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reasie, 8 months ago to random

This week's blog post has some bad news for people hoping I'll recognize them: https://www.marievibbert.com/i-wont-recognize-you/

reasie, 8 months ago to random

This week's blog post answers the question, "Will You Read My Story and Tell Me If It's Any Good?" https://www.marievibbert.com/can-you-read-my-story-and-tell-me-if-its-any-good/

diyelectromusic, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

I get the feeling that something about this story by @reasie will appeal to #MakersHour folks :)

I loved it anyway!

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vibbert_07_23/

#ClarkesWorld #RightToRepair
@makershour

reasie, 8 months ago to random

If I were rich, I'd buy a dozen billboards around Cleveland just to display "A DEAD TRAFFIC SIGNAL IS A FOUR WAY STOP!"

reasie, 8 months ago to random

Power is still out at Chez Vibbert-Crick. The power company says we have to repair the storm damage to our meter before they do anything. Fortunately, there are electricians doing that now.

reasie, 9 months ago to random

I know I'm late to this bandwagon, but Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is the Citizen Kane of talking cat movies. That justified the past year of Netflix subscription.

reasie, 9 months ago to random

This week's blog post is the post-mortem of my write-a-thon goal to write 50 short stories in 6 weeks: https://www.marievibbert.com/write-a-thon-2023-2/

BlackAzizAnansi, 10 months ago to random

So what type of colonizing did your family do?

reasie, 10 months ago to random

I am a Hugo Award Finalist!

https://locusmag.com/2023/07/2023-hugo-astounding-and-lodestar-awards-finalists/

reasie, 10 months ago to random

My novelette "We Built This City" has been nominated fro the Utopia Awards!

What an honor to be in such company. Voting is open through July.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEbxfuv8Tvzo-Y0KZiwHfMHInclIEFmvXUGJOshbyQBtev5w/viewform

wrench, 10 months ago to random

This weekend I was playing "Webbed". A super fun puzzle-platformer about a peacock spider trying to save her mate from a bird.

The game is short (3-5 hrs?) with delightful movement, punchy music, and lots of neat little details and charm.

And if you can't deal with spiders, the game has a cute accessibility mode that changes all spiders to blobs.

Definitely worth the 700 yen.

(blurred media: pixel-art peacock spider)

A screenshot of the game "webbed" - a pixel art spider is in a web, above a puddle. There is a fly tied to the web, close to the spider. There is a forest in the background.
A screenshot of the game "Webbed". Here the game is in "aracnophobia mode", where all spiders are replaced with colorful blobs. A large purple blob (the main character) is above a branch, and several white blobs (spider young in the original game, a collectible) are dangling from webs in the top of the screen. The forest background is unchanged from the previous screenshot.

reasie, 10 months ago to random

My latest story in Clarkesworld - I wrote the first draft of this in 2001! https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vibbert_07_23/

reasie, 10 months ago to random

Nothing makes a story longer than 1,000 words like titling the draft "Flash fiction."

#amwriting

reasie, 11 months ago to random

Last day of the SFWA auction!!
Help us run the Nebulas!
There are still some amazingly cheap one-on-ones with pro authors!
https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action?vhost=wbi&aalias=sfwaauction

reasie, 1 year ago to random

World Fantasy Nominations are due May 31. (TIL that they have open nominations.) https://wfc2023.org/wfa-nomination-ballot/

reasie, 1 year ago to random

Physicists officially admit they deal in magic: https://boingboing.net/2023/05/01/physicists-identify-new-quantum-state-called-magic.html

reasie, 1 year ago to random

Is Moana the only Disney autocrat (king, queen, princess) we see actually doing the work of ruling?

reasie, 1 year ago to random

Show empathy to all characters when you write - including villains. We do evil a favor when, as authors, we fail to portray it in all its banality and seeming kindness.

#amwriting