Andelsprutz

A city without a soul for no one in particular.

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ATTENTION

For the time being, I will not be taking any more commissions.

Thank you for your understanding.

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The Clewiston Test, Kate Wilhelm (1976)

Cover by Carl Lundgren, 1981

According to the back, Ann Clewiston found a perfect painkiller but then... there are ~COMPLICATIONS~

Let's see what happens!

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These characters are married. It is just meant to be morning banter.

This was written in the 70s. By a woman.

Still. Goddamnit.

"What you look like is a damn sexy blonde in a pretty frilly thing, and if I don't rape you outright in the next few weeks, I'll be a candidate for sainthood."

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We're five pages in, do we really need to know that he likes sex in the morning while she likes "to go to sleep wet between the legs"?

Is this going to be a story where those facets of their characters are relevant to the plot?

[nemospecific]

Hrm.

Might be nothing, but a new character has been introduced with "she had become a militant feminist in the past year and consequently most of the people in both departments tried to avoid her whenever possible, which made her still more aggressive."

Might be nothing. Might be a criticism of her, or the rest of the lab. Have to see where it goes...

[nemospecific]

It is SO early, but something about this is giving me vibes of The Koiec Corollary which... man, I hope not.

Might just be that they're both from the 70s. Yeah, that's probably it. Probably.

...

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About 30 pages in (out of about 220), let's sum up so far:

Anne and Clark are a married couple of chemists. Anne was in an accident a few months ago that broke her leg, and is still recuperating while the company they work for is pushing to move ahead with human testing for the compound she came up with. The same day, one of the test chimps savaged an animal handler in the lab.

And since it's the 70s, everyone's internal monologues are kinda bitchy with a soupçon of grossness and horniness. (eg. "On Anne's behalf he should protest, or comment, or belch, or do something.")

[nemospecific]

Oh, goodie, two pages of bloviating about how love doesn't really exist.

Thing is, this might tie into the as yet undiscovered side effects of the unspecified drug and be plot relevant, or it might just be filling pages in something written in the 70s.

[nemospecific]

I need to remember the title of the story about the doctor who came up with a method to determine when you would naturally die with 100% accuracy

Want to compare authors and publication dates

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50 pages in, we've spent a lot of time getting to know everyone's hang ups, we've seen Anne and Clark keeping secrets from each other, we've seen everyone in the R&D department agree that rushing to human testing is a bad idea...

We've also seen one (1) chimp attack, no human testing yet, and no other complications.

I know this is longer than the 120-150 page pulps, but it's not THAT much longer. We're a quarter of the way in, we need some plot. Pick up the pacing!

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70s fiction just feels grimy and resentful, most of the time, y'know?

It's not gross, and it's not hate, but it is, specifically, unpleasant.

[nemospecific]

I'll be honest, I've never broken a bone. I've especially never broken a bone in the 70s.

So I don't know what to think is weird about how Anne's recovery is being handled - the timeline, how involved she can be in her work, how much she can get out of the house... any of it.

So on the one hand, I am all for "focus on yourself and recovery, NO, do NOT get dragged back into the office a moment earlier than you need to be" but on the other hand there's also "she is an adult, her work is not physical, she can be kept up to date on her passion project, hell, she could work from home probably, don't exclude/exile/infantilize her"

I'm just saying, it's a broken leg, it's not a heart or brain condition where an instant of unexpected stress could kill her at a moment's notice. TALK TO EACH OTHER.

[nemospecific]

75 out of 223 pages, and it's been one (1) chimp attack, one (1) chimp glaring at a specific handler, no other complications, and multiple monologues about Anne going stir crazy from staying at home with a broken leg.

At this point I'm starting to worry the story is going to be Anne snapping and killing her husband and the painkiller stuff goes absolutely nowhere.

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Forgot my phone while getting my oil changed, so I was able to make some progress with minimal distractions and it helped crystallize why this book is so boring: it is like 85% internal monologue.

There is a crumb of action, or plot development, or dialogue, and then the story spends a page and a half or so on a characters thoughts and/or feelings before jumping to a different character. And it's usually the same thoughts or feelings. We're not getting plot advancement or deeper insights into the characters, we're just filling pages.

[fabiansociety]

"world's first trillionaire" i hope elon musk is eaten alive by feral hogs

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I would also accept "lost while visiting the titanic"

[elleskinner-justart]

Draw Everything June: Day 9

Loved this model, loved this reference.

When I settled on Princess Serenity I immediately thought of her manga design - Naoko draws her gown so gauzy and sheer and otherworldly that I thought it would really enhance the beauty of this pose and the softness I was going for.

(Challenge hosted by @adorkastock)

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To everyone voluntarily using ai:

I hope you twist your ankle.

[anueutsuho]

Shyna really just said "You're generfluid? That's so cool."

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Everything is fanfiction.

Everything is inspired by, reacting to, celebrating or exploring something.

Nothing is created in a vacuum.

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Some days it's hard to take the idea of moral complexity seriously when a bunch of nazis and Captain Planet villains are running things.

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Lookin' good there, Jake.

[elleskinner-justart]

Draw Everything June: Day 8

Utena the knight, riding into battle on her white steed, inspired by the original opening sequence. Abstract background wasn't originally intended to be gay rainbows but it's Pride month, things happen.

(Art challenge hosted by @adorkastock!)

[nemospecific]

You'd think this headline was from 2019, but no.

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[elleskinner-justart]

We saw Obsession and this movie is going to live in my head rent free for a long, long time.

So much of the success of this movie was in the performances for me, but I was really drawn in by the many scenes where Nikki is shown with her face obscured. It's a really striking in touch in a movie where her facial acting does so much.

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patreon | kofi

[yummylavsoap]

The torrent losing four players on phase 2, including our captain, while still having ranked last AND not earning first in the gold plan is just laughable at a certain point

We are so good at being losers

[nemospecific]

That's Seattle, baby!

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026 🟩🟦🟦🟩🟩🟩🟥🟦🟦🟩 79,001 · top 3% of players today!

[elleskinner-justart]

Draw Everything June: Day 7

Couldn't let Storm be the only Xmen this month! I loved Jubilee as a kid, she was my favorite in the cartoon, so when @thegorgonist suggested her to me I hopped to her immediately :)

(Event hosted by @adorkastock!)

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Because he's a tacky-ass dipshit with no class.