Maru's Mun Journal

With this, my riddle is closed. One, I can't really remember any more  from whose lists the remaining new interests came, as I didn't write it down at the time, and added the competition just as an afterthought. Being no Tomjon (and quite happy about that!), my memory turns a bit hazy after more than a day. Secondly, with so many already claimed and acknowledged, it would become unfair to those who guessed first.

If I see it turning up anywhere else, I will gleefully participate, of course! It helps to understand each other so much better.

[/fencepost waving]

And I now have the rough outlines of seven drabbles jotted down on a double page in Zer Handbook, and that should keep me occupied. As I was telling Ashie, I need to write soon before my inspiration runs dry, and if I'd accept any more drabble subjects, my inspiration would run dry before I'd finished with it all, and that's when I start accumulating daunting backlogs.

That said, of course there are two more drabbles owed:  Lily and Madelyne, claim your prize at your own convenience when youcan think of something you want to see written.

And now, on to the drabbles. They are both about ponderstibbons, who is after all the centre and hub node of our RPG -- apart from the fact that all the RPers love him to bits...

First, a drabble about Angua meeting Ponder, for gaiamyles

( Dogs )

And now the second Ponder drabble, as requested by vikitickytembo, Ponder's RPer. She just wanted drabblage about Ponder.

( Very Frightening )

Inspired by schiarire

Her entry, and all the drabbles, are here.

Leave me a drabble of backstory. It can be about anyone -- one of your characters, one of mine, someone else's, no-one's. Anyone. Then I'll write one for you.

Ready, set...remember.

I posted a new fic on circlesea_tales.

It's from the AU a few of us from the discworld_rpg have been doing in recent days, especially while LJ was having those dreadful problems. In it, everybody from the RPG lives on present-day Roundworld and is a lawyer or something.

So it doesn't make any sense if you're not in on the AU, or at least the RPG. Otherwise, it's just three randoms being random in a garden.

It his here.

I had this idea about four weeks ago and have been working on it on and off ever since, finished it on the train going hubwards north, then schiarire betaed it for me (Thanks ever so much!!!), and now I'll post it.

I hope you like it. It's the night after Locke went home, and it's about everybody who was around at that time (at least the active characters).

Only members of the discworld_rpg will probably be able to make sense out of this; everybody is quite welcome to read it as well, of course. If you like what I gave your character(s), of course it's yours to keep...

( Night )

Yesterday, with the help of half a bottle of Madeira, the Nazgul managed to calculate the following for me: given that the discworld_rpg has eaten 100% of my brain, I am now, due to my distribution of characters in said RPG, 0.4 or two-fifth of a vampire.

Owing to that fact, I have now (midnight) turned in my review of "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" to Areion where it will be coming up sometime tomorrow (Tuesday; technically today) and will proceed to finish the translation for japanologist before posting Teppic's next post and then sleeping a bit before the Morning Session.

I did tugelbend today for quite a while, though. So I will probably be all right.

Also, the Nazgul will look into animating songsets. And she so needs an LJ...

The moment I decide to take up wiebke 's strange hobby as well, the Friday Five fall silent. Such bad luck.-

And why does Deepest Sender always know who I want to be, and presents me with somebody completely different to log in as? This morning when I was going to post as margolotta, it offered me this account - Yakkie. Now that I wanted to post as Yakkie, it offered me pteppicymon. So, logically, when I'm going to post as Teppic later this evening, will it offer me to be Margo?

And why do the Fell Beasts spit on my window pane? It's all speckled.

On the good side, I got myself a photobucket. It only has my "Velvet Goldmine" screen shots so far.  Don't go looking yet! Especially not if you're easily offended by Ewan McGregor buff-nekkid.  I need to take more screen shots first - from "Chocolat" and "Rushmore" as well as some from the deleted scenes and blooper reel in "Pirates" ("Is that a plane?") and a few skies from "Vidocq" for the Nagzul who wanted them as backgrounds for her masterly manips.

