abandon all hope...
Sep. 1st, 2005 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
letterbladeState of the Fic:
Words: 7,918 out of >10,000.
Sections finished: 8.
Sections in progress: 10.
Sections unstarted: 6.
Days left: 5, technically.
But I'm trying to get a complete first draft by tomorrow so I can see girlfriend off to Smith Friday night and Saturday, then back home to polish up something vaguely presentable and send it off to Devi. And then I can, y'know, exist again, read all your fic, stop lurking in people's cellars and babbling about bio-alchemy...it'll be good.
Shoutouts!
To![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mattador: brace your inbox.
Tolykomancer: I've got something from an alchemical catechism I found on the sacred texts archive, but do you have any interesting and memorable quotes about quicksilver from Paracelsus lying about?
To alchemy geeks in general: anyone know anything about the significance of the golden tripod? I've gathered that the Delphi oracle sat on a golden tripod and there was some important bit of sculpture (with serpents!) in Venice that got destroyed, but I still can't figure out what it's doing in an alchemy exam. Probably irrelevant, but it's bugging me.
*takes a deep breath, dives in to try to fill in all the holes from the beginning*
Words: 7,918 out of >10,000.
Sections finished: 8.
Sections in progress: 10.
Sections unstarted: 6.
Days left: 5, technically.
But I'm trying to get a complete first draft by tomorrow so I can see girlfriend off to Smith Friday night and Saturday, then back home to polish up something vaguely presentable and send it off to Devi. And then I can, y'know, exist again, read all your fic, stop lurking in people's cellars and babbling about bio-alchemy...it'll be good.
Shoutouts!
To
mattador: brace your inbox.To
lykomancer: I've got something from an alchemical catechism I found on the sacred texts archive, but do you have any interesting and memorable quotes about quicksilver from Paracelsus lying about?To alchemy geeks in general: anyone know anything about the significance of the golden tripod? I've gathered that the Delphi oracle sat on a golden tripod and there was some important bit of sculpture (with serpents!) in Venice that got destroyed, but I still can't figure out what it's doing in an alchemy exam. Probably irrelevant, but it's bugging me.
*takes a deep breath, dives in to try to fill in all the holes from the beginning*
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Date: Sep. 1st, 2005 07:27 pm (UTC)The golden tripod: I don't know anything in particular about. However, I will say that the number three is of particular signifigance in most symbolic systems. The Holy Tinity, the Tripicate Goddess, the Three Principles in western alchemy... And I'm sure you are aware of most of the associations of gold.
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Date: Sep. 1st, 2005 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 2nd, 2005 01:46 am (UTC)*dies of pure, utter, smutty happiness*
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Date: Sep. 2nd, 2005 02:22 am (UTC)...I think I needed that to get through the final stages of Tuckerfic. Thank you. ^__________^
*adds to her little folder of threesome'o'doom inspiration*