one foot down

Friend has gone and is presumably safely back home. It was a nice quiet weekend. Various bits of crafting got done, and I finished a trial block of patchwork. It went well enough that I have the urge to try more. We'll see how long the enthusiasm lasts. (And I will resist the urge to immediately draft out something very complicated and get lots of fabric on the strength of one twelve-inch block.)

Monday morning tomorrow. Why can the week not be shorter? Oh well, it's the May bank holiday on Monday after that, which means a three day weekend: something to look forward to.

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Seduction

Weep not for little Leonie,
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench,
Just think how it's improved her French.

-- Harry Graham

AU drabble for undauntra: a terrible beauty is born

Title: AU: a terrible beauty is born
Requester: undauntra
Series: Scales
Requested Topic: What if the In Nomine line editor were secretly a Scales dragon?
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/857773.html

It was no accident that a blue dragon grandchild was assigned as line editor for a game about angels and demons.

Athabaska knew, after all, that the current “magical beings” were the descendants of the human beings who had once been entities infused by pure mana, created by human belief. Now that the mana level was rising once again, it was a matter not just of necessity but of urgency to see whether such beings could be created. Could this be the source of the Area 51 rumours? Were the “little grey men” the new race of magical beings? Someone had to find out, and Athabaska would be that dragon.

What was needed? A confined group of clearly defined entities to be believed in. A group of fervent believers to provide that faith. Technological backup, out of the reach of the American government or other people that might shield the technomancers.

And now he had word that the project was bearing fruit.

Something was gestating at the heart of the SJ Games computer server.

Something called ORC.

drabble for summer_queen -- just trying to be helpful

Title: AU: just trying to be helpful
Requester: summer_queen
Series: Amber / Doctor Who
Requested Topic: What if the Doctor stumbled across the Courts of Chaos on his many travels....
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/857773.html


"Doctor," Mandor said, toying with a steel ball or two, "I think you fail to understand the situation."

"Fail to understand it? I think the whole point is that I do understand it." The Doctor tugged at his leather jacket, settling it on his shoulders. The whole Logrus pick-up-and-drop thing had got it askew, and he could tell that the sonic screwdriver was going to need a recalibration or two. "Doesn't that just prove it?" He pointed at the clipboard on the wall.

Mandor looked very much as if he would like to sigh. "Educative and informative as it is, Doctor, we do not normally put up fully diagrammed flow charts of the current political position between the major Houses, complete with arrows, red cross-hatchings, and instructive side notes for junior members of the House about Everyone Should Learn To Trust One Another."

"But it's for the junior members of the House!" the Doctor protested.

"The junior members of the House," Mandor said firmly, "are the last people who need any grasp of the political realities."