Small town way off freeway somewhere middle (flyover country) of USA, tourist stop in at quint small diner. Waitress to tourist “Did you lock your vehicle?” Tourist, frowning “No? Is crime a problem here?” Waitress “No. It is zucchini and squash season. Too late now.” Smiles. “What can I get for you?”
Always lock your vehicle in zucchini and squash seasons. If you have an open pickup, frown, too bad.
[Boggles]
If it grows in $TINY_TOWN above 4000′, it should grow anywhere. OTOH, $SPOUSE starts seeds indoors, then they go to the sunroom on days when it’s better than horrible. The seedlings go in the ground (raised beds, Supersoil(tm) plus compost plus Just Plain Dirt(no tm)) around June 1st for us. The heavy frost cover goes on a few days later, depending on weather and Murphy.
July and August we get a lot. September 1st, we pull the plants.
Ground squirrels love it. Deer hate it. Dealing with the squeakers is left to the interested student.
People at more reasonable elevations will have less pessimistic timing…
The previous owners managed to get corn to grow in the garden. The only time I tried, I got knee high stalks. By labor day. (It seems the 1990s were rather warmer than the Aughts around here.)
I – I’m sorry. I have this trust issue where I always think that none of what I plant will make it to maturity. So I plant 12 zucchinis, and then –
Actually, last year, I’m pretty sure I preserved, ate, or otherwise used almost all of the squash and zucchini I planted, despite the aforementioned 12 plants producing like mad. I did share generously when people asked, but I don’t recall stealing anything into others’ vehicles or onto porches in the dead of night.
When we have excess (didn’t last year because Gorebull Warmening), we give zucchini to the Gospel Mission in town. Our neighbors have a better site (we get shaded badly and a slightly worse microclimate) for their garden, and I told them about the Mission, so somebody’s going to get inundated.
We dehydrated a fair amount. Used (chopped in a mini food processor) instead of some of the bread crumbs for fish cakes, they add a bunch of flavor.
recall stealing anything into others’ vehicles or onto porches in the dead of night.
Who said anything about the “dead of night”. Happens in visible daylight.
Rolls eyes. Someone from the golf club has an abundance to share. Darn it. I don’t mind zucchini, as long as I don’t have to prepare and cook it. Like (fresh only) tomatoes (and salt), but I am the only one who does.
We did a lot of diced zucchini treated as a salad. Previous years, I’d peel, slice into spears, and spray with the cooking spray. Then, I’d shake some spices (frequently Mrs. Dash). Grill 3 minutes on one side, flip to another and 3 more. Serve right away. ‘Tis good and is fairly easy. (Grill hot enough to leave marks. Adjust temp to suit.)
I had two meme’s made in response to one I sent earlier in the week, it is so nice to be someones muse, now if I could only get my off the tequila, her and my guardian angel have been binging for a week. I feel sorry for the both of them.
Ever notice how business establishments where young women bring you a sandwich are more popular among men than establishments where young women dance for you?
Of course the Democrats are not calling for regime change in Iran. Look at how disastrous it was for them the last time: Ronald Reagan got elected president, and their side lost the Cold War.
What I find more frightening is the idea that no one ordered the counting stopped on Nov 3 – that it was a spontaneous work stoppage by election workers that no one had to order.
As beneficial as abolishing the income tax might be, taking a chain-saw to government regulation would be the bigger stimulus. We’re already in a world of ‘guilty unless shown innocent’ where it is not enough to avoid doing various Bad Things – you must show compliance with the various don’t-do-Bad-Things regulations as well (or worse, instead).
What has the FBI been doing? Faithfully honoring its oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the Deep State of America against domestic enemies. That Constitution has the same text as the Constitution of the Deplorable MAGA United States, but a very different interpretation. See any number of split Supreme Court rulings and dissents over the past few decades for examples.
“Guinness is very good for you”
“You are far from done” That meme reminds me of Bambi – the book, not the Disney film. In particular the scene where a talking leaf dies.
