31 days meme...

Meme! Stolen from finch, seen various places.

Pick a date below and give me a topic - it can be anything, from fandom related to life related to art related to whatever you want.

They will probably be brief, or not, depending on the subject.

Also, I reserve the right to decline prompts that I don't feel equipped to meet.

Topics: you can get an idea from my tags/from the stuff I usually ramble about/from things you maybe wish I talked about more but don't.

You can request multiple topics (as long as they're on different days -- one topic per day!!).

December 01 - How soon is too soon for Christmas decorations in a) shops and b) people's houses / gardens, and do you care? (asked by ephemera)
December 02 -
December 03 -
December 04 - What, for you, is or should be or you wish was (or all three) the spirit of midwinter festivities? (asked by purplecat)
December 05 -
December 07 - How you approach literary criticism (asked by kaberett)
December 08 -
December 09 - Welcome to Night Vale -- what you would like to see them do? (asked by thelinesoflearning)
December 10 -
December 11 - Favourite thing to cook when you have no energy but need something tasty. (asked by nou)
December 12 -
December 13 -
December 15 - Role-playing games. (asked by cxcvi)
December 14 -
December 16 -
December 17 -
December 18 - Your favorite band/singer (asked by thelinesoflearning)
December 19 -
December 20 - A guide to finding awesome icons - because you have awesome icons. (asked by purplecat)
December 21- Have you ever stayed up all night to help guide the sun back after the longest night of the year? (asked by consectari)
December 22- Your favorite moment from the past year. (asked by littlebutfierce)
December 23- Your favourite holiday and why (asked by sylvaine)
December 24-
December 25- What (if anything) are you trying to get away from today? (asked by pensnest)
December 26-
December 27-
December 28- On setting boundaries and assertiveness and how - if at all - you feel you have changed over the year (asked by kaberett)
December 29-
December 30-
December 31- New Year's Resolutions. Do you do them/avoid them? Do you follow through if you make any? (asked by zulu)

Rolling up a random 4E character, 'cause I can.

...and, okay, 'cause I'm bored.

I am starting from pretty much nothing here. I have a very very vague character concept, a bunch of books, and my imagination. I'm picking 4E for character creation, 'cause the folder with the books in happened to be open in a Finder window. I am going to roll for character level, I think. But first there will be much rambling and development under a cut, 'cause I don't roll up character without having a good idea who they are first.

Last note: the very bare-bones character concept I am starting with was my first idea for batrachian's Eberron, for which I ended up creating Father Gideon Tanner.

( Character rambling under here. )