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arXiv is a goldmine actually

#if you're curious the paper is #“why the trans programmer” #by skye kychenthal #(2022) #catgirl #catgirls #arxiv #programming #the 'catgirl' tags are bait but it's also true so-

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What is the best book to ever exist?

Is a question being asked to you!

The rules are simple:

As long as it's a book, it's allowed!

No fanfics are allowed, only original works

Books from any culture are allowed

Picture books or comics/manga/etc are allowed

The book doesn't have to be printed, it can be online

It doesn't have to be finished, only as long as there is something there to read (one or more chapters)

Don't submit whole series, only individual works per submission

Only one book per submission, but there is no limit to how many books one person is allowed to submit

Submit books below!

Tagging: @tournament-announcer @sapphic-book-tournament @bookclub

#:eyes emoji: #will have to get my submission(s) in...

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"Off the Wall! Magical!" or "Hey Peabrain! U Levitate?" by Junie & TheHutFriends are both very "power of friendship", lighthearted fantasy songs

"Oubliette" by Aurelio Voltaire hits all the boxes of "adventure!"

"Babylon" by Dirt Poor Robins hits a lot of god-complex notes

"Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo is pretty famous, but is also definitely frivolous about death

It is time for me to ask The Question: calling on y'all and your various tastes to recommend me new songs for the WIP! It's a lighthearted fantasy, and I'm looking for anything reminiscent of:

Way too frivolous about death

Adventure!!!

Besties, especially committing Crimes together

Guilt complex and/or "I am literally The Greatest" complex

"I'm gonna kick your ass" vibes, especially "I came out here to attack and I'm honestly having such a great time right now"

It bears repeating: no romance, only the power of friendship, even if it's unrequited "Nightmares Never End" style

#song recs #if i think of/come across more i will send them your way #ratracechronicler

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For the random questions ask: What’s one trope you wouldn’t write, except for money? - 🍀 (@enchanted-lightning-aes)

Hi there! Thanks a lot for the question (and sorry it took a bit to answer, hah-)

I think probably "contrived miscommunication", especially if it's for drama. Classic means of moving the plot along and creating interpersonal tension, and it can be done well, but I personally find it just infuriating enough that I avoid it.

#it can be done well in 2 ways i think though #leaving aside the fact that i don't like it lol #1: when it's in character: a character who never spills secrets and barely says words to anyone will have communication issues obv #2: for comedy #thanks for the ask! #asks #answered

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10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

AAAND WE HAVE LIFTOFF!

HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!!!

#moon landing day

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#A LITTLE PRIEST #the lyrics are so good #i cannot resist a song that's just a series of terrible puns #(plus a good bit of tonal dissonance) #sweeney todd

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@ratracechronicler

Passed a building for what I assume was some sort of pest control business and out front they had a huge banner that was just a close up photo of a rat with the words “public enemy #1” superimposed. No other text.

#we're bringing back 'gift of rats' #Rat Public Enemy No.1 is too good

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10 First Lines

Thanks for the tag, @drabbleitout! I haven't seen this one before--it seems like a lot of fun!

Rules: Post the first lines of the last 10 things that you’ve written

1, The Albatross: The video feed showed the walls of the research vessel’s dark corridor, lined with human skins and hair.

2, Three's a Crowd (please don't ask): Why did it always have to be DocBots?

3, The Dragon in the Lemonwillow Tree: The sunlight that filtered through the leaves was goldening with sunset by the time Ester made her way down the stone path through the woods.

4, The City Goes Dark: The power went out at 8:00 sharp, after the sun had set and the shutters had been drawn.

5, Dead Reckoning (our lovely Dead in the Water Hunger Games AU): “It’s daybreak and you jackasses are already drunk?” Peacekeeper Herman seethed at the cluster of sailors who weren’t so much walking down the road as they were falling down against each other at just the right angle to propel the cluster in a general forward direction.

6, Dead in the Water (the actual novel): The motive that drove Rebecca to her lover’s property that brisk autumn morning had less to deal with affection and more with determination to prove her innocence in case he had, in the few weeks since they’d last met, come across some unfortunate demise, which was ironic considering what was about to happen.

7, My Name is Criminal (rewrite): Jammed in the back of a hole-in-the-wall dive halfway between home and the scene of our imminent crime, me and my partner establish an alibi.

