@lotuscarp.bsky.social did a wrote-up for Freestone for #TDOV. I don't usually front that Freestone has a trans protagonist because the framing device means that I can't just talk about his gender without preamble.

freestoneletters.com/act-iv/16/ "I need to trust that she won’t savage me with wolves the minute she gets her vocal chords back." "It would be seagulls, not wolves" #freestone #writing #webserial

I made this

freestoneletters.com/act-iv/15/ Freestone update. Victor's mom really is trying to be nice, she's just constantly having body problems and that makes talking to white people so very, very irritable for her. #writing #freestone #webserial

Wild that the state of California and UC Berkeley took one day to start taking Cesar Chavez’s name off of things, but we still have a sexual predator in the White House and no one seems to be able to do anything about it 🤷🏽‍♀️

I try to limit how often I ask for £££ help but — on disability/estranged from family/cost of living crisis ongoing. I can’t afford to both heat my flat AND do laundry right now. Anything helps! If you can’t donate, plz boost 💙💙 ko-fi.com/ligaratus

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

guy who does buddhism slightly wrong and ends up in nevada after he dies

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

I write a lot about stories. Sometimes I write about stories that don't exist, sometimes I write about ones that do. Allusions to a fictional religious text or a real novel adds depth. It sketches a world outside the narrative that has its own complexities to deal with.

wrote an essay about encoding, decoding, 'you missed the point by idolizing them' and anton chigurh—but most of all about designing tabletop roleplaying games: medium.com/@rosequarter...

it would be very wonderful if israel were to stop bombing everyone in its immediate vicinity in the name of jewish survival right now please

His plans are measured in centuries

"Why are you writing pseudo-fanfiction about a 20-year-old gangster show" One, someone handsome asked me about it, so write that down. Two, I am fascinated not just by the show but by the remnants of the fanbase around it, because it is all 'remember when' all the way down.

Okay, Ellipsus passed the trial test, now it gets to host the hyperreal existential Sopranos short story, which is something that exists now ellipsus.com/read/5wYcgaQ...

You know what, sure, I gave it a test run. Here, have a one-act play ellipsus.com/read/6BTJtu8...

Decided to make a Linktree as a way to consolidate about a decade's worth of work across multiple platforms in at least three different mediums. I wish I could say all of it was good, but there's something to be said for range. linktr.ee/Infimace

Unfun thing about writing white supremacist groups in the late 1800s: censoring the slurs can play happy havoc with your formatting system because multiple asterisks are also how you denote what needs to be bolded or italicized.

Fun thing about writing white supremacist groups in the late 1800s: you can't make a fictional one that's less banal and pretentious than the actual ones. #webserial #epistolary

Policy updated. As always, I'm just happy to entertain. Part 1 of 1000 Lotuses (a Chinese historical fantasy with lesbians and trans people and even trans lesbians) remains free forever, so it's easy to hop in: lotuscarp.itch.io/1000-lotuses...

Also I really do have to teach myself how to do tags on here.

It's always fun to do a news article. The epistolary is dominated by the power of perspective, and there's fun in doing a perspective so pulled back that they have to desperately grasp at whatever information they can get. Of course, the NSIN is fine with this as long as it makes the North look bad.

Whenever BG3 comes up, I remember that 75% of the romanceable party members (and 80% of the party members period) is either human, elf or half-elf, and realize that Larian so catered towards the sexual tastes of the average player that we have a DnD game without a fucking dwarf in the party.

I only made it to the end of Act 2 before the game softlocked on me, but I already felt like the game's sense of sexuality was designed largely around what is Acceptable for a mainstream audience in a way that kind of flattens the game. This article does a good job of laying all that out.

Now, see, the comparison here is inherently faulty because, when hip-hop showed up in force during the Superbowl, people liked that shit.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

I haven't been the only one who has noticed folks becoming more and more hostile towards indie works so it's more important than ever that fans are loud and proud. Folks who have just quoted my art and said something nice or posted my commissions have done so much for me. Thank you.

