end of day update, Wednesday Jan. 29

[edenfalling]

Things done since last post:

1. Rescheduled my 5pm tax prep client to tomorrow morning with one of my coworkers; apparently they had a dogsitting crisis and couldn't make it today. *hands* My 6pm client was lovely, though, so whatever.

2. Wrote ~250 words of the Narnia bridge fic. I have less and less idea where this is going, but at least I have established that Protagonist thinks Naiad is pretty and Naiad thinks Protagonist is interesting? Also they are now talking about how taxes work on both a theoretical and practical level, which is extremely annoying since this fic is meant to be about how to build literal bridges when all your rivers and streams are living people who apparently feel bridges as chains. (I mean, the kinky answer is to introduce naiads to bondage as a lifestyle choice, but that is so incredibly NOT where I am trying to go with this. *headdesk*)

3. Read a bunch more of Sovereign, by C. J. Sansom, which is good because for a bit there it seemed like I might be hopelessly distracted by life and have to return in to the library unfinished.

4. Bought some supplemental groceries.

5. Mixed up another batch of soapy water and sprayed down all my pepper plants (and my eggplant) as thoroughly as possible. I feel like I am finally starting to get on top of the aphids, but I have to stay vigilant every day because their eggs are too tiny for me to spot so they seem to re-infest the plants apparently out of nowhere. *sigh*

And now I shall have a slice of raspberry coffee cake for dessert and fall into bed. :)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

2) HA

…I suspect the practical answer is drawbridges? long enough that the on-off ramps on either bank aren't on the bank (except, you know, to the extent that all of Maryland east of Chesapeake Bay is the bay's Eastern Shore), high enough on the parts that go over the actual river that it's merely inconvenient, and there isn't any part going over the actual river except when the Naiad says the drawbridges may be lowered.

whether this physics or how it engineers, I have no idea. but, providing the Naiad in question is part of the negotiations and signs off on the final plan and possibly also on whoever operates the drawbridges, it sounds a lot more agreeable than people tromping through the river fords all the time?

also the bridges may not be literal chains to them? more the Telmarine attitudes to the rivers' personhood and ability to consent (and possibly also other environmentally unfriendly stuff, idk), with the bridge construction particularly shining examples, and therefore the bridges are symbolic chains?

[edenfalling]

:D

Also, yeah, that's pretty much where I'm trying to get to as a solution -- bridges that the naiads have control over and/or which aren't permanent.

[branchandroot]

*giggling helplessly over Narnia Bondage Naiads*

[edenfalling]

My work here is done :D