Deep 6 FaWtL

And the sun is a tease.

And, apparently, tricksy.

Hey, you're the one standing naked before it. If anything, you're teasing the sun.

So here we are, over two weeks after Daylight Savings Time ended, and I'm still waking up every morning at 4:05 am. On the one hand, it's nice to have the extra hour in the morning. On the other, I worry about what effects the long-term lack of sleep is having on my body.

But then, as my father always said, "If you need the sleep, your body'll sleep."

So I have to figure with no stressors and no alarm set, my body's just taking what it needs, and waking me up when it feels like it.

Stupid body.

The day you start taking advice from your father is the day I start worrying about you. Unless you're only telling the bad stories and not the good ones.

There are good ones, right?

I hope that your feel better soon, lisamarlene

Thanks, Sharoth.

NobodysHome wrote:

So here we are, over two weeks after Daylight Savings Time ended, and I'm still waking up every morning at 4:05 am. On the one hand, it's nice to have the extra hour in the morning. On the other, I worry about what effects the long-term lack of sleep is having on my body.

But then, as my father always said, "If you need the sleep, your body'll sleep."

So I have to figure with no stressors and no alarm set, my body's just taking what it needs, and waking me up when it feels like it.

Stupid body.

The day you start taking advice from your father is the day I start worrying about you. Unless you're only telling the bad stories and not the good ones.

There are good ones, right?

I'm sure my brain suppressed them as negatively impacting my world view...

lisamarlene wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

So here we are, over two weeks after Daylight Savings Time ended, and I'm still waking up every morning at 4:05 am. On the one hand, it's nice to have the extra hour in the morning. On the other, I worry about what effects the long-term lack of sleep is having on my body.

But then, as my father always said, "If you need the sleep, your body'll sleep."

So I have to figure with no stressors and no alarm set, my body's just taking what it needs, and waking me up when it feels like it.

Stupid body.

The day you start taking advice from your father is the day I start worrying about you. Unless you're only telling the bad stories and not the good ones.

There are good ones, right?

I'm sure my brain suppressed them as negatively impacting my world view...

More seriously, though, his generosity, hospitality, work ethic, and dedication to (his own) family were inspirations to me. As, apparently, was his approach to sartorial atrocities.

The rest of his approach to life was... less-than-ideal...

Just got back from lunch date. She likes Jane Austen a lot. I ate halloumi fries.

Just got back from lunch date. She likes Jane Austen a lot. I ate halloumi fries.

Trying to decide if this was a good thing or a horrifying thing. I just can't tell. Sometimes I need pictures.

New Page, FaWtLers! Booyah! ... in a good way!

I'd originally been planning on updating this once per page.

HAH! FaWtL put a stop to that~!

Original Post with a question for everyone to answer!

YAY!

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And now the results so far of EverFaWtL:

01) aatea: ________________________

02) CH: ________________________

03) Crookshanks: ___________________

04) CY: medium (brute vigilante archetype); mammoth rider PrC

05) doctor_wu: investigator (tetori monk archetype; for better hugging); ??? <no PrC suggested>

06) Drejk: psychic OR int-based sorcerer (archeologist bard archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>

07) Freehold: martial artist monk/lust wizard (solacer bard archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>

08) Game Hamster: cleric (archetype granting smite evil or inquisition??); ??? <no PrC suggested>

09) gran: wizard (warrior of the holy light paladin archetype); PrCs (I'unno, maybe being "that guy" - i.e. me - who wants a non-evil assassin?)

