Beyond Youth

I spotted this muscular mouser by a haystack yesterday.

To-day is Coming of Age Day in Japan (成人の日). Outside my apartment just now, I saw a young lady in a beautiful kimono with a white fur shawl. She looked scrumptious though maybe it's too warm for that shawl. It's been unseasonably warm lately, I haven't even been wearing my overcoat.

No movie for me last night, I've been playing Beyond Skyrim: Bruma, an amazingly big Skyrim mod.

It adds a massive new land area with custom voice acting, a new musical score, new monsters and animals, and lots of new quests. It's part of an even larger modding project called Beyond Skyrim that aims to fill out the entire continent of Tamriel with complete content--the original Skyrim game is set on approximately 1/8th of this continent. They started working on this thing more than ten years ago and the Bruma mod was their first release, about five years ago. But they've definitely been working. The content is on par with an officially released expansion.

Some of the soundtrack albums--yes, plural, by multiple artists--are being sold on Amazon. I wonder if this is why it's taken so long for an official Skyrim sequel to come out. At this point, I don't see why Bethesda doesn't try to work out some way of making Beyond Skyrim commercially available.

Twitter Sonnet #1658

The kings of death were gathered late in cold.
Arresting frost detained the waiting bloom.
In dreams, the team were sep'rate mighty bold.
But chill the hollow sound endows a doom.
Beneath the wooden house there lies a pig.
But silence chokes the face with mouldy straw.
To scare the teeth from wolves they quickly dig.
But worlds await beyond the hungry maw.
A brick facade could not forestall the wind.
As by the serpent's path a wolf approached.
A lively song was hastened fast to end.
A brittle note recounts a banshee coach.
In grey and white, the ocean surface froze.
A hollow hour stole her magic clothes.