Weekend To-Do List

This is just me recording shit I need to work on, because, if it's written down, I feel more compelled to keep my "promise" on the page.

1)Finish Cell Shade Study

(It's really just knocking my work flow back into shape after a few weeks away from my tablet.) Then I plan on doing some spicy fan art, as well as start workshopping my Youtube channel's avatar's character design.

2)Plan next week's meals

(Because the giant batch of soup I made was colossal aaand will expire long before I can eat it; which will be an equally colossal waste of money; due to poor planning: on my part. *Sigh* It is what it is; it could be better, it will be better. )

3)Start 'Corum: Queen of Swords'

(Because 'Knight of Swords' kicked. my. ass. It was so good!)

4) Re-start 'Dragonbone Chair' (Again!)

(After struggling and ultimately rage-quiting from the expository vomit that was the first five chapters of Tad William's 'Dragonbone Chair', for the second time, Moorcock's pulp was a godsend; buuut *groan* I have to read 'Dragonbone' for its story: no matter how gallingly elusive the fucker might be right now.)

I know I probably just have to let Tad do his lil' tap dance for a lllittle bit longer, but, fuck me, it's like 'Tell me you're a Tolkein cultist, Tad, without telling me you're a Tolkein cultist.'; and what blows my mind is that, in 'King of Swords, on the back of the 'Corum' paper back which I own, and hold currently in my hand, is Tad Williams saying "Moorcock changed the field single-handedly...he has kept me entertained, shocked and fascinated for as long as I have been reading."

 Then where the hell is Moorcock's influence in your own literature, my dude! Where! Your main character's a bland rando and the supernatural machiavellian plot you've been teasing is moving with all the narrative velocity of a snail on thorazine. When Martin said 'GOT' was inspired by YOUR trilogy, I didn't know he just meant its PACE!

(I'm hoping that, if I read Corum at the same time I'm reading 'Dragonbone Chair', the pulp will temper the Tolkein worship enough for me to grit my teeth, waiting for Tad to get to the damn story. I hope.)

 4)Read the pilot to 'Puppet Masters', Lilly's dystopian sci-fi

5)Finish second ep. of 'Foresworn' so Lilly and Izzy can offer feedback

 (Also so they can be entertained, because they're my friends.)

6)House Hunt with Cars (i.e. Make a short list, fill out some applications online so we can tour each one, find a decent place, and drop a down payment before it gets snapped up)

7)Throw together a basic quest hook for a session zero for my homebrew setting,

 'Crisis in Crownstead'

(I'll dig into my choose-your-own books, scan some of my pulps and weird fictions, pour through some of my plot beats for some prescripted side quests, and make something up based on those.)

Soft idea: One of my roommates is a Goliath Barbarian and one is a Ranger with "swampland" being their favorite terrain. For the Barbarian I can propose making them a pirate or a sailor--a boatswain or powder monkey, something like that-- something that would require heavy lifting and/or taking damage--and for the Ranger we can spice up their favorite terrain by broadening it from "swampland" to all places "tropical/sub-tropical". There's no reason a Ranger, a class designed for wilderness survival, can't be flavored for a coastal campaign with swash-buckling dungeon crawling.

It's just an idea, I'll have to run it past the players. (That's the point of a session zero.)

8)End with a joke