Silmaril Awards 2023: Time to Vote!

What a whirlwind of a week it’s been!

Y’all sent 45 dragons descending on my house. Forty-five. Even with British sci-fi technology helping out, it’s been a bit of a tight squeeze. Some of these dragons bring a rather enormous amount of ego along with them, which doesn’t help it feel any less cramped. They also have very particular needs and demands… er… requests. Several of them have started hoards in various corners, and there are… rather a lot of little bonfires that have been started in various places. I’m really hoping that the fireproofing that came with the whole package I ordered to make the basement spacious enough is actually working, or my husband is NOT gonna be happy when he gets back from his business trip!

Oh, excuse me a moment…

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2023 Silmaril Awards nominations: Most Magnificent Dragon

The 8th Annual Silmaril Awards are Upon Us!

Welcome back to the Silmaril Awards, the only awards ceremony on the interwebs for fantasy characters!

We are so pleased and excited to be back for the 8th year in a row (how has it been 8 years already?!) and I am beyond thrilled to be hosting the Most Magnificent Dragon category this year!

If you have no idea what the Silmaril Awards are, keep reading, because it’s loads of fun!

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Limping is Good for Us

I had a whole different blog post I was going to write for today, but sometimes life just sort of takes you out at the knees.

Last night, our power went out. It was rather unexpected, no storms were in the area. Just a few clouds. The family was watching Stargate SG-1, and right about at the climax of the episode… everything went blank.

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How to Watch Bluey as an Adult

Here is our family’s list of 20 episodes for indoctrinating erm, hooking your adult friends on this sweet, clever, brilliant, beautiful cartoon show that manages to pack a whole lot of fun, life lessons, and real-life scenarios into their short 7-minute episodes. We have watched these specific episodes in this order (or close to this order) with 14 different adults now, and all of them have fallen in love with the series the way we did. It’s not a guarantee… but it does come with a high success rate for us.

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