Previously, in Trip's Life...
31 March 2016 - Thursday
This week, we had Kelsey for 13th Age but not
Grant. Continuity, who needs it? Broccolini pasta is better than continuity
any day. Demon minions and Imperial wedding invitations, not so much.
The PCs successfully rescued an apparently random magistrate from the
southern empire from the second room of the hellclam tower, then used magic
to suborn the lever-puller in the third room and made friends with the
Pearlkeeper (another wall face). After a long rest, they use one of the
levers to get to the Gizzard, which is practically out of the dungeon. One
of their nemeses, the orcish General Gul, has taken over the orcs of the
Gizzard since the Stone Thief
ate her horde, and is working with the new or restored Architect. Somehow,
the PCs get the Architect to hand over a large gemstone, ostensibly as a
wedding present for the Emperor, and the orcish assassins to escort them
out of the dungeon, but as soon as they slip away, they head for the
Gatekeeper to try putting him in the gem and carrying him back to the
dwarven kingdom.
Last day of the month, so time to total up writing. Looks like I made
55% over my new improved quota, if you count horrible writing at face
value. I'm not sure whether to increase my quota to 200 per day, or leave
it as-is and see if I can avoid failure two months in a row.
New manga! Meh.
Nichijou (Keiichi Arawi) seems to be in kind of the same
space as Azumanga Daioh but without the punch lines every
fourth panel or comprehensible references or anything else that made me
like AD.
"Hapless teenage boy breaks the seal established by older and wiser
Shinto priests, releasing the hot female kami" is a well-established
shounen anime subgenre. Maga-Tsuki (Hoshino Taguchi) only adds
the twist that the boy and goddess must remain in physical contact or he
keels over dead and has to be kissed back to life, which isn't any more of
an annoyance to the girl next door than any other variant.
Your
Whispering Homunculus and More
Whispering Homunculus are full of tables for adding color and
strangeness to a D&D-type setting: 20 crazy contests or dares villagers
might challenge a PC to, 12 obsessive collectors and the creepy things they
collect, 50 weird entertainers, 20 bizarre local religious festivals, 100
strange shops, 20 village idiots, 10 things to spice up an encounter on
snowy city streets. There are also a few variant monsters and random stuff
like that. Nominally it is all for Pathfinder,
but the flavor is a lot more like the fake English countryside of D&D0.
No Time Like The Past and What Could Possibly Go
Wrong? (Jodi Taylor) are the fifth and sixth in the "Chronicles of
St Mary's" time-travel comedy/adventure/romance, and follow the pattern of
Max getting into trouble in the past because the past was horrible, and
also St Mary's being in trouble becaus time travel is perilous. Also,
silliness.
People (well, jerkfaces, but they're technically people, I guess) like
to dismiss books with competent female characters as Mary Sues, but I see
self-insertion power fantasies much more with male characters. For example,
Life With A Fire-Breathing Girlfriend, The Land Beyond
All Dreams, and Dragon's Luck (Bryan Fields). They
aren't terrible (although oddly the second one is the best), but they are
definitely what they are.
Dead Man's Debt (Elliott Kay) is the third but not final
book in the series that started with Poor Man's Fight and
Rich Man's War, in which a corporation goes to war with an
entire solar system over student loan terms. In this volume: more heroism
(or war crimes, depending on whose news you listen to), and a novel method
of reining in corporate power.
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27 March 2016 - Sunday
No gaming, because Earl's brain is empty, but ham, because it's Cosmic
Jewish Zombie Day! Also deviled eggs and not enough glazed shallots. (There
should always be more glazed shallots.) Earl and Cat were in attendance,
because eating food is much easier than GMing for lunatics. Much fun was
had, except when the kids were trying to murderize each other. Maybe even
then.
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26 March 2016 - Saturday
Aspen and Ghirardelli were most alarmed by the strange humans in their
apartment, but I appreciate things being cleaner even if the cats might
not.
In terms of word count, this was my best writing day so far this year.
Also I started the supermythos piece over really from scratch, or perhaps
it counts as a completely different piece now, and it is infinitesimally
less horrible. Wheeee.
Nonni and Jus each wanted to dye all the eggs, but by definition that
doesn't work, even if other people didn't want some too. In the end,
though, all of the eggs were colorful and none were broken beyond
usability, which is probably the most that can be hoped for.
