This week in Andalusada blogging: 6/9/2012

In the beginning, I wrote "Not much killing this week." That was wrong; this week was when, to the best of my memory, I first seriously discussed the Thousand Days, which more than decimated Sweden. But the most important things I wrote about this week, I feel, were about writing:

• About the single biggest thing in the history of Moorish Islam;
• About a brütal Bible;
• About somebody real;
• About something that won't exist for another 800 years, nor matter for 5d6 after that;
• About words not meaning what you think they mean. 

There's also a fair bit of cleaning up that needs to happen, and I've done just a little bit of it:

• Cleaning up the Gonzalan Rite, to make it less redundant;
• Cleaning up the Montagnards, again;
• Cleaning up Hasidic Farrellitism, again;
• Starting an overhaul about bullets to bring to ash-Shamal;
• A little bit of expansion to Yusuf I's story, to emphasize the Imperial Brazilian parallels;
• Giving St. Francis a more appropriate psych evaluation.

Also unusually, most of my writing foreshadows other, bigger things that are going to merit writing about in the near future:

• The Günther Bible's mention of the Opus Transtulit? Right now, that links to the Textus Receptus, the closest equivalent IRL. I have a stub on how the Opus Transtulit came to be, but it's turned into a sprawling thing about historiography, and how people ITTL think of what we'd call "the Renaissance." (And it's going to involve Hungary.)
• The Günther Bible, and the Farrellite dynasties, are both going to need a related post about how the Catholic Church responds to vernacular Scripture.
• There are stories to write, already, about why the Manazil format came to be. Just waiting to be written. I'm not sure what, but they're there.
• The Skete of Orsa is, to my knowledge, the first mention of the Thousand Days, which are huge and need a bit of outlining to explain them. It's also the first to mention the sacking of Sweden, which means that it's almost time to discuss Russian revolutionary science!: dieselpunking, and the Technical Censors, and all of that.
• "Stockholm Syndrome" established that there was the Battle of Stockholm, the details of which need to be spelled out, because it's the in-verse equivalent of the Battle of Stalingrad.
• A few other pages have already started to touch on rocketry, so I should also spell out a brief history of that, which evolves a bit differently from IRL.

If you have any preferences about what you want to read first, let me know.