Weather, Pondering

Fucking hell I am sick of winter. No one will ever fucking convince me that damn near killing myself to get home is better than even a sunburn. Sorry, no. I dread hearing of someone I know in a nasty wreck daily and that increases a hundred fold when the weather is nasty. Nevermind the upteen million other inconvencies. I don't care how motherfucking pretty it is.


Am reading White Guardian by Duo Brand and it's not bad, per se...

It's a prince/fallen soldier sort of thing, and I think what always upsets me about these stories is the pacing.

I mean, let's think about it.

Soldier gives up on country and goes as far away as he can get. X royal decides he wants Fallen Soldier to help him. 5-25 pages later soldier and prince are madly in love and soldier goes home to country he hates to help prince Save the Kingdom. WG might not play out that way, but it certainly seems like it. Anyway, the formula is always one of the same few. The Fallen Soldier is 9/10 an ass with a propensity toward excessive drinking and shameless debauchery - though he can at a moment's notice pick up a sword and lay the smack down.

The prince is either a naive idiot or smart but idealistic. He always goes in disguise but it never lasts long.

Obvously there are things like this in any genre, I'm guilty of plenty of them myself.

But if I was going to play this scene...I think there are better ways to do it.

Sugar & Spice 2

Many thanks to tygati for fixing my errors ^___^

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