No, Captain Kirk, space does not work that way when traveling FTL. Instead it works how the writers and producers say it works. Because FTL stands for Fictional Technobabble Lies.
A world hidden on the far side of the Sun, where advanced aliens have used their advanced technology to completely enforce an absolute ban on firearms of any sort. So naturally it’s a world of enlightened societies where women are respected and treated as the equals of men. Oh, wait… “La Kajira! La Kajira!”
This was supposed to go at the bottom, instead of as a second reply. Worse, it showed that it was honoring stars to indicate italics in the composition window – and then failed to honor them in the actual post. (And of course no editing posts to correct such bugs)
That’s what frustrates me about otherwise intelligent people who pooh-pooh the thought of the election being stolen because, “You’d have this huge conspiracy and that couldn’t be hidden, so it obviously didn’t happen.” (Insert obligatory rant about, “besides, Trump lost fair and square because he was that bad a candidate because I hate him and–“)
Except it wouldn’t take a huge, nee conspiracy. All it takes is machines in a handful of big cities, who basically get told, “Go do that voodoo that you do so well,” and do it automatically.
Eight counties. That’s all it takes is eight counties to be elected president. NYC, LA, and I think two or three other high-density counties and that’s enough if you go purely by popular vote. Thus the need for the electoral college, and for fraud in AZ (Maricopa County), PA, MN, and a few other places.
I do demolition. I climb ladders to take the siding off of houses. I willingly stand at the edge of a sixty-foot roof to chuck things down to the roped-off drop pile…. That yobbo in the penultimate one is coming all the way down if even one of his ladders shifts a little bit, and from here it looks like he has a nice six-foot A-frame landing pad for his idiot arse.
Last time I had a regular cold read a manuscript they accused me of drinking the good stuff.
In my defense, I was sleep deprived, which pretty much turns into the same thing. Lack of impulse control, GAF button hidden, slurred speech, headache and nausea the next day, bad ideas suddenly seeming eminently plausible, the whole deal.
My muse’s amicus brief tells me that isikai’d into a mutant plant cultivation type thing litrpg “zelda meets cultivation grimsnark” was a good idea. At the time.
Yup. Nonbiri Nouka is a lot more coherent, honestly. Haven’t delved too deep into that one.
But the thing about stories is, you can have essentially the same story at core, but different ways it is done. Heck, Marvel is the most blatant about it, but every writer steals.
My abomination is a lot darker and takes place on a multiply invaded planet. Think Poland, if it got traded back and forth between the worst of the Nazis, the Soviets, and a nation-sized band of drug fueled cannibal cultists.
Oh and the MC is a plant. Kind of a hive-mind thing. The good guys are currently enslaved or dead. The good gods aren’t present, they lost the world already.
There’s elves and goblins, technomagic and necromancy, cultivation, maybe a class system, conquest, politics, sneaky betrayal, snarky companion, ritual soul sacrifice, plagues (at least two), maybe a training montage, and botany. Weird, alien botany.
Honestly, it was a mess once I read back through the concept/scribble. That’s not a novel. A trilogy, at least. Lots and lots of plot threads.
I grew up as a writer in horror and noir. Simple little plot threads. Survive the horror or solve the mystery and survive getting shot and punched in the face. Easy stories. That one’s like birdshot hitting a bowl of Jello. Messy and incoherent in places.
Appropriate answer to the “check your tall privilege” is “fine, next time there’s something to be fetched from the top shelf, I will bow to your superiority from the couch.”
I was going to say something about that toddler driving the not-really-a-tank, but I decided not to.
I did have something memeworthy, had I only photographed it. I was in our local 7-11 this afternoon, and right by the cash registers, they were selling “fortune cookies.” They didn’t look like fortune cookies; they looked like ordinary chocolate chip, peanut butter, and so forth, in paper packets. It was then I noticed that affixed to each packet was a Powerball ticket. Fortune cookies indeed!
Dude behind the counter said people were buying ’em.
