So, thoughts overall: I enjoyed it. If you enjoy the format of a Persona game but would like it set in a fantasy world (dungeon crawling mixed with social links, turn-based battles with summon strategization) then you'll probably enjoy playing this too. The battles are fun but I think the characters are the real highlight of the game. Like with many RPGs, there's a colorful cast with lots of drama and heartfelt moments. I think Eupha and Basilio remain my faves, but I also really liked Hulkenberg and Junah too.
( Metaphor ReFantazio yapping continues )
After beating Metaphor I finally started playing Hades II! It's just as fun as the first game and I'm enjoying the new stuff they added to the gameplay. I think my favorite weapons are the axe and the knives and the skull....but they're all pretty good except for that mecha armor thing I used it once and was so bad at it sjdhfkjsdf never again.
( Hades II yapping continues )
Unfortunately the past few weeks my free time for gaming has been taken up not by Hades but by Overwatch instead. 😑 Every time I think I'm free... And now they've released 5 new heroes at once and this damn Sanrio collab!!!
( Overwatch yapping continues )
It's as if invoking Dawson's Creek in my last post for the first time in forever caused it, sigh. Definitely feeling my age today since he was only nine months older than me.
(Cancer, apparently; I don't tend to keep up with celebrity news, but I found out because
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phamos818 posted about it on FB. And apparently he's, like, only nine months older than me and has six kids.)- Music:the years pass by and now he has granddaughters
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Green Arrow
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dinah Lance & Shado
Characters: Shado, Dinah Lance
Additional Tags: Drabble, +Modern Age (1986-Present), Post-Crisis, [Green Arrow Vol. 2 - 1988-1998]
Summary:
When the community forgot about her, her ex's other lover didn't.
Strange Support
Dinah knew she wasn't alone as soon as she stepped into her house, but the assassin there was quick to show she was not openly armed. In fact, Shado's eyes were filled with concern, and it was not for the sleeping child on the couch, but for Dinah herself.
"I thought, perhaps, you needed support."
Shado's words broke her reserves, letting Dinah weep. What even was her life that Oliver's one-night fling had come to give more of herself than any hero in the community?
Shado held her, eased her down on the end of the couch, and stayed close.
THEME
For this round, each of your fandom icons must contain hearts, flowers, or both in some way. They can be a pattern on clothing, a doodle on a notebook, a foreground texture, or a background texture; or a bouquet, boutonniere, or corsage/wrist corsage. Just so they're visible to the human eye on the finished icon!
Good luck and have fun.
1. Sign ups will be open to the end of this round, which will be March 13, 2026.
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1. Sign ups will be open to the end of this round, which will be March 13, 2026.
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Good morning good afternoon good evening! Here are the rules for the 2026 round of High Adrenaline. There are no major changes to any of the rules from last year, but please make sure to read through all the info listed below so we're all on the same page.
AO3 Collection •Nomination Form • Approved Nominations Spreadsheet• Tagset • Sign-Up Form • Sign-Up Search App • Short Treat Collection • Advice for Newcomers
You have two weeks to write 10k (or draw a 25-panel/10-page comic) and one week to edit. Have fun ;)
This exchange has been inherited by a new mod. Some jokes may stay the same and some might be less funny than previous due to this, but we're all still committed to everyone having a good time.
TIMING
Starting February 14th, each person can nominate fandoms, with up to 10 relationships or solo characters per fandom.
There are two ways to nominate:
Nominations will close temporarily on February 20, so tagmods can finish checking and approving fandoms and putting them in the tagset.
When signups open on February 21, people can nominate more fandoms if they really want to, but at that point, please don't nominate a fandom unless you are definitely going to request it.
Nominations will end 24 hours before signups end so we have time to check the last nominations and add them to the tagset.
FORMAT
You can nominate fandoms and relationships. Relationships should be in the form A/B, A & B, or 1: A. The / (as in "Barry Allen/Iris West") indicates a sexual and/or romantic relationship. The & (as in "Barry Allen & Iris West") indicates a platonic relationship. "1:" (as in "1: Iris West") indicates a fic that is primarily about one character rather than a relationship (though that character can be in relationships of various kinds with other people). You can also request "1: Worldbuilding". Please disambiguate every relationship by adding the fandom name at the end of it, like "1: Worldbuilding (Discworld - Pratchett)".
