There's a new episode of The Adventure Zone out and I plan to be on that like flies on a backyard barbie.
But first! Today's instant and a thousand words towards Clockwork Souls. And once I'm down to three weeks and 9K left to my novel, I can dive into the lands of imagination care of the McElboys.
I am excite.
I am also distractible in the extreme because I wanna give it a listen NOW NOW NOW NOW...
But that won't work if I wanna get my shit done early.
So I'd better get that together.
A place is marked as “ No weapons allowed”.
One (or more) of the crew proceeds to spend a ridiculous amount of time removing all of the weapons from their being.
Cue terror and hilarity. -- Anon Guest
[AN: My favourite trope!]
"No, no, Human Jan. You do not check that your weapons are operational. You check them in. For safety and safekeeping."
"Right," said Human Jan. "Nobody has weapons, nobody can harm anyone. That's the theory, right?"
"That is the practice," sighed
Read more »Yesterday, I had a sore left foot. It was a minor annoyance and I tried to walk it off to no avail.
This morning, I took a look and discovered that I had a HAIR stuck under my skin, much like a splinter. 5cm hair, 3cm of which was embedded under my skin.
What.
The.
Fuck.
Of course I pulled that annoying little mofo carefully out from under my skin, but it's anyone's guess as to how the flying shit it got
Read more »A human led crew of ragtag aliens get captured and are being held separately for interrogation.
The issue isn’t getting them to talk.
The issue isn’t even getting them to shut up. In fact, they’ve been perfectly cooperative.
The only issue?
They’re all telling equally terrible, completely contradictory lies. -- Anon Guest
You know the scene. You know the cuts. You've seen it so many times. Multiple people are asked the same question, and the audience is treated
Read more »I managed to daydream the morning away, today. I still have to arrange some dinner protein for the family, but first... I am getting the Instant done as quickly as my fuzzy brain can manage.
And since we're just about out of MCT, I have to go snag some more of that or I'll get worse.
Horrifying thought, that.
So of course it's taken me an hour to get this far and I'll likely take another three hours getting my Instant done
Read more »“You can still save the world.”
“I could,” grinned the human, “if I wanted to.” Behind them, the Capital burned.
“But you won’t.” My voice was more hoarse than I’d ever heard it, and I could taste the bitterness of my own blood running down my cheek.
The human’s “shrug” was silhouetted by the flames.
“Convince me.” -- Anon Guest
What motivated a human? Greed? No. This human was already profiting from the current course of events. Events that
Read more »So in this episode of What's Fucked Now, we investigate one of the multitude of reasons why Java firkin sucks.
1: It's too new for anything else to use it.
That's right, my dear readers. A Java Update caused my site to go do-lally and the Java had to be downgraded for everything to work properly.
There's new security for everything because shithole hackers view Java as a challenge and everything runs on Java and we only updated last firkin week what
Read more »Due to the dangerous and rather... peculiar circumstances of the mission, all crew members were assigned a personal “guardian human”.
Your human seems to hate you. At least if their glare and “sarcasm” is anything to go off of. You’ve already tried all the suggested bonding methods but you’re certain that she wouldn’t hesitate to leave you (to die! On that gods-forsaken planet!) if given the chance.
But then the storm came. -- Anon Guest
Edge Territory Planetary Survey,
Read more »And it wasn't as easy as it could have been if Beloved had just listened to me in the first place.
Here's how it went:
Read more »Having grown up together in the intergalactic community equivalent of an extremely isolated orphanage, you are very confused as to why everyone seems to be terrified of your best-friend-turned-basically-sibling-because-years-of-social-isolation-will-do-that-to-you. I mean, sure. She certainly has some weird habits and ways of showing affection, and can be rather unaware of her strength at times, but she’s also the nicest, quietest, most loving and peaceful sentient you’ve ever met. So why do all the scary, known-to-be-killers species hiding from her in fear?
I had planned to get some animation done, yesterday. BUT... I had a critical brain fail.
Basically, my Beloved owns Adobe Animate and there's no such thing as a family account with Adobe because they firkin suck like that. So, in order to use Animate, I have to remember my lifemate's email and password.
In order to use Photoshop, I have to remember my email and password. Janked, I know, but that's the way this particular cookie crumbled.
Now, because my office
Read more »We've all done it. Yelled at the screen when the 'new guys' did something to an old favourite. -- Knitnan
"They made a movie out of Sigh of the Wind!"
Kam looked at his nerd sister. "And you want me to go see it with you."
"Well... camouflage. I don't want some neckbeard mansplaining my favourite novel series to me for the entire film." Jen shrugged. Women were always challenged on their knowledge of Sigh of the Wind despite being the target
Read more »I'm tired and I can't sleep, so I'm blogging.
I have stuff to do and I'm playing that old game: Am I really tired, or is this depression/asthma/some virus?
Do I want coffee, or do I need coffee? Does this make me an addict? Am I overthinking things again?
Can I summon the mental fortitude to summarise my novel and fix the markdown formatting while I'm at it?
If I try to nap now, will I even be able to?
Read more »Treasure comes in many forms. -- Knitnan
When the wealthy can afford room-sized vaults to protect themselves and their treasures, those who can't do so are bound to revolt. This is a fundamental truth. Civilisations end when the gap between the wealthiest and the rest are too large to be withstood.
When the wealthy live in secret, secure bunkers, separated from the real world by armies of their own guards and throngs of their own servants, you know the world is about
Read more »Things are going glacial. I have hit a wall.
This wall is all about me versus the edition of Adapting I'm using to create the two-page-max summary of a 120K-word novel. Which sucks ARSE.
The sooner I get to not doing summaries, the happier I shall be. I much prefer elevator pitches. I can do that. Watch: