Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳

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actually, it leaves me depressed that I'm so obscure and worthless not even the scambots bother with me

actually, it leaves me depressed that I'm so obscure and worthless not even the scambots bother with me

well, clearly. cats can't taste sweetness!

Weird; I subscribe to a couple of newsletters, but otherwise I get zip. No one's even tried to scam me

i used to have a newsletter but i stopped because there was absolutely no reason sending out "hey, nothing is happening" every month

personally I get enough writing-related emails in the course of an average year that aren't rejections to count on one hand with fingers left over, for comparison

I'm always in awe of writers who have assistants and are not Stephen King-level, because it's as much outside my experience as being a billionaire is

like, "you nevertheless have a sufficient volume of stuff to deal with that an assistant makes sense? whoa"

"they didn't think" describes a lot about Fallout 4

my biggest challenge when putting together an F4 fixfic was "without the stuff to make it obvious to the player, how does the Sole Survivor reasonably contact the Railroad in a way the Institute wouldn't have found and used to destroy them?"

to me: it's the degree to which they actively isolate themselves from the Commonwealth, beyond the necessity for undercover work. for all that they go on about how the CW hates synths, they're not doing anything to change minds.

they're a strong mirror of the Institute in that regard, really.

dang, I was stressing out so much about my writing career yesterday that it even invaded my dreams

the lesson of "make sure you fill in all the placeholders *before* you publish the thing" is an extremely valuable one

my big dread about writing novellas or novels is the thus-far-100%-accurate worry that I'll invest deepnesses of time into them only for universal rejection. like if I want rejection I can write a short story a lot faster and get the same result

The Talosians in the original pilot were able to make psychic projections that appeared completely real

it predates Q! the second pilot had people developing god-like psychic powers, it's been there from the start!

huh, my understanding was that the ranged penetration ability of firearms is what made it obsolete

tired: this fantasy world has no gunpowder so it can keep knights and swords
wired: this fantasy world has gunpowder and also has magic that can make steel that's bulletproof but not swordproof

do you... call thumbs peaknuckles?

star wars is honest. it wears its space magic on its sleeve and makes no bones about what it is. trek, meanwhile, is embarrassed. it cloaks its magic as Campbell's bullshit "psionics" and pretends it's all on the level.

yeah, i'm angry at Trek because of how deeply it lied to me as a child.

and this is aside from the presence of actual (rather than apparent-but-not-actually) FTL. there's a difference between "we need this thing for the concept to work at all" and "hey what if the crew encounters another deity this week"

star trek is science fantasy. like, of course it is. it has magic and literal, actual gods in abundance. how could it possibly be anything else

in retrospect its super funny the Bsky brain trust dreamed of a crypto bro wonderland without realizing their invitation only beta (which only the most tuned in, extremely online people could access) guaranteed a seed population of freaky communist shitposters

because that's what it is. aside from a couple of exceptions to whom I am very grateful, the general world has made it clear that it's fundamentally disinterested in what I have to offer. trying to forge ahead despite knowing that is painful.

interesting, the slow death of my writing career is progressing to giving me a headache

it drives me up the wall that I can't find Hatsune Miku CDs anywhere in this country and yet Hatsune Miku is coming to my city in a couple of months!

also that the only reason I *know* is that I ended up on the Miku Expo website for some reason I don't even remember! zero local advertising!

how can they be sure it isn't Hatsune Miku

I'm begging for tankies to add an ounce of hamster suffrage to their politics.

it's absolutely infuriating that Niagara Transit doesn't run buses that connect to Grimsby and Hamilton, which would make possible daisy-chained local bus transfers from Oshawa to the US border

Sunny winter is great light for photography. Cloudy winter, which breaks the brain, not so much

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