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I like writing about the worst day of a character's life; it lets us see the mettle inside. (Pronouns: Guadalcanal/Solomons )

Jul
5th
2025

New story, only been a year... · 1:11pm Saturday

Wrote a Diamond Tiara story.

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Diamond Tiara acts in a totally reformed and un-evil fashion.
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With an M-rated story exchange in the new column, I thought people might appreciate E-rated silly fillies.

SPOILER after the break:

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Jul
2nd
2025

Always a pleasure... · 9:36am Last Wednesday

...to find a new artist, even if they're just "new to you" rather than "new."

My current delightful discovery: Bjorn Akesson.

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Jun
15th
2025

Quick follow-up · 12:04pm June 15th

In my last blog, I recommended The Ballad of Black Tom.

At the time of that blog, I'd only read about 50% of that story but was confident I would enjoy it through the end, so I added it to the list.

Well!

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Jun
10th
2025

Some books I recommend · 10:37pm June 10th

Don't have time to write capsule reviews, but they're all good.

Science
The Devil's Element

Fiction
The Ballad of Black Tom 

With the Lightnings

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Jun
4th
2025

Karma almost got me. Almost. · 10:31am June 4th

I pride myself on the thoroughness, redundancy, and downright autism, of my backup and INFOSEC strategies, and have a tendency to dunk on people who suffer corrupted files or computer crashes or hacks and lose valuable data, their novel draft, their Gmail account, etc.

Well, I just had a karmic bitchslap that's going to cost me several hours to mitigate, Lunadammit. I'll describe it here so it doesn't happen to you. Lessons learned and TLDR at the bottom.

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May
17th
2025

Fighting Predator · 5:22pm May 17th

Yeah, that's a clickbait title. Let me explain.

My main intellectual hobby is World War Two (unsurprising to my regular readers), and specifically, I find the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign the most interesting single aspect, and where most of my reading and YouTubing is.

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May
15th
2025

Been a while... · 9:17am May 15th

Someone left a comment on my most recent story:

Wow, it's been 1 year since your last story.

This is correct.

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May
10th
2025

Interesting video · 9:18am May 10th

I thought this was fascinating:

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Apr
20th
2025

Life in the Sock household · 3:43pm April 20th

>Be Sock
>Be up at oh-dark-thirty on Easter
>Be working on your next Great American Novel
>Phone buzzes
>Who could be texting you on this Easter morning hours before sunrise?

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Mar
18th
2025

Sad sad sad 😢 · 12:00pm March 18th

BBC: 'End of an era' Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies

The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John "Paddy" Hemingway, has died at the age of 105.

Mr Hemingway, who was originally from Dublin, joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a teenager before World War Two.

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