Random #Fanfic Thought #237 I don’t understand the tag “canon divergent” because, with a few exceptions like fics that take place before the canon or after the canon that leave the canon untouched... (1/2)

This was received by my friend in Nebraska. Vector23 is his band. The "How'bout you pay me to visualize this for you via AI" is spreading... #Fanfic

I've had a hell of a week (or two) but I'm recovering. I hope to spend some time with your posts in the coming few days! For now, here's #FebruaryWorldbuilders! This marks the second birthday of the Monthly Worldbuilders prompts, started on Twitter, but getting traction here now. Enjoy!

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - Given the variability in the Enclosure, a focus on the longhouse of Jobón, eldest of the Red Brothers: Grievances are brought to him directly as one might bring a grievance to a feudal lord or lady. But it's uncommon for him to have to decide innocence or guilt... (1/2)

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - In the Enclosure "tribal chiefdom" is the general juridical vibe. Population density is very, very low on the island - no more than about 30k people on a landmass the size of Borneo (actual population 23 million) and this makes for strong differences. (1/5)

Sorry, Season 3 of The Diplomat, but, no matter how many times your plot turns on a ludicrous dime, it's patently bland compared to real-world events just now, which are 🌶️🔥...

"To Catch a Predator" was cancelled because they caught a government official. Who then offed himself. Notice how I separate that last bit as a fragmentary sentence so it doesn't have shit to do with the sentence prior because IT AIN'T GOT SHIT TO DO WITH THE OTHER MTHFKN SENTENCE.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - Initially, the nature and origin of the world that contains the Enclosure is unknown to any of the characters. But eventually, one does come to know the whole of the story - Tourr'di, the impossibly ancient Neanderthal woman. (1/3)

I just heard a comedian refer to them as "Rapepublicans" and I'm never saying it any other way.

#AwesomeCharacters I admit that my MCs often strongly adhere to a physical archetype best described as Big Fellah and L'il Dude, which, if I'm honest, is likely a reflection of me being a 5'6" (167 cm) gay fellah living in a 6'5" (195 cm) world. 😊 (1/2)

#AwesomeCharacters - Fencing, of course. 😜 I'm chuckling because Timmor Buckler and Odé Qaxar in my Westeros stories were originally inspired by Nzinga Prescod and Race Imboden, both previously on the US Olympic Fencing Team.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - In my Westeros series, yes, most certainly both exist. 😊 There are greenseers and wargs and several prophecies giving rise to a bewildering array of fan-theories concerning how they will be resolved, if ever. GRRM is infamous for dropping pearls he later simply abandons. 😶

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - In the Enclosure - No, such elements are not evident. I'm not interested in the withering restrictions of "Hard Sci-Fi", but it IS a Science Fiction story and I'm trying to keep the more fantastical elements scientifically explicable and true to the setting... (1/2)

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - In the Enclosure, the digital realm of the Steward is accessible only to those whose brains have been upgraded through nanite reconfiguration. Long story short, if you were to open the skull of any long-term resident, you would find a bunch of "aftermarket" systems. (1/4)

#AwesomeCharacters - A difficult question for Timmor Buckler because his current most favorite place was once his most unfavorite place, his home - Castle Bronzegate. (1/5)

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - My original Enclosure novel sorta has a non-physical realm, but it's technological, not supernatural or other-worldly. Long story short, the setting is a quasi-derelict alien bio-research station held together very tenuously by a true AI I call The Steward. (1/4)

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - The canon of ASOIAF introduces the greenseer network, originally specific to the Children of the Forest, but eventually shared with the First Men. Very powerful greenseers like The Three-Eyed Raven can use the network to make time a non-linear paradigm. (1/5)

#AwesomeCharacters - From my Enclosure novel, vision not only predominates, it's an important part of the basic setup of the story. Tukhé (Neanderthals) and Maosa (Denisovans) and many who have strong admixture from these branches of humanity see a thing called tumpa (toom-pah) (1/5)

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - In my ASOIAF fic series, the most notable body of water is likely The Summer Sea, simply because I shift the focus in that geographic direction. I'm a equitorial fellah and if the canon affords me tropics, that's where I tend to take things. 🌴😊

#FebruaryWorldbuilders - From my original Enclosure novel, to the southwest of landmass is a lake simply known as the Lake to the hominins of the Enclosure. Rashiné and his people live upon the water itself in a floating town of reed mats and houses, forced there after a bloody war. (1/3)

#AwesomeCharacters - Well established throughout the stories wherein he appears, Timmor Buckler would crack open a book and lean into a comfortable chair. Though, in truth, such idle moments are rare enough in the life if a young lord. He's typically at it seven days of seven.

#AwesomeCharacters In my original fiction Enclosure novel, Angie would handle it the same way I do. She's got a few serious "paint stripper" lines learned in a few languages, and she just delivers them until one finally lands. Click! 😉

#AwesomeCharacters Timmor of Bronzegate in Westeros would unwittingly frustrate the heck out of the scam caller because the phone itself would be utterly distracting. "What strange work is this???" 😳 I'm just imagining him accidentally opening iTunes and playing a song. 😅

#FebruaryWorldbuilders From my original Enclosure novel - the ballfruit trees. I'm still really iffy about the name, but I know their nature pretty well. They exist as the method for feeding the inhabitants of the Enclosures. They are a novel invention of mine, not real-world. (1/8)

#FebruaryWorldbuilders is still focused on Westeros where Weirwood trees are front and center as notable flora. In my fics, there are also Ceiba trees in the Summer Isles with their corresponding Children called the Little Sister. (1/2)

Buddy, the only REAL question is, “How many of you AND your grannies am I willing to unapologetically clothesline in order to ensure that I am the one who gets to stay there?” The answer is "ALL of you and EVERY single one of your grannies".

