Haunted Mirror

Just in case you never wondered what Aolon's capital looked like...well, you should because the Italian city I found that looks like it is amazing, and I can't believe I stumbled across this:
Today's Google Image Search hot topics were: Dogtown and Z-boys (as well as Zephyr Skate Team and Stacy Peralta...where's his spinning hair picture? *grumps*), air trolley (you'd be surprised...), streetcar/night, flower boxes (Holland/Netherlands) and city stairways.

Which brought me to Dolceaqua, as well as Kaymakli, a totally underground city among the many built in Turkey-area at the time of Arab invasions.
Good idea. People are such geniuses. I mean, they had an air system, still camoflagued entrances, and multiple levels.
    You think you're coming up with something fantastic for your speculative fiction, and there you have it. Just do random collage-bits image searches for thematic elements in your worldbuilding and it'll come to you.

Now, onto the to-the-death duel I have on with the books to be read on my shelves...


Shoubu! Stats:
Truth of the matter? It's all still there.
Headway made only against the incomers. I do want to read Name of the Wind and Water Mirror, but...
Well, I have two days. I'm not working.

And my Aolon Wordcount is:

29791.

I'm gonna make it. I may even have a novel by the end, too.

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I know, two posts in a row?

When the last was of rather fantasmagorical preportions?

Well, this'll be short.

I thought my last post was going to be long, but was too tired, so I won't say Epic in a title again for a long time *shamed*, but to warn you: it is my half-birthday.
 This is my tertiary indulgence. (Primary: to be seen below--Secondary: watching Howl's Moving Castle again.)

First of all, the Book Hoard. Sometimes I do feel rather dragonish about them, but really, riches make me feel generous. I give away books all the time. As soon as I finished Moonheart and Wizard's Hall I sent them to other people. Though I really would totally have kept Wizard's Hall for myself. I think it borders on a fluffy love, my feelings about that book. But you aren't here to hear about that!

Not that you're here for this either, but too bad--the last 2 month's book acquisitions...
    To further soothe the agony of so many choices (I really want to read Name of the Wind, but it's So. Big. Deep Secret ought to be fun to read, but it's not engaging me yet, Castle Cant is too low on my priority list, and Wicked Lovely has me scared for my wussy mind. Nightingale Floor is going to be bloody.) I've meanwhile cut out my first quilt block for my next quilt. Honestly, it will probably help me get back into reading, not otherwise.

But today is my half-birthday (21 and a HALF) so I'm costumed. Less extravagantly than last year (PyRates!) but more focusedly as Gen of the Thief.

( Pixie as Thief )

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