Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@eclectech

This is exactly how I imagine several people on here are in real life.

@golgaloth

I've been organizing my files and it's made me feel better because sometimes I feel like I'm "new to writing" and "have not written much" but this isn't really true.

I have tons and tons of stories and putting them in folders and reading them again is giving me more confidence.

Current candidates for working title for "The Novel I Can't Talk About Until It Is Done":

Pick the one that sounds the best?

This is a working title but those can end up sticking. I want to call the project something better than "The Novel I Can't Talk About Until It Is Done"

@zeux

I have always had the impression they didn't really like people asking questions all that much.

And if a question has been asked before then the old results are often helpful.

@Natasha_Jay

But we all know who these two are, am I right?

@dlakelan

After I extract all of the stories can I just send the rest back please?

@afterdawn

This is bad for fertility, can cause depression, tooth problems all kinds of things.

Thirty five text documents

Untitled(1).txt
Untitled.txt
Untitled .txt
Copy of Untitled.txt

It's like an advent calendar for me to sort through! Some have lost short stories and chapters in them... (That's the good stuff, I think I've found a whole BOOK I wrote) others? An ominous list of numbers that could be:

* a bitcoin wallet
* a critical password for ... something
* a license key for old software
* gibberish made by Pica's paws

This is SO MUCH FUN I LOVE IT.

@gaditb @CuriousMagpie

I would be wary. Sometimes it's done by Evangelicals who think "Jewish Bible" means "more authentic translation"

At least that was the case with one of those. I tend to look at King James, not because I like it, but because it's what most people in the US use and I'm reading the Bible to understand it as text that people will reference.

It's a mess, but it is a known mess. It's easier to find critical writing on it than the obscure vanity Bibles.

@ellie @Virginicus

"She has been terrorizing the town with a horde of giant ants"

This source seems very judgemental to me.

@forestfjord

This is lovely.

Proverbs 30:24-28 talks about four small creatures of the earth that are exceedingly wise.

Ants, rock gophers, locusts and spiders.

Or is it Ants, hyraxes, locusts and *lizards*?

I am confident that the ants *are* ants. But who could confuse a lizard and a spider? Must be some confusing word that means both.

@akareilly @Virginicus

"duck to the face" is a phrase that William Gibson gets hung up on in one of his books.

Something visceral about the sequence of words.

A quote from Pattern Recognition

William Gibson — ‘He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.’

(www.goodreads.com)

@BoysenberryCider

You have confused me. Are you proposing one of those campaigns to poison training data in some way... to build a new connection between "antifa" and inconvenient and wrong aspects of neoliberalisms?

You kind of outpaced me a little here. I so I need to check that I understand what you are saying.

@u0421793 @Virginicus

You know, I think you maybe correct.

@Virginicus

On the origins of the word "antagonist":

Anyone who gives agony to ants is bad, obviously. Therefore the "ant agonist" is the one in the story who makes the ants miserable. The bad guy.

(I know this isn't the real etymology but it is the true *entomology* of my heart)

@c0dec0dec0de

I love this and will steal it for the OTHER ant story I've been working on where the ants have their own planet and it's like Victorian England for some reason.

(It's a much more fun and playful world and this belongs in it.)

@lukyan

It's very similar to that.

Arrest this John Mastodon NOW.

@itgrrl

The "liminal spaces" online communities have had a huge influence on me. Some very important and moving art seeps out of those communities.

Important as in relevant to this particular historical and social moment.

@shapr

murmuration of birds?

myrmerations