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Last Notes npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Today I got the most negative review I've ever gotten. And I'd like to take this opportunity to remind authors, especially new authors: Let it roll off you. Remember that time you hated someone else's book or movie or creative work? That's what just happened to you. You threw your hat in the ring, and you aren't exempt. Just get on with your craft and don't worry about it. #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #writing npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags If true, that's the most wholesome crime a priest has ever committed! #gaming https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/542/726/565/490/862/original/4cc4f50b33e972f4.png npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Let's get negative for a sec: What do you feel is the WORST sci-fi or fantasy race or creature, and why do you feel that way? #Fantasy #sciFi #bookstodon #movies #tv #gaming #videogames #folklore #sciencefiction npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Critically important question: If you were to create your own society from scratch - culture, language, everything... would you invent all the swear words, or let your society come up with them on their own? npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub19fc…ay3c I live for that moment. Even the inevitable "God put that there to test us/it was a NASA plant' pushback from the clown car brigade couldn't ruin it. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub19fc…ay3c Yeah, good thing it was on a mission because as it turns out I definitely don't turn into Rambo when I'm faced with a running bear. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Walking to work this morning and turned a corner, and there was a bear RUNNING STRAIGHT UP THE ADJOINING ROAD TOWARD ME. Thankfully it kept running past, but damn, I lost a few years of my life. Definitely didn't need coffee to wake me up after that. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Naming books would be so easy if everything went by "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" logic. "Here is a list of things in my book. Also, it's the title." #WritingCommunity #amWriting npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags What's your favorite fictional CITY, and why does it appeal to you? #gaming #movies #books #comics #TV #Fantasy #SciFi #steampunk #cyberpunk npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub19fc…ay3c It's the height of alpha manliness to be threatened by women, fictional characters, and fictional women. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Are there any legal professions whom you wouldn't even consider dating (or befriending, if you prefer)? No matter how much you seemed to get along, you wouldn't want them in your life? (Tele)vangelists come strongly to mind for me. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub19fc…ay3c Mortal Engines? npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags "True crime podcasts aren't journalism, they're necrophilia" A line from a #TV show called #Bodkin, and yes, totally. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub19fc…ay3c A big favorite at the time, I'm nervous to watch it again in case it aged poorly. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags #PennedPossibilities 305 — Are there any characters of yours that you wound up HATING once you were finished with a story or WIP? The only characters I hate are perfectly good/moral ones, and I don't write perfectly good/moral ones (or if I do they don't last long) so nah, I'm cool with most of my characters. There ARE a couple I don't like but no one in the "hate" category. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub1aum…5jx0 Don't like bogging down in technical details either as a reader or a writer. It just works, okay? Roll with it 😅 npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub1gj2…9t6a "Honey, did you make dinner?" "Yes, it's me." npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags I've long championed not getting stuck in whatever musical era you grew up in, that there is good music from all time periods... ...but now that Youtube is recommending me AI generated gothic metal, I guess I'd have to add "until now" 😐 #music #AI #gothic #metal npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags I like and endorse this exchange. #amwriting #writingCommunity #WritersofMastodon https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/219/511/796/011/226/original/5d9b433e42543063.png npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub19fc…ay3c Yeah. It was tense and tightly made with actually impactful action sequences. And I appreciate that it doesn't have the excessive quipping and stuff blowing up of so many Marvel entries. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub19fc…ay3c Still my fave Marvel movie in general. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags "Please do not attempt to recreate religion in real life" 😄 #gaming https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/028/984/060/420/577/original/73b2736d308e2427.jpg npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags I don't like or respect the supernatural creatures which are in servitude to humans (like familiars for example). Much prefer the ones which trick, harass or eat them 😄 #mythology #folklore npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub1nn8…8sed I mean... I don't actually see him. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags There are SO many good bands / musicians out there worldwide. It weirds me out that one or two can so completely dominate the popular landscape at any one time. #music npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags #WritersCoffeeClub Feb. 11: Are some genres taken more seriously than others? How does this make you feel? Makes me not care. Like I'd waste time associating with anyone who thought their genre was more important. