D. Moonfire @dmoonfire@octodon.social

Raging Alone 5: Waking Up
https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/03/21-raging-alone-05/

A scream wakes up Desòchu while he is watching his brother. The first thought was his mother who had gone out on a walk. Terrified, he rushed to find out.

Wow... I never commented on a gaming thread before on Twitter. That's a lot of angry replies and "you are stupids".

Not sure about this lunch hour's chapter, but it's drafted. I'll let it sit for a day or two before going on. This is a rough point of the story because my 14 year old MC doesn't realize what he's doing wrong but the parent in me in cringing.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/20/ayn-rand-is-a-dick-excer.html

... not familiar with Ayn Rand, she wrote crappy books about the power of individual achievement while she collected social security and started some pseudo-philosophy called “objectivism”, which can be summed up in five words: I got mine, fuck you.

This book speaks to me.

Bah, I lost the "why did we hire that new mysterious developer who is not a developer". I got the "he's going to be my boss" but I missed the "my old boss is quitting".

Mostly, I know something is going on and I really hate being lied to for two months when I know they are lying, I just don't know the exact reason.

For the last three hires, we've had this pool because we have a mushroom boss^3 (deep them in the dark and feed them on shit).

Raging Alone 5: Waking Up #Action #YoungAdult #Patreon #OneDollarPatreon
https://fedran.com/raging-alone/chapter-05/

A scream wakes up Desòchu while he is watching his brother. The first thought was his mother who had gone out on a walk. Terrified, he rushed to find out.

I feel bad. I have a good number of queer characters in my world. For various reasons, very few of them don't tell the POV characters about it... which means they don't exist yet. :(

Remarkable, this seems to be one of the common themes. Well, sooner or later, one will show.

There are a lot of frustrating points about how the first 5 books are coming out. Mainly because I wrote the Sand* series while waiting for Flight to get rejected by a publisher. And 2nd is still on the queue.

Well, managed to get a nice little 3k chapter written up over my lunch break. Buffer #1 is getting longer but I still need a good 2-6 chapters written by end of the weekend if I want a breather for Buffer #2 (Raging Alone).

I want to write Kaneko's father, Ronamar's story, he's a bigot and would be the POV of that novel. Plus he's strongly anti-furry... and I'm a furry. But, it is part of why I write. Not me, which means I do worry if people assume my beliefs from what I write.

But, I'm probably not going to be able to change that since my reasons for writing may be poor but they are my reasons.

I just found it interesting someone thought I was my political opposite by reading me.

It isn't always obvious who the writer is rooting for. Yeah, with my single POV, you can guess but that isn't right. Take *Raging Alone*. I'm a pacifist and for the most part rather chilled, Desòchu is angry and violent, almost kills his brother, is verbally and physically abusive. Yeah, that's part of the novel and he gets a course correction, but it is still there in the other three novels.

I'm not him, probably never will be.

I had an interesting conversation with a fan today.

Them: "I notice from your Twitter that you are pretty liberal and for equality."

Me: "Yeah, you help those who are suffering not those who have things."

"Strange. From your writing, I would have assumed you were right-wing and conservative."

We ended up talking about my writing and how it reflects my anti-capitalism tendencies. In the end, we both realized that the character I identify with was not the one they thought I did.

Me: "... Frank Oz helped create Yoda which is why he can say he knows the character."

8yo: "Does that mean he's really old?"

Me: "That's what you got out of that?"

Raging Alone 4: Baby Brother
https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/03/14-raging-alone-04/

Desòchu finally get a chance to sit down and meet his new baby brother, Rutejìmo.

Yay, I *finally* got a chapter written! That gives me one extra week buffer.

Almost three weeks with obligations preventing me from writing. My anxiety and temper are both getting worse from my usual chill m