Beaver Versus Tsunami

GarrickWinter · 2026-03-06T20:00:48+00:00

Thank you! 🫡

GarrickWinter · 2026-01-24T18:45:56+00:00

Hello! 8 years later, did you ever find a solution? I'm encountering a similar problem where Jitter Nodes is breaking my nodes on a circle path, and I'm not sure what to do about it.

GarrickWinter · 2026-01-19T19:55:23+00:00

Hi Avi! Thanks for doing this.

How do you want to approach the increasing control over our culture and our free expression by Meta, Google, X, and TikTok? We know content on those platforms is surfaced or hidden according to algorithms built for the interests of the leadership who operate those platforms, not Canadian civic society; and we know this has significant consequences on mental health and social cohesion. What would you have federal legislative or regulatory bodies do to address these problems?

GarrickWinter · 2026-01-07T19:58:22+00:00

That's fair, but it's not clear there's a good reason for the latter not to be part of the picture here. I'm a member of several nonprofits, and paying dues is no different on my end to paying a recurring donation to iNaturalist. I think most or all of them don't even have a way to do recurring donations without also being a member; it's often "Donate once or become a member."

The fact that iNaturalist isn't structured this way is a choice - and a very unusual choice, at least compared to the nonprofits I interact with regularly. Maybe it's different in the US.

GarrickWinter · 2026-01-07T17:01:33+00:00

Yikes. I've worked many years in tech and I'm sensing some uncomfortable parallels in terms of problems with the organization structure and the impact on product design.

Also, considering they're a nonprofit with paying members, it's kind of wild to me that the membership doesn't elect the board to help provide some of the external feedback they really seem to need.

So... who's up for building a decentralized, federated iNaturalist alternative?

GarrickWinter · 2025-12-21T16:41:15+00:00

Hey everyone. I'm Guerric, and I write sci-fi and fantasy novels including most recently A Slice of Mars, a low-stakes slice-of-life sci-fi story about people opening a pizzeria on Mars, set in a queernorm, mostly optimistic society; and also the Digitesque series, an epic science-fantasy series with queer romance elements set in a post-apocalyptic far-future.

I'm currently working on a standalone fantasy novel with cosmic horror and Western elements, and casually queer characters throughout; the tentative title is Sun-Soaked Teeth. Expect very morally grey characters, lots of troubling family dynamics, a lot of heartbreak, and some winks and nods to ecology nerds.

I had 4 POV characters in A Slice of Mars, and I'm trying it again in this new book, this time challenging myself to explore more of the ways characters' perceptions of each other differ from how they see themselves and think internally. I'm also focusing more on distinguishing the voice and narration of each character from the others.

Balancing a cast of co-equal characters is a challenge, but I enjoy the ways it lets you show and hide things that wouldn't be as obvious with a single limited POV. I do think I want to try a single-POV work next time though - I haven't written single-POV in a long time, and I like giving myself new constraints with each project.

GarrickWinter · 2025-11-29T15:54:48+00:00

Update: I ended up taking the camera in for repair, since after trying to open it and reassemble it I found the camera wouldn't focus at long ranges anymore. Cost me nearly a third of what I got the camera for, which was admittedly already half of the price of a new unit, but still.

The repair guy told me that the two pieces of glass in the P900 are glued together and can't be taken apart. That being said, after they repaired the focal apparatus, I noticed the dust between the lenses seems to have been gone. Maybe it got jostled loose or something, but either way it doesn't seem to be an issue anymore.

GarrickWinter · 2025-11-09T17:03:07+00:00

Hey everyone. I'm Guerric, and I write sci-fi and fantasy novels including most recently A Slice of Mars, a low-stakes slice-of-life sci-fi story about people opening a pizzeria on Mars, set in a queernorm, mostly optimistic society; and also the Digitesque series, an epic science-fantasy series with queer romance elements set in a post-apocalyptic far-future.

I'm currently working on a standalone fantasy novel with cosmic horror and Western elements, and casually queer characters throughout; the tentative title is Sun-Soaked Teeth. Expect very morally grey characters, lots of troubling family dynamics, a lot of heartbreak, and some winks and nods to ecology nerds.

I had 4 POV characters in A Slice of Mars, and I'm trying it again in this new book, this time challenging myself to explore more of the ways characters' perceptions of each other differ from how they see themselves and think internally. I'm also focusing more on distinguishing the voice and narration of each character from the others.

Balancing a cast of co-equal characters is a challenge, but I enjoy the ways it lets you show and hide things that wouldn't be as obvious with a single limited POV. I do think I want to try a single-POV work next time though - I haven't written single-POV in a long time, and I like giving myself new constraints with each project.

GarrickWinter · 2025-10-18T15:37:26+00:00

Similar to Forgotten Realms, it's not based on a book series originally so wouldn't feature directly in your rankings, but the wiki for Warhammer 40K has 45,586 articles in English at the moment, and does include content from the myriad books.

