Ontploffing Boer @ontploffing@writing.exchange

19 thumbnails, covering 6 out of 29 illustrations

5 thumbnails for illustration 1 of 29 done.

Tooting to save the link: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1612/1612.03238.pdf #worldbuilding

Cheese me, Seymour

Justifying my petition for a grant for cosmetic surgery and limb amplification with a quote from Ms Blackle Mori, many-armed shark girl: "ehehe arms :)"

@SuricrasiaOnline Is Blackle's preferred title Miss, Ms., Mrs., or something else? For use in the sentence:

To quote ____ Blackle Mori, many-armed shark girl, "ehehe arms"

Pounded out over this weekend, a story about the people who survived, when a soldier stayed behind: https://irradiate.space/stories/i-will-catch-up/

Content warnings: death, destruction, #scifi.
#writing

Looking back on the last few weeks, most of my fiction writing has come from being nerdsniped.

And most of my nonfiction has similarly come from being nerdsniped.

I need to work on writing things that come from not being nerdsniped.

It's Blade Runner Day, which means I get to re-up this joke story about US politics and turtles: https://irradiate.space/stories/kowalski-knows-his-politics/

An exhaustively-plotted, poorly-researched, somewhat-thought-out delve into cultures and memes forming the Hives in #TerraIgnota, with a particular focus on the SF Bay Area memespace: https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/towards-utopia-terra-ignota/

A #worldbuilding post in which I play with #Cytoscape.

That 5800-word story is now 6000 words, and I'm looking at it again today, and am amused/saddened by the date on the story of June 16. It probably won't be done until Christmas.

Space iceberrrrrrrrrg

Do you spell it

An interesting thing in Questionable Content at the moment is various humanoid AIs' bodies' joints. Melon and May have seams at neck and other joints. Roko's new body has a visible neck seam, but not others. Yay Newfriend, as far as we can tell, does not have seams. Does this mean that Yay Newfriend has a more-advanced body? Or just different aesthetic preferences?

"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