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FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · Jan 12

Why I'm Leaving Meta (and you should too)

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FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 3h

Long night.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 4h

Hegseth accomplished what I would have thought was impossible. Fox News is allied with the liberal media!

Well done, Pete!

www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

News outlets reject Pentagon press restrictions

Several news organizations, including The New York Times, NPR and Newsmax, are refusing to sign a new set of restrictions on news gathering inside the Pentagon.

www.wbur.org

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FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 5h

Me, when asked what I look for while editing. Now you know all my secrets!

Grammar and syntax are the easy ones, but you already knew that.
Do I understand what the characters are doing?
Do I have a reasonable sense of why the characters are doing what they're doing, provided I'm supposed to?
Is my sense of realism being stressed, and if so, how badly?
Is the author sending messages that they may not be aware that they're sending (i.e. did they just make it seem as though there's nothing wrong with not getting informed consent)?
Are there temporal anomalies?
Are there geographical anomalies?
Does the world they're in make sense in terms of the information they're giving me?
Have any of the characters disappeared or are getting short-changed?
Is there unfortunate word repetition? (I'm particularly sensitive to the word "said", which I find hopelessly bland).
Do I feel about the characters and events the way I feel the author intends for me to feel about the characters and events?
Are there anachronisms that may be unintentional, including in the ways characters talk?
Are the characters and/or the world monolithic?
Is the author perhaps unintentionally invoking tropes?

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 10h

When I was visiting my parents over the summer I tried to find their Peter Max book, but no joy...my dad was also a bit distressed that he couldn't find it, and concluded that they probably sold it at some point. :|

New copies are out there but not cheap. :|

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 11h

My personal favorite...

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FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 11h

Korra: More cool Henry Rollins trivia - apparently he interviewed TPTB for 30 minutes prior to his -audition- for the role of Zaheer. Meaning he was trying to learn everything he could about the character before he even knew he had the part. I'm genuinely impressed.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 11h

Rather bad form to ask me to unlock my private pics for you when you don't have any public pics of yourself and there's no clear indication that you have any private pics either.

Manners please.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 14h

Man, I am all over the place this morning...

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, there's still a few kinks to work out...and man, I do love working out a nice kink...

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 14h

QotD: I love the idea of offering dicks to blow for recovering cigarette fiends almost as much as I love the idea of curbing suicide rates by dispatching hot firemen.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 14h

QotD: Has there ever been a furry panel that didn't include someone who didn't know how to word a question in less than a paragraph?

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 15h

Not my worst idea, but probably in my top ten: A real-time popufurity tracker.

See who the Top Ten Popufurs are at any time, in real-time! Check your own popufurity in real-time and see how the way you accidentally stepped on that fursuiter's paw a minute ago has just destroyed your clout!

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 15h

I had another one of those mocha latte caffeinated protein shakes this morning, and now I'm feeling jittery again even though apparently my pulse is normal.

I don't think I'm a fan.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 16h

Whoops, bit of a jump for the Great Music Relisten Project Catch-Up!

Tracks 401 through...uh...622...were a total of 73 files, or 3.25 hours of music.

Now I've jumped to tracks 3XXX for S3 of Picard.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

"Dead Man's Walk" - A very evocative name, and a harrowing tale, but aside from Gus and Woodrow being in it, it doesn't quite feel connected to the rest of the story. Gus and Woodrow aren't really fleshed out well in this miniseries either. The production values and location shooting are splended.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

A weird day.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

I won't call this a Pro-tip, but perhaps a Suggestion for Writers: If building a real-feeling world is important to you, then unless there's other considerations, build the characters' social lives too, not just the protagonist's.

Who are their friends, their parents, their coworkers, their exes?

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

Ech.

I think there's perhaps a fine but significant line between a narrator who lacks a bit of self-awareness but whom you can generally trust, and a narrator who goes into full-on "you're telling me things I don't believe".

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FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

I have a second cousin? Cousin once removed?...who looks like Jake Gyllenhaal and who's also gay, and I have to admit I've sometimes had passing thoughts.

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe, but if you've had your narrator be reliable for over half the book, then suddenly making them unreliable is maybe not a great idea.

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FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably you aren't married to your cousin or their spouse. :p

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

QotD: Sometimes I wonder whether outside observers have a better sense of how healthy a relationship is than the involved parties.

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FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

Especially when it's one of the characters in the relationship who may have self-awareness issues being the one telling the reader how good their relationship is.

Sometimes I wonder whether outside observers have a better sense of how healthy a relationship is than the involved parties.

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FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I don't know whether I could get into it personally, but I think I can understand the notion of breakup sex...though I could see it going horribly wrong too if the partners aren't all on the same page.

Though I don't know whether I'd call a breakup a 'happy ending'. For the best?

FurPocalypse is Nigh - He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.social · 1d

The narrator's definitely exhibited some self-awareness problems in the past, but not to the point where I got the sense that they were lying to themselves when they talked about how awesome their relationship was.

Basically I think this relationship needs a bit more showing versus telling.

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