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...pretty darn funny to tell the truth.


Why haven't I written anything new recently?  Why is SAGE stuck in written limbo awkwardly wedged between a printerophile and EXEC-dono?  Quite simple actually.  While I we're entering endgame with SAGE, and I (for once) have the whole story plotted out to the end it's a matter of actually writing it..... which isn't happening at the moment.  Sorry.

Class is going well, I don't even mind Notorious British Crime going twenty minutes over time.  Yoga isn't terrible, we're almost to the Nazis in Third Reich, US History II is US History II, Human Environment hasn't had much of a chance to be anything yet.  That's it.  Hooray for college.

I know I know, once again I'm getting in on a trend late.  Of course most of my work is in the written field so the traditional influence map doesn't seem appropriate.  Instead; Gentlemen, behold!

Influential Authors
Ambrose Bierce
HP Lovecraft
David Weber
RA Salvatore
Charles Fort
Thomas Pynchon
Star Trek Pocket Novels
Star Trek: Vanguard series
Tom Weller
Hardy Boys
Kenneth Roberts
Allan C. Weisbecker

Because this needs a new entry:

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
-Emily Dickinson

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
-Seneca the Younger

So as I was framing the most recent SAGE story (!) I happened to think "What if someone asks me who the villain or antagonist is?"  Well, by that I mean I know no one would ever ask but this is the sort of thing I think about.

One possible answer is, there isn't a physical one.  SAGE's mental health provides enough of an obstacle.  I can only recommend that you remember just how unreliable a narrator SAGE is.  At any given time she can only remember about 60% of her life with varying degrees of relevance (i.e. knowing she likes cornflakes, but not how many children she has) and 0% of her love life.  That being said, what you learn about her past has been filtered first through her perception then her psychosis, so the final written version in her journal (which despite then tone she {IC} never expected to be published) should be taken with enough salt to choke a horse.

Having the ability of author foreknowledge, I can say that in my own interpretation SAGE-sama falls more along the lines of chaotic neutral at best anyway (rendering a villain sort of superfluous).  There have been hints of some of her more serious, and lasting, misdeeds but you'd have to have been really paying attention to catch it.  Then to extrapolate you'd need to be John von Neumann or something.  In the end your mileage may vary; this is only my opinion remember.  We will get to see some evidence of that facet of her personality in the future though, so buckle down.


Oh yeah.  K-On! ended.  Without yuri.  *sigh* Oh well.

_{The D&D online alignment quiz says chaotic evil, but that seems a bit harsh}

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