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 Reply: RPGGeek Help and How-To:: Re: Do you have a question you want asked as QOTD? Post here!
Posted: Mon, 07 Sep 04:32:44

by Inkwan

Do u ever go to the movies to see a classic you missed originally on the big screen? If so, which ones? What makes it worth it to you?
 Reply: RPGGeek Help and How-To:: Re: Do you have a question you want asked as QOTD? Post here!
Posted: Mon, 07 Sep 04:31:17

by Inkwan

What's the best book of random tables you own? Or, your most used?
 Reply: Chris Tannhauser:: Off Topic:: Re: The Bride's Prosthetic
Posted: Mon, 07 Sep 03:38:21

by HiveGod

For those keeping score, this wasn't conceived or written to any specific music, but more tapped out like morse code from the keening of the zeitgeist.
 Reply: Chris Tannhauser:: Off Topic:: Re: The Bride's Prosthetic
Posted: Mon, 07 Sep 03:33:30

by HiveGod

Connecting the dots:

hivegod wrote:

I tend to look at my calendar the way a medieval peasant might: there's stuff that happens every season, there's stuff that happens "in a while", and then there's the blazing now. As you might expect, this gives rise to situations—like when spacetime folded over and I realized that someone horrible had given me two deadlines inside the same week! (Reader, you know that horrible someone was me.)

Now-me figured that future-me could handle this—no problem—so he fucked current-me by reading comics and watching movies and sleeping instead of writing his ass off. As the deadlines loomed I fantasized about getting sick or breaking an arm or just not doing it. In the same way the living envy the dead in apocalyptic scenarios, I envied those hollow saps who lean on AI.

Instead, I made my oblations at alien altars and summoned my muse (the sexy librarian one with the sneer) and had her strap me in. I banged out The Bride's Prosthetic and presented it at a literary salon on Saturday to much acclaim.

Halfway there. Now all I had to do was finish up a choose-your-own-adventure joint for a podcast on Tuesday, where I'd been invited back because the last time I was on was their most downloaded episode, so no pressure. I mean, it's just a bunch of short paragraphs scattered like one of Burroughs' cut-ups, right? But you have to produce the text, then map it all out and make sure it works, which is a recursive process where the map pushes the paragraphs and the paragraphs push the map and and and... Yeah, it's a nightmare hallway.

Again, fantasies of lost limbs and house fires so I wouldn't be a liar when I let them know I couldn't possibly make it.

But I did. We recorded last night. It was a hit.

It turns out past-me was right, goddammit.

Flexes creative muscles, whole world warps around me.