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Vote now: What should the November 2018 Patreon theme be? – Aunt Family [Setting]*, Cyber-run (Magical Futurism) [Setting] * or … Whats your opinion?
* These three are the settings of my three NanoWrimo projects
First 2/3 of May on Patreon
Posts marked * are free for all to read.
Stories
Lost Niece – Lilac woke up in the middle of the night with a strange feeling of loss and, at the same time, like something had just made her stronger.
The Expectant Wood Chapter 23 — A Lesson in Plants – She nibbled on the nutmeat, finding it as described. “You really are quite good at plants.”
Run – a trunk story – “Run.” Sona grabbed Ree’s hand and, matching actions to words, began running.
Reposts
Two Concurrent Stories of Zenobia *
Family Magic Revealed * Demifiction written in the Aunt Family by dialecticdreamer, back in 2014.
Kingmaker Cake *
Misc. And Meta
Mer-May and Tarot *
The Aunt Family House & Victorian Awesomeness *
Aunt Family Tree-in-Progress *
Bonus
With a Cage * It started with a cage, the way such things do. It was a very nice cage, as such things go…
The First 1/3 of April on Patreon
This month’s theme is
Libraries and Librarians
Things marked with a * are free for everyone to read.
The Expectant Wood: Chapter 21: Worlds of Differences
Portal Bound – a beginning
A Last Conlang Word going in to April *
Cloverleaf’s Library *
Reminds me of… Dragons Next Door *
The Weather, it is a-changin’ *
March Patreon in Review
March’s Patreon theme was Edally Academy, and we even visited, at least virtually.
Things marked with an * are free for everyone to read.
The new stories in theme:
Prideworthy *
Back Door
Translated
Educated Continue reading
February Patreon in Review
Okay, this is a little bit late. But here we go: What happened in my Patreon in February.
Things marked with an * are free for everyone to read.
The theme was Return of the Light.
The new stories in theme:
Bring Back the Sun
They had done all the rituals in the days leading up to the solstice and the long night vigil of remembrance on the night itself. They had lit the candles and sung the songs, they way their people had been doing since that horrible night so many lifetimes ago. Continue reading
January 2018 Stranded World on Patreon
Hello my friends! It has been an immensely weird month, but I did post a lot on Patreon.
Below is everything Stranded World I posted in January – some stories, some meta, a little more meta, and some links. Winter featured heavily this month. I find that interesting.
Free Posts
Mending Strands
The room felt wrong. His sisters, Winter thought, might have said that it was creepy or oogy or sick, although sometimes sick was a good thing.
This Guy and Autumn could compare notes…
5 Tips for Planning (and Surviving) a Mega Road Trip
Talk about a quest. Two years ago, Mikah Meyer set out to become the youngest person to visit all 417 U.S. National Park Service sites. Since then, the 31-year-old…
Metaphor for Stranded World?
There are not really enough pictures out there of strings of light or strings connecting people, so when I’m looking for pictures for Stranded World, I come up with some pretty interesting things.
There are not really enough pictures out there of strings of light or strings connecting people, so when I’m looking for pictures for Stranded World, I come up with some pretty interesting things.
All right, let’s talk about Summer’s clothes….
Winter’s Clothes
First, two notes:
First, two notes:
One: I think that Winter engages in a combination of actually knowing how to tailor his own clothing and using strand-working to make everything lie Just So, because I do not picture any of the RoundTree siblings particularly rich (Summer might be, eventually, but who knows?) but damn, the man dresses like a million bucks.
Autumn at the Ren Faire
I was playing around a little with Pinterest and Image Search today.
I was playing around a little with Pinterest and Image Search today.
Here’s some pictures that are pretty close to Autumn’s garb at the Ren Fest, although her costumes are almost always in red, orange, gold, and brown.
The Stranded World
If you’re new to my settings, you may be wondering what this Stranded World is all about.
If you’re new to my settings, you may be wondering what this Stranded World is all about.
So here are a couple worldbuilding reposts talking about the magic of the Stranded world!
Small Town, USA
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.
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.
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how
Maggie’s Ell Jay made me think
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make words sing and dance
And maybe make them think, too, for a while.♪♫♪
Maggie’s Ell Jay made me think
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make words sing and dance
And maybe make them think, too, for a while.♪♫♪
Ahem.
A long time ago, M.C.A. Hogarth posted something in her LJ about tropes she’d like to see. One of them – which I have tried more than once to write – was about the young male (it might have been a mage?) recruiting the older female (fighter?)
Everyone gets their inspiration from somewhere; every setting has its seeds in something.Stranded – well, Autumn – came out of the book Blue Highways.
According to Wikipedia, this book came out in 1982. I don’t think I read it that early at all – I would’ve been six – but someone recommended it to my father, and I read it. I was probably in my early teens.
Locked Posts
For a portion of every year, Autumn lives out of her van, travelling from Craft Fest to Ren Faire to City Historical Days, selling her art and sometimes solving mysteries.
The first time Byron RoundTree saw the strands, he thought he was tripping.To be fair to By, he had been partaking in some interesting substances for the last forty-eight hours in a mostly-peaceful tribal gathering of people deep in a national park.
Curtains
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Winter wasn’t surprised when he came in to find the new temp crying.
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Winter wasn’t surprised when he came in to find the new temp crying.
Their job wasn’t the sort of place that lent itself easily to short-term or temporary help, and yet their supervisor, intent on getting caught up on her filing, kept trying.
Weaver of Threads
A long time ago, M.C.A. Hogarth posted something in her LJ about tropes she’d like to see. One of them – which I have tried more than once to write – was about the young male (it might have been a mage?) recruiting the older female fighter?
Anyway, I was looking through my archives and I found this first chapter, or so, of Fiametta, a Strand-Worker living up on the top of a mountain.
⛰️
There were those who had called Fiametta cruel. Back when her hair was still red, more than one man had accused her of enjoying the pain of others. She’d never denied it, finding that a simple smile made them far more uncertain than any argument would, and so had a reputation as a bit of a wicked woman.
She remembered, fondly, her favorite of those complaints…
Blue Highways and Autumn at the Ren Faire – Stranded Meta
Everyone gets their inspiration from somewhere; every setting has its seeds in something.
Stranded – well, Autumn – came out of the book Blue Highways.
According to Wikipedia, this book came out in 1982. I don’t think I read it that early at all – I would’ve been six – but someone recommended it to my father, and I read it. I was probably in my early teens.
read on…
I was playing around a little with Pinterest and Image Search today.
Here’s some pictures that are pretty close to Autumn’s garb at the Ren Fest, although her costumes are almost always in red, orange, gold, and brown.