As long as I get the update out before midnight Sunday, it is technically on time and I am technically on schedule. I cannot be stopped. freestoneletters.com/act-iv/12/

I don't have actual chapter names in 1000 Lotuses but if I did add them, they would just be the brief cryptic summaries that you get in Three Kingdoms or Water Margin. Part 2 Chapter 5 would be like "tiny trans woman terrifies six teenage boys"

Attack of the Clones is the most Sopranos coded of the prequels, because it also shows how criminal activity both dissolves democratic societies from within, and yet is also the inevitable end result of unchecked institutions, in this essay I w-:I am bisected by a lightsaber:

#writesky #booksky #lesfic "After all, it was the sun. How did Ouyang Chakou ever doubt that it could return to this world blazing with life?" More on the camellia, her sun, and reincarnation in the free preview ➡️ lotuscarp.itch.io/1000-lotuses...

This pops up every once in awhile and I always share it. Wu Tang goes in and out of popularity with the times, but there's no denying there was a Dream Team level of talent and brilliance on that roster. True artists.

Oh yeah i do have something that you can call a sona i guess? shes a river dolphin and she grew up in a place that everyone thinks is scary and enigmatic but she just wants to have a soft life and be creative and hang out

It also remains funny that Matilda is dedicated to her shipping headcanon for Geraldine and Victor despite flirting with Geraldine since before they even met face to face. Woman who actively prefers to have a romantic rival to overcome. Truly one of a kind.

I lucked into something nice with the Victor/Geraldine/Matilda dynamic in Freestone. Obsession, rivalry, intellectual interest an actual, genuine affection. The format doesn't give me many chances to get them in the same conversation, but sometimes I get lucky: freestoneletters.com/act-iv/11/

Needed a bit of levity. (Note: If Bigfoot is reading this, then this author neither confirms nor denies the existence of Bigfoot. 👣) #original #freeverse #literature #prose #writing #deepthoughts #writingcommunity #booksky #authorsky #musings #weed #cannabis #author #funny #humor

the primary blocker to UBI is the puritan belief that humanity is so sinful and depraved that it should not be permitted personhood unless it becomes 'civilised' that's how liberal social policy ended up asserting that helping people would harm them but hurting people would help them

A Spanish scientist have cured pancreatic cancer in mice. The most deadly cancer out there. People ignoring it and making fun of his birth defect. A cure in animal models is a huge step closer to a possible cancer treatment in humans. Thank you, Dr. Mariano Barbacid!

Day 13 of making custom Ultrakill OST cover art: Unstoppable Force #ultrakill #fanart #ultrakillart #swordsmachine

This week's update's up. Marshal 24 may have some insubordination problems among his assistants. One might say he has a habit of recruiting individualistic people. One might say that his injury led him away from military authoritarianism. But he could just be a softy. freestoneletters.com/act-iv/10/

OH SO WHEN *SOMEONE ELSE* DOES IT

Read 1000 Lotuses if you wish every historical cdrama had weird lesbians, and/or if you've ever wondered "What if Sun Wukong didn't have male privilege"

Someone dug up and translated one of my earliest works and I'm having the most emotions about it. One of my most blunt, emotionally clumsy efforts at doing short fiction can now be experienced in Japanese. I'm honored but embarrassed.

I'm going to get good at handling my own publicity work. The alternative is simply too horrible to contemplate.

Latest chapter of Freestone. Protip for other aspiring writers: it's very engaging when you have two characters who hate each other but have to keep prioritizing other things over their mutual grudge. freestoneletters.com/act-iv/09/

“What, you've never seen a man getting a panic attack before?” (Try to keep breathing.)

I had to dig into Mythology Loki for Freestone a week back and it's really funny how he got translated into pop culture. He's not a fun trickster most of the time. He's the guy who's barely tolerated in Asgard and constantly threatened with murder whenever he does something stupid.

Man goes to a doctor. Doctor says go see the great clown Pagliacci. Man says, but Doctor, you went to medical school. I thought maybe you'd give me some medicine or something. What the fuck. See a clown? I am right now, Doctor!

Oh, right, this account exists and I need to self-publicize. Hey, read my web serial, it's 75% done, it has body horror (positive) stuff happening in it, there's technically two love triangles that are partially queer, and Prometheus is there. freestoneletters.com