Today at school (i.e. work), a first-grader stopped me in the halls to ask if I knew about "When there were two buildings in New York and they flew planes into them and they fell down and half the people died."
Rather than get into the details with him, I simply responded, "Yes, I was in high school when it happened, it was very sad."
To that, he replied, "No, this was a long time ago."
The other day, I was contacted by Lithuanian FiMFiccer oranzinispegasas, who asked if I'd be okay with them translating Artistic License into Russian. I said yes, of course; what a delightful compliment it always is when someone enjoys something you did that they want to put their own time, energy, and skills into sharing
So! A bit ago, I blogged about how SPANIARD KIWI had translated a bunch of my stories into Spanish, and how I thought that was pretty darn awesome. And there, everyone's favorite disembodied ball of ectoplasm commented, "Only four
So, I'm eating lunch right now, and while doing that, I popped open FiMfic, mostly out of habit while poking around on my phone. And the first story I see at the top of the New list (because I'm an idiot who doesn't use the Mature filter) is a fic titled "My Life as a Teenage Sex-Pet."
A few hours ago, Lucky Dreams posted a fascinating blog about an AI review group that's posting AI-written reviews of stories (he choses to take the no naming/no shaming approach, and I'm going to follow his example by being nice and vague and not linking directly to
I was just about to ask you where you learned about this sequel news, then I refreshed my page and there it was! Thanks for noting that he joined Fimfiction.
I was his 12th customer.
2014241
Dammit, I think I was in the fifties or so.
YOU WIN THIS ROUND, STEPHENS.
2014279
At least you spelled my name right this time.
I was just about to ask you where you learned about this sequel news, then I refreshed my page and there it was! Thanks for noting that he joined Fimfiction.
Now... where's WTFHIW?
Oh my god!
Thanks for the heads up, Chris, though I suppose I might have seen Dangerous Business in its rightful place at the top of the featured box.