Well, you have a lot of tie-ins and artwork to catch up on, for sure.

And today I added in-story links for my new chapters that included your BZL Christmas story and Happiness #5.




That was the way it was going to be circa 1999.

You may remember that back in the day, many posters wrote their significant others in as supporting cast. Amongst those, Pete C. (Banjooooo), who was 16 at the time, wrote in his sweetheart and prom date Elyse - I seem to remember him even circulating a picture of them together. I'm not sure how long the relationship lasted thereafter, though. So when Pete went quiet about Elyse I quietly changed my plans to include her in an active plotline (as I had included Cheryl, Tina, and Jarvis' and Finny's amours whose names presently elude me) and shifted my focus to a new generation of properly fictional supporting females like Lisette, Valeria, Natalia, and Zdenka whom I could torture with a better conscience. But for a while there, Elyse was going to be the Celestian Madonna.

Now, 17 years later, I estimate the chances of Pete being too sore about any relationship issues with Elyse or Elyse noticing that her fictional namesake has been promoted to a descendant of spiffy are relatively small; hence I decided it was probably safe to dust off the plotline and get on with it.




For a moment there it looked like Vinnie was unemployed. Then he got anihillated too, so that was alright.

These days I always have to try and balance Hatman - Sorcy scenes a little carefully. I'm mindful that these characters are the now-seldom-owned fictional avatars of two people who are now married to partners who know little of the Parodyverse. It is possibly best to gloss over the torrid fictional-only romance Hatty and Sorcy had, but damn that rubs my writing sensibilities the wrong way! My best compromise is to write them as affectionate exes who know each other well enough not to try again.




As you might expect, we will be hearing more about this. Chapter 24 is written, but I'm vassilating abou when to run it.




I think I know. I spent two and a half hours this morning constructing a flowchart in Publisher.

I need better software and more hours.







Well, I might retain the thought.







I was trying to work out what the 18th century version of Yuki would be. The nearest I could think was a sort of prototype Captain Louis Renault from Casablanca, a sort of seedy bribe-taking-but-competent senior cop who relucantly does the right thing. And Yuki wouldn't let a little thing like a gender ceiling stop her from exercising her skills.