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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 13 by Kanehito Yamada

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 12 by Kanehito Yamada

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enter the rival

Jul. 29th, 2025 11:59 pm
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Ah, discoveries.

There is the leader of the group. There is also at least one rival angling to take over.

Amazing what clarifying the earlier events does.

I think I will have to put in more sightings of the fugitive wizards, just to remind the character that they are the important ones.
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 11 by Kanehito Yamada

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vignettes

Jul. 27th, 2025 11:36 am
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This week's prompt is:
stimulating

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

rings and other things

Jul. 25th, 2025 11:58 pm
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Characters are flying to the place.

I realize that when defining their powers I have to factor that in.

Then, I remember we have someone who could make the entire matter moot by giving them rings of flight.

I'm going to have to juggle that carefully, so that the heroine doesn't get one. So it's easy but not too easy for him to make enough.

he School Reader, Fifth Book

Jul. 25th, 2025 11:38 pm
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The School Reader, Fifth Book: Designed As A Sequel To Sanders' Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

An 1859 book presenting texts for elocution classes. Probably mostly of interest for the selections, chosen for the edification of the young as well as the elocution -- and to keep them interested. Often has several selections on the same topic. For instance, at one point, the condor. Eulogies on Thomas Jefferson and John Adams -- both, considering their common death date -- and on John Quincy Adams. Among many other topics.
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 10 by Kanehito Yamada

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plot, plot, plot

Jul. 25th, 2025 12:11 am
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I've got to nail down how many villains are up to shenanigans. And establish what they are doing.

Then, and only then, can I work out how the heroine learns about them before the end.

Even though the story's working its way from her viewpoint.

sigh

Dracula

Jul. 24th, 2025 10:16 pm
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Dracula by Bram Stoker

The original. An epistolary novel starting with a young man going on a lawyer's behalf to Transylvania and discovering much trouble there, followed by increasing horrors.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 9

Jul. 22nd, 2025 07:52 pm
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 9 by Kanehito Yamada

Adventures continue. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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