#glocktober

If the missus is black or brown, she wears color. If she's white, she sticks to earth tones and neutral colors. She'll wear color but not often.

Even the makeup is the same.

The month is almost up and I haven't been doing a daily creative thing, so I'm bringing back my old #glocktober project, lightning round style. Send me asks with names pulled from my notebook Twitter account The New Belligerence and I'll provide descriptions for them in my post-apocalyptic science fantasy with airships TTRPG setting, Aloft: A Post-Atomic Romance (formerly Sons & Daughters). Keep em coming, and hopefully I'll get to 31 by All Saints Day.

Doing it on Tumblr instead of Twitter this year because Twitter engagement is at an all-time low, and the latest Horrors have left the space feeling like it's more for observation of said Horrors, and less welcome to concurrent, unrelated creativity.

Examples from previous years:

Hard No: A stop sign shield reinforced with kevlar, fiberglass, and bicycle aluminum, carried by Alex Webster, a crew chief with the vigilante infrastructure organization calling itself the US Department of Transportation. They use it to bash more often than to block.

The Gray Lady is both an airship crewed by journalists and equipped with an onboard printing press, and the name of the paper they distribute across the continent. It's one of the only independent airships declared off-limits to pirates sponsored by the Great Lakes barons.

Heroic Measures: This electrified falchion is wielded by the Twin Cities' infamous android paramedic-turned-monster hunter, Doctor Musashi. Its voltage generating components were adapted from a manual external defibrillator.