8, Swan Song of the Wrongfully Drowned: Sawyer could remember every moment of his death and every moment leading up to it.

9, Longshot (Starbound fanfiction): For one bright, shining moment, Shane McAllister was nothing but a patch of shattered atoms sailing like spent booster fuel through the infinite, ancient darkness of space, incandescent dust on a primordial sea of ink spangled with flickers of light from miscellaneous suns, and all was right in the universe.

10, The Star-breaker's Code (original fiction based on the Starbound fanfiction): Generally, it’s considered bad taste to begin a story with a character waking up, but given this was the manifestation and ostensible manager of all information in the knowable universe and given that they were waking up in the wrong body—a dead one, in fact—an exception seems appropriate.

Considering that most of these were from weeks or months ago, this has really put into perspective how diligent I've been with the Albatross! Which is not to say I haven't been starting new WIPs left and right, just that I constrain them to notes form and don't distract myself with actually drafting any lines, let alone first ones.

Tagging, if you'd like, but no pressure: @spacebrick3, @incandescent-creativity, @maple-writes and whoever else would like to share! (It can be chapters, not separate projects, if that's easier)

#these are all so good! #first lines are tricky but i love how you can tell the tone so QUICKLY in your stories #like the difference between Dead in the Water and MNIC? amazing #ratracechronicler #(i'll get around to my lines eventually #)

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(from the webcomic Tiger, Tiger)

doctor who just got a great deal on a new bone saw: yeah we’re gonna have to amputate

#dr. quin embodies this #tiger tiger

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SGDQ 2023 - CrossCode

“Shopping at the Shad market.”

#crosscode #art

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Turns out Lost Carcosa had a revolution in the early 20th century, so what you've actually summoned is the Democratically Elected Committee In Yellow

#in the book The Affair of the Mysterious Letter #which is a Lovecraftian Sherlock Holmes pastiche #Carcosa is now an authoritarian Soviet-esque state #so we're hanging out with Citizen Castaigne #and the like

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fun fact from name research: in 1908, the name "Kyle" was as popular as "Lawyer" or "Lemon" for boys-

#character names #names #kyle #remember this for any period pieces: you should have as many 'lemon's as you have 'kyle's

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Glorious 25th of may!

Not much but I wanted to do at least something.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #the glorious 25th of may

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Some horrifying revelations have caused me to make this poll. Get chatty in the tags, as always! Especially curious if you read generally; if you read a lot and don't use your library I'd love to know why and what you use instead.

#i am fortunate to live very close to my local library (like 10m walk) #having a library card is also very useful for getting online books with overdrive #i prefer physical books #but sometimes i need to be reading a book Right Now and not wait for it to arrive on hold #which overdrive provides if they have it

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LOOK WHO FINISHED THE FINAL EMPIRE

#art #mistborn #i love the tendrils on the mistcloak #and the colors! they feel very...well...ashen i guess

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Using scientific notation is probably the easiest way to read out gigantic numbers, (where 1 * 10^9 is a billion, for instance), and that doesn't run into problems with number naming.

I don't know the prefix for what 10^324 (or 10^323, or 10^322) would be, but there's no problems reading out "4.385847038493939432323238942 x 10^324".

Then, really, the upper limit on how big of a number is physically possible to say out loud isn't based on the actual size of the number, but your precision—how many digits you're reading out. And it'd take a lot of digits to be physically impossible, although past 100 digits it'd certainly get annoying.

If you want prefixes, there are various systems people have come up with for naming any arbitrarily large number, although probably no one else will know what they mean.

Is there a point from which we can no longer say numbers out loud due to them not having a name?

Like numbers are infinite but humans aren't so if someone theoretically wanted to read out loud a gigantic number, do you think they could?

#there's no real scenario in which you'd need a number that big and/or precise though

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Forge Cleric and Armorer Artificer are both sort of magic-blacksmith themed classes, who are geared around wearing heavy armor and fighting with weapons they've crafted/imbued with magic themselves- (Cleric for more spiritual, Artificer for more tinkerer, depending on the character's vibes)

now that i've started thinking of Maya's RCU story as a dnd game I can't stop thinking of it as a dnd game

#mecharose #dnd #i love love love the artificer class