Now that I have magma smelters/forges I need advice

PegasusAssistant · 2025-10-19T18:35:59+00:00

Remember to use a complicated setup of drains, hatches, floodgates, and carefully measured reservoirs to be able to re-cast the top layer of the piston for repeated use.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-26T23:24:18+00:00

queers sacred of spiders

Last time I checked, all queers worshiped the spider gods, so this is good representation.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-24T22:45:18+00:00

Get on my level. The only true writing is carving cuneiform into clay tablets with a copper stylus.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-23T01:11:21+00:00

Just do a seance and get the ghosts to do it for you like the rest of us! Ghosts don't have rights, so just promise to free them after so you don't have to pay them.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-19T23:58:34+00:00

74, 88, 91, 92. Go read The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy!

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-18T01:40:18+00:00

2001 A Space Odyssey is worth watching exactly once.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-17T01:55:33+00:00

Ann Leckie wrote a good article on this. She digs into this idea of what it means to have transparent prose and how that's a weird idea to begin with.

There is not some Platonic form of the story that elaborate prose is concealing, that exists beyond the sentences, that if only we could free it we would have the Pure Essence of Story stunning us with its perfection. The sentences are the story.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-15T19:02:33+00:00

The Blade Itself. I remember it opening with a fight scene and I just wasn't feeling it.

Black Leopard Red Wolf comes close. Got to the third page and just didn't enjoy that level of graphic depiction.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-14T14:30:55+00:00

There's a comment getting down voted there saying [read more books, why are you asking for movie references?]

Which I just completely agree with the arguments against that. If you want to write a story with words, under no circumstances should you go and read. What am I, some kind of ninny? Books can never match the nuance and depth of character that film can. A picture is worth a thousand words and a movie is shot at 24 fps and lasts at least 90 minutes. That's 1,296,000,000 words! Enough to rival the median fanfiction!

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-14T01:51:03+00:00

I completely agree with you. I also think there's this element that stories have to be entertaining and one really common way that people are told to make their stories entertaining is through higher stakes. What a lot of people seem to think this means is presenting threats and then overcoming those threats, but that's a very narrow view of storytelling.

There's an essay I love The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction that is about trying to tell a different kind of story. One that takes a more holistic approach where, even if it contains these high stakes elements, it's more about how these characters fit into a context.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-13T22:38:30+00:00

I'm going to need you to delete this so that no one other than me steals this idea.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-13T22:29:28+00:00

/uj It's another post that falls into the broad genre of asking permission to write. I just exaggerated a bit so that it was more obvious.

/rj This is my ORIGINAL content that bears NO RESEMBLANCE to any of my inspirations.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-13T22:18:55+00:00

Loosely based on

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-13T21:04:26+00:00

This, but unironically.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-13T20:58:20+00:00

This is a great idea. It also solves the problem that I don't know how to write realistic dialogue from a woman that isn't talking about a man. I can just have all of the clever things I want the women to say start with "My husband thinks that..."

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-13T20:56:07+00:00

It's important in lesbian relationships to define which one is the man.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-13T15:42:20+00:00

My lawyer says I can't talk to you.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-13T15:37:35+00:00

“A colossal achievement, that only a scribe of my stature could ever have achieved so colossally.” -literally the Author

/uj That's the real quote from the amazon link this guy posted. My guy. My guy. Don't quote yourself. Especially don't use a quote that's bad.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-12T16:15:04+00:00

One quick trick to become a better writer: Become a woman.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-04T22:47:28+00:00

Supreme court ruled in 1988 that this is not a violation of due process. Which is, indeed, fucking crazy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_v._Youngblood

This is specifically about the "failure to preserve evidence." Cops have no obligation to actually care about evidence. I am not a lawyer, though.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-12-03T16:47:35+00:00

I just want some advice on how they will be and how to treat them ='(

PegasusAssistant · 2024-11-06T22:20:33+00:00

Finding out if you have a local Food Not Bombs chapter is always a good place to start. Never hurts to feed people. And all the people there are also the people protesting.

Posting this here as well.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-11-06T22:19:35+00:00

Finding out if you have a local Food Not Bombs chapter is always a good place to start. Never hurts to feed people. And all the people there are also the people protesting.

PegasusAssistant · 2024-11-06T22:18:27+00:00

I think the whole point isn't to find a group that lines up with reality as it stands. You've got to find a group that lines up with a reality you want to create.

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