10) Icy: ______________

11) J4rh43d: empericist investigator (with blossoming light cleric archetype) OR blossoming light cleric (with empericist investigator archetype)... OR paladin (with blossoming light cleric archetype); good sanguine angel OR alchemist/brewkeeper OR wizard/<any full casting PrC to fix stuff>

12) Jess Door: Paladin (archeologist bard archetype?); Loremaster [ALT/ADTL: just a cat]

13) John (Napier): Traveller d20 Grand Admiral [Imperial subrank “archetype”] OR Gunslinger (bounty hunter slayer archetype); duelist PrC

14) Kileanna: __________________

15) Kjeldorn: druid (archivist bard archetype); home brew paladin PrC OR brewkeeper PrC (lacking religious flavor)

16) Limey: fighter/rogue/mage (all with the musketeer archetype); toss up (duelist, eldritch knight, assassin [3.5] not evil... automatically)

17) lisamarlene: in need of coffee PATHFINDER CHRONICLER, ALL ELSE MEANINGLESS (it’s close to being Indiana Jones! Squee!)

18) lynora: witch (crashing wave cleric archetype water bending); ??? <no PrC suggested> :)

19) NH: paladin of some sort, and definitely not the Core PrCs or the early archetypes thereof! (also, as of lisamarlene, is now given bonus levels in grumpy-pants! lucky! I'm stuck waiting 'til 80 to take levels in that, and he gets epic levels now~! Maaaaaannnnnnnn some people just win... ;D)

20) Orthos: wilder (unknown archetype that nabs Dark Knowledge from Heroes of Horror); wilder/dragonfire adept/<the PrC that combines those>

21) Scint: alchemist (archavist bard archetype; yay know-it-all mad science (so basically a female Bill Nye, which is now the coolest thing ever)); "soracle" theurge (sorcerer/oracle/theurge)

22) Sharoth: 20th level commoner (weakness: fear of house cats)

23) Sissyl: NO ARCHETYPES; optimized cleric/wizard/mystic theurge

24) Syrus: warpriest [Healing, Tactics domains] (unknown archetype of something for smite and/or marshal auras); Evangelist (with The Deity ;D)

25) Thomas Seitz (look, I know you've been hanging around, because you just favorited a post of mine I'm secretly psychic!): Paladin, duh!; ??? <no PrC suggested>

26) Me!: psionic erudite (unifier tactician archetype) or erudite/wizard/cerebromancer

27) TOZ: Oracle (Unbreakable Fighter archetype); Oracle/Holy Vindicator (sneaking suspicion that he may, just possibly, perhaps, have a type)

28) TS: fellow erudite psion with some “expanded knowledge” feat-focused archetype (OR a wizard with access to both wish spells, and the missing 9th level wizard spells); any PrC with +1 ML (and/or +1 CL) per level (“thou shalt not sacrifice…”)

29) The Vagrant Erudite: juju oracle (churomancer wizard archetype) (look, he just wants all the dead things; also to wear white); ??? <no PrC suggested>

30) Vanykrye: kensai magus (empericist investigator archetype); paladin/monk/<Iroran Paladin-monk-PrC>

31) Vidmaster: magus sorcerer (with the celeberty bard archetype) or bard (with the spell blade magus archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>

32) Wei Ji: bard (spirit guide oracle archetype); sorcerer (or bloodrager)/dragon disciple

... and since I know for a fact that a certain Chinese kitty sometimes hangs out over hear (but rarely posts anything!! >:I): Mort. Just... Just a Mort.: wizard (urban ranger archetype); student of war PrC (oh: and/or assassin?)

Enjoy!

And now, some random stats I noticed:
- 5/33: unanswered
- 28/33: at least partially answered
- 15/33: fully answered
- 09/33: totally followed the all the rules!
All answers are totally valid; I was just interested in statistics. XD

Everyone has their "the holiday season is upon us, ergo I must watch this" film. Or set of films.

