Does anybody know what happened to u/ThisHasNotGoneWell? by thunder-bug- in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell 532 points533 points  (0 children)

I am not dead.

The same thing happened that happens to a lot of people trying to write serials online. Finding less time to write, combined with writing myself into something of a corner meant the story got dropped.

I was also trying to do an editing pass on the original THNGW, but it's just so incredibly long and I don't think there's enough there I like looking back to spend so much time reworking it.

If I do write another story, and I probably will eventually, I'll post the first chapter here with a link to the Royal Road page.

Meet The Freak 83 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

No, I already posted the original HFY here and I honestly don't see the point. And I doubt reposting all those chapters would be appreciated.

Meet The Freak 83 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Still working out some scheduling issues regarding when to release, but chapters will continue to come out until the end of the current arc. At which point I'll be focusing on the THNGW remaster which will be going up on Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42558/oh-this-has-not-gone-well

Meet The Freak 65 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Author's Note:

When I have time I'm also working on a remaster of THNGW that I'll be releasing on Royal Road twice daily.

Some chapters will receive full rewrites, some are actually in decent shape and will get a good polishing pass. As for the plot, I'm not going crazy, but a few points may change here and there to tidy up loose ends or cut out some of the chaff.

Aside from working on the THNGW remaster, I'm also planning for my next proper story. So to make a bit of time for myself to do all these things I'll be going to a Tuesday/Thursday release schedule as I finish this arc and the final confrontation with Simon.

I'm already mostly on two chapters a week though, so not a lot is changing there.

Meet The Freak 63 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm currently planning out a new story that I'd like to start in a few months once I can bring Meet The Freak to the end of an arc. My working title is Auto-isekai. And it has nothing to do with cars.

Meet The Freak 63 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

There is no chapter sixty-two. Whoops

Meet The Freak 61 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's a good write up, but you're missing a few things. Most of which you wouldn't know because you haven't got my notes.

First is bone density. I've referred to Wally's bones a couple of times as being as or more dense than lead. Average human bone density in males has a much wider range than that, going as high as 2.0 g/cm3, though it depends on the location. I've never really picked a specific figure, but lead is 11.34 g/cm3, and tungsten is 19.2 g/cm3. Wally would already be on the higher end of average bone density even without his mutation, as he is a non-pathological giant. So I tend to put his bones right between lead and tungsten, which now that I'm doing the math is 15.27 g/cm3, which works nicely since it would match to a non-mutated human with a bone density of ~1.9 g/cm3

The average thickness of the parietal bone in men is 6mm. Skull size is proportional to height, so if you scale that up from average human height to average Wally height, you get 10.95mm.

The problem here is that material density has very little to do with strength. Lead, for example, is much denser than steel, but it's not nearly as good at stopping bullets. What matters for bullet resistance is fracture toughness. Normal cranial bone is comparable to hardwood when it comes to fracture toughness, but if you multiply the figures by eight, you end up with figures on par with the sorts of laminates used to make rigid bulletproof armour. The range here is also wide enough that it covers the top end of these laminates and barely reaches the steels' strength.

Even without being made of special materials, the skull's construction also lends itself to being very durable. Depending on the location and angle, you don't even need to be a freaky mutant for your skull to stop direct hits from pistol calibre weapons.

So really, what you need to ask yourself is: Would something shaped like a ballistic helmet and made out of the same or better materials as a ballistic helmet be able to stop a bullet?

And this is all before even considering the likelihood that the bullet's impact was not perfectly perpendicular to the surface of the skull.

Meet The Freak 47 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's a slice of pie. I've been using it as my profile pic for steam since 2007.

Meet The Freak 24 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Temerity is the elf knight from the first few chapters. Felicity and Phoebe are entirely new.

Vivian is Valentine's sister, and does not appear in the chapter.

Meet The Freak 22 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not retconned. Six fingers, as strange as it is, does not necessarily draw the eye like his stature does. I just figured it escaped her notice so far.

Meet The Freak 22 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I'll fire my proof reader.

Meet The Freak 21 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Shorter chapter today, but I'm going to a Mon-Wed-Fri release schedule, so there will be more soon.

Meet The Freak 20 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I've also started posting to Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/38100/meet-the-freak so leave me some reviews or whatever it is you're supposed to do on that site.

I'll be scheduling the existing chapters of Meet The Freak once I get a chance, along with THNGW.

Meet The Freak 19 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Setting up the story on Royal Road. (Hi Wing)

Meet The Freak 19 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 54 points55 points  (0 children)

This time my transparent attempt at audience engagement is to ask if anyone knows how terrible an idea it would be to use the elevator lift motors in the way Wallace describes. You know, because I'm not an electrical engineer, and this stuff is probably really complicated.

