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#oh look an original post
{{ourladyoflampreys asked:}}
Ooh! Brin!
Is your fiction anywhere we can read it?
Or is it only secret, and private?
The current one is semi-private, but most of my fiction is publicly available at the Glowfic Constellation (a roleplay/collaborative-writing site: some rat-Tumblrites may recognise it as “that format planecrash / Project Lawful was written in”).
Glowfic is an infamously high-context medium and needs a certain amount of tolerance for reading things without having read their prerequisites, but you can get a head start on understanding the background context relevant to my stuff by reading How to Read Glowfic and the glowfic wiki page on medianworlds (people who understood the phrase “the format planecrash was written in” may recognise this as the relationship Keltham’s homeworld has to Eliezer Yudkowsky).
ourladyoflampreys / @sacrificedtoatree replied: “Ah, I have heard of glowfic, actually. I read through some of Alicorn’s posts and fics on her site at some point and found a brief explanation of it, although I confess I didn’t understand it very much. But you know, I have a long bus ride tomorrow and I hear them Greyhounds have decent wi-fi these days, so I may take a dive into this!”
Thanks for the shoutout!
The Greyhounds, it turned out, did *not* have decent wi-fi.
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#conversational aglets #glowfic #writing
Assuming you had access to perfect medical care at no additional cost, which of these would you want most?
Tell your stories in the tags, if you want to share!
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#hey guess who has a sore throat like she does on approximately one-quarter of days #(on average over the course of 2023) #(and more often over time!) #this can be caused by such mistakes as #”going two whole months without checking the windows for slippage” #and ”taking your N95 off a mere 10 minutes after somebody opened the front door” #so yeah‚ if you could get my throat to stop being irritated at the drop of a (pollen- or dust-laced) hat‚ I would be eternally grateful #if the fix would also keep my sinuses from getting involved at somewhat larger doses‚ all the better #but I can usually avoid letting it get to that point #(…as long as I never have picnics) #surveys #medical cw #allergies #(for lack of a better term) #(it didn’t show up on a standard pollen-allergy-test battery) #((but if it were nocebo it wouldn’t keep happening from leaks that I didn’t notice were there until after the fact)) #venting cw #tag rambles
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#this can’t be real right, #this has to be a parody, #I could buy *most* of this as a particularly amusing juxtaposition of standard-issue slightly-shady-strip-mall stores, #and I’ll buy that the gun joke is a cultural thing, #but there’s no way “The Glass Eye Adult Greeting Cards” is a real place, #…oh my god it’s fucking real, #I found this exact sign on Google Street View, #1233 Lane Ave S in Jacksonville FL, #they have a webpage at the-glass-eye.business.site, #where they sell a variety of psychoactive drugs‚ sex toys / porn‚ healing crystals‚ and their “custom clothing line”, #(they don’t specify whether the custom clothing line is more like the healing crystals or more like the sex toys), #(they link to their Etsy page‚ but it’s empty), #((ah‚ they’ve uploaded a bunch of images to Google Maps and it does appear to be more like the healing crystals)), #((though if they *also* have a custom clothing line that is more like the sex toys I’m not sure they’d be allowed to upload that)), #it remains unclear why the sign specifies “greeting cards”, #is this a standard euphemism for porn in Floridian
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@itsbenedict replied: “no yeah i can absolutely see why you’d think that was fake at first glance, but Florida is actually Like That”
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#replies #conversational aglets #home of the brave
{{ourladyoflampreys asked:}}
Ooh! Brin!
Is your fiction anywhere we can read it?
Or is it only secret, and private?
The current one is semi-private, but most of my fiction is publicly available at the Glowfic Constellation (a roleplay/collaborative-writing site: some rat-Tumblrites may recognise it as “that format planecrash / Project Lawful was written in”).
Glowfic is an infamously high-context medium and needs a certain amount of tolerance for reading things without having read their prerequisites, but you can get a head start on understanding the background context relevant to my stuff by reading How to Read Glowfic and the glowfic wiki page on medianworlds (people who understood the phrase “the format planecrash was written in” may recognise this as the relationship Keltham’s homeworld has to Eliezer Yudkowsky).
ourladyoflampreys / @sacrificedtoatree replied: “Ah, I have heard of glowfic, actually. I read through some of Alicorn’s posts and fics on her site at some point and found a brief explanation of it, although I confess I didn’t understand it very much. But you know, I have a long bus ride tomorrow and I hear them Greyhounds have decent wi-fi these days, so I may take a dive into this!”
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#(January 2024) #(he’s changed his username in the three weeks since this reply‚ hence the slash) #(in related news‚ I looked at the list of glowfic accounts and saw that user ”sacrificedtoatree” joined February 1st) #(welcome to the Constellation) #((I am aware that in-between the previous reply and this one‚ Blazer sent me a music meme)) #((but that will take more energy to do and I think it will have to wait for the next cycle)) #((I appreciate its existence and I still plan on doing it at some point)) #replies #conversational aglets #glowfic #writing
depizan replied: “Happy birthday!”
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#(November 2023) #replies #conversational aglets #birthdays #<3
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maryellencarter replied: “happy birthday!”
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#this was three months ago #but I’ve been preparing (agonisingly slowly) for quarterly backups #and saw that there are several Tumblr replies I haven’t agletted yet #there’s another such reply on one of the other birthday-related posts coming up shortly #replies #conversational aglets #birthdays #<3
You may choose one weirdly specific and mildly useful superpower
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#time to create an elaborate system of coded messages out of catchy pop songs #me‚ choking to death and telepathically screaming for help: S-O-S‚ please‚ someone help me [bass line from ”Tainted Love” plays] #surveys #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #death mention
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#this can’t be real right #this has to be a parody #I could buy *most* of this as a particularly amusing juxtaposition of standard-issue slightly-shady-strip-mall stores #and I’ll buy that the gun joke is a cultural thing #but there’s no way ”The Glass Eye Adult Greeting Cards” is a real place #…oh my god it’s fucking real #I found this exact sign on Google Street View #1233 Lane Ave S in Jacksonville FL #they have a webpage at the-glass-eye.business.site #where they sell a variety of psychoactive drugs‚ sex toys / porn‚ healing crystals‚ and their ”custom clothing line” #(they don’t specify whether the custom clothing line is more like the healing crystals or more like the sex toys) #(they link to their Etsy page‚ but it’s empty) #((ah‚ they’ve uploaded a bunch of images to Google Maps and it does appear to be more like the healing crystals)) #((though if they *also* have a custom clothing line that is more like the sex toys I’m not sure they’d be allowed to upload that)) #it remains unclear why the sign specifies ”greeting cards” #is this a standard euphemism for porn in Floridian #tag rambles #home of the brave #juxtaposition #guns