River was born on the 11th of April at 11:30 pm, showing up 30 minutes before her due date.
If you notice a slow down in posting, this is why. I’ve been busy helping my tired wife with our rambunctious two-year-old and our tiny new daughter, as well as recovering. I have the next two weeks off from work, but I’m really not sure how much time, if any, will be available for writing.
Thank you for your patience.
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| A princess is coming |
This month has been a good month. I haven’t had this good a month when it comes to views since September of 2017, and I even managed to increased the number of Patrons (Hello Marko!).
The last time I had better views than this, other than September, was May of 2017, after which we had a pretty precipitous drop-off. I was looking at that and my wife leans in and says “You know what happened around then? Your son was born.”
Given that, we might be seeing another big drop-off soon, because our little girl is going to be born this month. We expect her on the 12th, and this is going to be a trickier one than last time as we need to juggle our son as well during all of this, so while last time I could write or work while the boy was sleeping, now we have no such guarantee and my wife is certainly going to be very tired (she’s very tired now!).
So, I’ve had a lot of people ask me “What next?” and the answer is “I dunno!” I can’t really guarantee that I can post with any reliability, but we’ll see what I can do.
The April Patreon Poll results asked for a history of Psi-Wars and there was a tie between a Cross Post with Worlds Beyond Earth, a collaboration I’ve wanted to do for awhile regarding deconstructing GURPS Spaceships, and a rant about flexible magic. The Patreons also voted for a follow up of the “Slaver” aliens. I’ve also got a lot of material ready for the vehicles of the Alliance (the aristocratic houses specifically), and I’m hip deep in that context, so it might make sense to continue with it, but at the same time, it’d be a shame if I did a bunch of work on it and then was interrupted for a month and got back to it and couldn’t remember anything.
So I think in the end, I’m going to use this month as a mulligan. I want to focus on the Patreon requests out of gratitude for their support, and for the rest, if I have time, I might post on general topics, nothing like a series if I can avoid it (though the History of Psi-Wars will certainly turn into a series). If I can’t get everything done, I apologize and I hope you understand. Hopefully we’ll have a fun month one way or another.
There will be no group chat this month (I’ll probably be there next weekend, but I can’t guarantee it. If I’m there I’m there, if you’re there you’re there, and if we want to chat, we can chat).
Oh, and the Psi-Wars Wiki is still churning. I’ve added four new reader-created worlds: Richat, Cabala Scan, the Orochi Belt and Pelia, and I’ve added the races and the basics of the main philosophies of Psi-Wars. What I focus on next month will depend on what I can get figured out. I’ve had requests for both technology and deeper dives into philosophies and organizations.
He was born April 21st, 2017. He is the first born son of the first born son of the first born son of the first born son of the first born son of Flix Dover, and the third in that line to bear the name Theodore. He’s also super cute.
Obviously, as a first time dad, I have less time for things than I did before. I don’t know what that’ll do for the blog, but it’ll be a little touch and go for a bit. I appreciate your patience.
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