AQATSA Update, No April Fools' Joke!

[inverarity]

I feel like staying off the Internet tomorrow. I know this makes me sound like a humorless grumpy-pants, but I hate April Fools' Day. Yes, it's just so cute when every web site covers their home page with monkeys, tells us they've been bought out by the Russian mafia, changes their color scheme to pink and chartreuse, announces that they've sold your personal information to a finance start-up company in Nigeria, or whatever other clever idea they come up with. Hah hah. So I have to spend all day going "WTF?" and then remembering "Oh yeah, it's April 1."

So anyway, I guarantee this post is 100% April Fools Free.


Current word count: 186,392.

Below is preliminary line art for the cover of Alexandra Quick and the Stars Above. I made a few change requests (like holding her wand in her right hand, and pointing out that Alexandra should be a little bit skinnier), but I like it and am looking forward to the full color painted version.

Comments

[kerneyhead.livejournal.com]

I will note one difference between us. Looking over your links, I tend to quote and cite primary sources, archeological data, and hard scientific studies much more often than I see you doing.

I think this is part of why I believe we talk past each other.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You did not quote any such thing to me, and the context does not suggest that you are thinking on the matter with any depth. Does a blog entry, trying to condense wide reading in a way that will be understandable to the average educated reader, demand or need umpteen fricking footnotes? Who is the intellectual bully and snob here, to demand such things? If you want them, then go and read the damned HoB and see if you can even understand half the sources, let alone challenge my use of them. Anyway, if you had tried with less prejudice and arrogance, you would have found evidence of direct reading of the Life of Marinus, the Landnamabok and a couple of Icelandic sagas, not to mention a shelf-ful of books by modern historians (or did you think I invented all those references to Prussia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, etc etc.? Wouldn't put it past you.)