Kickstarter Ahoy: The Redeemer Chronicles!

Guys, I TOTALLY CHANGED MY MIND, okay? I kept trying to work out the reward levels for the Old Races project and just couldn’t. It just wouldn’t work without knowing how long the main event, KISS OF ANGELS, was going to be, and I couldn’t bring myself to write it right now, so I wibbled and wobbled and flopped around and went through all of my “I wish I could do this” projects and finally landed on REDEEMER, which is what happens when I mash up Buffy the Vampire Slayer…

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Picoreview: Serena

Picoreview: Serena: I walked out. Spoilers after the cut, including How I Would Have Done It.

Captain America!

I have blogged less this month than I think I ever have. This is because I was first making fudge and then making a Captain America costume. Most of the fudge efforts have already been consumed (possibly my favourite comment: “It tastes like poetry.”), and the costume is now done. So yes. That’s what I’ve been doing. I have some vague hope of returning to more regular blogging in November. While I’m doing NNWM. #headdesk :)

the making of fudge

I have made just about All The Fudge In The World. I’ve added it up, and all told it’s going to be 75 pounds (there are a couple left to do this weekend). That’s a lot of fudge. A LOT of fudge. Here are the ingredients, from The Big Shopping Excursion: Prepping a 12 pound quadruple batch. This is NOT for the uninitiated: I came very close to screwing this up. Expert level fudge-maker only. This in no way conveys just how much fudge is on the platter. 12 pounds…

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too busy to post

I’m at that stage again where I’ve got a backlog of posts I want to write and am apparently never going to get to them so I should let it go (let it go, can’t hold me back anymore / which reminds me that yesterday Young Indiana pulled all my hair over one shoulder so I would be “like Elsa” and so this morning I said to him “should I braid my hair like Elsa’s?” and he said yes and I did and he said “That’s not like Elsa. Elsa’s…

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