#or rather not

[stromuprisahat]

“I’ve just upset the entire history of the future,” said Mort. “Yes?” “You see, when he tried to kill her I killed him, but the thing is, according to the history she should have died and the duke would be king, but the worst bit, the worst bit is that although he’s absolutely rotten to the core he’d unite the cities and eventually they’ll be a federation and the books say there’ll be a hundred years of peace and plenty. I mean, you’d think there’d be a reign of terror or something, but apparently history needs this kind of person sometimes and the princess would just be another monarch. I mean, not bad, quite good really, but just not right and now it’s not going to happen and history is flapping around loose and it’s all my fault.”

Mort (Terry Pratchett)

This is what it looks like, when fictional history's written by a person, who knows a thing or two about the real one, and doesn't care to preach about morality instead.

[mid-n0vember]

[acrossthewavesoftime]

Sometime at work, my boss handed me an envelope, which I proceeded to open while walking to my office. Dissatisfied with essentially ripping it all unevenly using my hands, I decided I should do the reasonable thing and grab something shaped much more akin to a letter-opener than my index finger.

Passing through a colleague's workspace, I, not thinking much (or at all, indeed), spotted an antique rapier on a rack, took it, and sliced the envelope open in one perfect cut.

Pleased with the result, I put the rapier back and was just about to exit the room when all of a sudden, I heard the bemused voice of my colleague: "I have scissors, too, you know."

It honestly had not crossed my mind to simply ask my colleague to borrow their scissors. That long, historic stabby stick with the sharp edges was perfectly suited to the task, after all. I feel obligated, however, to remind any of you Gentle Readers not to try this at home, please.

[sarayu-sunrays]

thought: occurrs

me: oh no not this stupid extra feature again

[ranaraeuchle]

Why am I anxious?

[painterofhorizons]

There’s 15k words in the lose notes collection document that still need to be put into the single files for story ideas and chapters where they belong. I don’t know where these 15k come from, but lets hope that there are at least a few words I can actually work with. Because the brain is empty recently, writing doesn’t work, drawing doesn’t, work doesn’t, gaming doesnt - brain is just out of energy for anything the needs me to do more than simply sit on my bed and breathe and wonder how I ever was able to do anything that involved a single brain cell. No kidding. The pandemic takes it’s toll on me, I just can’t. *sigh*

Here’s hoping for the lose notes document to hold anything that will spark anything.

Edit: turns out when I asked google “the brain doesnt work during the pandemic” there is actually a term for it: brain fog.

Feels more like brain void, but I’ll go with fog, too, if necessary.

[goalie-enthusiast]

ok after doing some reading i will not be watching or live-blogging tonight because FUCK the nhl. it’s time to put up or shut up boys and at this point shutting up is not gonna cut it at all