Ontploffing Boer @ontploffing@writing.exchange

"Model Minority" by Cory Doctorow is one of the more-interesting pieces of Superman #fanfic I've read recently. It uses Bruce more as a Stark than a Batman, and sets the Superman pastiche as newly woke.
#recommendation

condoms: the silencer of the dick!

Aha. The story the video reminded me of was "A Tragedy of Errors" By Poul Anderson, about Roan Tom and his wives.

The Carpenter Brut music video "Turbo Killer" reminds me of nothing so much as a half-remembered #scifi story, about a classical polymath starship captain rescuing his wife. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er416Ad3R1g

Gonna have to go find that story.

If the truck had propellors, Henry, we'd've named the company Swim.

Here, have a permalink for this setting detail: https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/system-of-blood-oaths/

The soundtrack for Evan Dahm's Island Book is a neat thing. Imagine a book having a soundtrack, sold on cassette tape! http://www.rice-boy.com/islandbook/

(I bought the tape because it has a free digital download, too)

Would it make sense to have a special dye pigment be rubbed into the cuts of a blood oath, to distinguish accidental scarring from intentional?

A soldier walks into the bar, heavily scarred. Did they swear many oaths, or just get in many fights?

In a village where the previous toot's approach to blood oaths is the standard, a child is born missing a limb. What does this effect have on their perception of the child? Is the child perpetually forsworn, or is the child held as incapable of swearing oaths? #worldbuilding

A #worldbuilding document for a syncretist religion focused on #Angels as fragments of a diminished God: https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/an-angelic-religion/

Why yes, I am still reading David Friedman's Legal Systems Unlike Our Own. http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsContents.htm

Plot bunny up for adoption:
A resident of a resource-poor space colony accidentally kills a member of another space colony. Intercolony common law holds that the killer's colpny must pay the cost of training a replacement for the deceased, who in this case was a centenarian veteran ecological system analyst. Weregild would be 100 years' common rations, plus training materials for an expensive occupation. #WritingPrompts

The "is colonization of space the same sort of colonization as Europe entering Africa or the Americas, and how does that affect how we should colonize space?" discourse on Tumblr has been great to watch. And now I wonder how my friends think of it.