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A puzzle in three pieces

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMT

Hello, everyone! I have three puzzles that you can solve to get a prize from me.

For the first two puzzles, you need to decode the text and comment with the decoded text in the original language it was in; for the third one, you need to provide what the puzzle asks.

The reward for the first puzzle is that I will answer the solver's questions about airplanes on this post; for the second, I will add three books of the solver's choice to my schedule, to cover at some point; and for the third, I will write three articles about airplanes, with topics of the solver's choice.

If two people independently come to the solution, they will both be considered the solver.

With that said, here they are:

( Read more... )

Have fun!

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Nine: Rivkah Awakes

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:39:59 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Eight | Table of Contents | Chapter Forty

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome back to BattleAxe! Last time, Axis learned more about Rivkah’s past from the wise servant Reinald, he managed to create a vision of her, and Reinald gave him a ring Rivkah got from StarDrifter. We also received an update on the Axe-Wielders, and learned that the mind-control plans of the Sentinels are proceeding well. For the reader post:

( Revelation time! (Along with some other things, but who cares about those?) )

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 8: The Dawn of the Message (Part I)

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:20:56 GMT

Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight (Part II)

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, Covenant raped Lena, the young girl from Mithil Stonedown he’d befriended, for no apparent reason other than that the author wanted Covenant to be hatable.

( The first quest of this book gets underway, at long last! )

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Eight: Sigholt

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:20:50 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Seven (Part III) | Table of Contents | Chapter Thirty-Nine

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome back to BattleAxe! Last time, Faraday, Timozel and Yr finally found transport to Gorkenfort, and Faraday tried and failed to go to the Sacred Grove again. For the reader post:

( A lot of exposition about various topics, compounded by lots of analysis from yours truly. )

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A bit on language.

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:07:57 GMT

The following is an account of how I looked into the usage of a certain phrase, and came to a conclusion that might be unexpected.

( Introduction )

( Results )

( Conclusion )

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Language question | Taalvraag

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:32:18 GMT

I'm curious as to how many people on this website can speak Dutch, so if you are in any way fluent in it, please speak out!

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Ik ben benieuwd hoeveel mensen op deze website Nederlands kunnen spreken, dus als je er ook maar iets van kan, laat maar van je horen!

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 7: Lena

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:20:43 GMT

Chapter Six (Part II) | Chapter Eight (Part I)

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, we heard the legend of Berek Halfhand, and that was about all that happened, unfortunately.

( It's little wonder this book was rejected so often... ಠ_ಠ )

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Seven: Jervois Landing (Part III)

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:57:11 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Seven (Part II) | Table of Contents | Chapter Thirty-Eight

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome back to BattleAxe! Last time, Faraday, Timozel, and Yr actually reached Jervois Landing and had a lot of trouble getting transport. For the reader post:

( I had a lot to gripe with here. )

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 6: Legend of Berek Halfhand (Part II)

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:11:41 GMT

Chapter Six (Part I) | Chapter Seven

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, Covenant met with Lena’s family, and we learned about a prophecy concerning him. I don’t have much for the reader post, though I would like to apologise for taking so long; I’ve been rather busy, and my other projects haven’t been very cooperative.

( At least we get the legend? )

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Dreamwidth stuff I just found out about.

Sat, 31 May 2025 10:10:00 GMT

If you want to expand all comments on a Dreamwidth page, you can open the console (F12 on Windows), paste this: "$('a:contains("Expand")').click();", and then hit Enter!

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If you're navigating via the "previous 20/next 20" (or whatever amount you have) links, the furthest back you can go in plain view is 699 entries. If following the back link would land you at 700 or above, you'll get the same page as you just had. Trying to go back from there, or from a page reached by manually entering a number above 700, will lead you to the day view page for the day before the earliest entry in the overview.

Navigating back via tags stops working at a seemingly random point between 500 and 512, and there's no way to go further back from that.

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You may have noticed that titles on Dreamwidth show a tooltip with the title when hovered on. This does not work when the title contains a straight double quotation mark ("), since that makes the title text cut off at the first quotation mark (and means nothing if displayed if the quotation mark is at the beginning). If displaying this title text is important to you, I recommend inserting these quotes by using """ for them.

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Seven: Jervois Landing (Part II)

Sun, 18 May 2025 19:55:42 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Seven (Part I) | Table of Contents | Chapter Thirty-Seven (Part III)

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome back to BattleAxe! Last time, we reached Jervois Landing and we heard about Timozel inexplicably beginning to turn evil. For the reader post:

( If there were any point I would stop with this project forgood, this would be it. )

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 6: Legend of Berek Halfhand (Part I)

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:22:39 GMT

Chapter Five | Chapter Six (Part II)

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, Covenant was healed, he creeped on Lena, and they finally made it to Mithil Stonedown.

