The Training of the Brythen

It's been a while since I reported on the This Will Not Do campaign - ie, dealing with Brythen's tendency to disappear over the horizon and come back when he felt like it.

( On and on and on about the Big Puppy, longlines, recall and bunnies. Bunnies everywhere! )

3D Hobbit 2

So, having whinged and moaned about the possibility of not being allowed to watch 'The Hobbit' in 2D, I decided that actually I wanted to see it in 3D 48fps as well, just to see what the differences were, and find out if it made me sick. It didn't make me sick. Yay! There was much less of the 'Whoo, lookit my 3D bits!!' stuff than in Avatar, the only previous 3D film I've seen, and since I'd seen Hobbit in 2D already, I didn't feel cheated by briefly looking away during the Zooming Around Dale bit at the start. I was expecting the 48fps element to possibly make the nausea worse, but I didn't feel it did.

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ETA: have put some spoilers in comments :-D

Under the Twelfth Vulture

In Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers, Aquila deserted the Eagles when they flew from Britain, but his friend Felix obeyed the call and sailed away to defend failing Rome. Aquila never knew what had happened to Felix. I thought I'd find out. Somehow this ended up as 3159 words, but given that it includes both a epic battle, the fall of Rome, AND two cups of mulled wine, I think that's actually quite short.

( The year was fading into autumn, and even here on the sheltered sloping little streets that wound up the hill to the great wooden-roofed church Hagia Sophia, a little cold wind coming up from the Golden Horn made the fallen leaves dance and shuffle in the gutters... )

( Notes and Burblings )

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