Mar. 16th, 2025

pshaw_raven: (Lightning)
We're about to go run some small errands and try to get back ahead of the line of storms coming our way. This thing has been spawning tornadoes, and we've been getting emails from NWS-Jax since Friday. And here it comes. The weather emergency alarm just went off. But I also want an iced mocha latte.

Around here, Little Treat Culture is alive and well.

I'm going to try to get my next day of Over the Mountain finished this afternoon. I was also thinking that particular format might be a good way to flesh out St. Felix, though I hate to abandon the first storyline. IDK, what do y'all think? (St. Felix being the fictional Florida town I sometimes write and draw comics about, and where my 'radio station' WFLX-AM is located.)

Off Topic, but Rick Astley did a really good cover of "Pink Pony CLub." Check it out here. Is this a rickroll?

I think I'm going to go outside and look at the paving work we got done yesterday. We laid down two crossing paths that will go between the four raised beds and hopefully keep more of the weeds down. Once we've built the bed frames and put them in, we'll lay another set of paths around the outside, though we might have to buy bricks. We've almost run through all the old bricks we had.
pshaw_raven: (Hiroshi Nagai - palm trees)
This post is mostly me talking to myself about writing/world building, so feel free to skip if you're not interested.

I think I can upcycle most of what I wrote for my first playthrough of Over The Mountain into stuff for St. Felix. While I have some locations and things mapped out, the list of locations in OTM will really help flesh the entire county out and I may just reuse names and stuff.

One brainstorm during weight lifting - the main character's secret talent or skill. Many years ago I read this interesting idea for making an iPod tarot deck. It would have required someone to remember which song was for which card for an entire deck, which seems like it would tax almost anyone's memory. But what if someone were to use a digital music library and the shuffle function, but they have the ability to influence which songs come up so as to create an oracle? The character is a DJ (here I can use my Void AM playlists) with an extensive knowledge of music (here is where she can collect old records or CDs, etc) and can use that ability to try to help people or solve problems/mysteries/etc.

Locating the story in St Felix also allows me to fully embrace Florida Gothic.

I wish this storm would pass on through so I can take a shower. I just don't want to be trying to wash off when the power goes out and I lose hot water. I'm ready to map out the first few days of my tale. But we also just had a couple of lightning strikes not even two miles south of here.

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