Hey, I got 300 words a week ago, and that was it until today. Sometimes life or your brain or the world gets in the way; that’s okay. You’re 450 words closer than you were!

Comic book panel with a word balloon reading “Samantha Brown! You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!”

Could be worse.

Just in case, you know, someone might find this useful.

Join Starfleet, they said... See the galaxy, they said...

Kevin Tumlinson on Facebook: So far, regarding the Draft2Digital fees, the response I see from the industry insiders is "It's only $12 a year, what's the problem?" The problem is that it's only being charged to the LOWEST EARNING authors. If it were a charge every author had to pay, regardless of sales, it wouldn't look so much like a money grab. D2D is doing this for good reasons, and it's a good business decision. But it looks very bad to the author who took a chance, wrote the book, and didn't get any sales. I have literally seen authors say they're walking away from publishing because "clearly I'm not good enough." So to my fellow industry insiders: Remember who we're doing all this for in the first place. Show just a bit of compassion here, rather than trying to make these authors feel foolish for having qualms over what you think is small cash.

Did a quadruple take that Kevin Tumlinson was the one who posted this, I did not know he was not working for D2D anymore

Remember this fuck when his name comes on the ballot.

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

Heh, not so much of a Viktor now, is he?

A cat stares at a bird through a window, with the caption “Soon.”

Same energy.

Maybe they’ll find you on the side of the road and do a podcast about you.

Great soundtrack, too.

As was the push for recycling.

This one was a ton of fun to write for!

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Sickos haha yes but it's "Siskos" and it's Benjamin Sisko's head

Transitional - Transgender - Literotica.com Second acts and second chances.

Transitional went up this morning, about a divorced, middle-aged cis man running into Mitch, a trans man that he'd known, intimately, in their youth before he transitioned. It's a second chance romance about living a life that's true, no matter how painful that can sometimes be.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

This is unrelated to this post, but I saw your mention of neck and shoulder pain. If it’s still occurring, you might try a massage gun. They’re inexpensive and really helped a lot with nonspecific muscle pain for me in the past. Good luck!

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

The Unjust Man - 750 Words - Loving Wives - Literotica.com On the nature of compromise.

A very mild BTB for my @literotica.com 750 Words Project entry this year, with just a soupçon of scorch.

www.literotica.com/s/the-unjust...

Serious question: what are the benefits of going back to the moon? I mean, I love the idea from a romantic notion of space travel, but are there any likely "hard" benefits from it, as opposed to, say, UBI or some other Earth-based use of the money?

4 panel comic Panel 1: Purple Guy in sweatshirt addresses the reader. He says, “Sure, Twitter has a Nazi problem. But I’m staying to fix it” Panel 2: Purple Guy has gone full on Sitting Backwards On A Chair Mode. The chair has the X logo on it. He is wearing sunglasses and blue jeans. He is talking to some Nazis. He says “Listen Fellas, did you know that being a Nazi…” Panel 3: Close up on Purple Guy lowering his sunglasses for maximum effect. He continues “Is BAD?” Panel 4: The Nazis look flabbergasted by this revelation. They all go “WHUAAA??”

No point in wasting fuel fighting physics. Shoot them out of the solar system instead.

Mind the Fel Reaver in Hellfire Peninsula.

Hey, I’m sorry that happened to you. Hopefully the near future will bring better things.

I remember an Olympian talking about this one time, and they essentially said that there’s a LOT of sex, but not as much as this implies. Roughly, “They put out bowls of Olympic-branded condoms, and you think we weren’t grabbing them by the handfuls to shove in our luggage? Especially the guys?”

Ah, but you forget: we used to have vaguely competent people in charge.

Really? Because the last time we used this type of shutdown, specifically, with no prior warning, was after 9/11. Admittedly, that was nationwide, but even on a citywide basis, this never happens like this.