Trismegistus

In your own space, create a fanwork. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

The "create a fanwork" challenge is the one I consistently find to be the hardest. But hey, I did it!

Love Is A Language: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Keita Mori/Thaniel Steepleton, 708 words, rated G.

Both Mori and Thaniel are learning to speak each other's language, but neither of them is brave enough to ask the questions they should.

My attempt to make sense of how Mori and Thaniel's relationship could go from where it was at the end of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street to where they were at the start of The Lost Future of Pepperharrow.

これで以上です。

I spent the long weekend binge eating Indian home cooking and sipping 8th Wonder's Rocket Fuel porter, which is pretty excellent as far as long weekends go.

I also got my hands on this:

which we declined to buy at our local game store two years ago because it was heavy(!!) and we wanted to walk home--a decision we have rued ever since. This particular copy is a Giftmas gift that was delivered to a friend of the GC’s through a shipping misfire. We were finally able to collect it this weekend and cart all 22 pounds of it through the airport and multiple modes of public transit, where it attracted the attention of metro staff and the women at the check-in counter who (no joke) made us unbox it for them. And apparently the TSA, who unboxed it again at some point after we sent it on its way to the belly of the airplane. D:

Then this arrived today:

I hope my friends, family, and colleagues remember who I am, because I am not likely to be mentally present for anyone or anything until I've finished it.

If that weren't enough, the FFVII Remake opening goes a long way toward compensating for the fact that it's no longer coming out on my birthday. Then there was the Castlevania 3 trailer, which, OMG.

And then.

AND THEN.

And then came today's little announcement of a Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay reveal in ten days.

To say that I am OVER THE MOON about this would be a slight understatement.

Full disclosure: I have both Divinity games. My friends love them. I have not managed to play more than a few hours of either before moving on to something else. But I am completely sold by the genuine, enthusiastic geekery of the Larian crew in their promo videos. And I am so, so excited for this game, I am going to go nuts when it's finally out, and I cannot wait to see what next Thursday's reveal brings.

これで以上です。

Day 7

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

This book is wonderful in about all the ways a book can be. First, let's talk about the beauty of Pulley's writing. It's spare, without a word out of place, but so, so richly descriptive. Here's our main character, Thaniel, on page 15 discussing filing mandatory wills with a coworker while they wait to see if Irish separatists make good on a bomb threat against their employer:

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Just, guh.

Not since Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief have I read a book that gets so much better with each read. I'll never be able to re-experience the initial discovery of reading Watchmaker for the first time but having read it three times now, I realise how ridiculously tightly plotted it is with each new read. I never skim; if I'm reading something I'm reading it damn closely, and it's a rare book where I miss things on the second read, to say nothing of the first.

And Pulley is a joy; she never tells you anything. She just quietly shows (and boy does she know how to show) and trusts her readers are smart enough and careful enough to catch it. Here are some of my favorite examples of this with bonus gushing. If you haven't already, READ THE BOOK FIRST. You won't regret it. Now having properly caveated, ( Bonus gushing. )

TL;DR: Pulley is talented. Watchmaker is damn good. Read it.

これで以上です。