David Hahn (L-A-T-E-R that week)

First installment (pages 000-012) of the free serialization (about 13 weeks worth) of PROXIMA CENTAURI up on my website and patreon www.patreon.com/posts/proxim... also print copies of the book are for sale in my store store.fareldal.com/product/prox... #emospaceopera

I, too, just received my digital edition of THE MANY ODD ORIGINS OF EVEN STEVEN by @karlkesel.bsky.social @davidhahn.bsky.social and friends (including my own self!), and WOW! THere's so much more in this than I expected! This is an impressive chonk o' reading, as the French say!

Nice work, folks!

Thank you, me too.

Pen and ink watercolor bust of a derpy-looking bald man in a weird diving or space suit.

Little bald derpy diver.

oh shit

Guys guys guys tonight I tried making a Vodka and Diet Dr. Pepper and let me tell you...that dog don't hunt. BUT it's better than not having a dog at all.

On another platform, an established creator (known but not famous) who isnt known for posting politics, made a political statement that has all of his peers replying with "WTF are you serious with this opinion?!" and there is no follow up. His subsequent posts are just biz as usual. World is weird.

Related (but the reverse), I also find it weird when people refer to a character in realtion to story in a movie solely by the actor's name as if the actor IS the character. Schwarzenegger being the exception.

My original story characters are living beings in my head, but I don't talk about them as if others should accept them as real. Yet, the vast majority of other creators talk about their characters as if they're talking about real people. That is odd to me, or am I the one missing something?

Helped Frank Black (Pixies) load his equipment into the trunk of his Cadillac after seeing him perform. He then drove off into the night.

Funny, I read it as "older" and didn't notice the typo until now.

Thank you!

I hope I didn't need to read other books in the series before this one.

Good to know. I can tolerate less than compelling characters if the sci-fi is off the wall. (Looking at you, Three Body Problem series)

Books covers of We Who Are Bout To... by Joanna Russ, Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Ice by Anna Kavan, Downward to Earth by Robert Silverberg, and Tau Zero by Poul Anderson.

Latest sci-fi book haul to keep me busy!

Out now from @DarkHorseComics William of Newbury "This deserves a place on every fantasy reader’s shelf."- @publisherswkly - based on the true writings of an #medieval monk come for the spooky fun #Fantasy #comics #comicbooks #anthro #YA ordering links in bio https://a.co/d/d3Afggs

Whoop halftime, MAGA you better run to your safe space. And you mofos better not be eating nachos either.

In an interview I think in 2024, Howey was asked about AI and his take was something really flip and nerd "edgy" along the lines of "the sun is going to go red giant in about 5 billion years and destroy all life in the solar system so it doesn't really matter so you might as well use AI."

He's a nice guy, but seems to get really worked up and agitated, and curses as he works. He also has relaxation music (like you'd hear while getting a massage) playing on his phone. So I guess he's trying.

Lucky.

The contractor the landlord sent talks to himself and yells at himself when he drops a tool or something, so it's like there's not one but TWO people tearing apart my bathroom on a Sunday morning.

And win the race to what? The top of Shit Mountain?

Family who don't get why freelancers who make their own schedule are always busy working: when anything unexpected happens, it's the person w/ the flexible schedule who usually deals with it, so we're constantly working in preparation of possibly losing an afternoon to help a friend with car trouble

So many books in the 2010s with titles like The Girl in the Title of the Book.

I can get self-conscious about being a creative around strangers. A contractor was doing some work in our house and I mention something about the Superbowl, because that's a normie thing, and dude's all "that's this Sunday? I don't keep up with that stuff." Made myself the normie for no good reason.

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I know, right? Maybe I'll just stick to dead authors lest my borrowing causes other authors to spontaneously out themselves as chat GPT users or something.

He posted an image of his wife as a cavewoman saying (paraphrasing) "I was bored so I was playing around with AI and made this." Like, not the end of the world, but akin to saying "so I asked chatGPT...." Ugh.