Good morning! (Good afternoon, good evening, and good night)
It’s been a good week for web housekeeping!
Let’s see: I covered my work on the Fae Apoc Landing Page in last week’s post, even though that was in this week. This week, I also worked on the Microfiction Landing Page!
Because a lot of my tootfiction was lost(*) when TootPlanet migrated to Ping.the-Planet, my Microfiction landing page has been a bit of a mess of broken links. Continue reading
I need all of Jason Momoa’s roles to be people in Fae Apoc.
Khal Drogo is an old soldier of the likes of Aelfgar. He’s been fighting monsters, Nedetakaei, returned gods, and more monsters for longer than he can remember. If he dies, he’ll be reborn into this. He is a warrior all the way through, but he’s getting a little bit tired. Picture him riding a motorcycle – or a horse – through the post-apocalypse wasteland with his warriors, chasing down a wyvern or climbing up the side of a giant to cut out their hearts.
https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Drogo
Aquaman? He’s younger than Khal Drogo, amusingly (since the role came later in the actor’s life, that is), but he’s a fighter with (obviously) an aquatic Change. He’s a scrapper, probably over 100 years old but never really grew up all the way, and while he’s deadly with the weapons of choice, he’s also laid-back. He likes to sit on his beach and drink a beer, toes in the water, ass in the sand ♪
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman_(film)
And then there’s Ronon! Ronon Dexhas been out of school (possibly Addergoole) for four or five years, all of which has been surviving an apocalypse. The Returned God Assholes are after him. He’s learned to take down wild animals – both the sort that existed on Earth before the apocalypse and the sort that came through the portals with the Returned Gods. Or MAYBE he ended up falling through a portal and ending up in a strange part of Ellehem for a while before managing to return home. Either way, he spent years in the wilderness and now he needs to learn how to readjust to whatever society he finds himself with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronon_Dex
I have not seen the modern Conan the Barbarian yet (It’s now on my to-watch list) but I can bet that version would fit somewhere in the Fae Apocalypse, too.
I mean… just give me all the Jason Momoa characters forever, please?
… starting to think that “Talking about Writing” needs its own category, since I don’t have any place to put that.
NOR do I have a category for “prompt calls,” just a tag.
1) An Idea – an elevator pitch of the project you want to do
1) “A Compendium of Completion” sounds better than “Finish It”, but it’s the same concept: I am going to take ~ 50/3 extant writing projects, stories, beginnings, and/or ideas and… bring them to a satisfying completion.
Not like, the novel they were meant to be or anything, i.e., Arrisse and Chress (Rock/Hard Place) might be a romance novel eventually, but I want to complete one arc of their story, approx 10K words total.
Currently on the list are Rock/Hard Place, the Uncle’s…Pet? and Autumn Lightning/Afterwards, which I am aiming to have take up 1/3 of my nano time.
I’m working off these lists but more off what catches my fancy than the polls for my choices –
Do you find yourself going “man, I really should…” about your web presence?
Are your links a mess?
Was your “about” last updated in 1999?
Do you have a page which references “current” serials you can’t even remember when you finished?
Do you want to move things to a new site, clean up old sites, or rearrange things so people can find something in particular?
Do you want to get into or back into a regular posting habit?
Welcome to the home site housekeeping challenge!
The Challenge:
Pick a number of tasks you wish to commit to doing per week (1, 3, 7, 11, ??)
Post weekly here for accountability, and on the hashtag #HomeSiteHousekeeping wherever else you post
List all the tasks you want to do
Break them into manageable tasks.
Do!
The reward:
A cleaner, fuller, happier home site!
Also, I will make badges.
Also-also, I encourage people to give feedback on changes and visit other challengers sites!
The Add-Ons:
I would love it if others would help me come up with occasional daily or weekly mini-challenges. Daily should be small, able to be done in 10-15 minutes at the most. Weekly can take up to an hour and a half total, I’d say.
Examples:
Daily: What’s the part of your site you have changed the least recently? Do you still need it? If not, time to archive it!
Weekly: Is there a graphic on your site that you look at every day? Should it be updated? (Is there a place you just NEED a graphic you don’t have?) Time to update it!
Who Can Join?
Everyone! Anyone! You!
Tell your friends! Tell your foes! Tell your mom! (Don’t tell my mom…)
It’s August first, friends! Let’s clean our sites!
It is the last day of week 7 of working from home…
I’m both like “wow, only 7?” and “… woah. Seven weeks.”
It doesn’t feel like it’s that long but it feels like it’s been forever at the same time – how about you?
The thing it, it mostly feels like I need a haircut and to talk to people who aren’t my lovely husband (and my cats) (because you know they talk back, and if they’re not that good of conversationalists, well, some of my coworkers aren’t, either 😉
So! After Kunama let me know my crossposter had… ONCE AGAIN… broken, I am trying Integromat. This is like IFTTT; it’s a way to integrate a whole bunch of different sytems. I’d already set it up to post to Tumblr (Jetpack is the functional wordpress plug in for that and it eats space and is a lot more than I really need, so I finally got rid of it so my page would actually load), so I had the backend set up –
(It pulls from the rss, so yes, it’s just about the same as https://lynthornealder-feed.dreamwidth.org/
, which Kelkyag set up some time ago. And if you’re reading from the rss feed, sorry for the 9,000 test posts – I can’t delete those; it’s not my account 😉
– but of course, part of the reason I went with this is because there are no up to date Dreamwidth/Livejournal crossposters, and no, IFTTT and Integromat don’t have a DW/LJ module either.
