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38verisimilitude · 5mo
Does Maggie have any long-term acquaintances/nemeses that she would gladly barter to the infernal powers that be in exchange for a single corn chip?
Mrs. Heckaday has her OWN opinions on which powers are and aren't infernal, thank you very much sir! And she wouldn't be seen dealing with ANY power, cthonic, celestial, or otherwise, as didn't have the self-respect to demand more'n a corn chip! The idea!
Anonymous Coward · 5mo
Fav bands/musicians?
In general I like things with folk influences, things that ordinary people could play or sing along with, things written from the idea that 'everyone ought to be singing.' So... The Decemberists, The Mountain Goats, The Crane Wives, The Wailing Jennys, Lord Huron, Florence and the Machine when she's deep in haunted gospel choir mode, Leonard Cohen... you get the idea.
38verisimilitude · 5mo
Do you have any upcoming works planned that feature Setirov or the other gods in his pantheon?
I try to put at least a mention of at least one of them in everything I write. But that said, there is a novel just over the horizon in which you'll meet the one who I consider most important to me, personally. He doesn't show up for long, but he's definitely there, and he's got some pretty important lines.
Anonymous Coward · 5mo
What was the first furry VN you read?
I think technically it was a really short porn about a fox staying at a supposedly haunted hotel? I wanna say at a hot springs? And trying to figure out who, of the other guests, he'd hooked up with last night in a way that was kinda presented like a murder mystery? It was free online, no idea what the title was.
Anonymous Coward · 6mo
Oh no! A time vortex has opened up and pulled you in. Now you’re trapped far back in a prehistoric past. But look at it this way: It’s a fresh start.
Given this, would you choose to settle in with a tribe, spending your days sharing a shelter with several friendly roommates? All of which are great at snuggling and brushing each other’s hair.
Or will you take to the woods, learning all the many ways of this wilder world, travelling and building a reputation as a powerful and wise shaman?
I think the latter is just wishful thinking: the only way I or anyone else from modern society or indeed any other society survives is by relying on community with people who already know what the fuck they're doing here.
38verisimilitude · 6mo
Which of your gods would accept a performance of Andrea Bocelli's "The Prayer" as an offering?
Most of them would just be too polite to reject a sincere offering. Setirov, as inspirational patron of music and literature, always has time for a song, and Mistolin would approve of the sentiments, but both of them would think, if asked to be completely honest, that it's a little schmaltzy and overproduced. Kataranya would love it.
38verisimilitude · 6mo
Which title do you think fits better for Marcel Proust's novel - "in search of lost time" or "remembrance of things past"?
"Remembrance of Things Past" might be a catchier title in isolation, but Proust clearly thought the more literal "In Search of Times Lost" was closer to the points he was trying to make.
SakaraFox · 7mo
Quite the opposite to the previous question, but what sort of artefact from prehistory that, if archaeologists today dig up, would butter your bread and spark your imagination?
Does it have to be something real, or at least plausibly real?
If so, texts from an Orphic Mystery Religion.
If it can be anything... texts from a Sunset-Focused Orphic Mystery Religion.
Anonymous Coward · 7mo
What is one item you own you'd want archaelogists in the far future to find to learn about ancient human culture?
I don't think I trust archeologists to get any message more subtle than, like, a tablet engraved with the words "hey archeologists I had sex with men cause I was gay: if you hypothesize that me and my husband were 'brothers' or something I will curse you."
38verisimilitude · 8mo
question about "He Of the Trees": at what point in his life did Jack Orfeo realize he was echoing the tale of Orpheus, and at what point had his life repeated enough of the tale that it was possible for him to achieve apotheosis if he so wished?
Since it seems to have been something of a pet theory of his from the ambitious younger days, my guess is he was deliberately doing so before things went wrong. I think he assumed he could get in enough to use the parts of the story he wanted but not so deep that he was bound to end the same way, and that his failure to rescue Heuridisia was when he realized he'd been wrong, and Apotheosis doesn't necessarily let you pick and choose like that so easily. Which is maybe a necessary lesson, that he then used against Chapman.
Anonymous Coward · 9mo
Pits, Tits, Ass: William Adler, Murdoch Byrnes, Paul Frackson? all assignments are valid.
What, as in... which of them has them?
As far as I was aware, all three of them had all three. Is that not the case? Now I'm concerned.
Anonymous Coward · 9mo
Favorite guilty pleasure food?
Well, I'd deny that I feel guilt about anything I eat, but I think the thing people have most attempted to SHAME me for is putting a slice of cheddar on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
It's good!
38verisimilitude · 9mo
How would you feel about telling more stories featuring the setting and characters from The Green Night?
If the right idea ever strikes me, absolutely.
SakaraFox · 9mo
It's a "classic" Q&A question from my forum days, but: Given the choice, would you undergo a process to become your 'sona, or closest equivalent of one? The trade-off being that the company doing the process receives the rights to reproduce this character for others...
Actually that idea a tad more depressing than it did in my head.
I'd say my 'sona isn't explicitly specified enough that that kind of reproduction would be possible. With no set specified fur color, eye color, or any other definite characteristics, what would there be for them to reproduce?
Moreover, I'd argue that I've already taken all the necessary steps, none of which a company or procedure could accomplish, to become my 'sona in all the ways that matter.
38verisimilitude · 9mo
On the flip side of the earlier question about post-mortal souls joining the support network of Mare Solatium, are there any long-term retainers who've reached a point where they needed to 'move on' from the Liminal City?
That's not really the kind of thing that happens. The Liminal City has its own sort of time: think of it as complementary to Eternal. Instead of all times always being Now, forever, all times are always Yesterday, forever. Inhabitants who come there after dying on earth are still on their own timelines. For one it's the day after October 19th 823, for another the same day in the Liminal City is equally the day after January 21st 1985. But for people like Dahlen or Apzides, who are part of and have never been anywhere but the Liminal City, every day that they've lived there is yesterday, it's just that all but one of those yesterdays is also yesterday to an increasing number of those other yesterdays. Which is all to say: if it's possible, it's never happened.