#fiction and literature

[tlwebb]

Darkness over Dallas update!

Hi, word nerds!

Things have been a little wild lately. Our washer flooded out the house and that's been a ton of fun with all the carpet being ripped out, vendors not returning our calls and other irritating problems that go along with that.

But, DoD episode six is progressing! I'm getting great feedback on the first draft and will be plowing into revisions pretty soon, after a Secret Project is complete (details to come)

Episode six is a little different. This is the halfway point and while the stories up till now have been fairly self contained this one sees a lot of plot threads get threaded together here. Just about the only major character who doesn't show up here is Winnie the Action Scientist from episode two. (and guess what? She's the star of episode seven- Night Rangers!)

We got Etherites, virtual Adepts and Hollow Ones so far, and I'm introducing an Akashic Swordswoman here. Who else will show up? Well I won't have the time or energy to fit ALL of the splats into this but I will try. I can say that episode eight will be an Ecstatic melody with a lot going on in terms of crossover.

After that, things will get sort of insane. Hope you all enjoy the ride

[lemon-and-lead]

I love tragedies I love Pyrrhic victories I love it when the characters who deserve a happy ending die to make a better world I love it when innocents are led to become monsters by the greed and violence of other people, who then perpetrate their own greed and violence. I love it when every single person dies except the one person whos capable of truly living and finding peace. I love you Arcane I love you Heike Monogateri I love you Magnus Archives. I love tragedy I love tragedy does anyone want to consume a tragedy media with me-

[booksinpiles]

[dndspellgifs]

look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

[jayvespertine]

— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

[animentality]

[worldspotlightnews]

Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88 | CNN

Hong Kong/Tokyo CNN  —  Japanese Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe, a writer who was renowned for a strong pacifist stance that weaved its way into much of his work, has died of “old age”, his publisher confirmed Monday. The publisher, Kodansha, said the 88-year-old had passed away ten days earlier on March 3. The Nobel Prize website described Kenzaburo Oe as someone “who with poetic…

[lets-get-lit]

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[stone-cold-groove]

Cover illustration from H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man - 1912.

[tlwebb]

im very excited the story has made it so far. Very soon I will hit the halfway point and it's going to be a roller coaster after that. Hope you all enjoy the ride

[joshuafreefanpage]

This is the only novel written by Joshua Free. I think I saw a Kindle edition, too. If you're reluctant to purchase site-unseen, Free reads the first 5 or 6 chapters on his YouTube channel, mardukite.

[quotespile]

I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

[luthienne]

from "11 POEMS—TITLES BY AZIZ SHIHAB—FROM HIS NOTEBOOKS" as featured in Naomi Shihab Nye's Transfer: Poems

[icarus-archives]

lesbian pulp fiction from the 1950s

[prokopetz]

Contemporary Japanese light novels and classic American sci-fi are basically evil opposites when it comes to their titling conventions: both titles will be long and rambling, but the former will be a prosaically descriptive phrase that lays out the story's entire premise, while the latter will be a line from a poem the author liked that tells you absolutely fucking nothing.