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  • Curse you for getting me so interested in Tolkien's works again with your writings! Your disturbingly Tolkienesque in prose writings!
    Telamon
    Telamon
    I actively try and emulate him when I'm writing Tolkien stuff, so that's a big compliment. Thank you!
    EVA-Saiyajin
    EVA-Saiyajin
    Just please go easy on my wallet and mind. I can't go searching for Tolkien's works every time you harpoon my interests and reel it in, only to release it with an unfinished work.
    I'm reading Frans Bengtsson's The Long Ships now, and it's giving me big Varangian quest vibes. Especially the elite guardian unit for the Vizier Al-Mansur storyline.
    Hey, loved the recentmost update!

    Do you have any idea on when you might be planning to write the next one?

    I was thinking of proposing a plan, but I wouldn't want to belabour the vote if you were wanting to start writing soon.
    Skippy
    Skippy
    Haha, just realised there's a time limit clearly displayed on the vote. 😅
    I admit, you brought out some very strong emotions in me. Emotions that I didn't even think would be felt that strongly. And you did it without even meaning to. Kudos
    Telamon
    Telamon
    That's a...very strong compliment. Thank you, and I hope to continue making you feel things with my work.
    ChiefTurtle117
    ChiefTurtle117
    You're welcome and I hope to continue feeling such emotions invoked in me. It's a heady feeling. I'm also rather egotistically proud of how calm I've been to. Heh.
    ChiefTurtle117
    ChiefTurtle117
    I hope that one day I'd get to your level of writing skills and make others feel what you made. :)

    Also, Rome quest when? I've argued too much for equality today, I want to see some Roman supremacy. Lol
    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring.
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken.
    The crownless again shall be king.
    Hey, sorry to bother, but are you still interested in your Varangien or Alexios quests?

    Lives of Basil the Second and Alexios got a whole lot more interesting after learning more about them.
    ChiefTurtle117
    ChiefTurtle117
    Cool. Basil II certainly followed in Justinian's model of being a smart ruler that irreversibly fucked up with the succession. So much potential at the end of his reign.
    DearestAnnabel
    DearestAnnabel
    I'm glad to hear there might be something coming up. I do love Byzantium.
    ChiefTurtle117
    ChiefTurtle117
    Fall of Constantinople was sadder than the Fall of the Western Empire.
    "Yes, I remember when MLK ended racism by epically owning the Grand Dragon of the Klan in a debate. Oh wait, no, that's not what happened."

    Honestly, something like that would've been awesome to see/read about especially in 40k. With all the magical/psychic/deific narrative stuff of the Warp.
    He falters, turns, the antlered Night, —
    The dark stag stands at bay!
    His feet are in the waves of space;
    His antlers broad and dun
    He lowers; he turns his velvet face
    To front the hunter, Sun.
    NOW this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky,
    And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
    As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back;
    For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
    mouli
    mouli
    Kipling? Reads a bit like some of the verse in Just So Stories/Jungle Book.
    Thou art a monument without a tomb,
    And art alive still, while thy book doth live,
    And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
    In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
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