are kidnapped and taken to an artificial universe.
Golden Sunlands by Christopher Rowley
Bundle of Holding: Human Gorilla Heists
Feb. 4th, 2026 02:25 pmjames_davis_nicoll
This all-new Human Gorilla Heists Bundle presents .PDF ebooks from Human Gorilla Creations that help you create tabletop fantasy roleplaying adventures of thieves and thievery.
Bundle of Holding: Human Gorilla Heists
The Girl from the West (Kokun, volume 1) by Nahoko Uehashi (Translated by Cathy Hirano)
Feb. 4th, 2026 08:54 amjames_davis_nicoll
Aisha's unique senses could help the empire escape the ecological crisis the empire has inadvertently engineered. Too bad dynastic security requires her death.
The Girl from the West (Kokun, volume 1) by Nahoko Uehashi (Translated by Cathy Hirano)
Minor operations; testing new serving path
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dw_maintenanceHi all!
I'm doing some minor operational work tonight. It should be transparent, but there's always a chance that something goes wrong. The main thing I'm touching is testing a replacement for Apache2 (our web server software) in one area of the site.
Thank you!
Fig (2011 - 2026)
Feb. 3rd, 2026 11:45 pmjames_davis_nicoll
I just got email from Fig's owner that Fig (who I owned from 2012 to 2017) passed away this evening. Cause unknown. My impression is Fig just didn't wake up.
Seen on the Watsfic Discord
Feb. 3rd, 2026 02:40 pmjames_davis_nicoll
QWP
Hey everyone,
**This year marks WATSFIC's 50th Anniversary!** To commemorate this we are releasing a new issue of our club fanzine Starsongs.
If you would like to become an officially published author, we are opening up submissions right now! Send us your **short stories, opinion pieces, open letters** [to systems, games, concepts, authors, or WATSFIC itself], **reviews of Sci-Fi/Fantasy** games, books, or other media, **your best drawings or paintings**, or whatever else you'd like to share with WATSFIC and the greater UW Community. We will endeavour to accept and print as many submissions as possible as long as they are club appropriate. If you're unsure if your idea is right for Starsongs, please don't hesitate to contact an exec and we'd be more than happy to discuss it and/or workshop it with you!
If you are looking for inspiration, you can find the 1970s releases of Starsongs on the University of Waterloo's Digital Library.
**We will be accepting submissions until the end of March, if you would like to contribute** please fill out this form here.
-# Submissions after March 31st may still be accepted, but we cannot promise anything, so please try to get any and all submission in before this deadline to ensure your work can be considered.
D&D scenario
Feb. 3rd, 2026 11:54 amjames_davis_nicollTime to get the band back together!
Alas, the band isn't just dispersed. All but one member is long dead.
Happily, the last surviving member is a necromancer.
Angel With a Sword (Merovingen Nights, volume 1) by C J Cherryh
Feb. 3rd, 2026 08:49 amjames_davis_nicoll
A moment of foolish charity drags impoverished Altair Jones into a deadly struggle.
Angel With a Sword (Merovingen Nights, volume 1) by C J Cherryh
Done Since 2026-01-25
Feb. 3rd, 2026 10:04 ammdlbearNote that this was written on Monday, 2 February, but is being posted on Tuesday the 3rd because posting from just my laptop is tedious and I have no confidencs in Sable's ability to stay up long enough.
Despite it being disaster season, it's been a pretty good week, modulo exhausting travel and (voluntarily) limited sleep, all thanks to Contabile, the main UK filk convention. N and m went last year; this year we all went (m traveling separately because they're living in the UK now). It's been a very good weekend, and not a bad week before that.
As usual, I'm unlikely to write a separate trip report later (one can hope, but...). The trip was definitely an adventure, taking the ferry from Hoek de Holland to Harwich, then two trains and a cab to the con hotel. The premium lounge on the ferry serves surprisingly good food. So does the con hotel, the Wensum Valley Hotel, about a 20 minute cab ride outside Norwich.
My travel planning and prep has definitely declined. The biggest problem was taking a laptop with a grossly inadequate batter -- I should have taken (Framework 12)Lilac, instead of (Thinkpad x230)Sable, which is definitely showing its age, and has a usable batter life measured in minutes. The list of forgotten stuff is under the cut following the entry for Friday.
A sentence I did not expect to encounter
Feb. 2nd, 2026 05:42 pmjames_davis_nicoll