Writer's Block Daily

While we are speaking of page edits, I have edited my page to get into the Halloween spirit.

It is truly the best thing I have ever written. Ever.

Why hasn't anyone blown up your page and you only escaped due to needing some piercing or another?!

Because when you're in Weird Ghost Shit Land, you don't explode things, you get right the fuck out of there.

edited 4th Oct '12 4:39:59 PM by Collen

Random observation: while browsing Not Always Right, when the gender of the customer isn't specified, I unconsciously think of the more ditzy customers as females and the jackass customers as males. I wonder if that's sexist at all.

Well, it's certainly influenced by stereotypes.

Chihuahua: Um, who is that guy?

Random image of a guy without a space suit in space, on the moon, but constantly regenerating.

Grrr. Wish I could draw as well as I pictured it in my head.

Sean Platt, with David Wright. They've collaborated together to create a pair of short story collections and a few serials—the latter which got them picked up by Amazon for its own Serial program.

However, I discovered Sean via his blogging efforts.

edited 4th Oct '12 8:12:49 PM by chihuahua0

@AHR: what sort of wounds does a person get from being unprotected on the moon/in space? I mean, I would have thought the main problem would be asphyxiation, and I don't see how regeneration from damage is going to help you with that.

edited 4th Oct '12 9:03:02 PM by LoniJay

never mind, I didn't read that right.

edited 4th Oct '12 9:00:54 PM by Vyctorian

asphyxiation (lack of oxygen, strangulation, etc) is the most likely cause of death if you're standing on the moon without a suit, assuming you follow real world rules. Regeneration is mostly seen as healing wounds and things, but it's definition in biology is the restoration/regrowth of organs and tissues. Not the best word for the situation, but it's not the worst either. More like a really bad case of immortality. Just popping in <_<

edited 4th Oct '12 9:07:20 PM by Celentra

Yeah, I know =P That's why I'm asking. I'm just not sure whether a regeneration power would actually be any use in that case. I mean, it could grow back your tissue for you once it's died from lack of oxygen, but it can't conjure new oxygen for you out of thin air. Wouldn't you just basically fall over and then lie there until somebody dragged you to somewhere with oxygen?

I've been planning things. Wizard things.

Also I really want I Am Not A Serial Killer.

Bizarrely, I'm the reverse: I picture the dumb customers as balding awkward guys and the obnoxious, angry ones as bullheaded soccer moms.

Radiation burns. Well so long as you stay in direct sunlight for long periods of time. No ozone layer/Van Allen belts/magnetic field and all protecting you from the majority of the Sun's radiation and all that. (Though contrary to Moon hoax conspiracy loons, the amount in space beyond the Van Allen belts isn't so high as to be intolerable. Light shielding is all you need. The shielding on the LEM and 1960s space suits was more than sufficient for the Moon.)

Either that or micrometeroid strikes.

Loni: Yeah. The way that the regeneration works for him, is that he is partially made of bugs. But these bugs aren't just from him, he can generate them from anywhere. This is purely instinctual, he can't control it. flesh turns to bugs which turns back into flesh.

So what would happen is bugs would constantly be generated, and then die, because lol no air. And since he would be in a partially in human state because of the fact half of him is buggy, well, yeah, more bugs would generate in order to fix that, then die...

Naturally the bug generation thing works on magicky goodness, but I do intend on having a semi-ok portrayal of the rest of the science.

edited 5th Oct '12 6:26:46 AM by MrAHR

Ah, I see. That sounds creepy.

Oh, it does? That's good. I was worried it sounded cheesy or stupid.

Nah, it sounds really creepy, and some people might say a bit cheesy. I hate bugs, so it's creepy to me. Also, it reminds me of Shino from Naruto.

I think I am getting far too obsessed with realism. I mean, I keep expecting, no, demanding fiction to be more like reality as much as possible in the given context.

Definitely creepy but also reminds me of something I can't put my finger on....

I'm kind of like that, especially in my own writing. In one Jungle Opera-ish story I'm working on, I've got something like four pages of one character explaining proper gun handling techniques to another in spite of the story containing magic. Maybe that's why I'm so interested in reconstructions.

In other news, I did some research and found out that James Randi's Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge began, in our timeline, some time after the masquerade broke in my alternate history. Curses.

edited 5th Oct '12 8:28:05 PM by TeraChimera

It might be amusing to have it successfully start up in your 'verse as well, but modified to only cover scam artists claiming to do things scientifically verifiable magic explicitly cannot do — whatever that might entail. No matter how technology marches on, or what masquerade gets broken, there will always be frauds peddling truly impossible miracles.

Celentra: Yeah, I hate bugs too, bahahah. I think that's why my bug guy has such unsettling abilities. Because bugs, above anything else, just won't fricking go away and die.

:(

edited 6th Oct '12 12:28:28 PM by Noaqiyeum