"If angels fight, weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right"

Accumulated links -- certified organic, so you know it's a good salad:

Socks are my greatest love.

Animator vs. Animation. Yeah, sometimes characters are like that.

How to fail to promote yourself by blogging.

Literary analysis can be fruitful for worldbuilding. Take, for example, how the question of whether "spells themselves are imperatives or performatives, and, if the latter, what happens when you violate their felicity conditions" can spark ideas.

Emma of Normandy: by her marriage to Ethelred the Unrædy,* she was queen consort of England, replacement for his previous wife Aelfgifu, stepmother of King Edmund Ironside, mother of King Edward the Confessor; by her marriage to Canute the Great, she was queen consort of England, replacement for his previous wife Aelfgifu, stepmother of King Harold Harefoot, and mother of King Harthacanute. I'm surprised Judith Tarr hasn't wrapped a novel around her already. Especially since she was often, as a replacement, called Aelfgifu.

* You all DO know that in Old English, his name means "unlucky" and not "unprepared," yes? Good.

---L.

"If angels fight, weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right"

Accumulated links -- certified organic, so you know it's a good salad:

Socks are my greatest love.

Animator vs. Animation. Yeah, sometimes characters are like that.

How to fail to promote yourself by blogging.

Literary analysis can be fruitful for worldbuilding. Take, for example, how the question of whether "spells themselves are imperatives or performatives, and, if the latter, what happens when you violate their felicity conditions" can spark ideas.

Emma of Normandy: by her marriage to Ethelred the Unrædy,* she was queen consort of England, replacement for his previous wife Aelfgifu, stepmother of King Edmund Ironside, mother of King Edward the Confessor; by her marriage to Canute the Great, she was queen consort of England, replacement for his previous wife Aelfgifu, stepmother of King Harold Harefoot, and mother of King Harthacanute. I'm surprised Judith Tarr hasn't wrapped a novel around her already. Especially since she was often, as a replacement, called Aelfgifu.

* You all DO know that in Old English, his name means "unlucky" and not "unprepared," yes? Good.

---L.