comic book writers, anyone?

Image’s Shadowline is running a create a super-heroine contest. Ted’s come up with a clever idea that we’ll probably try to punch into shape over the next few weeks (the contest closes at the end of January), as the initial submission is only one paragraph, and what the hell. :) (And no, I can’t submit Chance to them, partly because she’s the wrong kind of character and partly because Shadowline and I already discussed Chance and we couldn’t fit in each other’s boxes. I have other stuff I want to…

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oh woe, domains

For those of you who come in through the mizkit domain: yes, I know it’s down, and I’m trying to get it fixed. Of course, if you come in through mizkit.com, you’re not seeing this anyway.

traumatic shortcake experience

Ted went shopping this morning and came back with some shortbread cake thingies they were giving away, I guess, at the market. He ate one and thought it was wonderful, and broke another in half so I could try it, because I was slightly dubious. I expected it to have no flavor other than shortbread, and after it had been in my mouth a moment I realized that it had another flavor too. I expected it, then, to be lemon, which I thought would be quite nice. Unfortunately, it was…

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My nephews are thugs.

Busy day! I got up at *shudder* 6:15 and got on a train to Dublin, where I delivered and collected presents, wrote a limerick for Breic, took pictures of the boys, several of which will be on kitsnaps ( for the feed) over the next few days. Breic read me a couple of stories, Seirid snuck in and out being ridiculously cute, Deirdre confessed she’d never made fudge*, and we generally hung around and had a pleasant time for a few hours. Mom and I went out to lunch, and…

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ember days

Candles in the kitchen window to help guide the sun through the longest night. Happy solstice, everybody. :)