Jus and Ken made me a parasite-friendly chocolate cream pie, although
the singing did not happen until after the kids were in bed. Yum.
- Brother, Dear Brother 20: Apparently Japan in the 1970s
didn't have fire safety regulations. However, they did have Prince
Kaoru, so the day could be saved.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion 7: If only the politicians
understood what's at stake, NERV wouldn't have to jump through so many
hoops to get funding.
- Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth 9: Poor Camille.
But I am glad Claude has a proper love interest.
- Natsume's Book of Friends 4.1-2: I wonder if this show
will become sufficiently plot-oriented for Matoba to get crushed as he
so rightfully deserves this season?
- Steven Universe 30: "Use your fish-murdering skills,
Sadie!" But I may have to reconsider whether Lars and Sadie deserve
each other.
I normally like monster books, even Pathfinder,
but Monsters
of Porphyra was meh. None of the monsters seemed particularly unusual.
Maybe all the possible monsters have already been statted up.
I really liked volume 1 of Mysterious Girlfriend X (Riichi
Ueshiba) even though a saliva-based bond is kind of gross, or at least
unsanitary. But really, not more unsanitary than kissing, and definitely
more surreal, and the leads seem to actually like each other even though
the female lead is terrible at communicating with speech or body
language. I don't think it's the kind of manga in which she will turn out
to actually be an alien, but if I were not so meta, I would strongly
suspect it.
In the first volume of N0t Lives (Wataru Karasuma), the male
lead ends up with a female avatar in the altered-space superpowered
fights/live-action video game, but it is not that interesting.
Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free (Randy Henderson) is the
sequel to Finn Fancy Necromancy, in which a hapless
necromancer from the 1980s is trapped in limbo for 25 years and must deal
with the 21st century and also evil. In this book, he is a little more
acclimated , but still not very comfortable, and there is plenty more evil
(including institutionalized racism on a variety of levels). Also, best
duel ever.
In Carpet Diem (Justin Lee Anderson), the fate of the
world hinges on one reclusive British bachelor's living-room rug. Also
angels, demons, oracles, monsters, witches, American punk girls, and
possibly true love.
Hell's Super (Mark Cain) is about the poor schmoe who gets
stuck doing all of Hell's maintenance, because he hates and is not very
good at it. (What part of "eternal torment" did you not understand?) This
goes about as well as you would expect, even with Florence Nightingale
involved. It is the first of a series, with some hints that the main
character may end up changing or at least escaping the Heaven/Hell
cosmology.
Dreambound (Sena Bryer) is I guess OEL light novels, about
a hapless guy trapped in a direct-neural-interface MMORPG as a tiny cute
elven priestess. Unlike Sword Art Online, Something is clearly
Up, both in/with the game and outside it. Also the protagonist's roommate
(who is responsible for the protagonist's plight and possibly the whole
mess) is an entire swarm of Evil Bees all by himself, and needs to be
stabbed IRL. However, this has not happened after three volumes.
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24 March 2016 - Thursday
Now that I have an apartment that is conveniently located with respect
to both work and friends, Ayse and Ken and Dave are trying to move further
away from me again! Maybe I should move to Portland and hide in a pit
forever.
Hurray, Ethiopian
food! I ate some goop that wasn't too spicy and about thirty-leven
pounds of injera.
Still no Kelsey, but we had Grant, so we were able to play
13th Age.
Despite the interference of giant stone hands, we kept the
Stone Thief
from eating Hell and even closed the portal for good. Somehow, we adopted
the imp instead of killing it, but I'm sure its time will come. Then we
started exploring a submerged but dry tower, which is slowly filling with
water as we fight the hellclams in search of a large gemstone that we can
use to carry our buddy the earth elemental out of the dungeon.
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23 March 2016 - Wednesday
When I got to work this morning, there were no electrons. Fortunately
our office manager, who can do anything, can also make PG&E stop sucking.
I quite like this alternate
damage system for Dungeon
World. But, not enough gamers.
Still not happy with the supermythos story. I think I need to discard it
and start over again, from even earlier. (Who could have guessed that just
leaping right in might not work out perfectly?) Possibly I need a different
protagonist, since the point of young supers is getting their powers, and
second-generation catgirls are sort of born with theirs. Or are they? Hm.