Please do not nominate groups or "Any [Group]" as a character. For example, "Eduardo Sandoval & Any Cop (Narcos)" and "Lucy Pevensie/Maenads (Narnia - Lewis)" would not be eligible as nominations. Relationships of the form A/B & C are also not accepted.
Crossovers should go under Crossover Fandom. Relationship example: "Peter Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis)/Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones TV)". If you want a character from fandom A in a fusion or crossover with fandom B, you can format it like this: "Peter Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis) & Worldbuilding (Game of Thrones TV)".
Almost all fandoms are eligible for the tagset. Creator’s Choice of Fandom will not be in the tagset. All original work nominations go under Original Work. We prefer specific canons over All Media Type fandoms, but we will evaluate those as they come.
Every single fandom has to be double-checked by tagmods for safety fandom status, which will take time. You can technically fill out the Google form as many times as you want, but for the sake of our achy wrists and tired eyes, please only nominate fandoms you're pretty sure you want to request or offer.
SAFETY FANDOMS
You will need to sign up with at least one safety fandom. A safety fandom is a fandom that can be consumed in five hours or less. It should also be available in English or with an English translation. This is designed to prevent the untimely death of our pinch hitters, who will have exactly one week to write 10k and who therefore cannot spend 20+ hours consuming a new canon for a pinch hit.
What exactly counts as a safety fandom? Glad you asked! One of these things MUST be true for your fandom to be a safety:
When nominating a safety fandom, you'll need to provide links for at least one place where it can be gotten. Links for non-safety fandoms are welcome too, but they're required for safeties! If you're nominating RPF, the info source you link here will be considered the "canon" for that nomination.
The Google nomination form also has a space for writing a quick fandom promo. We encourage this for safety fandoms especially! If you're hanging out as a lingering pinch hit, that lil blurb could be what gets a pinch hitter to read your book/watch your movie/listen to your album and pinch hit for you. Make it easy for our pinch hitter heroes to save the day!
As tagmods check the fandoms and ships, they'll be added to the AO3 tagset.
When signups open (from January 25 to February 1) you can sign up on AO3. You need a free AO3 account. If you don't have one, email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com and I'll get you an invite code.
You must request at least 3 different fandoms. You must request at least 1 safety fandom (see above for more info on safety fandoms). You must offer at least 3 different fandoms, and at least 1 relationship per fandom. At most, you can request 10 and offer 10. Requests and offers have to be unique.
Please be sure to include a list of Do Not Wants (DNWs) in the Details box! Unless you genuinely are fine with receiving any kind of fic/comment, in which case please say "I have no DNWs". DNWs should be specific. For instance, do not ask for "nothing icky" because it's very hard to know what that means. DNWs should also not force the author to only write one thing. For instance, do not DNW "fic where my chosen character isn't pregnant" because it's unfair to try and make your writer do one very narrow type of fic (in the example, pregnancy fic).
Likes, prompts, ship thoughts, general screaming, etc. are optional and can go into the Details box or into a letter which you can link in the "Letter or other link" box.
Please keep in mind that optional details ARE OPTIONAL—this means that a writer only needs to include at least one of your requested relationships and avoid your DNWs. Writers are not obliged to write out a specific prompt or plot for you.
If nobody requests anything you offer, we will email you so that you can add offers. If you do not reply to the mod email within 24 hours, your signup will be deleted so that we can get assignments out on time.
If nobody offers what you request, you will become a pinch hit.
If you are open to receiving a 25-panel, 10-page comic for a request, check “I Opt In to Receiving a Comic Instead of Fic.” If you are not open to this, check “I Do Not Opt In to Receiving a Comic -- Fic Only for Me!” You must check ONE AND ONLY ONE of these options for each request. Opting in to a comic doesn’t guarantee you’ll get one—fic is an acceptable fill for any request.
If you are an artist, and you only want to create a comic, sign up normally and email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com so that I know to only match you to people who opt into art.
