Cake Pictures

 Mother's Day cakes.

Monday Update 5-12-14

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Multiracial Fantastic Four
Intersectionality in Storytelling
Roles by Race
Read "So Small" by Alexconall
Moment of Silence: Farley Mowat
Read "Rainforest Delicacies" on Torn World
Discussing Diversity
Things Crashing Into Things
Building a Team of Characters
New in Torn World
Telling the Truth of Disability
Inequality in Comics


The May 6 Poetry Fishbowl went pretty well. I still have a couple poems to post, along with other followup materials.

Poetry in Microfunding:
"Faeder Way" follows the antics of human explorers as they try to understand some aliens with an unusual sex/gender structure.  "Uncounted Colors of the Stars" belongs to the series An Army of One.  A freetrader with an atypical identity grows interested in the culture of the Lacuna.  "Not the Absence of Fear" belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.  Damask goes to a SPOON base for learning about superpowers.

Torn World writing update:
Currently posting: "Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal" (fiction).  Approved as canon: "Unicorns on Parade" "Spruce Deer" "Wandering the Heights" "Learning to Breathe the Clear Mountain Air" "Rainforest Delicacies" "Indoor Men and Outdoor Men" "Beach Pictures" "Tangleweed" (poetry), "Sharing a Round" (fiction).  Back to me for edits: "Cutting Cords and Clasping Hands (Parts 1-4)," "Winterheart" (parts 2-3), "Stinging Like Nettles"  (poetry).  Currently in front of the canon board: "Off the Clock" "From White to Blue," "Stalking Sleep" (poetry), "Ghost Bat" (nonfiction), "Fall of Duty" "Beachfront Propriety" (fiction). Drafted: "Like Ash Before the Wind," "From Dark to Bright," "The Inappropriate But Useful Disposal of Lettuce" "A Thin Red Trail" (fiction), "Changes in the Wind" (poetry), "Southern Breads" "Tangleweed Article" (articles), Jularei (character sheet).  In revision at home: "Water Dance," "When the Wind's Teeth Sing," "Raining Kittens," "Finding the Holes" (fiction), "The Smallest Invaders"  (poetry).  Currently writing: "Catch of the Day," "A Cold Clear Night" (fiction).


It's been rainy here for most of the past week, although I've managed to get outside for planting in the sunny times.  Currently blooming: grape hyacinths, honeysuckle, white spirea, wild strawberries, marigolds, blue salvia, cleome, portulaca, petunias, zinnias, million bells, pansies, sweet alyssum, torenia, lobelia, columbines.

Notice. Discern. Act.

This is a pretty good guide to community maintenance.  

I will add: If you discern that there is not a problem in the community, but something is bothering you for personal reasons, then you should act to take care of yourself.

Also, Sheshat or Seshat is the Egyptian goddess of knowledge and libraries.

New Crowdfunding Project: "The Indie Box"

 Take back your data with the Indie Box, a personal web server designed to make it easy to use the web while protecting your privacy from corporate and national spies.  I like seeing new privacy tools.

BINGO: column

 I made bingo down the B column of my 3-6-14 card in the origfic_bingo  fest.

Vultures in Detroit

 My partner Doug tipped me to this hilarious bit of activism, protesting plans to sell Detroit's art.

New verses in "Not the Absence of Fear"

Thanks to a donation from LiveJournal user Kestrels_nest, there are 11 new verses in "Not the Absence of Fear."  Ham dives into a fight that turns out to be way, way above his current skill level.  Another $5 will finish Ham's section.

Update from Kajones_writing

May is new characters month. Ebooks Now Available include several series.

Fiction: The World Walkers: Quiar: The Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments (part 9, 93rd continuation) has Peric talking with Quiar about the coming changes.
The World Walkers: Quiar: The Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments (part 9, 94th continuation) delves into Bertram's feelings about the assassin, a very thoughtful look at the ethics of justice.

The Fae World: AU Earth: Otis: The Money Tree hints at how magic can affect the economy.

The World Walkers: Taithmarin’s Earth: Sabina: Returning to Earth is a creepy story about going back to a place where nobody remembers her.
The World Walkers: Janoch: Fintan: Bonding shows the effect of a miscast wish.

The Donor House: Enitan: The Ship is a dark but exciting story about a vampire on a slave ship.

Other Fiction: The Fae World: Kalinia (Post-Apoc): Max: Being a Thief
The Fae World: Earth: Shayla: The Arrival of the the Fae
The Fae World: Earth: Ebony: Shapeshifter Daycare
The Fae World: The Fae School: Kaylyn: Finding the School
The Fae World: The Fae School: Colton: Finding the School
The Fae World: The Fae School: Vaughn: Finding the School
The Fae World: The Fae School: Iantha: Entering the School
The Fae World: The Fae World: Fairuza: Entering the School
The Fae World: The Fae School: Niobe: Entering the School
The Fae World: The Fae School: Quentin: Watching Tamara
The Fae World: Kalinia (Post-Apoc): Jackson: The Thieves’ School
The Fae World: Earth: Theo: Travelling to Earth
The Fae World: Earth: Tybalt: Travelling to Earth
The Fae World: Earth: Alena: Travelling to Earth
The Fae World: Plienedes: Alison: Saving A Life

The World Walkers: Athare: Ianto: Talking to Mab
The World Walkers: Taithmarin’s Earth: Maria: Returning to Earth
The World Walkers: Aerith: Madison: Loss