Vinnie Tesla ❎ @VinnieTesla@octodon.social
I wrote "The Erotofluidic Age," "The Eidolon Initiative" and various other works of whimsical filth. I overthink things.
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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@mrgah I 💜 Transit. Elegant and full-featured, though not without it's quirks.
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.
@mcmoots @joXn
* You've probably read Patrick Califia's old stuff already. If not, you may want to seek it out at some point.
*Cecilia Tan's gay high fantasy serial The Prince''s Boy is currently being serialized on the Circlet site, and may be Relevant To Your Interests.
http://www.circlet.com/tag/tpb-serial/
* And if you give me an email address, I'll send you a copy of my own Ontological Engine, which is, um. It does play with some 'overwhelmed by desire' themes in ways that aren't gender normative.
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.
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@mcmoots
(looks like I should also go through and add that tag to everything currently tagged microfiction too when I get a chance)
http://www.circlet.com/tag/microfiction/
@mcmoots There is an official tag, though we don't always remember to use it. Length and themes will vary considerably, of course.
http://www.circlet.com/tag/free-smut/
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Free is totally good too. As it so happens, I'm currently working on uploading free excerpts to post on the Circlet main page every weekday for the next three weeks. So there is that.
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@joXn @mcmoots
Oops! Clumsily replied up-thread rather than here. Also happy to do more bespoke recommendations accounting for kinks, tone, etc.
It appears to be my new party trick--at the Circlet NYE party last night I came up with a suggested first Circlet book for several people who'd dated members of the publisher's household and felt like they ought to pick one up sometime.
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@MicroSFF This is basically the plot of the movie Night Watch.
@brook @odinsdream Wassail was the usual bribe to go away--hot spiced beer. Really!
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.
@joXn tbh I got mad respect for that. My first Christmas tree with Spike as a partner, we used plastic lizards and paper cranes to fill out the decorations quota. Best tree ever.
@joXn throwing away ornaments takes a lot of self discipline.
