Tamar Joshua Rowe

We seem to have run out of all liquids in the house, bar some cordial that smells of of pineapple and some rather suspicious cider.

Naturally, as an Englanderin just barely under the drinking age of this country, I picked the cider to have with my supper.

Before anyone tells me to turn on the tap and have a glass of water, you silly girl, I note that you haven't seen what comes out of our taps. *shudder* There aren't so many houses on our water line, and so there isn't enough draw to make it really drinkable.


In other news, I've been procrastinating on 524, Xiaolin Past and my hpslashnotsmut in order to write snippets of Sequel to: Time After Time. It involves Dashi being trapped in a puzzlebox (explaining why he isn't around now) by a very unexpected favourite character of mine and being released right before that battle, which is fun. Chase tries to make him change sides, and said unexpected favourite character of mine does change sides in protest. XDD

( A snippet of epilogue? )

...you refer to an event that took place several months ago as 'the other day'.



(As a note to myself, Lundy Island is 25km North and 25km West of Westward Ho! according to the OS map, so that means that 35km is nearly your limit for seeing land across the water.)

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According to the state of my nails, I need more calcium. So have a totally non-organic recipe:
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I just got one f the best reviews ever on 524!

( Have a look, seriously! )

*squees*

I like that she capitalised on the lack-of-Guan - he and Wuya have been eating up all of my headspace, lately. It's all "Travelling to Temples! Random encounters! Addition of Family members! Barbarian raiders! The Life-Cycle of the Not-So-Common Quan/Kwan/Guan Dao! Origin of the Spicers! WhyTF Hannibal got involved anyway!"

... The whole Dashi/Wuya fight may take a good while to get properly started - the whole 'learning to live on the mainland' thing was supposed to take like three chapters but it's exploded. O_o

However, that could be a very, very good thing for the overall story. It gives more room for gradual developments, and gives a long-term setting. Draws out the Chase-worry, too. *is evil*

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Does anyone else think of 'The Day After Tomorrow' and other such films when they see articles like this and this?

See, I would be writing more of 524. However, I'm scared to suddenly dump them on mainland Eurasia. Have the Germanic tribes begun their migrations yet? Is the Western Roman Empire still firm, is it fallng, or has it fallen? Has Christianity risen or is it still rising? Where are the Visigoths? And why is there no information on what China is doing during this century?

Bloody Dark Ages. -_-;;

The thing is: I don't know how much time I need. 524 AD is my end-date, but how long can the journey be? Decades, surely, but how many? Guan must be the hourglass, I suppose; he and Dashi are the mortals. So... 50 years? That'll keep me in the Early Middle Ages, so I'll only have one time-frame to look up (even if it's one time frame over a triple-continent with three or four warring Empires and a great deal of moving around...).

IIRC, the Shaolin Temple was built (for the first time XD) in the 49?s. I'm putting that somewhere in the middle of the journey, I think - and if I stick it later rather than earlier in the decade then the Wandering has a fair bit of time. And if I have the gang be in Europe or Russia then, then that's even better.

On the other hand, I probably want to keep them away from Constantinopolis - too much Theology. On the other hand, they're not going to intentionally stray too far from the biggest Empire/Orient trade routes in the er, Empire. Um.

*dies from brain overload*

Encylopediae are fun, but I should probably retreat from the masses of Europe stuff and stick mostly to China. That is the 'geographical centre' of this fic, thanks to Dashi. Even though there is nothing (in English and online, at least) that has any information apart from geneologies of Royals-or-equivilant. *goes off to research the time of Emperor Xiaowen, has no luck* But the beauty of my main cast all being immigrants is that, well, they aren't going to live like anyone that history talks about. They're poor and have to learn the languages. So I have a lot of slack here. XD

... Y'know, even if people did care about Historical Accuracy in fanfiction.

... I've probably procrastinated enough for one night.