Even so, I see why Please
Don't Tell My Parents... and Legion of Nothing as well as many
other supers stories have gadgeteers as protagonists: building tools is a
fundamental human activity, so gadgeteers can be more relatable to the
baseline human reader. Hm hm.
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22 March 2016 - Tuesday
I am not happy with this supermythos story. It needs to be more
something. Chipper? Slangy? Chatty? Genki? Maybe I need to give Nef less
tragic backstory. Maybe I need to not let Please Don't Tell My
Parents I'm A Supervillain influence me to write middle-school
superheroes. Maybe I need to learn to write.
Putting someone who can smell physical reactions into a school full of
13-year-old boys leads inevitably to awkwardness, although I'm not sure if
this is good or bad.
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21 March 2016 - Monday
How have I not crumbled into dust from sheer decrepitude by now?
For my birthday, I did a bunch of work and then reached my writing
quota for the month. So um go me?
The more Pathfinder
material I read, the less I like the system. It makes me long for the
elegance and simplicity of Hero. But, I like setting
and fantastical bits, so after reading So
uthlands, I figured I should read Midgard and see
where all the references point. It is pretty good for a D&D world, with
many abandoned, devastated, or otherwise adventurous locations to put
dungeons, and the full range of mortal perfidy on display in the civilized
regions. It is thematically Europe of an unspecified time, with Viking
raiders to the north, dwarven cantons in the middle, warring city-states in
the sourth, and the Ottodragon Empire to the southeast. Plus, kobolds!
Birthday by Avalon (Tue Mar 22 18:08:23 2016)
Oh HAPPY HAPPY day that you were born!
belated but sincere by marithlizard (Tue Mar 22 21:03:11 2016)
Happy TripDay to you!
Happy TripDay to you!
Happy TripDay dear Best Trip there's no escaping the hugs so don't even try,
Happy TripDay to you!
Re: Birthday by Trip (Wed Mar 23 10:31:31 2016)
Meep!
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20 March 2016 - Sunday
Ken brought Jus and Nonni over to admire my cats, which they did with
great enthusiasm. More enthusiasm than the cats were entirely comfortable
with, but well-meant. Nonni was confused that I have no toys, but then
they discovered the pile of plush animals.
Ken's immune system made him take his children away early enough that I
could get brunch at Bill's, although
I did not discover they have sugar-free syrup until too late. Next time,
for sure!
It's all still horrible, but there's a
new chapter
of horrible writing. I know what to write next on the supermythos thing
(more public humiliation!) but took a nap instead of writing it.
Soon, I will have made my quota for March! Unless I die in a pit
first.
Avalon is still my girlfriend, and the other people in her system have
not grounded her to prevent her from dating someone unsuitable.
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19 March 2016 - Saturday
I successfully did shopping and ate popcorn chicken, but did not
do any writing because I had to play Choco Cat Chase instead.
- Brother, Dear Brother 19: No, Nanako, do not lie to your
friends! But you would hardly be an anime character if you said things
that were true instead of things that you thought people wanted to hear.
- The Cat Returns: Bonus points for depicting the Kingdom
of the Cats as not entirely a positive thing, although really it would
probably be fine if they got rid of the antiquated monarchy.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion 6: Still no Asuka, but Rei and
Shinji are bonding. Also, Misato is actually competent!
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17 March 2016 - Thursday
The new company across the way, Overplay, had an office-warming/St
Patrick's Day party, but none of the really party-centric Arcadians were
in the Campbell office today, so we were only there for a few minutes. I'm
sure they think we're terribly antisocial.
Gaming failure. Kelsey and Grant didn't make it, so Mike forced us to
play Castles
of Mad King Ludwig. My castle had many outdoor rooms, which got me a
small number of bonus points, but mostly I was terrible at this game, as I
am at all board games games activities.
Then I had to walk home, because CoMKL has a special phase that allows one
player per round to dither eternally and without end.
Dragon • Princess, Dragon • Thief,
and Dragon • Wizard (S Andrew Swann) are about a mediocre
fantasy thief who gets transferred into the body of a princess in a freak
magical accident (the princess ends up in the body of a dragon, which she
appreciates much more). It is not that kind of fantasy. It is humorous
fantasy, but not in the tone of early Terry Pratchett. Wizards are strange
and alarming, elves are totally willing to make deals and keep them to the
letter, and dragons can destroy towns. On the other hand, sometimes dragons
have gambling problems, and sometimes people sacrifice virgins to dark gods.