That’s really clever. The cookie rationalizes buying the ticket, the ticket rationalizes buying the cookie, and the “fortune cookie” joke is brilliant branding. The only thing missing is a display that reads, “What’s your lucky flavor?”
I saw a Girl With the Dogs video once (excellent Canadian dog groomer channel on Youtube, check her out, she’s funny and has great dogs and cats in her shop) where she was grooming an Australian Shepherd…that had his own emotional support rat named Benny. And yes, he got groomed too.
Dear Wraith; you’re not going to hell for calling God Autistic. He unlike Liberals/Communists has a sense of Humor. I mean how else do you explain the Duck Billed Platypus? It’s a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck beak and the body of a beaver with poison claws. Dude how is a simple writer supposed to compete with that. It’s almost like he said, Ya this will fix that Darwin f*cker.
They’re selling, “Eclipse Guides,”in the local grocery, complete with “eclipse glasses.” (Think the sort of
Cardboard frames that come out as 3-D glasses. But hopefully with better film).
I’m winding up like an old watch. Why am I drinking caffeine? (Tea, but still).
I went to google to look up something about the eclipse. Naturally, one of the ‘hits’ was a series of Quora questions about whether Evangelical christians [ capitalized just like that ] also deny the eclipse like they deny climate change, since they are ‘both science’? I wanted SO bad to be able to go to similar places and post questions asking if all Climate Alarmists believe the Eclipse is CAUSED by Climate Change, since THEIR religion requires climate change to be at the root of all bad things. Though I did come across an article about how the eclipse will be an excellent opportunity to study the OTHER effects that some of the proposed ‘solutions’ to climate change might have. Reducing cloud cover, because an eclipse apparently frequently has this effect over land masses. (Essentially a ‘not so fast’ article about proposals to build big orbital sunshades to reduce ‘global warming’.)
My thought on having to build big orbital sunshades is that’ll get pushing for the tech, include living in space, to do so. After all the giant (okay they grew, sue me) big orbital sunshades means putting them together, and maintaining them, which means support, which means tourists, etc.
That, or giant orbital mirrors, were – as I recall – suggested as a means to deal with that war in Vietnam…. all the obvious problems were pointed out then, yes.
I wondered if it was just a tiny bit of sun shining between mountains. If it was a flare, it was big enough to see with the naked eye, which is a little scary.
What I saw was near the bottom of thr sun, but as totality progressed it seemed to move to the right. And it was red, oh so red as opposed to the white light of the Corona.
I still say a so.ar flare big enough to be seen with a naked eyeball is scary.
According To Hoyt 
🙌😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Darn younkers! Nothing but “mememememe”.
I’m busy, too.
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Pippa is one of my oshis. But be careful, Pippa is the gateway to Kirsche. Right now, Kirsche is my kami-oshi.
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Kirschwasser?
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Kirsche Verstahl, a vtuber fox-woman who is both deranged and incredibly based. She streams on both YouTube and Twitch.
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The garden/zucchini meme has a hidden asterisk. In teeny tiny print below that, it reads:
*: In some localities replace “neighborhood” with “zip code.”
Seriously, I know of a place where if you left car doors unlocked for fifteen minutes, zucchini and butternut squash would spontaneously appear.
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I’ve lived there. Don’t worry about your car stereo vanishing. Be very afraid of tomatoes, squash, and zucchini appearing.
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and cucumbers…
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Last year it would have been cherry tomatoes for me.
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Attack of the Cherry Tomatoes!!
🍒🍅🍒🍅🍒
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It was ridiculous. I was overwhelmed. I need to find the dehydrator before harvest this year.
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A greased pipe, an air compressor, a good table of ranges…. and you won’t be bothered again.
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When I lived in Minnesota, rhubarb was also on that list.
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Small town way off freeway somewhere middle (flyover country) of USA, tourist stop in at quint small diner. Waitress to tourist “Did you lock your vehicle?” Tourist, frowning “No? Is crime a problem here?” Waitress “No. It is zucchini and squash season. Too late now.” Smiles. “What can I get for you?”
