• This is a Funny Story (No it’s Not)

    This is a thing: you are telling a story that you think is funny. However, the story you are telling is not in fact funny, but you do not know this. You do not know this because you do not have the frame of reference to understand that the topic is not funny. And your…

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    • Toilet Paper Ghosties, Or, Two Sisters Adventures in Making Stuff (with varying levels of success)

      You know how it is, being a kid. You make mud pies, and feed them to your brother and make ‘soup’ out of water and weeds. (Or paint/dye, only you don’t know that you need to actually cook the ingredients, and use a mordant to keep the dye from staining everything else on contact.) You…

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      • Book Review: Queen Demon by Martha Wells

        This is as spoilery as I want to get about Martha Wells’ Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King: you will spend a great deal of time mentally screaming, “WTF? What are you DOING [character]?” This is not because anyone has been handed the idiot ball, mind. Everyone is making (what are to them) reasonable…

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        • Book Review: The Door On the Sea by Caskey Russel

          Okay, hear me out here. Take a Western-style quest fantasy in the vein of Terry Brooks’ Sword of Shannara or Eddings’ The Belgariad. The standard “Chosen One, Quest Object, Evil One,” doorstop fantasy that is supposedly derivative of The Lord of the Rings, but isn’t really. (Not enough constructed language geeking for one thing. Too…

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          • New Cover Up On Royal Road!

            For Lord of the Black Mountain. It is here. So, despite being eternally broke due to a fixed income, I decided to commission artist Melukilan for a new cover. (I am on a general chat server and a roleplaying server with her.) She had been drawing pictures of characters (I was playing Jhan and [Redacted]…

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