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Describing technical weapons is surprisingly complex when the characters are all technologically pre-Renaissance level. Lotr meeting scifi.
Sorta like Fire Emblem Three houses. Or Gate
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Desperation is the mother of tyranny. Dark days incoming.
Article 11 and Article 13 have passed.
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I believe I speak for everyone who’s ever watched Let’s Plays on Youtube when I say: Fuck.
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Double shift on thanksgiving.
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Cyber Monday is where it is at.
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Yes, Cyber Monday. I prefer online shopping anymore, something that can be done in a birthday suit!
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Dreams are weird indeed. Anyone else getting them?
For tornadoes can jump
and to observe disaster separated by cracking glass.
Elur of 3?
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That’s okay, JayDee.
Completely normal to start stories just take your time pick one and affirm that you intend to finish it. Its not a race, there is no time limit. There is no score keeper.
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[After death]
Me: So, I understand there was no scorekeeper?
Anubis: *Pulls out my heart, puts it on a scale which drops so fast the feather on the other side is catapulted into space*
Me: Is… is that bad?
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I’m pretty sure you can get by on a technicality rather than suffer oblivion from Ammut.
But in seriouness I’m pretty sure you’d be fine. Smut and writing aren’t damnable sins.
And while evil may be real. Most people aren’t.
No matter what pantheon or deity. They will accept your virtues. Avoid Isfet and you’ll be fine.
The 42 Ideals of Ma’at aren’t hard.
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Dreams are weird. This thing could rupture universes by will alone and cause stars to supernova by looking at them.
Its galaxies were breathtaking works of art. Somehow it knew I pitied it and that pity was an insult. For all its power it just didn’t have that spark required for life. Like having all the ingredients for a recipe but still somehow missing a vital component. Sorta like wanting to make a pizza but not having an oven.
It said life was pointless but I’ve never known the answer so inherently.
I said the point of life was to live. That it had no right to insult even a single living cell. Since they just by existing were doing what they were meant to.
Its worlds were beautiful. In a sad sorta away for the one thing they all had in common was that they were devoid of life and always would be. It is the height of tragedy that all that beauty and breathtaking views were for it and it alone. And I couldn’t help but pity it.
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An echo of sentience, unable to shift from it's predetermined path or turn against it's nature.
Funnily enough, this is roughly how I understand the ideas of angels not having free will.
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Sometimes I do not wish to dream.
For it's impolite to see with eyes that are not yours.
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Sometimes I do not wish to dream.
For it's impolite to see with eyes that are not yours.
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Ebook Launch is a go
So far they’ve been helpful and professional.
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Editorial Review came back.
So I was correct to put mature warning. They enjoyed it… For a middle novel.
So before I launch any website I have to go back and revamp it so it fits a first book feel
rather than a middle of the series vibe.
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Think of it like what happens if you wrote the two towers
Before the fellowship of the ring.
Or Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix before harry potter and the philosopher’s stone.
Or even the empire strikes back
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It sounds like they want a bit of world building or stage setting up front.
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Well, not super bad then, I mean, there’s a certain popular film franchise that started off with episode number four.
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Finally found a place for Mortane. The hellscape just didn’t fit in Oceania’s lore but it does fit in Ghoulneedle’s/Winterfall’s.
Now I hope I don’t come off as preachy in one of my longer chapters of Winterfall.
Now officially off to my wintertale haha. My attempt at sweet and cuddly. So we’ll all see how that goes.
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Finally, my labor is nearing its ebb. 3k words left
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How does it feel? I’m always torn when I make it to the end of something. I’m thrilled to be done, but never quite ready to let the little story go out into the world all alone…
You guys are making it to the end of things?
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You guys are making it to the end of things?
“End of things” … that does not compute.
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Fun fact and a bit of trivia
The first mention of orange as a color was in 1502 and was a description of clothing for Margaret Tudor
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and to add to that
the fruit was originally called a norange, but some scribe messed up and changed it to an orange, and it stuck…
same thing a nadder changed to an adder and a nickname used to be an ickname
::*whispers* tell me you watch too much QI without telling me you watch too much QI::
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Fun Fact: One of the names of Odin is Jölfuðr. Yule Father
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In The Dresden Files Odin and Santa are different aspects of the same guy, and I just thought it was a cool thing to do when I read it, but now I figure Jim Butcher was playing off that old myth!
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Have a coworker who can’t Recapcha.
I’ve never seen this happen IRL.
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It’s a test, for you, @InvidiaRed
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Well then I probably failed. Since I helped her after the fifth time.
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It’s not all bad. When the robot revolution comes you will be spared for your assistance.
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Heads up Offering Sorrow
is a dark antagonist’s POVs.
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Aw, a more clear-cut evil for the sake of evil? Most of my original fiction “antagonists” could be written as protagonists if you switched POVs – ie, they think they’re protecting society from the evils my typical main characters “represent”.
