Nobody special, but I dream. I was Morinotsuma on the bird site. Author of LAGOONFIRE, THE INCONVENIENT GOD (both from Annorlunda Books); PEN PAL.
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Last Notes npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…n2fr How beautiful! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Let's remember the difference between what we want to be true, or what we think should be true, and what's actually true. "Ought to be" isn't "is." Somewhat relatedly, fearing something--or wishing for something--doesn't mean that thing is going to come about. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Some leafcutter ants for @nprofile…pfuj, who is wonderful because she loves and is interested in all ants, not just charismatic guys like these ones, carrying their bits of leaf like tiny personal sails. https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/116/510/225/540/791/891/original/b9999fd5da97fb04.mp4 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume "God, this project is such a time #sink," complained Jasper. "My problem with time sinks," said an owlish character who'd appeared out of nowhere, "is how quickly they get filled up, if you don't keep on top of cleanup, and then you don't even want to touch the time in them--so nasty and crusty--but you don't have any clean time anywhere, so ... We're not talking about the same type of time sink, are we." Jasper gave a slow, disbelieving shake of the head. #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…jx2h That's so wonderful to hear, and a real tribute to @nprofile…0st5's choosing of the image and his overall creation of the postcard! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…wdzu --ooh; will read. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…wdzu "the bourgeois assertion that art is a commodity — not something that humans naturally do, but are kept away from — has done terrible damage to our civilization." ---AMEN. Something that's crucial to the story I'm writing now. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…jx2h 💛🌷 💛🌱 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WordWeavers 20 Feb: What tropes are in your current project? I'm sure there are fun names for some of the elements my story, but it doesn't have any of the common ones I see people talk about. If "the past is never dead. It's not even past" is a trope, then that! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume "Look," said #Roger, pointing. Starlings were settling on the utility wire, their bodies pressed next to each other, making the wire thicker and blacker all along its length. "Ooh!," breathed Janise. "Let's be a utility wire." She and Roger held hands and stood so that the slope of their arms from their shoulders to their hands imitated the wire. Starlings fluttered down, landing all along their arms, and the two laughed, feeling that weight, those heartbeats. #wss366 #microfiction #birds npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…n2fr Wait what? When and how? npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Fresh-cooked injera--you can see the steam rising from it. #Eritrea #Ethiopia #injera https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/900/839/131/236/310/original/5e9c3e61b0d5f35c.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Gravity feels extra heavy today npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Christmas card one of my kids sent us. 🙂 https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/810/327/223/322/120/original/50ba5f8f9652c6f4.png npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Today’s #SkyPortrait: brooding clouds with light punching through https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/810/099/961/094/318/original/1d26ea2eb2f5b0f8.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Or this one, by Bogota artist Jean Zapata, that I posted the other day (link to original post below) (2/2) https://www.instagram.com/p/DSklnXHEbzl/ https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/776/160/234/349/164/original/ceeae80e22364b96.png npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume I love pictures of the Holy Family that recast them in the modern time, or in other times and places. For example, this drawing, by Everett Patterson. (1/2) https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/776/138/089/125/066/original/61cadbf2804f7802.jpg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Today’s #SkyPortrait https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/754/910/736/686/903/original/7d56c6da0c3cd8fe.png npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…e4ry EXACTLY. This is for the plebs. This is for the masses who, in the minds of those promoting this crap, exist only to serve the rich. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WritersCoffeeClub 17 Dec: Give a shout-out to a resource or site you think more writers should know. This is for everyone who uses internet search: the Konami disenshittification code. If instead of going to your browser, you go here, you get search results without an AI overview. That's one tiny bit of sucking up electricity and water avoided. https://udm14.com npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…e4ry I had SOME idea about the variety of crabs ... but not enough of one, clearly! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…e4ry Re: crab mouths, yeah: when I saw that name I was thinking ... But guys, for real. The creature has a mouth. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…e4ry I didn't! Going to look right now! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume I'm sittin' in these mangroves Nursin' a case of blues Oh I'm sittin' in these mangroves, brother, Nursin' some mighty blues They call me mouthless But I'mma sing to you. Yeah, they say I'm mouthless But I'mma sing to you Under the hot Pacific sun Clean forgot by everyone Well I'm the mouthless #crab And these here are mangrove blues. #wss366 #microfiction #blues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardisoma_crassum) [Edited alt text] https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/702/662/439/164/098/original/2e020371b6bf8c03.