Miguel Montevista

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I have no idea what this is in reference to, and although I suspect that's a good thing, in this environment I doubt I have the luxury of blissful ignorance.

Light is so incredibly important! That, more than anything, helps to set the tone of a scene, of what people are going to do in it.

I shared one earlier, but here's a second, from a prelude:

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As I wrote earlier, "The Land of Old did not have day or night. The sidhe had no use for it. Why would the stuff of dreams need sleep for themselves?"

The Land of Old not only has no day or night, it is better thought as timeless. The sidhe leave time to the nockers.

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It's vital. Whether you're sailing past the Everdusk, wandering the Cobbles during a lampblacked night, taking in the morning light of the Gossamer Court, or strolling through the Twilight Garden, time is place.

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Oh, this gets interesting in the Land of Old.

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I always miss these (You know, day job), which is why I like to take an extra moment for myself in the evening.

I'm Miguel Montevista, one-time writer of D&D adventures and SCP works, and most recently published the slipstream short story "@kittypooka".

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I am now 1/3 of the way through my lifespan pls share my art? :3

They were for moral lessons, not phonics, but phonics sure made them easier to understand!

And I remember the kids' books available everywhere, the Serendipity series, where the kid needs phonics to recognize the alignment of, say, a sea serpent named Serendipity or a butterfly named Flutterby on sight.

I had taught myself to read when I was 1 year old. I still remember writing my first sentence: "I love fun milk." (It's what I called chocolate milk.)

I had to have used some combo of whole word and phonics; I knew how to spell "love," for example.

But we were taught phonics in school (hated it).

It did suck! I'm thankful things eventually shifted.

For me, it was never "No girls allowed," but the stigma was overpowering. I was occasionally (rarely) approached by girls in the 80s, interested in learning more, but only if no one else ever heard that they were curious or playing.

But also back then, no games were really meant for girls.

Eh, you're just using the wrong filters when looking in the mirror. That will be fixable once Meta releases cybereyes.

I'll enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a digestive, but that's it for consumption. With alcohol there are other flavors to explore, and you can still limit intake so you don't even reach a buzz.

I drink maybe one drink a month, though. I don't miss it when I don't have it.

How is extortion better on the blockchain?

Hell is a cope.

It's the hope that there's a place where only bad people suffer. Such a place can only be better than here, where anyone can suffer.

Whenever you find yourself asking, "Hey, what's that about?"

Look it up. Jump down the rabbit hole. You never know when knowing what Tír na nÓg means or Chinese dynasty naming conventions or protein folding or the extent of the Mojave Desert will come up useful again, or in combination.

How many people do we think is doing it? Or is it just a handful of people who stuff the channels with a hundred submissions each?

On addition to being delicious, and delivering a subtle, sweet note to dishes, the rambutan has a very fun name to say.

Top tier, up there with chilaquiles.

Blue and gold, wolf pack, and the crossroads of the world

Happy founding day to Türkiye!

The black ring is an upside-down tughra (calligraphic signature) of Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire.

MFW ND awareness wasn't around yet, but the asocial scientist is still a meme and you think emulating it is really cool and a great way not to let the bullies win even though you're NT yourself...

We have all this AI, yet no one recreates Max Headroom.

4:30.

Am excerpt of messages scrawled by a mannequin, by date:

6/8/2001: DON'T LEAVE ME

4/25/2004: WHATEVER YOU WANT

4/15/2009: 1979-2009

4/16/2009: TOO OLD

4/17/2009: I CAN BE YOUNG FOR YOU

12/3/2011: WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME

3/8/2013: I'M SORRY I'M WORTHLESS

8/31/2015: DADDY I'LL BE GOOD

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He's a director, but John Carpenter has always managed to maximize dread out of a single moment, even when it's not horror.

Lewis Carroll also did the same, because his nonsense reminds people of the helplessness they actually have against the world around them.

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"Infovore? Feel bad? Pentagram? Did you just call me the devil? Darling, no! What kind of a son calls their own mother the devil?! Oh, Rashaun, my lovely little boy! Do you know what you're doing to your mother?"

"You're not my mother."

"…Because I do."

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Horror is integral to SFF, as it becomes filled with things we do not understand. There is horror in exploring the unknown, and it is important to embrace it.

Many of my SFF pieces have horror in them, whether it's a mannequin with image issues, or everyday phenomena that hide predators.

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