New Herpetology of the Apocalypse! Problem Sleuth is BACK — we only got through Episode 2 this time, so it's a short episo--I lied, it's another long one. Oops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loic...

That little hop is a guinea pig hop.

I wrote a song for this - a sea shanty!

New blog post: how to market yourself by building an author persona that's trustworthy, evocative, and doesn't make you want to crawl under your desk.

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Blind Date with Death ep 6! Logan, a.k.a. the Goob, on a nighttime run past some multi-million-dollar homes on a cool August night in the Colorado Rockies, with backstory flitting through the shadows.

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New episode of the Homestuck/Herpetology of the Apocalypse channel. This week: Freud, Lovecraft, & recipe games. Come hang out with us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=01fD...

Asshole Mitigation Plan, part 11: Punishment changes behavior, often on a level we're not fully aware of. Accountability is conscious measurement. Guess which one assholes favor.

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You yourself are a bizarre case.

Having to look this up - is it Current 93?

Black and white thinking: it looks like it's about good and bad, right and wrong, us and them...but it's really about "asshole wins" versus "you lose."

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Who is NOT an asshole? People with a conscience--and apex predators, people with no morals but who take care of their own.

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Story Spotlight: “The Wind Witch of Weird Water Harbour” by Steve Vernon - Blackbird Publishing In Steve Vernon’s “The Wind Witch of Weird Water Harbour,” a desperate sea captain makes a deal with a witch who sells the wind by the knot. But some debts

Witches and captains and boats stuck at harbour...
Eerie tales of oceans and other bodies of water.

HAUNTED WATERS, edited by Jamie Ferguson. Feature story by Steve Vernon.

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ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN. Why assholes? Why do they even exist?

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ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN, Part 7: What IS an Asshole?

A fucking bootlicker, that's what.

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Asshole Mitigation Plan, p6: Micromanagement. Manipulation starts small.

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New BDwD section is live. Luxury hotels, sharp tongues, expensive food, and two so-called terrible people circling each other...and who don't know the difference between flirting and old trauma.

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Asshole Mitigation Plan, P5. Fuck ICE.

"Doing Enough" and Despair.

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Asshole Mitigation Plan P4. Cheap and Easy Fixes.

Why don't we do 'em?

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The Asshole Mitigation Plan: how to disenfuck your life from assholes. Not perfectly. But the parts you can observe, influence, and control.

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I have a story in this! With a sea shanty.

Cursed artifacts. Haunted submarines. A lake that never gives back what it takes. Water remembers what the world forgets.

Haunted Waters: fifteen tales that take you beneath the surface.

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I've got three of these up so I guess it's more than a brief experiment.

THE ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN.

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who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

New chamber larp published on my website! -- The Anatomy Lesson.
"The year is 1632: the place, Amsterdam. Aris Kindt, a desperate violent criminal, mugs a passer-by in an attempt to steal their valuable cloak. Kindt is arrested, tried, and swiftly executed by hanging..."
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This is an incredible cookbook.

I've given three copies as gifts, and one family called it "nearly transformative" for its ability to widen the range of foods their autistic child would eat, and for opening paths of consideration for *what* things their child found objectionable.

Buy it.

Episode 4 of Blind Date with Death is live. Luxury-hotel glamour on the surface, claustrophobic service hallway paranoia behind the scenes. Spies, romance, and "I'll do anything as long as it isn't line dancing" vibes. www.patreon.com/posts/148329...

Episode 6 of Herpetology of the Apocalypse is up: The Great British Bakeoff Episode?!? Sorta. Pie-ing, Sumerian and Greek mythology, dead tech, Touch Detective, and BARRY HUGHART. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syW...

Anyone can be tired/drained/stressed enough to be an asshole (it's a two-year-old's view on life; we can all revert). But assholes can never be rested enough to not be an asshole.

Assholes are never a net gain over time. NEVER.

"I'm sorry that you feel that way." "Why don't you ever get over this issue?" "You're too sensitive." "The issue is black and white." "It's not my fault that you left me in charge." "Why didn't you do what I wanted you to do? I shouldn't have to say it."

Three times and you're justified booting em out.

The one thing an asshole cannot do is take accountability for their own actions. They do not understand what consequences ARE, so they will 100% fuck this up. They'll try to copy accountability, but it's like an AI trying to copy human behavior.

Hold to the original point three times. A normal person will either re-examine their position or argue normally, over the original point. The asshole will change the subject, make assertions and refuse to give proof, insult you, tell you that you're the bad one because you don't agree.