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When you have to read too many Dickinson poems in short order, just sing them. The Yellow Rose of Texas, the Gilligan’s Island theme, Stairway to Heaven, whatever’s handy. The poems will still be themselves but you’ll be snickering at her expense and that’ll get you through.

Scaling would only write with AI as a joke, as a fundraiser for a worthy cause, and might decline even then.

Egad. The middle of Kingdoms of Death, book #4 of the Sun Eater, has one of the most grueling passages I’ve read outside of horror fiction and non-fiction accounts of particularly brutal wars. I mean, it is about a war and being taken prisoner by very unpleasant aliens. But wow it takes a toll...

Reading challenge continues: books 4-7/100. How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths, by M. David Litwa. More neat stuff from Litwa, this time about the forms of classical history covering remarkable and miraculous events. He takes up examples from around 500 BC to 400 AD...

Funny about that. Almost like my “get going in the morning” playlist includes several tracks from the Buckaroo Banzai soundtrack.

It turns out that more than one thing happens at a time. :)

@Nellisir , it’s not even Febba yet. :)

In fairness, it’s been a growing problem for me since the ‘90s.

28 Years Later is at the top of my list. It would take a lot to displace it. I really hope Superman and Fantastic Four are good, but I hate mainstream cinema audiences so much, they’ll be for home viewing.

Seeing Buckaroo Banzai in the latter ‘80s was a very different kind of experience. I’m very unsurprised it might work less well now. (I’d recommend the novel instead.)

My one real disappointment is Throne of Night, a six-part adventure path abandoned after two parts and the publisher just disappeared. What they put out was very good.

Thanks!

I know the name, but nothing about it.

The setting being saved can be a neighborhood, a town, a county, a river valley, etc, of course.

I will have more to say about this book later, but the end of chapter 54 and alll of chapter 55 of Christopher Ruocchio’s The Demon In White achieves Tolkien’s eucatastrophe in a way I haven’t encountered in a good while. As Tolkien defines it in “On Fairy-Stories”, the eucatastrophe is the...

Gaming inherited arguments from wargaming, science fiction fandom, and constructed language fandom, among others. Oh, and reenactment fandom. And… As Clive Barker said at the opening of Weaveworld:

Those both sound very promising. If someone builds this out, I’ll kitbash it into QuestWorlds or Fate or something. :)

A blend of history and myth for the ambience of the setting, protagonists and antagonists driven by epic passions that may or may not be in any way moral, magic as dangerous, tempting, and inevitably personally costly, a high baseline of general weirdness independent of any grand cosmology or...

I periodically do a rant about how arranging stories in order of internal chronology leads to greatly distorting impressions, and it’s seldom truer than with swords & sorcery. The first time readers met Conan, he was an experienced king. The second time readers read a novel’s worth of Elric, he...

Agreed. If I had the energy, which I don’t, I’d do a Storyteller’s Vault thing on permanent advancement happening only with character age. Typical xp would get you short-term advantages that fade as the crisis of the moment settles. The second half of the project would be a lot of advice on...