#maintenance & disassembly (reblogging robot erotica), #robot stuff (reblogging robot art), #my recs (reblogging things people should check out)
#search rule (if i look for a post and find it, i reblog it)
lately i've been working on Vermin Cathexis, an original setting centered on insect vampire hiveminds and a frankly egregiously complicated magic system.
the last big thing i worked on was Hostile Takeover, a longform murder drones fanfic about a lesbian killer robot torn between her directives and her own needs.
my most extensive work is the writings that comprise Black Nerve, a dark fantasy setting where giant insects wield magic that dissolves life and matter, mutant bat-blood and of course esoteric fungi. there's a couple of novels and LOT of lore posts
i have a website which is probably the best place to see all of my stuff:
A website for writings, drawings, and compositions.
but to get a taste of what you can find on that site, keep reading
most people are probably following me for my murder drones stuff.
as mentioned, i write the critically acclaimed J/Uzi fic, Hostile Takeover:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
it's a beyond-novel-length enemies to lovers slowburn, and distinguishes itself by pulling it all off without heavy alteration to canon characterization.
most people are probably put off by the tagged ship, but i've received numerous comments to the effect of "i never liked this ship" or "i didn't think it could be done" followed by "but you somehow pulled it off".
give it a shot!
besides that, i've read a lot of murder drones fanfic, and maintain a page on my website dedicated to indexing and reviewing fics that i'd recommend
Curating the best fanfics for the best web series about angsty murderbots.
several of the people following me are writers, who may be interested in know that i've written several essays on the craft of writing. people tend to find them pretty insightful!
i've written many stories other than Hostile Takeover. you can find them on my site; there's too many to list, but in general, i write nonhuman character near-exclusively. (my friends were only so surprised when i became obsessed with murder drones)
still, HT is my most successful work for a reason, and i'm not certain fans of that will enjoy my earlier writing; i have reservations about recommending most of them. A Chimerical Hope is still cool, i think, though its issues are undeniable
the majority of my site is dedicated its overarching setting: Black Nerve, a dark fantasy world of giant sapient insect ninjas and corrupting fungus and gruesome mutagenic blood magic. there's so much going on there that i just cant get into all of it here. not even sure where you should begin reading
lore posts like "In Dialogue With Plagues", or "Lardsuckers and (What Were) Grubsuckers" give you a taste of just how freaky the setting is, and i think "The Duality of Mantis" is a great look at the weird psychology of the dominant species. but there's so many articles i can't list them all
writing is probably what i've done the most of, but i have other skills :3
i've released four albums of electronic music on bandcamp:
15 track album
and there's more!
i'm sometimes an artist, and there's gallery on my site with over three hundred pieces i've drawn over the years. i mostly draw these weird alien dudes i invented, plus a lot of praying mantises and dragons and pokemon. quality varies a lot and i'm bad about staying in practice, but here are some pieces i think turned out rather well
ok, now is that it?
well, mostly. i have some poetry that's neat, and i recently produced a game demo that's shaping up into something interesting:
Sokoban roguelike. Explore and solve randomly generated levels, collect powerups, and wield awkward tools.
but now, that's probably everything of serious note.
if you read through all of that, i love you. thank you for your time and i hope there's something here you appreciated
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Generous folks from Huion sent over Kamvas 22 Gen 3 tablet to check out and paint some dragons! Ended up painting this big, green frien.
Be sure to check a small reel I cooked up for the occasion :D
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I’m suddenly laughing at the idea of a cliche noir detective story written in the brutally concise style of Hemingway.
A woman walked into my office. She had legs. I noticed her legs. “I have a problem. I need your help,” she said. They always said that. I knew her legs weren’t the problem. I hoped she might want my help with them anyhow.
“Can you pay?” I asked. Of course she could. Her shoes were worth more than my rent. She could pay.
“I can pay,” she said. Her eyes were wet. I wondered if anything else was wet. Probably not. I am not handsome. Not since the war.
She was looking at my scar. Lots of people do. Most look away. Not her. She did not look away. She looked at my scar and I looked at her legs. There were two of them. I liked that about her. I liked that a whole lot.
