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Internet will shut down any day now and moving day is next week! Time to go on a frantic search for free kindle books to download! Maybe I’ll get lucky and find some free erotica en espanol to help me learn.
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Internet will shut down any day now and moving day is next week! Time to go on a frantic search for free kindle books to download! Maybe I’ll get lucky and find some free erotica en espanol to help me learn.
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Seems the internet situation will not be better. Home for a weekend, but it seems these homeward visits are gunna be few and far between.
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Barely home at all, and already I’m taking off tomorrow morning. At least the internet situation should be better, and I hope to get some writing done at least.
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Was getting coffee at the office when I suddenly had the unbidden thought, “I oughta smurf you right up the smurfhole, you smurfing smurfer!”
Thankfully, I don’t think anyone heard me laughing for no apparent reason.
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I’m home, finally home! For… about 2 days. Bloody fuckin ‘Ell.
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Next prompt on the list is ‘scary’ so how’s this for a title: “Pregnant in Alabama”
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This has not been one of my better weeks…
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I get to put creamcheese maker on my resume before my book. Life is truly weird.
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Just finished a first draft at 5008 words, which is the most I’ve done on a oneshot in a very long time. Now I need to roll it in glitter.
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I finally took the plunge. I am now one of those people… I joined reddit.
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Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah.
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QuoteWhat if you decided to go with “Ken cloned himself twice so he could have a threesome with himself”?
Seems a tad narcissistic, doesn’t it?
QuoteI see the next week’s prompts are “reviled, repulsive, revolting” so I guess that one’s gonna be an autobiography for me…
Honestly, though, those prompts are perfect for just about anything horror-related.
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Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah.
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Chapter 5, with an encore all character fourway would probably be a step too far and leave Ken in a "The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised" situation.
I have actually thought about ending it with a foursome, but I keep waffling on whether or not to try it. I’m not planning on it for now, but I’ll see how it goes writing the rest of the story. If the 3Plus tag should suddenly appear on the story, you’ll know what I’ve decided.
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Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah.
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Don’t get the wrong idea, this isn’t going to be a sci-fi equivalent of WitS. I am trying to give T_B roughly what he asked for. To give you some idea (chapter titles are tentative):
- Chapter 1 (Apocalypse): character introductions, establishing the Ark, Abaddon impact.
- Chapter 2 (A Mother’s Decision): minor world-building, mother/son pairing
- Chapter 3 (Sibling Love): minor world-building, brother/sister pairing
- Chapter 4 (More than Friends): best friend pairing
So there will be sex in all chapters except the first one. The science is more for the setting than anything else. I just really got into doing research for the setting.
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Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah.
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But quadrille? I’ve knocked out 1000 words easy. Not my best work, but with a bit of polishing it’ll be reasonably avagerge compared to some of the dribs drabs prompt fics I’ve done!
Well, if it works it works!
QuoteIt needs a new start and a new ending and some more character florishes in the middle, and the first new start I wrote I’ve I don’t really like, so I’ve come up with a second one but was having issues getting it down.
I’m currently fighting a bit with Repopulation over a similar issue. I’m trying to work out where to put the physical description of each character in the first chapter, which is especially hard since I get distracted every time I learn about some other cool feature of the Ark (that’s what Ken calls the Stanford Torus for fairly obvious reasons), like the chevron shields on the glass ceiling. I swear, half of my author’s notes on this thing are just going to be “Isn’t science cool?!” followed by “Oh yeah, some character stuff and sex happened in this chapter too, I guess.”
So I definitely understand the issues with getting a proper beginning on a story, and going through several variations on it.
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Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah.
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What’s going on with the rewrite?
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Things which literally never happen to me:
- Hearing Nuvole Bianche without mentally melting into a blissful rapturous puddle
- Seeing “Woozle” snoring with his mouth open and his little tongue hanging out without snickering
- Smelling an old book without the urge to huff it like a lunatic regardless of who’s watching
- Tasting a well-prepared quality tea without being thankful for life in general
- Feeling Heiferlump step on me with her pointy little toes without shrieking in pain then apologizing for startling her.
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Oh, sweet gods, Notre Dame is burning…
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And as a pagan-friendly Christian, I appreciate that.
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Oh, sweet gods, Notre Dame is burning…
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Me too. The good news is that they seem to have saved the other towers, as well as the historically vital artwork inside, so while this was bad, it could have been much worse.
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Oh, sweet gods, Notre Dame is burning…
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Does anyone know how it started yet?
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I took a challenge story back on March 24, and since then I’ve
- Calculated a Hohmann transfer orbit from LEO to the Earth-Moon L4 point.
- Calculated another such transfer orbit (from Jupiter to Earth) to represent the planet-killing asteroid’s fall toward the Sun and thus the Earth.
- Looked up several minor moons of Jupiter.
- Done research into how dark matter can hypothetically collapse into small objects like planets or asteroids.
- Looked into the differences between baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter, to explain why nobody sees the object coming but it can still cause a mass extinction upon impact, and…
- Done research into a proposed space colony (the Stanford Torus) to have dimensions and structural plans for the station upon which our characters escape the devastation being inflicted on Earth.
All of this for a mostly-incest PWP where a young man, his mother, his female best friend and his elder sister must repopulate the human race.
