I have zero self-control
A while ago, I posted this plotbunny on my other site in the hopes that someone would take up the reins.
And then I asked our beloved @bunnybennett for a slight peek of insight on a few significant details.
Because I have ALWAYS wondered what life was like for Col. Peter A. Walter 1 and I am now having possibly way too much fun in making Admiral Reginaldfield Chesterpot Walter the kind of person everyone would aspire to NOT grow up like.
He’s a racist, misogynist bully of a man. Every inch the “just awful” @bunnybennett described. And weirdly… I’m loving writing him.
What the fuck is wrong with me?
Neil Gaiman Explains All Hallow’s Read (by Neil Gaiman)
DO IT.
I would if I could, but my Beta Readers are preventing me from releasing a FREE NOVEL in time for October by not getting their collective thumbs out of their collective divots.
Still crossing my fingers so that I can participate, though.
(Source: youtube.com, via neil-gaiman)
I’m taking my time with the sewer level.
It’s almost a month later, and I’m still working on this thing. As I write this [24 Mar] I am STILL stuffing dispensers with brownish objects and occasional representative junk.
And by “representative junk”, I mean: leather for dead animals, raw fish for fish, empty bottles, string, lilly pads, grass, iron fences, gravel, slime balls and pieces of paper. Because it’s not just poo and wee that winds up in our drains, ya know.
Oh, and the odd stack of silverfish eggs ‘cause I want this sewer to be overrun with “rats”.
In the process of building this thing, I up and decided to add some interesting titbits about sewers and sanitation into the entire labyrinth. I now know more about such things than a mere mortal really should.
Except for one thing. As an Aussie, I felt I had to add a bit of trivia concerning sanitation in our fair country. As an internet dweller, I could not find one crumb of such info. I asked MeMum [Hi!] who is old enough to remember life before television(ghasp), and also recalls a few things about when sewers actually came in.
I picked on Sydney because it’s the one city in Australia everyone knows about. That also doesn’t possess an identically-named city somewhere else in the world. I know from movies that “night soil carts” [look it up] were employed in Sydney and other Australian cities as late as the 1960’s, and my fellow Brisbanites were joking about sewering certain suburbs in the '70’s.
The closest she could guess [in between repeated enquiries as to whether I’d looked EVERYWHERE - and Yes, I have.] was the 1970’s.
Does anyone similarly fecaly fascinated have a firmer date[Full credit is all I can offer, alas]?