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rolanni at 08:24pm on 04/02/2026 under liaden read-alongThose who are interested in the Liaden Read-Along, the summing up of Conflict of Honors may be read here
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pennyarcade_feed at 10:52pm on 04/02/2026I mean, where to start.
This isn't something I particularly need but it's relatively cheap, nicely presented (with most art apart from maps etc.) from antique sources, and seems to have a sense of fun, as witnessed by the titles of some of the books. If you're running this sort of adventure it's worth a look.
james_davis_nicoll at 02:25pm on 04/02/2026 under bundle of holding
pennyarcade_feed at 08:01am on 04/02/2026calimac at 09:06pm on 03/02/2026james_davis_nicoll at 11:45pm on 03/02/2026 under cats
james_davis_nicoll at 02:40pm on 03/02/2026 under watsfic
Hey everyone,
**This year marks WATSFIC's 50th Anniversary!** To commemorate this we are releasing a new issue of our club fanzine Starsongs.
If you would like to become an officially published author, we are opening up submissions right now! Send us your **short stories, opinion pieces, open letters** [to systems, games, concepts, authors, or WATSFIC itself], **reviews of Sci-Fi/Fantasy** games, books, or other media, **your best drawings or paintings**, or whatever else you'd like to share with WATSFIC and the greater UW Community. We will endeavour to accept and print as many submissions as possible as long as they are club appropriate. If you're unsure if your idea is right for Starsongs, please don't hesitate to contact an exec and we'd be more than happy to discuss it and/or workshop it with you!
If you are looking for inspiration, you can find the 1970s releases of Starsongs on the University of Waterloo's Digital Library.
**We will be accepting submissions until the end of March, if you would like to contribute** please fill out this form here.
-# Submissions after March 31st may still be accepted, but we cannot promise anything, so please try to get any and all submission in before this deadline to ensure your work can be considered.
james_davis_nicoll at 11:54am on 03/02/2026rolanni at 09:36am on 03/02/2026 under chop wood carry water, coon cat logic, everybody talks about the weather, life after the apocalypse, out and aboutTuesday. Sunny and cold. How cold you ask? Five-Fahrenheit-feels-like-minus-five-Fahrenheit.
Trash and recycling are at the curb, boxes of books are in the back of the Subaru, I'm sitting in the comfy chair in my office getting a dose of sunlight, and Firefly is marching around on my lap slapping my face with her tail.
No, wait, now she's laying on her side making biscuits, no -- now she's tucked up under my chin and gazing soulfully into my face. She's purring really loudly. So I guess that's my good morning.
Last night, I watched the first episode of Riot Women and I'm having a good time with it. For values of a good time. They are, after all, talking about a subject that interests me greatly as an old woman, which is the sudden facility to become invisible once you're past a certain age. This is especially interesting to me because I passed most of my early life as an invisible person, when I wasn't being told I was lazy and stupid.
Firefly, for those keeping score, is now sprawled across my lap, smiling up at me, purring, and continuing to make biscuits with one paw. I would say that this is a spoiled cat.
In a few minutes I'll be getting up to get breakfast, which will be oatmeal, chocolate chips, and almond butter and then I'll get on the road to get my haircut and to deliver books.
What's on your schedule today?
james_davis_nicoll at 05:42pm on 02/02/2026pennyarcade_feed at 09:55pm on 02/02/2026Kara and I are having so much fun with Hytale and all the mods. They do a cool thing where you only need to instal the mod on the server and then everyone who plays on the server just gets the benefit. It works great and we have added a bunch of cool mods for furniture and other decorations.
rolanni at 05:21pm on 02/02/2026 under books read in 20266 Getting Rid of Bradley, Jennifer Crusie (audio first time)
5 *Carpe Diem ((Liaden Universe® #3), Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
4 *Conflict of Honors (Liaden Universe® #2), Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
3 *Agent of Change (Liaden Universe® #1), Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
2 A Gentleman in Possession of Secrets (Lord Julian #10), Grace Burrowes (e)
1 Spilling the Tea in Gretna Green, Linzi Day (e)
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