Mine is, with all its errors and wince-inducing directorial choices, The Lord of the Rings.
Even if the first film should be titled "The Fellowship of the Cheekbones".
I long for the good old days when Peter Jackson was only quasi-treasonous and not the unprincipled whore he later became.
I'm going through the worst arthritis flare-up I've had in many, many months and it's making my job... difficult. Particularly when my students express their affection by grabbing me around the neck and then curling their legs up at the knees to hang on me like so many ungainly albatrosses.
Aaaand to make it really extra super-fun, my December depression decided to descend a bit early.
Soooo... feel-good movies. And a new project. I went to the craft store today to buy yarn to knit a Joey Ramone ragdoll for my incipient niece who is arriving in a matter of weeks.
(That was actually a bad call. Nothing makes me scream "F--k all of humanity; we're done here" like going into Michael's during the pre-Christmas season. But I got my yarn. And I might even have the doll finished by the time my niece is born.)
Soooo... yeah. I'm going back to my LOTR and knitting now.

reads post, nods

pushes couch to reveal trap door that leads to abscondi-cave

waves to guests, who ignore him utterly as they are watching Netflix/hulu/being massaged/eating chocolate/playing pathfinder

pays Ms. McRib extra for working thanksgiving weekend

gets in prius

sets coordinates for Peter Jackson, ensures prius is equipped for such a long journey by promising it a date with lisamarlenes car

arrives at Peter Jacksons place

chocolate cakes him, borrows his authentic pair of hobbit feet

tosses him in back seat, hobbit feet in trunk

waits, realizes that should be the other way around, puts peter jackson on top of tire iron, straps hobbit feet in comfortably

sets coordinates for final resting place of Joey Ramone

makes rubbing of his name on largest fall leaf available, promises to listen to more of his music

holds on to own butt as prius heads to lisamarlenes at best speed

i...i can see forever

arrives at her school, 20 minutes before thid post was made we were moving so fast

kicks down door to classroom, informs children that santa will replace their christmas presents with lumps of whedon scripts if they dont stop hugging lisamarlenes neck and hanging from it

kicks down door to teachers lounge, leaves trussed Peter Jackson in teachers lounge, with sharp stick for poking, hobbit feet on head, entire collection of Tolkien novels that he desecrated

puts memorial leaf in frame, leaves it in lisamarlenes mailbox with note indicating it is from whingey wizard

takes a looooooong tea break while waiting for prius to meet at predetermined coordinates

teases prius mercilessly when it arrives, enjoys watching car blush

goes to work for some reason

Talking to myself again: Is it that hard to just follow a build on the boards?

I've a friend who wants to roll up a zen archer,for PFS.

I told him just follow the zen archer guide on the boards and it'd be more or less fine. Heck, you don't even need to understand it.

Sure, I'm sure there are other combinations that yield more dpr, but hey, I've never been that good at optimizing dpr, and good enough is good enough already, right?

I tend to be more of a generalist. I can't really optimize to extremes. Maybe because I can't crunch numbers as Maths eats the thoughts out of my head, so I just go around by feels.

Just got back from lunch date. She likes Jane Austen a lot. I ate halloumi fries.

Run. Run long, and run fast.

Every Jane Austin book ever: "I'm more woman than the box you can put me in, in this Victorian England setting. Ha. Look at me. I exhibit signs of tomboy-ism. Aren't I special?"

Ugh. So cliche. Step outside your f@#$ing wheelhouse for a minute.

Maybe I'm bitter 'cause I saw the BBC Pride and Prejudice one too many times with my ex. The only redeemable character in that mask of fluff and bullcrap is the dad. He's cool as hell. Talks s!#& to his wife day and night.

Seriously, the men swim fully dressed in order to avoid scandal, while every single woman is walking around in a push-up nighty with her t&*& displayed as prominently as possible to obtain any man with money. It's literally a book about how to be a gold digger. Unless you're Liz. Then it's how to be independent (but end up with the richest man ANYWAY, by SUCH a coincidence...yeah, right...)

I don't limit my disdain of cliche too JA, though. I, for example, long to see Kelsey Grammar play more than Frasier. Let's be honest, even The Beast is just Frasier with blue hair and skin. I long to see him play a moonshine-guzzling, wife-beating, meth-smoking, trailer park piece of human garbage, rather than his usual "oh look at me, I'm so classy" wheelhouse.

Okay, so having actually read the link like an adult instead of waiting for someone to get back to me...a class, but with an archetype from...another class?

