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“Neither Will I”
Swords cleave from heaven Feet move as flowing water All acts ripple out – Mirumoto Kasumi, upon her official gemupukku at Shiro Mirumoto
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The Cursed Throne: From the Pillow Book of Mirumoto Kasumi – end of the Topaz Championship
17 Serpent 1189 Today was the Iaijutsu tournament, the final event of the championship, and a strange day it was. The tournament was going well right up until the quarterfinals, when I came up against Hiruma Tamotsu-san. I saw through him. I struck first. But as I drew my ankle turned. My strike wobbled. Hiruma-san…
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The Cursed Throne: From the Pillow-book of Mirumoto Kasumi – at the Topaz Championship (part 2)
15 Serpent 1189 Another day, another disappointing athletic performance from me. I did not even manage the top eight in the race, although I was close. My stamina failed me on the straightaway before the wall, and I could not recover. Then in jiujitsu I fell in the first round to Usagi-san. As much as…
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The Cursed Throne: From the Pillow Book of Mirumoto Kasumi – at the Topaz Championship (part 1)
14 Serpent 1189 Noon I have neither excuse for nor understanding of my poor showing in the grand melee this morning. Despite everything, I was caught off-guard by the starting bell, and before I managed to gather myself the Ikoma next to me had grazed me rather impressively. I joined Ryouko and Hikari in the…
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Long time, no see
Wish I could say I had a good excuse for being absent for so long, but really it was just life. Late November/early December was spent editing my novel and crocheting holiday gifts. January: more editing. In December I’d started reading it aloud to myself, chapter by chapter, and that takes a long time –…
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An Open Letter to Congressional Republicans
Let me be clear. I believe your tactic of using the budget bill to defund Obamacare was a stupid one, with no chance of passing (as, obviously, it didn’t). So long as Obama is President, I do not believe we will be able to rid ourselves of that monstrosity in its entirety. However. Now that…
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GenCon Begins
And thus I will be largely incommunicado for the next few days… not that I’ve been posting much anyway. My honey determined he wasn’t in good enough shape to cosplay the demi-fiend this year, which meant I got an extension on the Isabeau costume I’d been working on. I’ve nearly finished the jacket, and I’ll…
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GenCon Sewing Challenge
So DH convinced me to dress up for one day at GenCon this coming August. After some hemming and hawing, we settled on Isabeau, the female Samurai from the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei IV. Which means that I have about 30 days to turn this: into something approaching this. Wish me luck. That’s a polyester…
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Happy Fourth of July!
I would love to post something profound today, but frankly spending time with my honey sounds better. Hope you all have a safe and fun Fourth of July.
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This I believe…
…that Man (and I use the term in its old, gender-neutral sense) must live or die by the power of his own rational mind, and the stories we tell are our best way of conveying the truths of the world. Thence came the myths of old, from people telling stories to make sense of the…
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