August 2012
101 posts
kite-in:
kite-in:
marelo:
kite-in:
promptly gets hit by a skelly and killed in a dark place after running out of torches
minecraft
Kite you’re makin’ me wanna start playing Minecraft real bad.
i didn’t see you make this post!!
PLAY MINECRAFT
also if you do end up playing minecraft give me a shout & i’ll fire up my multiplayer server and we can prance about Kiteland (which is...
July 2012
93 posts
Saw someone argue that we should just let "small"...
how can someone so completely misunderstand how culture works
kite-in:
promptly gets hit by a skelly and killed in a dark place after running out of torches
minecraft
Kite you’re makin’ me wanna start playing Minecraft real bad.
>wake up with a bunch of shitty swords in my tabs
hellaciousbrother:
oh god i hope i didn’t buy a sword, please tell me i didn’t buy a fucking sword
oh god i hope you bought a sword
if you bought a sword you have to show us your shitty sword adam
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained;...”
– Reality Hunger, by David Shields, A 4-6
Gonna like this book.
Finished Vortex last night.
I was super right. The rightest. Axis is a transition between the projects of Spin and Vortex.
So, Spin was all about how basically ordinary people react to a world which drastically changes without human control or input, how ordinary people react to a universe that appears to not even be capable of giving a shit about humanity.
Axis was a narrative transition, and served a bit like a break. ...
The 4 Most Meaningless Arguments Against Gun... →
Cody brings it on home.
haggady replied to your post: haggady replied to your post: hellaciousbrother…
we’ll be the darlings of the literary world in no time
publishers pls leave an ask in my box with payment propositions for me and my esteemed colleague tia
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pitch #3: woman must claim uncle’s inheritance by spending a night in a haunted mansion - but it’s really a haunted city in miniature! spoooky!
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE SCARES
hellaciousbrother replied to your post: haggady replied to your post: haggady replied to…
just call it ine. canine, feline. at the end, reveal humine
A DOGGONE CATURDAY AFTERNOON: THE INES HAVE IT
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pitch #2: man is ambivalent about his religious beliefs. decides to alternate days where he believes in God...
haggady replied to your post: haggady replied to your post: My fiction writing…
okay if he rejects that, here’s a pitch: cats and dogs talk and walk on two legs and wear clothes and live in society with humans
I’ll call it… A DOGGONE CATURDAY AFTERNOON
haggady asked: The question here is, is the professor going to be a hardass and ban all fantastical elements for strict realism (which is kind of ridiculous A) you're tossing out a big chunk of literature - Greek myth, Shakespeare, Poe B) All the best scifi is thinly veiled commentary on modern society.) OR is he saying he banning just obvious cliches like warlocks, elves, orcs because he doesn't want...
haggady replied to your post: My fiction writing professor just sent out an email informing us of a ban on fantasy and far-reaching science fiction for this semester…
tell him it’s speculative fiction. or psychological drama.
Haha. I told him that it wasn’t vampires, zombies, werewolves, or posthumans, which summarized the examples he gave. Then I actually told him the premise and...
My fiction writing professor just sent out an...
As I’m in the middle of writing a story about ghosts/monsters that may or may not be entirely in the protagonist’s head.
Does that count??? This is why I think genre distinctions are stupid ways to talk about anything but marketing.
theworstthingsforsale:
Today’s post is less about a bad thing for sale (a movie adapted from a Stephen King book) and more about the review. Click through to read the entire work of genius. Here’s an excerpt:
Movies will always be better then books, no matter what, because books are words, movies are fun.
This is why Gankro and I are friends. No other...
On the Tractability of Reading and Consumption
Abstract We provide a rationale for why Ryan should send us more links to good articles, particularly in the domain of “cracked.com”. Totally Rational(e) Arguments Lemma 1: Cracked is good. They write well and entertain my face-holes. ∎ Lemma 2: Cracked produces content too rapidly to be consumed casually. Reading cracked via RSS is...
Just finished Axis.
While it continues the precedent of entertainment, and expands on a lot of the ideas touched upon in Spin, I’d have to borrow the words of another reviewer and say that it feels somewhat hollow in comparison.
It doesn’t feel like it has the same urgency to it.
It’s still well worth reading, I think. It’s a well-told story and it does have a lot of interesting things to...
kite-in:
why isn’t it socially acceptable to take all of your clothes off in 40 degree weather
bosscrab:
vvarinn:
brotherentropy:
it’s still hilarious to me that some people were legit bothered when roxy first got introduced b/c she was a teenager who drinks
or tried to convince themselves that she just pretended to get drunk b/c god forbid the existence of teenage girls who drink
u-u-underage drinking??
