Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

This blog is useful for both DMs and novelists, if you want to have fights: all about monster tactics.

And very silly such quizes are.  Still remember the time that a bunch of SF writers took a quiz that told you what SF writer you were and one of the options was Jerry Pournelle -- but the quiz told Jerry Pournelle that he was Robert Heinlein

Check out ArtMagick.  It has some gorgeous stuff, including some I've ripped off for icons.

You can use some generators to replace her!

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jonathanmoeller is staging a choose-your-adventure!  You can join the fun!  Check out the details here.

Anyone want to see some nice pictures?  Like --

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Then I've got the website for you.  Chock full of advice about how to go about this difficult task, even though

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

Fools.

The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.

He also warns that he can not guarantee that any of the methods he suggests will wipe out mankind, so if that's your real aim, you should go straight for it and skip destroying the Earth.

But if destroying the earth is what you want, this is the place to go.

Have a Mary Sue Test!

Have another!

Always a good way to vacuum the cat, running your latest characters through the Mary Sue test.

The second one even warns you that you might be in danger of getting too distant from your characters. . . .  OTOH, it said that about one of the characters I think I am most sentimental about.  I was just a little creative in how I hosed him down.  That's the problem with Mary Sue tests.  The only thing they can test are the warning signs.

And once or twice I have gotten ideas about how to make a character more distinctive.  0:)  Since, of course, Mary Sue is a matter of 1.  dosage and 2.  whether stuff is earned or unearned.