Always lock your vehicle in zucchini and squash seasons. If you have an open pickup, frown, too bad.
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Next time on Law & Order: Squash in Vehicles Unit…
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I can’t grow zucchini
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I’m sure your fans will be happy to throw vegetables your way…😇😇
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[Boggles]
If it grows in $TINY_TOWN above 4000′, it should grow anywhere. OTOH, $SPOUSE starts seeds indoors, then they go to the sunroom on days when it’s better than horrible. The seedlings go in the ground (raised beds, Supersoil(tm) plus compost plus Just Plain Dirt(no tm)) around June 1st for us. The heavy frost cover goes on a few days later, depending on weather and Murphy.
July and August we get a lot. September 1st, we pull the plants.
Ground squirrels love it. Deer hate it. Dealing with the squeakers is left to the interested student.
People at more reasonable elevations will have less pessimistic timing…
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Nope. I kill zuchs.
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I am become Black Thumb, destroyer of zucchini! :)
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I can grow cukes and tomatoes and pumpkins. Haven’t really tried much else. No zuchs though
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I have, so help me, FAILED to get MINT to grow.
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The previous owners managed to get corn to grow in the garden. The only time I tried, I got knee high stalks. By labor day. (It seems the 1990s were rather warmer than the Aughts around here.)
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I – I’m sorry. I have this trust issue where I always think that none of what I plant will make it to maturity. So I plant 12 zucchinis, and then –
Actually, last year, I’m pretty sure I preserved, ate, or otherwise used almost all of the squash and zucchini I planted, despite the aforementioned 12 plants producing like mad. I did share generously when people asked, but I don’t recall stealing anything into others’ vehicles or onto porches in the dead of night.
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When we have excess (didn’t last year because Gorebull Warmening), we give zucchini to the Gospel Mission in town. Our neighbors have a better site (we get shaded badly and a slightly worse microclimate) for their garden, and I told them about the Mission, so somebody’s going to get inundated.
We dehydrated a fair amount. Used (chopped in a mini food processor) instead of some of the bread crumbs for fish cakes, they add a bunch of flavor.
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Who said anything about the “dead of night”. Happens in visible daylight.
Rolls eyes. Someone from the golf club has an abundance to share. Darn it. I don’t mind zucchini, as long as I don’t have to prepare and cook it. Like (fresh only) tomatoes (and salt), but I am the only one who does.
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We did a lot of diced zucchini treated as a salad. Previous years, I’d peel, slice into spears, and spray with the cooking spray. Then, I’d shake some spices (frequently Mrs. Dash). Grill 3 minutes on one side, flip to another and 3 more. Serve right away. ‘Tis good and is fairly easy. (Grill hot enough to leave marks. Adjust temp to suit.)
It’s about the only way I like cooked zucchini.
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I am told that one can reduce the number of mature zucchini one gets by using the flowers as an ingredient in deep-fried stuffed squash blossoms.
I have not tried this myself.
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How do you know you have no friends?
You have to plant your own zucchini.
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Total strangers offer us zucchini. Response is “No thanks. Our friends and family supply us with plenty.”
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Hang on! *FRIENDS* inflict zucchini?
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“At the zucchini basket there is no brother, no friend.”
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I’m hungry for soup. Too bad I’m at work right now.
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The question is “Was he trolling or serious?” The answer is undoubtedly “Yes.”
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The selkie one …. Double Facepaw
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Son sent it to me. … so proud.
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she used my meme, that makes me happy.
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i *made* it, not just forwarded it. :P
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which one?
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OBEY. Made it when the pic of that speech originally came out, reposted it because Herr Biden was being particularly bossy again.
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It’s a good meme!
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“Again”?
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Works even better if you’ve seen the movie. :-D
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“… and I’m all out of bubblegum…”
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I had two meme’s made in response to one I sent earlier in the week, it is so nice to be someones muse, now if I could only get my off the tequila, her and my guardian angel have been binging for a week. I feel sorry for the both of them.