Well, well, well. If it isn’t my old friend, underage drinking. So, we meet...
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people! Guns...
Said Morris, as he fantasized about a world where he could stroll into Walmart and buy tools like landmines, mustard gas, and grenades without all those liberal hippies assuming he will misuse them.
po-mo-ghost replied to your post: Let’s Play a Game: Am I a terrible person because of the following?
no
jitmakesstuff replied to your post: Let’s Play a Game: Am I a terrible person because of the following?
nope
Excellent!
Let's Play a Game: Am I a terrible person because...
Babies as a class of human being strike me as ranging from boring to incredibly obnoxious, and I therefore attempt to minimize contact with them.
“His heart cried out to God.” If that describes anyone, it describes...”
– Spin, page 440, by Robert Charles Wilson.
Science fiction literature has always treated me well, as entertainment and as personal growth. It still does. I think you should buy this book, and, doubtlessly, I will think the same of its two sequels.
so this is what you puny fleshlings call…
emotion
i don’t like it
God Admits Humans Not Most Impressive Creation →
‘It’s Mountains,’ Says Divine Being
“Mountains, above all else, are undoubtedly my most splendid creation,” God proclaimed. “Mountains are incredibly tall. They are also miles wide and are filled with millions upon millions of tons of earth. These facts alone make them objectively more impressive than human beings.”
Saw some BSA veterans talking about this article. →
They were going on about how the kid has “an agenda,” that the timing of his story coming out makes them hesitate to take it as seriously.
And I’m seriously wall-eyed about this reasoning. What, the guy got himself fired from a job he cares about so he could be in a documentary, and, what, get rich? Get famous? What’s the end goal here? Seems unlikely on several...
sadgi:
skyrim idea: make a khajiit named c’atdog and have them join the companions
groaaaaaaaaaaaan
I was unconscious for 17 hours.
Healthy sleep patterns, why must you elude me………
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thingshussiebought:
San Diego Comic Con was last week, and while I couldn’t go, tons of my friends did! Including Andrew.
And what greater gift could one give to an absent friend then to throw a party for everyone, using that friend’s credit card to purchase an entire shopping cart full of beer and pop and hot dogs and chips and salsa and “cheesy made easy” pre-cooked macaroni and cheese??
...
“If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter’s out of wedlock, “baby daddy drama”...”
– If Sarah Palin Were Black (via azspot)
Just goes to show how far Palin’s whiteness can take her. Zero intellect, two high school drop-outs, an unwed teen mother, a quitter of the one major job she had. Master of hateful coded language targeting opponents as not “real Americans”. Belongs to a church...
Yo, Midnight Disease, what the fuck are you doing...
need sleep
work in the morning
still thinking about getting a cat
yeah
hellaciousbrother:
I DON’T REMEMBER GOOGLING THIS
look either you got a ghost who wants to know about butts and lions and how they cross paths or
or you are the ghost adam
Watchhellaciousbrother:
Unruly feline disobeys direct orders on camera
This kind of shit is why I stay up, in the dark of the night, and say to myself… “I should get a cat.”
phazes:
Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but stop singing this song, or I’ll punch you maybe.
One of my coworkers was whistling the chicken dance song through most of yesterday.
I am broken now.
Rest of the world: Dang i sure like this character, his situation is so simiilar to mine, this makes me appreciate him/her in a really intimate manner, you really gotta appreciate the author for their skills.
Tumblr: Dang i sure like this character, his situation is so similar to my own... im probably the reincarnation of him fron another alternate parallel universe of zorg-xg 24v, the author probably caught a glimpse of my glory and had to write about me, why wouldnt he im a god, im the chosen one, its me, i wonder when sephi chan will come back to the shadow realm and marry me.
So, I'm reading Deadline.
It’s by Seanan McGuire, under the pseudonym Mira Grant. Just got done with Chapter Fifteen, which is pretty much entirely devoted to a good ol’ fashioned steamy sex scene.
What strikes me about this chapter is that it, like the rest of the book, is written from the perspective of a male character. By a female author.
And, wouldn’t you know it, it turns out that sexual...
I really want to think Louis C. K. is a funny...
I mean I can’t even go near his material without remembering that he vocally and immediately supports comedians who say vile, violent, hateful things on stage, first Tracy Morgan and now Daniel Tosh. I also cannot help but recall the rape jokes in his own material.
It’s like… the dude trashed any chance there was of me continuing to like his material while acknowledging and...
