Tibetan Skeleton Dance costume late 19th or early 20th century.
April 2018 archive
Worldbuilding Wednesday 4/25/18: Pern
Anne McCaffrey wrote a long-running series of books about the backward planet of Pern and its giant, telepathic dragons used to combat “thread” – an invasive space spore that filtered down from an adjacent orbiting body — by burning from the air with their fiery breath. Pern had a pseudo-Medieval culture and the dragons a …
Albert Nobbs
[Reading Challenge 2018]
Albert Nobbs by George Moore Waitingstar Publishing, New York, 2011 [Challenge # 38: A book made into a major motion picture] Finished Albert Nobbs, a book that kept me guessing until the end. I’ve wanted to read it for a while, since I’ve always liked books with gender bending, or obscurely gendered, protagonists. I did …
Daring and Delicacy
Follow you heart, or use your mind? To balance both requires daring and delicacy.
Antiques Swap
[Reading Challenge 2018]
Antiques Swap by Barbara Allen Kensington Books, New York 2016 [Challenge # 48: A mystery] I never was much of a mystery reader. I did enjoy a good Nancy Drew back in the day, but post-grade school, I’ve been pretty meh on the genre. I’m not sure why. My mother was an avid fan, particularly …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 4/18/18: Superheroes
Thor looks disgruntled here (or maybe pleased? It’s hard to tell) but many other superheroes would be happy to take a break from their regular rounds of protecting the innocent. Maybe even some of these randomly generated ones. (Jules Feiffer’s The Great Comic Book Heroes remains the best introduction I’ve read to the history of …
Beat-Beat-Beat
I know it’s only a cheap comic, but isn’t it creepy?
Worldbuilding Wednesday 4/11/18: Cursed Magic Items
Sometimes a dungeon master, or an author or game writer, wants to toy with their characters. Not in a life-ending way, but just to vex them a little. The following items do just that. Cursed Magic Items Spoon of Canine Mucous: Any food this item touches turns into dog drool. Iol-Del’s Unlucky Siphon: This …
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