wiseheart | So, it is party time again, folks!

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation

Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

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Sorry for not being around earlier - it has just been one of those days, one thing after another.

It looks like we are over half way to p6 and a great comment total \o/

Feel free not to answer, but I'm curious how you got from political science to public health research?

Working in the field of climate change impact sounds both interesting and essential.

All of them! I think the world building (so much detail and interesting hints) is wonderful in both Sharing Knife and Chalion - and so want to know more about either world. Vorkosigan series is great too, but the books are so varied in strength, but the characters are great and it is very interesting to see the bio-tech and the way it feeds into all the world building.

*nods* It is good that you are enjoying it.

When I was trying to decide what to do for my A'levels my French teacher took me aside & told me not to do languages because nearly everyone ended up in translation, & there was no pay to be had. From other translators I know, it does sound an interesting, relatively low stress job that can be done from home.

Isabel, a Spanish series about Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon.
Oooh - that sounds interesting!

Quiet & cosy are definitely good! And it's nice that your dog is adjusting happily.

We're moving sometime between end of November and early next year after ~15 years in one place, my longest ever. Hopefully no snowstorms to contend with though!

I was going to say the same!

I think we have a chance of breaking a thousand before the end. What was the previous record, Soledad?

And in the interests of boosting our progress on the page count, a new question -- how did you first encounter our gracious host?

I'm not sure I know the precise answer to my own question! I know we met in Tolkien fandom. I recall I'd read and enjoyed her stories in that fandom. I think

altariel must have introduced us? She kindly invited me to LJ back when codes were necessary, and I did pick up quite a few of her f'list when I joined.

I'm quite fond of Nordic noir, but my husband hates much of it -- finds it too dark & 'nasty', as he puts it -- so I don't get to watch it all that often.

Ah, I think I've tracked it down -- it was your 50th birthday party, when Altariel & others on my f'list sent everyone over here to get your threads collapsing.

Sounds like a great job for you! :)

Good luck!

Good luck with the move!

I first got into Vorkosigan, though I really like only some of the books -- Memory is my favourite, but I like most of the ones with a detective flavour, and Shards for Aral & Cordelia, still one of my favourite fictional couples. I've found the later books a bit weak; I read Captain Vorpatril's Alliance a couple of nights ago, and thought it read like fanfiction.

I started Chalion only last year, and only read the last two books immediately before the Bujold conference this August. I need to read them again, but I think it's a much stronger series than Vorkosigan. The invented religion in particular is really interesting, and not something I've seen done so successfully elsewhere.

Sharing Knife I'm still reading. Plotwise it's a bit slow not to say corny, but I find the worldbuilding hints simply fascinating and I'm loving the parallels with LotR.

Thank you! I think we're going to need it!

She emailed my about one of my stories (back in the days when you could just get someone's email address from ffnet), and then followed emails and comments both way, and so on. (Tolkien fandom ~2003)

Certainly feels like 1000 is possibly.

Ah, so you too were in Tolkien fandom back in the day!

If we keep on chattering like starlings...

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance felt to me like she was trying to answer all the questions and tie up the series. It certainly didn't read as good as soon of the others.Memory is definitely the best, although also so hard to read at the start.

The religion in Chalion is great - I love the fact that the gods do want to intervene, but have rules (and that the rules aren't really understood by anyone).

The plot picks up more in the 3rd and 4th books ofSharing Knife. I love the totally different basic setup and the whole Lakewalker culture and life. It is really interesting to speculate on what might have happened before or how things will change.

Yes - it was where I started out in fandom - wanting people to complain to about the movies.

Maybe I'll even get back to the conversations on the previous page at some point. (I feel like I've been dropping things at random)

I'm tending to respond to things that end up in my inbox, and neglect all the interesting conversations going on not in response to my comments.

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