Beginning Go

[jetsam]

I've seen a lot of people talking lately about taking up go, so I thought I'd share this

The Interactive Way To Go, which is a series of interactive exercises that works through some of the basic concepts. Very low level and you can potter around with each problem as long as it takes.

And you don't want to know distracting it has been this evening. I hate losing.

(It does teach you how some of the common themes work - like ko battles - which I'd seen a lot in fic and never quite understood. Ko apparently means 'eternity', so that plays rather nicely into Ko Yeongha getting Shindou's 'linking the past and the future' line. I know his name's Korean but...)

ETA: and to clarify, I know that Korean will have different meanings and might be different based on transliteration. I'm just commenting on the coincidence, which entertained me.

Fanfic

[tuulentupa]

I wrote for the mini round of Blind Go that little ficlet about Hikaru's mom, and how she heard some strange music at times... This is the actual story I had in my mind, on which that was based.

Title: The Three Nights of Obon
Characters: Sai, Mitsuko
Pairings: Eventually, yes... Sai/Mitsuko
Rating: PG, so far anyway.
Summary: It's time for the Bon festival, and Mitsuko makes a rather peculiar discovery.

At the moment only here, in my writing LJ.

(Crossposted to the hikago community on LJ - where, btw, I'm tuuli-chan. I just grew tired of open id - not to mention that it wouldn't let me post here, so I created myself an account here.)