So I decided I was going to just bury my face in TSW for the night so I can stop thinking about the whole Smashwords thing, and happened to notice that Steam is having its Halloween sale now – which means the ultimate edition of The Secret World is on sale for like.. $18. ((normally all the content it includes adds up to $162+)).

Just thought I’d throw that out there since @coldsaturn and @aionwatha and I have kicked it around a bit recently. If you do check it out–whether you get it or just go through the trial period, please run it through Can You Play It? first, because my last system struggled with the graphics. ((it was also an old piece of junk, mind))

vague update time:

The Smashwords thing is a little more complicated than I want it to be, and I get to spend this weekend searching for & contacting people to try and get it resolved. Since Smashwords was the main distributor to non-Amazon networks eg the Apple iBooks store, some of ya’ll have noticed that book 1 has vanished pretty much across the board. Exciting. ((she says in sarcasm font)) Thanks for your continued patience. ;_;

ngl, this was a jarring end to a week that had some potentially exciting things happening. Leave us some good news if you’ve got cool things going on with you & yours– we could use a bit of pick-me-up to get through the weekend <33

A collection of random things:

1. Got stung by a bee on the train yesterday. Found him in my hair and he jabbed my finger before I realized what I was holding. Turns out I am not allergic to bee stings, hurray!

2. Kindle TFC temporarily has a price tag on it because there’s apparently an issue between me and “the original copyright owner”. Smashwords took it down until I have a conversation with – myself, I guess? – and that was what triggered the price-match free version on Amazon. Trying to get that sorted out asap. Sorry lovies.

3. Speaking of TFC, the older sister just read the series for the first time since its comic days. Victory :O

4. Made the decision to step down and transition to part-time at work. It’s gonna be touch and go, but it’ll carve out more hours to write. I think I’m finally ready again, so I wanna seize that energy while I can. Almost optimistic enough to think I can have minimum two separate projects done by year-end, but we shall see. ((granted, two of the hopeful three are rewrites, not new things.)) Schedule should change effective Halloween, still gotta nail down details though.

What is new with you?? :O

foxyliarielle:

I’m not sure if it’s okay to do this but imma tentatively guess yes since someone else recently asked about Aaron. @korakos there’s a part in The Raven King that has always nagged at me. After Neil hits Riko, Riko says “You just cost him something he didn’t want to lose.” I’ve heard the interpretation that Riko means Proust crossing the line and hurting Andrew, but it hasn’t sat right with me. Because in The Kings Men when Andrew comes back, he asks why Neil went to Evermore, and covers Neil’s mouth when he mentions Proust, and Neil realizes he failed. So if it wasn’t until that moment that Neil realized Proust did the thing, I feel like maybe Riko is talking about something or even someone else here. Is it Andrew or Kevin that are losing something? If it is Andrew, what is it that he didn’t want to lose that Riko knew about?

Hello lovie :D

Sorry it was unclear!! You are right about what they’re referencing, though – Riko says Proust will hurt Andrew if Neil doesn’t come to Evermore, and Neil responds by punching Riko in his fucking face. Riko’s You just cost him was a “You fucked up by refusing me, now it’s going to get awful for Andrew.” Neil assumed that when he said “I understand” and Riko said “Apology accepted” and Neil went to Evermore after all, that Riko would keep his word and Proust would stand down. But in the end Neil did exactly what Riko told him to do–and Proust went after Andrew anyway.

in case you haven’t noticed by the prolonged silence, attempting to write 5 projects at once is not going well

I think I am going to participate in NaNo this year, though, in part to meet people in my new city and in part to try and Get Shit Done

“Is that a genuine inquiry or ill-veiled sarcasm, my lord?”

Ty refrained from rolling his eyes, but barely. “Consider it a question.”

“They burned our priests and enslaved our children,” Kelsha said. “We are no longer people of the mountain; we are people of shackles and dirt. The sky is as foreign to us as the sea when we know it only in fading songs and memories.”

no-freedom–till-we-are-equal:

Hello, @korakos ! I’ve been scrolling down your blog and I found out that you like Aaron better then Nicky, Renee and Allison. Can I ask you what traits make him so likeable? + I don’t know if you’ve ever done that (you probably did and was asked about it like a thousand times) but who is in your top 5 favourite characters from AFTG?

I probably have answered the Top 5 before, but it is a shuffling list. There have been too many drafts and too many years for it to be a static thing; their evolving stories & my aging have given me different insights and appreciations for them. The only character with a noticeable growing apathy is Abby, and that’s mostly my fault, since I axed most of her storyline.

The current top five of the Foxes are Neil, Andrew, Kevin, Dan, and Matt. Aaron is six of ten nine. I love Wymack but I also don’t believe in Healthy Father Figures so he will never make the cut as a reliable believable character.

AARON, my beloved little shithead.

Am assuming if ya’ll are here ya’ll’ve read the books but this is rambling & spoiler-ridden so it is going behind a cut. Sorry mobile users, the year trucks on and Nora is still hella obsessed with Read-Mores. Also assume there will be typos and odd grammar because a) me + proper english = notp, and b) vodka.

So the original plan was to take like 3 days off from tumblr, but apparently I was gone for 3 weeks?? Glad to see I still have no concept of time. The zoning-out thing is getting real old real quick, but I think enough RL things are falling into place that I’ll have anchors again. <3

emissary-architect:

me: i feel awful in so many different ways. I have no idea how I’m supposed to cope and process everything that’s happening.
me: turns to my ocs
my ocs: sweats
me: jaws theme

(via theubergrump)

@winterblues Late response, sorry!! Best bet is probably to @ me if you post it, I try to come back to tumblr every couple of days and check for those. :D