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Fragile snow bridge over a stone https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/685/477/276/228/530/original/06dcb47a757871b7.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Small cloud drift not yet swept out of the sky. Gather these fibers up and spin them! #SkyPortrait https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/675/241/279/217/568/original/9b6a6f27138d2f7e.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume She harvested wild marsh flax and spun it into fine thread, shining silvery white. At mid Goose Moon, she'd take what she's spun to the water villages for barter or sale. Everyone wanted some--just a short length would do--as having it sewn or woven into a garment brought blessings of and protections from the marsh waters. She only traveled in fair weather, and people would point to the wake from her paddle: a shining silver two-#ply thread unraveling behind her. #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Here's a funny 2-parter in the #wss366 hashtag from @nprofile…x4x9 for today's prompt word, "lip." We're practicing apologies .... (first part linked below) https://wandering.shop/@stevendbrewer/115497048703859788 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…e4ry The thing I resent about my suspicion about things being AI generated is that it contaminates things the other way: I end up doubting or dismissing legitimate but overly dramatic or "perfect" photos taken by actual photographers. But you're right: it's not that there's something subjectively bad about the product of AI but simply that the production of art (or writing or music) by AI is a repudiation of human effort, experience, and communion. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Here's a 2-parter in the #wss366 hashtag for yesterday's prompt word, "stash," from @nprofile…x4x9. SOMEone has been misleading Brunhilde about the bear's dietary preferences. First part linked below: https://wandering.shop/@stevendbrewer/115431958091705864 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume The fairies gave the child the Blessing of the #Weeds --May you be as bright as dandelions --May you be as sweet as clover --May you be as generous as milkweed --May you be as formidable a foe as water hemlock --May you be as soothing as valerian --May you be as persistent as bindweed --May you be as pragmatic as plantain --May you be as visionary as mugwort --May you be as joyous as asters --May you be as adaptable as virginia creeper And the child flourished. #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Poster for today #NoKings #MeltICE https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/395/194/166/713/375/original/1c7307417c8e541a.png npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume For yesterday's prompt word, "filter," in the #wss366 hashtag, here's a 2-parter from @nprofile…ghna CW full frontal male nudity, oh my! part one linked below: https://bonequest.net/@tobadzistsini/115369665239177156 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…myfn Thank you! I may dip in from time to time! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #ScribesAndMakers 11 Oct: You have a time machine and can bring one modern book back to one historical figure/ writer. What person, what book? I was noticing replies among people I follow, so came to the hashtag to read more. Interesting! It's got me musing on what the intention would be. Is it to change history? To show the person their importance/wrongheadedness? To impress/warn them? --I'm seeing some of all of these in the answers. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…6fay I hope it is! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…6fay @nprofile…0qap @nprofile…fzfj Just read through this thread and wow, how terrible! Good on you, @nprofile…fzfj, for the advice on reporting, and I'm glad the post is down. It's so WRONG, that kind of call to harass people! (And furthermore, you're right about AI--but frankly, whatever anyone's opinion is, you don't sic people on them to attack them!) npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…myfn Hahahaha, love this. It's like being told you have a disease. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume In a Trump policy reversal, the Northeast Regional Fisheries & Wildlife Headquarters, located in Hadley MA and serving 13 states, will NOT be axed, thank God. #Fisheries #Wildlife #FederalAgencies https://www.gazettenet.com/-63202984 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…fe4j In this photo they look like the trees in Socotra https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/004/118/853/583/140/original/01bd9379de89bf79.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume What if a neural implant therapy for stroke resulted in your spouting ads for the corporation that manufactured the inplant? @nprofile…97xz 's latest in Clarkesworld feels absolutely like something that could be happening now. #recommendations #sff #AmReading https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_08_25/ npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume For #thicktrunktuesday la gran ceiba, a beautiful kapok tree, supported by its buttress-like bambas. https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/114/859/423/952/253/471/original/78b0330d92e12f84.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…qdk8 You may be like me and experience absolutely nothing. I had heavier than usual periods for a few years, and then they stopped for six months, and then I one more... and then I was done. That was it. No other symptoms whatsoever. