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Three posts in one day! WHAT IS THIS MADNESS. But gramarye1971 has instructed me to post the photoshopped romance novel book cover she purchased from me for help_japan, and I am not one to ignore Shannon's dictates.


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For context here, all you really need to know is that the other night shati tripped and fell into the Revolutionary Girl Utena page on TVtropes while in chat.

( Nuanced and thoughtful analysis of Akio's role in the story below. )

In non-seduction news, a while back I recced my friend Rahul the Temeraire books. He read them and was promptly inspired to write a blog post about a navy staffed entirely by Lord Nelsons. Then he turned that into a short Golden Age of Sail parody IN SPACE called Death's Flag is Never at Half-Mast and sold it to an online magazine, where you can now read it!

I think I get, like, one percent of the credit for the story for giving him the Temeraire books to begin with, which is more stake than I have ever had in a published story before, so I feel a bit smug about this. My booklogging has led to material gain for somebody! VALIDATION. By chain of association, those of you who told me to read Naomi Novik can also feel smug and claim point five percent of the credit. Rahul also wishes to point out that his moustache is clearly the most glorious on the author page, but in the name of truth in advertising I must sadly let you all know that as of the last time I saw him it no longer exists.

Last Monday, I asked some of you guys to name me characters for presents.

As, uh, some of you who have been around here a while may have suspected, this was mostly an excuse to do terrible things with Photoshop. :D?

( Non-dial-up friendly, mostly worksafe-ish . . . )




MERRY CHRISTMAS AND YOU'RE WELCOME.