art of others

[solarbird]

It’s Friday! I have people coming over to record stuff. Enjoy three pieces of art by other people; one written, two video.

This first item isn’t what you’re going to think it is. I’m going to tell you what it is, and you’re going to go, ‘what? unlikely’ and not even read it, even though you should.

It’s part crackfic, it’s part hard-SF singularity

Comments

[skellington1]

My plan: Also seeing Wreck-it Ralph! And emailing various trad musicians to ask for permissions to use their tunes on short album.

[solarbird]

Cool.

Something else I'm doing today is working on a performance of my rearrangement of a particular classic trad tune from a jig into a tattoo, so other people can hear it. No, wait, my story gets better - but not yet. :D

[skellington1]

Awesome!

[jedishampoo]

Those are AWESOME. :shares:

[solarbird]

I'm mostly wondering who, if anyone, is reading the story. I'm not even joking about it. At all.

[l33tminion]

I read it and I concur.

[solarbird]

After reading it? I had a pony dream. I HAD A PONY DREAM. Woke up with it, in fact. That's when I knew I had to post about it.

[solarbird]

Part of it is that most singularity fiction is pretty terrible. You get power-fantasy wish fulfilment and you get OH NOES EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE FOREVER. This one straddles some fairly interesting lines.

HI RELATIVES! HI IKEA!

[solarbird]

Spike is so much more hardcore than Billy Idol ever dreamed of being. XD

[solarbird]

It's a pretty fast read for its size, and I think worth it, but yeah, it's a... novella, I guess? Somewhere in there. Not a short story.

This may be the most delayed non-spam replay I've received to a post, btw. For a moment, I thought your account's password had been broken. :D