Churomancer Wizard (necromancer - undead subtype) with Juju Oracle somehow spread in there. Just give me all the dead people. All of them. I can fashionably wear bl...no, you know what? I'll wear pure f&#~ing snow white. And make a horde of shambling...no, sprinting, because hasted plague zombies are fun...monsters tear apart anyone who gets a speck of color on my glorious outfit.

So I guess it's Juju Oracle with Churomancer as the archetype, 'cause Juju is a mystery and not an archetype. But you get the point. All of the dead things.

♪All the dead things

Day 3 of Maybe Flu, Definitely Sick.

Limeylongears wrote:

Just got back from lunch date. She likes Jane Austen a lot. I ate halloumi fries.

Run. Run long, and run fast.

Every Jane Austin book ever: "I'm more woman than the box you can put me in, in this Victorian England setting. Ha. Look at me. I exhibit signs of tomboy-ism. Aren't I special?"

Ugh. So cliche. Step outside your f+#!ing wheelhouse for a minute.

Maybe I'm bitter 'cause I saw the BBC Pride and Prejudice one too many times with my ex. The only redeemable character in that mask of fluff and bullcrap is the dad. He's cool as hell. Talks s&!& to his wife day and night.

Seriously, the men swim fully dressed in order to avoid scandal, while every single woman is walking around in a push-up nighty with her t+#$ displayed as prominently as possible to obtain any man with money. It's literally a book about how to be a gold digger. Unless you're Liz. Then it's how to be independent (but end up with the richest man ANYWAY, by SUCH a coincidence...yeah, right...)

I don't limit my disdain of cliche too JA, though. I, for example, long to see Kelsey Grammar play more than Frasier. Let's be honest, even The Beast is just Frasier with blue hair and skin. I long to see him play a moonshine-guzzling, wife-beating, meth-smoking, trailer park piece of human garbage, rather than his usual "oh look at me, I'm so classy" wheelhouse.

Cliches have to start somewhere. Austen was quite progressive for her day.

That said, romcoms tend to make me nauseous, so I'm not the biggest fan of her stuff, either. I just feel contractually obligated to defend it at least a little due to my line of work.

Day 3 of Maybe Flu, Definitely Sick.

please heal.

Welp. I've just given my principal a request to add two new preps to my load for next year.

Get better soon, Scintillae.

Welp. I've just given my principal a request to add two new preps to my load for next year.

... my word. You are a masochist.

Scintillae wrote:

Welp. I've just given my principal a request to add two new preps to my load for next year.

... my word. You are a masochist.

But they're good classes! and I might not have to do as much current events if I can split enough interest off

Honestly, I'm more ashamed that I missed my improper use of "too" over "to" in that rant than anything else.

My brother told me to stop making Oasis jokes. I said maybe...

The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Limeylongears wrote:

Just got back from lunch date. She likes Jane Austen a lot. I ate halloumi fries.

Run. Run long, and run fast.

Every Jane Austin book ever: "I'm more woman than the box you can put me in, in this Victorian England setting. Ha. Look at me. I exhibit signs of tomboy-ism. Aren't I special?"

Ugh. So cliche. Step outside your f+#!ing wheelhouse for a minute.

Maybe I'm bitter 'cause I saw the BBC Pride and Prejudice one too many times with my ex. The only redeemable character in that mask of fluff and bullcrap is the dad. He's cool as hell. Talks s&!& to his wife day and night.

Seriously, the men swim fully dressed in order to avoid scandal, while every single woman is walking around in a push-up nighty with her t+#$ displayed as prominently as possible to obtain any man with money. It's literally a book about how to be a gold digger. Unless you're Liz. Then it's how to be independent (but end up with the richest man ANYWAY, by SUCH a coincidence...yeah, right...)

I don't limit my disdain of cliche too JA, though. I, for example, long to see Kelsey Grammar play more than Frasier. Let's be honest, even The Beast is just Frasier with blue hair and skin. I long to see him play a moonshine-guzzling, wife-beating, meth-smoking, trailer park piece of human garbage, rather than his usual "oh look at me, I'm so classy" wheelhouse.

