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[flemmings]

I have slain the monster, which is the application to have the assessment of my house reconsidered. I filled out the application and listed the reasons I thought they were batshit to think anyone would pay 418,000 for my crappy fixer-upper ('the addition on the back was added by the previous owner and is currently pulling away from the house, causing plaster cracks and subsidance; it is also falling down because the bricks are buckling. Cost to replace estimated as minimum 20,000.') I'm sure it won't move them a whit, but anyway-- I did it.

Now I am relieved of that crushing anxiety, my mind is taking off and considering female dragons. As with hawks, the female dragon is larger than the male. In royal circles the female rulers of the continents are subtly higher statused than the tempestuous rulers of the ocean. I please myself mightily considering the etiquette of sex under these circumstances, as well as what the female rulers look like to my dragon kings. The pictorial image I have is of the ladies in late Renaissance or early Tudor courts- cold-faced, watchful, flat-mouthed, viewing the viewer from their own incomprehensible standards: vaguely alien in feel, as indeed are their menfolk. What on earth could go on in their heads, one wonders, and how could one begin to recommend oneself to such a person?

And the rest of the time I read Second Taiki, where the King and the general are currently discussing theology, as female kings and female generals naturally will-- at least in that world, which has more than a few unexpected twists in it. They might even be historical twists, since what I'm seeing is Heaven and the Jade Emperor requiring people to follow the path of virtue, which means showing obedience to Heaven's laws that actively discourage what we consider virtuous action as in, oh, relieving oppressed people from genocidal tyrants. The general is outraged because this attitude of Heaven makes no sense: but I have the impression that not a few Imperial decrees in China made no sense either, and/or flatly contradicted the Confucianist party line. But the Emperor is the Emperor and right, even when he's wrong, and it's not your place to question that.

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[shiny-monkey.livejournal.com]

(if I had money to fling about, I'd love to buy your house. I sleep very well there, and there are few places where I sleep well)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

In spite of the creaking corridor and the lack of air in my spare room? Must be the blackout curtains.

[shiny-monkey.livejournal.com]

I'd say it was jet lag but I was there once when it wasn't jet lag and slept very well. It's the lack of ghosts, I tell you.