You can also email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com with Do Not Match requests (to prevent a particular person or people from creating for you) and Do Please Assign requests (to ask that you be assigned to create for a particular person). I can't guarantee I'll assign you to the recipient you want, but I'll try.
For your assignment, please write a fic of at least 10,000 words for at least one of your recipient's requested relationships. If your recipient opts in to getting a comic, you can draw a comic of at least 10 pages/25 panels. Please respect your recipient's DNWs. Please do not post a sequel to a previous work of yours unless your recipient has explicitly opted into receiving sequel works.
If you can't finish your assignment in time, please default. There is no penalty for defaulting before the deadline. However, if you attempt to publish an unfinished assignment before deadline, or if you copypaste the word pickle in 10,000 times (or similar), that will lead to a one-year ban.
If a fic includes parts such as [add apple-picking scene here] or simply does not have an ending, it is incomplete. A fic must be publishable at deadline; that is, a fic must be ready to be seen by the public at deadline. If your work is incomplete at deadline, you will be defaulted and your recipient will go to pinch hit.
You may request one 2-day extension. Your request needs to be emailed to highadrenalinemod@gmail.com before the deadline. There will be no second extensions.
If at least one person has completed their assignment, yet they do not have a gift ready for them 24 hours before the collection is set to reveal, then the work reveals will be delayed in increments of 24 hours (i.e. it might be one day, two, etc) to ensure all who finish their assignment receive their gift.
Pinch hits will be posted to the Dreamwidth. You can claim them by commenting on the pinch hit post (comments will be screened). If there are outstanding pinch hits when the collection is supposed to open, the collection opening will be postponed.
If you did not complete your assignment, you will not become a pinch hit.
For pinch hits that linger or are added after the deadline, the requester may choose to opt in to receiving two 5k+ fics (or 5-page/12-panel comics) instead of one 10k+ fic (or 10-page/25-panel comic). This is completely optional.
Please only post treats that are 10k+ to the main collection. If you have a treat that is less than 10k, you can post it in the short treat collection. Anything posted in the short treat collection will not count towards Triple Crown.
You must be 18 or older to ride this ride.
In most cases of problems, mod will try to communicate first to make sure it isn't an accident & to see if it can be fixed. That said, mod reserves the right to act if any of the following happens:
1. somebody publishes an incomplete fic
2. somebody publishes the word pickle 10,000 times (or similar)
3. somebody creates a fanwork containing one of their recip's DNWs
4. somebody writes spite fic
5. somebody behaves like an asshole towards other participants and/or mod (for example, if you were to email mod every hour on the hour demanding mod answer your question immediately, that would qualify)
Questions? Did I mess up a link? Other concerns? Email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com.
AO3 Collection •Nomination Form • Approved Nominations Spreadsheet• Tagset • Sign-Up Form • Sign-Up Search App • Short Treat Collection • Advice for Newcomers
You have two weeks to write 10k (or draw a 25-panel/10-page comic) and one week to edit. Have fun ;)
- Nominations Open: Sat 14 Feb 2026 10:00AM EST
- Nominations Temporarily Close for Cleanup: Fri 20 Feb 2026 09:59PM EST
- Sign-up Opens & Nominations Reopen: 21 Feb 2026 01:00PM EST
- Nominations Close: Fri 27 Feb 2026 09:59 PM EST
- Sign-up Closes: Sat 28 Feb 2026 9:59PM EST
- Assignments Go Out: ASAP
- Assignments Due: Sun 15 Mar 2026 9:59PM EDT (countdown)
- Works Revealed: Sun 29 Mar 2026 9:59PM EDT
- Creators Revealed: two weeks after work reveals
This exchange has been inherited by a new mod. Some jokes may stay the same and some might be less funny than previous due to this, but we're all still committed to everyone having a good time.
NOMINATIONS
NOMINATIONS
TIMING
Starting February 14th, each person can nominate fandoms, with up to 10 relationships or solo characters per fandom.
There are two ways to nominate:
- Use our handy Google form! Any nominations that are incorrect or questionable will be queried on Dreamwidth. Safety fandoms must be nominated using the Google form so you can provide verification of safety status.