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume It was time to sharpen the points of spears & blades, to check that arrowheads were firmly affixed to shafts. But one youth sat #polishing shields. "What are you doing?" growled a commander. "All a shield needs is strength--stop wasting time!" "It's not wasted," the youth replied. "Just wait." When evening approached, a group of young people stood the polished shields up in the sand to reflect the rays of the setting sun--into the eyes of the advancing foe. #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…wv74 lovely cherries! Soon to be delicious pie :D npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WritersCoffeeClub 1 July: What's your greatest weakness as a writer? I have a friend who always advises "Don't cry stinking fish!" meaning, don't go around advertising in advance all your lacks and flaws. Let people enjoy (or dislike) your work un prepped by your warnings and insecurities! But for the sake of fellowship & sharing, I yearn for my writing to be more supple, more smooth in shifts & transitions, less pedestrian. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume "May I pay you in #kind rather than currency?" the woman asked. The man at was selling Dastrian funerary masks, perhaps war loot from the last conflict. "That depends. What you got to offer?" He was suspicious--she looked Dastrian. "These magical birds." Impressed, the man agreed. As he neared home that evening, the birds suddenly took flight. They plunged through the windows of his house, seizing precious objects in their talons, and flew off. Payment in kind. #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…0qap LOL no. 5. And no. 3 is adorable! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WordWeavers 10 June: How many POV characters does your story have? Most things I write have only one. Off the top of my head, the only thing I can think of that has more than one is PEN PAL, which has two. ("The Bee Wife" is told in an old style, with an omniscient narrator, which gives you insight into multiple characters' points of view, but to me that's different from having dedicated POV characters.) npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Bogs take up only 3% of the world's landmass, but they sequester more carbon than forests do. #wetlands #ClimateChange This is the Bright Water bog in Shutesbury, MA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2AcMZwvzhM npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume People in western MA, keep this in mind: ICE *has* been active in our area. You can support LUCE at this link (and at the website you can see the local orgs who are part of the LUCE coalition): https://www.lucemass.org/?link_id=2&can_id=85ed4c74011fe4bc2f549de26d805384&email_referrer=email_2760905&email_subject=meeting-the-moment-plus-were-hiring #MApolitics #WesternMA #ICE #Immigration #HumanRights https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/114/625/538/521/548/434/original/6b9e866b17c97cdc.jpg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…0qap I feel you because I'm still in the "before" category and very anxious thinking of that for when my husband needs to travel. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Directions for #serving certain abstract dishes: --revenge is a dish best served cold --pornography is a dish best served hot --satire is a dish best served salty --mockery is a dish best served bitter --disappointment is a dish best served sour --romance is a dish best served sweet #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WritersCoffeeClub 8 May, additional thoughts. I notice that lots of people object to the "give up" language. Wondering what the answers would be like if the question were, "What is a project you ended up setting aside and haven't returned to yet?" npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Every day at 2:46 pm, a bell is struck in Ōfunato to commemorate the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami. The #sound spreads out over the land and the water. A bell ringer noticed that even on days when the sea was choppy--even on stormy days--when the bell rang, the waters grew calm & still. Was it respect? Remorse? He wrote the question a stone and tossed it into the waves. That night he dreamed the waves were speaking to him. "It's like a lullaby," they said. "It calms us." #wss366 #microfiction #Japan npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…0qap Are these accounts that try to get indie authors to buy services? npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume I am sending the wind to pester you. I am sending it to make the loose shutter bang against the house and to tangle the washing on the clothesline. I'm sending it to #rifle your papers and leave them in a mess on the floor. But I am also asking it to lift your hair, kiss your neck, and sing you a haunted song through the needles of the pines. May it impede you, distract you, touch you, until such time as I myself again am able to. When the wind comes, think of me. #wss366 #microfiction #love npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Somewhere in the atmosphere is a satellite, and though I can’t see it, my face is always lifted at 45 degrees, pointing toward its geostationary position. My diaphragm rises and falls; my breath goes in and out like the #tides, and I stand and stare. “Come away with us,” the dolphins and the sea otters say. “You’re no Andromeda, chained to the rock.” It’s true there are no chains, but I’m locked on the satellite. Here I must stay until the release code comes. #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume It's 12 in the morning, my time, which means we're in a new day, but the #wss366 bot won't drop a new word for another few hours, so may I present to you the first of a 3-parter from @nprofile…fcd6 for yesterday's word, "brew," in which Drew models how to enjoy being a taste tester ;-) https://wandering.shop/@stevendbrewer/114327540169411112 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…twud This goes along with an insight I had about the Tower of Babel story--how it isn't a curse but a blessing that we should work to understand other languages, such a concrete, direct way to acknowledge the diversity of the human family, and in your effort and striving to do so, show your love and respect for that family and grow closer to its members. In other words, the effort is the blessing. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume "If you come to a #fork in the road, take it," Yogi Berra said, and my family has followed that advice... though as it turns out, what we find in the road more often has been spoons. Here's a sample of our roadside cutlery. #wss366 #MicroMemoir #YogiBerra #FoundItems #roadside https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/114/291/943/861/292/196/original/10b8c784f9ee0e98.