Tobias S. Buckell

Having a place for notes is killer

Definitely one of the items influencing that feeling

Coming to understand why whale ancestors just fucked off right back into the sea after wandering around the surface a bit.

I'm doubly excited b/c this means that the viral load destruction techniques will be able to be used for long covid and other post-viral chronic fatigue type illnesses

Hah

Hey, so not medical advice, but if you've got ADHD and you're worried meds might negatively impact your creativity, I just wanted to share that starting them has been really positive for me. I've written more words and FINISHED more projects in the last 6 months than I did in the three years prior.

Deja vu all over again :(

It's so horrific to watch it shifting on the ground

I am using Obsidian, tweaked with plugins to develop my own tailored writing environment.

Yeah, I’m on so many discord channels that take the place of places I used to hang out around online that I could point anyone at

We are going to have to retreat into password protected online forums of users who are topic experts

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

I have been a vector :)

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Basically go to community plugins and search for what you are missing. I use Obsidian, and then when I'm like "it would be so cool if I could XYZ" and then search "xyz obsidian plugin" :)

I use the Dataview plugin to generate the outlines and other stuff, ProZen, remember cursor setting, Vim, Writing Goals and Zoom for the writing related stuff.

The theme is AnuPuccin but heavily modified using custom css snippets

I intimidated a whole room full of writers by showing this setup off, and had to keep remind them it was something I slowly built up over two years, I didn't sit down and create it in one shot.

But, it's nice having my vision for what an app should do to help me, rather than someone else's idea?

Yeah, a lot of people have been asking me to write this up with screen shots, but I've been so deep in the shit it's taken a while

For Patreon subscribers, I just posted "How I used the app Obsidian to create my own personally tailored fiction writing app" up at the website: https://tobiasbuckell.com/how-i-used-the-app-obsidian-to-create-my-own-personally-tailored-fiction-writing-app/

Art for money is just a wild ride. Been having a lot of discussions with artists lately about the feast/famine grind

I just posted "Unlocking a Patreon Story for all to read: The Emporer and His Totally Amazing, Awesome Clothes" up at the website: https://tobiasbuckell.com/unlocking-a-patreon-story-for-all-to-read-the-emporer-and-his-totally-amazing-awesome-clothes/

I just posted "Passing through a shifting world, ghostlike" up at the website: https://tobiasbuckell.com/passing-through-a-shifting-world-ghostlike/

This is one of those weeks I wish I didn’t have a heart defect and could take adderall or other stimulant based focusing medicine.

A buddy of mine tells a story about a college kid demanding a final be retook. Said “it wasn’t my fault I missed the exam, my mom didn’t call me to wake me up for it”

Yeah. This.

Oh, Alex has a new story? That’s awesome!

I had a very challenging last week. But I had a good last couple days of getting caught up on my workload.

So hard to keep focus. All my usual tools are failing against the world at large right now. Ugh.

This Humble Bundle has raised some coin for the Electronic Freedom Foundation and is a great deal on a lot of awesome Tachyon books!

So cool, I haven’t gotten mine yet! Hopefully soon. I’m in a rural area and since Dejoy took over I seem to get mail several days later than I used to

Bundle also includes books by Nalo Hopkinson, Peter S. Beagle, Samantha Mills, Patricia A. McKillip, Lavie Tidhar, R. B. Lemberg, Carrie Vaughn, Kate Elliott, Nicole Kornher-Stace, and more!

Pay-what-you-want; to get all 22 books, pay at least $18.