athingbegun
@athingbegun.bsky.social
Architecture historian and space analyst who writes sci-fi stories in between academic papers and bowls of pasta.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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"I don't like the common term 'omniscient author,' because I hear a judgmental sneer in it. I prefer 'involved author.'"
June 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"I don't like the common term 'omniscient author,' because I hear a judgmental sneer in it. I prefer 'involved author.'"
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Wanted to float this out there in the #WritingCommunity
What do you think about a #sciFi pitch event
There doesn't seem to be any SF specific ones and wanted to further gauge the communities thoughts before I put anymore effort into it.
any #LitAgents interested?
What do you think about a #sciFi pitch event
There doesn't seem to be any SF specific ones and wanted to further gauge the communities thoughts before I put anymore effort into it.
any #LitAgents interested?
June 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wanted to float this out there in the #WritingCommunity
What do you think about a #sciFi pitch event
There doesn't seem to be any SF specific ones and wanted to further gauge the communities thoughts before I put anymore effort into it.
any #LitAgents interested?
What do you think about a #sciFi pitch event
There doesn't seem to be any SF specific ones and wanted to further gauge the communities thoughts before I put anymore effort into it.
any #LitAgents interested?
Stalkers in TV shows really always invest in the most high-quality, large and dreamy prints of yourself 💫
February 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Stalkers in TV shows really always invest in the most high-quality, large and dreamy prints of yourself 💫
Looking at my writing-for-work achievements, that I keep failing my writing-for-fun aspirations really starts to breaks my heart.
January 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Looking at my writing-for-work achievements, that I keep failing my writing-for-fun aspirations really starts to breaks my heart.
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@kitdewaal.bsky.social: Ask middle-class people to imagine a working-class community and they might think tower block, poor terraced house, bleak estates, poverty and deprivation … when publishing thinks of a working-class story, they expect “gritty” tales of crime and hardship.’ 🙌🏾
November 30, 2024 at 12:01 PM
@kitdewaal.bsky.social: Ask middle-class people to imagine a working-class community and they might think tower block, poor terraced house, bleak estates, poverty and deprivation … when publishing thinks of a working-class story, they expect “gritty” tales of crime and hardship.’ 🙌🏾
Me, thoroughly impressed as I go through a colleague's CV: Oh, so that's why he had a heart-attack before the age of 50.
#academia #academicsky
#academia #academicsky
December 1, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Me, thoroughly impressed as I go through a colleague's CV: Oh, so that's why he had a heart-attack before the age of 50.
#academia #academicsky
#academia #academicsky
How come one of my favourite films of all time is also an apology of monarchy, Malthusianism, and of the subjugation of a class by another? (The Lion King)
November 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM
How come one of my favourite films of all time is also an apology of monarchy, Malthusianism, and of the subjugation of a class by another? (The Lion King)
Reviewing a series of abstracts for a conference and, looking at my notes, it just hit me that they really have to hit the same notes as query letters for novels. "You're not giving me enough plot/methodology/results", "You're saying the same thing three distinct times", "Why should I care?"
November 30, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Reviewing a series of abstracts for a conference and, looking at my notes, it just hit me that they really have to hit the same notes as query letters for novels. "You're not giving me enough plot/methodology/results", "You're saying the same thing three distinct times", "Why should I care?"
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if you saw this picture and also made this face --> 🥹, you will enjoy this article
November 29, 2024 at 9:33 AM
if you saw this picture and also made this face --> 🥹, you will enjoy this article
Imposter syndrome is becoming just imposter for real as I read the abstracts of a symposium I'm chairing next week and some of them sound exactly like Barclay to me.
November 27, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Imposter syndrome is becoming just imposter for real as I read the abstracts of a symposium I'm chairing next week and some of them sound exactly like Barclay to me.
Someone's got to write this paper on the relationship between urban morphology and well-dressed men.
November 27, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Someone's got to write this paper on the relationship between urban morphology and well-dressed men.
When we found out that the weight of project management on my research lab's budget was more than three times that of researchers.
You know what might work? Cutting administrators. Just straight up eliminating those positions.
