That feeling when you see discourse about your work, and you can lay out exactly why you made the artistic decision that you did. But also it's in a fan space and you can't wade in without exercising a power and authority that would degrade the space. So you go take a walk or something instead.
His makeup is getting worse, impossibly. Is his physical appearance part of the “fascists lie not because they want you to believe them but to show they can lie with impunity” bit?
"Trump’s commitment to cover all maritime trade in the Gulf is also being rowed back." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
I read the Belgariad books until the spines broke when I was a teenage.
Well, now I am.
Yup
Which is to say, damn Francis Spufford is good.
There are books I loved when I was young that I can't enjoy anymore. They haven't changed. I have. The failures of craft that didn't bump me when I was sixteen just throw me out now. I don't find books I can lose myself in anywhere near as often, and when I do, they're precious.
Anyone want to lay odds that Hegseth sees this as unmanly weakness, orders them to do it, and we lose a ship?
When I start writing romance....
Some of the best things I've ever been involved with started as a way to address a colossal fuckup.
Breaking Epstein Investigation Update! NM DOJ has begun searching Zorro Ranch. ⬇️
Ok. Hit me with your best online Call of Cthulhu ttrpg campaigns to watch. I want to see some folks playing before I start running this…
Every deep insight, every cunning turn of phrase, every moment of poetry that LLMs deliver was strip-mined from an actual human being who laid their heart bare in prose.
So how do the best human writers stack up against their own plagiarized work?
I do sometimes wonder if he’s trying to get Jesus to show up before he goes.
The discourse about Trump wearing his weird baseball cap seems to center on whether it's respectful instead of what kind of creeping gangrene is crawling up from his neck rash and consuming his still-living flesh.
Which is to say, I am concerned about the president's health.
Can neither confirm nor deny, but looks very plausible.
Scooby snax help.
“I got no nothing against God. ‘S just that the pious keep puttin’ the devil in charge.”
#youarebeingwatched
I think about this a lot
This thing where kidnapping and/or killing heads of state is the go-to strategy for foreign policy sure does open up some wild possibilities.
Behold the will of the American people. 🙄
I prefer my spiritual guidance without sadism.
Not an infallible guide, but I think less fallible than some others.
Writing. It's always amazing to me how well some people can evoke something that they're utter incapable of embodying in the world. 🤣🤣🤣
Writing good romance is proof of mastering the craft.
Jefferson Mays is a gift.
Sad but accurate
In prose, no. But some folks don’t know about the One Ship extras on Amazon.
