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[thaliarchus]

I have not one but two new stories coming out this month, with live readings on Twitch and then releases on itch.

The Mountain, After

Dawn bites cold, but the mountain’s enemies must be found and fought.

The Mountain, After is a short story, set just when the waves of power drain back from one petty outpost. It features:

Borrowings from decades of giant robot anime filtered into a dramatic monologue

A vivid (I hope!) slice of a vanished world

Workable blank verse

I will stream a live reading of The Mountain, After at 1800 GMT/UTC on Saturday 23 May, at https://www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus.

The Mountain, After will be released on itch.io on 23 May, for free or pay-what-you-will, as a PDF and an ebook. Those interested will be able to pay $4.99 (or more!) for a copy including endnotes on construction, etymologies et cetera.

Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal

Who first built a lightning-harp? What planet holds the gate to the underworld? And can any power free the dead?

Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal tells a familiar lay in new terms. It features:

Borrowings from space adventure anime and work in Middle English and Older Scots

A jam battle in hell

Competently turned terza rima and alliterative verse

I will stream a live reading of Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal at 1800 GMT/UTC on Saturday 30 May, at https://www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus.

Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal will be released on itch.io on 30 May, for free or pay-what-you-will, as a PDF and an ebook. Those interested will be able to pay $4.99 (or more!) for a copy including endnotes on construction, etymologies et cetera.

[cloudedcari]

hacks and throws this up on your kitchen floor

happy pride to my favourite princess and her annoying blonde bitch

[sunshinemoonrx]

Once more, tale-teller: What were the deeds of Morgan Red-Maw in her exile, and what caused the Destruction of Arsiyyah?

Not hard to say, that.

THE GORDIAN CYCLE: COMPLETE EDITION - Coming THIS MONTH.

[rownou]

Marisa (on a warp star) sprite I drew for a project someone else is working on

[thaliarchus]

Good night, and good luck.

[thaliarchus]

Full respect to Madoka wearing the MADOKA jacket.

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[melonisopod]

[thaliarchus]

Good night, and good luck.

[thaliarchus]

Quite pleased with these bits. I took 'elf-shot' from the mysterious ailment mentioned in Old English medical/magical writing:

Elfshot - Wikipedia

And I lifted 'if we but dwell with style' from the most widely circulated English translations of the Utena OP song, Rondo Revolution. (I looked at the Japanese and considered other ways of translating it, but this worked better with the rhyme anyway.)

[thaliarchus]

Good that Simoun's become available streaming to some people on a new platform.

Judging by Darkroom's trailer for it, though, their version

only includes some of the image, with lateral squash, and

has suffered some kind of (?sharpening?) process that's murdered the helical motor texture.

The textures on the helical motors are probably never going to look good. But they survive better when left behind the gentle blur of a standard def DVD release.

Should say I have no idea whether any of this is Darkroom's fault! For all I know, they're just plugging in whatever files they were handed. But this's just a more extreme example of the usual case: streaming's almost never going to offer the best way to watch a show.

[thaliarchus]

Apparently the version streamed in Japan is messed up in an excitingly different way:

translator of the highest-rated game of all time (@yukinogatari.moe)

I checked a couple (amazon jp and bandai channel, which have the first ep for free) and it's not cropped or squished but it does instead suf

[thaliarchus]

Imagine studying the Blade so hard that you make your stairs out of swords.

[infamousblackcoat]

"This news article seems bias, and clearly written with falsehoods. Who is the reporter responsible for writing this"

The scandalous Traditional Reporter of Fantasy:

[thaliarchus]

It helped me forget. We were on such good terms, I'd forgotten its formal name.

[thaliarchus]

The badge-and-button mob hate to see a real thinker on one of their cases.

[thaliarchus]

Good night and good luck, pilots

[thaliarchus]

[thaliarchus]

Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal by Thaliarchus

Hell, hope, and harping.

It's out! Read all about Orphaneir, who went to hell and back for love.

Space travel! Terza rima! Heroism! Alliterative verse! It's all in there, and available for the low, low price of free.

And if you'd rather listen to it instead, there's a VOD for that: