D. Moonfire @dmoonfire@octodon.social

As we come up to the end of the month, it is a good time to mention that I have posted a weekly chapter for about four years now. While free to read, my writing is supported by #Patreon (https://patreon.com/dmoonfire) and Typewriter Press (https://typewriter.press/d-moonfire/) among others.

I don't really do much with tiers at all, $1/month gets you access to all my works in progress, polls for the next projects, and my appreciation. I also try to listen to suggestions or requests to the best of my ability.

Well, Hobbs and Shaw was pretty awesome. I agree with someone said, it was a superhero movie without being a superhero movie.

One "nearly a mortgage payment" later trip to Costco and I think we're set for food for a few months, boys are at their grandparents, my FIL who had his toe amputated was very pleasant a half hour after his morphine, and I'm sitting down and watching Hobbs & Shaw without ever seeing any of the Fast and Furious franchise.

I need to seriously level up my docker skills. It took me a month of random fiddling that a docker compose file used 'postgresql' when it should have used 'postgresql:11' because the file format changed.

Today is a bit scattered. We woke up early to take spouse to their third run of the year. They started for the 8k but was having such a problem, they switched to the 5k at the turn off.

Then, as I was trying to get everyone to the finish line so see them come in, the boys insisted on going to the bathroom. Serially. After they got completely through the crowds.

It was fun.

But we're going to Costco, dropping off the boys for the night, and having a nice of movies and chill.

I Will Hurt You Only Once
https://fedran.com/i-will-hurt-you-only-once/story/

Well, that was not a cheerful story.

Every visit, he points out that I don't have a clear protagonist (intentionally), there is no world saving plot (intentionally), and people get hung up on stupid things like racism (he's racist and hates having that pointed out) or language (he's a proponent to elves speak Elvish, humans speak Common, and every dwarf in the world likes beer).

That isn't for me. :( I don't like reading those stories as much anymore. I do, I'm just writing what I want to read.

My dad rants about my novels as being too complex to get into. The whole conlang, world-building, everything is too deep and he feels that is why I've failed as a writer.

The idea that I'm aiming for a reader who has read fantasy for decades and wants something more in depth doesn't make sense to him. I may not succeed, but I say I'm writing for older readers for a reason which is why I structure my plots and characters the way I do.

Damn it, hit a sore point on a social network because someone was ranting about how Wattpad has so much terrible stuff on it. :(

I hate when people decide they know the One True Way™ or believe that a meritocracy is anything but a justification for their own preferences.

The writing group gave me some really good feedback on "Losing it Brick By Brick" and "A Missed Chance for Royalty". There were three new people, so I also got to talk about how magic worked in Fedran along with how I'm framing my writing for the next eleven years or so.

You can attribute that to this magnificent couple and the anime, Combustible Campus Guardress.

Tonight, I was giving a summary of my world and one point I made was that no teenager is going to save the world, that's the job for the older, experienced folks.

Probably one of the few places I break the anime tropes.

Sadly, this is what I feel about chat software. https://xkcd.com/927/

It gets worse when I wonder how to have chat about my own stuff (fedran, software).

Ug, I just hit the Typescript-all-the-way verses C#/Typescript argument *again* for the long-term project I'm working on.

One thing I dislike about myself is that I rarely get excited about finishing major milestones of a project.

Finish a novel after four years of writing it? Meh.

Publish my first book and hold it my hand? Meh... wait... no, meh.

Hold my firstborn child for the first time? Meh.

It's kind of frustrating. I get joy over time but I rarely get any spike of happiness for anything.