“Will there be danger?” I asked. There always is. This city bleeds danger, then drinks it right back up again.
“I’m afraid there might be danger,” she said. She had the voice of a beautiful woman. She also had the face and body of a beautiful woman. She was beautiful.
The light from the window was striped. It made stripes on my cigarette smoke. The end of my cigarette crumbled into ash. My marriage had also crumbled into ash.
“I can handle danger,” I said. I patted the butt of my gun. My gun was a Colt. My gun and my scar were all that was left from my time as a soldier. My gun, my scar, and the nightmares. I looked her up and down. “I am good at handling things.”
She was not wearing a ring. It means something when a woman does not wear a wedding ring. Usually, it means that she is not married. “Seems your ring has also gone missing,” I said. I hoped her dress would join it.
Her red mouth curved upwards. She was smiling a little. “I don’t wear it outside. A diamond that large would only invite trouble.”
“In my experience, trouble doesn’t wait for an invitation.” I looked at her legs again. They were both still there. “When did you last see your husband?”
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hey. this is out there and mostly an angst thing. but what if the reason why Phantom doesn't leave the Exhaust Organ is because they can't... not physically but they literally are unable to Make Themself leave and possibly would try to stop anyone who tried to take them. or something like that.
because... GMS did it to them, basically? like silk can apparently also hold memories and thoughts!!! so presumably in addition to whatever level of physical control she wanted to exert over her children, she could do something similar to their minds.
like normally she wouldn't even bother. but she could. and maybe she did, at least once. she made it impossible for Phantom to leave. not even for them to want to leave, just like. any attempt would be shut down. by them.
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thinking about the problem of resource quantification again. this kind of lazy writing is very easy to be annoyed at if you're a certain kind of reader. characters always seems to have just enough bullets and arrows. they can make whatever purchase they need without going broke. batteries and mana reserves and gas tanks and alchemy ingredients and rations are described as vaguely depleting all the time.
it's all so convenient. sure, at some point, randomly, these resources will run out to force the plot in a new direction, but it's hard not to roll my eyes whenever i read about a character burning a lot of magic power to cast an expensive spell. how can i believe it's so demanding if there's always enough and never any real consequences?
if you aspire to be a writer, then you might say to yourself: aha, i'm not going to be like those hacks. i'm going to always give the exact numbers so my readers always know how close my characters are to running out. i'll track the percentages and inventory so you know there's no plot holes. it's all fair and square
and if you ever come close to doing this, you'll find it out it sucks. it's not just that it's annoying doing the math and finding a way to weave the totals into narration gracefully, though that sure is a pain. if you make a mistake, if you realize the character should have allocated their resources differently, if you write into a corner and realize a different outcome would be more satisfying, then you have to go back and change it, then you have to comb through and make sure every single reference to the exact count is consistent with the new figure.
and the benefit of this meticulous work is... who cares? precise numbers can be more impactful, at least when they aren't awkward and tonally dissonant, but it's a lot of work for what is a bit of polish, a bit of a flex, which a lot of readers will either glaze over or promptly forget.
and to be fair, this is fixing the wrong thing. if the quantity of resources didn't matter when the narration just vaguely handwaved at it, then it won't matter when you collapse the vague-function into a specific sequences of numbers. it's essentially the same?
but you can get both slightly less vague and (more importantly) more meaningful if the quantity drives the character's behavior, if they're thinking thoughts like "i have enough to do this, but not do that" and the scene flows accordingly.
but on today's walk, a different angle of this occurred to me: why even count bullets when they're fired? like, necessarily, if a resource is scarce and the character has varying amounts of it, then you can basically boil it down into four broad points.
either they're out of it, or they're almost out of it, or they have a decent amount but will run low soon, or they aren't running out any time soon.
notably, if there's no chance they're going to run out in a scene, they can just fire at will. then, in the aftermath, maybe they check and see how much they burned through. maybe they fell one rung down the ladder. and if you have to give exact numbers, then giving them in passing, after the action, is both less intrusive and creates less work for you.