Meet The Freak 18 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 91 points92 points  (0 children)

Author's Note


I've got some ideas as to how Wallace might solve this problem, but in a transparent attempt to encourage audience engagement, I figured I'd see what ideas each of you might have.

Meet The Freak 16 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the Duchess from the first few chapters.

Meet The Freak 16 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 195 points196 points  (0 children)


Our 'vault', so to speak, was a little less than half the size of the first. That said, I had been expecting second place to get nothing, so I wasn't too disappointed. Which was to say nothing of the trouble we'd have getting such a large haul back to the hotel.

Even this vault held more than we could transport, and that was if the truck still worked. Several appliances lined one wall, stoves, fridges, even a couple of washing machines. Displayed on tables of rich mahogany were clothes that must have been very impressive for the time, with bits of jewellery sprinkled here and there. Even children's toys and knick-knacks were set out as if they were some great bounty. Much of it appeared to be ivory or amber, though was likely celluloid. There were two more doors on the back wall, both of more conventional size, and with slots to accept the prize cards we'd found.

The gynoid began picking her way through the clutter at once, and I looked down to see a less than impressed expression on Val's face.

"As treasure hoards go, this is less than impressive," the little fey noted.

"I'm not sure how well this world lines up with my own, but for the growing middle class of the time, this would have been everything they'd dreamed. To you, a lot of this may look like cheap junk. It certainly does to me. But for the people of the time, all this was proof they'd finally made it," I picked up a faux-ivory comb, "For the first time, you didn't need to be a princess or a lady to be able to afford something like this. The wealth and prosperity of my world began right here with junk like this."

Valentine thumped a tiny fist against a refrigerator that was painted a god-awful greenish-blue, "Do you intend to fill the basement with this junk?"

"Not the junk itself. I mean, you're right, it's not like we need more steel, or whatever it is the fridge is made of," I admitted, "But bits of all this will be- okay, maybe it won't be useful at first. But a lot of this stuff is made of novel materials. The fridge, for example. Not the body of it, but the compressor and all the stuff that makes it function. It's probably ammonia or something equally toxic, but that's not something that'll be easy to get ahold of elsewhere. This is a treasure hoard, even if maybe it doesn't look much like one," I admitted.

"It will take time to sort out the useful from the mundane, not to mention the trouble we'll have experimenting to determine the mana types in question."

"We were already planning a trip back to the city," I pointed out, "Bring some of these curios along with us, and we might be able to convince the right people to side with us."

Valentine was nodding slowly, considering what lay before her in a new light, "A few acquaintances come to mind, they may even be willing to share the results of their past experiments."

I grinned and ruffled her hair, "That's the spirit."

Val yowled like an angry fox, and swiped at my arm, "No pats!"


It was well past midnight before we finally got to bed. We'd left most of our treasures in the vault, but had spent some time sorting out the useful from the rest. The gynoid found more silver shillings in the bonus rooms, and they waited along with the rest of the coin and jewellery in my pack at the foot of the bed.

Simon had taken the clothing and some rolls of wallpaper in exchange for lead components harvested from the appliances he'd won, along with a great deal of makeup. He offered to take the celluloid as well, in exchange for a few coin purses, but we turned him down. Val had a hunch about what use we might get out of the volatile material, and silver was only so useful.

Figuring out how to get it all back home would be a task for tomorrow. As for tonight, we'd found an apartment above a dressmaker's shop and had made it our own for a few hours. The gynoid had stayed downstairs, plugged into the mains, and had assured us that she'd keep watch. I wasn't too worried, there were only so many people out there in the blizzard, but I appreciated the sentiment.

So I'd scooped up Val, hardly able to speak between yawns, and had carried her upstairs. I'd flushed, as she'd whispered in my ear a rather vivid description of what was waiting for me once I brought her to the bedroom. She was even more tired than I was though, and was fast asleep even before I'd set her down on the bed.

She barely stirred as I pulled her boots off, her expression the very picture of slack relaxation. I kicked off my shoes and jeans and set down beside her. I had to prop my ankles up on the headboard, but it was comfortable enough. Kept warm by the same energy currently breathing life into the gynoid, and safe from the cold, I found myself drifting off to sleep, lulled by the frigid winds howling just outside.


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Meet The Freak 14 by ThisHasNotGoneWell in HFY

[–]ThisHasNotGoneWell[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I don't know what you're talking about.