Cutting majors doesn't save colleges. It's the standard playbook, I know, but it has never seemed to turn a college around. Every faculty member knows this, because if it ever worked administrators would constantly cite it as they browbeat your colleagues into firing you by cutting your program.
November 27, 2024 at 7:57 AM
When we found out that the weight of project management on my research lab's budget was more than three times that of researchers.
Has anything ever connected two things I love so much in such a wonderfully unexpected way as @wolf359project.bsky.social? 9/10, second only to my parents marriage.
November 26, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Has anything ever connected two things I love so much in such a wonderfully unexpected way as @wolf359project.bsky.social? 9/10, second only to my parents marriage.
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We publish comics! Love the experimental, fresh feel of this one. From our latest, TBQ7, Taco Hell. tacobellquarterly.org/taco-hell/
November 25, 2024 at 9:45 PM
We publish comics! Love the experimental, fresh feel of this one. From our latest, TBQ7, Taco Hell. tacobellquarterly.org/taco-hell/
Does the American middle class really swear as much as they do in the series Shrinking?
November 26, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Does the American middle class really swear as much as they do in the series Shrinking?
Don't know who I'd be, but who I'd aspire to be!
November 23, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Don't know who I'd be, but who I'd aspire to be!
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I want to write some really satisfying middlebrow science fiction in my life, I want to make a bunch of weirdos leap thru space for some bullshit reason and then find out that these stories have given delight to strangers who merit my respect. It's a good dream and I am determined to make it happen.
November 22, 2024 at 4:26 AM
I want to write some really satisfying middlebrow science fiction in my life, I want to make a bunch of weirdos leap thru space for some bullshit reason and then find out that these stories have given delight to strangers who merit my respect. It's a good dream and I am determined to make it happen.
Oral history meets character idea #2: the man who works for the city hall as both the policeman and the archivist.
November 21, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Oral history meets character idea #2: the man who works for the city hall as both the policeman and the archivist.
Oral history meets character idea #1: the man who found an ancient burying ground under his farm and kept it a secret until the day he retired. This finding changed the entire historical understanding of that territory.
November 21, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Oral history meets character idea #1: the man who found an ancient burying ground under his farm and kept it a secret until the day he retired. This finding changed the entire historical understanding of that territory.
Today, interviewing an old fisherman in a small Portuguese village, he told me he worked in construction in Canada as a young man, and built a tower that was nearly 600m high! The CN tower?, I asked, wide eyed. Oh, you've heard of it?, he replied, and then talked of algae.
#oralhistory
#oralhistory
November 20, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Today, interviewing an old fisherman in a small Portuguese village, he told me he worked in construction in Canada as a young man, and built a tower that was nearly 600m high! The CN tower?, I asked, wide eyed. Oh, you've heard of it?, he replied, and then talked of algae.
#oralhistory
#oralhistory
I recently finished Temporary by Hilary Leichter and, as a woman who never had a stable job in her life, I just wish I could thank her for capturing the whimsy and offering it to me to carry in my life - or that my past boyfriends were even half as much fun.
November 19, 2024 at 10:36 PM
I recently finished Temporary by Hilary Leichter and, as a woman who never had a stable job in her life, I just wish I could thank her for capturing the whimsy and offering it to me to carry in my life - or that my past boyfriends were even half as much fun.
I'm not saying reading isn't an amazing thing that we should encourage all kids to do, I'm just saying I read like crazy as a child and now I'm 35 years old with a PhD, no children, no prospects of financial stability, and I write bad sci-fi on the weekends.
November 19, 2024 at 10:24 PM
I'm not saying reading isn't an amazing thing that we should encourage all kids to do, I'm just saying I read like crazy as a child and now I'm 35 years old with a PhD, no children, no prospects of financial stability, and I write bad sci-fi on the weekends.
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November 15, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Good morning Bluesky.
Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer.
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Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer.
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So what if I can't wrap my head around the most important sciency part of my sci-fi novel? Let's make this 3rd person limited and my protagonist dumb too!
November 18, 2024 at 4:09 PM
So what if I can't wrap my head around the most important sciency part of my sci-fi novel? Let's make this 3rd person limited and my protagonist dumb too!