I’ve decided I hate the domestic violence one. One I heard a while back is “a monkey’s wedding” and that has a much better mental image.

Imagine trying to read 5 different books at once while simultaniously writing 30 books at once.

The quantum computers are looking pretty cool imho

I second this. This book is hilarious and a fantastic base for a sci-fi series. On the other hand trying to tell people about this book in public draws some strange looks. Worth it though.

Interesting! I guss that makes sense with lemmy being the new kid on the block (among many in the fediverse these days). Honestly, I’m pretty new to this whole universe, but I’m excited to dive in and see what people are up to and how the whole thing works, so if I sound kinda naive, I’ll point to that.

Maybe it’s enough to post some kind of megathread in the writing community, that way the conversation is more directed on the writing experience as a whole instead of just tools to help with that practice.

Yummy. It inflicts 20 points of psychic damage every time I hear it used unironically whithin earshot. Other than that, no particular reason.

I would join something like that! I feel like there are lots of good ones out there, but not many aggregated or curated lists let alone communities.

Howdy! I’m ZagnutInSpace, a long time reader and writer in search of a chill space to hang out and talk about books, writing (read: editing), and other generally geeky stuff.

By genre, I’m usually drawn to weird experimental literature, Oulipo, fantasy and sci-fi, magical relism, and poetry.

I’m currently reading a 500+ page epic poem without any regular puntuation or capitalization called The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford. The book is a super long meditation on civil rights and justice in the American south, and so far it has been a thoroughly fascinating and disorienting read.

I also program for a living, and in my free time I like to write little programs for fun. Right now I’m working on a tool (it may become “tools”) to help writers who are exploring constrained writing but dont want to draft out insanity-inducing flow charts or tables to get started with some more complicated constraints.

I do write a little myself, and I’m currently juggling my time between two novel-length ideas that I’m just writing on scene-by-scene basis when I feel like it, nothing too serious.

Glad to meet all of you on this instance and talk about literature!

Sure, the drivers install real quick, but the whole model is rolling release. In three months, you can’t be sure that any one piece of software is actually compatible with the rest of your packages. Any long time Arch user will tell you about the weird manual tweaks they’ve had to make at one time or another just to make sure their wifi still works or soemthing like that. After like 26 months of updates, my version of wpa_supplicant just gave up the ghost and started crashing. Didn’t have this issue on Ubuntu, so the fix was clear. This wasn’t the first time some bizarre driver issue cropped up either. I’ve booted into black screens, my audio stopping working one day, I’ve had to patch my video drivers a time or two, and this is on a System 76 Galago Pro, so its not like I was using some exotic setup. I’ve just had to reboot from grub one too many times I think.

You read my mind. I’m currently trying to restrain myself from reinstalling Manjaro, and this post reminded me why I switched Ubuntu two years ago. Two drama free years as far as I’m concerned. And I can use printers without switching kernels! Imagine that!