Vinnie Tesla ❎ @VinnieTesla@octodon.social
I wrote "The Erotofluidic Age," "The Eidolon Initiative" and various other works of whimsical filth. I overthink things.
#Introduction: I'm a #writer. Most of what I write is #humorous, #pornographic (or #erotic if you prefer) #sciencefiction and #fantasy. My #steampunk book "The Erotofluidic Age" is published by #circletpress. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25825336-the-erotofluidic-age?
My #cyberpunk #comicbook "The Eidolon Initiative" is just finishing up serialization at http://eroticmadscience.com/ this month; there'll be a book from Circlet sometime next year.
I also like bicycling, rye whiskey, my spouse, and my dog.
This weekend is our annual Writers and Editor's retreat, nicknamed #porncamp.
Early arrivals include Laura Antoniou, H. B. Kurtswilde, @VinnieTesla and Julie Cox. Currently Laura is holding forth on the dilemmas of Jewish vampires.
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Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
TIL about the Cagots, a group of people in France and Spain who experienced systemic hatred and discrimination because... they were Cagots.
They weren't any different from the other people living near them - same skin and hair color, same language, same religion, etc. - but if you were born to a Cagot family, you were a Cagot, and the rest of the people hated and shunned you. And nobody nowadays knows why; the origins of the discrimination have been lost to time.
So my youngest daughter gave me a miniature rose for Christmas. She bought it early. It lived under her bed through several hot days. By Christmas morning it was all but a pot of dead twigs.
It's been my holiday project, to revive it with hard pruning, compost and worm juice.
And here it is, a week later, ablaze with life.
Grace and growth to all of us in 2018. Let's not underestimate the will to survive.
https://mastodon.social/media/OBKJ4GTUoq0oeC3P6Nw
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This is the calendar the Roman Senate ended up with:
Januarius 29
Februarius 23
Mercedonius 23
THE REST OF FEBRUARIUS NO I AM NOT KIDDING 5
Martius 31
Aprilis 29
Maius 31
Junius 29
Quintilis 31
Sextilis 29
September 29
October 31
November 29
December 29
See what I meant about Mercedonius being an intercalary month? It's literally in the middle of February. Like, they got 3/4 of the way through February, got bored, and decided to do something else for a month and come back later.
YOU try coming up with a secret handshake that works for everyone when your cult members have hands, tentacles, ghost fingers out of phase with this dimension, hooks, power gloves, drippy stalactites of wrist-mounted fluid AND there's one germophobe who refuses to shake at all.
Your immune system is fine, Gary!
"TIL an Icelandic tradition called Jólabókaflóð exists, where books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents and the rest of the night is spent reading them and eating chocolate"
WHAT
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If you have a mastodon.social account but have moved over to a different server, you can login to your old account and, under edit profile, setup a profile redirect note.
Wait...there are no allium emoji? How is that okay?
@alexisflower you may also want to look at @comicspace.masto.host, which is an instance focused on comics artists.
Writing comics is really visual composition. Pay attention to the size and number of panels per page. Pleasing comics have a distinct rhythm. Just for fun, read through your favorites and count - 4, 3, 4, 5, splash! #makecomics
roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you
and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops
it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you
I've discovered a new office game: ask your co-workers "how many holes are in a straw?" and letting them fight it out.
Infrastructure porn: the Counterweight of Damocles
Consider the badger of the honey.
He careth not,
Neither a shit doth he give.
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Oh btw I've decided that "pachyderms" should be the Mastodon equivalent of "tweeps." Make a note.
I love how angry my fellow Mastodon noobs tend to bee about the "toot" terminology.
Microblogging and dignitude were never meant to cohabitate. my pachyderms.