Dear Near-Future Sci-Fi, I get that you're impatient and you want all the tech NOW!!! But, if ALIEN:Earth is set in 2122 and the Maginot has been on mission for 65 years, that means she launched in 2057, and that's just 31 years away. That patently ain't happening. (1/4) #WriteSky #ScienceFiction

The point of those bodyguards is all the hot, NSFW RPF fanfiction they inspire, that's what. 😉 #fanfic

The only thing more painful than the blatant obviousness of what needs to happen is the spinelessness that makes sure it never does.

Verily, I say unto thee - in amounts most copious hath the rain fallen since the hour of the witch was upon me and three is nary a sign of abatement!

On the genderlessness of “dude": Most times I deploy the word “dude”, it’s not even in the vocative. It’s not referencing ANYone. If it's anything, it's a soft expletive. “Fuck! What is that?” “Shit! What is that?” “Dude! What is that?” Comme ça…

My general take on the whole of everything currently doing the do.

I can't be alone, can I? I know some of you possess the magic widget to escape into your writing. No irony, no lie - I wish I had that widget. Instead, my writing feels like it's on the other side of a massive door to which I don't have the key right now. #Fanfic #Writesky #WritingCommunity

archiveofourown.org/works/729476... Chapter 12 of Timmor Lord of Bronzegate, part of the Tales of Ser Podrick the Round and Timmor the Red. Please click image for full AO3 metadata. #Fanfic #WriteSky #GameofThrones #ASOIAF #PodrickPayne #BrienneofTarth #GendryBaratheon #SansaStark #TyrionLannister

It's patently clear that no US citizen has a right to bear arms that is both de jure and de facto. Some of you merely have the privilege of being deputized and the rest get to be brutalized. Welcome to what the brown and black among you always knew.

Cult = The founder of the movement is still alive Religion = The movement manages to survive the founder's death They're the same thing in two different instars of development.

When you start revising a chapter you wrote ages ago and you have all these words on the page - so many words! - but the threads of intent, direction, and purpose that originally gave those words meaning have evaporated... 😶 #fanfic #WriteSky

I know it's pointless. I know. Just report and move on. I usually do. But today, this one caught me after a nice bowl and I was feeling verbose. 🤷 #Fanfic #AO3 #ArchiveofOurOwn

archiveofourown.org/works/729476... Chapter 11 of Timmor Lord of Bronzegate, part of the Tales of Ser Podrick the Round and Timmor the Red. Please click image for full AO3 metadata. #Fanfic #WriteSky #GameofThrones #ASOIAF #PodrickPayne #BrienneofTarth #GendryBaratheon #SansaStark #TyrionLannister

I just wanna say the scammers and spammers leaving fake kudos on my fic doesnt fucking help when you have maybe 2 readers... it makes my work look not genuine. I report and block, they shouldnt be allowed to make kudos either! #AO3 #fanfic #writing

If you see this, post an archer. It doesn't stipulate it has to be a good archer. 😉 If you fear the flames of cremation, Edmure Tully is the guy you want for your funeral barge. 😅 #GameofThrones #ASOIAF

This is the first time anyone has ever made fanart for my OC. It came as an offer from the daughter of a friend and it just arrived. Timmor Buckler, Lord of Bronzegate. I'm patently breathless. ❤️ The artist is Saige Edwards. Insta: @gutz.gurl #Fanfic #Fanart #OCart #OC #GameofThrones #ASOIAF

Paleontologists will “shrink-wrap” the fuck out of every single animal they find without any anything leading them to “shrink-wrap-ification”, and then argue for 3 centuries why a terrestrial litoptern that had a nasal opening akin to dolphins still had a normal-looking nose with nostrils up front.

Watching early MST3K and ain't nobody gonna disabuse me of the idea that Joel was blazing through bushels of weed while filming. I mean, just look'at'um! 😜 #MST3K

Q for AO3 users: The story subscription and bookmark features seem nearly identical in “boots on the ground” function. If you use both, what purpose do YOU personally assign to these respective features? What do they mean to you? #AO3 #ArchiveofOurOwn #Fanfic #Fanfiction

So, the “A.I. Discord Art Scammers” flooding AO3 are leaving kudos now…? Like, is that a “Please don’t block me!” kudos? 🤔 Homo sapiens sapiens is the most bizarre of animals. 😅 #Fanfic #Fanfiction

archiveofourown.org/works/729476... Chapter 10 of Timmor Lord of Bronzegate, part of the Tales of Ser Podrick the Round and Timmor the Red. Please click image for full AO3 metadata. #Fanfic #WriteSky #GameofThrones #ASOIAF #PodrickPayne #BrienneofTarth #GendryBaratheon #SansaStark #TyrionLannister