…Sup. Haven't posted in a while. I've been up to my eyeballs researching and writing for an assignment. Some of it looked like this:

https://brologue.net/2024/12/06/chessworld-annotated-bibliography/

Much of it looked like this:

https://brologue.net/2023/11/04/zettelkasten-an-antidote-for-boring-notes/

https://brologue.net/2023/12/26/my-spines-as-stiff-as-a-prosthetic-leg/

And I looked like this:

Before I move on... #Boardmier is a #chess-themed fantasy universe that's analogous and allegorical to our world's transition between feudalism and capitalism. You can read two of my short stories, "The Talisman of Aubaum," and "The Right to Krei," here:

https://brologue.net/tag/boardmier/

Like it? Put my name in the heads of those who you think would like it, too.

At the moment, though I'm writing for another assignment, I'd lack to pick up the slack around here. I'm feeling a lot like this:

As of writing, the Sunday before last was Mother's Day in the UK. Last time I wrote about Mum, it was about her #fantasy problem - she is a self-described realist:

https://brologue.net/2023/11/05/fantasy-for-mums/

Now, she's got no problem with fantasy, the genre, per se. Her problem, she told me the other day, is that she can't *immerse* herself in fantasy. She tried watching #GameOfThrones, thinking it was a period drama; she checked out when dragons started turning up.

She won't watch #GoT because it's about a place, people, and creatures that aren't real. She has watched all of #Outlander, because, even if the characters in the show are fictional, and even though time travel isn't possible, everything is firmly planted on Planet Earth.