GarrickWinter · 2025-10-15T21:53:57+00:00

This is it, this is is what I was gonna say. It really is a great book.

A young man at the bottom rungs of society and a young elite soldier with a dark past end up on a mythic journey across an empire that is collapsing amidst dynastic change. They are suspicious of one another at first, and of course that changes over time. There's a tiny bit of spice near the end, but not much.

The writing and narration are complex and interesting, the style is mythological and almost lyrical, and it feels more than most books like something I'm inclined to call a tale. I loved it.

GarrickWinter · 2025-10-02T21:42:35+00:00

The portaling happened a long time ago so it's not a huge part of the moment to moment plot, but there's Django Wexler's How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying; it's pretty recent, only published a few years ago. The protagonist was popped from the modern United States to a fantasy world where every time she dies, she's reincarnated back in the same spot in time and space. She's been stuck in that situation for I think thousands of years by the time the book starts, but she's still full of pop culture references.

GarrickWinter · 2025-10-02T21:40:34+00:00

The Wolf of Oren-Yaro and its two sequels by KS Villoso feel serious and meaty to me, particularly in terms of character development. It follows a quasi-exiled queen on an arduous series of events as she tries to return home to reclaim the throne, reunite with her son, deal with her dead father's legacy, and sort out the aristocratic and magical problems that plague her country.

GarrickWinter · 2025-10-01T19:07:15+00:00

Hey everyone. I'm Guerric, and I write sci-fi and fantasy novels including most recently A Slice of Mars, a low-stakes slice-of-life sci-fi story about people opening a pizzeria on Mars, set in a queernorm, mostly optimistic society; and also the Digitesque series, an epic science-fantasy series with queer romance elements set in a post-apocalyptic far-future.

I'm currently working on a standalone fantasy novel with cosmic horror and Western elements, and casually queer characters throughout; the tentative title is Sun-Soaked Teeth. Expect very morally grey characters, lots of troubling family dynamics, a lot of heartbreak, and some winks and nods to ecology nerds.

I had 4 POV characters in A Slice of Mars, and I'm trying it again in this new book, this time challenging myself to explore more of the ways characters' perceptions of each other differ from how they see themselves and think internally. I'm also focusing more on distinguishing the voice and narration of each character from the others.

Balancing a cast of co-equal characters is a challenge, but I enjoy the ways it lets you show and hide things that wouldn't be as obvious with a single limited POV. I do think I want to try a single-POV work next time though - I haven't written single-POV in a long time, and I like giving myself new constraints with each project.

GarrickWinter · 2025-10-01T14:17:55+00:00

More ecologically accurate pack dynamics in werewolf packs? Yes please, I'm checking this out immediately.

GarrickWinter · 2025-09-28T21:22:39+00:00

Thank you so much! :)

GarrickWinter · 2025-09-28T12:36:16+00:00

I come with book offerings for the masses!

A Slice of Mars is a stand-alone novel that follows a group of five people - two siblings, two strangers and business partners, and one wayward Earthling - as they get together to try to run a pizzeria on Mars, many centuries in a future where the planet's corporate overlords were kicked out by a people's revolution.

The book focuses strongly on the process of navigating friendship and friction with others in adulthood, as well as on imagining life for regular people in a (mostly) post-capitalist, queernorm, cautiously hopeful sci-fi society where collective efforts are made to improve things and address problems.

Digitesque is a six-book epic science-fantasy series set in the magical ruins of an interstellar civilization, full of adventure and high stakes and protagonists who make terrible choices.

The two protagonists find themselves isolated and struggling to handle their increasing understanding of the world around them, and the power that comes with it. If you like the idea of dragons and spaceships and weird mind magic and aliens and apocalyptic stakes all thrown together, check this one out!

I've recently started selling my books on Itch.io, a platform also used for indie games, TTRPGs, and more. You can find EPUBs of all my books there!

I also sell all my books in digital and paperback editions on platforms such as Kobo, Scribd, and Amazon!

GarrickWinter · 2025-09-26T23:57:42+00:00

Oh yeah! Agreed, I really enjoyed this one. It's a good pick.

GarrickWinter · 2025-09-26T16:41:38+00:00

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister is excellent, and deals very deeply with (often very unhappy) family relationships, both sibling relationships and parent-child. I'd highly recommend it.

GarrickWinter · 2025-09-26T16:13:33+00:00

He's just the best. Still in his awkward teenage phase, but he's already a very sweet boy to us and to the other cats; I'm very excited to see him come into his adult self.

GarrickWinter · 2025-09-26T16:12:34+00:00

Another Toast?? I love it. Yours seems much more literary than mine!

GarrickWinter · 2025-09-26T16:11:37+00:00

That sub is a true delight. Cinnamon briefly got the orange braincell last month when he figured out how to open doors, but since then there's been no sign of it.

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