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16 March 2016 - Wednesday
Writing failure. Boyfriend failure. Everything failure.
no! by marithlizard (Thu Mar 17 10:22:52 2016)
Hug success, brother success, friend success, and cat-minion success, at the very least.
Re: no! by Trip (Thu Mar 17 13:50:52 2016)
No way, Ghirardelli wanted to play Choco Cat Chase many more times than we actually did.
Re: re: no! by marithlizard (Thu Mar 17 21:07:15 2016)
Well, now you know your next objective!
Re: re: re: no! by Trip (Tue Mar 22 09:23:47 2016)
I'm not sure anyone can play that much Choco Cat Chase.
Failure by Avalon (Tue Mar 22 18:09:11 2016)
That was not failure. =) XOXOXOX! O! XX!
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15 March 2016 - Tuesday
I rewrote the supermythos piece, and dislike it less, but it's still
pretty horrible.
Southlands:
Adventures in the Pitiless Sun is Kobold Quarterly's fantasy-Africa
expansion for the fantasy-Europe of their Midgard setting for
Pathfinder.
There is definitely a lot of it, since it does cover an entire continent in
some detail (this is definitely a book for GMs, not players). The
similarity to real Africa is limited (desert across the top, jungle in the
middle, pyramids in the upper right), but then the real Africa's history
has a lamentable shortage of minotaurs, interdimensional portals, and
elementals. (Also a shortage of dragon invasions and Great Old Ones, which
is perhaps not so lamentable.) There is adventure everywhere, and unusual
threats to life and limb, and what more can you ask for?
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14 March 2016 - Monday
Look, it's Π day! Also my youngest brother's birthday, unless he's
died and no one told me (unlikely).
Today I did some work, made Avalon very upset with me, and did some
writing. One of these things is not like the others.
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13 March 2016 - Sunday
Still no Deirdre for PAD&D5:
apparently she is recovering from having her elbow bolted back together.
Escalator bites are even nastier than I thought!
The remaining frogs attempt to wreak a terrible revenge by flooding their
conquered headquarters with a mighty wave more than 30 centimeters high.
This does not avail them, but the water continues to rise, so the PCs pile
into the Apparatus of Kwalish and scuttle away. Somewhere in here, Zach
and Ella trick The Frederick into letting go of the bag of captured frogs,
so Ella can use lesser restoration on their leaders to unravel
the network of Titanware and return them all to their natural state.
Since the goal of exploration is to find a way to get the escaped
thralls out of the dungeon, the PCs trundle downriver and find the way to
the ocean. They also find remora-mermaids riding a giant shark, who
explain about the perfidious elven warlock of the Great Old Ones who
knocked up their queen with an abominable tentacular offspring (now exiled
to the swamp on the island) and made all elves persona non grata in the
local waters. Zach is able to use differential lighting to keep himself
and the Frederick from being identified as perfidious elvenkind, and the
PCs go back upstream to the thralls and giant prisoners.
Ella puts her graduate-level coursework in maximizing the effect of
ritual casting to good use and gets all the escaped thralls enchanted with
water breathing in the minimum possible time. Then, with the PCs
holding off the carrion crawlers, they all swim downstream to the sea and
hide on the shoreline. The PCs then sneak up to the landing where they
once scammed an ogre, but are taken by surprise by the five giants lurking
on guard. Fortunately, these giants are badly hampered by The Frederick
pulling off their helmets to expose them to the moist atmosphere of Earth,
so they are unable to resist the scarab of confusion set off by
Dain and the various high-level spells from Zach and Ella. The boatjacking
is a success and the 60-odd surviving escaped thralls are sent off back to
the mainland (with the body of an elf killed by the Martian lions as the
fake sacrifice to the mermaids).
This leaves only the however-many thralls still in captivity, to be
rescued from the 50-odd giants and equal number of green Martians still at
large. Since beating them down in direct combat is clearly not going to
work, the PCs go to the swamp to find the Abominable Daughter of the
Merqueen. If she is sufficiently abominable, maybe they can enlist her
aid against the giants, or perhaps they can lift her curse and get the
mermaids as allies. The swamp is haunted by psychic tree octopodes, but
they are hardly able to eat any adventurers at all, and eventually the PCs
find the colossal caecilia in her basin, where the tree-octopodes serenade
her. Her tentacles each bear an auxiliary head, and sometimes suffer
lapses of visibility, so Zach is nominated to do the talking next week.
