the hidden place and the other time

(The Hierophant of Fanaedar Dramatis Personae)

( 'Well, it’s a better day than many, at least.' )

First:

My camera and lenses have shipped, and are both supposed to be here on the same day! Also ordered another flash card, and am contemplating an additional battery or two.


Second:

If you like to follow my serials but they get lost in everything else I'm posting, and if you use a RSS reader, there's an easy way to make sure you never miss a serial! If you're reading a serial, you'll note that the title of the serial is in a tag at the bottom of the entry. (I also have links to the serials on the right side of my journal, but I think very few of you ever actually see my journal layout.)

Click the tag, and then check the right side of the page--you should be able to see a "Syndicate" section there. Get the URL you need (RSS works for most readers), and tell your RSS reader to subscribe.

And there you go! New serial entries will arrive in your reader as they're posted.

Current serial RSS feeds are:

Shadows and Silk http://silenceleigh.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=shadows+and+silk
Sleepless Streets http://silenceleigh.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=sleepless+streets

I'm still working on getting the serials into a Website format, but this might be an aid for folks.


Third:

Just finished Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg. I initially didn't like the book much; the characterization of Mordred was exceedingly one-note (he's gay, whee! hitting on monks, whee!) in the first chapter or two. It calmed down a lot as the book went on, and I felt, in the end, like the story and the character had found a comfortable place together, and Mordred had become a much more complex character.

And to be fair, this is a book about Mordred's formative years, so I can forgive a bit of YA-angsty "when will I ever find someone to sleep with?" woe-is-me speechifying. Some of the secondary characters were well-drawn, especially Mordred's mother Morgan and aunt Morgause, and the hermit that Mordred eventually falls in love with.

So my verdict: good, and worth wading through the first couple of chapters to get to the good stuff.

[This was not nearly as NC-17 as it could have been. It's still PG-13. More than you probably wanted to know about dragon reproductive cycles. It was fun to write, though. Something finally goes really right for Palil. It's been a while.]

( Palil finally gets brave and confronts some of her feelings...and just in time, too! )

[note that gaming's on hiatus for three weeks, so updates will resume in October.]

( The squad learns exactly what they unleashed when they sprung Jezik from prison... )

[I could have sworn I posted this, but I guess I didn't. It takes place right between the last story and the recap posted yesterday. There are still some touchy places between Sondirra and Jordan, and this story's partially about one of them.]

( I was almost asleep, lying on my stomach with nothing but a shirt on... )

[I was not expecting to write this. It was supposed to be about ten paragraphs that was going to close out the recap. Once I got into it, I realized that Gannon was irritable and seriously wanting to speak his mind to Palil, and I was finally like, "Okay, go for it, she needs a good talking-to, and you're the only one who's going to give her this particular come-to-jesus speech." And then a couple of suggestions from Storm made things suddenly go where I really wasn't expecting them to. Poor Palil. What she really needs is some therapy, but I don't think there are dragon therapists. There probably ought to be, though.]

( There's that temper of Palil's again... )

[I think we started a war. Again.]


( The squad goes to a frozen hellhole, and discovers the dangers of springing unknown political prisoners... )