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Porn fic that takes fifty thousand words to get to the fucking and it's not even a slow burn, it just takes that much worldbuilding to properly contextualise the author's incredibly specific kink.

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Its a really nice feeling when you finish rewriting a scene in the story and realizing you've doubled the word count for that scene in the process while making it feel more connected. Damn. It's nice.

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I think the funniest thing I've ever seen was that one time I saw a lifted pick up truck tailgating a Ferrari. It's like seeing a giraffe riding a squirrel.

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absolutely love abusing the power that comes with 3rd person limited pov and just ignoring things and being vague sometimes. does the character know all the details? no? then I don't have to either.

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why is naming things so hard.

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Banana is such a strong flavor.

You put it in a smoothie, it's gonna dominate the flavor profile. Mix it with milk, that milk is gonna taste like banana.

I swear if you made it into alcohol it would come out tasting like banana

Anyway. If you have to have something in your mouth that tastes like licking eraser dust, then eat a banana.

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Apparently there is a unserved market for someone to make temporary denture liner that DOESN'T taste like the liquid form of pink erasers. I will be investing in any one who can make that.

Why does it taste so fucking bad.

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Watching Jupiter Ascending is like watching a teenage girls attempt to write a sci-fi story for a guy she likes and only knows he like sci-fi stuff, but she really likes fantasy stories and only has to go off her weird bothers knowledge of Star Trek and some obscure eighties sci-fi book series. It physically hurts me to watch. It needed to be like an hour shorter for me to get through the whole thing. Suffice to say I didn't like it.

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You’d think as a writer I’d be good at spelling. You’d think.

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Retro sci-fi

Artwork for "Hammer's Slammers" by David Drake, 1985

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Some idiot: "Why are you reading your own fic, that's shallow and stupid"

All fanfic writers and writers everywhere: "Who the fuck do you think I wrote it for?!"

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Me looking at my own writing: at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai at least it's not ai

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Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

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a few weeks ago I had to take time off work for a surgery. and something that it highlighted to me is that I actually like going to work. or at least I like what it does for me. like my job isn't the greatest thing in the world but it gets me out of the house.

and I know that a lot of people are like "oh so it lets you be social." the answer is no. Not unless you consider getting called slurs on the regular being social. What I mean is that I've realized that if I worked from home I would literally never change out of my pajamas and would be the most insufferably miserable person.

My friends literally come to my place to play D&D once a week. I get to socialize regularly with people I like. No I like my job and work because, one: it gets me out of the house and outside and being outside is good for ones mental health. and two: my job fits well with my overall personality.

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I have seen a disturbing increase in people thinking that the punk genre is an short hand for an aesthetic.

Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Atompunk, Cyberpunk, and so on, aren't genres of aesthetics.

Just because it has brass and cogs and gears doesn't mean its steampunk. Just as neon lights and glam hair isn't cyberpunk.

The punk genre is about the technology that proceeds the punk part of the subgenre, what it can do and what it will push. The social, and societal upheavals it causes when it's released on mass. The conflicts it creates, and how people either embrace or fight the technology and how both sides use it. How the average person is affected by it. And probably the most important part what or who it leaves behind.

Some subgenres of punk are better marketed or written as a different genre. Like how biopunk is better written as body horror. No I'm not elaborating on that.

Or how some subgenres are not great for storytelling, but are great for worldbuilding. Like Solarpunk. Solarpunk is idyllic and doesn't have a whole lot of conflict on the personal level. But on a full societal level and environmental level, it is a great genre. Again better as a worldbuilding genre.

Cyberpunk being the granddaddy of the punk genre was coined in the 80's, and was all about social and societal disruption. That was the punk part of cyber PUNK. It was about the fight against the man. Be him government or corporation. but like and upheaval, no matter what, there are those simply caught in the middle.

But to many people these days think that the punk genre has a aesthetic. And part of that aesthetic is political. It isn't. While political upheaval can be part of the genre. You can have a cyberpunk set in a monarch. Or a steampunk in a corporate oligarchy.

While yes specific political beliefs are better suited for specific genres they aren't tied to them.

Take my favorite punk subgenre, dieselpunk. This blog's name is tied to that genre.

Dieselpunk is, as you may have guessed, about the introduction of the technology of the diesel and gasoline engine. In the real-world that time period was between the years of 1900-1945. And thus so many people tie the genre to things such as fascism. As the height of the fossil fuels power was amidst the fires of WW2, it was the height of technology that was available to throw around. It became the work horse of society. Right up until we washed Japan in nuclear fire... Twice.

So people now associate the dieselpunk genre with the goose stepping and angry failed artist mustache men politics. But it isn't about that. It's supposed to be about how industrialism changes society.

I think the best dieselpunk universe is the game Foxhole. Isometric MMO war game where everything about the war effort is conducted by the player base, and it's a perfect example about how industrialism effects how industrialism works. A small number of people can feed an entire war effort.

Anyway. This is become rambling. This was all to say that the punk genre and it's subgenres are about how technology is used and abused and what that does to society. Not the superficial aesthetics.