HAIL FROGLORD! KING OF ALL AMPHIBIANS!: seanan

HAIL FROGLORD! KING OF ALL AMPHIBIANS!

So we survived another iteration of the Traveling Circus and Snake-Handling Show (always a risky proposition, what with all those snakes), and now it's time to get back to normal, everyday life. Naturally, for me, this means "now it's time to start packing for Michigan." Because nothing says "restful" like jetting straight off to another convention, right? Right?!

Ahem. A few snapshot statuses, for the interested and alert:

"Wicked Girls" shirts.
Yes! They have arrived! Well...mostly. It turns out the shirt shop was out of certain size/style combinations, so my order was short about fifty shirts, which will be coming along later. How are we finding out which size/style combinations are missing? By trying to pack orders and being unable to find the associated shirts. Naturally. So shipping is being a little bit odd at the moment, and I'm filling as many complete orders as I possibly can. Feel free to email the merchandise address (the Gmail.com account that contacted you for shipping and payment) if you have questions about your specific order, or need to update your address in any way.

Ashes of Honor progress.
I now have approximately 86,000 words written on Ashes of Honor, which means I'm on target to finish my first, deeply flawed draft of the book by the end of October. At which point, the flensing will begin. The flensing has already begun, on a localized level, but the deep flense requires a wider audience. I'm actually pretty happy with the shape of this book. I finally got to bring back a lot of the cast from A Local Habitation, some questions are getting answered, and Toby eats Pop-Tarts. Life is good.

Discount Armageddon approaches.
According to my planner countdown, Discount Armageddon will be released in one hundred and fifty-five days. But, you know. No pressure or anything. I am deeply excited and deeply terrified, and getting ready to rearrange things on my website to make the InCryptid section easier to find and navigate. This means the Field Guide will also be going totally live. You, too, can live in fear of the Apraxis Wasps.

Zombies.
Are love.

Albino banana slug.
ALBINO BANANA SLUG!!!!!! He's like vanilla soft serve with eyes, and I want to love him forever, even though this picture was taken a year ago and so he's probably been eaten by an owl by now. (I know slugs are hermaphrodites. I don't care. I want to name this particular slug "Geoff," and have grand adventures with him. He is my beloved squishy friend.)

HAIL FROGLORD!
This Questionable Content strip speaks to the depths of my soul.

And that's me. What's new with you?

sheistheweather

October 4 2011, 13:44:14 UTC 5 years ago

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I attended V-Con 36 and had a marvelous time. I made some new friends and got to know some acquaintances better, and bought art from awesome artists.

groblek

October 4 2011, 14:20:10 UTC 5 years ago

The Traveling Circus put on a great show! We had a blast, and realized that at this point, we've been to enough events with you, Vixy, Tony, the Bonhoffs, et al that it feels like we belong. For me, attending felt like coming home or hanging out with old friends. I know that we don't really know any of you that well, but you and the rest of the Circus are a very welcoming group. Thank you very much for throwing a great party and inviting us. And a big thank you to Borderlands for hosting - we left with somewhat less money in our book budget and more books to squeeze onto our shelves, hopefully enough others did likewise that they made out well from the event. We did seem to manage to leave the penguin we won in the raffle behind - hopefully someone will get it who will appreciate it. It served well to entertain Josh during the event, and distact him from more dangerous items, and he didn't bond with it enough to notice that we left it behind.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2011, 14:29:17 UTC 5 years ago

Actually, the penguin got to me, and after we failed to chase you down the street (we tried!), it went back into the bin to be returned to you when next you are seen! :)

It was great to see you. Josh is so vast now, it's STUNNING.

mac_arthur_park

October 4 2011, 19:55:36 UTC 5 years ago

Froglord reminds me of the phase Ashe went through when he still lived with me and I had to open his backpack verrrry slowly because something would hop out at me at least once a week. The kid is the original frog whisperer.

In other news, I sang in public for the first time since grad school this weekend. I let my friend Andy goad me into doing it when we met up at the Really, Really Free Market, and it was very well recieved. :)

October 4 2011, 21:22:15 UTC 5 years ago

Hooray!

I am very pleased by your singing. :)

aineotter

October 5 2011, 05:45:57 UTC 5 years ago

They had better luck than I did. I spent a significant portion of my childhood trying to catch pretty much exactly that frog, who would disappear with a plop into a culvert whenever I got anywhere near. Not that I was going to *do* anything with him if I had caught him, he was just the biggest frog I'd ever seen, so I wanted to see him up close.

October 5 2011, 17:56:09 UTC 5 years ago

I caught him several times. Once I took him to school.

I <3 FROGLORD.

kshandra

October 5 2011, 05:50:05 UTC 5 years ago

My shirt was waiting for me when I got home from work today. I shall wear it to

maiandra's birthday dinner tomorrow.

October 5 2011, 17:41:04 UTC 5 years ago

YAY!

mel_redcap

October 5 2011, 11:23:23 UTC 5 years ago

HAIL FROGLORD! And I must agree, that is possibly the most adorable land mollusc ever!

New with me? I got a job! :D

(It's a temp job, and the end date is not yet set and could be anywhere from 1.5 to 5.5 weeks away. But it is A FRIGGIN' JOB, with a PAYCHECK, and comes with a free upgrade to my resume. So, yeah, I HAZ JOB! 8D)