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So, I've been away from DW for a long time. My last post was, wow, three and a half years ago. But lately I've been feeling like I want to come back.

In the meantime I'd largely moved to Facebook, since that's where I keep up with my RL friends (mostly my SCA shire and kingdom right now), but the atmosphere there is way different of course, and I was getting back in the mood to ramble about fannish things and just ramble in a more DW-esque way generally, so I guess here I am?

Right now I'm obsessing about Ascendance of a Bookworm -- hereinafter "Honzuki" (new anime season countdown, woo!) -- and yet again trying to get back to studying my Japanese. Conveniently, Honzuki's publisher, TO Books, puts their Japanese edition ebooks on American Amazon, including novels, manga, and the novels in a "Junior" edition with furigana (pronunciation glosses) on everything. They also offer the same options with Weakest Tamer and Tearmoon, and I've been enjoying the former for that reason; it lacks Honzuki's "OMG this is the best thing EVER!" valence, but it's fun. I did enjoy the anime of Tearmoon back when, but I don't feel like going back to that one.

There's other stuff going on, not all of which I want to put in a public post, but that seems like enough for now.

Um, hello again?

jjhunter

I asked a women named Sonnet
director of a poet's palm conservancy
what it was like to be in asynchronous conversation
with someone who was no longer there
the poet had risen each day to meditate in silence
and wanted silence for his mornings planting palms
now many unpublished manuscripts were being found
(as were many loving post-its from his wife Paula
working around his need for morning silence)
and his late-life handwriting was slowly, painstakingly
being decoded and transcribed
was it like finding seeds waiting like time capsules
for someday growing in the forest floor
or was it like being haunted

She spoke of the hundreds of books needing care
after decades' nurturing in that humid house
opening a book of eastern philosophy almost beyond saving
riddled with holes from book beetles' eatings
and finding on the next page a note in the margins from the poet
addressed tenderly to the beetles, saying
'you can have the binding, but please leave me the pages'

The palms he spent his life planting
and the poems he spent his life planting
and the pages of all those silent mornings seeding words
we are eager to hear now
may they continue growing in their season
may William and Paula Merwin's names stay living on our tongues

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jjhunter

Pick a thing or two that sums up how you're doing today, this week, in general, and tell me about it in the 5-7-5 syllables of a haiku.

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Signal-boosting much appreciated!

elf

I'm writing a Brindlewood Bay adventure based on MDZS/The Untamed.

Or rather, based on one small detail of MDZS/The Untamed, using a modern-AU setting: Investigating the death of Lan Furen. (Adventure title: Lost in the Clouds. Complexity 7. Would be 6, but the death is 30-ish years old, so they're working with some difficulty.)

Brindlewood Bay has a different approach: Instead of "GM decides on the details of the murder and sets a bunch of clues that the players have to find and figure out," the GM sets the location, a list of suspects, a list of clues - and the players then come up with their own idea of who did what. Then they roll. If they roll high enough, they were correct and have solved the murder. (If they roll almost high enough, they were correct but now there is a complication - the murderer is getting away, or attacks them, or someone is in danger because of what they've revealed, etc.)

I don't have to decide what happened to Lan Furen to have it as the base of a murder mystery here. I just have to figure out who might've been involved, invent some clues, and throw them at the players.

( It's been more difficult than I thought. )

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