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When your Muse and your Guardian Angel swap job assignments…
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My guardian …. angel?
To be fair, I think both team up to kick my ass into writing.
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Pseudo-random thoughts:
Ever notice how business establishments where young women bring you a sandwich are more popular among men than establishments where young women dance for you?
Of course the Democrats are not calling for regime change in Iran. Look at how disastrous it was for them the last time: Ronald Reagan got elected president, and their side lost the Cold War.
What I find more frightening is the idea that no one ordered the counting stopped on Nov 3 – that it was a spontaneous work stoppage by election workers that no one had to order.
As beneficial as abolishing the income tax might be, taking a chain-saw to government regulation would be the bigger stimulus. We’re already in a world of ‘guilty unless shown innocent’ where it is not enough to avoid doing various Bad Things – you must show compliance with the various don’t-do-Bad-Things regulations as well (or worse, instead).
What has the FBI been doing? Faithfully honoring its oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the Deep State of America against domestic enemies. That Constitution has the same text as the Constitution of the Deplorable MAGA United States, but a very different interpretation. See any number of split Supreme Court rulings and dissents over the past few decades for examples.
“Guinness is very good for you”
“You are far from done” That meme reminds me of Bambi – the book, not the Disney film. In particular the scene where a talking leaf dies.
No, Captain Kirk, space does not work that way when traveling FTL. Instead it works how the writers and producers say it works. Because FTL stands for Fictional Technobabble Lies.
A world hidden on the far side of the Sun, where advanced aliens have used their advanced technology to completely enforce an absolute ban on firearms of any sort. So naturally it’s a world of enlightened societies where women are respected and treated as the equals of men. Oh, wait… “La Kajira! La Kajira!”
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WPDE
This was supposed to go at the bottom, instead of as a second reply. Worse, it showed that it was honoring stars to indicate italics in the composition window – and then failed to honor them in the actual post. (And of course no editing posts to correct such bugs)
WPDE
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That’s what frustrates me about otherwise intelligent people who pooh-pooh the thought of the election being stolen because, “You’d have this huge conspiracy and that couldn’t be hidden, so it obviously didn’t happen.” (Insert obligatory rant about, “besides, Trump lost fair and square because he was that bad a candidate because I hate him and–“)
Except it wouldn’t take a huge, nee conspiracy. All it takes is machines in a handful of big cities, who basically get told, “Go do that voodoo that you do so well,” and do it automatically.
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Eight counties. That’s all it takes is eight counties to be elected president. NYC, LA, and I think two or three other high-density counties and that’s enough if you go purely by popular vote. Thus the need for the electoral college, and for fraud in AZ (Maricopa County), PA, MN, and a few other places.
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The simple and logical answer is that it was not hidden, but done blatantly without fear of reprisal.
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Memes of Gor
(grin)
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I don’t know my guardian angel seems to be getting closer every time I look away. What do you mean that’s not a guardian angel?
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And what’s with those teeth?
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Not a fellow in a cloak and holding a scythe, I’d hope.
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No not like that (though certainly out there somewhere that one is after all of us). Rather more like this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Doctor_Who_Weeping_Angel_from_The_Time_of_Angels.JPG
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That lemon is obviously the dark and gritty reboot of Pac-Man. The one where you’re supposed to sympathize with the ghosts, no doubt.
I’m going to take a break from Vitamin C for a while.
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I do demolition. I climb ladders to take the siding off of houses. I willingly stand at the edge of a sixty-foot roof to chuck things down to the roped-off drop pile…. That yobbo in the penultimate one is coming all the way down if even one of his ladders shifts a little bit, and from here it looks like he has a nice six-foot A-frame landing pad for his idiot arse.
Oy vey iz mir!
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So. Much. This.
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“Write drunk. Edit *never!*”
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I quit twentymumble years ago.
Last time I had a regular cold read a manuscript they accused me of drinking the good stuff.
