*sigh*

In my ongoing quest to find a GOOD name for the fairy species, I realized I TOTALLY forgot my roots: my long-standing fascination with the Irish connection to the winged subset of the fairy species! The Tuatha de Danaan were also known as the Sidhe!

If Captain Obvious had come to the rescue with the YEARS of amateur research I'd done on Irish fairies, I'd have had this all worked out on Day One!

While most Sidhe weren't the winged fairy type, the name 'Sidhe' seems a more accurately comprehensive trinomial suffix. Homo Sapiens Sidhe. Sidhe means either "the mounds" or "the people who reside in the mounds". In any case, the Sidhe are greatly feared in Irish legend. The Sidhe were an eldritch species - a supernatural, deadly race that you were wise not to piss...

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StarCraft 2 is out and guess which countries it is most popular in?

Soon as I finish playing ancient old System Shock, I'm abandoning the wife & kids tfor Sarah Kerrigan!

(Just kidding, dear.)

NOT.

You can go to Japan and find animation studios and manga publishers producing every manner of fracking perversion known to man, including probably a hundred genres and subgenres that I wouldn't touch with a 39 and a half foot pole.

You come back to the States and you get censorship up the wazoo - and I'm not talking about the jackbooted thugs that would absolutely LOVE to see every last poster at this site in irons (you know, the ones you often see being busted for pedophilia). I'm talking about the culture itself. You'll never see an American made version of "Crying Freeman" (and that's on the light side, folks) much less Bible Black.

I'm ranting like this because I just met with a guy who came back from Japan loaded with imported goodies. ARGH. I just love the fact that they have so many CHOICES over there.


I shoulda taken a trip to Japan before I had kids...

I'm retired and yet I desperately need TIME!!!

I need time to crit whichever of this month's EPWG are gonna land on my plate.
I need time to read Bitter's ubercoolasfuck stories.
I need time to start learning Blender so I can make my own 3d characters.
I need time to finish Ian Scranton's story.

Oh my God. It's piling up. Before I know it I'll be scaling a Mount Everest of to do lists!

... argh.

Transgenics.

So far, I have justified unbirth as a symbiotic act of absorbing someone for magic energy and then rejuvenating them. (Womb = life, and all that.)

Soft vore is explained as devouring someone for processing their life force into magic energy. Prey must arrive in the predator's digestive system while still alive; if dead, there is no magic energy to harvest. It also justifies the ever persistent predator trope: the payoff of chasing a single human all the way around the world is not nourishment, it's magic energy. (Although the presence of magic-rich fruits in the story also acts as a logical aversion.) Creatures who go by certain color codes will try to swallow prey alive, and they'll do it only to get magic energy. Others will chew, crush, impale, bite off chunks, or otherwise put you down first.

Fairies as top preds? They evolved from a race of elves, and are genetically compatible with modern humans. Real science does have play here: the odds against...

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