Dave and I just missed the train, so we had to creep back to San Jose
on the bus.
I successfully caught up on GATE using my new AV setup.
Wheee!
Still haven't tested DVDs.
The Remote app for controlling an Apple TV from your iOS device just
replicates the interface of the dumb remote, instead of taking any
advantage of the touchscreen. I'm sure it was a million times easier to
write that way, but I am disappointed.
I tried writing a little in supermythos, but I don't like it (which is
different from it being horrible) and will have to throw it away or at
least rewrite it completely.
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12 March 2016 - Saturday
Apple TV box plus television plus Crunchyroll means that when people
stop inviting me to anime night, I can watch anime in the comfort of my
own pit! Unless it's on DVD; I haven't tested streaming from the drive in
my Mac Mini yet.
It took so long to enter my username and password into the Apple TV
using only the remote control that I ended up not writing at all. But I
have enough words already stored up.
- Brother, Dear Brother 17: Who would have thought
Saint-Just was such a bad influence? Also: love confession!
- Neon Genesis Evangelion 5: It wouldn't be 90s anime
without the male lead accidentally tackling and feeling up a female
character.
- Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth 8: I think more
exposure to Camille would be good for Claude.
- Legend of Korra 4.12-13: The end! Plot-wise, well, it is a
kid's show. As for the final shot that sent shippers into ecstasies
and conservatives into a frothing rage, well, it is a kid's show, but
it was still nice, even if there wasn't much there.
- Steven Universe 29: Garnet is awesome.
Next week, Natsume's Book of Friends, season 4!
Just One Damned Thing After Another, A Symphony of
Echoes, and A Second Chance (Jodi Taylor) are the first
three of an ongoing series about crazed British time-travellers. They veer
erratically from British institutional humor to car-crashing romance to
horror, which is part of their charm. The end of the third book could be
an end to the story, but there are at least three more books.
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10 March 2016 - Thursday
I wonder what I would do if I had a brain.
Chains of the Heretic (Jeff Salyards) concludes the
"Bloodsounder's Arc" trilogy of gritty military fantasy. I could have sworn
the first two books were better-written, but this volume has unknown lands,
political revolution, and the deaths of very many unnamed mooks and a few
named characters. Most of them deserved it, really.
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8 March 2016 - Tuesday
Dimension W vol 1 (Yuji Iwahara) is about unlimited free
energy and how capitalism screws it all up. Also robot girls and possibly
the virtues of archaic chemical-powered cars when driven by eccentric
bounty hunters.
Milan Matra is the one responsible for Omamori Himari, so
we know what to expect from Demonizer Zilch.
Just because, I went back and reread Half-Off Ragnarok and
Pocket Apocalypse (Seanan McGuire). I still like Verity and
Antimony better, but Alex isn't so bad as a narrator.
The White Gold Score (Craig Schaefer) is a novella set
between the first two novels of the series about a sorcerous criminal in
Las Vegas. The main character is trying to do right by someone, kind of,
but a lot of people end up dead despite the slickness of the con.
Cursed (JA Cipriano) starts off interesting, but degenerates
rapidly after the point at which the free sample ends. It is not even
well-edited.
Wrong Side of Hell Fields of Blood (Sonya Bateman)
are better than Cursed, but not very original.
Marked in Flesh (Anne Bishop) is the fourth and probably last
in the series about self-harm, precognition, werewolves, and impending
doom. There is a lot of doom, and also network outages, but then some
hope.
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6 March 2016 - Sunday
Ayse and I took Jus to the cat
show, but she suffered a severe attack of being six, so we didn't stay
long. I think it may be time I try to talk my apartment manager into
allowing another cat.
Poor Avalon is sick tonight.
I'm caught up on writing, but it's all still horrible.
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5 March 2016 - Saturday
This time I had a good excuse for sleeping in a bunch.
Pot roast!
- Brother, Dear Brother 17: Yep, Miya was horrible. But
other people managed to have somewhat sane interactions anyway.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion 4: Morale issues are even more
important when your brain is being connected directly to a giant mecha.
- Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth 7: Claude overcame
his pride to help Yune?! Is that like character growth?
- Legend of Korra 4.11: I don't know why, but although I'm
willing to roll with giant mecha in Evangelion, here I'm
all for pointing out the numerous fatal flaws with the idea.
I tried to read The Sleeping Life (Andrea K Höst), but
I had no idea what was going on, so I had to go back and reread
Stained Glass Monsters. Oh, yah, it's the one with the secret
bloodline trying to thwart the ritual with the really long casting time. In
this installment, more lost magic, more of the apprentice girl, and
girlsmooches. Also, mysterious mystery and horrific vegetation.
I've usually seen it rendered as "-machia", but
Gigantomaxia vol 1 (Kentaro Miura) is set a hundred million
years after the great extinction, so a little drift is understandable. An
escaped gladiator and something in the shape of a young girl wander the
wastelands, trying to prevent the expansionist empire's giant monsters from
overthrowing and devouring the local gods that sustain the scattered
tribes. In this volume: the beetle people vs fire-breathing land
octopi!
Fortunately, although I have a to write a certain number of words each
day (on average), there is nothing to say that they have to be good for
anything. I don't even know what I want to do with supermythos. Maybe
inscribe it on imperishable plastic tablets and bury it to make future
generations wonder.
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4 March 2016 - Friday
Hurray, we got Marith to socialize! With Avalon! And people!
No writing. Only Zuul.
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3 March 2016 - Thursday
Kelsey and Grant both couldn't make it to gaming, so we played Lords of
Waterdeep (I came in last) and Red Dragon
Inn (I was eliminated first). It was fun even though I suck, but this
is the second week in a row we've had to cancel 13th Age.
I tried to have more supermythos thoughts, but this has not been a good
week for thoughts in general. Fortunately, it's completely within the
genre for all political, social, and technological history to be exactly
the same despite orbital bombardment during the Cold War. I guess iconic
supers come next?
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2 March 2016 - Wednesday
I made it to work today, although if my enemies want to ambush
me, all they have to do is sneak up on my left where I can't turn my
head.
Poor Ghirardelli wants to play chase, but I am really not up for it. Or
for anything except staring blankly at tumblr and doing a tiny bit of
terrible writing.
A Gathering of Shadows (VE Schwab) is the sequel to A
Darker Shade of Magic. It has even more doom, only some of which
could have been easily predicted from the doom of the previous book.
Delilah has no sense of self-preservation whatsoever. There are
smooches.
I somehow managed to fail at preordering Calamity (Brandon
Sanderson), but some computer somewhere let slip that it exists, so I had
to start reading it and then go back and reread Firefight to
get caught up on the discoveries about the central mystery before reading
the volume in which All is Revealed. Unfortunately, I found the Big Answer
a bit lacking. It made sense and all, but there wasn't enough support on
either the story level or the worldbuilding level for it to be fully
satisfying. Maybe I am just too picky.
Chaos Choreography (Seanan McGuire) is the fifth book in the
"InCryptids" series. We are back to Verity as the narrator, even though I
was hoping for Antimony. (On the other hand, Internet Rumor suggests that
eventually the Infamous Dimension-Hopping Grandmother (who we finally meet
for real in this volume) will eventually be the narrator, which will be
awesome.) So, this book is full of dancing and conspiracies and cute
chupacabras and mass murder, kind of like the first one only different. I
was not entirely correct about who the villain was. I'm not sure how to
take the lack of fallout from the climax, but the next book might be
interestingly doomed.
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1 March 2016 - Tuesday
Uuuuugh. Feverish and queasy all night. Got up to sit on the toilet
in the early morning, started sweating buckets and shivering, woke up on
the floor with a crick in my neck from having my head jammed into the
corner. Fainting when I'm sick is not actually unprecedented, but if I
had fallen incorrectly, I could probably have ended up with much worse
than a sore neck. I wish Avalon were here. Stupid life.
At least I wasn't made of fever and nausea after that, so I was able
to do a bit of work from home, but I had no energy and mostly took like
seven hours of naps on the couch.
Last month I wrote about 268% of my self-imposed quota. I think this
month I will increase the quota by 50%, even though I am starting off
the month by being too sick to think.
It was not a date night, but Avalon was around for a bit. Even
long-distance Avalonhugs make everything better.
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