Ontploffing Boer @ontploffing@writing.exchange

@cryptovexillologist
New webfiction idea: this, but for explaining references in-text. You can tell that "by the Pope's left nut!" is a reference to something, but is it from earlier in this text? The author's other work? Historical? Genre-defining story? Current events? The knowledge is but a tap away, yet you find you cannot click, for the advertisement feel is too strong!

Here's the latest stage of my thoughts on #Zeonism in #Gundam: https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/on-zeonism/

Still incomplete, but with a better grasp of where I am in the process, and what's next.

@tripofmice yeah, New Fortnight's Resolutions are so much more fun. Less commitment, faster iteration.

I sat down to try to draw some conclusions from my research on #Zeonism in #Gundam, and, well, there's still a lot of stuff to research. I'm at a point where I need to either read or watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam, as well as rewatch half a dozen other things, just to fill in the gaps.

I thought I was farther.
Blar.

While brushing my teeth the other day, I figured out how to publish the X-rated version of the Magical Youth Particle Zoo (working title for #Graviton setting) story without putting it on a site that family members are likely to innocently stumble across, like if I published it on irradiate.space

The solution is to post it to AO3 as fanfiction of my own story.

And since I'm crossposting Tumblr stuff here, have a post about a #headcanon for a shared architecture of the Imperial #Radch spaceship fleet and space station construction, as depicted in Ann Leckie's Ancillary trilogy:
https://irradiate-space.tumblr.com/post/636442851763486720/headcanon-about-spaceship-and-space-station #worldbuilding

@tripofmice
That's one of those things where you email the sysadmin and the hosting company and the contact form and the most-technical-sounding person known to work there saying "hey it's DNS" and then a year later it's still broken because no one has the right accesses to fix it

A quick #worldbuilding post about interstellar tradertongues, or the sort of conlangs that are built to facilitate communication when the only things agreed upon are fundamental constants, physical reality, and math: https://irradiate-space.tumblr.com/post/635095746957492224/interstellar-trade-tongues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armorer

Look at this article about a minor character in a TV show. I've seen shorter articles for entire TV shows.

Dunno how they did it, but #Gundam AGE manages to hit some of the same soundtrack notes as Band of Brothers, in an appropriate but unexpected way.

Fanart by me of @cryptovexillologist 's excellent scifi serial "Mission Critical": a political cartoon criticizing the Earth Restoration Agency's plans to colonize the habitable exoplanet Malang.

Read her story here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23349046/chapters/55937116

@amateurhour@skull.website When you pull back far enough, it's not something specific to anime or computers or sexual perversion. It's just a specific case of the pattern that people tend to join the groups where they're accepted, not shunned. The rest of it is memetic contamination.