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Sometimes you don’t need a complex motivation other than
I’m going to destroy everything!- Angra Mainyu
Angrboda’s primary motivation is family. She genuinely loves her children Fenrir, Hel and Jormungander and wants them safe on earth is understandable. Wanting to avenge her own murder is too, Conspiring to get humanity to nuke Asgard less so.
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True, sometimes it simply takes a divorce to bring out the worst in people. Have fun writing whatever the heck you want to write!
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Hell week is apt. Holiday panic is in full swing with every miser and groupon fanatic trying to get thanksgiving done. Foresight is a thing and being horrible to cashiers will not endear you to them.
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I try to be nice to the cashiers, and I try avoiding those self-scans. (However, the local %*!mart is trying to make it unavoidable, leaving one cashier available when it’s installed self-scan in lieu of *most* of the old regular lanes.)
Yeah, I’ll be making a stop tonight, though to a more local shop, get one or two things I know I’m out of.
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I don’t like the self scans either. From the selfish point of view there’s always something goes wrong, and from the unselfish I’d rather cashiers had the jobs.
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I made the turkey run last night—I like a fresh bird, and I always pick up my bird at Stew Leonard’s. The staff there is incredibly helpful, and not a self-scan in sight. It’s so much a part of my holiday tradition that I’m not sure I could do Thanksgiving without Stew’s and those turkeys.
At my local market, I know most of the cashiers. We talk to each other about our kids, our lives, our vacation plans. I always mutter about using one of the grocery delivery services in our area, but I’d miss chatting with everyone at the store.
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Here’s a language funny.
If Tomb and Womb have the same sound
then shouldn’t bomb be pronounced Boom?
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Not to mention cough, rough, dough, and bough.
Also, I’m glad they called it a vowel shift and not a vowel movement.
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“Bomb” typically pronounces itself “boom,” so there is that.
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I did not expect attempting to translate post industrial concepts into a dark fantasy setting is a peculiar situation.
Clown Car- Miniature horseless carriage
Machine guns- rapid handcannon
Welthauptstadt-?
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There’s an interesting way to relatively date something.
Prior to the 19th century Natural Philosophy was the word for what we’d call Science. It’s a nifty little signifer that adds more to story.
Progression Goes Natural Philosophy to Natural Science to Science. Scientist wasn’t really used until it was coined in 1833 by William Whewell
So anything essentially prior industrial revolution. To be accurate you’d use Natural Philosopher
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Miniature horseless clown carriage crashes into the cemetery – oh, all those bodies!
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… You laugh but I already sorta used that joke
Calliope from the Nightmare Grotesquerie does crash into a cemetery.
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I feel like the holiday spirit has been evading me.
Just misers trying to get stuff for free
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S’a shame. I hope there’s at least some bright point today.
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I feel like there is a whole untapped subgenre of what happens when a zombie apocalypse gets worse.
*Werewolf howls*
or demons escaping hell or vampires going crazy as they try to find the last living humans before they go totally feral.
or even suddenly it goes disaster movie.
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@GeorgeGlass Max Brooks*’ short story The Extinction Parade and the comic miniseries adaption pretty much matches that.
*The World War Z guy.
Edit – https://www.amazon.com/Max-Brooks-Extinction-Parade-1/dp/1592912346
“As humans wage their losing fight versus the hoards of the subdead, a frightening realization sets in with the secretive vampire race: our food is dying off. This is the story of the vampire's descent into all-out war with the mindless, hungry hordes of the zombie outbreak as humanity tries to survive them all! “
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Suddenly, the thought came to my head… “The Zombie Dating GAME SHOW!” I must be very disturbed.
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I kinda want to write a zombie apoclypse that happens during a dating game show. hahaha
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I have never been so insulted as when a cousin brought vegan turkey to thanksgiving. I woke up at 4 to get started and this person brings vegan turkey… And no no one is vegan in the family.
Words were said.
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To measure or not to measure, that’s the debate
Some dishes, this ain’t required, like number of bacon strips to cut up for the scrambled eggs. Some flavoring ingredients, like cinnamon or vanilla or even garlic, can be easily increased in measure, so for french toast, I’ll eyeball it. That soda mix I made, that required the syringes. And the rocket propellant, that required the digital scale down to the milligram precision.
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I remember asking my grandmother how much of a seasoning she used, and she cupped her hand and said, ”This much.” Drove my mother nuts, but I totally understood it. I just had her measure it out and pour it into my hand. Worked like a charm!
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“Looks about right” is really a unit of measure, really, I swear
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I love my parents.
I’m at work late. I turn around and the arizona rain hit. Its raining sideways the wind is howling and moaning and my car is in the farthest reaches of the parking lot.
and my parents of all people drive up and help me to my car.
I don’t deserve them.
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Amazing the stereotypes we get about places! I wasn’t aware Arizona had rain.
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I survived two hellish days.
Between Jevoah witnesses getting thrown out of the mall because they think holidays are evil and santa is secretly satan near children.
To witnessing the dregs of society I can safely say i’ve lost quite a bit of hope towards humanity but not quite to nihilism yet.
Anywho hope yall had a good holiday.
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QuoteThank you BronxWench, blessed Be
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