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags This music video was the first thing I saw after I woke up this morning... aaaand I think I might still be asleep 😄 https://youtu.be/LzG-qji05Lc?si=3hrQcM8grz3LkHfS #gnome #music #metal #rock npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub1nn8…8sed Better than pineapple npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags I do NOT like video games with an isometric perspective. I've never managed to finish one because it's such a turn-off for me. Your turn...what are you biggest gaming turn-offs? #gaming #videogames #rpg #fps #platformer #indiegame #gamer #games #steam #ps5 #PS4 #Nintendo #XBox npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags I'd love to time travel 500 years into the future (we haven't destroyed ourselves in this theoretical) and see which characters and stories from our time have endured. Which sci fi now looks quaint. Which characters are most used and which have long been forgotten. Which horror characters have become folklore. Etc. It'd be cool to know. #future #folklore #sciFi #horror npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags I think about this sometimes. I get that we all have to survive, but yeah - it seems absurd and almost comical that we're all just doin' our thing while everything collapses around us. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/672/279/227/588/628/original/97e0036e610f2536.png npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub1nn8…8sed Day? I'll do it for a week or more 😄 npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags #WritersCoffeeClub 28: Thoughts on using real brand names in your writing? All my faeries drink Pepsi and wear Nikes. They also like to hang out at Starbucks watching Netflix. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Now this is a cool-looking steampunk guitar. #steampunk #guitar #metal #powermetal #fategear #jrock #rock #japan https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/643/366/770/185/017/original/960f69aca2dd5ff8.png npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags You don't have to spend a holiday how everyone else does if you don't enjoy it. If you're told it's rude not to engage, remind yourself that it's just as rude to be expected to engage when you don't want to. Do what you want with your time off. Happy Holidays! npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags #WritersCoffeeClub 12/8. Do you write in the active voice, passive voice or a mixture? Does it matter? Like many debated things about writing, I can't say I care either way. I write whatever feels right at the time. Most of my writing is done like this. It's kinda the difference between playing music exactly from sheet music or just letting it flow and improvising. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub19fc…ay3c I'm getting close to inviting them to do that anyways npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Is there a single Jason Statham film where he doesn't play Jason Statham? npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Watermarks on #AI art...? Haha, yeah, wouldn't want anyone repurposing it 😄 npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags My favorite genres very much depend on the medium. If I'm watching movies/TV, horror is my fave. If I'm playing videogames, then I want fantasy or fantasy-adjacent stuff. If I'm reading? Generally sci-fi. I prefer writing horror-infused fantasy, though. I'm all mixed up 😛 #horror #fantasy #sciFi npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags @npub18wj…lvmv They can't help themselves. In the new Castlevania, the French characters are speaking in British accents. Even someone claiming to be an Egyptian character was 😄 npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags I'm bored with British accents in #fantasy entertainment and can't wait for that trend to stop. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Okay, on ep 3 of #Ahsoka and so far this is my fave #StarWars of the Disney era. Really enjoying it. I also feel it will age better than some of the recent stuff (pending it continuing to be good, of course). Hopefully those who didn't watch Rebels first can enjoy it as much as I am. npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Whoa! Nothing like coming home to nearly 120 notifications on a month old post 😅 npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Since I was talking about AT-ATs earlier, I wonder if whoever named them ALL Terrain Armored Transports really clearly understood the meaning of the word "all" #StarWars npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Klytus, I'm boooored https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/821/415/431/186/923/original/4af79a4a09e76d87.jpeg npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags A choose-your-own-adventure book, but for mature audiences, but where every branching path is contributed by a different #indieauthor 🤔 #writingCommunity npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Welp... diminishing returns, but I'm still pleased. There are a few thousand copies of Nomad's Hollow out there now, so my faeries are slowly taking over! 🧚♀️ https://www.amazon.com/Nomads-Hollow-Wellfire-Faeries-Book-ebook/dp/B086YFLF8V https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/662/859/903/274/462/original/542919f1a08c45e9.png npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags Kinda weird how every creature from #mythology and #folklore goes after humans. You never hear of vampires attacking centaurs or sirens luring goblins to their doom. 🤔 npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags It's weird how the campaigns to save TV shows are more energetic than the campaigns to save Earth npub1kguq2cjny5pkh04xet6tk0gxkah2lt5jgj2yqcy9mde5peejnqwsutlva6 Chris Jags What's a recurring theme in your stories? A message you're trying to convey (even if you try to be subtle about it?) #WritingCommunity #writersOfMastodon