“But I don't WANNA take a nap!” the five-year-old screams. I kneel down and stare her dead in the eyes. “You will, kid. Some day. When it's not even an option anymore.”

Babysitting near a black hole so I can push the kid closer to the gravity well and use the time dilation to grab a long nap.

I have a brain quirk that rejects October as the 10th month. My brain insists that it's the 8th and I write the date wrong all month. Petition to swap with August...

I was invited as a guest to review any novel, so I picked Rosewater by @tadethompson.bsky.social The review is out now and you can find it here: open.substack.com/pub/readersp...

Pretentious Things I do as a Novelist #392: I'm at the stage of this first draft where if anything happened to me, it would be 'unfinished novel' rather than 'unfinished novella'. I've scribbled notes about how I want it to end so someone else can finish it in the event of my death/incapacity.

It's also weird how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are known to eat pizza while the Italian plumber Mario Bros eat mushrooms that grow in the sewer.

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

If you fancy me, send me a critique of anything I've written and I'll arrange a date.

65 minutes into watching #TheFantasticFourFirstSteps . What is with this map? Reed's plan is to place teleportation bridges all round the globe. The middle of Asia looks quite scanty, though.

I have been pronouncing faucet wrong (I pronounced it as for-say). I blame it on associating the word to sachet. Well, this led me to something interesting: What's the difference between a tap and a faucet? I quickly found there were regional preferences, but this wasn't my focus...

"This ride only stops in an emergency. Crying is not an emergency."

I realize it was referenced by Johnny in the film, but it played out as a joke, and many(like I) missed the reference.

Come to think of it, growing up watching The Fantastic Four, I had no idea Ben was referred to anything other than Ben. A little over a decade later, I hear comic book people call him The Thing...

I have a good feeling about this...

Achebe: So here's my book. I want it published. Publisher: We got you. Jan. 16, 1966. Publisher: Should we still publish your book? Achebe:? Publisher: A coup happened in your book. Achebe: ?? Publisher: We don't want to be that guy, but a coup happened in Nigeria yesterday. Achebe: What?!💙📚

If this was not the case, imagine the caricaturesque varieties of people we would have, whose sole existence is to be situated in a sort of demographic that's one-size-fits-all.

The part they don't tell you about doing an analysis project is how it becomes an extra course you have to read for(since deep understanding is required to analyse a subject.) #electricalengineering

"We listen, we don't judge." Snow White: I moved in with seven men.

6500 words into a Rosewater short story. I just started it randomly and I'm pantsing along. I have no idea what I'll do with it when I'm done, but I'm having fun.

Im sure that means maybe a cameo or a glance at a nameplate in a previous movie or something. Arnold was a full featured villain as freeze, doesnt mean it was done well but he was a main villain. 99.9% you can cross him off. Im thinking court of Owls cause that just fits after The Penguin

It’s actually a bruce wayne movie and he’s fighting against tax reform.

Dystopic!

Regenerative braking for phones, so when you think better of a message or tweet, the process of furiously deleting it charges the battery.

Talk about Humpty Dumpty, like I know the name and should feel sympathy.

Oh no, I just experienced the blue screen of death on my pc. It sometimes is followed by missing audio drivers. No number of tinkering fixes it, until it resets itself by another screen of death. Thankfully, it's all under 24 hours.

I'm definitely going to have a surround sound system in my home for cinematic wholeness.

Word nerds in the house, is it correct to say "arachnodactylic"?

Ratatouile (2007) Raw (2016) The Menu (2022)

One of my favourite line of dialogue. Another is Joker's monologue in the Knightmare scene.

"A real man -*insert unrealistic expectations"

Oh, my poem is getting published next month at TableFeast mag!

People are playing #Silksong, and I'm still on Hollow Knight! Started the game earlier in the year but haven't given it much of my time. Here's my play hours, map explored and charms acquired:

I'm organising a contest on flash fiction and have close to 200 people willing to send in their submissions. I need a team🥹 Please let me know if you wanna join the squad!

Sometime in the future, phones would recharge automatically via light waves. Then the 2900mAh jumpscare would finally be over.

Been working on this first draft for a while. I know I haven't covered all the bases of where I want to go, so not really sure if this will result into a short story, novelette, novella or novel. I also don't have a working title. But I know how this story ends, I think.

Do scream kings not exist?

When a tailor says your outfit would be ready by Friday, but you forget to ask which Friday they mean.

I think a good question to ask, when an album opener isn't a good one, is if any song on that album is opener material.

There's this Louis Sachar story about an ice maiden. I think everyone should give it a read, if they can, when they can. The ending always gets me.

I've been relistening to Miley's Plastic Hearts album and I'm of the opinion that Midnight Sky would have been a better first song. Play it in your head.

I need to master fiction, and all its incarnations.

I've had quite a number of people guess my age and miss. Nobody's ever quite there. Genetics>>>

There's this obsession with self. "I need people that understand me", etc. That's a devolution to self worship, which paints others as not "real" friends because they fail to meet your emotional (or material) demands. You have now become your own idol and don't even know it.

There's something about Ben Affleck's movies in the past years that feel as though he's phoning it in. I dunno.

enough for you is my favourite song on Rodrigo's SOUR album.

"It's so awful. If I'm wrong, I'm insane, and if I'm right, it's worse than if I'm wrong." -Stepford Wives(1975)

2026 is Matt Damon year. I'm calling it first.