Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

#WritingWonders 8/1: If you could hang out with one of your side characters for a day, who would you choose? Why?

Elíne Septimiel. Because I'm practically guaranteed to have something to talk about with a fellow bibliophile, and since she's First Reader at what is almost certainly the galaxy's largest library, she definitely counts.

(As she's been known to point out, "It does not say Repository of _Some_ Knowledge above my door.")

#eldraeverse

#WritingWonders July 31: Does your antagonist love anyone that's still alive and in their life?

"I don't know. But I hope so. I truly do."

#eldraeverse

#WritingWonders July 30: Does your MC have a good fashion sense?

"Well, I -"

"Yes, she does. Not that you'd know it, most of the time."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Jynne, you'd wear your Service reds to bed, if you could. Probably everywhere else, too, if we'd let you."

#eldraeverse

Man, after being distracted by failing ACs and flagpoles and other physical things, I really need to get back to #WritingWonders . Maybe I can finish off July's this evening, and then move on to this month.

Raised at last!

(I deem this the perfect flag for the Actual Libertarian Movement, composed of those of us disdaining both rightist sociofascism and leftist econofascism. And, increasingly these days, vice versa.)

#DontTreadOnAnyone

Today I have programmed a microcontroller to emit the WiFi SSID "International Space Station" for four minutes out of every 92.

I should like to encourage more people to do this and we'll see who notices first.

*July 29.

Continuation (2/2):

A voice from the next pod rumbles:

"That's hot crap, kid. You never worked a day in your life, robots built most of what passes through here, and this is the Core besides. If you *needed* it, any free cornucopia would have given it t'you. You wanted it. Now shaddup. You're making the rest of us dodgy folk sound like idjits, and I wanna get some sleep before they load us on the transport."

#WritingWonders July 2: Antagonist POV: How do you feel about what you do?

In two parts (1/2):

"Just tryin' to live, aina? The corps and the rich'd not miss it, and they make all this stuff on the backs of us-kind anyway. If'n I take some of it back from, who's to say I'm not the right one -"

#eldraeverse

...well, sometimes it's inconvenient to have an immune response that screams and leaps on any UNIDENTIFIED POSSIBLE PATHOGEN.

#WritingWonders July 28: Is your MC ever minorly inconvenienced by illness?

No and yes.

Not directly, because she has a top-of-the-line artificial immune system. Regular illness just bounces off it.

But it's a top-of-the-line AIS with the Constabulary first-responder, hazmat, and anti-bioterror packages installed, so when some new disease is borne in by a ship from somewhere off the main routes, however mild...

#eldraeverse

Whenever I am asked what I regret most in life, I shall say 'arguing with nihilists and failing to point out that it is logically inconsistent for them to give a damn what I think'.

#WeBelieveInNothingLebowski

#WritingWonders July 27: Does your MC respect authority or buck it?

Respect it, by and large - because her authorities are so in the sense that respects the Latin roots.

I wrote more about this a while back here:

https://eldraeverse.com/2021/04/07/author-on-authority/

But the short form is that the local kind of authority is "being, in context, the kind of leader worthy of being followed", which she respects.

Anyone who has to say "respect mah authoritah" obviously has none - and so need not be respected.

#eldraeverse

The Travails of the Raided Libertarian

https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/p/the-travails-of-the-raided-libertarian?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

#fbi #raid #politics

#WritingWonders July 26: Antagonist: Do you see what you do as evil?

"Yah, for certain. If you listen to these propertarians and binders, but they're the ones that keep us bound t'the iron wheel!" <spit-sizzle> "Defying their ownership and their rules is the only way to -"

"I told you last time, Jinmi, Shareholders' Court'll go easier on you if you just tell them you wanted quick cash and don't try and baffle them with whatever bullshit you picked up at the Rowdy Rhizome."

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In the quotable me for today:

"I try to avoid precommitting to mediocrity. We already have plenty of that."

#WritingWonders July 25: Does your MC have any health or belief systems that restrict their diet?

Not unless "don't eat anything unless you've either recognized or analyzed it" counts, but that's more or less basic "living on major trade station" competence.

Food from thousands of worlds for hundreds of species turns up there on a regular basis. Biocoding isn't just for fun, y'know?

#eldraeverse