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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Aug. 8th, 2025 06:21 pm)
The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee.

This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges.

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([personal profile] watervole Aug. 8th, 2025 08:06 pm)

 Every year at Sidmouth Folk Festival, they hold a jig competition.  A jog is a traditional dance (either solo or with two people) that is far, far more knackering than it looks.

I remember watching Emma dancing with a morris team a few years ago, and asking if she was entering the competition.  She's really a brilliant dancer.

 


  She almost floats on her feet!

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([personal profile] watervole Aug. 8th, 2025 07:47 pm)

 I'm enjoying the new series of Sandman.  It's so nice to have something that is slowly paced and gives you time to soak up the atmosphere.

 

Also, it's fun spotting the Dorset locations standing in for Ancient Greece !

 

I wasn't quite sure which abbey they were using for Destiny's realm, but it worked very well.

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([personal profile] travelswithkuma Aug. 8th, 2025 05:26 am)
Bears ands girls weres ons trains afters, afters trains. thens wents tos places weres theres was lots ands lots ofs olds trains. Laters bears ands grirls roades mores trains. bears is trains outs. Girls says tomorrows wes mostlys stays ins ands rests.
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More details later but it seems the group is essentially Don Quixote in the form of a Brettonian knight's bastard who has completely bought into chivalric ideals despite the fact no true knight considers him worthy to have such ideals, and an assortment of hangers-on who see him as a meal ticket.

Which is to say, the group is centred on someone who will seek out adventure.
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([personal profile] kevin_standlee Aug. 7th, 2025 06:20 pm)
Kuma Bear and his Girl have continued to go see things. Yesterday they visited the German Transport Museum in Munich. It was not their first visit there, but the place is so big that it deserves multiple visits.

Things get a little complicated in the next few days. I'm heading for Seattle and Worldcon on Sunday, while Kuma and Lisa will be in Lucerne, Switzerland. After being burned in Berlin, I made sure to contact the hotel in Lucerne to make sure they understood that the reservation was for Lisa and that any charges should go against my credit card on file, although in this case, there should be no charges (other than a small local tax that she'll have to pay, I think) because the room is on my IHG points. In my case, I'll be spending two nights at the Crowne Plaza Seattle before moving in to the Sheraton Grand for Worldcon. This is because my original reservation was based on driving to Seattle instead of flying, and when it proved to be more economical to fly (even in first class), I needed to arrive two days earlier than originally planned, and I was very concerned that trying to modify my Sheraton reservation might break it. Besides, I'm an IHG diamond member this year, so I might as well get some use out of it, although it does mean changing hotels on Tuesday.

Because of the European train vacation, Lisa will not be at Worldcon this year.
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([personal profile] tig_b Aug. 7th, 2025 03:03 pm)
I have shrunk
I am shrunken
Growing smaller

Oh not with a secret potion
Or a special wand motion

I have slowly
Unnoticed
Lost height

Now I feel tiny
when standing
Even when looking down

I didn't expect to grow small
As the years passed I was still tall

But suddenly
Life caught up
And I feel so small


Tricia (C)2025
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([personal profile] travelswithkuma Aug. 7th, 2025 03:47 am)
Bears wents withs girls tos places calleds Deutschens Museums Verkehrszentrums.
Was fulls ofs trains stuffs, trams, cars, bikes ands others things to rides on.
Bears nots knows whys buts theys hads pictures ofs sillys polars bears.
Girls tooks lots ofs pictures ofs things, buts onlys fews ofs bears.


Ons thes ways tos thes museums, ons thes U-bahns, somes mans tolds girls shes was wrongs ins heads to carrys bears. laters ones ways backs sames mans cames ands trieds tos tells girsl shes bads fors takings pictures ofs trains. Girls ands bears wents fars fromes this persons.


Was mostlys goods days outs.


Climate change provides a tribal leader a pretext to dispatch his least favourite tribe members on an ill-fated expedition from which none will return.


The Integral Trees (Integral Trees, volume 1) by Larry Niven


Fight With Spirit, the sports drama tabletop roleplaying game from Storybrewers Roleplaying (Good Society).

Bundle of Holding: Fight With Spirit
This is a short-term offer of the RPG Fight With Spirit from Storybrewers (Good Society), an RPG about competitive sports teams:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/FightWithSpirit



As anyone who knows me could tell you, this isn't really my sort of subject - I'm REALLY not a fan of sports of any sort, unless someone comes up with rules for competitive sloth - I went to great lengths to get out of them when I was at school. Having said that, the rules are nicely presented and (amazingly considered the topic) there is virtually no semi-nudity in the illustrations - the nearest thing to cheesecake is a (male) member of a swimming(?) team illustrated in the index and on one of the game cards. It's cheap and if you want to try something a little different from your usual RPG it may be worth a look. Meanwhile, I'll be skiving off in the library complaining about how my flat feet keep me from playing...

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With her brother/husband Seti off crushing Egypt's enemies, future Pharaoh Hatshepsut expands her power at home by freeing slaves, alienating priests, and inconveniencing a homicidal concubine. Results are mixed.

Blue Eye of Horus, volume 2 by Chie Inudou
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