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Thanks, @Eyes of Nine ; definitely low on the boffo laffs scale. I like it when I can note positive influences on my reading.

Very true, @Hussar. Our kitties got a new cat tree this week. Moonrise likes the lower levels. Sunset is in love with the heights. She has never been so high up, as an indoor cat in home that has no furniture so tall.

I agree with what others have suggested, that it’s easier to do this when young. Over time, particularly if you and/or people you care about suffer grief and loss created by adherents of view X, you’re going to have a harder time approaching works built with X in creators’ minds. And rightly so...

In addition to ongoing political stress, I had extra familial and health stresses lately, including two hypertensive episodes on successive days. Blood pressure of around 190/120 plus autonomic nervous failures feels weird but not in a way I recommend to anyone. I read shallowly. I did finish...

Yup. Talk with anyone in mainstream publishing, or for that matter textbook and technical reference publishing, and you’ll hear amazing stories. The upper tiers of rpg publishing are actually about as good as it gets. People who doubt this are likely not reading enough in unrelated fields.

Yess, I did mean McCaffrey. Good to double-check, though, so I did. If anyone wants to look up stupid details, the words “tent peg” will get you there. But honestly, don’t bother. Just typical last-century ignorance and lack of self-reflection.

Well, now you’ve done it. That distant rumble is from a veritable army of angry Gnostics heading this way. When it comes to you versus their direct experience of the pleroma, well, I hope not to get caught in between.

Homophobia, including the idea that annal rape is responsible for making men gay, alienated a significant chunk of her fans.

Ohhhhh yeah. This makes it all much easier to handle on my end.

Right. I made some additions to my ignore list this morning for people mostly behaving okay. But what they want out of RPGs us so utterly different from my wants and therefore assessments of what games are good or bad are really not in the same universe as me. So I ignored them because I kept...

https://www.audible.com/blog/john-scalzi-writing-for-audio-made-me-a-better-writer-period

John Scalzi has blogged some about it. He finds the learning through experience very interesting.

I have to agree with you there.

If there’s genuine demand for it, someone else could set up awards like the ENnies but welcome the inclusion of substantial AI elements. In the meantime, I support the ENnies having the boundaries that the people doing the work want them to have.

I love the look of the world, probably surprising nobody who saw my work on Trinity and Adventure. The main characters leave me unexpectedly unexcited - they just don’t ring my “these are the Fantastic Four” chimes, and I’m not sure why. Could just be the trailer editing, for all I know. I want...

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