Cliches have to start somewhere. Austen was quite progressive for her day.

That said, romcoms tend to make me nauseous, so I'm not the biggest fan of her stuff, either. I just feel contractually obligated to defend it at least a little due to my line of work.

Yeah, revolutionary for their time is great for their time, but time has passed, and there's a reason we rarely have remastering of other pieces that old. Who here's read War and Peace for fun, and not a classroom assignment? Raise your hands. Anyone?

Rom-Coms are the stuff of hell. Just tying a semi-interesting quasi-humorous bow around a piece of s$#% by-the-numbers romance...not that you can find a single bloody movie in Hollywood that doesn't have a romance crammed down your throat, no matter how non-essential to the plot it is or hackneyed and predictable it could possibly be. Even plot-less high-octane pure action schlock like a Jason Statham movie has some romantic interest. They shoehorned a f$*!ing dwarf-elf romance in the Hobbit, for f&&~'s sake! Hollywood has a disorder where they're absolutely incapable of having every character in a movie platonicly involved and nothing more. As if everyone in the world thinks "Well, it'll be a s&!%ty relationship because we've known each other ten minutes and before that pretty much hated each other, and we have nothing in common whatsoever, but hey, it's better than being single, right?"

Whatever. I still want trailer park Kelsey. Let's form a petition, get Grammar playing Trevor from GTA V in his next movie. That would be some s##*, right there.

My brother told me to stop making Oasis jokes. I said maybe...

Bro! You can never have two many Oasis jokes!

Punches cake that looks like Liam Gallagher too underscore point.

Do I watch Agent Carter whilst rampaging Skyrim.

Yes, yes I do.

26) Me!: psionic erudite (unifier tactician archetype) or erudite/wizard/cerebromancer

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28) TS: fellow erudite psion with some “expanded knowledge” feat-focused archetype (OR a wizard with access to both wish spells, and the missing 9th level wizard spells); any PrC with +1 ML (and/or +1 CL) per level (“thou shalt not sacrifice…”)

Hey, I finally read your list and realized we're fellow erudites!

Let us together HAZ ALL THE KNOWS!!!

And now, some random stats I noticed:
- 6/33: unanswered
- 25/33: at least partially answered
- 15/33: fully answered
- 09/33: totally followed the all the rules!

I take no responsibility for my inability to follow rules. ;)

So wait, TL, is this supposed to be my favorite class, or what I think I'd be, or like...what?

I went with what I'd like to be, because what I am in RL is decidedly less interesting than the fantasy ur-caster I'd like to be.

Hail, greenteaErudite!! Nice to read ya, chief!

Seems change is in the air for you *and* me -- I'm on the 'funemployment' bandwagon, too, at the moment. I hope you find the means to get where you'd like to be ASAP. Glad to hear your family is helping you out.

But, mostly: you're back!! Huzzah!!!

not that you can find a single bloody movie in Hollywood that doesn't have a romance crammed down your throat, no matter how non-essential to the plot it is or hackneyed and predictable it could possibly be. Even plot-less high-octane pure action schlock like a Jason Statham movie has some romantic interest. They shoehorned a f!+#ing dwarf-elf romance in the Hobbit, for f%&$'s sake! Hollywood has a disorder where they're absolutely incapable of having every character in a movie platonicly involved and nothing more. As if everyone in the world thinks "Well, it'll be a s#&$ty relationship because we've known each other ten minutes and before that pretty much hated each other, and we have nothing in common whatsoever, but hey, it's better than being single, right?"

I can't buy into the bashing on Austen because it feels too much like raging against someone for being successful enough to have copycats, which isn't their fault and thus leaves a sour taste in my mouth, but this, this I can get behind.