- Use the standard AO3 tagset nomination form. Any nominations that are incorrect or questionable will be rejected immediately to keep the queue from getting clogged. To renominate them correctly, use the Google form.
Nominations will close temporarily on February 20, so tagmods can finish checking and approving fandoms and putting them in the tagset.
When signups open on February 21, people can nominate more fandoms if they really want to, but at that point, please don't nominate a fandom unless you are definitely going to request it.
Nominations will end 24 hours before signups end so we have time to check the last nominations and add them to the tagset.
FORMAT
You can nominate fandoms and relationships. Relationships should be in the form A/B, A & B, or 1: A. The / (as in "Barry Allen/Iris West") indicates a sexual and/or romantic relationship. The & (as in "Barry Allen & Iris West") indicates a platonic relationship. "1:" (as in "1: Iris West") indicates a fic that is primarily about one character rather than a relationship (though that character can be in relationships of various kinds with other people). You can also request "1: Worldbuilding". Please disambiguate every relationship by adding the fandom name at the end of it, like "1: Worldbuilding (Discworld - Pratchett)".
Please do not nominate groups or "Any [Group]" as a character. For example, "Eduardo Sandoval & Any Cop (Narcos)" and "Lucy Pevensie/Maenads (Narnia - Lewis)" would not be eligible as nominations. Relationships of the form A/B & C are also not accepted.
Crossovers should go under Crossover Fandom. Relationship example: "Peter Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis)/Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones TV)". If you want a character from fandom A in a fusion or crossover with fandom B, you can format it like this: "Peter Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis) & Worldbuilding (Game of Thrones TV)".
Almost all fandoms are eligible for the tagset. Creator’s Choice of Fandom will not be in the tagset. All original work nominations go under Original Work. We prefer specific canons over All Media Type fandoms, but we will evaluate those as they come.
Every single fandom has to be double-checked by tagmods for safety fandom status, which will take time. You can technically fill out the Google form as many times as you want, but for the sake of our achy wrists and tired eyes, please only nominate fandoms you're pretty sure you want to request or offer.
SAFETY FANDOMS
You will need to sign up with at least one safety fandom. A safety fandom is a fandom that can be consumed in five hours or less. It should also be available in English or with an English translation. This is designed to prevent the untimely death of our pinch hitters, who will have exactly one week to write 10k and who therefore cannot spend 20+ hours consuming a new canon for a pinch hit.
What exactly counts as a safety fandom? Glad you asked! One of these things MUST be true for your fandom to be a safety:
- It's Original Work.
- It's a standalone you can watch (TV episode or series, movie, music video, etc.) that's up to 5 hours long.
- It's a standalone you can read in English (book, poem, collection of stories, etc.) that's up to 100,000 words long (check at Reading Length).
- It's a standalone you can listen to (song, album, performance, etc.) that's up to 5 hours long.
- It's a video game whose main story takes up to 5 hours to play (check at How Long to Beat).
- It's a comic book run with up to 30 comics.
- It's a manga with up to 30 chapters.
- It's a still image (photograph, painting, etc.) or series of still images.
- It's RPF, and the necessary information about the people you're nominating is contained in a medium that fits one of the above categories (a biography under 100,000 words, a documentary under 5 hours, etc.).
- It's some other fixed-length fandom, in English or with an English translation available, that's easy to access and can be consumed in under 5 hours.
When nominating a safety fandom, you'll need to provide links for at least one place where it can be gotten. Links for non-safety fandoms are welcome too, but they're required for safeties! If you're nominating RPF, the info source you link here will be considered the "canon" for that nomination.
The Google nomination form also has a space for writing a quick fandom promo. We encourage this for safety fandoms especially! If you're hanging out as a lingering pinch hit, that lil blurb could be what gets a pinch hitter to read your book/watch your movie/listen to your album and pinch hit for you. Make it easy for our pinch hitter heroes to save the day!
As tagmods check the fandoms and ships, they'll be added to the AO3 tagset.
SIGNUPS
SIGNUPS
When signups open (from January 25 to February 1) you can sign up on AO3. You need a free AO3 account. If you don't have one, email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com and I'll get you an invite code.
