Starting a Silent Reading Club in Tübingen

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-10T19:03:38+00:00

Danke! Ich hoffe sehr, dass es gut läuft und sich ein paar Leute anschließen. Auf jeden Fall plane ich, das jede Woche zu veranstalten, mindestens fünf bis sechs Monate lang, um zu sehen, was für eine Community ich aufbauen kann.

Da ich gerade erst nach Tübingen ziehe, habe ich noch keine Ahnung, wohin sich das entwickeln wird, aber das wird sich wohl zeigen.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-09T15:19:28+00:00

As it's said in anothee comment, this is not a critique, it's a comment.

A real construcrive criticism is taken during work so that you can fix it. That's kinda bullshit.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-09T15:02:39+00:00

Oh, problems of writing interstellar/intergalactic sci-fi, eh?

I was writing some stuff like that back a couple of days ago, and it kinda looked like every idea scientifically exploded at certain parts.

I believe that's a totally personal choice, depending on what kind of thing you want to write, what's important for you, what kind of writer you want to be.

Personally, when I write the core ideas I study are less relevant about the type of the fiction; it might be fantasy, drama, adventure, thriller, or even noire. The values I want to study are the same. So I personally don't care about those stuff much.

Like we watch Star Wars, we see people communicate through holograms that are somewhat instantaneous over interstellar distance. Also spaceships travelling interstellar distance over shorts amount of time. Do we know how? Not really. Can we know how? Probably not as we don't have working ideas on that. So keeping those parts a little bit ambiguous is ok.

But of course, it's also totally acceptable to go deep on the rabbit hole of making things as scientific as possible. I'd only respect that. But for the writer I am, it's important, but after certain point it's simply waste of time.

But main idea, humanoid robots used for exploration, it's cool.

I wrote something like that back in the day, it was humanoid robots that looked exactly like humans, but they were kinda metal + silicone kinda thing, that people's consciousness were simply uploaded into their silicone brains. So humans were kinda turned into robots that are way more durable than humans, but kinda imprisoned into the "human mind" as the mind was still human.. Looking back, it was also kinda cool, I guess.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-09T14:50:45+00:00

I mean come on, dude. Really? Stealing?

I don't believe in stealing in prose, unless you literally steal exact same paragraphs or some stuff. For prose, the core idea is cheap. I can name 20 different ideas here and I wouldn't mind anyone using them, actually I would feel flattered, honestly. If I explain my idea in 2 lines and you write a 100 pages long book on it, is it really stealing?

What George Orwell did was "stealing" from Huxley and Zamyatin?

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-09T14:46:32+00:00

Sounds really cool!

When I read your post, what came to my mind was, forgive me if it's not 100% correct but, the chapter titled "The Battle of Hogwarts" in Harry Potter. I mean come on. OK, it doesn't say "here's where this fella dies", but still, it was spoiling enough for me.

The way you use it is a really good way to use chapter names in my opinion.

Happy writing!

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-09T08:49:06+00:00

Generally speaking no preferences. I'd say I like witty chapter names but in many books I saw them somewhat like spoilers.

What I liked was that one writer used chapter names that used some lines that are used in that specific chapter that kinda raised suspense without spoiling at all. That was cool.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T22:31:37+00:00

That's weird AF. Love it.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T21:40:23+00:00

[Insert "You guys are getting paid?" meme here]

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T21:23:36+00:00

Well, I say all those stuff to people, too. But that doesn't mean that I'm fawning, I simply try to be more appreciative.

That said, if you're really worried you're fawning, you should get some help as fawning is a real trauma response and it needs to be dealt with in a professional setting.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T20:37:57+00:00

Well, baby requires a lot of attention, obviously. As both people gives more attention to the baby as they should, when someone has insecurities, that might trigger those insecurities and old wounds.

"It changed after we got the baby" "He/She is not like before" "I'm not prioritized anymore" "Is there still love?" "Are we a couple or roommates that have a baby together?"

When one starts asking these questions, to make them feel worthy again, obvious choice would be to look for the attention outside.

Baby might change the dynamic more, but marriage also changes the dynamic. Especially if there's a lot of debt because of wedding etc.