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Originally posted on Patreon in March 2019 and part of the Great Patreon Crossposting to WordPress.
So I’m writing a particularly moving-around-heavy portion of a story.
Nathen saw the stairway down between two stoops going upward…. There was a closed and locked door in front of them. Nathen glared. Sure, opening it wouldn’t be hard – but it would be obvious.
Oh. The Social one perked up. Turn.
Nathen turned to the right. The door there was almost invisible – no knob, hidden hinges, painted the same color as the wall. He gave it a careful push.
The door swung open into a narrow hallway. He pushed the door shut behind him and whispered a dark-sight Working just as the light from the entryway vanished. Forward….
…He made his way down stairs that were half-gone…
…”You don’t want to go out the front. This way.”…
…They were out the back door, up another set of stairs, and into a narrow strip of yard quickly after that. Their guide took a quick look around and headed straight back, towards the next row of yards. There was a gap in the fence – the Other mended it behind them – and a narrow alleyway between two buildings.
They zig-zagged through three more blocks in quick succession, leaving subtle obstructions where they would seem coincidental, until they reached a semi-collapsed row of brownstones.
So, of course, first I had to figure out this weird layout, which I did during a rather long meeting.
And then, when I started writing them fleeing, well, yes, I Excel’d up a whole set of like 6 city blocks of brownstone-style houses.
And then I figured out how to draw Nathen’s route (and then with Leo) through this neighborhood to the place where they end up.
Which, no, doesn’t have a floor plan yet.
Red dashed line on the Excel map is their route; grey is roads, green is yard and alleyways, black dotted lines are fences, and house-shapes that are in dashed lines are in a state of broken, half-falling-apart, maybe-a-dragon-landed here.
Big dragon. Small Godzilla. You know.
Originally posted on Patreon in March 2019 and part of the Great Patreon Crossposting to WordPress.
Most of my settings come from one or a few stories that are written around the same time, which start coalescing themselves into a world. Fae Apoc and Tír na Cali are exceptions to this, as is Foedus Planatarum, sort of, but today I’m starting with Science!
It turns out the first story of Science!, which included Cara, Alex, and Liam, the three who show up in the lion’s share of these tales, came from a “Wine and/or Roses” prompt call- prompts of Lilfluff’s and wyld_dandelyon’s coming together to create a story about roses with retractable thorns.
Then Shutsumon added “What’s in it?” “Blood of grape and juice of girl,” and we had another story in the same timeline.
And then the next Giraffe Call was “Origins and Creation” and we ended up going on further in the same setting.
By that point, the setting was “set” – there were scientists who did bad things or very good ones (sometimes which was which depended on your point of view); there was the Boss and the tower where all this happened, there was an island, and there were Cara and Alex, whose roles are never, or possibly just rarely, defined but who seem to see everything and be along for everything.
That pretty much sums up my world creation method: Start from scratch and see what happens.
This donation slider from the wine and/or roses call was just too good not to share.
I made it myself!
I’m starting on Edally Book Three (Working title: The Broken Bargain) and, well.
Edally has a huge cast.
A really, really big cast.
It’s a school, after all.
But I have a hard time remembering them all!
I have the beginning of this: http://www.edallyacademy.com/cast-and-crew/alphabetical-list/ An alphabetical list of the characters in Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 10 of Book One.
What I would like from you:
a list of characters appearing in any given chapter in Books One and Two and, if description, the description given.
If you have it: a house affiliation and the chapter name/number to their first appearance would be awesome.
What I will give you in return:
a brief fic (100 – 500 words) including from one to all of the characters in that chapter.
What I’m going to do:
Put together a wiki of all the Edally characters ever. Hopefully.
(More bribes are available if someone wants to help me do all of that, too.)
Thanks!
REQUEST FOR READERS:
If you choose to do this, please check-in here so that we don’t have duplicate content.
Thanks!
Book I
All DONE
Book II
Chapters:
(Thanks to Solace and Thnidu for their helpful comments!)
Autumn spends a lot of time in really small towns. I mean, some of that is just that’s what she seems to like, but you’d think she’d spend more time in big cities that have big craft festivals, wouldn’t you? I mean, she’s trying to make enough of a living to pay for the occasional inn or motel or Bed N’ Breakfast room, and those aren’t cheap.I like small towns.
I grew up between three small towns, out in the middle of farmland (literally: My parents built their house on land my grandfather and his father before him had farmed, on a road my grandfather literally built as a high school summer job). I grew up with a small-town library where the librarian knew me and I knew her, in the sort of place where a party really is a bonfire in someone’s backyard because, really, where else are you going to go? My parents grew up in small towns. Pretty sure at least two of my grandparents did, too. We’re small town people, rural people.
I have to admit, some stereotypes of small-town living (Everyone knows everyone, for instance) I never really understood. I mean, I knew my neighbors, but in farmland, that isn’t all that many people. And small towns these days often have housing tracts tacked onto the sides of them, apartment complexes, trailer parks. So they’re not that image of small-town living that seems to permeate the media (And, to look at another setting for a moment, Regine’s vision of a small town with The Village outside of Addergoole) The houses go back layer after layer from Main Street. You go over the canal (in many cases) or the railroad tracks and you’re almost in another neighborhood. But you’ll still run into people you know at the grocery store, at the Fireman’s Carnival (I haven’t written a story about anyone at a carnival yet, have I?), at the Canal Days Craft Festival (Where Autumn really ought to have a booth…)
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