I may have gone overboard.
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Yup – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity being one such example with a, uh, Nordic Jesus. I’m sure some of the modern white supremacists pull the same shit.
Fucking Nazis ruin everything…
Quote“Oh, wait, you the first born? Yeah, you be afraid. If it’s any consolation I don’t like this any more than you do, kid. Pharoh being stubborn.”
I actually had the Archangel Azrael reminiscing about that very thing in an unpublished story. It’s not a funny memory, though.
Also, it’s kind of weird that you mentioned this, given that Passover starts in just over a week.
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I took a challenge story back on March 24, and since then I’ve
- Calculated a Hohmann transfer orbit from LEO to the Earth-Moon L4 point.
- Calculated another such transfer orbit (from Jupiter to Earth) to represent the planet-killing asteroid’s fall toward the Sun and thus the Earth.
- Looked up several minor moons of Jupiter.
- Done research into how dark matter can hypothetically collapse into small objects like planets or asteroids.
- Looked into the differences between baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter, to explain why nobody sees the object coming but it can still cause a mass extinction upon impact, and…
- Done research into a proposed space colony (the Stanford Torus) to have dimensions and structural plans for the station upon which our characters escape the devastation being inflicted on Earth.
All of this for a mostly-incest PWP where a young man, his mother, his female best friend and his elder sister must repopulate the human race.
I may have gone overboard.
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I accidentally looked at Lovecraft rather than his fictional universe and created the world’s most racist angel, Klandalphon
Strangely for a Judeo-Christian angel, he’s rather averse to Jewish people.
Quoteresponsible for all of the Aryan Jesus imagary
I may regret asking this question, but is Aryan Jesus actually a thing, or are we just talking about paintings depicting Jesus as white rather than Middle Eastern, like The Last Supper?
Also…
QuoteKlandalphon
It’s always good to know that Kevin’s ME-teor joke is very much in the JayDee spirit.
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I took a challenge story back on March 24, and since then I’ve
- Calculated a Hohmann transfer orbit from LEO to the Earth-Moon L4 point.
- Calculated another such transfer orbit (from Jupiter to Earth) to represent the planet-killing asteroid’s fall toward the Sun and thus the Earth.
- Looked up several minor moons of Jupiter.
- Done research into how dark matter can hypothetically collapse into small objects like planets or asteroids.
- Looked into the differences between baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter, to explain why nobody sees the object coming but it can still cause a mass extinction upon impact, and…
- Done research into a proposed space colony (the Stanford Torus) to have dimensions and structural plans for the station upon which our characters escape the devastation being inflicted on Earth.
All of this for a mostly-incest PWP where a young man, his mother, his female best friend and his elder sister must repopulate the human race.
I may have gone overboard.
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If I might reccomend a work? Check out the webcomic, freefall.
I’m actually familiar with Freefall, even if I haven’t actually read it. The website Atomic Rockets, which is a useful if sometimes hard to navigate resource for physics equations and potential spaceship designs, has referenced Freefall more than a few times, even using images from the comic as illustrations.
QuoteAlso, given support of skeletal structure and some readings of the Bible the wings are more likely to be mid-lower back or hips.
I have actually seen some pictures of angels with wings that are either attached lower down on the back or at the hips. The latter is strangely popular in anime-inspired works, along with small demonic wings attached at the hip.
If we’re going to talk about skeletal structure, then mid-back makes some sense, since the wings would have their own scapulae rather than being mounted on the ones being used for the arms (removing conflicts over muscle attachments) and would put the wings closer to the center of mass of the human body. Having said that, it does look a little strange to me, and it would likely conflict even worse with the sword, since now the scabbard would be knocking into the humerus of the left wing instead of passing underneath it, and the angle it would have to be at would be even more restricted than it would with shoulder-mounted wings.
I’m really not a fan of hip-mounted wings. I feel like as soon as those things start flapping you’re going to end up with the torso hanging forward from the hips during flight, which is not the most majestic image.
Ultimately, though, I don’t know that realism matters that much here. these are preternatural organisms, after all; they treat the laws of physics more like polite suggestions than anything else, so where the wings are mounted is, as far as I can tell, more a matter of personal preference.
Speaking of which, what did you mean about interpretations of the Bible? I ask because the only times I recall angels actually being described are in Ezekial 1 (which describes Cherubim and mentions that they have four wings, but never mentions where the wings attach to the body) and Isaiah 6 (which describes Seraphim, but again doesn’t say anything about where the six wings are attached), and maybe Zechariah 5 (verse 9 describes women with wings like those of a crane or stork, who may or may not be angels; again, no word on how the wings are attached).
QuoteI can link some tutorial examples
Feel free! I’m always happy to learn about new stuff.
Also, this has nothing to do with anything, but while scanning Deviantart to find pictures of the various wing arrangements, I ran across this, which I am linking to because it’s just really cool and creepy.
QuoteIf yer going off actual biblical references all bets are off for the angels. Might as well look at Lovecraft.
No kidding. If the description of your otherworldly visitor includes “four to six wings” and “covered in eyeballs,” it could be something from the Cthulhu Mythos, or it could be something from the Bible, which is kind of awesome.
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