So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

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!

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I think it was called 'Star & Stone' -- it was my favourite of her stories, but I had to give up checking for updates because I was so upset at her abandoning it.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Lothlorien seemed to exist in perpetual gloom, when the original is sunny.

Edoras wasn't too bad; some of the detailing was excellent -- it was the Rohan plains I really didn't like -- they should have been plains of long grass with no rocks, as I've seen in Mongolia. The rocky heath was terrible horse country.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Have you tried backing up the comments recently -- it's starting to load ominously slowly for me.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And those spiral staircases around the trees! Lórien was populated by Silvan folk - would they really hammer nails in the trees, so that Galadriel wouldn't have to climb a ladder? Oh, please!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Like a train crash you can't help watching with morbid fascination.
I'll watch it for Martin Freeman, though. He's an excellent Bilbo, IMO.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Did it yesterday. Will do in a moment again and pray that they'll import.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*nods* It is so sad to see good stories abandoned.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten all the rocks! Yes, totally not good horse country.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

And just didn't look very blended into the forest at all.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I wish Rish had been male; I don't think it would have affected the story too much. It's certainly possible to continue to read By as bi, which I can tolerate.

There was a lot of talk at the conference in August abut how all of Bujold's homosexual/bisexual characters do one of die horribly; be Eeeevil; or Turn Heterosexual for Love.

With SK, I'm somewhere in the middle of book 2; I keep picking it up & putting it down again. Altariel, my Bujold-peddler, likes the last two books, as I recall.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Praying with you... At least my icon problem seems to have fixed itself.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I had this beautiful internal vision of the Rohan plains from the books, backed up by Mongolia, where we saw Rohirric-style horse games in Rohan-like countryside, if a bit dry. You'd have wanted a sturdy shaggy pony in the NZ version of Rohan.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I wish Rish had been male; I don't think it would have affected the story too much.
It would have changed the first parts a bit - Ivan's not seeing her as a threat etc, but I think it could have worked.

all of Bujold's homosexual/bisexual characters do one of die horribly; be Eeeevil; or Turn Heterosexual for Love
there are a few that don't, but oddly it seems to be more in the fantasy series that Vorkosigan: Umegat (in Curse of Chalion, and some in Sharing Knife (but spoilers)

Book 2 is slow paced for a lot, but the pace of the books picks up from there.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Yup. Though Galadriel is Noldor, perhaps she couldn't climb ;)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

That sounds very cool!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

hehehe - or thought it below her dignity? ;)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

LJ ate my comment. Sigh. I think I said something like...

A slight & androgenous Rish that big military Ivan took for female could have been made to work, I think.

I'd forgotten Umegat. He doesn't get to die, but he does suffer terribly.

Looks like I need to plod through book 2 in anticipation of jam tomorrow...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

10 more top level comments to get to Page 6. I think we'll manage so much in 26 hours, even without boaster one-liners, what do you think?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Below her dignity to do in public perhaps :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Latest comments don't seem to have come through to DW. It still stands at 780 over there. I'll give it another try tomorrow. sigh.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's easy in the UK to make a living out of being a novelist/poet.

I don't have any urge in modern society to become a nun, though I can see the attraction in medieval England.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers this doesn't crash then*

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Seems likely :)