Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

Metaorigins would affect how superpowers affect society more than anything else except the nature of the powers -- type or strength. And in some respects, it's more important than parts of that.

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It's important

Contemplating the D&D thief.

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And questions

One complication of using a child as the point of view character is keeping not just the observations within the child's power to make, but the voice.

It's not so tight a point-of-view that I have to be absolutely strict, but  it's not so loose that I can festoon their thoughts with erudite polysyllables.

Though, on reflection, the oldest of the children I am working on now is chiefly a problem because she's kinda silly.

Aria: The Masterpiece Volume 1 by Kozue Amano

In the future, when Earth is Manhome, and Mars is a terraformed world called Aqua because the melting of the icecaps flooded it more than originally intended -- Akari leaves Manhome for Aqua, in order to fulfill her dream of being an undine -- a gondolier.

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Flax was cultivated in Europe by the seventh millennia BC. It produces both linseed oil and linen, but the thing is, if you plant them thickly, they tend to grow longer stalks (to get at sunlight) and fewer flowers, and if you plant them loosely, they produce more flowers and so more seeds. The crops tended to be cultivated separately, though you could get some of the other from a main crop of one.

William IV was named as a Sailor King because he had served in the navy and rose, on his own merits, to the rank of rear admiral.

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Paganism in the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen

A large and not entirely coherent subject, with very patchy evidence. So this contains much discussion of the incoherency and the difficulty in reconstruction.

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This week's prompt is:
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Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

There's a wideness in God's mercy
like the wideness of the sea;
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