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Mead Day 2023
I discovered that the first Saturday in August is Mead Day. 🍯 Who knew?
Oh, I Know It 🤪
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ~Herodotus
I have to admit it. I tried too hard, and it caught up with me. I’m only human and there’s only so much I can actually do.
That being said, I am on full isolation this weekend. It is ME time.
I’ve been going full afterburners for months now and I finally hit the wall. Put a fork in me 🍴 I’m done.
I’ve been promising myself that at some point, I’d take it easy and recover from all the hubbub.
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💥 We are now there and it’s time to crash. 💥
⛽ I have nothing left in the tank. ⛽
🛑 I’m done and then some. 🛑
🍯 You Did What With Honey? 🍯
Making Medieval Mead like a Viking
I can’t really have regular honey, since it’s just a version of sugar. Even so, I’d like to try this stuff once to see what I’ve been missing.
I’m not entirely certain that Pooh Bear would approve of fermenting honey, but given his loopy personality, you might have to wonder if those honey pots he keeps in storage are potentially a lifetime supply of mead.
🦸🏻♀️ Connections 🦹🏻♀️
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. ~Anita Desai
One of the things you often find in comics is that the villains create the heroes and the heroes create more villains. There’s a ripple in the pond effect.
Smallville excelled at this. The spin they put on the Superman story was that not only did Kal-El’s spaceship touch down near Smallville in Kansas, but so did a crap-ton of kryptonite. A lot of the villains and misunderstood monsters in the first few seasons were typically people who had been transformed by the mysterious meteorites.
The Spectacular Spider-Man series leans on this far more than the original comics. In the comics, the classic Spidey villains were often directly related to him personally or as a side-effect of his actions. In this animated series, they hang the episodes together by having the iconic villains of the Spider-Man comics pop up more explicitly and directly.
Michael Keaton’s Batman posed this as a chicken and egg dilemma. In the actual comics, the guy who shot Bruce’s parents was some rando named Joe Chill. In this movie, pre-Joker Jack Napier was the gunman who later got knocked into the vat of chemicals by Batman. They created each other.
So, I’ve been stalled on writing while I have been going tremendously overboard at work, but I’ve still had a few fleeting moments to reflect on how to get the story back on track.
This idea of basing the progress of the story on the relationships between the characters was already there, but I have been following more of a plotline than a web of relationships.
Even so, it’s a first draft. Those always change in editing. I can take the basic sequence and enhance it with more of this interpersonal dynamic.
But not now. Right now, I’m beyond exhausted and essentially brain-dead. I need to recover. I need to sleep. So, this is where this missive ends. 🍯 Go have yourself a flagon of mead.
That’s all. I’m too tired to say anything more. Let me go back to sleep. 🛌🏼💤