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Only on Dreamwidth Now
A few years back, I moved my blog to Dreamwidth: https://rowyn.dreamwidth.org/ . For most of that time, Dreamwidth was able to crosspost to LiveJournal, so this feed continued to update. Sometime in January, it looks like LiveJournal blocked all third-party access to LiveJournal, ending ( Read more... ) -
2021 Year in Review
Let’s see what my goals were for 2021!
2021 Goal Scorecard
Continue caregiving for Lut: Sure did!
Grade: A+, with extra credit for dealing with ordering specialty medications again and again.
Publish two books: I did! I released The Lord, His Monster, and Their Lady in June, and You Thought You Wanted to Be Level 99, But Really You Wanted to Be ( Read more... ) -
December 2021 in Review
Health/Fitness
I stopped exercising regularly in November, and then stopped paying attention to what I eat a few days before Thanksgiving. I have not yet managed to get back to either one. I think I exercised like eight times in December, and pretty much only for the minimum amount of time I will count.
Writing
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Steam Library
My Steam library is relatively small by gamer standards, especially given the twelve years that I’ve had it. But it still has sixty-three games in it: way more than I can keep track of in my head. Anke asked me about how I managed to amass this many, and now I want to categorize them.
Games I got for Multiplayer and Actually Played: 29
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Call for First Readers: Demon’s Alliance!
Who wants a demon for an ally?
Throughout recorded history, the Anesh Archipelago has been plagued by demons: beings of pure evil, without conscience, irredeemable. That was the unquestioned truth -- until the angels granted a demon hunter's sigil to a demon: Bright. But when Guild White accepted Bright as a hunter-in-training, that didn't settle ( Read more... ) -
Blockchain?
I have opinions about a number of blockchain-based things:
- Bitcoin: Irredeemably awful. Built on a massively inefficient standard that, by the nature of Bitcoin, cannot be improved. Wastes enormous amounts of energy, is not even good at making transactions. Please let it die already.
- Cryptocurrency in general: Useful mainly to criminals. Pumped up ( Read more... )
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Coracle, by MCA Hogarth
A middle-grade fantasy novel, Coracle is a delight to read. I love so many things about it. The premise is that a fallen angel, the Adversary, broke the world in the distant past. At that time, the Savior and her Companions prevented the world from being destroyed and stitched some parts of it back together. In the modern era, islands of land float ( Read more... ) -
November 2021 in Review
Health/Fitness
I cooked for Thanksgiving this year, for the first time since 2016. Lut and I used to cook tons of food together every Christmas, for just the two of us, but he hasn't been up to cooking since his diagnosis in 2017. I decided to do much of the cooking on my own this year, because none of the catering options have been satisfying. We ( Read more... ) -
On Series Branding and Subgenres
I should be working on my NaNoWriMo project, but I'm still flattened from the booster shot I got on Thursday evening. So I thought I would write about my thoughts on a different topic.
One of my Twitter friends, DanniRook (Twitter handle), did a thread on writing yesterday. One point they made was that the Anita Blake series changed over time ( Read more... )
