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• basal-surge commented on The latest news
  Give us time on the Red Deer domestication; here in NZ we've been farming them since the late nineteen sixties, and the current population is around 2 million (Compare to 10 million cattle and 40 million sheep.) We're not doing anything so silly as to try to breed out the antlers, mind - that's where most of the money is, selling deer velvet to the Chinese. We want them big. (Hence the popularity of crossbreeding with Wapiti, for the much greater weight of velvet) We're also partway into the domestication of fallow deer as well....
• basal-surge commented on The latest news
  Well under 200m, for the average shot. Hence "stalking" - getting to and staying within that 200m is the tricky bit. I seldom shoot red deer at more than 100m, and prefer my to take my shot at no more than fifty. However, I have the advantage of stalking in fairly heavy scrub and forest, so often the deer and I are basically on top of each other. I don't use sporting rifles, though, preferring peep sighted range rifles or issue infantry rifles pre-1945. Heart/lung shot is generally the most reliable, although if I'm at fifty metres or closer, I'll...
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkiLXV2mDF_7okO8QkO9GOiH6RY-2VmIWY commented on Time tourism
  What about E. Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet? That's a mixed group of Edwardian boys and girls who go time-traveling by means of a magic ankh. They go back to ancient Egypt and forward to a somewhat dystopian utopia. CS Lewis's The Magician's Nephew has the same deal but with world hopping via magic rings, going to a mostly dead world then a world at its birth. Then Mary Norton's The Magic Bedknob and Bonfires and Broomsticks--which Disney put together for Bedknobs and Broomsticks--has in the second book time travel back to the Great Fire of London. And while...
• Bellinghman commented on Time tourism
  Or to quote Charlie in the following article to this: It's also noteworthy that the "men time-travel; women stay at home" paradigm doesn't apply in childrens' literature, if the time traveler is a child. - perhaps that may be widened to say if any of the time travellers are children....
• austern commented on Time tourism
  The funny thing: I can think of lots of instances of time travel stories, some of which may be counterexamples to the original post (one of my favorite time travel stories that has a female time traveler and that's very specifically about mid-20th century gender roles, for example, is Ellen Klages's "Time Gypsy"), but I'm not actually sure I can think of any examples of time tourism. The title of this post feels perfectly reasonable, and it feels like it ought to be a really common trope, I'm just having trouble thinking of concrete examples. Well, not in grownup fiction,...