#woden private investigations

[ondemonsanddaydreams]

Finished my short story and am currently editing it so I'd love some opinions if anyone wants something quick to read

[nilesflynn]

Dearest elephant, How can you do this to us? How could you go to that g-man elephant? How? How? How? How can you abandon our love? How can you abandon our future together? HOW????? I can’t be without you. I WON’T be without you. I’d follow you to hell, I NEED you to know that! I will find you and bring you BACK. FOR US. I see I need to take control. I wanted to wait for you but I see that like other women, you need your man to take charge. So I’m writing to you. Expressing my love. The world is ending soon. We have to be together soon. Soon. Soon. Soon. Together. Soon.

Today I learned how to write letters from a stalker. Add this to my list of things I swear I only know because I'm a writer.

[ofmonstersandnothing]

Sorcerers

[Looked for a picture but all I could find was Dungeons and Dragons art, so this one doesn't get a picture]

Sorcerers, unlike Wizards, don’t need a fixed object like a wand or staff to channel their magic (see Reyna) but the use of a channel greatly decreases the possibility of backlash (also see Reyna for the consequences) so most use an object either on hand or specifically for this. A Sorcerer’s channel must in some way connect to their type of magic, so using Emil as an example of safe (safer) practices, he usually uses a staff, a piece of wood warped and charred by lightning, but he’s been known to even use coins in a pinch.

People (usually mostly human, people) born with the innate ability to use magic fall under the category of sorcerers, though there are some grey areas with races like Cambion or Soul Collectors where they are by definition half-human but often have the ability to use magic from birth, making them Sorcerers in addition to their race.

Emilius Solomon, Jaxson Matlock, and Reyna Wildes all fall into this category with different schools or focuses to each of their abilities.

Emilius (Wōden Private Investigations) and his family line are descended from the Scholomonar and practice storm magic and Emil, in particular, has a talent for manipulating or conjuring electrical charges resulting in lightning.

Jack (OM&N) being a Cambion has a gift for illusion-based magic that can vary from making objects appear or disappear to creating entirely new spaces within a person’s mind.

Reyna (OM&N) is a bit of a special case in that she has inborn magic on both sides; her Soul Collector blood being descended from Azrael grants her some dominion over death while her Alcaimynder (Owhi) blood, being guardians of the wild, grants her some dominion over natural life.

[nancydpolardau]

Canberra Now: News in 90 seconds for October 12, 2017 – Brisbane Times

Private contractors will answer calls from Centrelink’s welfare recipients after the Department of Human Services outsourced call centre work to multinational services company Serco.

In an unprecedented move for the welfare agency, 250 of the company’s Australian subsidiary staff will take calls about payments in a three-year pilot program costing the government $51.7 million.

Doug Dingwall reports the main public sector union and Labor rounded on the Coalition move on Wednesday.

Canberra house prices continue to rise: Domain

Canberra’s property market continued to rise in the third quarter, with rental rates and median house prices growing faster than the Sydney and Melbourne markets.

The latest Domain State of the Market report, released on Thursday, showed house prices in the capital had reached a new high of $723,980, up 4.3 per cent over the quarter and 10.5 per cent annually.

Experts said under-supply in the market was helping drive growth.

‘Political will’ for southside cemetery questioned

Community groups are questioning whether the ACT government has the “political will” to establish an urgently needed cemetery in south Canberra.

Representatives from Woden Valley and Weston Creek community councils encouraged the government to take action on the issue during a meeting of the city services committee on Wednesday.

Steven Trask reports the talks focused on a contentious proposal to expand the existing Woden Cemetery.

Developer Geocon investigates Wayfarer noises

Canberra developer Geocon is investigating new reports of disturbances in a Belconnen residential tower, described as sounding like a bag of concrete being dropped on an apartment roof.

Rental tenant Ian Walker said the loud noises could be heard around the clock in his top floor apartment, leading to nightly sleep interruptions and poor quality of life since February.

It comes after initial reports from other residents last week.

Things are getting Hyper Real at the NGA

Every five years artist Marc Quinn takes 5.6 litres of his own blood and freezes it inside a life-size silicone mould of his own head.

“Just like a big ice cube,” he says, “a big blood ice cube.”

Since 1991, Quinn has made five of self portraits, using a hollow sculpture which he fills with his blood, extracted over the course of a year, a pint every six weeks.

Karen Hardy reports Quinn will deliver the National Gallery of Australia’s birthday lecture on Thursday, ahead of the opening of the new Hyper Real exhibition on October 20.

Cartoon of the day

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[nilesflynn]

It's come to my attention recently that the site where I used to post my novels and longer short stories (Angel of Death, Val, and Wōden Private Investigations) is no longer up and running so I've recently moved them over to Wattpad where they can be found under my name or the names of the stories themselves, with the exception of Val as I have completely scrapped that one pending a complete overhaul/rewrite when I have less other stuff going on. The stories can also be found at the following link:

[nilesflynn]

When I left my apartment today, I didn’t expect to be hearing, “There is something under my bed every night,” as part of a request for help after losing my job.

And, with a lead in like that, how could I not be interested.

My name is Dr. Josefine Wolfe, a first-generation American and severe puzzle addict with a knack—and need—for hunting down serial killers so until recently, I worked as something of an Alienist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and have for a few years. I say “until recently” because there were quite a few areas where our opinions differed—where I had a much wider view of what is and isn’t possible; I suppose I have the Monster in my head to thank for that.

—An excerpt of what I'm working on instead of Of Monsters & Nothing at the moment around school and work