Oh, and here's a Nu-Metal cover of the beatles classic 'don't let me down' by POD, from a few days ago. 2025...

Only one swift in ANOD for the #WIPsnips, and it's neither Taylor nor a swallow-like bird but (oh horror for the writing rules purists) a -ly adverb... Michael is deleted from the male hierarchy, depressed, and married off to a robot by the state. Eliza is just being practical.

To be honest, I'm most attracted to the person I'm in a relationship with, so in another way it's true...

Listening to Aphex Twin, squarepusher and boards of Canada Sometimes my head is like that...

From ANOD II, which has page numbers in the Word-version. He's been married off to a robot by the state, which Eliza finds funnier than she probably should.

For the #WIPsnips, from the ANOD-sequel with Pyra and Ronan, who somehow managed to end up in Héva, the land without men. An earoplane from Afropea will bring them back home, or at least back to Nation Island, and the pilot (not a fan of Hévan culture) is quite amused too by them.

Reminder: gender stereotypes are often harmful bullshit!

I've donated: if enough of us do that it sure make a difference. Have known about this issue for YEARS but seems that only now is it becoming well known. Help STOP the illegal killing of migratory #birds in #Cyprus! Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) donorbox.org/help-stop-il...

So, any rapture or other apocalypse happening anywhere yet?

For the #WIPsnips, from the same possible second-generation ANOD spin-off with Pyra and Ronan, and here an adult Eliza, elder of the female outlaw colony at this point, who's amused by the new generation... I'm not sure if this'll ever get finished but those 2 are cute...

Happy Autumn equinox!

Adulting is overrated...

Interesting tip:

What are the best reactions to online intimidation troll sentences like 'cope harder' that can be used to de-escalate?

"La guerre, c'est un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent mais ne se massacrent pas." - Paul Valéry

Een gelukkige autoloze zondag aan zij die vandaag hun auto lozen op zondag, of zoiets...

For the #WIPsnips, from a possible 2nd-generation follow-up to ANOD. Pyra and Ronan are around 14 when they meet, the worldbuilding 20 years later has less patriarchy and dystopia in The Nation, at least that's the official version. (the 'outlaws' are actually recognised by international law)

Don't believe the internet!

On that horrible 'body count' discourse: Usually relationships work best with equivalent experience, and ppl who feel entitled to a partner with a lower 'body count' than themselves are red flags. They will be entitled to other things in their partner too that they don't want to provide themselves.

And this is one of the groups that randomly appeared on my FB wall that I don't think I'm going to join... Again, whoever called our species Homo sapiens was way too optimistic....

For the #WIPsnips, from ANOD III The final books finally sees a romantic resolution for Michael, even with an outlaw Love Ceremony (a completely different thing than a Nation Marriage) that needs some pre-ceremony counselling from Ruth the priestess, who is probably rather amused here..

Not just true for autism, but extreme and unhealty vulnerability to peer pressure is one of the things where neuroypicals can be much more in danger than some neurodivergent personality types, and can learn from them.

Classic internet cartoon about door to door evangelisation...

My current crop of advert weirdness is yielding new domains of 'who ever asks for this' ads...

For the #WIPsnips The context is already complicated. Michael might have been the first cross the divide between the sexes in the very Patriarchal Nation, but only on the level of friendship, romantically he's a complete mess. And even that is cute somehow according to [redacted]

Half a line from Liana in between world page 200 (of 206): "People can only describe what they understand."

There seems to be a trend to use the word 'performative' for things people just do anyway very performatively in certain online niches at the moment. Please go touch some Poaceae family members...

Listening to Stef Kamil Carlens playing Bob Dylan. Simply out of this world...

Apparently today is 'buy a nun a book day' but I don't see any nuns today...

For the #WIPsnips, from ANOD I Eliza is subverting the whole Wife School thing, mooching a beer from her friend's fiancée, and improvising on ancient psychological theories... (Nation alcohol age is 18, so that part is legal. And whatever theory you use she probably isn't very neurotypical...)

Oy mate!

From LibW for the #WIPsnips Liana has a visitor from another world who doesn't really understand her Belgian culture, or family situation.

Diagram of the day: British vs American English, poster for secondary schools in Belgium (Plantyn uitgeverij)

I'm fascinated by the green spot on Antarctica here...

Is there room in the universe for one last wish?

For the #WIPsnips, from ANOD III, with Michael living in the village of the female outlaws. What does she have in her pocket? And what's up with rule seven (something like 'don't initiate a new relationships or new steps in intimacy in a relationship while not sober')?

He who fights monsters; should watch out not to become one. (Attributed to Nietzche)

Reminder: Jays are corvids.

For the #WIPsnips, from Liana in between worlds Secret missions to save humanity as a schoolgirl are fine and all that, but if you don't come back some people might miss you.

The words 'left' and 'right' (in political sense) are shifting meaning all the time and have lost all coherence, and are used in increasingly dangerous ways by now.

For the #WIPsnips from ANOD II, probably a bit strange if you don't know the context... (He slept on the couch btw. )

The inverse golden rule test: if people treat others in a way they would not want to be treated themselves, they clearly show everyone that they aren't to be taken seriously at all or trusted.