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Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 01:42:47
I have pretty met my goal so far. I'm not sure we've ever had a review a day for 2 months; I know that [user=edige23] wrote one-a-day for a month or more before even becoming the first Iron Reviewer.
Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 01:42:47
by sdonohue
Related Item: The Return of the Prodigal Son
I just finished my 69th review of 2026. I'm trying to write one or more a day. Today was a little tougher since I got a late start due to a procedure today (I'm fine, but I do have 1 or 2 more procedures to get rid of a very large kidney stone). If anything seems off, i'm going to blame being on pain medication as I type this and the review.I have pretty met my goal so far. I'm not sure we've ever had a review a day for 2 months; I know that [user=edige23] wrote one-a-day for a month or more before even becoming the first Iron Reviewer.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD MAR 4: Where is the weirdest place your characters have run into a vendor selling goods, whether needed by the characters or not? Did the vendor have a good explanation for why he/she was there?
Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 01:33:46
Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 01:33:46
by latindog
The only vendors I've encountered or run have been in physical shops or had carts/tents in the town square. We did have a traveling band of merchants who harbored a supernatural being as part of their band that would kill people in the various towns they visited. The party killed him and several of his comrades as I recall.
When We Were Very Young really does speak to the very young
Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 01:05:23
I recently reread A. A. Milne's collection of poetry When We Were Very Young, which was his first work for children. And, yes, we are talking about the same guy who gave the world Winnie the Pooh. However, there is a fascinating difference in maturity (but not artistry) between When We Were Very Young and the Winnie the Pooh stories or even his later volume of children's poetry, Now We Are Six.
In When We Were Very Young, Milne actually seems to be writing to, not down to, three-or-four-year-olds. He doesn't capture their vocabulary but he does capture their worldview. I quite enjoyed how E. Nesbit managed to do that with older children (and felt that Kenneth Grahame completely failed in the Golden Age) but Milne manages to capture the voice of the truly young. With the very important note that he speaks in the voice of a child who is from a family of affluence.
And that sense of privilege and social isolation may be why I found rereading the book not clicking for me. Most of the poems in When We Were Very Young were just too far away for me. Does that mean Milne did his job too well?
That sense of disconnect isn't something that I had a problem with his other works for children. The two collections of Winnie the Pooh stories are charming and delightful and I can easily see how they launched the merchandising juggernaut that Disney helms. (And I do think that at least the first movie holds up to Milne's work very well) Even Now We are Six has more wry humor that I can buy into.
I did find myself thinking that the simple rhyming schemes and meter felt like the quintessential children's poetry. Then it occurred to me that if Milne hadn't invented the form (and I'm sure he didn't), he refined it and helped carry on its popularity. Lewis Caroll, Edward Lear and Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote memorable children's poetry but Milne really nailed it.
And When We Were Very Young has what is one of Milne's most important poems, Halfway Down. I think I have heard or read in in enough other places that I forgot that it was originally Milne's. The sense of disconnection that the poem defines, of being in the middle of staircase and thus not being 'anywhere', is where my sense of disconnection really works in the poem's favor. Which is the actual point. It is a child's first liminal space.
My parents read the book to me when I was about that age and the fact that I still remember that speaks volumes. I may no longer be the target demographic but I think there is brilliance there.
Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 01:05:23
by Lowell Kempf
Over the past several years, I have come to appreciate media that allows you to decompress, some of which could even qualify as escapist. Games, movies, books, music, etc. And while you can't survive on a diet of that, I also think that they are important and part of a balanced mental health. However, sometimes I wonder if some escapism is going too far lolI recently reread A. A. Milne's collection of poetry When We Were Very Young, which was his first work for children. And, yes, we are talking about the same guy who gave the world Winnie the Pooh. However, there is a fascinating difference in maturity (but not artistry) between When We Were Very Young and the Winnie the Pooh stories or even his later volume of children's poetry, Now We Are Six.
In When We Were Very Young, Milne actually seems to be writing to, not down to, three-or-four-year-olds. He doesn't capture their vocabulary but he does capture their worldview. I quite enjoyed how E. Nesbit managed to do that with older children (and felt that Kenneth Grahame completely failed in the Golden Age) but Milne manages to capture the voice of the truly young. With the very important note that he speaks in the voice of a child who is from a family of affluence.
And that sense of privilege and social isolation may be why I found rereading the book not clicking for me. Most of the poems in When We Were Very Young were just too far away for me. Does that mean Milne did his job too well?
That sense of disconnect isn't something that I had a problem with his other works for children. The two collections of Winnie the Pooh stories are charming and delightful and I can easily see how they launched the merchandising juggernaut that Disney helms. (And I do think that at least the first movie holds up to Milne's work very well) Even Now We are Six has more wry humor that I can buy into.
I did find myself thinking that the simple rhyming schemes and meter felt like the quintessential children's poetry. Then it occurred to me that if Milne hadn't invented the form (and I'm sure he didn't), he refined it and helped carry on its popularity. Lewis Caroll, Edward Lear and Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote memorable children's poetry but Milne really nailed it.
And When We Were Very Young has what is one of Milne's most important poems, Halfway Down. I think I have heard or read in in enough other places that I forgot that it was originally Milne's. The sense of disconnection that the poem defines, of being in the middle of staircase and thus not being 'anywhere', is where my sense of disconnection really works in the poem's favor. Which is the actual point. It is a child's first liminal space.
My parents read the book to me when I was about that age and the fact that I still remember that speaks volumes. I may no longer be the target demographic but I think there is brilliance there.
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by skalchemist
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GeekList Item: Item for GeekList "2026 Annual Geek Review Challenge"
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by sdonohue
An item RPG Item: The Return of the Prodigal Son has been added to the geeklist 2026 Annual Geek Review Challenge
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by skalchemist
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by skalchemist
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New comment on GeekList '26 Dice Tower West Virtual Flea Market
Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 01:00:29
Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 01:00:29
by Gusto53
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