In my defense, I was sleep deprived, which pretty much turns into the same thing. Lack of impulse control, GAF button hidden, slurred speech, headache and nausea the next day, bad ideas suddenly seeming eminently plausible, the whole deal.
My muse’s amicus brief tells me that isikai’d into a mutant plant cultivation type thing litrpg “zelda meets cultivation grimsnark” was a good idea. At the time.
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I go ‘ooh’.
Your muse has company.
Though, I can understand ‘challengign to pull off’.
It is remotely possible that I have something wrong with my judgement.
The idea would probably still sound good to me if I were fully rested and in excellent health.
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Somebody beat you to it. Have you seen ‘Isekai Nonbiri Nouka’?
Complete with the ‘Almighty Farming Tool’. It’s a shovel, it’s an axe, it’s a saw, it’s a spear that can knock down a Greater Dragon…
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Yup. Nonbiri Nouka is a lot more coherent, honestly. Haven’t delved too deep into that one.
But the thing about stories is, you can have essentially the same story at core, but different ways it is done. Heck, Marvel is the most blatant about it, but every writer steals.
My abomination is a lot darker and takes place on a multiply invaded planet. Think Poland, if it got traded back and forth between the worst of the Nazis, the Soviets, and a nation-sized band of drug fueled cannibal cultists.
Oh and the MC is a plant. Kind of a hive-mind thing. The good guys are currently enslaved or dead. The good gods aren’t present, they lost the world already.
There’s elves and goblins, technomagic and necromancy, cultivation, maybe a class system, conquest, politics, sneaky betrayal, snarky companion, ritual soul sacrifice, plagues (at least two), maybe a training montage, and botany. Weird, alien botany.
Honestly, it was a mess once I read back through the concept/scribble. That’s not a novel. A trilogy, at least. Lots and lots of plot threads.
I grew up as a writer in horror and noir. Simple little plot threads. Survive the horror or solve the mystery and survive getting shot and punched in the face. Easy stories. That one’s like birdshot hitting a bowl of Jello. Messy and incoherent in places.
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The Egyptian guy looks like Barak Obama.
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Appropriate answer to the “check your tall privilege” is “fine, next time there’s something to be fetched from the top shelf, I will bow to your superiority from the couch.”
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“That’s not faaaaiiiirrrr!!!!”
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Whatever told you life was fair, they lied. Take it up with them.
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Yes, is not fair. Is more like circus.
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Not my circus, not my short snowflakes.
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Tail privilege? OH.. *tall* privilege.
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All I know is, “Taciturn, you’re tall, can you get this from the top shelf for me?” is fine.
The reverse, “You’re short, can you get that from the bottom shelf for me?” is apparently not.
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I was going to say something about that toddler driving the not-really-a-tank, but I decided not to.
I did have something memeworthy, had I only photographed it. I was in our local 7-11 this afternoon, and right by the cash registers, they were selling “fortune cookies.” They didn’t look like fortune cookies; they looked like ordinary chocolate chip, peanut butter, and so forth, in paper packets. It was then I noticed that affixed to each packet was a Powerball ticket. Fortune cookies indeed!
Dude behind the counter said people were buying ’em.
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[Raises hand] I can tell everybody’s fortune!
“You just wasted a buck on a lottery ticket.”
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But at least you got cookies!
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That’s really clever. The cookie rationalizes buying the ticket, the ticket rationalizes buying the cookie, and the “fortune cookie” joke is brilliant branding. The only thing missing is a display that reads, “What’s your lucky flavor?”
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Misfortune cookies also sell, but they aren’t properly labelled.
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“misfortune cookies” …
…
Internet Explorer?
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More like, “That wasn’t chicken.”
Or, “You will soon engage in an unwanted trip.”
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Speaks for itself:
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IT’S ALL FUNDED BY YOU
…whether you ever wanted it or not.
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That very nearly caused the Reader a coffee keyboard flood.