For the reader post, I don’t have anything; I do want to welcome Silver Adept, though!

Let me go on with this, then.

( We still haven't unpaused quite yet. )

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A quick introduction to Dreamwidth's Rich Text Editor

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:07:15 GMT

So, at the request of soc_puppet, this is a guide to the basic functionality of Dreamwidth's Rich Text Editor ("RTE" for short).

( How to do things like "this". )

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Seven: Jervois Landing (Part I)

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:38:50 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Six (Part II) | Table of Contents | Chapter Thirty-Seven (Part II)

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome back to BattleAxe! Last time, Azhure was accepted by the GhostTree Clan for rather dubious reasons, and we learned some more about the Avar. For the reader post:

( This is exceedingly tedious for a supposedly grand adventure... but Jack does leave! )

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Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:40:51 GMT

The next part of BattleAxe will be out in a few days!

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 5: Mithil Stonedown

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:22:38 GMT

Chapter Four | Chapter Six (Part I)

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, Covenant met with Lena, who dumped quite some names on us, Covenant had trouble with his situation, and he eventually managed to climb down Kevin’s Watch.

( I would class this as filler. )

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 4: Kevin's Watch

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:42:38 GMT

Chapter Three | Chapter Five

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, Covenant had two evil beings, one of whom is a Dark Lord, evilly monologue at him, and nothing much of consequence happened besides that.

For the reader post… I don’t have much, so let me go on!

( If this was actually worldbuilding, I'd like it. )

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Six: The GhostTree Camp (Part II)

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:57:54 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Six (Part I) | Table of Contents | Chapter Thirty-Seven (Part I)

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome back to BattleAxe! Last time, we spent some more time with the Avar, and we saw them react to earlier events. For the reader post:

( “Wanton violence always results in heartbreak” )

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 3: Invitation to a Betrayal

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:53:42 GMT

Chapter Two (Part II) | Chapter Four

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, we got the last bit of Covenant’s backstory, he had a meeting with the old man from the first chapter, and he decided to do something… before he presumably fell unconscious.

( (evil laughter) )

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Six: The GhostTree Camp (Part I)

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:36:09 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Five (Part II) | Table of Contents | Chapter Thirty-Six (Part II)

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome back to BattleAxe! Last time, Axis had a lot of things explained to him that we already knew and we learned just a little bit more. For the reader post:

( This is hardly bad; I just have trouble appreciating it through all the recaps. Oh well, better next time. )

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 2: ‘You Cannot Hope’ (Part II)

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:05:07 GMT

Chapter Two (Part I) | Chapter Three

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, we got another chunk of Covenant’s backstory, including how he ended up in the leprosarium and got out again.

( Do something to improve your life, Covenant! )

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Five: StarMan (Part II)

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:58:47 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Five (Part I) | Table of Contents | Chapter Thirty-Six (Part I)

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome to BattleAxe! Last time, Axis confronted Ogden and Veremund about their lies, and they revealed themselves. For the reader post:

( What is the point of this new "reveal", Douglass? )

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Lord Foul's Bane: Chapter 2: ‘You Cannot Hope’ (Part I)

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:57:39 GMT

Chapter One | Chapter Two (Part II)

A good day, everyone, and welcome back to Lord Foul’s Bane! Last time, we were introduced to our protagonist in a way that very much failed to grab my attention. Let’s see if this time will be better.

( It is, but you'd better be engaged with Covenant's illness. )

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BattleAxe First Read: Chapter Thirty-Five: StarMan (Part I)

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:15:08 GMT

Chapter Thirty-Four | Table of Contents | Chapter Thirty-Five (Part II)

SCSF: A good day, everyone, and welcome back to BattleAxe! Last time, Azhure met up with the GhostTree Clan, which was about all that happened.

( If we do not get some new material soon, I am going... to... go... complain heavily! )

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Lord Foul's Bane: Introduction and Chapter 1: Golden Boy

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:41:45 GMT

| Chapter Two (Part I)

So the choice for the next book after Mister Monday fell on The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen Donaldson, a considerably older series and, I think, reasonably famous in its day. I’ve liked this series since I was a lot younger, and I think taking it on with a more critical view will certainly be interesting.

For reference, this series consists of the books Lord Foul’s Bane, The Illearth War, and The Power That Preserves (the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant), The Wounded Land, The One Tree, and White Gold Wielder (the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant), and The Runes of the Earth, Fatal Revenant, Against All Things Ending, and The Last Dark (the Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant). In other words, this will keep me busy for quite a while!

( This really looks odd compared to the rest of the books. )

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