Brief update

[sabotabby]

I am, as usual, running out the door, but I'll just drop off a few things here.

So I pimped up Mac the Knife:



I am glad that Etsy exists so that my demographic can be pandered to. My demographic being 30-something Mac users who are into Woodie Guthrie.

When I was dumping that photo off my camera, I also found the one photo I took during the G20 Redux rally:



And I know you guys all like space whales (warning: TVTropes link) as much as I do (except ed_rex, who hates space whales and also America and freedom), so you will be pleased to know that there is a Tumblr called Fuck Yeah Space Whales. Space whales are the greatest thing in skiffy. Seriously, any decently written space whale story, regardless of whatever flaws exist in it, will almost always bring me to tears. My love for space whales is not even remotely ironic.

Which reminds me that I'm long overdue for my post about narrative kinks. The last massive narrative kink list I posted was like seven years ago before I'd heard of steampunk. I have some new ones now.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

FUCK YEAH SPACE WHALES.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

Fuck yeah I like space whales! (So - what is the first space whale?)

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

and I typed that before I saw the name of the link! Obviously, this is the proper phrase.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

I want to know all about your narrative kinks :3

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

I also want to know about your kinks, ALL your kinks.
How does your machine kill fascists? Is it just used as a blunt instrument or are there lasers involved?
Also you are a strange and wonderful person, just thought I should let you know.

[sabotabby]

Reference the first.

Reference the second.

The method is seldom specified.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Seriously, any decently written space whale story, regardless of whatever flaws exist in it, will almost always bring me to tears.

Does this include the Mormon space whale rape story?

[sabotabby]

Dare I ask?

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

http://www.ericjamesstone.com/blog/stories/that-leviathan-whom-thou-hast-made/

It won the Nebula award. Also, the author is annoyed at me for making fun of the story, and for basically guessing that his many friends voted for it because he's a nice guy rather than because the story is actually good.

[sabotabby]

Hey, I specified decently-written.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

ooooh, narrative kinks. :3

[cannibal-x.livejournal.com]

Haha, as much as I'm a fan of you, you have to admit that Guthrie must be rolling over in his grave just a little ;)

[sabotabby]

Just a bit. But hey, I'm a Wobbly at least.

At hominem! Ad hominem!

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

I do not now, nor have I ever hate space whales in general, as a group or otherwise in any way which might suggest my dislike of a particular, and particularly implausible space whale, is in any way a matter of bigotry. Indeed, my dislike of that particular space whale is entirely logical and based firmly on a trifecta of my own, precious bodily fluids, local strawberries and extra-strength beer, combined in a glass beaker in the light of a 14th day moon.

Ahem.

Re: At hominem! Ad hominem!

[sabotabby]

You probably kick puppies too, don't you?

Re: At hominem! Ad hominem!

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Yes, but only when their hatred of America is insufficiently sincere.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Over my desktop computer, I was planning on stenciling:

"THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS, PROVIDES PORN"

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

In a stencil font, of course.

[sabotabby]

Doooo eeet!