1. I signed up for purimgifts. I always want to, because it's a really fun fest and this time of year I really like the idea of something where the MAX wordcount is 1000 and also you have to do bad art and have an option to try doing short podfic. And then I get paralyzed by so many signup options, and it's at the same time as the lupercalia fest, and then I start wondering if it's really weird for a non-Jewish person to sign up for it and ask for all Judaism-related fic (CERTAIN PEOPLE have a habit of writing really good Judaism AUs, okay, and I LIKE THEM ALL, but it still feels weird and/or creepy to admit in public how much I think about Judaism AUs in my fandoms, especially since I definitely wouldn't dare write one. oh well, too late now.) But there was a last-minute extension and people were posting about how we should all sign up and also I've spent a year really wanting an excuse to request fic about the Valskaayan Jews Recalcitrants on Athoek that get mentioned for one line in Ancillary Sword. So now I have signed up and it is too late to back out! Hopefully I will get a letter up here at some point.

2. Meanwhile I am apparently now writing the kind of Star Wars fic - the one I have wanted to write since I saw TFA but couldn't find a way in until now - that includes both the line But while he was alive he had known - in a small way, but enough - what it was to be at one with the Force while in the world; and death, for a Master of Yoda's line who came to it prepared, was only a difference of quality, not of kind; and he knew it would take the merest twist of will, of memory, to know how to be in the world while at one with the Force, and also the line, 'Hi, Not Listening To This Anymore,' Han said, sparkling slightly, 'I'm Dead;' and have thus discovered that as far as I can tell, nobody has yet given the Internet the translation of the Tao Te Ching that starts with "The Force that can be forced is not the Undying Force" and I am not sure why not.

3. And to square the circle, more podfic of one of my old stories!

[Podfic] Mu (7:23) by sisi_rambles
Fandom: The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Harry Dresden, John Marcone, Nathan "Cujo" Hendricks, Mouse (Dresden Files - Butcher)
Additional Tags: Transformation, Service, Philosophy
Summary: A monk asked Jõshû, "Has a dog the Buddha Nature?"