FENRIR: Chapter 35
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Some people are more surprised than others by this turn of events...
( ... one of them for different reasons... )
But why wait?
hex plant growing game - quick game, simple mechanics, simple win condition. You have to infer those from your interaction with the page; if it isn't clear leave a comment and I'll explain.
found at creator's post
I couldn't get the sudoko land to work - not sure if that is a brower or an extensions issue, but I didn't care to work it out.
The one-shot that was inspired by a slight mis-remembering of the farewells beneath the scaffold, and by a line that is for some reason omitted from the translation I had from Project Gutenberg... I have worked grit-covered ropes in bitterly cold weather; my pen-calluses weren't of much help. Athos probably has sword-calluses, but it's canon that those didn't help much either ;-)
(Aramis does in fact embrace both Porthos and d'Artagnan immediately afterwards on his own account before going off on what he has every reason to believe may be a suicide mission, another line which was left out of the English translation, which simply reads "Aramis again presented himself at the bishop’s" in lieu of "Aramis les quitta comme il avait quitté Athos, c’est-à-dire en les embrassant; puis il se rendit chez l’évêque Juxon".)
At dawn on the day of the English king’s execution, Athos takes precautions for the future and contemplates those to whom his life is bound — both by love and hate.
“Donc Athos déchirait ses belles mains si blanches et si fines à lever les pierres arrachées de leur base par Porthos...” Vingt ans après, Chapitre LXX, “Les ouvriers”
The January wind stole across the stones of Whitehall, and fluttered the sombre drapes beneath the gaunt new structure that stood there. It had been a bitterly cold night, and Athos had worked without respite, under cover of the labour going on all around them to complete the King’s scaffold— a thing horrible and unheard of, not that a King should be murdered but that the deed should be carried out with this travesty of the forms of justice. But they had given their word, he and Aramis, to Madame Henriette of England. Given their word to guard her husband the King and to bring him safely back to her, even if it should cost both their lives.
( Read more... )I'm a little bemused that it is so far through the year already. I feel like I'm disappointing past me with how slowly things are progressing, but I'm also trying to keep in mind that the list of goals are aspirational, and motivational, in that they are a range of possible things.
craft - incremental progress on multiple projects; nothing new finished.
reading - adding a new goal: to have no more than 20 books total in my currently reading
and paused
lists. This is a long way from that, because I paused a lot, and I haven't looked at it. However, I've finished a few things recently, and I'm trying to do two off, one on, so that I'm allowing myself to start new books, but not as many. I've finished one book acquired this year (Finding Echoes, Foz Meadows). I'd forgotten my 'read some cookbooks' goal, so at least I've remembered that now!
house - everything that doesn't live in the library is now out; I've started using the open floor as storage for things leaving the house; I'm calling that task done, with caveats.
music with the Really Sore Shoulder, I have been doing minimal music. This is not optimal, and I'm going to have to revisit. Also, I don't think that my goals were the right ones, because I'm struggling with them. I might have to revisit this and write a better set.
learning - I've been experimenting with language learning. Nothing is sticking, but it is getting there. I was doing okay with the learn to draw from the various books, and then I put my visual diary somewhere stupid. I could use something else, but I wanted this as a record of the change. So I've been procrastinating.
physical - I may abandon the ParkRun goal. With the 'I'm about to have income' comes 'I can go back to skating lessons'; this is almost certainly going to be first thing Saturday morning. I'm ambivalent about this, because an excuse to abandon ParkRun is very tempting. The sleeping goal is slipping away from me at the moment, as my insomnia has come back, and I've seen 2am twice in the last few days. Both of those I've been in bed at least an hour at that point.
organisation moving slowly, but at least it is moving. mostly by finding things to declutter.
none of the other categories have significant progress in the last week. I suspect I'm going to have to change the day of the week I write these, if I'm going to be on campus on Tuesdays (likely. I'm enrolling full time; there is a 'it's fine to work from home' clause; I work better from an office more days than not. If I'm going to do one day at home the likely candidates are Wednesday or Friday).