Crosseyed & Painless

Sorry, blackberrybug, I'm obligated to gush about her now: in her actual Pern iteration, Serray of gold Nilth is the last remaining weyrwoman at a Telgar Weyr set just after Moreta's plague (if the plague came at the start of the Pass). She's a transfer from Igen and is only the last one left because the middle weyrwoman (Marisai) murdered the senior, took over the weyr in a coup, and then when Serray opened up talks with the Harper Hall to get Harpers back in Telgar...Marisai was demoted and blocked from power.

Serray Does Not Like This.

She's a Steward's bastard child, got shoved into candidacy against her will, impressed gold at like 13 (too young, mild trauma there) and desperately wants to avoid all responsibility so she can become some sort of amazing thread fighter. Alas, PR training won out. So she drinks to cope and swears like a sailor with her friends.

Only problem is she keeps getting involved in politics because she hates seeing other people do it in a way she doesn't like. Everything she does is out of spite and a desire to make sure the people she doesn't like aren't succeeding. She joined a coup against the first coup (alas, another rider of mine killed their leader and that fell apart), got democratic weyrleadership voting through the door (a mistake, the murderer rider is now weyrleader), and sure she got the Harper Hall to come back but her best friend's dragon was just murdered in threadfall (you'll never guess by who). Nilth also keeps laying white dragons or spindly babies and it's Not Good for Morale.

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

pls

Madeira, Portugal

i had a vision (w/refs ⏬)

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

Harrow is an unreliable narrator because she's schizophrenic AND haunted AND lobotomized herself and also is prone to 99 layers of secrecy and cryptics at all times and also most of her story being filtered through Gideon doesn't help.

John is an unreliable narrator because he omits and obscures so much, is terrified of making himself truly vulnerable, and at least some of the time is also lying to himself. Of course not being a true PoV character so we never actually get in his head is also a big factor.

Nona is an unreliable narrator because she simply cannoooooot be bothered to give a shit about the main universe plot, oh my God, she has more important things to worry about, like her friends and family and all these cool dogs.

We all know these things but I've just realized what this also means is:

17 year old Second Lieutenant Judith and 22 year old Marta are on the Leviathan-class ship Emperor’s Dominion and awarded commendations in within-system war games.

The twins turn 16, presumably with some pageantry (and the looming realisation that perhaps they will not be able to continue their ruse indefinitely).

Isaac and Jean, aged 8 and 9, make their cav vows, presumably while they are still attending school at Koniortos Court.

Abigail becomes head of the Fifth House and makes her husband/seneschal her cavalier (an action which is perhaps only allowed to slide because she apparently doesn't plan to stay in post for long).

15 year old Cam and Pal are two years into Pal's extraordinarily young tenure as Master Warden, perhaps beginning the first overhaul of the Spire in half a myriad.

Dulcinea stops making public appearances as Duchess of Rhodes.

Eleven year old Silas begins to learn how to siphon from Colum.

Harrow begins to puppet her parents, the last Cohort chaplains and construct adepts are lost in action, and the Ninth is closed to pilgrims (and in the Harrow Nova AU, Mortus steps down from his post and scarifies Ortus).

Pick up trash in the park or along the road! (Make sculptures with it!) Visit people in the nursing home! Take a free online course! Hell--make a podcast! Host a PowerPoint party! Write letters to old people!

1. Stalking people online to see if they've ever said one (1) thing you disagree with to put them on a harassment list.

2. Trolling in folks inboxes because you don't like them.

3. Hatereading blogs.

4. Writing call-out posts and jumping in everybody's DMs about whatever it is.