You must request at least 3 different fandoms. You must request at least 1 safety fandom (see above for more info on safety fandoms). You must offer at least 3 different fandoms, and at least 1 relationship per fandom. At most, you can request 10 and offer 10. Requests and offers have to be unique.
Please be sure to include a list of Do Not Wants (DNWs) in the Details box! Unless you genuinely are fine with receiving any kind of fic/comment, in which case please say "I have no DNWs". DNWs should be specific. For instance, do not ask for "nothing icky" because it's very hard to know what that means. DNWs should also not force the author to only write one thing. For instance, do not DNW "fic where my chosen character isn't pregnant" because it's unfair to try and make your writer do one very narrow type of fic (in the example, pregnancy fic).
Likes, prompts, ship thoughts, general screaming, etc. are optional and can go into the Details box or into a letter which you can link in the "Letter or other link" box.
Please keep in mind that optional details ARE OPTIONAL—this means that a writer only needs to include at least one of your requested relationships and avoid your DNWs. Writers are not obliged to write out a specific prompt or plot for you.
If nobody requests anything you offer, we will email you so that you can add offers. If you do not reply to the mod email within 24 hours, your signup will be deleted so that we can get assignments out on time.
If nobody offers what you request, you will become a pinch hit.
If you are open to receiving a 25-panel, 10-page comic for a request, check “I Opt In to Receiving a Comic Instead of Fic.” If you are not open to this, check “I Do Not Opt In to Receiving a Comic -- Fic Only for Me!” You must check ONE AND ONLY ONE of these options for each request. Opting in to a comic doesn’t guarantee you’ll get one—fic is an acceptable fill for any request.
If you are an artist, and you only want to create a comic, sign up normally and email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com so that I know to only match you to people who opt into art.
You can also email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com with Do Not Match requests (to prevent a particular person or people from creating for you) and Do Please Assign requests (to ask that you be assigned to create for a particular person). I can't guarantee I'll assign you to the recipient you want, but I'll try.
ASSIGNMENTS, DEADLINE, REVEALS
ASSIGNMENTS, DEADLINE, REVEALS
For your assignment, please write a fic of at least 10,000 words for at least one of your recipient's requested relationships. If your recipient opts in to getting a comic, you can draw a comic of at least 10 pages/25 panels. Please respect your recipient's DNWs. Please do not post a sequel to a previous work of yours unless your recipient has explicitly opted into receiving sequel works.
If you can't finish your assignment in time, please default. There is no penalty for defaulting before the deadline. However, if you attempt to publish an unfinished assignment before deadline, or if you copypaste the word pickle in 10,000 times (or similar), that will lead to a one-year ban.
If a fic includes parts such as [add apple-picking scene here] or simply does not have an ending, it is incomplete. A fic must be publishable at deadline; that is, a fic must be ready to be seen by the public at deadline. If your work is incomplete at deadline, you will be defaulted and your recipient will go to pinch hit.
You may request one 2-day extension. Your request needs to be emailed to highadrenalinemod@gmail.com before the deadline. There will be no second extensions.
If at least one person has completed their assignment, yet they do not have a gift ready for them 24 hours before the collection is set to reveal, then the work reveals will be delayed in increments of 24 hours (i.e. it might be one day, two, etc) to ensure all who finish their assignment receive their gift.
PINCH HITS
PINCH HITS
Pinch hits will be posted to the Dreamwidth. You can claim them by commenting on the pinch hit post (comments will be screened). If there are outstanding pinch hits when the collection is supposed to open, the collection opening will be postponed.
If you did not complete your assignment, you will not become a pinch hit.
For pinch hits that linger or are added after the deadline, the requester may choose to opt in to receiving two 5k+ fics (or 5-page/12-panel comics) instead of one 10k+ fic (or 10-page/25-panel comic). This is completely optional.
TREATS
TREATS
Please only post treats that are 10k+ to the main collection. If you have a treat that is less than 10k, you can post it in the short treat collection. Anything posted in the short treat collection will not count towards Triple Crown.
OTHER RULES
OTHER RULES
You must be 18 or older to ride this ride.
