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Sat Jun 16 13:45:05 EDT 2018
Slept from one to nine. Woke briefly once in the night.
High of eighty-nine today. 30% chance of thunderstorms.
Ten-minute walk.
Bing-watched Altered Carbon on Netflix.
Played with some D&D stuff.
https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/8rjpij/lf_terminal_file_manager_r5_is_released/
https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
There's a strain of early fantasy (e.g., George MacDonald, Christina Rossetti) — before fantasy was really established in terms of the genre conventions we understand (e.g., Tolkein) — when fairies were not homogeneous, pointy-eared beauties.
In modern fantasy, and more so in the rules-codified realm of roleplaying games (and perhaps rooted in Tolkein), the fairy world become very orderly.
We could choose to read Raggi's Random Esoteric Creature Generator (or, and earlier precursor, the demon generator in the 1e _DMG_) as a fairy creature generator.
One race, one domain, of physically and mechanically (i.e., game mechanics and powers) diverse beings.
We construct our fairy-tale RPG setting as a meta-commentary, where the imposition of human Law on the wild fairy realm mirrors the rules-bound codification of RPG monsters and fantasy tropes.
Civilization (even a tyrannical ruler) keeps the chaos of Fairy from busting out.
The fairy-tale books themselves are magical tomes that codify (and therefore constrain) the possibilities of fairy.
Perhaps destroying the books themselves (colored books like Andrew Lang as magical in-game tomes?) frees fairy possibilities?
```
One had a cat’s face,
One whisk’d a tail,
One tramp’d at a rat’s pace,
One crawl’d like a snail,
One like a wombat prowl’d obtuse and furry,
One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry.
```
Vacuumed, tidied.
Lunch: popcorn, beer, coffee
Dinner: Chinese
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