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i code, write sf/fantasy, and blog about books, the Internet, and my enormous cat Samwise. i use too many comma splices. "i've never seen somebody earn this […]

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tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Hello writing exchange! We would like to buy some Lovecraft-mythos stories set in the universe of our upcoming visual novel/adventure game! For money! Full submission & setting details at the link. Please share and enjoy! Happy to field comments/questions here […]
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writing.exchange
July 2, 2024 at 8:22 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Man, I do miss when this place was active though. Tooting into the void
June 25, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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huwupy.kawaii.social
what a perfect little gentleman
yukise50d.bsky.social kise @yukise50d.bsky.social · Jun 24
おはようございます、今日は火曜日✨

火と言ったらアカショウビンですよね！
もうそろそろ時期も終わり会えなくなりますので少し寂しくなりますがまた無事に渡って欲しいですね😊

#アカショウビン
#野鳥撮影
#WildBird
#birds
June 24, 2024 at 9:42 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
"art direction" is so hard haha

i spent like an hour and a half figuring out that the style i was trying to describe (getting interstitials priced out) was "rough concept art"
June 24, 2024 at 5:54 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Working on a couple paragraphs of in-game lore from a journal you find. (In our world, Dr. William Dyer's arctic expedition did not end nearly as... happily.) We're a little torn, gameplay-wise, as to how much to make players read for the "detective game" […]

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Dr. Dyer wrote a lot. I guess he had plenty of time to, in the end. I think the stuff about the altar room is the most interesting. I have made camp in this queer, broken chamber. I am fortunate to have found it; it is sheltered from the elements and has a door that locks. Alas, its secrets continue to elude me. If this contraption ever did anything that might be of use to me, I cannot fathom how. Even worse: after some calculation, I have determined that I have made a mistake regarding food rations. I will most likely find my end here; a Franklin, not a Shackleton. I have not been fortunate enough to find seal-meat or anything else to gather; the desiccated remains of the erstwhile denizens of this place are inedible; and I will not resort to cannibalism. Nobody will find the bones of my companion gnawed upon, at least, not by human teeth. Should those five-pointed sucker-marks or worse appear on any human remains found here--supposing the bodies are even intact and not rent to pieces by some horrible musculature--it should be clear enough that it could not possibly have been my doing...
June 23, 2024 at 10:01 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Oh man I am sooooo excited to launch this call for submissions soon! We’re going to buy stories set in our game universe to enrich the backstory and to offer an anthology as a kickstarter reward. Hoping to have this up soon, stay tuned!
June 17, 2024 at 7:59 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
making the video game website now. using squarespace, which seems fine. a little pricey but whatever. it integrates with e-commerce stuff.

in writing news, this website will shortly be used to launch a call for submissions for buying lovecraftian short stories set in the game universe! with […]
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June 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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huwupy.kawaii.social
a month ago i thought that all the complaints about BusinessSpeak overusing 'impacted' was overblown, but it has now spread to every sentence in the organization
June 3, 2024 at 5:56 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I’m not really an anti-AI type, other than the labor issue, but we will be proudly noting this on the video game kickstarter since craftsmanship is real and good and it’s important to support artists.

I'm not surprised to see how many AI-backed visual novels there are these days… but it's kind…
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June 3, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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huwupy.kawaii.social
So happy with my hybrid tea rose! It didn’t bloom at all last year, I think I planted it a little late… 🌱
June 3, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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huwupy.kawaii.social
This is a fun poll. Sentiment is broken. "Best" decades are just a factor of how old you were (e.g. "best music" is the decade when you were 17), "worst" decade is just the present--but most people would prefer to live in the present
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The closest-knit communities were those in our childhood, ages 4 to 7. The happiest families, most moral society and most reliable news reporting came in our early formative years — ages 8 through 11. The best economy, as well as the best radio, television and movies, happened in our early teens — ages 12 through 15. YouGov didn’t just ask about the best music and the best economy. The pollsters also asked about the worst music and the worst economy. But almost without exception, if you ask an American when times were worst, the most common response will be “right now!” This holds true even when “now” is clearly not the right answer. For example, when we ask which decade had the worst economy, the most common answer is today. The Great Depression — when, for much of a decade, unemployment exceeded the what we saw in the worst month of pandemic shutdowns — comes in a grudging second. There’s clearly something more fundamental at work. As YouGov’s Carl Bialik points out, when Americans were asked last year which decade they’d most want to live in, the most common answer was now. At some level then, it seems unlikely that we truly believe this decade stinks by almost every measure.
May 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
i do enjoy making the video game maps though
May 21, 2024 at 8:32 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
we read Ken Follett's The Eye of the Needle for book club this month. Just, not a great book? Starts out really strong but by the end it seems like an exercise in Ken finishing his story for class. Really disappointing. Lots of What Not To Do
May 17, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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huwupy.kawaii.social
just checked in on mastodon, saw a content warning blurring out a picture of lasagna, back to bsky
May 16, 2024 at 6:47 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
man. managing a video game script is one thing (it's just another document), but keeping your draft in sync with the game as you're developing sure is a pain in the ass. managing all the sprite's expressions, also a pain in the ass, since they're layered images with hundreds of combinations…
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May 14, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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huwupy.kawaii.social
platforms are bad
npr.org NPR @npr.org · May 6
Tens of thousands of people earn a living on TikTok. But as creators face down the real possibility of TikTok going away, many are trying to switch to new platforms to save their livelihoods.
Possible TikTok ban could be 'an extinction-level event' for the creator economy
Tens of thousands of people earn a living on TikTok. But as creators face down the real possibility of TikTok going away, many are trying to switch to new platforms to save their livlihoods.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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huwupy.kawaii.social
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May 6, 2024 at 9:08 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Now that I’m back to posting here a bit, here are some backlogged blog posts

1) in re: the damn Hugos!

https://balloon-juice.com/2024/02/15/the-disgraceful-2023-hugo-awards/
May 6, 2024 at 9:28 PM
tynanpants.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Hello writing exchange peeps! I’ve been putting all my social media energy into Bluesky, but now that there’s a ~functional bridge I will probably start posting writing & reading focused stuff here again. So speaking of the bridge—you can follow, and theoretically interact with, my Bluesky account…
May 6, 2024 at 9:25 PM