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…wv74 ❤️ 💪 ❤️ ✊ npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume ICE raided Red Fire Farm (next town over from me) last week & seized 4 workers. They came w/out a warrant. "ICE doesn’t care at this point whether or not they have legal authority to enter someone’s house. It seems like they’re just doing it anyway.” (1/2) www.gazettenet.com/-60379185 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara). https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/114/263/784/692/135/310/original/10a30b846726d0ab.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume The trans folks I'm closest to don't have stuff I can share here online, so I'd like to uplift two things: One is the series REVIN'S HEART, by @nprofile…fcd6, which has a trans protagonist and ... (1/2) #transdayofvisibility https://wandering.shop/@stevendbrewer/111930335123655268 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…0qap @nprofile…6nn7 It's like trying to choose a favorite kid! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Cheer yourself up with Rhiannon Giddens and the Resistance Revival Choir covering Woody Guthrie "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" because they will https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa7aAIfLE npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…guwh Secret police engaged in kidnapping a person as punishment for expressing her political views--the United States today npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…ceu9 Ahhh, this is great; thank you for linking. I've always thought this: "But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who "prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us." Prepping is foolishness. In 3 days, 3 weeks you're where everyone else is. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WordWeavers 9 Mar: Could you survive a day in your MC's shoes? Oh sure. This goes for any of my protags. On the one hand most of them don't suffer horrible privations or need to exercise crazy-amazing physical/mental/survival skills. On the other hand, I have an inflated sense of what I can survive. I *might* not survive XYZ, but then, the protags might not, either. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Utopia Science Fiction (@nprofile…54ph) is in the last hours of its Kickstarter, raising money for another year. Would be great to see it fund; I've enjoyed it in the past. (Plus, writers, it's another venue!) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/utopiasciencefiction/volume-vii-utopia-science-fiction-magazine?ref=thanks-copy-believe-in-it npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume 21 February has already gone by in Asia and Australia and is quickly fading in Europe, but in the Americas we have another few hours: Today is Mother Language Day, the day for your native tongue! https://www.unesco.org/en/days/mother-language npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…0qap Here is the cover of the Japanese edition of one of the books. Now this is a little too twee for my tastes, but the fact that this is a possible take shows you how wrong the casting was for the Apple Plus series. https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/114/038/365/244/191/943/original/13e853e3eda5ca56.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…0qap As @nprofile…s3fs was saying over on Bluesky, the character is agender so ... something a little less aggressively male, please??? And frankly, something less White Aryan seeming. This is just... very White Male Hero-ish. Which the Murderbot character definitely ISN'T. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Sigh. Never not going to be disappointed that they chose male-looking (and actually male) actor to play Murderbot. My head canon is now going to be way, way pushed to the margins but SO IT GOES. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume It's not about the future, it's about until. A beautiful, hopeful story. Be like Mena. Be like the narrator. Be like Billy Behind Me. "Mena, Until," by Patricia Russo #FlashFiction #Hope https://hexliterary.com/?p=2553 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WordWeavers [now with hashtag fixed!] 15 Feb: How well does your MC handle being in crowds? She doesn't mind crowds. She grew up in a crowded city; crowds are the default. In herself, she's a solitary person whose self-discipline is so intense she hasn't ever stopped to think of herself as lonely npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume 12-second video of a very superb owl that graced our yard this past autumn. #Superb_Owl https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/973/861/604/712/796/original/c5b1feefd5dfecc8.mp4 npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume A joyful, joyful minute that a friend shared with me. 🎶 Guinea Pig Bridge 🎶 #guineaPigs #cavies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq9ghmgqoyc npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Speaking of rocks (yesterday's #wss366 writing prompt was "rock"), the best story from the point of view of a rock that I ever read (okay, also the only story from the point of view of a rock) is Ann Leckie's THE RAVEN TOWER. The rock in that story is also a god and its story is *awesome*. It's friends with a god that's a swarm of biting insects. #bookstodon #sff #books npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume I was glad to read "Reader Alice," by Tayo Fujii (Emily Balistrieri, trans.) (Feb 2024), about SFF stories in the future, some written with LLM help, some purely by humans. It's more an essay in story form than straight story but worth a read: https://future-sf.com/fiction/reader-alice/ #AI #SFF npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…a0z2 Sorry to hear it :( I hope another day sees the writing bringing you more pleasure. