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I have not met a group of people more prone to bus driver’s holidaying than Warhammer store employees.

Last evening I went to the local Warhams store to do some painting, and the other person at the painting table complimented how my minis looked so far. I said his Deepkin looked cool. It was overall a pretty normal interaction, even if it was a more– sociable interaction than usual, if that makes sense? Like ‘mutual complimenting over miniatures’ does happen, but usually only if one of the parties is particularly extroverted,

A few minutes later he asked to take a closer look. ‘Sure!’ I said.

He noticed that I was using Leadbelcher with a wash of Drakenhof Nightshade, and asked if I had heard about Grey Knights Steel, and then proceeded to show me some examples of it on some his miniatures.

I say it looks cool (mostly because I want to compliment his miniatures) and thank him for the tip.

He says not to worry, because… he actually works at that store, and he just happened to be hanging out there on his day off.

He went to his place of work, on his day off, and recommended products to people.

YEP.

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I want to run a potentially silly plan by you peeps.

So, I’m taking a bunch of geology classes this semester coming up. I have not taken geology classes in-- some time, let’s say. And because I haven’t been using that knowledge constantly, I think a bunch of it has either gone dormant or fallen out of my head. Which means I need to revise.

I’m thinking of liveblogging my revision. There’s a few reasons for this:

• Having an audience that expects means I’m more likely to do it, because it’d be embarassing if I didn’t
• It will also make me actually look up pictures of the minerals to show people, which means I want be going “Oh, I remember what olivine looks like– wait, hang on, I don’t.”
• Explaining these concepts to a general audience is probably good revision.
• Honestly? I kinda want an excuse to explain how subduction zone lava is like chocolate sauce.

Would anyone be interested?

WIP Saturday: Love Not Wisdom

... is ticking along nicely.

I've been doing >1k words a day for the past few days, and the main draft (not including outline) is about 8k at the moment. I remember the days when 500 words was impressive from me, and 5k was a long fic :,). I think this'll end up around 20k, considering I think I'm slightly less than halfway through.

It's going fairly well. Tolkien's timeline is messy, but I think part of my problem is that I forgot Autumn existed. Even so, I think I'll fudge a few things here and there.

My current main tricking thing is torture.

( torture cw )