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My plan to play catch-up on Critical Role is going well so far. I've managed at least one episode a day since I started CR4 from the beginning last week, which seems to be a good rate for me. It's enough to keep me steadily moving forward but not enough that I'm suddenly feeling the urge to just give up because it's taking away my time for other things.

At the rate I'm going, I think that I'll be caught up on my rewatch by the end of the week at the latest, and I'll be able to start making my posts about new-to-me episodes again by this weekend. I'm hoping by the first Thursday of May, I'll be able to start watching live again, but it may potentially be the week after that as the earlier one will require at least a couple of days where I'm fitting in two episodes. Which may or may not happen.

Here's hoping that I can stick to it. 🤞🏻

Current Mood: hopeful

settiai

Horns Up, Fangs Out (2564 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Iron Bull/Solas (Dragon Age)
Characters: The Iron Bull (Dragon Age), Solas (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Complicated Relationships, Developing Relationship, Fade to Black, One Shot, Pride's Solace Exchange
Summary: The Iron Bull was a complication that Solas hadn't planned on.

Current Mood: accomplished

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

settiai

I've finally started my rewatch of the early episodes of CR4 so that I can properly get caught up on Critical Role. Actually starting it has been the hardest part, so I'm hoping that now that I've begun I can stick to at least one episode a day and more if possible.

It's definitely easier to keep track of things in the early episodes now that I actually know who everyone is and what's going on. Having advance knowledge of just what groups everyone will be splitting up into shortly seems to be helping as well, as I have a better idea of what's really important to focus on and what's not. I'm also picking up on some smaller details that I completely missed the first time around just because I was already struggling to keep track of who was who and such.

I'm hoping that this rewatch will help it keep my attention better than it was the first time around. 🤞🏻

Current Mood: hopeful

ankh_hpl

The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

All stories are love stories if you love stories.

This may be my favorite quote from this remarkably quotable cozy fantasy, by an author whose previous two books (The Wishing Game and The Lost Story) also celebrated the power and comfort of storytelling. The Book Witch offers several kinds of love story, ranging from a straight-up romance to family/parental love to the love of a writer for her favorite characters . . . and, at the last, the love of any reader for a book which comes along at the right time.

The twists and turns of the plot make this one hard to summarize without committing Spoiler. Rainy March (save the meteorology jokes, she's heard them all) is a young Book Witch tasked with saving threatened works of fiction. Rainy's main opponents are Burners, whose mission is pretty self-evident. Both Book Witches and Burners have the ability to enter books directly, interacting with the plot to prevent or bring about change. If Burners succeed, the books they infiltrate may vanish or become unreadable.

When Rainy's grandfather (who raised her) and her deceased mother's prized Nancy Drew book both vanish on the same day, she turns to her favorite fictional detective for help. Unfortunately, she's also had a crush on the Duke of Chicago since her teens. When he crushes right back, the pair find themselves in violation of Book Witch regulations -- and on the hunt for answers to still more mysteries, including Rainy's own parentage.

That hunt gets a little tangled from time to time, though all the loose ends are eventually tied up in a last celebration of the healing power of reading. This is one to get lost in. Recommended for anyone who enjoys books about books, or simply needs a therapeutic escape. I'm already waiting for Meg Shaffer's next one!

Many thanks to NetGalley & Ballantine Books for providing me with ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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settiai

There's nothing like getting a comment on a fic of yours that's talking about how said fic is older than the person leaving said comment. 🙃

Oh, don't get me wrong. It was a very positive comment overall. But, still. Oof. I'm used to getting comments like that on some of my really early fics, but I was already out of college when I posted this one.

Current Mood: old as dirt

settiai

Pride's Solace, a Dragon Age exchange focusing on Solas, when live a little while ago. I ended up getting not one but two lovely gifts from it!

First up is a fleeting moment, focusing on Lucanis & Solas & Spite post-Tearstone Island in DA:V.

Then there's Garden of Statues, focusing on Solas & Tarquin with Tarquin meeting Solas sometime pre-DA:V. There's also a lovely bit with Ashur towards the end.

Current Mood: cheerful

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dw_maintenance

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

settiai

Nothing makes you feel old like looking at your AO3 profile, glancing at your user ID, and suddenly remembering that it's a really fucking small number because you technically joined before they were even in open beta. By, like, a day. But still. I remember the length of the queues back then.

Seriously, I was still living in Tennessee when I made that account. That's terrifying.

Current Mood: surprised

ankh_hpl

The venerable speculative lit mag Space & Time is turning 60 this year, and I'm happy to announce that I've got a poem in #149!

Available in both print & digital formats, S & T #149 features 6 short fiction authors and 31 poets (just in time for National Poetry Month). Editor-in-Chief is Angela Yukiro Smith, poetry editing is by Linda D. Addison. Full color cover by Kyra Starr. 88 pp.

For more information, or to order:

https://books2read.com/u/b66vA0

If you do order, my villanelle "The Martians We Won't See" is on p. 9.

linaewen

I am determined to finish this WIP this year -- I know I said that last year and then only posted one chapter, but this year I really mean it! Here is the next chapter, hoping for more soon!

( LoG Chapter 61 - 'He Looks Like Boromir' )

Thanks for reading!

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off, because the DM's internet died again (as the game's start was already delayed because of internet issues).

Current Mood: accomplished

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