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Feb. 27th, 2019 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkGood things: my skiing vacation last week was great! And today classes started again, and I look forward to them. Pretty much entirely civil law this semester, should be interesting. And I have a job interview on Friday, let's see how that goes. (I think I'm most nervous about what to wear. Bah, dress codes.)
I have to plan a bank heist for the next D&D session – I thought it would happen last session and I would just have to improvise it, but I forgot rule 4 of DMing: everything takes longer than you think it will (except when the party finds a shortcut you never thought of.)
(Rule 1: You make the rules.
Rule 2: Expect your party to do the unexpected.
Rule 3: Improvise improvise improvise.)
So now I actually have to plan out a bank heist. Uh. I'm tempted to just come up with security measures and let the party at it, they'd enjoy a battle with the security golem, but I should probably come up with possible escape routes too…
I didn't have my laptop at my grandparents' and I didn't download many fics, so I read a lot of books, which was great. I'm waiting for a few sequels to be available at the library, but I finished reading the The Gardener's Hand series by Felicia Davin and enjoyed it a lot. Interesting worldbuilding, a decent plot with some nice h/c moments, good characters that are also diverse (more mysteriously helpful librarians in wheelchairs please), and especially so many queer characters and relationships, wonderful. My favorite character was Thiyo, which I almost felt a bit weird about because of the three main characters he's the only male one and only appears in two out of three books, but he's just great, and his past relationship with Ilyr is beautifully tragic. (Not exactly the right word but eh. Btw apparently Ilyr gets his own book and that is nice but in these ones I was unsatisfied with his abrupt exit which I don't like in what I thought was a complete trilogy. Ah well.) I also love Thiyo's relationship with Ev a lot, especially in book 3 with all the h/c. We didn't get to see a lot of all three of them together in book 3, while I loved Thiyo with Ev I like Alizhan much better with them than on her own, but Alizhan did get to come up with a great plan that included very nice angst elements, and then the happy reunion and poly endgame, perfect. I liked Iriyat as a villain, not evil just very twisted. The writing style wasn't my favorite, too, hm, blunt for my taste, but it didn't really bother me much either.
Next on my reading list: Finishing the Old Kingdom books, and then (when available) the Echoes of the Fall series.
I have to plan a bank heist for the next D&D session – I thought it would happen last session and I would just have to improvise it, but I forgot rule 4 of DMing: everything takes longer than you think it will (except when the party finds a shortcut you never thought of.)
(Rule 1: You make the rules.
Rule 2: Expect your party to do the unexpected.
Rule 3: Improvise improvise improvise.)
So now I actually have to plan out a bank heist. Uh. I'm tempted to just come up with security measures and let the party at it, they'd enjoy a battle with the security golem, but I should probably come up with possible escape routes too…
I didn't have my laptop at my grandparents' and I didn't download many fics, so I read a lot of books, which was great. I'm waiting for a few sequels to be available at the library, but I finished reading the The Gardener's Hand series by Felicia Davin and enjoyed it a lot. Interesting worldbuilding, a decent plot with some nice h/c moments, good characters that are also diverse (more mysteriously helpful librarians in wheelchairs please), and especially so many queer characters and relationships, wonderful. My favorite character was Thiyo, which I almost felt a bit weird about because of the three main characters he's the only male one and only appears in two out of three books, but he's just great, and his past relationship with Ilyr is beautifully tragic. (Not exactly the right word but eh. Btw apparently Ilyr gets his own book and that is nice but in these ones I was unsatisfied with his abrupt exit which I don't like in what I thought was a complete trilogy. Ah well.) I also love Thiyo's relationship with Ev a lot, especially in book 3 with all the h/c. We didn't get to see a lot of all three of them together in book 3, while I loved Thiyo with Ev I like Alizhan much better with them than on her own, but Alizhan did get to come up with a great plan that included very nice angst elements, and then the happy reunion and poly endgame, perfect. I liked Iriyat as a villain, not evil just very twisted. The writing style wasn't my favorite, too, hm, blunt for my taste, but it didn't really bother me much either.
Next on my reading list: Finishing the Old Kingdom books, and then (when available) the Echoes of the Fall series.