In most cases of problems, mod will try to communicate first to make sure it isn't an accident & to see if it can be fixed. That said, mod reserves the right to act if any of the following happens:
1. somebody publishes an incomplete fic
2. somebody publishes the word pickle 10,000 times (or similar)
3. somebody creates a fanwork containing one of their recip's DNWs
4. somebody writes spite fic
5. somebody behaves like an asshole towards other participants and/or mod (for example, if you were to email mod every hour on the hour demanding mod answer your question immediately, that would qualify)
Questions? Did I mess up a link? Other concerns? Email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com.
Hilary McKay’s Rosa by Starlight, an enchanting short children’s fantasy featuring cats, Venice, a deliciously wicked aunt and uncle (but ARE they really Rosa’s aunt and uncle?), and an intrepid orphan facing down her problems as best she can. Perfect if you like classic children’s fantasy that swirls a soupcon of magic into the real world.
Damon Runyon’s Guys and Dolls. Although the musical isn’t based directly on any one of these stories (in fact, I think the only direct reference might be Nathan Detroit’s craps game), it is at the same time exactly like Damon Runyon’s short stories.
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troisoiseaux suggested a similarity to the work of P. G. Wodehouse, which I definitely also see: it’s easy to imagine a crossover where Wodehouse’s upper class doofuses get into a caper with Runyon’s Broadway gangster idiots, probably ending in a double wedding where an upper class doofus marries a Broadway doll, and a Broadway guy marries Muriel Broadbent. What I’m Reading Now
I’ve started my St. Patrick’s Day Maeve Binchy early this year, because I’ve picked her short story collection A Few of the Girls, and even starting now I probably won’t finish it by St. Patrick’s Day. (I usually read story collections one story a day.)
What I Plan to Read Next
You will be shocked to hear that a steady diet of Horatio Hornblower and Aubrey-Maturin have made me want to read a book about the history of the Napoleonic Wars, preferably an overview so I can get a general idea of the most important dates so I can orient myself as we go along. Any recommendations?
I wrote a very late ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomtrees gift.
Title: Emergency Contact (6050 words) by china_shop [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, (For one of them), Mild Hurt/Comfort, Zhao Xinci's A+ parenting, Inexperienced Zhao Yunlan, Internalized Homophobia, Feelings about being closeted, Non-Linear Narrative
Summary:
fandomtrees gift.Title: Emergency Contact (6050 words) by china_shop [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, (For one of them), Mild Hurt/Comfort, Zhao Xinci's A+ parenting, Inexperienced Zhao Yunlan, Internalized Homophobia, Feelings about being closeted, Non-Linear Narrative
Summary:
Zhao Yunlan lists Shen Wei as his emergency contact. The fact they've never met is but a minor detail.
Who is up for a drabble prompt?
With all this discussion about familial familiarity, I think any of these prompts might work for a Wuthering Heights inspired drabble or something entirely original but please make it gothic!
Post drabble in comments or a link to your journal!
Blood ties
Forbidden blood lines
Star crossed
Echoes from the past
rainbowfic:Name: Sweet Interlude
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #11 (Marriage)
Supplies and Styles: Silhouette
Word Count: 2343
Rating: PG
Warnings: None?
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Leion Valerno/Viyony Eseray. (A rather slight linking piece).
Summary: Leion and Viyony attend a wedding.
Title/Link: Partners
Fandom: Hey Arnold!
Character(s): Phoebe Heyerdahl, Helga Pataki
Rated: G
halfamoon prompt: the explorerladiesbingo prompt: journalist/chroniclerSummary: When Phoebe and Helga decided to collaborate and pool both their talents, they were unstoppable.
The revived May 2022 Neon City Overdrive Bundle featuring the fast-playing cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game Neon City Overdrive from Peril Planet.
Bundle of Holding: Neon City Overdrive (from 2022)
New story on Substack.
This story stands alone but is set after my novel War By Other Means, now on sale
Title: Copic Marker Layout
Credit to:vuvuzela
Base style: Practicality
Type: CSS
Best resolution: Built in 1912x1074 – Mobile responsive
Tested in: Built in Firefox. Tested in Chrome & Opera on Windows OS. Tested in Android OS with Firefox.