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Happy that I was able to switch my Microsoft subscription to Classic, which comes WITHOUT the awful, intrusive AI assistant. And I was able to talk to a real human to negotiate the switch. I should be using different word processing software altogether, I know, but old habits and client expectations... Thinking I will use libreoffice for my personal writing, though, starting now. Thinking of only writing on chalk on the sidewalk, frankly, but. #AI npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…a0z2 And too, "preachy" is a matter of opinion. Something one reader finds preachy, another reader doesn't that way. I generally prefer a light touch, but for other readers, a problem or issue can be so horrific that if it's present in the story, they want that horror to be very loudly and heavily addressed. Also, I've thought about things a lot, so I can be, yeah, yeah, I know, X is bad. But some other reader is just beginning to think about the issue, so for them it's not so tired. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…a0z2 Yeah, I find books that are preachy that I agree with tiresome, and ones that are preachy that I disagree with maddening. And ones that are overly cautious seem cowardly or unaware. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume As I drew near the girl on the sidewalk, she #cocked her head as if straining to hear something. She looked at me curiously. "You're significant," she said. I didn't know whether to be flattered or offended. "What makes you say that?" I asked. Her eyes were distant for a moment--again, like she was listening to something. "It's the music. It lets me know when I'm in danger, when something funny's going to happen--and when someone important to the plot's appeared." #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…args (I know this is part of a thread, but as a statement all on its own, it's wonderful) npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…ucc3 Thank you! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WordWeavers 8 Jan: How do you create characters who have depth? You need to spend time with them so you can reveal their different aspects. As in real life, you can't know a person's depths if you don't encounter these different facets. Sometimes you can suggest depth in a character without spending a lot of time with them by, say, revealing something about them aslant to what you've already shown. The reader then infers some depth. But truly rich, tangible depth takes time to create. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume And how about this MOSS? #mosstodon https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/755/728/389/844/696/original/ec61937e4a25ec72.jpeg https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/755/728/920/904/836/original/ea55ecd388ca9933.jpeg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume "It's how people in these parts induce a trance," the guide said. "Each village has a hall #tiled in a tessellating pattern. You enter, walk the pattern, and--well, do you want to try?" Helen was eager. The pattern was twisting, interlocking stairs. Helen started on brown tiles, then realized she was on white, and then-- it was like the ground melted away--she was floating. She swam languidly to the exit. "What did you think?" But Helen was too dazed to reply. #wss366 #microfiction npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…2slc They will hatch out tiny calcite creatures, by the look of them. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume Mujer de maís, by Oscar González GUACHE, (guache_art on Instagram). Prints are available for sale (but possibly only in Colombia) at the link: https://www.guache.co/producto/mujer-de-maiz-edicion-10-anos/ #corn #maize #maís #religion #OurLadyofGuadalupe #NuestraSeñoradeGuadalupe #reappropriation #artists #Colombia https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/703/075/493/880/532/original/e07a46798b9a88fe.jpg npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…args THIS IS SO IMPORTANT! I noticed this when Livejournal began to fail--you don't just want the accounts you like or interact w.most there. You need all the others as a kind of leavening, as a thickness of people. You need background; it can't all be foreground. And what's background for you is foreground for someone else, and you want that other person there b/c it turns out you connect on s/t you didn't even know you were interested in--that's how a vibrant community works. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…0qap This answer feels like it might work if the question specified antagonist ;-) npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #PennedPossibilities Do you remember the first thing you ever wrote creatively? Yes: I still have it. It was a story called "The Animals Forest" and it was a picture book about some animals that drove hunters out of their forest. I illustrated it too ;-) That was when I was about eight or nine. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WritersCoffeeClub 12 Dec Do you have a favourite author? Is your style influenced by them? I don't! I have many that I like. Since starting to try to write seriously, I pay attention to things that other writers do that seem really effective or good to me, and I try learn from that. Sometimes I can notice something like that in a work that's not a particular fave, so in that sense I'm influenced by *many* writers. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume I missed a couple of days of #DecRecs, but here's one for today, something I just came across now and man, I love this, must recommend: posts on here where people describe things they've seen in their day. @nprofile…ceu9 posts them tagged (sometimes tagged?) #ThingsISaw, and @nprofile…e86t posts them tagged #spotted, and maaaaaan, they just always are a pleasure to read. npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume @nprofile…0qap Hee, I like it very much! npub1s5su8aet7a9c89n562vhzn97dkdtytjkg2udzfzg3vs2jmarte0q5qgv4r Asakiyume #WordWeavers 7 Dec: What were the smells in the last scene you wrote? Human excrement--then air conditioned car interior--then the petrichor smell of rainy city streets on a hot day.