Just Writer Things

Hints and Tips From a Chronic Writer

My writer's group frequently calls me 'relentless' when it comes to always writing.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Saccharine Offensiveness

Just like little kids saying "sugar", they know they'll get in trouble for saying the actual word they want to.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Hello From Periodicals

I have a joke that I use when things are piling up on me: I have so many issues that I could run a periodicals library.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: The Amazing Digital Circus

I can tell you that this indy CGI series has a lot of merit.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Minecraft

I've been playing since before redstone existed.

Dear Diary...

Time Manglement With the Tism

This entry's pretty much about why Weird Writer Wednesday is happening on a Friday.

Just Writer Things

Accidentally Mentoring...

I have no idea how this keeps happening. I've picked up a third mentee.

All Work and No Play

Baby Game Dev Adventures: Interface Design

My solution - make my own. My problem - I am not a programmer.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Brainworms by MisterCrowbar

Even if you don't go there, you have a decent chance of falling in love with all the characters therein.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Thank Goodness You're Here!

It's a beautiful day in Barnsworth and you are a terrible, tiny salesman.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Centaurworld

Centaurworld is an Isekai story in which our heroine... is thrust into a world she does not understand.

A Devil's Tale

State of the WIP (August 2024)

I'm probably going to start a fifth GoogDoc.

All Work and No Play

Look After Yourself: How to?

I say it at the end of every stream: "Look after yourself, you're the only you we've got."

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Twice Upon a Time (1983)

There are rare pieces of media that you just know that they will never be able to re-make...

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Satisfactory

It's a game. Specifically, a factory game where you go to a distant alien world to extract every possible resource out of it.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: The Creative Process

When attempting to figure out what I was going to rant about, this week, I kept asking myself one question. What do I keep going back to and enjoy going back to it? I enjoy making things. Not just stories, though I do make up stories with a relentless enthusiasm

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Girl Genius

I went in for the puns. Stayed for the visual comedy.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Doctor Who

Confession time: I have been watching this show since the early 1970's, so I'm more than a little biased.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Juggling Moments

I've had a disruption to my usual sequence of operations, and hammering out a new one is -er- "interesting". As in, "may you live in interesting times" brand of "interesting".

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Terry Pratchett (GNU)

I've read his books since the first Discworld titles, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. Yes, I was a 1980's teenager.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Dungeon Meshi

D&D has been increasing in popularity [thanks, CritRole] and having a series with the same initials can get in on that vector.

Save the World

Rona, Mismanaged

The entire population of the planet just spontaneously decided to collectively ignore [COVID] and hope that it actually did go away.

LLM's

Revolution Against AI

You should be well aware that I have opinions about Large Learning Models. Mainly that the techbros who insist they're good after all can go fuck off and die in a fire. Especially the ones that just outright stole all the grist for their "AI" mill.

Rant

Dumb Technology Please

Make no mistake, I am a nerd who loves progress and technology. I especially like the stuff that makes my life easier. Preferably whilst also not costing me my privacy or needing software updates just to do something mind-numbingly basic. Like, for example, cooking your food or keeping it cold.

Dear Diary...

Simple Solutions

The bougie fancy whatnot from the fancy-ass bougie bakeware shops was as useful to me as a meringue umbrella.