30 Days Second Semester: 3, Wedding, Planner's Verse/The Anthropologist

For the 30 Days Meme Second Semester, for the prompt "3) the story must involve a goblet and a set of three [somethings]"

This goes after The Anthropologist's Journal (LJ Link)

Planner's Verse needs a landing page. Also? This one went way over 250.

Mid-summer, probably year 317 Post-Conflict

The Lore-speaker tells me, in no uncertain terms, that for the tribes to not raid, they would have to stop being the tribes.

He tells me many things, this historian and dispute-mediator of the Kavah, father of my young mistress and master, father, it seems, of the second child now growing in me. As the weeks have travelled into months, as my son has grown into a large and loud baby and my belly has swollen again, it has more and more seemed to be that he is my master, and not his son and daughter.

Today’s events have confirmed that, and more. Today, journal, we watched the marriage of the chieftain to those who were my master and mistress. ( Read more... )

2.5 links and a musing on shoes

Via @Inventrix, the Most Right Honourable Lady Cogwheel: A rare gynandomorph butterfly, which was born half-female and half-male, was hatched in London’s Natural History Museum! (Original link).

Via @Walyou:7 Foldable Designs You’ll Want for Yourself - the folding floor gives me story ideas.

The foldie charcoal grill isn't even unreasonably 'spensive :-)


When I go walking on lunch, I do my Mr. Rogers dance: I change my shirt for a high-necked t-shirt (sunburn, sweat), change my shoes out at the car for durable flats (distance, sweat). My (male, engineer) co-workers have asked, more than once "who are you trying to impress?" with the heels and dressier shirt.

I can't seem to get it through to them that I dress up because I enjoy looking this way.