The demonization of the loner and/or asexual/aromantic is something I'd hoped the Internet age would at least slow, if not put a stop to eventually, but once again the "market target the lowest common denominator" strategy has assured us that they know the majority if their viewers analyze movies more with the contents of their pants than the contents of their skulls, and thus if the movie doesn't end with the high likelihood of people getting in bed together the viewing public will be unsatisfied.

Hell, just look at the outcry over Guardians of the Galaxy going two movies without Starlord "getting the girl". Yes, that is a complaint that is actually happening. And those movies HAVE a romantic arc subplot, people are just pissed it isn't concluding fast enough. No wonder movie writers are hesitant to do a story without one if this is the reception a realistically-timed arc gets.

Even in the era of always-online, there's still publicly only one "right way" to socialize, according to mainstream culture. And it inevitably is the one strongest oriented toward romance and/or sex.

Grrr.

It's not just that Austen has copycats, it's that she copycats herself in all her books. They're all the same damn plot.

I've never actually read one so I can't fully comment. But yeah, rest of my post stands.

For what it's worth:

It may be Austen's literary popularity (both then and now) may have more to do with the experiential qualities of her works from the perspective of the fairer gender. We guys may see "oh, hey -- samethingagain!", whereas our (fabulously) feminine counterparts may be able to better appreciate the "color"/mood/subtext than we.

I base that off of Jim Butcher's assessment of the general principles of female interaction in one of his Dresden books (When is the next one gonna be released, dangit??!), and how true it seemed to me. I have no idea how thoroughly he researched that element, so it may be wholly errant, but I was able to appreciate it.

Furthermore, I'm one of the lucky ones: I never endured any Austen until they put zombies in it. And I was single at the time, too! :D

It's not just that Austen has copycats, it's that she copycats herself in all her books. They're all the same damn plot.

yup.

But I LOOOOOOOVED Emma.

Been a long time though...

I thought she was in Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman, so i probably shouldn't comment.

I've actually enjoyed the Austin films I've seen.

So...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

:D

For what it's worth:

It may be Austen's literary popularity (both then and now) may have more to do with the experiential qualities of her works from the perspective of the fairer gender. We guys may see "oh, hey -- samethingagain!", whereas our (fabulously) feminine counterparts may be able to better appreciate the "color"/mood/subtext than we.

I base that off of Jim Butcher's assessment of the general principles of female interaction in one of his Dresden books (When is the next one gonna be released, dangit??!), and how true it seemed to me. I have no idea how thoroughly he researched that element, so it may be wholly errant, but I was able to appreciate it.

Furthermore, I'm one of the lucky ones: I never endured any Austen until they put zombies in it. And I was single at the time, too! :D

well said.

As someone who has more female friends than male, this is quite quite true. We are blind as bats in a very real sense vs women- we CAN see (poorly) and the echolocation of a male perspective(go with the analogy here for a moment) may result in discovery of some hidden truths women do not catch at first glance, but we will never be able to describe color in full.

You know, now that Pratchett's gone, I'd say Butcher is fighting hard with Christopher Moore for my favorite author. I think Moore is a better writer, overall, but he doesn't really connect his novels as well. Butcher is a better serial writer, and damnit if I love to read a series.

*sigh* I played in a two sessions of a Dresden FATE game before it fell apart. I was a bad ass wizard's apprentice who specialized in transmutation based evocation, had a rich changeling girlfriend, and a grandfather who accidentally traveled forward in time that was five years younger than me and had the Sword of Damocles over him for that transgression.

I got killed by a simple drive-by. The dice were not with me, and I was out of fate chips. Such a weak anticlimactic ending for such a badass character. I had watched a LOT of FMA:Brotherhood before making this guy, so I had all sorts of cool spells I played around with. One time we fought in the snow and I loosened all the molecular bonds of the water into it's hydrogen and oxygen components, then threw a match and blew the entire forest to hell. TECHNICALLY I killed them with mundane fire, not magic, so the Wardens let me get away with it.

It's not just that Austen has copycats, it's that she copycats herself in all her books. They're all the same damn plot.

So does Stephen King. How many of his horror stories are alcoholism analogues again?

