pointers five
Feb. 7th, 2010 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ONE! The auctions for
hominysnark (who, I have learned, named one of her cats Mildmay, hence the icon) are in their final twenty-four hours, and the bidding has reached:
That's$420 $435 $465 $475 $480 $485 $500 $550 $580 thus far. I said that if we reached $1,000 I'd do a serial podcast of The Virtu. Now I picked that number deliberately to be out of reach unless something amazing happened, because OMG that's a lot of work, but I have another offer: if we reach $500 total, I will do a free podcast, or podcasts, of up to 10,000 words of my published short fiction, stories to be chosen by you all via LJ poll.
ETA: We're past $500. Yay! After the auctions close (i.e., in about forty minutes), I will put up the poll.
TWO! In other auction news, the bidding in the
helptheproject auction for all four DoL hardbacks is at $100 $200 $250 $300.
THREE! My Storytellers Unplugged column for February is about endings: "Both The Great Detective Explains It All ending and the Mawwiage Is What Bwings Us Togethah Today ending are artificial in the extreme, and frequently–as Elizabeth Bear pointed out when I mentioned it to her–awkward, obtrusive, and unsatisfying, but the thing is, I understand why people do them. Because it gets everybody to hold still for FIVE FUCKING SECONDS so you can END THE GODDAMN BOOK ALREADY. And I don’t care if your eyes WERE closed, Aunt Mabel, this is the picture that’s going to the newspaper."
FOUR!
yuki_onna speaks for every woman who has ever bought deodorant.
FIVE! FIVE BEAUTIFUL POINTERS! In case somebody else out there needs these as badly as I did, videos of dancing hexapods.
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- The Bone Key and 4 mss (plus a fifth when it ceases to be vaporware):
110$125$130$160 - 3-book set, Mélusine, The Virtu, The Mirador:
$170$200$250 and a suggestion that both top bidders be allowed to win, which I am pondering. - Mélusine:
$60$75 - The Virtu:
$50$60 - The Mirador:
$40$45
That's
ETA: We're past $500. Yay! After the auctions close (i.e., in about forty minutes), I will put up the poll.
TWO! In other auction news, the bidding in the
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THREE! My Storytellers Unplugged column for February is about endings: "Both The Great Detective Explains It All ending and the Mawwiage Is What Bwings Us Togethah Today ending are artificial in the extreme, and frequently–as Elizabeth Bear pointed out when I mentioned it to her–awkward, obtrusive, and unsatisfying, but the thing is, I understand why people do them. Because it gets everybody to hold still for FIVE FUCKING SECONDS so you can END THE GODDAMN BOOK ALREADY. And I don’t care if your eyes WERE closed, Aunt Mabel, this is the picture that’s going to the newspaper."
FOUR!
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FIVE! FIVE BEAUTIFUL POINTERS! In case somebody else out there needs these as badly as I did, videos of dancing hexapods.
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Date: 2010-02-07 09:55 pm (UTC)http://hominysnark.livejournal.com/243890.html#cutid1
And thank you again, so very much.
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Date: 2010-02-07 10:00 pm (UTC)And you're very welcome.
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Date: 2010-02-08 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-07 10:28 pm (UTC)The 3 book set link in this summary post is a duplicate of one of the single book auctions. It should point to 717241 rather than 717484.
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Date: 2010-02-07 10:31 pm (UTC)Thank you for catching my goof!
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Date: 2010-02-07 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-07 11:28 pm (UTC)Yay, excuse for userpic.
(BTW, if one were reading your due South essays as one rewatches the series, would comments posted to them at this point in time be likely to get replies, or should I take them to mail ? LJ is kind of fundamentally not well structured for conversations of that degree of asynchrony.)
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Date: 2010-02-07 11:45 pm (UTC)And, yes, commenting directly on the posts will work just fine.