Wyld Dandelyon

Good luck with your deadline! I look forward to hearing how it is received. #SciFiChat

Next week I'd have to leave early to get my car to the shop for a 4:00 Central appointment. If you want to skip a week next week "due to various conflicts" that would be ok. #SciFiChat

You are very welcome, and I lost time when I have a deadline too, so no worries. #SciFiChat

Or at least, worries about you have been properly allayed!

Some of @sc4rfm4n.bsky.social 's posts are showing in my #Scifichat feed. But not all of them.

And now we shall see if, with
@davidrozansky.bsky.social here, whether my #scifichat posts show up in the search column.

Oh, now this is interesting. Two of your posts suddenly showed up in the #scifichat search column. None of mine, however.

Well, it sounds like he wasn't even here last week.

And I think if he was giving up on #scifichat, he would have told at least you and me. Last month was super-busy for me and last Friday just didn't work out for getting here.

I hope he's ok!

Yeah, but even my own posts labeled
#SciFiChat aren't updating the search column on @deckblue . While David's post at the end of last week said this week would be social hour first, having to search my home feed is not efficient. I almost missed this post that I'm replying to, for example.

Bother. The #scifichat search column doesn't seem to be updating on @deckblue .

But I also don't see any recent posts from @davidrozansky.bsky.social or @sc4rfm4n.bsky.social I hope you folks are just late, but if the search isn't working (again) chatting would be very frustrating.

Is anyone else here at
#scifichat ?

Well, at least they are using the word that #scifi has used for a sentient machine-based life form for their decidedly non-sentient computer programs.

And, yes, for proffit on many levels.

Hello #SciFiChat!

See you all next week! #SciFiChat

Not ancient aliens or modern ones...or future ones either...I like it. #SciFiChat

Oooh, there could be a LOT of stories in that anthology! #SciFiChat

Not as much as movie costumers and props, I figure. Especially since a lot of the cosplay is recreating the look seen in our movies. #SciFiChat

Still, the cosplay is so cool!

I think my favorite historical series by an SF writer is Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January series. #SciFiChat

That's no surprise at all! #SciFiChat

Hello, #SciFiChat !

Our power went out briefly last night, and I had to start the computer up from scratch, but I'm here.

They have good reasons to pay attention to each other? And if they guess wrong, they'll get hurt. That's a good motivation to work hard to understand your enemy. #scifichat

Conflicting goals can work well for when you don't want your antagonist to be evil; petty grudges can signal stupidity or evil; and megalomania is very popular.

And then there's narcissism combined with bigotry...

#SciFiChat

Hello #SciFiChat!

Sorry, life intervened. I’m very briefly in between driving places. Glad to see you all at #SciFiChat even if I can’t be there.

Creative shapeshifting! #scifichat

Mundane Folklore—all the stuff that the students won’t have to actually face in magical battles. #scifichat

Oh, most of them violate any and all mundane safety regulations! That’s part of the fun! #scifichat. For readers, anyway. But for the powerful students too.

So, how are you finding the Dresden Files? #scifichat

Hello #scifichat! I’m getting ready for writing a bunch of songs in February. I’m sure a bunch will be speculative fiction, one way or another.

On the one hand, there have always been risks to any kind of transportation, but especially flight, and moreso space flight.

On the other hand, they are making a disclaimer out loud. That's not reassuring.

#SciFiChat