So, I was recently reading this very excellent post/lecture/essay by Brandon Sanderson about the innovations Tolkien made creating the genre of High Fantasy, when, near the end, he mentions an interaction he had once with the mother of one of his fans. Just after he had signed the daughter’s book, the mother stopped and asked him something like, ‘Not to be rude, but how do I get her to stop reading all of this fantasy drivel?’. Sanderson then goes on…
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The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 28 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Without needing to be told, seeing all as El shaped it, Ki climbed swiftly, seeming to tread upon the air, their thin form a white blur arrowing…
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The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 27 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Only El and Ki stayed grounded in the center of this sweet storm of sound, Ki with hand up-raised and pressing side-long against it, long, pale fingers…
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The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 26 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… The flesh would need to rest, its magic to be let to cure into the magic of the horde (we all), but already Lot could look outward…
Well here is another cross-stitch I recently completed. It’s Lilly of the Woods, by Mirabilia Designs (whose designs I am indeed a bit obsessed with). First, here are a couple ‘glamour’ shots, and then after those I’ll show the sequence of how I stitched this. Here’s some of the stitching-in-progress (amongst my cluttered work area(s)): Also, sometimes the stark contrast of different colors trapped in the hoop just looks kind of nifty: And some close-ups of more-finished sweetness, with and…
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Is there such a thing as mass hysteria for flowers? Today I dead-headed my yucca and what should I find: But…the roses have definitely been confused about bloom time this year (and not just in my garden). So, I guess the yucca has decided to join in on whatever that is?