And then I need to move all my LJ entry illustrations there  and edit history on my three LJs to get my own domain cleared up again for storing the backups of what I am working on. Except those that are in comments in the Bad Iconography Contest from the discworld_rpg. I can't edit those, and need to keep them about. They were small files, anyway.

From the department for Technological Maintenance:
I have just brushed an ounce or so of oily black burnt dust from the fan of my dear little foldup computer. It so does breathe easier now. And the power supply doesn't grow hot any more. Am much relieved it wasn't anything worse. It would have so not done to have it break down on me when I - hopefully - log with Frarsie, Shivvie and Jill sometime this weekend.

Erm, and gabby_2600, I am serious about logging from the Stone Inn. I've tried the murk, and it works very well. Mirc is much improved since I first encountered it somewhere around 1996. But do you think I could have logs from the server as well if I tell precisely you when it was afterwards? Just to be on the safe side? As our DSL connection is a bit flaky at times these recent weeks - "damn and blast T-Offline, the words coming easily from long habit" (Douglas Adams, only he said British Telecom, of course.). What with two Australians and one American and me in that RPG thing, we need to be a bit spotaneous.

I am so grateful Gabby said I can use the Stone Inn for that; I would never get all of them safely onto murk. Murk works very well, but is so not for the uninitiated.

From the department of Discworld RPG Madness:
I am so enjoying myself being pteppicymon to Frarsie's wonderfully laid-back Chidder (not_a_pirate) in the discworld_rpg.  It is rather intense at the moment,  as I'm something of a "method writer" (as in "method actor"; I can't do distance, as I said by EMail to schiarire). I filter the energy of any character or story through my own systems.

And then there's margolotta, who's become quite a fixture in Ankh-Morpork and is getting rather worried about it, as she means to return to Bonk soon, or at least eventually. And then there's b-vurdy Gimel. Urgs! I needed names for random vampire ladies, and unwisely called one of them Gimel Metatronim. And did she ever cross over into the Ankh-Morpork of our RPG! She's everywhere by now, and doing the Loose Siege Engine thing as an NPC through many of the RPG LJs and the loggage. If there's a Storm fan here who knows Discworld as well and has time on her hands to play and needs her brain eaten for a while, here is a character who so needs to be taken in hand...

From the Personal Department:
"Watership Down" has arrived!! I am reading it to little Paul from next door every evening now, after tekalynn mentioned a while back she'd loved it when she was seven. Paul is almost nine now. Frithrah, does he enjoy that book! It's a fat book, 650 pages in German, but we've already done a tenth. We'll do all those pages in a jiffy. Especially as Angela, Paul's mother, occasionally reads chapters to him at bed-time as well. I've reserved the chapters with El-ahrairah in them for myself, though.
Angela suspects me to be in love, heh! It's only the energy from the RPG in my system, though. It runs off into RL. Is welcome, too. It's spring, and instead of being tired, I am the most energetic I have been for a long, long time. I find myself being nice to my colleagues, even, and not at all angry at having to work. Work just happens naturally these days.

I am still alive, and not just an empty shell for margolotta, and to prove that I give you another picture of Phia, my very favourite little red-headed lady, and her little brother.-

... as aptly put by ponderstibbons of the discworld_rpg:

I am glad I joined that RPG - once more, they make me fall over my keyboard squawking with glee.

I will keep that one in mind when talking about funding and budgeting for the things we plan to do at my boring RL job tomorrow...

Anyone in here who has ever heard of Discworld? If you haven't, this won't make such a lot of sense...

Well, you know, all sorts of figments have LiveJournals
(from Maglor son of Feanor (fillit) to God, but He got probs with LJ for impersonating a celebrity...), and so has Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, under the quite obvious name of the_patrician, and in the course of what seems to be a rather sizeable Ankh-Morpork online RPG.-

Go read; he's very much in character, and I absolutely loved his post about St. Vermintine's day.

To say nothing of the Organ Enlarger thing further down on his LJ; that had me hanging over my keyboard, squawking helplessly with laughter...