My first post here!!!! This is art i made for #thesummerhikarudied
i'm so sad I didnt get into it earlier it's actually so many of my favourite things rolled into one show </3 so freaking beautiful as well
#digitalart #tshd #tshdfanart
fool, you've been in range this whole time. contemplate your misconceptions in the next life. True Nerd Art: Um, Actually.
back in elementary school there was this kid who'd always say "it's made of titanium" because titanium means indestructible magic metal.
he was devastated to learn that there are tools designed specifically for cutting titanium. his eight year life's work, ruined.
Are you looking for/would you accept existing stories already self-published, or are original submissions written specifically for the anthology preferred?
smugly creating a dyakioid variant instead
LADIES
AND
GENTLEMEN
The Girl Frame Discord's Philharmonic Chorus, featuring the voices of @extremelynormalval.bsky.social, @squandrqwn.bsky.social, @muzzlesbian.bsky.social, Sykri, PUG, and myself, proudly present...
WE ARE SARTHA THRACE
youtu.be/8PhvUFo0YM0
#mechsploitation #WARHOUND
I get that we're sort of celebrating today but being trans in this day and age has just turned me into the allied mastercomputer with small tits, so here's one for my trans people that seethe and gnash their teeth and hate everything. I see you :]
Of course I don't have a coherent idea yet. It's hard to condense All Of It into an actual narrative. When I try to make this into words it just dissolves into associative slurry that only captures 15% of it.
If I appear calm and reserved it's because I exert constant effort.
I've made the "I don't actually write mechsplo much, I'm just here incidentally" comment a few times. But I'm thinking recently that maybe I should do more. I want to whip something into a concrete wall as hard as I possibly can, and what better genre for it?
Saruman on the orb meme with text that says "Mandy the Handy spending the entire army's budget for like food and shit in order to summon her Sarthajak Chuddoids so she can so she can lose the war even faster (the Pete Hegseth of Warhound)"
HELLHOUND be like
(idk I haven't read it yet)
(angels) for 2 miles. 50 mph
sheffield, yorkshire
(this was in t40 server so, different one)
FAUXHOUND or: Sartha Thrace Faked the Moon Landing
2,078 words
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
archiveofourown.org/works/81524296
(actual situation that has happened to me before)
When someone Pisses you off so bad that the Attack Headmate switches in, call that
Front Towards Enemy
gecko onesie?
experiencing an emotion that has no name but most closely registers as anger or disgust. It makes a sound like a repeated heavy thud. the fuck am I meant to do with this information
Hello I am 30+ year old cisgender man I have arrived in your replies to be viscerally and aggravatingly unfunny and uninteresting
So in short: try and use real jargon or consideration in how real terms can be recombined to apply to fictional things, but there is no need to force the issue if it doesn't work for you as a writer. If you are confident in its use then that will come through in the writing, as will the opposite.
--narration on their experience, on feeling lost or trying to figure out what's going on as it goes past them. And for those in the audience who do know what is being said, then that's an added layer of fun for those readers! You aren't playing an obfuscation game, trying to one-up them.
--of reality to how given characters talk or think about things. Like if you listened to how CAPCOM and Integrity spoke to each other, that's what their work environment is like, that's the world they live in. And if you have a character present who *doesn't* live in that world, you can focus the--
I recognize that can make my writing less approachable, but it's *authentic*. I actually talk like that. Avoiding it in writing would feel weird. You don't need to force yourself to include a bunch of terminology if it's unnecessary or you don't feel confident in using it, but it can add a sense--
So as for how much to use it, that does depend a lot on what type of story it is. I don't really ever explain the jargon I may use unless it's for something I made up (and sometimes not even then, sometimes the words stand alone and are for the audience to figure how they apply).
I realize I've fixated mainly on a word here but it's an important distinction. I don't write technobabble because I feel like doing so is kinda disrespectful of the audience's intelligence. It has an implication that you don't think they know what these words mean.
It works in situations where the purpose is to convey meaningful information, and in situations where the character is not meant to understand. Because it *can* be understood, it can be explained and retains consistency.
Instead, I recommend using terminology/jargon! Jargon can be outwardly opaque, but it always has actual meaning to it. Real people use it. It's internally consistent. It can be broken down into its components and explained by how those combine (ChubbyEmu saying: "Hyper, too much. Emia, in blood."
"Invert the tripolymer plasma mineral in the proton bomb." Those words have meanings, but not together like that they don't.
(If the purpose is to make something deliberately impossible then that's a separate thing, the babble will have attention called to it about how it makes no sense.)
Consider it from a functional perspective: you want to convey that a given process/action is being done, or the state of things in the world. If the thing that you say is being done or is occurring is something which is contradictory or nonsensical then the words aren't conveying any information.
If I can add something (I have no idea if the asker will see this), what I'd say to them is... just don't write technobabble. Technobabble is stuff that doesn't make sense, and does so in an unproductive manner--because the words being used *do not make sense in that order or context*.