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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-18 05:05 pm
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-17 11:14 am
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This week's prompt is:
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Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-16 11:37 pm

inventing saints

I exclude saints, I invent saints, I include saints. . . and I give existing ones new patronages, too.

High fantasy Christian milieux have me having an interesting time with saints.  Obviously I don't include Renaissance or later if the milieu is medieval-ish, and I tend to avoid ones within the era most closely equivalent.

But the other world would, no doubt, have other saints.

I think I should avoid putting the same imaginary saint into two different world, to avoid their being confused.  Such is the logic of world-building. 
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-16 07:57 pm

Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21

Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21: An Entertainment in Londinium by Kaja Foglio and Phil Foglio

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-15 01:13 pm
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-14 11:44 pm
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-14 11:27 pm

Kill the Villainess, Vol. 3

Kill the Villainess, Vol. 3 by Haegi

Spoilers for the first two volumes ahead.

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-14 05:27 pm
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-13 01:38 pm
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-13 12:09 am
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A Long Climb Over Shortcomings

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-12 11:18 pm

The Proving Trail

The Proving Trail by Louis L'Amour

The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-11 10:46 am
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shirebound ([personal profile] shirebound) wrote2025-08-11 06:43 am

It's a birthday!

Happy Birthday, [personal profile] gamgeefest! I hope you're having a peaceful summer.

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-11 12:16 am

cut to the snake

I think I may have to muck about with how many heads the snakes have. One by one is too slow. The snakes are menaces, not things to tick off as they advance

Perhaps only odd numbers of heads?
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-11 12:13 am

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.

Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-08-10 05:04 pm

To Tame a Land

To Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour

You can do a lot of things in Westerns. This one is a bildungsroman.

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