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Can you guess how old she is?
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The Traveller Great Rift Bundle features void-spanning campaign sets for the Second Edition Traveller tabletop roleplaying game line from Mongoose Publishing.

Bundle of Holding: Traveller Great Rift (2022)

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It's a case of limitations leading to more interesting plots and settings...

Is Science Fiction Better Off Without Torchships?

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Saya's infatuation with Prince Tsukishiro is but another move in a long-running struggle on whose outcome existence itself depends.

Dragon Sword And Wind Child (Tales of the Magatama, volume 1) by Noriko Ogiwara (Translated by Cathy Hirano)

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The third Traveller bundle for this week, the Traveller Mercenaries Bundle, features soldier-for-hire supplements and adventures for the 2020 2nd Edition Traveller SF TTRPG game line from Mongoose Publishing.

Bundle of Holding: Traveller Mercenaries (from 2023)

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Shortcut home through the cherry blossom
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The Shaa conquered the universe. Soon, there will be no Shaa. Who will take their place?

The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall, volume 1) by Walter Jon Williams

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Stirling is on the River Forth.

This is the old bridge (no, not the one the battle of Stirling Bridge was fought on, which was there before this later medieval one)

( More pics! )

Current Mood: photographical
Current Location: ici

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Please keep wearing your N95 mask out there in the world, when you're around other people.

Because SARS-CoV-2 infection causes blood clots which can damage any organ in the body, and because SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect so many tissues, it therefore produces a wide variety of illness. It causes all sorts of problems that were possible even before this virus showed up, so it's hard to isolate the signal of what this specific virus is doing to humanity when contrasted against other potential factors. It infects the organs that have immune privilege: the brain, eyes, and testicles. Even though there is some evidence that people are newly catching COVID less frequently than before, the lower incidence doesn't matter if these infections are permanent because of the immune privilege and other methods of persistence, staying in multiple reservoirs.

Long COVID is real and increasing. It's real in adults, it's real in children, and it maybe affects as many as 6 million children in the USA. SARS-CoV-2 is known to cause a long list of damages like: heart damage, anemia, liver injury, spleen enlargement, kidney and intestine damage, POTS, brain fog, and other autonomic dysfunctions, plus the well known pneumonia, plus the well-known heart attacks and strokes, plus the immune system damage.

It makes me sad to learn the stories of real people whose families are affected by problems that I know to be associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. No matter how many times you've had COVID before, it's worthwhile to not get COVID again. I still wear my mask around other people. Please, be safe out there.

And, if you're noticing symptoms, maybe try one of the locations in this list to see if someone can help you test for specific issues and find reasonable actions to take in response.

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The first of five Traveller bundles this week; rulebooks and ship sourcebooks for the Second Edition Traveller tabletop science fiction roleplaying game line from Mongoose Publishing.

Bundle of Holding: Traveller Update (from 2024)

The second of five Traveller bundles this week; tour the Third Imperium space fleet in Traveller, the tabletop science fiction roleplaying game from Mongoose Publishing.

Bundle of Holding: Traveller Imperial Navy (New)

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This house, close to the castle and next to the Holy Rude (as you'd expect from The Earl of Mar, a senior noble) was destroyed during the civil wars.

And this was Cowane's house (he of the hospital). You can see the difference between a noble's house and a wealthy merchant's house.

Current Mood: photographical
Current Location: 'ereabouts

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The hair on my forearms is strange these days. Instead of the smooth flow of soft hairs like usual, there are short bits of hair that seem to stand straight up from the arm.

I'm pretty sure I singed much of the hair while I was tending flames at the fire pit on Friday. Oops.

In other news, the weird spot on my left leg is getting lighter. I think it's healing, however slowly. I guess that hydrocortisone cream helped.

P.S. I got a few more plants into the ground today, after my work shift ended, and before the predicted 1.5 days of rain finally arrive.

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The text of Cherryh's post reads:

"Dear readers and friends. The unhappy fact is---the numerous bouts of anaesthetic I've had have made it pretty well impossible for me to write. I drop stitches. Not many. No problems with daily life or doing creative stuff or enjoying life in general. But the ability to control narrative is just not what it was, and it's just not going to be there. I've accepted that, painful as it is. I thank all of you who've stood by me patiently. The body of work is what it is, and I am lastingly grateful to my publisher, Betsy Wollheim, who has given me every extension of time and resource. And of course to Jane, who is all things.