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Naw. I giggled too. But funnier if a cat. When a cat, cats who do not care, appear concerned, watch out.
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When your emotional support dog needs an emotional support pack of his own…
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I saw a Girl With the Dogs video once (excellent Canadian dog groomer channel on Youtube, check her out, she’s funny and has great dogs and cats in her shop) where she was grooming an Australian Shepherd…that had his own emotional support rat named Benny. And yes, he got groomed too.
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My wife and I watch her quite a bit.
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Guardian Angels and Muses settling for mere tequila? Not insisting on nothing weaker than Absinthe and seeking stronger narcotics? Huh.
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307 Ale
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Or para-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aijcl1-LPoQ&t=2650s
Pangalactic Gargleblaster Blues.
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Dear Wraith; you’re not going to hell for calling God Autistic. He unlike Liberals/Communists has a sense of Humor. I mean how else do you explain the Duck Billed Platypus? It’s a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck beak and the body of a beaver with poison claws. Dude how is a simple writer supposed to compete with that. It’s almost like he said, Ya this will fix that Darwin f*cker.
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All He had to do was arrange a cruise…
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Seen on liquor store sign yesterday:
We cannot be eclipsed!
Gaze on our inventory today!
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They’re selling, “Eclipse Guides,”in the local grocery, complete with “eclipse glasses.” (Think the sort of
Cardboard frames that come out as 3-D glasses. But hopefully with better film).
I’m winding up like an old watch. Why am I drinking caffeine? (Tea, but still).
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We traveled up to Indiana to view it. Currently high, thin clouds.
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I went to google to look up something about the eclipse. Naturally, one of the ‘hits’ was a series of Quora questions about whether Evangelical christians [ capitalized just like that ] also deny the eclipse like they deny climate change, since they are ‘both science’? I wanted SO bad to be able to go to similar places and post questions asking if all Climate Alarmists believe the Eclipse is CAUSED by Climate Change, since THEIR religion requires climate change to be at the root of all bad things. Though I did come across an article about how the eclipse will be an excellent opportunity to study the OTHER effects that some of the proposed ‘solutions’ to climate change might have. Reducing cloud cover, because an eclipse apparently frequently has this effect over land masses. (Essentially a ‘not so fast’ article about proposals to build big orbital sunshades to reduce ‘global warming’.)
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>climate change to be at the root of all bad things
They’re apparently already on this:
media/GKcae1QXoAAvKVZ.jpg (1169×1173) (poast.org)
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My thought on having to build big orbital sunshades is that’ll get pushing for the tech, include living in space, to do so. After all the giant (okay they grew, sue me) big orbital sunshades means putting them together, and maintaining them, which means support, which means tourists, etc.
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big orbital sunshades
That, or giant orbital mirrors, were – as I recall – suggested as a means to deal with that war in Vietnam…. all the obvious problems were pointed out then, yes.
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Sun about 20% covered now. I’m drop spinning as a calming thing between using my welders’ goggles.
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Totality in about half an hour.
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We now have a crescent Sun. Light quality changing and temperature down just a touch.
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Wow!
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Gorgeous. Just Gorgeous. I wou,d like to know what the red, red dot at the bottom of totality was.
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Flare?
Shoggoth?
War?
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I wondered if it was just a tiny bit of sun shining between mountains. If it was a flare, it was big enough to see with the naked eye, which is a little scary.
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Well, here’s (in theory) a couple pictures from totality today, and there’s a flare bottom right and upper right…
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What I saw was near the bottom of thr sun, but as totality progressed it seemed to move to the right. And it was red, oh so red as opposed to the white light of the Corona.
I still say a so.ar flare big enough to be seen with a naked eyeball is scary.
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Many flares are larger that Earth. Some of those big looped prominence would dwarf Jupiter. Coronal Mass Ejections can be even larger.
it’s miraculous Earth is still habitable. The Sun is a mostly stable sustained thermonuclear explosion.
that burps often….
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Now the question is: what, exactly, gives a star indigestion…
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