Thought Stream

A collection of 98 posts

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Who Cares?

I've been working on this blog for some time now, and I thought I had followers. I thought people were reading these things. Turns out, once again, I'm shouting into the darkness of the void, with no response whatsoever from the enormous gulfs of whatever. I

Personal Illogic

The Deserving Paradox

There’s a memetic paradigm in Western culture that’s always confused me, and the more I research into it, the deeper my confusion gets.

Personal Illogic

Overhaul the Earth

Currently, the world is in a state. It’s been getting into a worse and worse state and the evidence dates back to the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s.

Personal Illogic

Turnabout is Not Fair

What they mean about that is that something bad that happens to a member of the usual oppressors is more or less what they deserve for being a member of the usual

Personal Illogic

The Masks We Use

Oscar Wylde once said, “If you want to know the true nature of a man, give him a mask.” Or words to that effect.

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The Flavour of Nostalgia: Aesthetic and Thematic Choices in Modern Cinema

Beloved and I went to see two movies just a few short days ago: Into the Spider Verse and Bumblebee. Both are very different movies, but they have one thing in common – a healthy dollop of nostalgia.

Personal Illogic

How Do You Write So Much?

The real truth is, I love to write. I have loved to make up stories since I was a pipsqueak. It’s part of my story. I have written tales and loved it.

Personal Illogic

Imaginary Economy

I think I may have hypothesised about time being a decent unit of currency. Once spent, it can’t be retrieved. It’s a precious and finite resource, and you can’t spend it to get more of it.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

This is... not...

I have less free time because I can't keep focus. I can't keep focus because I'm always tired.

Personal Illogic

Why Be Gatekeeping?

Once upon a time, Science Fiction was poo-pooed as “that Buck Rogers stuff”, Star Trek was a silly television show that only housewives watched, comic books were “kids’ stuff”, the Beatles were a stupid boy band for teens, and anything animated was for school children.

Personal Illogic

How To Represent

Growing up, the only place I saw people of colour was Sesame Street. The only disabled person on television was on Ironsides and I didn’t get to see a movie with an all-black cast until my mid-teens.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Head Fog

TLDR: I forgot to write this yesterday because my brain is like a sieve.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

MRINYRATOK

People like to go through the things that famous people do as if that’s a guaranteed recipe for anyone else to have the same success. Spoilers: it isn’t.

Thought Stream

Tropes I Despise: Generic Blonde Wife

You almost don’t notice this one, and that’s why it’s so insidious. Once I started taking notice of it, I noticed how prevalent it was.

Actually Autistic

Tropes Vs Autism: The Superpower

Someone, somewhere, latched on to the concept that Autistic people are super-good at some things and someone else’s speculation that Autism may be a step up on the so-called evolutionary ladder.

SJW

Tropes Vs Autism: The Burden

This is one that turns up in the social narrative as well as fictional ones. The autistic boy (And it’s always a boy, as discussed last week) can’t be managed and won’t be managed. Sometimes, he’s a danger to himself and others.

SJW

Tropes Vs Autism: The White Man/Boy

Autism has been the Big Scary since the 70’s, when it became a diagnostic and not merely the subheader “retarded”. I remember that they had an extended PSA about it via Quincy, which just goes to show how long this has been going on.

Personal Illogic

Tropes I Despise: Innocent White Criminal

Due to circumstances beyond Our Hero’s control, he has to enter a life of crime to make ends meet. He suffers. He fights. He becomes a monster. Was I talking about Walter White from Breaking Bad or whosisface generico Everyman from Ozark?

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Hocus Pocus, When I Need to Focus

There are days when I can keep things running on rails. Those are rare, rare creatures.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Running Out

It’s just about my bedtime and I currently have no revelations to -uh- reveal. I do apologise.

Personal Illogic

Nothing New Here

When writing the future, it’s a good idea to think about the past. There’s patterns in history that echo through the ages.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Distracted, Disorganised, Distressed

It’s half-past September and the good news so far is the lack of a rejection from Eighth House.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Publisher Hunt: The Longer Short List

First off: I found another list of publishing houses that don’t care if you have an agent. And I immediately weeded out all of the ones who wouldn’t touch my material with a 40′ barge pole. The bad news out of this is that it raises the short

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Courage, Where Art Thy Sticking Place?

I’m still attempting to sell Adapting to someone, despite the fact that AR&E owes me my money back and remain out of contact so far.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Assembling the Short List

I’m still attempting to sell Adapting to someone, despite the fact that AR&E owes me my money back and remain out of contact so far.