Been a while. Good to see us still clinging grimly to what used to be the best place on the internet. I got love for LJ; so many great conversations, so many friends I made without meeting. Good times ( Read more... )

The air tasted of pain and peace and time resignedly spent. Carvings and weavings, pictures of mountains and tides, local artwork from foreign places; all festooned one wall, medals and old guns another. Photographs wan and weighty with time stood atop a simple shelf. The retort to a lifelong necessity of leaving no spoor, Obiagu concluded. He ( Read more... )

Avatar: The Last Airbender is over. Sure, there'll be webisodes, comics, maybe even a movie, but the primary season, the main event is done ( Read more... )

We - I - live in a world commensal to the everyday. There are entire stealth nations out there and in here, whose citizens fly no flags, sing no anthems and profess no creed but perfection. We find each other by gait and aura and markers subtler still. Should we desire to meet, we do not pick a place or arrange a dead-drop. Travel paths intersect, ( Read more... )

With one long stride, we devour the leagues, all before us fleeting blue, all behind vermillion, worlds enough and stars reddened to dust.

We swell against the dark, crushing time athwart us, a fist thrown in eternity’s face, a blow weightening with every moment, never to fall.

The firmament denied us, we fall, sundering the earth’s very breath ( Read more... )

Imagine a world much like our own where the Einsteins and Feynmans and Turings and Von Neumanns all manifested in the fields of neuroanatomy, behavioural psychology, linguistics and logic. Imagine a world where Zeno’s Paradox has made tremendous headway in its unending battle with Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem. Intuition has been mapped, the ( Read more... )

That Spook Country/End of the World Blues genre - Present Terse? Hypernow? Realismic? Radical Speculative Presentism? ProtoMundane? Contemporary Cyberpunk? Here-and-Now Cyberpunk? - yeah, that genre. The following would come in handy if someone were interested in writing that sort of thing.

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Mirror's Edge: Makes ( Read more... )

If one is going to be serious about becoming a Real Writer, it is necessary to actually do the work. As such, I am now and have been for months now, a founding member of Hundred and Four, conceived, administered and edited by Hannibal Tabu. This shit is serious and I intend to treat it as such; my first assignment and those of my colleagues are up ( Read more... )

What's a nice one-word title for a superpowered/chi-adept martial artist? The answer is obvious and I can't believe I never thought of this before: A Boxer.

The capital letter stays on at all times.

... and given that I'm currently reading it again, I just want to say "Thank you, Cormac McCarthy" for showing me exactly what a battle-aura would look like in real life. You have no idea how helpful this was to me ( Read more... )