Caffeinated Owlbear

The Ghost of Hyperion.

This wasn’t going to be Jack when I started, but it ended up being him anyway XD

It will be told in 100-word drabbles, and here's the first one.

1. CEO

Something wakes ���m up. One moment, there is nothing, and xe is nowhere and everywhere, a pre-timespace universe of xyr own. The next, there is everything, and they are somewhere in it. Gravity collapses in on itself until singularity becomes thought.

They have thoughts; she is thoughts; he thinks, therefore he is… what?

Relevance? He/she/they/xe is. No definition required.

Doesn’t feel right, not having a name.

Feel: inaccessible experience. Right: theoretical concept. Name: redundant signifier.

CEO.

Chief Executive Officer. A job title. Role. Function. Purpose.

Very well. We are… CEO. We are in charge of… what?

Hyperion.

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Return of the rhack brain-touchy cybernetic … thingy.

I recently learned an old French euphemism for bisexuality. It means to be powered "by sail and steam," and it absolutely comes from a specific flavor of 19th-century ship.

HMS Terror and Erebus were bisexual, you heard it here first.

If so, I'm not sure I agree that only posting self-made stuff on one's own blog counts as not engaging with the fandom? Actually, no, I'm sure I DON'T agree. Creating fan works *and posting them where others can see* is one of the most essential forms of engaging with the fandom, regardless of whether the artist or writer interacts with other fandom members otherwise.

Crimetober 1-9

Crimetober 10-21

Crimetober 22-31

My Birds are Criminals zine is debuting at TCAF this weekend!

Find it at the Screen Tones Podcast table 244, June 6-7! I won't be there, but a bunch of the gang will be, so say hi and check out their work too.

Parking reserved for the Sign Eater

but i don’t want to sleep in a box :(

Don't date thirty-year-olds until you are at least 25.

Having a glass of water for every glass of alcohol will give you a 50% reduction in hangover viciousness.

Bad people will use your willingness to be quiet as a weapon against you. If someone's being awful to you and trusting you'll be quiet to keep from making waves, surprise them.

There is no physical object in the world that is worth as much as your honor.

Honor is not the same as dignity. Retaining one sometimes means leaving the other aside.

Don't have any sex you don't want to have; have as much as you want of the sex that you do, whether that's a lot, a little, or none at all. Nothing you can do to your own body is immoral, unless you're doing it as an act of self-punishment.

Food is morally neutral. You do not have to earn the right to eat calories. Fat and sugar keep your brain from eating itself.

Learning to sit still and breathe--in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, out, out, out, out, out, out--can give you five feet of clear space around yourself in a maelstrom.

Find out how to make three good meals: A comfort meal you can make for just yourself relatively easily, a fancy meal you can use to wow a date, and a meal you can feed a bunch of people. All the other cooking can come later, but you can build a community on those three meals.