Travis Hime

When I first picked up The Lies of Locke Lamora, I thought “a thief named Locke… well, it *could* be a coincidence.” And then he stole the clothes off a merchant.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

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I'm bookmarking this for the next time someone asks me exactly what does 'a structural edit' mean. This may be a screenplay not a novel, but it's an excellent example of the principles and process regardless.

The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat

so excited!! this was a clarion story and wouldn't be possible without my classmates and instructors, looking forward to seeing her out in the world

A tall enemy that resembles a bee, with the protagonist standing beneath them, in Hollow Knight: Silksong

A condition took away the use of my hands. Silksong helped me rehab them
aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...

Cover for Angel Maker by Elizabeth Bear

I made this book and you can read it now!

It's cool!

It's a raucous lesbian wild west adventure comedy with mechanical men and murder mysteries!

books2read.com/b/angelmaker

new story day! a friend called it 'evangelion bitch murder popstar lesbians' and i really can't do any better than that, hope you check it out!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/

I do think it’s very funny that “[LLMs] also love groups of three, overtly parallel structure, and impersonal writing” describes the sentence itself that has been written.

Me in 2017: Come on Hyrule, just kill Ganon so hard he doesn’t keep coming back. Skill issue
Me in 2025: Once again the slave power has risen to lay waste to the country, we must consult the great sages Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln in the hopes of sealing the evil

5yo: Why is the dragon in The Hobbit a bad guy?
Me: He killed a lot of people to steal their gold.
5yo; That’s really bad.
Me: Yeah.
5yo: I wish everybody in this world and in The Hobbit was nice.
Me: So do all who live to see such times…

If you subscribed to any of the blocklists currently maintained by sky sentry, there’s a very good chance that you’re inadvertently blocking people you know and like, because the person now running those lists is using them to pursue silly personal beefs. Check into it.

Starship Troopers meme with a soldier saying “I’m doing my part!”

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Book: Lonesome Dove
Movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Same answer for me in the book category. So good.

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I seem to be writing a free members and up Patreon post about writing about what I see in "Beginner" and "Intermediate" writing

It's about narrative control, and I'm going to try and talk about the time streams of fiction I attempted to teach at Viable Paradise 2024 (It's hard for me to explain)

Texas, man. I did not know about this one, will relay it to the sane people I know there.

TYPES OF CIVIL WAR OFFICER 1. Autism's strongest soldier. Has a personality disorder but lives in an era where psychiatric medicine consists largely of laudanum and different temperatures of bath. Famously effective, enduringly divisive. Postwar career: promoted far beyond the level of their incompetence or skeletized remains in a ditch somewhere (Grant, Jackson, Longstreet) 2. Messy bitch who loves drama. Actively worse leadership than pointing anyone who shows up with a gun in a direction and telling them to go nuts. All things being equal, every commissioned officer rank will be occupied by these guys in peacetime and arguably a large part of the gradual snowballing success of the Union consisted of more vigorous sectional politics weeding them out faster. Postwar career: photographed in uniform and maybe a very tedious statue and biography or two (McClellan, Lee, Rosecrans) 2a. Messy bitch who loves drama prestige class unlocked after Antietam: messy bitch who loves drama and also loves posing for photographs and has become good at it. Would be very good at dying gallantly in a meaningless charge into a fortified German trench, but is tragically too early for it. Postwar career: universal admiration followed by complete historical oblivion a generation after their death (Burnside, Bragg, Hood) 2b. Messy bitch who loves drama prestige class unlocked after Chancellorsville: submissive and breedable partyboy inexplicably wearing stars. Each army gets exactly one; reporters love them, nobody exactly hates them, but when the red mist dies down historians unanimously agree they were a liability. Postwar career: who cares (Custer, Beauregard)

3. Ideologue. The higher the ideologue gets in the chain of command, the less interesting they are as officers qua officers. The ideology is usually just racism, but there were also a few extremely weird German communists exiled to the Midwest who imprinted on the Union like a lost baby bird. Every Confederate officer you've never heard of but have seen statues of is this guy; they treat war as posting by other means. Postwar career: forum avatar (Early, Sherman) 4. Fighting Joe. For whatever reason, the officer's contemporaries have decided a fine thing to call him going forward is "Fighting Joe", and now here we are. You are watching Fighting Joe, the worst general officer in the American civil war. Postwar career: being Fighting Joe (Hooker, Wheeler) 5. Steppe warlord junior varsity. A late development, largely on the Confederate side; these officers, like a dog fed on human flesh, have decided they're done with civilization and, after a failed attempt to inaugurate iron-fisted strongman rule over a random scrap of the deep South, keep wandering off into places they consider uncivilized and being just about as useless there as they were in Arkansas or wherever. Postwar career: incarceration in a Turkish prison (Kirby Smith, Sibley, Norris) 6. Dark triad sicko. Perfectly functional within an organization if properly contained, but if left to their own devices will absolutely start rounding up civilians and doing Saw shit, and you just gotta account for that when having a civil war. Postwar career: bedwetting and starting fires (Forrest, Butler)

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only ass.

Hi friends, I have a poem out in Haven Spec! Did you know there is a poetry form called a sapphic? (I got very excited about writing sapphic sapphics when I learned this.) This poem is a sapphic about witchy crows (also pretty sapphic subject matter tbh).

www.havenspec.com/dawn-witchin...

*rolls a giant wooden Cybertruck with a bow on it up to the gates of the White House and rings the doorbell

It’s a DOUBLE STORY day from me! I’ll have so, so much more to say about my beloved “Handsomest Gentlest” tomorrow (when I am less sick and less exhausted 😭) but you can read it now! Possibly my favorite thing I’ve ever written. I hope you love it too.

My weird little Ovid retelling—my most rejected story—is out today! This is a story about the queer, haunted margins of the canon. Or, in other words… a story about never being able to please your horrible dad until the day he eats himself alive and you learn how to turn into a bird.

guys we can't win this without the Christians. I checked the math like six times. please be nice

Homer, struggling to remain calm after promising Lisa he wouldn’t get mad, says “Yes, that’s a real pickle. Would you excuse me for a moment?”

Empty shelves in the egg section at Whole Foods Columbus Circle

Trump take egg