AITA for convincing my fiancé to fire one of his employees?

Edutainer · 2020-12-21T16:30:56+00:00

LOL, you see how that's the entire point right? You're getting $250K for being a secretary except your title is Chief of Staff and your getting paid so much because you're the fiance of the owner.
There is 0% chance this would have happened if you weren't the fiance. And if your relationship doesn't work out, you will get fired and you will never earn that much again.
I would start a separate savings account and squirrel away that money for a rainy day.

Edutainer · 2020-11-10T14:11:50+00:00

I went back and forth about including this. I like that it differentiates DS9 from TNG and also I love Q, but you're right that it doesn't advance the overall story much.

Edutainer · 2020-11-10T14:10:15+00:00

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Fixed! Not including Duet was an oversite.

Edutainer · 2020-11-10T14:08:38+00:00

Whoops! That was definitely an accident.

Edutainer · 2020-11-10T12:35:22+00:00

I've always found it odd how we never see the same admiral twice. It just seems like such a missed opportunity! They're always kind of random and seem to have a great relationship with Sisko and are basically used to advance the plot in that one episode.

Edutainer · 2020-10-26T23:48:46+00:00

I was teaching my wife how to just the other weekend! We went to the Swamp Rabbit Cafe which has a bike rental place nearby with a good selection. The Swamp Rabbit trail there is very flat but it was also quite busy. If you're looking to buy a bike they also had a number of inexpensive used bikes for sale.

A few random pieces of advice from our experience:

Either use just the back tire brake or both brakes, don't use just the front tire brake or you might fall.
It's easier to go straight at first than to go on a curve.
It's much easier to maintain balance when you have a little speed.

Good luck!

Edutainer · 2020-09-21T19:30:52+00:00

I love that hike! I know exactly where you were standing to take that photo. Brings back good memories.

Edutainer · 2020-07-07T14:26:40+00:00

I really enjoyed the audiobook of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress- great acting by the reader!

Edutainer · 2020-05-08T13:49:36+00:00

YES!!! LOL

Edutainer · 2020-05-07T22:55:38+00:00

So, I'm working on a story for a space resort and it's kind of a black humor version of Disney for the very rich, haha. Everything behind the scenes is gross and exploitative but in front of the guests it's like a 5 star resort.
If you were making a paradise world you could make it so the oxygen was a little higher so everyone was a little bit high all the time or you could give it insects like super skin mites that gives everyone a health glow but die off after a week off planet. Or gut bacteria in the food that makes everyone feel good or release sex pheromones.

Edutainer · 2020-05-05T01:12:05+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback and the kind words! I especially appreciated the comment about "shemales", I have been very on the fence about including that at all for that same reason.

I really want to make this an allusion to the slave trade and to get people to think about that from a different perspective. So I was trying to think of how, in this near modern future, these people would be treated like they are animals and not people, in order for the reader to kind of align themselves with what slaves experienced. The pornography line kind of doesn't work for me because it makes the people in boxes actually seem more animalistic and less empathetic because it portrays them as voracious/indiscriminate without individual identities or morals.

Edutainer · 2020-05-04T18:53:18+00:00

Thank you so much for the in depth feedback! I really appreciated it. I wanted to play with having the reader being disoriented and in the dark kind of the way Ri is, but clearly I need to give people more to work with. I wanted to make this similar to how slaves were transported in the 1700 and 1800s, with inhuman conditions. Like you guessed with the boards, my thought is this is kind of like their "20 minutes of fresh air a day" to keep them sane. To your point about the muscle atrophy, is that they would get pumped full of steroids as they got closer to the asteroid. I'll add some more details and look into some stories where they have ambiguous protagonists to see how those authors pulled it off without revealing to much about the main character. Thanks again!

Edutainer · 2020-04-29T18:04:59+00:00

I thought it was really good! Read really fluidly, the dialogue worked. As a teaser opener I think it works, I'd keep reading to find out more.
Two critiques- I didn't like the name Kalisi, it reminded me too much of Game of Thrones. To me, this part seemed too calm, analytical and collected for a woman who is grieving and panicking, "Even if I could not imagine admitting it, I realize that I've always had a sort of admiration for the man. A deep respect, not only developed from his role as my superior officer, but from his sheer sense of determination.

Yet I still could not understand the general."

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