#fillinmymap

Please, *please* faff about with this!! Six Harvests is such an excellent book (my first foray into your original work, I’ve got picking up the rest on my to-do list) and from what you’ve shared this is. An amazing approach. I’m struggling with pandemic-relevant/pandemic-related media rn because it feels so...current? Almost too current. But this is exactly the kind of sideways fantastical realism approach that is just absolutely fascinating, and also your writing is incredible. Good luck!!

I’m so glad you enjoyed Six Harvests! It does feel like the particular blend of surrealism and mythology and real history has....thematic appropriateness for the times we live in. 

Six Harvests is I think a much more mature book than my others, probably because I’m a more mature writer eight years on, but I hope you enjoy the earlier ones as well. If you liked the fantasticity of Six Harvests you’d probably enjoy Nameless or Trace the most of the others. 

fillinmymap on this post

I would read this. I would also love for it to have a bit of a rashoman style, because I definitely feel like people I know have had wildly different experiences and understandings of the events of the last year.

That’s actually kind of where I’m going with it! There’s an introduction to establish what’s going on, and then four “books” covering the four different characters I’m working on. It probably won’t be super precise -- like it won’t be four views of one story, but one story that progresses through the stories of four different people, but that’s a very high-fantasy way to go about things which is how I’m thinking this will probably go.

what does the Q stand for?

klaus-hargreeves-katz on this post:

...Dearborn Q. Starbuck? What does the Q stand for?

fillinmymap on this post:

Q for Queen?

“S’just a Q, really.”

Alternately, Q for QT (cutie) :D 

airmidcelt on this post:

Dearborn is so TINY compared to my cat.

She is the itty bittiest! 

katestamps

Lavender sage cheddar? Where did you find such a thing? And the cinnamon rolls look delicious!

There’s a small gourmet corner store near us that sells a small selection of Super Fancy Cheeses, and we got it there -- the maker is a Vermont company called Plymouth Cheese. 

I’m still not entirely sure I like it, to be honest, but it was certainly the most interesting cheese I’ve eaten since the definitely unlikable chocolate wensleydale.  

samjohnssonvt on this post: 

She looks so fluffy in those shots, up from her normal felt all the way to a fleece.

You’re the author, Sam, it doesn’t have to be headcanon. Make it canon.

LOL! Well, when I’m writing original fiction I always think of “canon” as what goes on the page and “headcanon” as what doesn’t need to. :D 

confusedoptimist replied to your photo “I am literally half an hour from home on my first on-time train to...”

I've taken Amtrak to chicago twice. The first time my train died and we had to wait for a second train to come to tow us the rest of the way. The other time the train hit someone. So...never trust trains...

I mean, really, other places don’t have this problem. It’s really more never trust Amtrak. :D But I can’t blame them too much either, they’re underfunded, understaffed, and beholden to private shipping companies for the use of the rails. 

snowywinterevenings replied to your photo “I am literally half an hour from home on my first on-time train to...”

Is that the Lakeshore Limited train? That train has never been on time in its life.

No, the Capitol Limited. But let’s be real, rarely is a train into Chicago ever on time :D 

sleepyheathen replied to your photo “I am literally half an hour from home on my first on-time train to...”

recently my train had to stop 2 minutes out from my station because of a car on the tracks. I almost asked if I could just get out and walk.

Yeah, I’ve been stopped next to an El station before. I wanted to just climb out of the window and cross over to the El station, but there was a freeway inbetween.

tyrannosaurus-trainwreck replied to your post “I'm not a people person. I don't get lonely, that's just not me. I'm...”

But house centipedes eat bedbugs and roaches! All they want to do is help you out with that, and maybe give you a little hug or two with their long, long arms when you least expect it.

But I don’t have bedbugs or roaches! And they used to crawl on the ceiling and then drop their horrible furry bodies onto my FACE while I slept. Down with House Centipedes. 

froofie replied to your photo “Last night’s FEAST. Kimchi matzoh pancakes, twice dredged fried tofu,...”

That cat is an absolute Brak.

My mom has a blanket that looks a lot like that one, except she made it herself several decades ago

....interestingly enough, the blanket was made by my mother’s aunt several decades ago! There must have been a kit or that was a particularly popular fabric or something. 

The “Sam talks Firefly” tag comes up “no posts found” on mobile, and copy-pasting it into Safari on my phone also brings up nothing... except for one post about your paprika plant, which does not include the tag. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That’s got to be some kind of mobile problem -- following links like that takes you to a safari-inside-tumblr, so probably safari doesn’t like the spaces in “sam talks firefly”. I know it’s painful, but you may have to go to an actual computer to see the posts. :D 

docbeeski replied to your post “feuervogel replied to your post: Tumblr is so...”

It doesn't seem to be flagged for me? Unless I'm missing something really obvious...

It’s the original post that’s been disappeared -- you have to go back to the post they’re commenting on and then follow the link to the post that was flagged. If THAT post is still showing up for you, then you may have some kind of magic code glitch. :D 

megsamforever replied to your post “feuervogel replied to your post: Tumblr is so...”

if you type "image" instead of "post" in the url you can still view it though

FOR FUCK’S SAKE, staff. Disappeared the post, kept the FUCKING IMAGE associated with it with the SAME ASSIGNMENT NUMBER? 

Which one? Inquiring re-readers want to know for the weekend.