Features: Mobile Responsive! Stylized home page, reading page, entry/comments page, icons page, and "more options" reply page.
( Layout Instructions, Live Preview, & CSS )
Credit to:
vuvuzelaBase style: Practicality
Type: CSS
Best resolution: Built in 1912x1074 – Mobile responsive
Tested in: Built in Firefox. Tested in Chrome & Opera on Windows OS. Tested in Android OS with Firefox.
Features: Mobile Responsive! Stylized home page, reading page, entry/comments page, icons page, and "more options" reply page.
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( Layout Instructions, Live Preview, & CSS )
DEAR ABBY: It seems that everywhere I go, people expect tips. Yesterday, I pulled up to the drive-through at a cookie store, and before I paid or was handed my cookies, the clerk asked, "Would you like to leave a tip?" My niece recently told me that after she left a tip at a restaurant, the server followed her outside and asked if she hadn't been a very good server because the tip was small. I can give you more examples just from my family regarding their experience with tipping.
In this economy, I don't feel the 20% rule should apply. For the price of a lunch for two at a sit-down restaurant these days, the tip costs as much as a small entree. When I go through a drive-through, I don't feel I need to tip because I'm not inside using their facility. But if I don't, I get a disappointed look from the gal who gets paid to make and hand me my drink. What are your thoughts? -- TIPPED OUT IN IDAHO
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In this economy, I don't feel the 20% rule should apply. For the price of a lunch for two at a sit-down restaurant these days, the tip costs as much as a small entree. When I go through a drive-through, I don't feel I need to tip because I'm not inside using their facility. But if I don't, I get a disappointed look from the gal who gets paid to make and hand me my drink. What are your thoughts? -- TIPPED OUT IN IDAHO
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On Wednesdays, facilities/maintenance holds a help desk where you can go ask questions. Today I will go back again to see if there is an update on getting the fucking shades fixed. I doubt it but squeaky wheel, etc.
Then there is a Seahawks parade which I will avoid and then the Food and Beverage Committee meeting.
So that's my day. So far.
I want to go to Daiso but the closest one is about 20 minutes away and I'm lazy. I'm nearly out of Costco chicken wings which are a staple around here so I'll be needing to replenish that supply. But not today.
I do need to go down to the front desk to pick up my copies for the committee meeting. I could wait until I go down for the help desk thing, but an extra trip would mean more steps especially on a non swim day. But, first, I'd probably better get dressed.
What I read
Finished Cakes and Ale, which is partly that early C20th litfic convention of a first-person narrator who just happens be around to hear a lot about the actual protags and the plot or at critical moments of same, but actually complicates it with Ashenden knowing that Rosie is not actually dead as everyone else supposes. Not sure the ending really worked.
I then, having got into an Edwardian/Georgian novelist rhythm, went 'ah! time for some Arnold Bennett! the one about the hotel', except I picked up The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902), which is 1900s thriller hijinx mode with European royalty shenanigans, false identities, etc etc (though I was wondering whether it might adapt into a screwball comedy movie?), and wasn't actually the one I'd read many years ago that I was thinking of.
Which was Imperial Palace (1930), which struck me as, although lacking the highspeed thriller plot element, remarkably like D Francis in its fascination for infrastructure (in this case, running a luxury hotel in London) and competence porn. The running-the-hotel bits and the trials posed for the new supervising housekeeper are, perhaps, at least these days, more interesting than the bits involving Hotel Manager and Rich Man's Daughter Gracie. To give her (and actually, Bennett as author) her due, she is not, whereas she would be in a lot of novels by his contemporaries, an unmitigated bitch (Aldous Huxley's Lucy Tantamount) or a tragic bitch (Michael Arlen's Iris Storm), she has some good points and was a competent racing driver, but she is still annoyingly entitled and egocentric.
I took a break from this because I suddenly had a whim to re-read Mary Renault, The King Must Die (1958) for the first time in absolute yonks. You know, Mary, the sexism and misogyny is not entirely just being Accurate for Period, is it, hmmmm? There is some great stuff in there, but.
On the go
Imperial Palace is very long, and still on the go.
Up next
I think I am up for some Agatha Christie, seriously.
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