Butcher is a ton of fun. I love me some Dresden. However, Brandon Sanderson is my fave.

I read a few chapters of Dresden Files, couldn't really get into it then the wife accidentally donated it.

Nothing like walking half way to the store on a cold blustery day before realizing you forgot your money to take the wind out of your sails.

Also, thirty degrees with thirty mile an hour wind gusts is probably not ideal shorts weather.

Never read any Sanderson. Will remedy that.

I'm a habitual re-(rererererere^n)reader, and I must say that you've got to "slog through" the first three Dresden books (Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril) before the series gains real traction in Summer Knight. Once you get to Proven Guilty and White Night, though, you're golden. Though that journey can't be for everybody.

As for Stephen King, though: it wasn't too long ago that I praised some of the Dark Tower books here, but . . .

. . . Really??!

Oh, lord. I just gave up an attempt at Dark Tower midway into Song of Susannah. Severe diminishing returns on my fun.

I didn't like The Dark Tower series, it was okay, it just took forever to get going.

My favorite King books

The Stand
It
Salem's Lot
The Shining
Carrie.

Also The Dark Half, Christine, and Tommyknockers.

If King spent 1/10th the time writing his ending to The Dark Tower that he did in putting together that b$+@&!%~ excuse for why the ending sucked so much (he even admitted it in his own book!) it would be a decent ending. As it is, worst ending since...well, the Stand. Surprise, surprise, another crappy King ending. Deus Ex Machina, quite literally. Lazy douche.

But then again, when you're pumping out like five novels of pure pulp a year, you don't have time to write actual quality endings.

That's disappointing. I'd actually heard good things on The Stand and was going to give it a shot once I finished Oathbringer.

You know, now that Pratchett's gone, I'd say Butcher is fighting hard with Christopher Moore for my favorite author. I think Moore is a better writer, overall, but he doesn't really connect his novels as well. Butcher is a better serial writer, and damnit if I love to read a series.

I love Moore. My favorite author story: like many writers, he has stock signing phrases he writes in each book at signings to make it quicker and less awkward. I met him a few years ago when he and Carl Hiaasen did an event together, and as I handed over my first edition hardback of Fluke, I'm explaining how it was the book that helped me get through my Dad's death (marine biologist, died at sea, no body, etc.) and he looks up at me with a horror-stricken look on his face and starts apologizing repeatedly because he's just written a joke about "big and wet" (whale facts) in my book and now he's afraid he's done something really inappropriate.

I could not stop laughing.

Tacticslion wrote:

26) Me!: psionic erudite (unifier tactician archetype) or erudite/wizard/cerebromancer

...

28) TS: fellow erudite psion with some “expanded knowledge” feat-focused archetype (OR a wizard with access to both wish spells, and the missing 9th level wizard spells); any PrC with +1 ML (and/or +1 CL) per level (“thou shalt not sacrifice…”)

Hey, I finally read your list and realized we're fellow erudites!

Let us together HAZ ALL THE KNOWS!!!

YYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHH~!

Tacticslion wrote:

And now, some random stats I noticed:
- 6/33: unanswered
- 25/33: at least partially answered
- 15/33: fully answered
- 09/33: totally followed the all the rules!

I take no responsibility for my inability to follow rules. ;)

The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

So wait, TL, is this supposed to be my favorite class, or what I think I'd be, or like...what?

I went with what I'd like to be, because what I am in RL is decidedly less interesting than the fantasy ur-caster I'd like to be.

We coo'.

My mother collapsed again. This time she broke her nose when she hit the floor. When she woke up this morning, her blood sugar was 79. She took her four units of Humalog after she ate some fruit. Then her sugar dropped to 51 in the span of about 3 hours. The doctor at the ER dropped her Lantus from 22 units to 18. Of course, I had to call off work to take her to the Hospital. *sigh* This isn't how I wanted my day to go.

Sad for that, John. :(

My best to your mother, and I hope the doctors get things righted quickly.