Maru's Mun Journal

So, I have found a way of being able to carouse as Rasputin again: I have joined milliways_bar again with a special journal; I sometimes used to come in for a drink and a short casual chat with a character from the much-mentioned Discworld RPG.

My character journal for the Milliways version of Rasputin is  father_grigori

Fictional canon is required, so I will, in case of doubt, rely on the interpretation of things in the movie with Alan Rickman. However, I will quietly overlook the fact that Dmitri is entirely lacking from that movie. I am of course writing my own canon, but I don't think any RPG, not even the fabled Milliways, will live long enough to see its publication, whenever that may be. I think that in order for anything to be considered canon, you have to pay money for it.

Milliways, for those who don't know it, is the Restaurant at the End of the Universe as invented by Douglas Adams, where everybody can go at the end of creation to watch the Universe explode every night - and as an LJ community, a massive multi-meta-fandom RPG where anybody can go and play any fictional character that isn't already taken.

So, for the Wraeththuites: how about some hara in Milliways, then? So far, everybody there is either male or female. Would be a fun way to amuse oneself. I can quite see Cal drinking in there, even a reformed post-Shades Cal. If we get a harish contingent to go there (being just one among humans and male or female immortals would so be not much fun), I think I shall be along as Panthera...

... and his highly tragic and fated relatives, in glorious Photoshop-and-watercolour pictures (she describes the process in great detail!) by Jenny Dolfen:

http://gold-seven.deviantart.com/
and
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/g/o/goldseven/goldseven.html

Here is a small preview of my two favourite ones (linked to the sites again, in case anybody missed how great the pictures are, and that they absolutely need to go and look at them):


Maglor, son of Feanor, by Jenny Dolfen



A young Maedhros and Fingon, back in the Undying Lands, being bold and daring about a steep cliff, by Jenny Dolfen

(Yes, she laid down precisely how one can use those pics on one's own site, and I strictly kept to those guidelines...)

...brought up this site which I had seen before, but not quite realised the reach of: AdultFanfiction.Net, where all things banned from ff.net have found a haven. They do play with fire, though, as they openly archive even VC stories with no apparent fear of the renownedly terrible wrath of She Who Must Not Be Named. From wiebke 's recent post, it seems her teeth are much drawn these last months, but who would doubt that her lawyers are still the good little sharks they're reported to be? Ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, to quote Zaphod Beeblebrox...

http://leslie-fish.clan-majere.org/mp3/dragoncon.MP3
... and the more I hear about it, the more I want to go.

All the things there are to see, and all the people there are to meet - I guess I shall not sleep a minute while I'm there! Afterwards, I'll probably hide out in Boondocks motel in Boondocks county and sleep until it's time to catch my flight home...

On another note, I was watching a very serious science magazine on a serious public TV channel last week, and near the end they did a book rec/review - about Andy Collins' book on Atlantis in the Caribbean or something!! They said that some of the conclusion were a bit idiosyncratic, but all in all it was very well researched and extremely thought-provoking. And that from very serious mainstream science journalists! Whooo-hoo!! I kept *telling* that fellow his theories weren't as wacky and esoteric as he thought and claimed they were - and now this! I hope he thinks himself still wacky & esoteric enough to come along to Grissecon 2 next year, though...