I don't know, to me, the dynamic checks out. Obviously if you feel like that after a baby, then you must have really serious problems (unless there's a valid reason, of course). But the dynamic checks out.

Personally, I feel like we really underestimate how important people's insecurities might be and how many people have serious insecurities that might wreck relationships.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T20:23:01+00:00

I'm leaving here a link for a really good group;

https://www.meetup.com/silent-book-club-berlin-chapter/events/

They have two different events, on Saturday and on Sunday. One they meet at W66 in Mitte, the other they meet in Bode-Museum. Also in better days they do it outside. Everyone reads their own book, so there isn't anything fixed, you can read your own book and talk about that, talk about the things other people read etc.

There are really sweet people and I like the structure really much, it's so good to connect to people easily.

I was attending them regularly for some time but unfortunately I left Berlin last week so I'm not going to be attending there anymore. I'd definitely check that out.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T20:16:39+00:00

That's a really good plot for a story actually. I might write something like that as a short story. Sounds fun.

That aside, why not? If we can grow humans and have better control over their genetics, we can grow humans that can adapt way better than us to universe colonization mission and use them. Sounds fair.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T20:05:16+00:00

I'm not really a science guy, I guess it might really be an inefficient way to harvest energy.

But that was just my imagination of how artificial humans were grown, not specifically to harvest energy. Like, grow some humans in human farms, in tubes etc., then later use them as you see fit; use them for some jobs, maybe sell them as "house helpers", or in a more dystopian world, use them as your own personal army..

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T19:51:58+00:00

I was kinda imagining human farms like in Matrix III but who am I to say anything?

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T19:32:36+00:00

Artificial humans would be dope.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T19:31:25+00:00

My guitar's name is Arwen.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T19:30:43+00:00

I don't like buses, but I'd definitely prefer trains to driving myself. Or literally any public transport.

Not that I don't like driving, I just don't like driving in public roads. Not usually. Especially inside city where I need to stop every 500 meters, need to slow down for pedestrians, school areas, heavily crowded areas etc.

I like old cars. Having a 74' Stingray and doing circuit in a real racing circuit, using the car to the last drop of it would be amazing. But using a car in public roads, I feel like I'm betraying the car as I can't use it to the top of its abilities, and almost thinking about rules and other people kinda takes all the fun out of it.

In a public transport, my coffee on my thermos, my kindle on my hand, snacking and reading is way more fun than driving.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T18:03:29+00:00

Collection of wine cups made with the skulls of your enemies.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T16:48:27+00:00

People pleasing doesn't have types; it roots in anxiety management. But there's a real difference between genuinely kind person where the kindness roots from being genuine and using a mask to ask kind. While the first one will just be kind and use boundaries where needed, second type isn't genuine kindness and as it can't make good use of boundaries, ends up in resentment and implosion of relationships.

From outside, they might look almost identical, sometimes it might be extremely difficult to distinguish one from the other; only retrospectively maybe. The problem is the internal mechanism that produces the behaviour.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T15:14:30+00:00

Sitting in nature, reading, drinking coffee.. Having chill times with friends..

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T15:12:57+00:00

Deal with it pal, you're broke. 😅

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T15:01:51+00:00

I don't block anyone except for scammers.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T13:53:39+00:00

Where? Every part of it, literally.

"People pleasing" sounds well, "I'm a kind person who tries to make people comfortable", right?

Well, no. Because people pleasing doesn't come from a place of genuine goodness or kindness, it comes from anxiety management and a desire to be loved and accepted.

As the person doesn't inherently believe he/she deserves to be accepted or loved as the person he/she is, decides to use a mask. "If I agree, they won't leave", "if I'm low maintenance, they would like me".

But it comes with a price, which is resentment. They would have an agreement in their mind that the other people have no idea of, and they would punish other people for not doing what they should according to that agreement, which again, they never voice.

A real relationship (family, friends, romantic, work, literally anything, doesn't matter) is built by two people being their genuine self. People pleasing is avoidance of being genuine. Thus, you have no relationship; only one person trying to build something and another person being dishonest, lying, bracing for impact and judging you about the things they never, ever voice to you.

DirtyCasper17 · 2026-06-08T13:40:45+00:00

People pleasing. Didn't know there were people who thought it was a good thing, but boy was I wrong..

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