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

Two necromancers in argument.  Chiefly over whose job it is to keep the king alive this week.

But, being conceited, it rapidly turns into an argument about whose magic is superior or inferior and I'm thinking of a meme of a movie dub where someone didn't know "necromancer" and called the character a "zombie wrangler."

Well, there are no zombies here, but I'm thinking of insults on that vein.  Shorter because they get flung around a lot. . . .

So in the  story, years pass as the heroine finishes growing up.  

And she's in a situation where they would celebrate festivities, even with more religious emphasis than most places.  So what is there?

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It's a classic of the planetary romance genre, to have a few moons floating about the sky, just so you know it's not Earth.

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If space is an ocean -- which is the commonest metaphor -- what are the sailors doing while sailing the spaceways?  Especially if we have no FTL communications (or at any rate, none faster than the ships.)  Making scrimshaws?
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Anachronisms in fiction can be tricky.

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My second panel.  Which covered everything from fight scenes to parallel plot lines.  With some tangents.
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For, dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true.
Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt
It will turn true again, for so it goes.
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favour.
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It can be interesting to be generating names for two different stories at about the same time. . . .

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 A review of a book about Romans and how they walked.

The intriguing aspect is perhaps speaking of the noble gait rather than the noble bearing of a man.  A feminine walk, a masculine work.  That would be an interesting thing to put into a work, and tricky to convey.  Though I don't think it would serve a purpose other than making the world very different, it would certainly do that.

From the program description:

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