asakiyume: (feathers on the line)
Milky Way Railway
Miyazawa Kenji, who wrote the mysterious and beautiful story Gingatetsudo no yoru (銀河鉄道の夜; translated by Sarah Strong as Night of the Milky Way Railway), lived in Iwate Prefecture, which the ninja girl visited this past New Years. She sent us candies in this commemorative tin:







You can see that after Ginga (Milky Way) station comes Minami Juji (The Southern Cross)

playlists
I've been very much enjoying the six Ancillary Justice playlists [livejournal.com profile] ann_leckie posted about in a recent LJ entry. They're all fan made and quite various in feel. They're at 8tracks.com.



windships

In this entry, [livejournal.com profile] blairmacg interviews Brad Beaulieu about the worldbuilding in his novel The Winds of Khalakovo, one of the novels in the StoryBundle I mentioned a couple of entries back. One of the things his world includes is windships. It got me thinking of how appealing the idea of windships is, the idea of sailing in the sky. Terri-Lynne DeFino had windships in Beyond the Gate that were quite magnificent.

The windships in Beyond the Gate are kept aloft by the magic of the Pilfer, which pulls elements from the surrounding air in and turns them into a levitating mist (though there's more to it than that, as the characters learn).

I haven't yet read The Winds of Khalakovo, but from the interview, it sounds like the mechanism of those windships are equally interesting--and very different.


asakiyume: (birds to watch over you)
There isn't an entry for June 29 in Pen Pal, but there's an entry for June 28. It's from the ship's log of the captain of a boat employed by Loop Current Charter Fishing Tours--the first person to find Em's message in a bottle. Here's a fragment of his log entry.



And for fun, since there are lots of lovely images if you search "ship's log" in Google image search, here is an image of a ship's log from a page on the Royal Canadian Navy's website:

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